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- Amazon is holding an event on Wednesday where it will likely debut new Echo hardware and other Alexa-enabled devices.
- The company is rumored to be working on Alexa-enabled earbuds to rival Apple's AirPods and a home robot with Alexa built-in, among other gadgets.
- The product unveils come as Amazon has been under increased scrutiny in recent months regarding how it handles user data and concerns that its size and influence may harm competition.
- Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
SEATTLE, Washington — Amazon is holding an event at its Seattle, Washington, headquarters on Wednesday where it's widely expected to unveil new devices across its Echo and Alexa lineup. The event comes as Amazon has come under increased scrutiny in recent months over consumer privacy and concerns that its size and influence may be giving it an unfair advantage in the market.
Amazon hasn't said much publicly about what the event will entail. But if it's anything like last year's keynote, we can expect to see a slew of new products with Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant built-in, from new Echo gadgets to household appliances. In September 2018, Amazon debuted a bevy of new Alexa-enabled products in an event that was flooded with hardware announcements ranging from a microwave that can respond to your voice commands to new Echo speakers and an Alexa-enabled wall clock. The company also announced additional Alexa features, like its Alexa Guard security service.
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Not only is Amazon expected to release an updated, high-end version of its popular Echo speaker, but it also may expand into new product categories entirely like wearable devices and home robots, according to Bloomberg. The company, for example, is preparing to debut a new set of Alexa-enabled earbuds that would rival Apple's AirPods, Bloomberg reports.
Doing so would give Amazon's digital assistant more of a mobile presence, an area in which Alexa falls behind competitors like Apple's Siri and the Google Assistant. While Alexa is available via a smartphone app, virtual assistants made by Apple and Google are baked directly into the operating system, making them more tightly integrated into the phone's software and providing easier access.
But Alexa does dominate the home: as of January 2019, Amazon accounted for 61.1% of the smart speaker market in the United States, according to a survey from Voicify and Voicebot.ai. However, Google is catching up quickly with 23.9% of the market, a notable increase from its 18.4% US market share in January 2018.
Amazon is also reportedly working on a new wrist-worn device that could identify the wearer's emotional state as well as a roving Alexa robot that could follow you around the home, according to Bloomberg.
The announcements would come at a critical moment for Amazon. The company, as well as other large tech firms, has been closely watched by regulators over concerns that its size and influence makes it difficult for newcomers to compete in the market. In July, the Department of Justice announced it would launch a broad probe into top online platforms for search, ecommerce, and social media to determine whether such companies were stifling innovation.
When it comes to Alexa, Amazon found itself caught in controversy after a report from Bloomberg revealed that human contractors had been listening to and annotating Alexa recordings. The company subsequently released new features that make it easier to delete such recordings from Alexa devices.
We'll be updating our live blog below throughout the event, so follow along to learn about the news as it's announced.


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"This Liquid Dream": An Interview with Aquaphoneia Composer Navid Navab
Multidisciplinary composer and media alchemist Navid Navab and his team at the Topological Media Lab based at Concordia University (Montreal) presented Aquaphoneia, a sound installation which transmutes voice into water and water into air at Biennale Nemo in Paris in December 2017 (and will run until March 2018). I conducted this interview in the context of the first presentation of Aquaphoneia originally conceptualized for Ars Electronica 2016: RADICAL ATOMS and the alchemists of our time. This version of the piece looked at technology through the lens of the living materiality. As Prof. Hiroshi Ishii, of the MIT Media Lab's Tangible Media Group, stated, artists "suggest completely new ways of looking at the role of science in our society and the interplay of technology and nature."
EB [Esther Bourdages]: The theme of the 2016 Ars Electronica Festival, RADICAL ATOMS – and the alchemists of our time, is very close to the Topological Media Lab's mission: transmutation and alchemy on the philosophical and phenomenological level. For Aquaphoneia, can you expand on alchemy and specifically on how this art piece stands out from your past work? How did alchemical thought process and production techniques come up in the process of the piece?
NN [Navid Navad]: When the 2016 theme for Ars Electronica Festival was announced I was happily surprised and thought: finally, things are coming to light at a much larger scale. Yes, please can we reverse the still prominent European Modernism's separations—between the conceptual and the material, the precise and the messy, the sciences and the arts—and go back to the holistic richness of alchemical matter? This transition that we are currently experiencing calls for a shift away from representational technologies: from interfaces to stuff, from objects to fields of matter-in-process, from fixed concepts to processes that enact concepts. For over a decade, we as alchemists have been engaging with "bodies and materials that are always suffused with ethical, vital and material power."
The Topological Media Lab [TML] is occupied by people who are living to fuse and confuse, ready to unlearn the apparent practicality of isolated disciplines, while playfully improvising new pathways to understanding potential futures. The TML hosts an array of projects for thinking-feeling through poetry-infused-matter and breathing life into static forms—which to me is an effortlessly artistic process, and all the while inseparable from a rigorously philosophical or scientific one. Even though it might take decades for the kinds of computational-materials that we are envisioning today to be engineered from ground up at an atomic level, with what is possible today, we explore how the messy stuff of the world could become computationally charged with the potential for play: sounding, dancing, and co-performing new ways of living with or without us.
Aquaphoneia comes out of this rich ecology of experiments. In Aquaphoneia, voice and water become irreversibly fused. The installation listens to the visitors, and transmutes their utterances into aqueous voice, which then is further enriched and purified through alchemical processes.
To fully realize this liquid dream, we went to great lengths in order to fuse the messy behaviour of matter flowing throughout the installation with meticulously correlated and localized sonic behaviour. For example, the temporal texture of boiling liquid in one chamber is perceptually inseparable from the spectral entropy of simmering voices which then evaporate into a cloud of spectral mist. All of this dynamic activity is finely localized: the sounds acoustically emit exactly from where the action occurs, rather than spatially schizophying loudspeakers elsewhere.
On another hand, our material-computational-centric approach lead to a tough yet rewarding meditation on control and process. As a composer, I had to let go of all desires for immediate control over sounds and surrender important rhythmical and compositional decisions to messy material processes. In Alchemical Mercury (2009), Karen Pinkus quotes Marcel Duchamp: "alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding" (159). For us, in the process of creating Aquaphoneia, essentially what had to be understood and then given up was our attachment to our far-too-human notions of time and tempo. Instead we embraced and worked within the infinitely rich and pluri-textural tempi of matter. Technically and compositionally this meant that most of our focus had to be placed on merging the continuous richness of material processes with our computational processes through an array of techniques: temporal pattern following, audio-mosaicing, continuous tracking of fields of activity using computer vision and acoustic sensing techniques in order to synthesize highly correlated sonic morphologies, careful integration of structure-born-sound, etc. We were able to co-articulate compositions by constraining material processes sculpturally, and then letting the liquid voice and the laws of thermodynamics do their thing.
[EB]: One of the first elements that we notice in the installation is the brass horn connected to an old Edison sound recording machine, that now turns into liquid instead of wax cylinders. In fact, it came from an Edison talking machine. You repurpose an authentic artifact, but you do not fall into the trap of nostalgia, and neither into the role of collector, but you embrace innovation with a dynamic approach which excavates past media technologies in order to understand or surpass contemporary audio technologies. Where does the use of the Edison horn come from and how does it speak to your relationship with the superposition of history?
[NN]: The history of sound reproduction involves transforming audible pressure patterns or sound energy into solid matter and vice versa. The historic Edison recording machines gathered sound energy to etch pressure patterns onto tinfoil wrapped around a cylindrical drum. Sound waves, focussed at the narrow end of the horn, caused a small diaphragm to vibrate, which in turn caused a miniature steel-blade stylus to move and emboss grooves in the cylinder. The tin foil would later on be replaced by wax cylinders, vinyl disks and eventually digital encoding.
Aquaphoneia engages the intimately recursive relationship between sounding technologies and material transmutations. Our digital audio workstations are an in fact an inclusive part of this history, this endless chain of analog transmutation between energy and matter. Under the fiction of the digital there is always the murmur of electrons and of matter-energy fields in physical transmutation. As J. Fargier writes on an early book on Nam June Paik (1989) "The digital is the analog correspondence of the alchemists' formula for gold" (translation by NN). Well, yes. The digital revolution has allowed us to shape, compute, purify, and sculpt sounds like never before… but then often at the hefty cost of a disembodying process, with interfaces that are linked to sounds only through layers upon layers of representation, far detached from resonating bodies and the sexy flux of sounding matter.
Aquaphoneia playfully juxtaposes material-computational histories of talking machines within an imaginary assemblage: sounds are fully materialized and messed with tangibly within an immediate medium very much like clay or water or perhaps more like a yet to be realized alchemico-sonic-matter. This odd assemblage orchestrates liquid sounds leveraging intuitive worldly notions—such as freezing, melting, dripping, swishing, boiling, splashing, whirling, vaporizing—and in the process borrows alchemical tactics expanding across material sciences, applied phenomenology, metaphysics, expanded materiology, and the arts. Aquaphoneia's alchemical chambers set these materials, metaphors, and forces into play against one another. After the initial ritual of offering one's voice to the assemblage, the aqueous voice starts performing for and with itself, and human visitors have the opportunity to watch and participate as they would when encountering the unpredictable order of an enchanted forest river.
It is also noteworthy that the horn resembles a black hole. The edge of the horn acts like an event horizon, separating sounds from their source-context. Sounds, once having passed the acousmatic event horizon, cannot return to the world that they once knew. Voices leaving the body of their human or non-human speaker, fall into the narrow depths of the horn, and are squeezed into spatio-temporal infinity. Disembodied voices, are immediately reborn again with a new liquid body that flows though alchemical chambers for sonic and metaphysical purification.
Much of my work deals with the poetics of schizophonia (separation of sound from their sources). Sound reproduction (technologies), from Edison's talking machines to our current systems, transcode back and forth between the concrete and acousmatic, situated and abstract, materialized and dematerialized, analogue and digital. Often sounds are encoded into a stiff medium which then may be processed with an interface, eventually decoded, and re-manifested again as sound. Aquaphoneia ends this nervous cycle of separation anxiety and re-attachment by synthesizing a sounding medium capable of contemporary computational powers such as memory, and adaptive spectro-temporal modulation and morphing. To adapt Marshall McLuhan, instead of encoding and decoding a presumed message with representational technologies, it enchants the medium.
[EB]: There is the tendency to think that artwork from Media Labs are stable and high tech. Aquaphoneia uses analog and digital technologies with a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) touch in the aesthetic. Since your lab is multidisciplinary oriented and influenced by diverse fields of knowledge, can you develop on the DIY dimension in Aquaphoneia under the gaze of Clint Enns—cinematographer in the experimental field of cinema—: "Adopting a DIY methodology means choosing freedom over convenience"?
[NN]: Aquaphoneia is a truly eclectic assemblage lost in time. Aquaphoneia's mixed form reflects its extremely fluid, collaborative and playful creative process. Instead of coming up with a definitive design and executing it industrially, Aquaphoneia's realization involved a much more playful process, where every little aspect of the installation—materials, sounds, software, electronics, etc.—was playfully investigated and messed with. Every little detail matters and every process, undulating back and forth between conception to execution, is an artistic process. The research-creation process leading to the works that come out of our lab are as critical to us as the final and fully produced art works. This was also true for the alchemists who, through their process, were seeking to develop new approaches for understanding the world, relating to matter, and surpassing nature.
Our research-creation activities concern experimenting with ethico-aesthetics of collective thinking-making: humans, non-humans, machines, and materials enacting and co-articulating the ever-changing material-social networks of relations which shape them. This DIY art-all-the-way approach, while providing a healthy dose of aesthetic freedom, is also an ethical one: we live with and within our designs and grow with them. That being said, we are not attached to a DIY process in the same way that some maker cultures might be. Sometimes we blindly find and repurpose something that does something cool, complicated, and mysterious and that is fantastic, sort of like philosophy of media meets cyber dumpster diving meets DIY hacker space meets cutting edge tech research meets miniMax (minimum engineering with maximum impact) meets speculative whatever…
For example, at some point we decided to gather sonic vapour in a glass dome and condense it back into drops, which were then guided to fall into the bottom of the installation. The purified drop of voice—sonic "lapis philosophorum"—was to fall into the depths of the earth beneath and shine upward like sonic gold, connecting heaven and earth. We had to execute this opus magnum inside a very small hole in the base of the installation. The water drop needed to be immediately sensed and sonified, leading to sounds coming out of the same hole, along with synchronized light. You can imagine that if we were relying on "black-boxed" technologies and ready-made techniques then this task would have seemed like a nightmare to design and fabricate. The water drop was to fall all the way to the bottom of the hole where it would be acoustically sensed by a small apparatus that had to be acoustically isolated from everything else. Then the result of the sonification had to be pushed through the very same hole with a high degree of intelligibility and in a way that it would be seamlessly localized. Meanwhile, light had to shine through this hole in sync with the sounds but the source of light had to remain hidden.
The solution to this technical puzzle came to us effortlessly when playing around with random stuff. We found a hipster product—a little plastic horn—that was made for turning your iPod into a gramophone. Then a speaker was mounted inside of this plastic horn in order to focus sounds towards the end tip of the horn. The back of the speaker was fully covered with foam and duct tape to stop any sound from escaping anywhere except for where we wanted it to appear. A small hole was drilled into the brass pipe in the base of the installation. Our advanced hipster horn-tip-sound-laser-thing was then inserted, allowing crisp sounds to enter the brass hole and emit from it without any visible clues for the perceiver as to where the speaker was hidden. Meanwhile, a similar lighting solution was created so that in a very small footprint we can focus, direct, and bounce enough directional light in the brass pipe without ever getting in the way of the water drops.
We had to engage with this sort of detailed fabrication/composition process throughout the whole installation in order to come up with solutions to sense the behaviour of the materials and liquids locally and to manifest them sonically and visually so that there would be no separation from local material behaviours and their computational enchantment. In trying to do so we discovered that more often than not, there was no ready-made solution or technique to rely on, and at the same time we didn't have months ahead of us to engage in an abstract design and fabrication process. We had limited hours of collective play time to leverage and to come up with innovative techniques that we didn't even know could exist and that was really fun.
Aquaphoneia is a rich sound art piece – a manifesto by itself about innovation and inventiveness. The sound installation demonstrates that the main crafters Navid Navad and his partner Michael Montanaro, in collaboration with other members of the Topological Media Lab, swim easily into the multidisciplinary art. They are are not afraid to experiment and engage with the material, which results in an interlacing of forms, a mixture of historic references, and an interesting fusion of "low" and "high" technology. I was able to catch some of the build up of the art piece, and it was fantastic to witness the lab as a playful messy artistic field with a little team of scholars fusing their different backgrounds in convergence on the marriage of art and science.
Aquaphoneia, a sound installation which transmutes voice into water and water into air at Biennale Nemo in Paris runs until March 2018.
- NAVID NAVAB art direction, sound/installation concept and design, audiovisual composition, programming, behaviour design
- MICHAEL MONTANARO art direction, visual/installation concept, design and fabrication
- PETER VAN HAAFTEN electronics, sound, programming
- consulting assistants: Nima Navab (embedded lighting design) Joseph Thibodeau (electronics)
- research collaboration: Topological Media Lab
Featured Image: Aquaphoneia, Paris, Biennale Némo, 17 October 2017 – 18 March 2018, Credit: Navid Navad, 2017
Esther Bourdages works in the visual arts and technology art field as a writer, independent curator and scholar. Her curatorial research explores art forms such as site-specific art, installation and sculpture, often in conjunction with sound. She has authored many articles and critical commentaries on contemporary art. As a musician, she performs under the name of Esther B – she plays turntables, handles vinyl records, and records soundscapes. She works and lives in Montreal.
Navid Navab is a Montreal based media alchemist, multidisciplinary composer, audiovisual sculptor, phono-menologist, and gestureBender. Interested in the poetics of gesture, materiality, and embodiment, his work investigates the transmutation of matter and the enrichment of its inherent performative quali- ties. Navid uses gestures, rhythms and vibration from everyday life as basis for realtime compositions, resulting in augmented acoustical poetry and painterly light that enchants improvisational and pedestrian movements.
Navad currently co-directs the Topological Media Lab, where he leverages phenomenological studies to inform the the creation of computationally-augmented performance environments. His works, which which take on the form of gestural sound compositions, responsive architecture, site specific interven- tions, theatrical interactive installations, kinetic sound sculptures and multimodal comprovisational per- formances, have been presented internationally at diverse venues such as Canadian Center for Architec- ture, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Ars Electronica Festival Linz, HKW Berlin, WesternFront Vancouver, McCord Museum, Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Inter- national Digital Arts Biennial, Musiikin Aika Finland, and Festival International Montréal/Nouvelles Mu- siques, among others. www.navidnavab.net
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SO! Amplifies: Indie Preserves
SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and organizations doing work we really really dig. You're welcome!
In July 2016, we, Scott Carlson and Norie Guthrie, began the Indie Preserves blog, but this is actually not the best place to start. About six months earlier, Scott became concerned about the preservation skills of Indie and DIY music label owners and musicians. The thought of someone's creative output disappearing in a flash from a hard drive sent shivers down his spine. After speaking with one label owner who was nervous about losing his stuff, we thought it might behoove us to see if others had the same fears.
"Sometimes [I'm] scared of how easy it would be to lose everything," [Burger Records's] Sean Bohrman told us. "All it would take is a fire, or a flood, or for someone to come in and take our equipment, and it'd be years of work lost."
We created a survey to ascertain the types of materials and files that Indie and DIY labels save, and how they would gauge their knowledge of physical and digital preservation. Of the 500 labels contacted, we received responses from 168. Of that group, 60% were "somewhat to very concerned" about preserving their stuff.
There were two motivations for Indie Preserves, then. Firstly, we wanted to help respondents who wanted to learn preservation techniques (58% for digital and 63% physical). Secondly, a library colleague suggested that we present our findings at Austin's annual SXSW festival. To make it there, we needed an online presence. Thus, our blog was born.
The main subjects of our blog fall in three categories: physical preservation, digital preservation, and interviews. Our physical preservation posts cover what items to save, what archival supplies to buy, how to organize your papers, where to store them, and items to avoid (like metal paper clips). Digital preservation, on the other hand, takes a bit more work. We wrote posts about embedding metadata in photographs, PDFs, and audio; the 3-2-1 rule; and issues to consider when using cloud storage. As for our interviews, we talked with archivists on the front lines curating music archives at their institution, DIY archivist and punk legend Ian MacKaye, and other preservation professionals like Jessica Thompson, Mastering/Restoration Engineer and Archival Specialist at Coast Mastering.
Essentially, Indie Preserves exists to provide advice and a chuckle while hammering home the reasons why our audience should listen. Early on, it was clear that we had caught the attention of library and archives professionals, but we were concerned that we had not connected with the labels. We hoped that presenting at SXSW would help.
Our panel consisted of Jessica Thompson, Sean Bohrman of Burger Records, and us. The presentation went well, though our audience was a bit light. We did, however, manage to connect with audience members and fielded several questions afterwards.
Moving forward, we are putting together a book proposal that will explore music preservation from a variety of angles. Proposed contributions currently range from the actual restoration and preservation of recorded sound to citizen archivist projects to case studies about the preservation of music culture and "scenes" from particular cities. Along with our contributors, we will discuss music preservation in institutions, our Indie Preserves project, and the ways researchers use popular music archives.
Norie Guthrie is an Archivist and Special Collections Librarian with the Woodson Research Center at Rice University's Fondren Library. She has been building the Houston Folk Music Archive at Fondren Library.
Scott Carlson is the Metadata Coordinator at Rice University's Fondren Library. An active member of the independent record label community, he runs Frodis Records, an independent reissue label.
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Sounding Out! Podcast #55: The New Brunswick Music Scene Symposium
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD: The New Brunswick Music Scene Symposium
Join Frank Bridges and Christine Lutz–founders of the New Brunswick Music Scene Archive, at Rutgers University–as they converse with a panel of seasoned veterans from the New Jersey music scene. Included on the panel are Ronen Kauffman, author of New Brunswick, NJ Goodbye; Marissa Paternoster, singer and guitarist of The Screaming Females; Joe Steinhardt, co-founder of Don Giovanni Records; and Jim Testa, the editor of Jersey Beat.The discussion becomes intimate very quickly as the audience converses intently with the panelists. Together the group compares inter-generational notes about what makes a music scene and the affordances of situating a counter-culture archive in a university setting.
Featured Image: Excerpt from the cover of Jersey Beat #14. Image used with permission by the author.
Frank Bridges is a Doctoral Candidate at The Rutgers University School of Communication and Information. He is also a part-time lecturer, musician, and graphic designer. His research interests are the DIY and Internet-based production and distribution of music, and visual communication with a focus on semiotic analysis and street art.
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A Manifesto, or Sounding Out!'s 51st Podcast!!!
This week, Sounding Out! dropped its 51st podcast episode. As the curator and producer, I thought it necessary to commemorate the occasion with some fanfare. I want to shout from the hilltops about how proud I am that our little podcast has turned 51!
Erm…at least I'm posting about it.
Also, I want to clear the air a little about what it is that we do. I've received feedback here and there over the years about how the sound of our podcasts, that we sound "different" and/or "inconsistent," that we need to normalize the sound a bit: hello out there, audiophiles! Today, I want to say, once and for all, that our sound is intentional and that we are proud of it, hiss, distortion, and all! We think what some hear as "imperfections" are all part of what sets us apart from the ever-growing pack of podcasters. SO!'s podcast has sounded different since we MacGyvered our first episode from an epic talk, a few great ideas, and a rogue tape recorder at River Read Books in Binghamton, NY in April, 2011.
The Sounding Out! Podcast began as a series of conversations within the editorial team back in 2011. We knew that the blog was "talking the talk" in new, excellent, and often provocative ways, but that something was missing to keep pushing the form into the red, not just the content. We knew we needed something more—a little snap, crackle, and pop, if you will—a way to show how Sounding Out! was always listening, and a way for thinkers, artists, provocateurs, and more to engage with sound more directly. In 2011, podcasts were accumulating in the shadows waiting to lunge forth to center stage. They seemed really cool, but there were relatively few, and fewer still (if any at all) on the topic of sound studies. Even though we knew that podcasts were going to be a big thing eventually, we had no idea that they would blow up so quickly.
While we flipped around many ideas, we decided to put our energies behind what was then an occasional series of podcasts that allowed us to capture important yet fleeting moments—too quick and dirty to really transcribe. While our our initial vision for the podcast was to capture these rare and powerful moments, over the past 5 years we have kept this mission consistent while evolving to better accommodate artists and theorists alike. During that time we have hosted mystics and librarians, shared fieldwork from São Paolo, Brazil to Lodi, Ohio, interviewed theremin players and visionaries. See the full list of episodes here. Even though our content has been wide ranging and eclectic, we've made it a point to privilege access and immediacy in all of our episodes.
As I listen back to the past five years, I realize that our contribution to the fields of sound studies and podcasting has not just been in terms of who we broadcast and what we amplify, but through the sound of our podcasts themselves. Our podcasts don't sound perfect. They're spiritually aligned by the raw production ethic of bands like The Minutemen, who always privileged the emotive qualities of immediacy, access, and intimacy over the brooding qualities of studio production. Particularly because we founded the podcast upon these same principles, I have strived to prioritize radical visions and ideas and to amplify new voices above all else. I want each podcast to arrive in your queue like a wrapped gift—topic, content, production, and sound all equally mysterious. Some of our podcasts were recorded on cellphones and others were recorded in high-end studios and recording booths. Our 51st anniversary isn't the perfect occasion, either. But, hey, we're proud of these audible distortions.
"The Minutemen: #1 Hit Song"
So what do I mean that our podcast sounds different? Well, I mean two things: First, we sound different than what episodic radio sounds like. Our DIY—or, more accurately, we will help you "Do It Yourself"—ethics deliberately dial back radio's genre conventions: smooth identifiable hosts, heavy compression, sound-proof rooms with the latest in equipment. We encourage and construct out podcast with a deliberate sonic diversity, providing little sonic conistency from episode to episode in order to challenge regimes of production that threaten to make all recordings sound the same. We have many many different announcers and hosts, for this podcast to be the space of radical discourse that we intend, it's important to cast our net wide. This isn't to say that we don't care about "quality," but rather that we define quality differently. Rather than an audiophilic emphasis on the sorts of tone found most frequently in microphone technique, sound booths, and—when all else fails—postproduction, we believe that a "quality" podcast—particularly one about sound—should explore sounds that we rarely here and allow its artists freedom over how they present their work.
I curate our podcast as a sonic refuge from the invisible regime of auditory production that has slowly constricted and strangled radio this past century. And I'm proud to share podcasts that have been recorded on in impromptu circumstances, Episode XXXIX: Soundwalking Davis, CA and New Brunswick, NJ, for example. We want artists to show more than they tell, Episode XII: Animal Transcriptions, Listening to the Lab of Ornathology is a perfect example of this. Here Skinners brilliant exploration of animal sounds perfectly balances sound and interview invites listeners to compare sounds to speech, and vice versa. Another example of this ethic is film professor Monteith McCollum's remix of the original War of the Worlds broadcast. Although McCollum offers some commentary at the start of the recording, what follows is a unique and dazzling sonic experience. Giving radical ideas both the space and platform to be heard is this podcast's mission. So far, so good!
The second way our podcast sounds different has to do with our deliberate curatorial resistance to consistency between our episodes. When programs bend to the whims of genre conventions, creativity is all but snuffed out. For our podcast to excel as a form for sharing visions, ideas, and experiments, we must allow our composers, authors, and auditors the freedom to explore sonic space. We celebrate Sounding Out!'s anniversary annually with a series of mixes hand-picked by our stable of authors (Listen to years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 here!), we've entertained interviews, panels, and sound art alike. You may have missed it, but we even have an episode diving into the work of ambient sound in a Dungeons and Dragons game.
While I do think about the sound of our podcast aesthetically—I used to run a music production studio out from the trunk of my car—we do not cultivate a DIY anything-goes ethic strictly for a "cool factor" or just for its own sake. Rather, we have calibrated our different sonic approach in deliberate defiance of styles of production which are all too frequently celebrated within the cultures of straight white men. (Check out SO! Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Lynn Stoever's epic three-part treatise on the tape recorder in popular film to glean some sense of the tape-recorder's role as an instrument of masculine control. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). The standards of taste which have long governed the domain of radio production (and audio production, as a whole) are historically connected to the communities of practice which have occupied invisible yet powerful roles as audio producers, engineers, critics, and marketers.
As Jonathan Sterne explains in MP3, the science of audio fidelity has historical roots within a corporate logic that privileges sounds that are easily shared through telephone cables. "AT&T encountered hearing as an economic problem once its options for extracting additional profit through price were limited," Sterne says, "Among other strategies, it sought to learn which frequencies could be excluded from the market for telephone signals" (14). In other words, the entire craft of audio engineering has historical roots in privileging sounds that make money above all else. Not only this, but the standards of fidelity cultivated by engineers allow them to gatekeep and demand money at the outset, blocking access to the means of production. These standards are more often than not embedded within the cultures of listening and sales fostered by the radio industry. Fortunately, podcasts have been able to challenge many of these genre tropes, We're proud to contribute to this momentum and to propel it forward as we continue our series. And we're not stopping! Up on deck in 2016 we have some amazing compositional sound art, more from Marcella Ernest's trek to uncover lost sounds, and some notes on a forthcoming project in archiving one city's local music scene.
So, in the spirit of Sounding Out!'s annual blog-o-versary we're popping the cork for our podcast's 50th episode with a few of the milestones we hit this past five years.
We found a theme song. This was a small but important step in our development. What would a podcast about sound be without some kind of awesome anthem representing it? (Nothing, that's what!) We need to officially thank the members of Hunchback (Miranda, Mike, Jay, and Craig) for donating their song "Feeling Blind" to our podcast. Hunchback was a legendary horror-surf band from the NJ basement scene who endeavored to produce highly visceral sonic experiences of the highest caliber in their songwriting. You can still find a ton of their recordings on the internet. Thanks, crew!
We got listed on iTunes and Stitcher. It bears mentioning that quite a bit of technical muscle is involved in establishing a podcast. We would have gotten nowhere without Andreas Duus Pape's help and guidance during our earliest moments. Andreas was instrumental in opening up the hood of the podcast and making it purr. Not only did he donate his time to plug us into iTunes' network of podcasts, but he also shared some excellent philosophical thoughts on the topic. You can listen here and read them here.
We went monthly. Originally we had conceived the podcast as more a haphazard, occasional treat for our readers. Slowly but surely as demand and interest grew, we began to carve out a more regular calendar space for our podcast. First we switched to a bi-monthly format, and then we started with monthly broadcasts. Can't slow this beat down.
We are the sonic archive of a sound art conference. That's right, we featured sonic mixdowns of the entire Tuned City of Brussels sound art festival. Over the course of the festivals three days, we featured daily mixdowns of the prior day's key sounds and moments. Each mixdown is brilliant and a testiment to the raw passion of our podcast contributors. They worked round the clock to produce such an amazing series. Check out the night before, and days 1, 2, and 3.
We produced a LOT of soundwalks. If you're a listener you know that we love our soundwalks. We're proud to be host to play host to a variety of soundwalks from cities around the world. Last month's Yoshiwara soundwalk by Gretchen Ju challenged listeners to critically engage with the city's fraught history of sex work. Other contributors in our soundwalk series like James Hodges have considered how the ambient music of big box stores and shopping malls are part of the architecture of commerce. Finally others like Frank Bridges have taken us to the edge of history and soundwalked the grounds of Thomas Edison's workshop in Edison, NJ. No matter what the locale, our soundwalks are part of our podcast's signature.
We found a regular contributor. Regular contributors are the heart and soul of Sounding Out! They lead the conversation on sound and work to bring you the best, most interesting content. For these reasons we're proud to announce that Marcella Ernest will be joining our podcast as a regular contributor with her series "Searching for Lost Sounds." Marcella will be interviewing a variety of sonic practitioners in an effort to give voice to the voiceless. Her most recent entry in the series was posted last Thursday. You can listen here.
We're going to keep it coming. That's our promise to you! We'll be producing great content as long as you're listening. Take a moment to subscribe to our iTunes or Stitcher accounts and also explore our Episode Guide to see if you missed anything this past 5 years. It's been a rewarding adventure so far and we guarantee that we've already got some great content lined up in the coming months.
Aaron Trammell is a Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar for Faculty Diversity in Informatics and Digital Knowledge at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. He earned his doctorate from the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information in 2015. Aaron's research is focused on revealing historical connections between games, play, and the United States military-industrial complex. He is interested in how military ideologies become integrated into game design and how these perspectives are negotiated within the imaginations of players. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Analog Game Studies and the Multimedia Editor of Sounding Out!
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Think of a beauty industry buzzword that continues to echo a decade later. Mine is the phrase 'pH balanced.' Guilty of scrubbing my face clean with St. Ives Apricot Scrub throughout my twenties (spoiler: my face did not fall off) and stepping up my acid game aggressively in my thirties, I am definitely more mindful of my skin's protective barrier now that I'm about to take the 40th spin around the sun. My key learning? Our skin is slightly alkaline (and becomes even more so as we age). We should not disturb the protective barrier (the acid mantle) with harsh scrubs.
Launched just last week, Holifrog is a new range of four clean and non-toxic face washes that aim to kick off your skincare routine with a proper cleansing experience. The products deliver your desired level of clean without disturbing your skin's acid mantle. More than face washes really, these formulas are packed with skin perfecting ingredients.
After attending the gorgeous Holifrog event, I couldn't wait to get home and open the chic water colored boxes — their packaging is truly spectacular. The concept of four face washes may seem like a lot. Since I'm already rotating countless products, I thought I needed a protocol to introduce these guys. As usual, I was overthinking things. A few days in have me convinced that although I may not need all four formulas, there is a time and place for every one of them. Because, 'situational cleansing.'
What I quickly learned about my Holifrog experience is to take time to enjoy the cleansing process. There isn't any scent so none of the products offers the aromatherapy experience I often crave. I'm not mad about it though because the skin-loving ingredients make me want to leave the cleanser on for a minute or two before I rinse. I consider these face washes as express face masks. Forgive my bragging but I do know my face masks.
Kissimmee Vitamin F Therapy Balmy Wash
Kissimmee doubles as a makeup remover. It's a very spreadable balm that you apply to dry skin and massage in to dislodge every trace of makeup, grime, and sunscreen. It's a textural experience. If your skin feels dry or tight when you wake up, this moisture cushion of a cleanser is a great morning treat. You may not even want to follow it up with a second cleanse. What's in it? Vitamin F aka Linoleic Acid, the star ingredient, is rich in skin regenerating essential fatty acids. Additionally, a blend of plant oils and butters (Cranberry, Moringa, Papaya, and more) ensures your complexion is clean but never stripped nor dry. Think bouncy and glowing. $42 (2.5 oz.)
Superior Omega Nutritive Gel Wash
This is by far my favorite Holifrog cleanser. The gel texture froths ever so slightly so you get that foam fix without stripping the skin of its essential oils. Each pump is packed with probiotics to balance the skin and prevent it from drying out, a welcomed relief this time of year. If your skin becomes parched and uncomfortable as you spend days toggling between the A/C and indoor heat, you need to try Superior. It makes for an excellent follow-up to Kissimmee for those who prefer double cleansing. Major props for the deep cleansing performance, which also leaves my skin feeling intensely hydrated. $36 (5 oz.)
Tashmoo Water Lily Nourishing Milky Wash
Milk type cleansers are usually my least favorite so it's amusing to me that I've adopted Tashmoo as my morning wash. I do stray from the directions and apply it to dry skin (generously!) and then give myself a facial massage. The lotion-like consistency feels soothing on contact and the dose of moisture instantly plumps and softens the skin. This wash is packed with amino acids and calming plant extracts, making it my favorite treatment cleanser on mornings after I have experimented with a retinoid of the week. Those with dry skin can probably remove it with a cotton round. I follow up with Shasta. $38 (5 oz.)
Shasta AHA Refining Acid Wash
When I first saw the colorful Holifrog line-up, I was immediately drawn to this Alpha Hydroxy laced formula. The blend of Glycolic and Mandelic Acids with Caviar Lime Extract forms the ultimate resurfacing trifecta that sloughs off dead skin cells at a higher-than-usual rate and gives the skin almost glass-like smoothness. While an excellent exfoliating cleanser, I find Shasta to work surprisingly well as a 2-minute mask before I hop in the shower — especially when my skin is looking congested. $38 (5 oz.)
I like that Holifrog isn't shooting for Holier than Thou in their messaging. Each formula is tailored to a specific skincare need and will deliver desirable results. Do you need all four? You do not. I'm thrilled to have experienced every formula and can confidently zoom in on two personal favorites: Kissimmee and Superior. Were I faced with 'Sophie's Choice', I'd go with Superior. (Fingers crossed that a 30ml sampler set is planned.)
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There are 6 figurines to collect throughout the Cut. You can find them during different quests throughout your journey, unless you happen across one or two of them while going off the linear path.
Animal Figurine 1
During the side quest 'The Hunters Three' that you are given by Burgrend in Song's Edge, you'll eventually come to a dilapidated cabin with a control tower and some Stalker machines. The first figurine is hiding inside the cabin in a small alcove to the right, depicting a moose.
Animal Figurine 2
During the side quest 'Waterlogged', you'll make your way to the Greycatch upstream of the dam. There's a building on the right side of the river with this jaguar figurine sitting in a window.
Animal Figurine 3
You can actually grab this if you remain in the dam area, or you can pick it up along the way of completing the 'Out of the Forge' errand. It sits in the window of a small ruin south of the dam, depicting a bison.
Animal Figurine 4
This bear figurine can be found during 'The Shaman's Path' quest once you get inside of Ourea's retreat. It sits on a desk at the back of the room where the second node puzzle is, and you can collect it either before completing the puzzle, or once the quest has ended. If you miss it, you can still come back for it later.
Animal Figurine 5
Speak to the Shaman at the hot spring just outside of Song's Edge to receive the 'A Secret Shared' errand. It will send you far north of the Cut to a place called the Drone Hangar. Once inside, find a broken ladder at the back of the room leading up to a small platform to pick up the deer figurine.
Animal Figurine 6
During the start of the 'Firebreak' quest, on the long road to the Longnotch settlement, there will be a small stone arch. You'll come across it naturally just by following the linear path. This wolf figurine, as well as a datapoint, will be sitting underneath it.
Once you pick up all the figurines, you'll unlock the trophy for All Animal Figurines found!


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Nevada is home to some of the greatest expanses of remote, arid desert in the American southwest, and there are dozens of well-maintained trails hikers can explore for an afternoon or days on end. If you're ready to leave the bright lights of Las Vegas behind for a spell consider one of the five hikes we've put the spotlight on based on suggestions from Trails.com. Don't forget to take plenty of water, and happy trails!
The Charleston Peak National Scenic Trail is less than an hour drive from Las Vegas and it leads hikers through the Spring Mountains to the highest peak in southern Nevada. The 15.4-mile hike to Charleston Peak takes you along a high ridge that's offers panoramic views of alpine meadows, forests, and the Sierra Nevada mountains.
You will be treated to spectacular scenes of the northern Sierra Nevada Range, downtown Reno, and the Lake Tahoe region hiking the Mount Rose Trail. The 11.2-mile trek to the summit of Mount Rose is well-maintained and takes hikers past a through alpine forests and past waterfalls on their way to the top.
Arrow Canyon is an easy, 3-mile hike that will take you through some of the only canyon country in Nevada to see fossils and interesting geological features. The trail takes hikers through narrow canyons of the Arrow Canyon Wilderness Area that reach depths of 400 feet, so be wary of flash floods if there is any threat of rain.
Hiking the First Creek Canyon Trail is a great way to take in the sights of the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, including large shade trees, rock formations, and seasonal waterfalls. You'll follow a scenic, 3-mile trail through the desert valley that's well-maintained until you reach the mouth of the canyon where you'll have to do some scrambling over some rocks.
It's a 5-mile hike to the top of Black Mountain, the highest peak in the North McCullough Range, and from the summit you can see Spirit Mountain, El Dorado, Jean Dry Lakes, the Red Rocks, and several surrounding mountain ranges on a clear day. The Black Mountain Trail offers scenes of black lava cliffs, evidence of the mountain's volcanic origins, and an unobstructed view of the Vegas Strip in the valley below.


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Definitions for "Examination"
Keywords: interrogation, witness, question, oath, truthfully
A person who is examined means, in the legal profession, that he or she is a witness being questioned by an attorney.
The word examination may mean any form of assessment, but is used, more commonly, to refer to a formal question and answer paper, laboratory task, or problem sheet to be undertaken with time constraints.
An interrogation or search. To examination of a witness consists of a series of questions asked by a party to the action or his attorney, in order to bring before the court or jury the knowledge which the witness has of the facts or matters in dispute, or probing and sifting the evidence as previously given.
a collaborative effort of the AICPA, NASBA and Thomson Prometric
a mandatory requirement in all of our jurisdictions and weighs heavily on determination of the award of certification
an absolute priority for the AICPA as it is to the jurisdictions that depend upon it as a key step in the licensure process
Keywords: candidate, academic, supervised, retaken, transillumination
A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry.
the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned
a computer-based test
Keywords: inspect, investigation, atory, rials, gustatory
The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.
An element of inspection consisting of investigation, without the use of special labor atory appliances or procedure s, of supplies and services to determine conformance to those specified requirements which can be determined by such investigations. Examination is generally non-destructive and includes, but is not limited to visual, audit ory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, and other investigations; simple physical manipulation; gauging, and measurement. [D00638] MIL-STD 109A QMPP
The process whereby regulators inspect the books and records of an insurer to verify their financial condition and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
The process by which the trade mark examiner decides if a mark is registrable in accordance to the law.
The process through which the Trade-marks Office determines whether an application for trade-mark registration warrants granting registration.
process by which the PTO decides to grant a patent.
Keywords: doctor, paramedical, prove, medical, subsequent
Following a claim for a personal injury you must prove your case by supplying medical evidence to support your request for damages. A recommend doctor will examine you, and the subsequent report is used as evidence.
See Medical Examination.
Following a claim for personal injury you must prove your case by supplying medical evidence to support your request for damages. Medical evidence is usually provided by an expert doctor following an examination. The subsequent report is used as evidence.
Keywords: jesuits, conscience, daily
Keywords: muniments, judgement, conclusion, incident, registrar
The study of the instruments and muniments incident to a chain of title to determine their effect and condition in order to reach a conclusion as to the status of the title.
A hearing to determine the financial state and ownership of property of a Judgment Debtor by the registrar after a request to do so has been filed, by the judgement creditor or agent.
any time you visit a physician you are given an examination so that he or she can determine the nature of your health needs.
a specific time the physician takes to look at the current status of the patient. Can represent several levels of examination from cursory to complex.
Keywords: unwritten, thrift, book, regulatory, review
an unwritten book
A detailed review of the policies, management, operations and books of a thrift institution, bank or credit union made by the institution's federal or state regulatory agency.... read full article
Keywords: substantive, preliminary, see
Keywords: comprehensive, topics, four, covering, part
See Direct Examination and Cross-examination.
See "Cross Examination," above.
Keywords: convention, see
Keywords: requirement, course, receiving
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Maybe you could try Abreva? It's used for cold sores. Otherwise, once it's a sore use baking sode to dry it out. Vinegar and hydrogen peroxide might also help, but keep in mind all 3 of these options will burn like heck for a bit.
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The month of November has gone at an incredible pace polishing the app and adjusting go to market plans.
OSOM Exchange in internal testing
We have finished building the exchange but would like to properly test the functionality before releasing it. We would like to encourage our readers (if some of you haven't done so yet), to finish creating accounts and pass the ID verification flow to be ready for our biggest release so far. Here's what to expect: OSOM Exchange will offer free deposits and withdrawals in Euros and amazing BTC and ETH exchange rates. In a recent comparison against most popular alternatives, we found out that by buying BTC and ETH on OSOM, our users will have the most of their deposited Euro value left in their wallets. Combine that with our state of the art custodial wallet and public address and exchange aggregator, and you will have the best gateway from Euro to Crypto and back with the most functional portfolio manager out there! With the release of OSOM Exchange, we will complete our first part of the promise – you can finally do it all in one place: buy, sell, keep, send, receive crypto, and track your whole portfolio across all the wallets and exchanges.
Qualitative research and Usability testing
The first two weeks of December are set for qualitative research – one-to-one interviews with the target audience at our office in Brussels. The goal is to test the ease of use and to map deeper the behavior around the product. This time, we will focus on the general flow, identity validation, asset aggregation, trying out the exchange, and payment services. Tests will consist of questions and short tasks with frequent crypto users and will give us insights into the real day to day usability of the app. Last but not least, we will evaluate people's experiences and perceptions, to further design delightfulness and ease of use.
Next steps in the OSOM development
The immediate next steps in OSOM development will focus on two points. Point A is rolling out fiat functionality that has been in development for a while – right after we get the license and are done with tests. Fiat aggregation will be initially launched in Belgium, where we will build our primary user base, with more countries to follow possibly throughout 2020. Contrary to point A, point B is about increasing the value of what we already have. We are looking to supplement current functionality with charts and visualizations. This will make the app more intuitive and easy to use.
As usual, we continue to tweak UX/UI, including payments functionality, portfolio tab, and the general user onboarding flow.
First public exposure at WebSummit
As most of you know, we attended the largest European tech event – WebSummit – in Lisbon Nov 4-7. OSOM was part of the Brussels region's "Hub.Brussels" representation at the event and had a one day stand in the BETA startup area. Despite the licensing lag and exchange not being ready for the time of WebSummit, the event still resulted in great networking with potential partners and user surveys. Amongst others, our team had attended a reception hosted by the Belgian ambassador to Portugal. This gave us the opportunity to meet fellow entrepreneurs from Belgium and interact with the ambassador herself.
Adjusted go to Market plan
We have already finished the core functionality for the virtual asset part of the app. This allows us to onboard everybody out there – beginner or trader – interested in the virtual asset world. We will not wait for the FIAT part to do that – we have some awesome benefits to offer to our users already. Nonetheless, we want to properly test it in-house first and that's what's happening as we are writing this news release.
Addressing the most popular question on Telegram group in November
From time to time, we are asked — what is the business and monetization model for OSOM? For now, we will be trying two monetization strategies: (a) paid premium services within the app and (b) a marketplace of financial services.
Strategy (a), as you may have already learned from our Telegram chat surveys and discussions, will focus on creating value-added solutions for the users of OSOM, such as budgeting tools, PoS-like functions for earning interest on holdings and advanced analysis of financial behavior. There is no shortage of plans in our idea lab. We will offer some features for free while applying a fee to others.
Strategy (b) will be a B2B2C model. Within the app, we will offer our users third-party products, most suitable for their situation. If a user accepts our offer, then the service provider will pay Osom a reward fee. The best thing is that the user won't have to leave the Osom app to access those products, which will result in a truly unique experience for each. Contrary to a traditional bank, we won't be limited by our own products. Instead, we will use the offers in the market like a lego. Consequently, our users might be holding their deposits in one bank, trade stocks on another platform and use yet another service to make international transfers. All of this will happen within the Osom app. All that will work if we get a big userbase, which is our first priority. At this moment we are awaiting the finalization of our core functionality (exchange and fiat aggregation and payments) to start active marketing. Our focus is long-term, and with the competition in the market, our task is to be technically and functionally ready for the influx of users. That is why we invest heavily in OSOM development before anything else, but soon the user acquisition will get into the books too.
Our goal has always been to build a profitable business, in line with the expectations of our core ICO participants, the stakeholders, and the OSOM team. We are sticking to our plan and are happy about the results so far as well as excited about the road ahead.
Team life and new hiring
We are still actively looking to hire a Growth Hacker in Brussels and a Community Manager in Tallinn. The two positions are closely related to our adjusted go-to-market strategy. If you happen to know a perfect candidate, please share the job listing with them.


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Get paid on time, take attendance registers, send texts, secure people's info, plus much more.
For team managers, coaches, admins, members and parents.
With Coacha's iOS & Android app, you've got everything you need to run sessions or matches. From registers to all member details, everything is in the palm of your hand. All you need to do is sign up for a trial of Coacha then head to your app store and download!
No internet access at your club or gym? No problem – use Coacha's iPhone & Android app offline and it'll sync any updates the minute your device connects to the internet.
Not only does the Coacha app keep your data nice and secure on our servers, it's also App Store approved and fully password protected.
At Coacha our mantra is to keep things simple! So, for our iPhone & Android app, we've stripped Coacha down to its key features making it easy-to-use, even from a mobile phone.
Whether you have 1 or 100 coaches, all your assistant coaches can download and use our iPhone/Android app to manage members, view classes and take registers, for free!
Your members can log into the app to see their information and your club calendar on the go. You can even get your members booking themselves in.
Not a problem; Coacha's web version is fully mobile responsive and can be accessed and used just as easily from any other device or web browser.
Our app is built to the latest iOS and Android standards and will work on iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets perfectly. Great for that front of house check-in system!
Sometimes you might run classes that are open to all your members. Well now they can log into their Coacha profile and book a place. Easy!
By combining all the things you'd need access to during a class or match, we've created a super streamlined version of Coacha that's still just as easy to use, even from a mobile phone screen. You can download it for free from the App Store or Play Store and enjoy even easier access to your favorite Coacha features, such as:
No more lugging paper records to practice or passing from coach to coach. All the details you need can be found within our app; free for all your coaches to download!
Waste no time rifling through record cards in the event of an emergency. With Coacha's iOS app you have instant access to those all important next of kin telephone numbers.
You can't be expected to remember every injury, allergy or disability that might exist within your club, and with instant access to this info through our iPhone app, you don't have to!
Gone are the days of preparing, printing and carrying around paper registers; now all you need is your phone and Coacha app, where today's registers will be waiting and ready to use.
Stamp out bad behaviour and record good performance using Coaches' Notes – automatically synced between all associated devices for your entire coaching team to see.
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Hinged Porcelain Powder Box 3 Graces Flower Inside Vintage Vanity Japan pre-1941
This wonderful porcelain powder box has a domed lid which features 3 Graces playing flute and horn by the side of a stream. Rims of box and lid are bound with fancy brass bands detailed with flowers and vines and hinged together in the back. Overall green glaze is ornamented with many gold luster leaves, vines and bell flowers. Floral bouquets of roses, tulips and other flowers, are pictured on both bottom interior of box and inside the lid too. Marked in red on base: Made in Japan. Mark and style place year of manufacture sometime between 1921 and 1941. It measures 2-3/4" inches high and 3-3/4" in diameter. Gold luster has only minimal wear. It is mostly intact and shiny. There is a tiny flea bite on base at edge of underside which cannot be seen when sitting on vanity. It is in very good condition otherwise... no chips, cracks or repairs. Purchased from an estate sale.
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If you resemble many females, your hair is your crowning magnificence. Because your early teenagers (and even previously in many cases!) you have actually fine-tuned it, permed it, coloured it, grown it long, sufficed short, frizzed it, corrected it, curled it, gelled it and back-combed it to within an inch of its life, depending upon the popular hair pattern of the day.
As a female, your hair is so carefully associated to how you feel about yourself that it can trigger major state of mind changes if things fail. When it's looking terrific, you feel appealing, attractive and positive. When it's a stringy mess and terribly in requirement of a hair shampoo or a great cut, you begin to want that those huge headscarves your mum utilized to use were back in style!
That's why loss of hair or hair thinning can be such a destructive blow to a female in mid life. By the time we reach 50, the variety of hair roots we generally have per square centimeter of scalp has actually dropped from 615 in our 20's and 30's to a meager 485. At the age of 80 this number has actually reduced even further to 435 hair roots per square centimeter. Each hair strand likewise ends up being thinner as we age, therefore lowering general hair volume. Find out the best shampoo for menopausal hair.
What Causes Loss Of Hair In Females?
Loss of hair in females can be triggered by a variety of aspects consisting of tension, bad diet plan, over-use of hair products/chemicals, specific medications, health problem and genes. That is, the estrogen level reduces greatly triggering the concentration of testosterone in the body, which a female produces naturally anyhow, to end up being greater than typical.
What Can We Do About It?
There are a variety of things that can be done to deal with the scenario.
Natural Treatments
Natural Treatments are thought about to be the very best low-priced option to menopausal loss of hair and hair thinning in females. There are a variety of natural and organic treatments on the marketplace that can be reliable in thickening and reinforcing the hair and in promoting re-growth. These can be acquired either online or at significant drug stores in the U.S.A. and UK.
Natural solutions which deal with hormonal agent imbalance have actually been revealed to eliminate a lot of the typical signs of menopause consisting of loss of hair. When selecting a natural solution for menopausal loss of hair or any other menopausal sign, you must try to find items that are backed by scientific trials and those that release evaluations and reviews by other females regarding their efficiency. These solutions can typically take 2-3 months prior to revealing outcomes so you require to be client and consistent in their usage.
Enhance Your Diet plan
A well balanced diet plan is especially crucial in the fight versus loss of hair throughout menopause. Severe diet plans of any kind can trigger your hair to fall out. To promote hair development, and healthy hair, you require to consume foods abundant in the B and C vitamins. Ensure you're getting adequate iron and protein in your diet plan by consisting of protein abundant foods.
Hair Transplantation Surgical Treatment
This treatment can be really efficient in severe cases of loss of hair however it is pricey and not without its adverse effects such as folliculitis (an inflammation of the roots), and shock-loss, the abrupt however normally momentary hair loss that usually grows in the location of the transplant and impacts 30% to 50% of female hair-transplant receivers.
This might look like the choice of last option however the quality of human hair and artificial wigs that you can buy nowadays is far remarkable to the topics of funny regimens that were around 10 or fifteen years back. The mindset to contemporary wig using has actually altered as lots of females, consisting of stars, use wigs nowadays simply for enjoyable. A plethora of various designs and colors are readily available to boost your appearance and make you feel womanly once again.
There's no overnight service to hair loss or thinning throughout menopause, by following choices 1. and 2., you must begin to see enhancement in the density and general health of your hair within 2-3 months and more considerable enhancement within 6 months, consequently avoiding the requirement to turn to choices 3 or 4.
Advice from a Physician
Given that there are a variety of other causes for the hair loss, it is smart to seek advice from a physician when obvious indications of this condition start. Diabetes and lupus are simply 2 medical conditions that can appear when other modifications are occurring in the body, and getting treatment for them early will avoid more broad reaching health problems.
While the most typical reasons for hair fall are hormone in nature, there are some things that can be done to avoid it from ending up being as heartbreaking as numerous ladies discover it to be. As gone over formerly, nutrition is the primary thing that a lady can do to avoid the frustrating results of hair fall throughout menopause. The body responds well to much better nutrition and there are lots of quality supplements that are created to supply the type of nutrition that is strange to ladies's health.
Supplements and a diet plan
Supplements and a diet plan abundant in nutrients are a few of the very best actions that any lady can require to avoid hair menopause loss of hair or hair fall throughout any stage of their life. Much better nutrition enables the body to recuperate under its own power and typically without medical intervention.
There are numerous factors for hair loss to happen. This consists of tension that appears to be part and parcel with the modifications that take place throughout menopause. With hormone modifications triggering hot flashes and state of mind modifications, tension is plentiful at this time of life. Telogen effluvium is the term that is utilized to explain loss of hair that is triggered by tension. This condition triggers the hair roots to enter into the resting stage, and after a couple of months the afflicted hairs will start to fall out. Tension triggered menopause loss of hair will go away when the stress factors are removed.


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A patent attorney is a specialized attorney who is trained and skilled in representing clients wishing to obtain patents. A patent attorney is also capable of representing clients in all realms and procedures of patent law, including filing an opposition to reexamine a patent or represent a client in a legal dispute. A patent attorney has differing obligations in each country around the world, and may commonly be referred to as patent agents or patent lawyers interchangeably in certain jurisdictions. Under United States intellectual property law, a patent attorney and a patent agent are two different practitioners of patent law.
Patent Attorneys and Patent Agents:
Patent attorneys and patent agents are two separate occupations, though they are similar in many ways. A patent attorney and patent agent both obtain the same license in order to practice patent law and represent clients before the Patent Office of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). According to a U.S. Supreme Court decision of Sperry v. Florida, both occupations may provide clients with patentabilityUSPTO Registration Examination:
To become a registered patent agent or patent attorney (also known as a patent lawyer), a practitioner of law must pass the USPTO registration examination, formally known as the "Examination for Registration to Practice in Patent Cases Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office". Potential patent lawyers are tested on their familiarity with USPTO protocols, ethic rules, and federal laws and regulations.
During the examination, the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP), published by the USPTO as a guide for patent lawyers and agents, may be used as a reference, though no other material is allowed. Before an aspiring patent lawyer is allowed to take the examination, three requirements must be met. (1) The person must be determined to have "good moral character", (2) have technical qualifications necessary to provide quality services to the Patent Office (these include fields of biology, engineering, chemistry, and computer science), (3) and must have the ability to provide advisement for patent applicants during the application process. Once the registration exam has been passed, the title of patent attorney or patent lawyer will be given to the individual by the USPTO.
Required Degrees of Patent Lawyers:
Patent lawyers examine inventions and other articles which are being submitted to receive a patent. Most of these articles require a great deal of technical knowledge to understand and to recreate. As a result, patent lawyers who examine such objects for patent approval will need a bachelor's degree at the minimum in one or several necessary fields.
Most patentable objects are based in fields of biology, computer science, chemistry, physics, as well as electrical, chemical and mechanical engineering. Patent lawyers who meet this requirement will be given relevant patent applications so that they may understand the patent thoroughly based on their prior knowledge in the field.
A patent lawyer could only determine patentability if they understand how an object works and carries out a function and the patent lawyer then applies this knowledge to the requirements of patents.
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A patent is an exclusive right granted by a state, particularly a national government, to an inventor or assignee, for a limited amount of time in exchange for a public disclosure of an invention or idea.
The procedure for issuing patents, the requirements placed on the holder of the patent and the extent to which the exclusivity rights protect the invention or idea will vary widely between countries based on particular national law and international agreement. In most cases, a patent application will include one or more claims to define the invention; to obtain a patent, the idea or invention must be new, useful, non-obvious or industrially applicable.
A patent offers the creator of a particular invention or idea the exclusive right to prevent others from making, using, distributing or selling the patented invention without permission. A patent is simply, a right to prevent other manufacturers, individuals or producers from using the underling invention or idea.
Patents are regulated under the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights; this organization will make patents available to WTO member states for any inventions or ideas relating to all fields of technology. The terms attached to such patents will offer exclusive rights to holders for a minimum of twenty years; however, different types of patents may have varying terms attached to the exclusivity of the underlying patent.
How To Find a Patent Attorney?
A patent attorney is a legal professional who possesses specialized qualifications necessary for representing individuals or clients who are in the process of obtaining patents. Additionally, a patent attorney will aid those seeking patents by acting in all matters relating to complex patent law.
The role of a patent attorney will differentiate between countries; the term is used differently in various jurisdictions or countries, meaning that a patent attorney may or may not obtain the same legal qualifications as a generalized legal practitioner. Furthermore, the titles patent attorney and patent agent may also be used interchangeably in some jurisdictions.
In the United States, a patent attorney may be labeled as a patent agent; both patent attorneys and patent agents represent clients before the patent office, which is part of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Both patent agents and a patent attorney will prepare, file and prosecute patent applications; a patent attorney may also prove patentability opinions based on the ruling provided by the United States Supreme Court in Sperry v. Florida.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office impose Rules of Ethics and Professionalism that specifically clarifies that patent agents may not provide an opinion of validity for another party's patent when the underlying client is seeking litigation and not seeking reexamination. These rules are instituted to discourage impediments aligned to the preparation and prosecution of a client's patent.
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A patent attorney must be admitted to the practice of law in at least one state of the U.S. To obtain licensing, the individual must pass the USPTO registration examination; once this examination is passed, the individual is allowed to prosecute and register patent applications. The USPTO registration examination will test a candidate's knowledge of patent law and the policies and procedures latent in the USPTO's Manuel of Patent Examining Procedure.
Upon satisfaction of this examination, the individual will legally be labeled a patent attorney. Because a patent attorney is admitted to practice patent law in a specific state, the individual can additionally provide legal services outside the Patent Office if he or she is practicing within the jurisdiction they are admitted or if the law of the jurisdiction otherwise permits them to practice.
These various legal services include: appealing a decision by the Patent Office to a court, advising a client on matters relating to the licensing of the underlying invention and advise the client on matters pertaining to infringements.


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House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) on Wednesday praised President Trump for his expected announcement to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and begin the process of moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv, arguing that if the militant Palestinian Islamist group Hamas disapproves of the decision then Trump is doing something right.
Past presidents have said the status of the city, which has a number of holy site for multiple religions, must be decided through negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.
Palestinians and top officials from other states in the region are warning that such a move would end the two-state peace talks, and possibly cause violent conflict to erupt in the region.
Hamas reportedly called for a "Day of Rage" to happen on Friday, urging Palestinians to use "all available means" to protest against Trump's plan.
Asked if the U.S. should be concerned, Scalise said Hamas has had "days of rage for years and years" without achieving peace.


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Analysis of male body image in college athletes and non-athletes
The following research concerns body image issues in males. The study compared college male athletes to college male non-athletes in order to discover which group of individuals experienced more body image issues. There were a total of six tests used to evaluate the participants which included: a background questionnaire created by the researcher, the attention to body shape scale, male contour drawing rating scale, objectified body consciousness scale, selfobjectification questionnaire, and the eating attitudes test. Researchers used a total of 47 participants, 19 classified as athletes and 27 classified as non-athletes. It was initially hypothesized that male athletes would score significantly higher on all scales compared to nonathletes, meaning that male athletes had more concern on aspects of body image. The initial hypothesis was generally not supported. However, athletes scored higher on the attention to body shape scale than non athletes, t(45) = 2.67, p=.01. This showed that athletes have more concern for body shape. The general conclusions from the results were that the hypothesis was not confirmed and future research with a different focus needs to occur to discover the differences between male college athletes and non-athletes. This new focus includes using scales that focus more on muscularity, and using a different dieting scale with a greater focus on male nutrition concerns.