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An estimate of 16 million people live with some form of cognitive impairment while 5.1 million have Alzheimer’s disease (CDC, 2014; 2011).

How do we protect our brain from dementia? And is it possible to reverse an aging and forgetful brain?

Barbara Shukit-Hale’s (2012) research, Blueberries and neuronal aging, clearly demonstrates the power of blueberry and particularly blueberry extract in protecting and even reversing cognitive decline.

Scientific research indicates that a cup or two of blueberry every day will improve cognitive performance, improve athletic abilities (balance, strength, and endurance), and even elevate our mood (Miller et al., 2018; Schrager et al., 2015; Khalid et al., 2017).  Research also emphasizes quantity: one cup of blueberries a day is good but 2 cups a day may be even better (Miller & Shukitt-Hale,  2012).  These health improvements are not just limited to the elderly but to all ages — even children greatly benefit (Whyte, 2016; Khalid, 2017).

BX FBlueberry Extract:  Brain and Nerve Regeneration

The BioImmersion Blueberry Extract is a serious product.  The cognitive, mood enhancing, and athletic benefits emanate from the blueberry pigment is extracted from the North American blueberry.  Each capsule contains 500mg of extract, equivalent to one and a quarter cups of blueberries.  In fact, it takes 80 lbs. of blueberries to get 1 lb. of our extract!

Suggested Use:  1-2 capsules twice daily for two weeks to start an intensive program, and 1 capsule a day as a maintenance.

  • Khalid, S., Barfoot, K. L., May, G., Lamport, D. J., Reynolds, S. A., & Williams, C. M. (2017). Effects of acute blueberry flavonoids on mood in children and young adults. Nutrients, 9(2), 158.
  • Marcum, Z. A., Hohl, S. D., Gray, S. L., Barthold, D., Crane, P. K., & Larson, E. B. (2019). Brain health and dementia prevention: A mixed-method analysis. American journal of health behavior43(2), 300-310.
  • Miller, M. G., Hamilton, D. A., Joseph, J. A., & Shukitt-Hale, B. (2018). Dietary blueberry improves cognition among older adults in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. European journal of nutrition, 57(3), 1169-1180.
  • Schrager, M. A., Hilton, J., Gould, R., & Kelly, V. E. (2015). Effects of blueberry supplementation on measures of functional mobility in older adults. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 40(6), 543-549.
  • Shukitt-Hale, B. (2012). Blueberries and neuronal aging. Gerontology, 58, 518-523.
  • Shukitt-Hale, B., Thangthaeng, N., Miller, M. G., Poulose, S. M., Carey, A. N., & Fisher, D. R. (2019). Blueberries Improve Neuroinflammation and Cognition differentially Depending on Individual Cognitive baseline Status. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A74(7), 977-983.
  • Whyte, A. R., Schafer, G., & Williams, C. M. (2016). Cognitive effects following acute wild blueberry supplementation in 7-to 10-year-old children. European journal of nutrition, 55(6), 2151-2162

To Your Health,

We have developed our products based on scientific research and/or the practical experience of many healthcare practitioners. There is a growing body of literature on food based nutrition and supplements and their application in support of our health. Please use our products under the advisement of your doctor.

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Transformation to healthy diets by 2050 will require substantial dietary shifts.  Global consumption of fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes will have to double, and consumption of foods such as red meat and sugar will have to be reduced by more than 50%. A diet rich in plant-based foods and with fewer animal source foods confers both improved health and environmental benefits.  (Walter Willett MD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2019)


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I bought some lovely Daum Nancy and Gallé vases in France

I will do my best to publish every Monday.

We’re on the way home, as you read this blog, after a very successful trip. We bought mostly Daum Nancy rarities, but some lovely Gallé glass also.

Following are some of the wonderful items. We’ll bring them to the Chicago Antiques + Art + Design Show in a couple of weeks if they are not sold prior, as they are available for immediate sale.

Daum Nancy Crane vase

Animals of any sort are rare and very desirable decoration for Daum. Cranes are exceptionally rare. The example pictured above is decorated with four cranes in flight, with heavily gilded rays of the rising or setting sun. It’s museum-quality.

Daum Nancy vase with applied berries

Daum is most famous for fabulous detail attained by the use of hand-painted enameling, after acid-etching. The example above has exquisite detail in the leaves and vines. The contrast with the mottled background is strong and beautiful. Once we add the many applied berries to the workmanship, we raise the level of this vase from excellent to awesome. Another example of museum-quality.

Daum Nancy bowl with Imperial Russia decoration

The bowl pictured above is not only beautiful, it’s historically significant. Tsar
Nicholas II started his state visit to France on September 18, 1901, by royal yacht and then by train to Compiègne, near Reims. This commemorative bowl is decorated with the Russian imperial emblem on one side with Compiègne Reims 1901 enameled below, in the gilded belt. The other side is decorated with a scene of the venue, hand-painted en grisaille, surrounded by acid-etched and hand-painted enameled flowers and leaves. This is the type of Daum item that you would want just based on its beauty. With the additional historical importance, it’s extraordinary.

There’s more, but I can’t list them all in this blog. Email me if you have interest. I’ll try to take photos and list them on my website as soon as possible.

No shows until May when we’ll exhibit at the Chicago Antiques + Art + Design show at the Merchandise Mart in downtown Chicago. It’s a beautiful show in a wonderful venue. The dates are May 14-17, 2020. So put it on your calendar and make plans to visit. You’ll thank me.

I listed some of the new items on my website and will list more every week. Click Philip Chasen Antiques to take a look. I will make every effort to actively list new items as often as time permits. I always strive to offer the finest objects for sale on my website and at every show. There are many items for sale, sold items with prices and free lessons about glass and lamps. And remember to keep reading my blog.

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Trashion Show & Jeans For Greens!

January 26, 2013

Earlier this year (last year) I participated in the Aveda Trashion Show. Every year Cinta Aveda throws a fashion show / competition to help raise money for the Clean Water Fund. The outfits are made completely out of recycled materials, and hair and makeup done in that extravagant hair show way.

Trashion Show Model

At our school, we helped raise money by doing what we called Jeans for Greens. At school we have a dress code of all black. But, for several months leading up to the Trashion Show, we were permitted to wear jeans on Fridays and Saturdays if we donated five dollars to the Clean Water Fund ourselves. We exceeded our goal! Although the Trashion Show is a runway competition for professional salons, as a school, we got to participate in the fashion show, but not in the competition. The clothes we made (mostly dresses of some sort) were primarily made from newspaper, coffee filters and rope made from braided newspaper. I worked on three models, two of which had short hair. The two with short hair I did a curling iron set on and sprayed them up with some Control Force, into a sort of wave effect. The long-haired model I added some green extensions to her vibrant red hair. I french-braided her hairline across the front and teased it up to give it some flare. The back I took into a french twist. The green tails of the extension I left out and sprayed up into a nice fan on the side of the twist. Voilà!


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Watford FC and crypto-led sports betting brand Sportsbet.io will celebrate the end of the Premier League season, by hosting the inaugural Crypto Cup: A meetup of crypto enthusiasts at Vicarage Road for a day of debate, education, and a 5-a-side football tournament.

The Crypto Cup will take place on May 16, with guest speakers, entrepreneurs, developers and newcomers gathering to discuss the crypto community’s most pressing issues.

Paul O’Brien, Commercial Director of Watford FC, had these words to say about the unique event:

“This is the first event of its kind to be organised at Watford FC, throughout this season we have been delighted to welcome the crypto community to experience match days at Vicarage Road, through our partnership with Sportsbet.io and the Bitcoin jersey sponsorship. Now in May, we will support this partnership with a special day which will allow the crypto community to play at the Vic, whilst immersing themselves in discussions, education and fun.”

The event will highlight how football has become an exciting new platform to educate and increase awareness around the benefits of cryptocurrency adoption. At the center of this shift is Sportsbet.io’s pioneering Bitcoin sleeve sponsorship campaign, and Watford’s decision to accept Bitcoin in their online store.

Tim Heath, CEO of Sportsbet.io, also voiced his excitement about the crypto meet up, stating:

“After witnessing what an impact football sponsorship has had on raising awareness for cryptocurrency, we’re really looking forward to taking it even further with Watford FC. Being part of the conversation on the day with both fans and experts, exploring what the future of crypto adoption looks like and enjoying the Vicarage Road experience is a brilliant opportunity for all involved.”

English Premier League football team Watford will also host a round-robin football tournament at the event, which will take place on the hallowed turf of Vicarage Road with various partners entering a team for charity. Each team will receive a pre-match team-talk from a Watford legend.

Visit cryptocup.com for more details about the event, tickets, guest speakers and more.

Crypto Cup 2020


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The Super-Dri Xceed performs at Rutland Water

As new stock of the Super-Dry fly line range finally rolls out of the warehouse and anglers are putting them to the test, it’s great to see that the technology behind these lines are performing as we expected and the Super-Dri family is gaining some respect among floating line fishermen.

Kieron Jenkins, our Online Marketing Manager spent two days fishing at Rutland Water testing our floating fly lines in search of some of Rutland’s specimen trout.

Reports have been saying Rutland Water has been fishing it’s socks off with plenty of good size fish being stocked, caught and returned back to the water – practically throughout the whole lake. Most fly fishermen would have seen by various sources that large brown trout caught from Rutlands north arm just a few weeks ago, if that alone wasn’t enough to tempt me im unsure what is!

I arrived at Rutland water around 9am Saturday morning to a gentle ripple and high, thick cloud. “Ideal conditions for surface feeding fish!” said one of the rangers. The temperature was fairly high after a few days of standard Autumn weather, so I chose to fish a team of dry flies from the off. From past experience it can take some time for fish to switch onto dries, especially now we enter the cooler months of the year.

My line of choice for this particular session was a WF7 Super-Dri Xceed, a fly line which has been developed to create high line speed, perfect for quickly covering rising fish or casting into a strong headwind, keeping your loops razor sharp and your flies turning over each cast.

Motoring from the jetty to the top of the north arm it was like driving into dry fly heaven. A gentle ripple and perfect light to spot your dry flies, the kind of thing anglers dreams are made of. This time of year you would be silly not to tie on a daddy long legs pattern, any sort of heat and a gentle wind will always get the daddies tumbling along the water surface.My cast consisted of two amber dry flies, one a sedge pattern and a bits pattern on the middle dropper, with a foam daddy on the point. For dries, tippet materal is always Airflo’s Ultra Strong Co-polymer, it sits low in the surface film but isn’t so heavy to drag the flies beneath the surface.

Due to the lake being low for bank-side maintenance, the top of the north arm is choked with weed – most, a foot or so below the surface. As we motored close to the bank in the shallow water the motion and sound of the boat spooked three or four fish sitting close to the surface, one, we actually watched swim along side of the boat as it tried to bolt away. A good sign for a dry fly fisherman!

Parking the boat on the edge of the weed beds with some visible weed below the boat I took the time to degrees my leader to ensure there was zero flash from the nylon. Second cast I spotted a fish push water, not even breaking the surface around 20 yards down wind, the perfect opportunity to test the casting ability of the Xceed. Stripping a few extra yards of line from my fishing reel, I cast the flies with perfect turn over at the fish now around 2 yards closer than previous. As the flies landed gently on the water, a head emerged and engulfed my middle dropper. With a standard floating line it’s a challenge to hook a fish at distance, the drag from the surface slows down your reaction time and can sometimes lead to missed fish, but the way the Super-Dri range seems to repel water, I could set the hook almost instantaneously to the strike.

The fish took off well in the shallow water, lunging for the submerged weed and getting the nylon caught in the string like matter. Some side-strain was all it took to drag it free from the weed and the fight continued. What I love about Rutland and especially the north arm, is that you never know what you’re going to hook into, it could be a run of the mill stocky, or a fully overwintered torpedo. I was fortunate enough to slip the net under this fish, a beautiful mended stocked fish of which I estimated just over three pounds in weight and in perfect condition for this time of year, a great start to the day and the ideal opportunity to test the Super-dri Xceed.

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Kieron Rutland Rainbow


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Sitting Kills Your Creativity

Creativity can be elusive… and that’s bad news for those of us who rely on our creativity  Just because we want and need to be creative doesn’t mean great ideas faithfully appear in our morning coffee. Sitting around all day forcing our brains into submission doesn’t seem to do the trick, either, because sitting kills your creativity. However, there is one faithful way to give the brain a creative boost. Many great minds came to their greatest ideas by tapping into their not-so-secret-muse: movement.

History is full of anecdotal evidence of how movement spurs breakthroughs.  Take, for instance, Henry Thoreau who famously said, “The moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow,” or Friedrich Nietzsche, who wrote, “All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”  Even Sigmund Freud worked out his influential theory on the unconscious, preconscious and conscious minds during a series of long hikes in the mountains of Germany.

What we knew in the 1800s holds true today, and the research is starting to catch up. Researchers from Stanford recently found that a person’s creative output increased 60%  while walking. The study, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, found that subjects not only provided more creative answers as they were walking, but also found that the positive effects lingered shortly thereafter subjects stopped moving. The study also found it didn’t matter whether you strolled indoors or outside – the creativity boost was the same. This insight makes the case for walking up and down the stairs as you listen in on conference calls, if that’s all you have access to.

In a separate study, researchers found that regular exercisers increased their creativity during problem-solving tasks after a short workout compared to their sedentary peers.  “Exercising on a regular basis may thus act as a cognitive enhancer promoting creativity in inexpensive and healthy ways,” study researcher Lorenza Colzato, a cognitive psychologist said.  Colzato and her colleagues from Leiden University in the Netherlands recently published their study in the Journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Take a look at their fascinating findings on the link between movement and creativity here:

Power players are ditching their desks.

Even Barack Obama is a champion of bringing more movement into our work lives.  The President,  known for holding walking meetings along the South Lawn of the White House reportedly “paced the South Lawn loop as he awaited word on whether his administration would hit its 7-million target for health insurance sign-ups before the close of Obamacare’s first open enrollment period,” according to Fast Company.

Silicon Valley is quickly becoming famous for walking meetings too. While the late Steve Jobs popularized the trend, we’ve seen everyone from Mark Zuckerburg to Jack Dorsey ditch their desks for sneakers. Jeff Weiner, the CEO of LinkedIn, published a post recently touting the benefits of his fresh air moving meetings, stating, “A colleague recently advised trying walking meetings. Now there’s no turning back.”  With the help of celebrity status Presidents and tech CEOs, the active workday is starting to get some much needed traction. That inspiration, coupled with the a growing awareness on the dangers of sitting, means that more companies might start encouraging employees to get up and move as they work.

Creativity is an office chair casualty.

So what can you do about it? Simple. Move more. If you want that creativity “on demand,” it means cultivating as much movement as you can throughout your work day. If you’re stuck in an office where you just can’t go out for a run when you feel stuck, then try using a standing desk (we recommend an adjustable standing desk so you can still cop a squat during deep think time), trade conference rooms for walking or standing meetings, do sets of stairs while you’re on a phone call, or stand up on the subway during your commute. All of those small adjustments will help bring more movement into your workday. Share your tips with us in the comments or tweet us!


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By Rachael Petersen With the launch of Global Forest Watch (GFW), anyone with an internet connection can now access troves of timely, high-quality information about where, when, and why forests are changing worldwide. The free, online monitoring system provides the open data and transparency necessary to improve forest management and enhance the livelihoods of forest-dependent peoples. However, information alone cannot lead to real-world change—it takes the work of communities, organizations, and other stakeholders to turn this data in action. Now that we can see where trees are being lost, what can be done to slow or stop harmful forest destruction? How can we empower communities affected by poor forest management to use GFW to protect natural resources? Enter the Global Forest Watch Small Grants Fund. The Fund, which we’re opening up for applications today, aims to support civil society organizations around the world to use the GFW platform in innovative and impactful ways. We have pledged an initial $375,000 for 2014 and are accepting applications through June 30. The Fund offers local organizations from around the world the chance to improve forest management in their own communities.

The Small Grants Fund seeks applications within the following categories to help meet our goal of improving forest management and enhancing local livelihoods:

  1. Projects that support forest-dependent communities, grassroots organizations, and other local stakeholders to access, comprehend, and apply information in the GFW platform in ways that positively impact people’s lives.
  2. Projects that use information in the GFW platform to conduct research or carry out advocacy to improve forest governance and law enforcement (e.g., through changes in laws, institutions, and/or practices).
  3. Projects that provide new information to or validate existing information on GFW (e.g., creation of a new data layer, validating areas of tree cover loss).
  4. Other innovative projects that use GFW to empower civil society to better manage forests and sustain or mobilize local communities.

The Small Grants Fund supports projects ranging from 10,000 USD to 40,000 USD, with a completion date of no later than December 31, 2014.

The Small Grants Fund is intended for registered non-profit, civil society organizations with full-time, paid staff.  The fund is not intended for large, international NGOs or any for-profit establishments or government agencies. To learn about how Global Forest Watch is working with other types of stakeholders – including governments, companies, and international NGOs – please visit our website.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, beginning today, March 10, 2014, and ending on June 30, 2014. Organizations are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. For more information on the application process, please visit the GFW Small Grants Page and click “How to Apply.”

The possibilities are endless — from strengthening local community forest monitoring to producing new and improved data sets on the world’s vital natural resources. Below are some examples of how civil society groups can utilize the GFW platform to promote sustainable forest management and improve local livelihoods.

  • Gather information. Groups can harness data from GFW to help launch awareness campaigns about where deforestation is taking place and who is responsible.
  • Support the documentation of ongoing stories in local forests. Users can apply for funding to undertake on-the-ground reporting, using GFW as a platform to publicize local issues. This could allow groups to uncover threats to local resource rights, as well as conservation success stories.
  • Monitor forests from the ground. Organizations involved with community forest monitoring could use the information from GFW to better direct their efforts, validate and verify forest change data, and publicize observations collected from the field.
  • Determine deforestation drivers. Funds could also be applied to conduct research to determine the source of the tree cover loss (and/or gain)—be it agricultural commodities, infrastructure and extractive industry expansion, or subsistence activities.
  • Build capacity. Host a workshop for civil society organizations and community groups to train stakeholders on how to use GFW.
  • Create new data sets. Groups with the technical expertise to complete, update, or enhance forest-related data sets (such as concession maps, peat swamp mapping, and forest community lands) could apply for support to complete and then visualize newly produced data sets on the GFW platform.
  • And much, much more.

We look forward to supporting unique ideas about how to implement our global tool to create positive local outcomes for forests, people, and the planet. LEARN MORE: For more details regarding the Small Grants Fund, please visit the Small Grants Fund website.

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Time Lapse Using Python

Firstly, long time no post, sorry ….

Recently I upgraded the FolgerTech i3-2020 clone 3D printer from using an Arduino/RAMPs board control setup to using a Duet 3D – 6HC control/main board (will be a later post on that). However, with that change, it meant giving up OctoPi and its ability to capture time lapses. So after searching and finding time lapse Python scripts for Duet 2 boards only to find out that code couldn’t be used as the Duet 3 – 6HC doesn’t have Telnet capability I landed on a Duet 3 forum post that gave some light here: https://forum.duet3d.com/topic/14055/random-duet3-sbc-questions/8
Armed with a need, and an idea to follow, the code was started. Note that Danal also has a more advanced Duet Time Lapse here: https://github.com/DanalEstes/DuetLapse.

The code creates time lapse videos with a Duet 3 – 6HC Mainboard and is mainly meant for 3D Printers, but can be used for other machines too. It is designed to run on a Raspberry Pi and may be adaptable to other Linux platforms. Supports cameras via USB, Pi (ribbon cable), and Webcam. Produces photos and renders a video using MJPEG-Streamer & FFMPEG. Creates a sub-folders for photos and video with date and time stamps for each. As the printer changes layers, Duet Web Control (DWC) will post PRINT_STARTED, LAYER_CHANGE, and PRINT_COMPLETE while the printer is operating and log them in the Duet Control Server Service. The program uses these cues to monitor the service for changes and then to have M-JPEG take photos and store them so FFMPEG can then compile the time lapse video.

The code is technically my first published open source code in Python and is available on GIT Hub here: https://github.com/JimsJump/Duet_3_6HC_Time_Lapse

Below is a quick video of the result – works great!!

Shazam! was awesome! Has some cool twists & not your typical DC Universe Movie #shazam #shazammovie #dcuniverse

Solomon (Wisdom)
Hercules (Strength)
Atlas (Stamina)
Zeus (Thunderbolt & other god like magic abilities)
Achilles (Courage, bravery, & psychological abilities)
Mercury (Extreme Speed & flight)

Lenovo Y510P v3.05 BIOS Bricked Crisis Recovery [Solved]

Like most Lenovo™ Y510P© owners who want to use a faster speed wireless LAN card (that for some unknown reason Lenovo has black listed on the Y510P/Y410P BIOS) , I have updated my BIOS to a modified v3.05 version.

However, such unlocked BIOS’ have dangers in which an improper setting can result in the laptop not functioning (or worse damage to the motherboard).  In my case, I made a change to the built-in display settings and resulted in a headless non-functioning laptop. Of course this can be very disconcerting given the cost of a well equipped and modified laptop!

If you dig around you’ll find several methods and procedures all that are very conflicting.  So after a two near sleepless nights, I was able to recover my laptop!  While I can’t promise this will save yours, there is a way!   My Y510P was made late November 2013 and has an Nvidia GT-755 video (note some older Y510P’s have a 750).   What I’m getting at is to check your hardware and compare notes before following/using this, as your mileage may vary.  While unconfirmed, this process will likely recover a Y410P too.

The Recovery . . .
First you’ll need Lenovo’s stock v3.05 BIOS (this is critical) as the file load provided has both the default and crisis BIOS .BIN images needed to recover.  So here it is very important to know which BIOS you are using before starting, for this tutorial it must be v3.05! The download link above has the stock v3.05 ZIP file you’ll need.

Unzip the file and in the file structure you’ll find a folder called crisis†.  In this folder is the  “Yx01.bin” file you’ll need for the initial recovery.
Read all the below (twice) before starting!
1) Use a small 1G or 2G USB thumb drive (preferably with a working activity LED, see note 9 below) and format it as FAT only (can also try FAT32 but this is untested by me)
2) Copy only the “Yx01.bin” file to the drive – nothing else
3) Remove the battery from your Y510P
4) Remove the external power cable
5) Insert the thumb drive in the USB port next to the HDMI connector
6) Hold down the “Fn” and “R” at the same time (do not release until step 9) ‡
7) Insert the external power (still holding the  “Fn” and “R” buttons down)
8) Briefly press the power button
9) The laptop will try to start and will read the thumb drive, here is where the USB thumb drive activity LED comes in handy, when you see drive activity release the  “Fn” and “R” buttons
10) CRITICAL, DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING ON THE LAPTOP OR REMOVE POWER!! At this point the fan will run at full speed, LED’s may or may not blink – the magic is happening here – you bricked BIOS is being re-written with the crisis BIOS (Yx01.BIN) file!
11) The laptop will power off briefly when done, and then restart.
12) With luck, you’ll now be able to access the BIOS screen via pressing F2 during boot up

Next Steps . . .
Now that your crisis recovery BIOS is back, you should re-flash it with the full stock v3.05.

Option 1:
Be sure the laptop battery is installed and fully charged and connected to external power & If you are running windows, run “VIQYx305.exe” from the Win Flash directory.

Option 2:
If you don’t have Windows or don’t trust Windows, use a thumb drive boot to Free DOS.  Be sure the laptop batter is installed and fully charged and connected to external power.
1) Creating a Free DOS boot disk, use your original thumb drive from the recovery.
2) Download Rufus, and make the thumb drive (see image below)
3) Make a directory called y510BIOS
4) Copy all the extracted files from the ZIP download to the y510BIOS directory
5) Boot the thumb drive by restarting and pressing the F5 button, select the thumb drive.
6) Boot will be fast and arrive at a DOS prompt
7) Change to the  y510BIOS direct by typing   cd y510BIOS
8) Now type  flash.bat  and press enter
9) The laptop will flash the BIOS and EC, BIOS will load first, EC second.  During the EC flash the fan will run full speed. When complete the laptop will reboot with the fully updated BIOS.
10) Enjoy the updated BIOS

Rufus Free DOS setup:

Rufus Setup

Other helpful tools/sources:
Phoenix Tool  – this tool is handy to help identify the recovery BIOS file needed.  When ran using the BIOS “BIN” file, the tool will yield “Yx01.bi?” confirming that the “Yx01.bin” file is to be used for the crisis recovery.

bios-mods.com has a great listing on how to recover the an Insyde BIOS (what the Y510P and Y410P use)
This post at bios-mods.com was handy to find the working “Fn + R” key combination, several other posts on the web will point to the “Fn + B” combination; however, the the “Fn + B” combination didn’t work for my laptop (it may for yours), be ready to try all 12 combinations!

Final note: I wanted to post this on techinferno.com; but, with their recent user changes my approved user account “jmbneaf” was moved, lost, discarded (apparently you have to post there, like everyday, to keep a membership).  Nonetheless, my post is here on my blog & I  hope that this finds users well (including those from techinferno too) and helps other Y510P / Y410P users recover their accidentally bricked BIOS.


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Watch beads being born at Luminaria!

Updated on March 26: All the videos are finally done, so sit back, relax and enjoy the show!

If you missed Luminaria Saturday night, you need to mark next year’s event on your calendar now. For a brand new event, the turnout seemed to be great!

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For Luminaria, the Alamo was colored funky fresh.

I enjoyed the funky fresh Alamo and the music, but I was invited by Nina “Sam” Hibler, who organized Glass Alley, a fusion (ha, a glass pun!) of the Society of Artisan Lampworkers San Antonio (SALSA) and the San Antonio Glass Art Guild (SAGAG).

Sam has been lampworking for six years, teaches glass bead making at Wired Designs and the South Regional Director for the International Society of Glass Beadmakers (ISGB). She was kind enough to introduce me to the SALSA and SAGAG members on hand to demonstrate bead making. And I got to videotape it to share with all of you out there in Beadland!

So, without further ado, the first Strung Out videos! If you listen closely, you can hear the San Antonio Symphony playing in the background.

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The videos are listed from newest to oldest, so here’s what you’re watching:

6. SAGAG member Lecia Zinna of Lecia Zinna Designs (right) and ISGB member Gladys Baez-Dickreiter of Baubles, Bangles and Beads (left) make beads as they talk about their craft.

5. Gladys shows how an aura filter works while Lecia makes beads. Watch as the orange flame disappears! (Read more about aura filters at

4. Lecia makes glass beads.

3. SALSA Vice President Vicki Munie of Glitzy Cowgirl Artisan Lampwork making glass beads.

2. SALSA Secretary Leslie Cifelli of Iron Mountain Jewelry making glass beads.

1. Vicki (on the left) and SALSA President Jodi Wheeler of Glass Jewels by Jodi Wheeler (on the right) making glass beads.

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How to recognise a good translator?

By / 12 August 2016 / Professional translation

How to recognise a good translator?

How can you tell if you’ve found a good translator? This is a question that a lot of our clients ask since if you don’t speak the target language, it is difficult to assess the quality of your translation. However, there are a few tell-tale signs you can look for. Therefore, Mytranslation would like to give you a few tips. Whether you want to translate your website, your CV, a blog… Mytranslation has experience with the translation of all these types of documents and can therefore give you some sound advice.

Good translators suggest higher prices

In the translation industry, the price of a translation proposal often represents the quality you can expect. A professional translator will translate for a living and therefore pay tax on the amount they earn. Therefore, low prices like 0.01 €/word are unrealistic for a professional translator who can only physically translate about 1500 words a day. However, very high prices (above 0.15€/word) should only be requested by Translation Agencies who offer additional services (e.g. Proofreading, DTP, sworn translation etc…).

Mytranslation only uses professional translators. Therefore, when using the Auction service, you won’t see any proposals below 0.06€/word. Please note that a good translator pays taxes on their earnings, has spent years studying translation and will often refuse poorly paid work.

A good translator will never use automatic translation machines

Some people try to sell themselves as translators but haven’t actually studied translation. What they do is use automatic translation machines (e.g. Google translate) to provide you with a translation. However, automatic translation machines do not guarantee grammatically correct sentences, only a native translator can guarantee a correct translation. Mytranslation guarantees the use of good translators who translate the texts themselves without the use of automatic translation machines.

A good translator will double-check their work

Even if you do not speak the target language, a way of a checking if your translation was conducted by a good translator, is by verifying that all the paragraphs and titles are in the translation. Humans make mistakes and therefore a translator may accidently miss a paragraph, however, a good translator will double check their work to make sure all the text is there.

A good translator will know how to translate difficult words or sentences

A good translator will only accept a project if he/she feels able to do it well. Good translators are specialised in subjects and therefore, a financial translator typically wouldn’t accept a medical translation. Since translators are specialised in certain subjects, if your document has technical terms specific to a subject, the translator should be able to translate the terms as they should be specialised enough in the subject to know the technical words used or at least to know what resources to use to find out the meaning and translation of the word.

A good translator will also know which word to use when several words are possible. E.g. Sales manager, Salesman and Sales representative all have the same meaning. However, a translator will assess the style of your text (formal or informal) and context to decide which word is best suited.

A lot of people believe that the best translator can only be found through an agency and will therefore be very expensive. It is not entirely wrong, but not completely true either. Agencies guarantee the use of professional translators who have undergone several tests before working with them. However, agencies will also offer additional services (dedicated project managers, proofreading by a second translator, sworn-translation, DTP, localisation etc…) meaning that it can soon become expensive. Mytranslation uses professional translators who have undergone tests to use the platform, but since we do not offer all the additional services that agencies do, our prices are cheaper but the quality still remains professional. The use of agencies is recommended for large businesses needing to translate complex documents, but if you’re not a business, we recommend the use of Mytranslation.

Therefore, good translators can simply be freelance translators who use translation platforms like Mytranslation to find work; they don’t necessarily have to be translators who work for agencies.

Thanks to two types of services offered, the Mytranslation platform will allow you to have the best translator, at a reasonable price. Mytranslation offers two services, Auction and Express. The Auction service allows you to receive several price and deadline proposals from various translators. By comparing the proposals and the translator profiles, at the end of the auction period, you choose the translator you wish to work with. For urgent needs, we recommend the Express service – the first translator to accept your project starts working on it right away for a fixed rate of 0.08€/word.

Mytranslation therefore helps you to find the best translator for the right price!

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Employee compliance is a major area of doing business that requires your focus. Being found noncompliant could potentially deconstruct everything you’ve spent precious resources to build. Developing employee compliance training programs should be considered, with all factors carefully weighed and measured. Knowing that your business aligns with compliance rules and regulations, and being able to prove it quickly, provides immeasurable peace of mind for you and your employees, as well as confidence for your customers. For this reason, an online learning management system (LMS) is a valuable tool for managing employee compliance.

According to eLearningIndustry.com, “The world of regulatory bodies is complex and complicated, but if you have created a compliance culture, you should be able to prove it as easily as possible. A compliance-ready LMS can simplify the process whether you’re dealing with the FDA, ISO, CMM, FAA, IEEE, or any one of the other myriad regulatory agencies in the world.”

Employing an LMS to deliver compliance training to your employees just makes sense. Online courses can be purchased “off-the-shelf” or developed specifically for your needs and can be delivered to employees around the clock. Reporting and recordkeeping, which is a critical compliance component, is built in and can be automated.

As you seek to achieve compliance using an online training program, consider these points.

Know what your company needs.

What elements of an online training program will best suit your employees’ learning styles?

Do you need global access and multiple language formats?

What types of reports and records will you require?

It is critical to know what your training needs are and how online training programs produce an efficient work environment for your employees as well as enhance your reputation and integrity with your clients. Knowing what works for your company helps as you sift through all options.

Carefully consider cost-effectiveness.

Will equipment need to be purchased for training purposes?

Do you plan to license off-the-shelf courses or develop courses over time?

Will the benefits of providing an online training program be worth the investment?

Ah, the ever-crucial bottom line. Investing in an LMS and online courses will require an initial investment and administration; however, the long-term benefits of reduced liability and employee productivity almost always prove online training to be a cost-effective decision.

Decide who will develop your online training program.

Do you employ in-house training developers, and do they have a thorough understanding of compliance issues?

Who is responsible for keeping up with changes in compliance rules and regulations?

Would online training professionals be a wiser, safer route?

Weighing the pros and cons of using in-house developers or professionals whose sole purpose is to provide online training is critical. As exemplified by the recent and confusing addition of the EU’s GDPR, the nuance of keeping up with regulatory changes should be a factor in who develops your online training program.

Not being compliant-ready can be costly. Consider your company’s needs, your budget, and your plan of action to eliminate risk and ensure that your online compliance training program is an effective and worthwhile investment.


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Intelligence confuses the intelligent

This post again about the definition of AI. It was provoked by a certain tweet exchange where it turned out again that everybody understand the term AI arbitrarily. So here we go again.

Let us deal again with this fundamental question: what is and what is not AI. Determining which is artificial and which not is not the problem, the problem is determining if something is intelligent or not. This has confused, confuses and likely will confuse even very intelligent people.

Many application/research focused people, particularly in machine learning avoid asking this question altogether, arguing that it is philosophical, undefined and therefore not scientific (and inevitably touching this matter causes a mess). Instead they use the equivalent of duck typing - if it looks intelligent it is intelligent - a somewhat extreme extension of the Turing test. I disagree with this opportunistic approach, I think getting this definition right is crucial to the field, even if it means getting into another s%#t storm.  In fact, if the argument by the machine learning people is that this discussion is not sufficiently formal and messy, I'd like to kindly suggest that it is their duty to formalize it, not to … Read more...

Inside of a nebula

I'm taking a break from AI in this short post, it's time for something more general about the universe [see the last post in this category "what if we had a warp drive"].

In our daily activities we may not notice how lucky we are - we can see the sky. I mean the deep sky, even far beyond our Galaxy. And by looking at those things, we can learn that the Universe is expanding, that there are quasars, active galaxies, large scale cosmic structures, galaxy clusters, cosmic background radiation and many other marvels. We treat all that as obvious.

But imagine the Sun along with the solar system was trapped inside one of the dense nebulas, which there are countless numbers of in our Galaxy. Say we were trapped somewhere deep inside the Orion nebula.  All we would see in the night sky would be the faint pink glow of hydrogen and maybe a few blurred stars shining through the fog.

And best of all, since the nebula is many, many light years across, we could do nothing to see beyond it. Absolutely nothing. Discovering anything about the outside universe would require sending a probe light years … Read more...

The complexity of simplicity - balancing on the Occam's razor

While rereading my recent post [the meta-parameter slot machine], as well as a few papers suggested by the readers in the comments, I've realized several things.

On the one hand we have Occam's Razor: choose only the simplest models for things. On the other hand we know that in order to build intelligence, we need to create a very complex artifact (namely something like a brain), that has to contain lots of memories (parameters). There is an inherent conflict between these two constraints.

Many faces of overfitting

If we have a model too complex for the task we often find it will overfit, since it has the capacity to "remember the training set". But things may not be so obvious in reality. For example there is another, counter intuitive situation where overfitting may hit us: the case where the model is clearly too simple to solve the task we have in mind, but the task as specified by the dataset is actually much simpler than what we had originally thought (and intended).

Let me explain this counterintuitive case with an example (an actual anecdote I heard from Simon Thorpe as far as I remember):

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Study links sexism to poor mental health in men

June 28, 2017 Providence Health Team

It’s easy to think that men who view themselves as playboys or believe they have power over women have big egos. But more likely to have mental health problems? That’s the finding of a study that looked at the mental health of men who behave in ways associated with traditional masculinity.

These men also are less likely to get help for mental problems, according to the study, published by the American Psychological Association,

Traditional masculinity

For their work, the authors reviewed data from 74 earlier studies involving 19,453 men. They focused on the following behaviors and values, which they defined as conforming to society’s expectations of traditional masculinity:

  • Playboy behavior, or promiscuity
  • Power over women
  • Desire to win
  • Emotional control
  • Risk-taking
  • Violence
  • Dominance
  • Self-reliance
  • Pursuit of status
  • Disdain for homosexuality
  • Primacy of work

Mixed but interesting findings

These behaviors and values were linked to mental health in varying degrees.

The study’s most striking findings:

  • Playboy behavior, power over women and self-reliance were most closely linked to poor mental health and conditions such as stress, depression, substance abuse and trouble functioning socially.

    The authors singled out playboy behavior and power over women for special attention. “The robust and unfavorable association between conformity to these two norms and mental health-related outcomes underscores the idea that sexism is not merely a social injustice, but also has deleterious mental health-related consequences for those who embrace such attitudes,” they wrote. “For instance, heterosexual men who adhere strongly to norms associated with sexism might struggle in their relationships with women, leading to poorer mental health.”
  • Placing a high value on work wasn’t associated strongly with good or poor mental health.

    “Perhaps this null finding reflects the complexity of work and its implications for well-being,” said the study’s lead author, Y. Joel Wong, an associate professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. “Although an excessive focus on work can be problematic for one’s health and interpersonal relationships, work and career can also be an important source of meaning in life.”
  • Risk-taking was associated with good and poor mental health.

    Unhealthy risk-takers may have drug or alcohol problems, engage in unprotected sex or drive drunk. Wong suggested that healthy risk-takers may be “more willing to seek out opportunities to stretch themselves beyond their comfort zone (e.g., by trying out new hobbies) that provide opportunities for self-actualization.”

Reluctant to seek help? Think it over

The upshot of the study seems to be that sexist behavior can hurt all of us. Unfortunately, the men in the study who conformed most to sexist norms and had poor mental health were the least likely to seek treatment.

If you or a man you know suffers from a mental health condition—for any reason—give treatment some thought. This recent blog post explains how to choose a mental health professional. And you can find a Providence licensed mental health professional in your region here.

Get help to feel better.

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Differentiated Learning vs Personalized Learning

Differentiated learning and personalized learning – what’s the difference? These two terms are very commonly used these days and yet, there is very little clarity around their definition and how they work in a classroom setting. No worries – we’ll put these terms into perspective from a teacher/classroom standpoint with few simple examples.

Differentiated learning is when teachers set up different paths for groups of students to take, to achieve the same learning goal.

ScootPad enables differentiation by giving teachers the ability to assign different learning paths to different students. For example, there are 20 students in a 5th grade class. The teacher can assign a 4th grade learning path to 5 students who are below grade level, a 5th grade learning path to 20 students who are at grade level, and the advanced 5th grade learning path to the remaining 5 students who are ahead of their peers. Teachers can also build assignments with focus on specific concepts tailored to different groups of students.

personalizeddifferentiated-blogDiagram of differentiated learning

Personalized learning allows students to achieve individual learning objectives at their own pace.

ScootPad’s learning paths and adaptive algorithms work together to enable personalized learning for students. Using data from each student in real-time, ScootPad identifies where each student falls within their learning path and will provide practice in concepts accordingly. For example, Daisy and Lily are working on Concept A on their learning path. Daisy quickly masters Concept A and moves onto Concept B. Lily, however, is having trouble mastering the concept so ScootPad will provide enrichment content such as Scootorials and additional practice until she masters Concept A.

Diagram of personalized learning

A recent independent research by EdSurge, sponsored by Pearson, announced a framework to understand and evaluate “adaptive learning technologies”. ScootPad has been recognized as one of the three adaptive tools, alongside McGraw Hill’s ALEKS and Pearson’s SuccessMaker, that enable adaptive sequence and adaptive assessment for grades K-8. Furthermore, of the three, ScootPad is distinguished as the only platform covering both Math and ELA for grades K-8, accessible from anywhere at any time on any mobile/desktop device. Learn more about EdSurge’s research on adaptive learning.

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2 Seater Sofas for Small Spaces

large grey wool cheap 2 seater sofa

Curling up on a perfectly snuggly sofa at the end of a long day is just the ticket to recharging those batteries, but if your home is a little more cottage than castle, you may want to consider 2 seater sofas to make the most of your small spaces.

Being clever with your smaller spaces is the key to functional living and a 2 seater sofa bed is the ultimate dual-purpose item. Our Ashdown two seater sofa bed features a nice small width and a shallow depth but is no compromise on comfort, either as a sofa or as a pull out bed. The Ashdown also comes in a 2 seater corner sofa version. A common misconception is that corner sofas are a bad idea for small spaces and, although they don’t always work, our customers are often surprised by the added seating and relaxed look that can be gained by adding a corner sofa rather than two sofas or sofa and chair combo.

For more formal spaces, you can’t beat having two matching sofas, either facing each other or at right angles. The best-selling Alwinton range features two small two seat sofa versions as well as a single seat snuggler and chair. The Alwinton’s traditional style can be brought up to date with a contemporary choice of fabric like a bright and bold, family-friendly velvet but also sits happily in understated linen.

A 2 seater leather sofa is a practical choice for high traffic areas in your home, like kitchens or hallways. Browse leather swatches in our showrooms where our in store designers will wax lyrical about the different types of leather on offer. A leather sofa is a great choice for a piece of furniture

Our Sofa Pronto collection is the perfect place to look for sofas in London and other city pads. These are speedy sofas that are perfectly designed for city living; fast, on-trend and perfectly priced. There are lots of cheap 2 seater sofas to test out here!

If you’re hoping for a sofa that’s totally unique, our exciting range of Designer and house fabrics mean that you can have a sofa that is perfectly personalised to you. Designing the best sofa for you is easy; simply browse online or take a trip to one of our 12 nationwide showrooms where one of our in-house interior design consultants will be able to help you choose the perfect small sofa to suit your lifestyle.

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Monogram Machine Embroidery on Beach Towels

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Monogram Machine Embroidery on Beach Towels

Monogram machine embroidery designs are plentiful on the internet. It’s difficult to decide which design to choose with all the options available. When embroidering towels or other heavily napped fabrics, an embossed monogram machine embroidery design is a great choice.

Embossed Monogram Machine Embroidery

An embossed monogram machine embroidery design results in a technique similar to trapunto. However, instead of adding a layer of batting between fabric layers to add dimension to the design, the heavyweight toweling acts as the raised portion of the design. The surrounding threads tame the fabric nap and open areas are left as the “loft” to create the 3-D effect.

Embossed monogram machine embroidery designs are typically one-letter designs. On a beach towel, a large-scale letter looks best in order to be visible from afar. The featured designs are 7″, designed for an 8×8 hoop, but they also come in smaller sizes for those with hoop size limitations.

embossed monogram machine embroidery

When embroidering a monogram machine embroidery design, don’t choose an appliqué design unless the fabric you use for the appliqué is waterproof, water-resistant or the same as the towel. For the featured Chic Embossed Monogram machine embroidery design, the appliqué steps were omitted to leave only thread for the design.

When hooping lofty fabrics, the fabric needs to be secured to the stabilizer rather than inside the hoop ring. This is otherwise known as “hoopless” embroidery. There are a couple of ways to secure the fabric to the hooped stabilizer to ensure no shifting.

  1. Use a sticky-backed stabilizer. For a towel, you want NO trace of stabilizer after embroidery is complete. So a water-soluble sticky-backed stabilizer, Sticky Fabri-Solvy™, is the ticket. Hoop the Sticky Fabri-Solvy only with the paper side facing up. Use a pin to score the paper along the inner hoop ring, and then tear it away to reveal the adhesive. (The process is the same when working with Sulky Sticky +™, shown below.)embroidered Christmas pillow stabilizerStick the towel in place, centering the desired embroidery area. Be very certain of the embroidery placement when using sticky stabilizer, as removing and repositioning the towel could cause the terry loops to pull out and snag. Alternatively, use Sulky Ultra Solvy sprayed with temporary spray adhesive. monogram machine embroidery stabilizer in hoop
  2. The baste-in-the-hoop function on the embroidery machine works to secure fabrics that float on the hoop. Whether you use a sticky stabilizer or not, the baste-in-the-hoop function either bastes around the design or inner hoop perimeter. I combine this function with sticky stabilizer when the fabric wouldn’t be marred by extra needle holes. baste in hoop feature
  3. KK 2000 Temporary Spray Adhesive works to temporarily secure fabrics onto hooped stabilizer. If you don’t have sticky stabilizer or want to use a different stabilizer type, as recommended for this project, spray the stabilizer with KK 2000, and then gently secure the fabric to the stabilizer in the hoop.

Beach Towel Monogram Embroidery Design Placement

Beach towels are rather large items for embroidery. Monograms look nice on lower-edge corners or centered along the lower edge so when the towel is folded the monogram can be centered atop the towel nicely.

That being said, place the monogram wherever you like! Be sure to mark the design center cross marks onto the towel using a removable marking method. Don’t use tape, as the adhesive may pull the terry loops, causing snags. Instead, if tape is preferred for marking, use strips of Sticky Fabri-Solvy to tape an “X” on the towel right side. This marking will come right off with water!

For the featured towel, hoop a piece of Sulky Ultra Solvy stabilizer. This is not a sticky stabilizer, so allows for repositioning the fabric until the desired placement is achieved. Lightly spray the stabilizer with KK 2000, and then position the towel onto the stabilizer, centering the design placement marks in the hoop.

Place the hoop onto the machine. Float a piece of Sulky Solvy over the towel. This prevents the thread from sinking into the fabric pile and ensures it sits atop the fabric surface.

stabilizer floating on towel for monogram machine embroidery

Use the baste-in-the-hoop function to further secure stabilizer topper to the towel and the towel to the stabilizer.

baste in the hoop features

Load the design onto the machine. Use the same Sulky Poly Deco thread in the needle and the bobbin, as the wrong side will show. Polyester thread is preferred if an item will be bleached or washed frequently, such as the featured beach towel.

Begin the embroidery.

monogram machine embroidery stitching

For the featured design, one thread color was used. This gives a subtle texture to the towel and the design becomes more of a label than a fancy decoration. If your towel is a different color on the reverse side, choose that color for the bobbin.

If desired, get creative with your thread colors and use as many as you like.

When the embroidery is complete, remove the hoop from the machine. Remove the basting stitches and clip any jump threads along the right and wrong side of the towel.

Remove the towel from the hoop. Gently tear away the excess Solvy topper beyond the design on the right and wrong sides. On the wrong side, trim away as much Ultra Solvy as possible close to the stitching.

Rinse the towel under running water to remove as much of the stabilizer as possible. Then submerge or throw the towel in the washing machine to remove it completely. Dry in the dryer or dry flat.

monogrammed beach towel

A Husqvarna Viking Designer Epic 2 sewing & embroidery machine was used for the featured project.
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State Senate Budget Includes Telehealth

The state senate this week passed a $30.5 billion state budget for FY 2012 that included a major priority of the Home Care Alliance.

An amendment instructing MassHealth to reimburse for telehealth remote patient monitoring provided by a home health agency was adopted by the Senate.  That provision must now survive a conference committee made up of House and Senate members who will work out differences between the House and Senate budget proposals and send the finished version to the Governor for his approval.

The amendment passage is a victory for home health care and reflects a greater understanding from the state legislature on issues important to the industry. Moreover, the adoption of the telehealth amendment, while only a first step in the process, is also recognition of the cost savings that home health agencies and the use of technology can provide.

Most of the 599 budget amendments proposed in the Senate did not make it through, including restoration of MassHealth rates of payment for home health past 60 days, a pediatric home care amendment, and another that would have established a special care transitions rate for home care agencies.

Two amendments regarding adult day health were also adopted.  One would establish licensure standards for adult day health providers and the other would require MassHealth to notify the legislature of any changes to rates or clinical eligibility criteria for adult day health services.

Other amendments of note include:

  • An amendment was adopted that would require MassHealth to annually notify each beneficiary over 65 about their options regarding enrollment in voluntary programs, including Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) plans, MassHealth Senior Care Options, Frail Elder Home and Community Based Waiver Program and “any other voluntary elected benefit to which such beneficiary is entitled to supplement or replace such beneficiary’s MassHealth benefits.”
  • An amendment was rejected that would allow nursing homes to place a hold on beds for residents who are transferred to the hospital for emergency care.
  • An amendment was adopted to provide an additional $1 million for elder protective services (total amount: $16,250,554).
  • An amendment was adopted to provide an undisclosed amount of funding to elder pre-admission options counseling.
  • An amendment was adopted providing an additional $4 million for Day Habilitation Services
  • The Salary Reserve for human service workers was not approved, but the Senate did approve a substitute amendment enable human service provider agencies to purchase health insurance through the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector for their employees earning less than $40,000/year.

For any questions or further information on the state budget, contact James Fuccione at the Alliance.

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  1. Telehealth is a field that will play a significant role in caring for all age groups. We need to advocate for our frail elders and all population that struggle with chronic disease. It is proving to empower patients in their care, increase compliance and a cost effective method of providing care. The Governor needs to approve this now!

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Serverless is Taking Off: Here’s Why It’s Worth Hopping On

Apr 7, 2020

Just a couple of years ago, serverless was a sparsely used technology, recognized mostly for its cost efficiency. Today, we’re seeing a radical shift in the attitude towards serverless. Developers have begun to realize that serverless not only minimizes operational overhead but can considerably enhance core applications in production. As cloud vendors continue to develop their serverless offerings, serverless is being used in production more than ever before.

In this blog post we explain what serverless is, dive into some of its major advantages, and point out some factors contributing to its growing popularity.

What is Serverless?

Serverless is an execution model in cloud computing. With serverless, the cloud provider provisions and manages infrastructure components for you. Developers using serverless no longer need to worry about components such as servers, databases, containers, and queues. By abstracting away infrastructure issues, serverless leaves developers who formerly spent a lot of time implementing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and monitoring infrastructure free to focus on actual business goals and applications. So how does it work?

Serverless applications consist of three pillars: client-side logic; third-party services; and Functions as a Service (FaaS), which are remote procedure calls hosted on the cloud. Serverless applications run in fully managed compute containers that are stateless and are triggered by events. They are also ephemeral, sometimes lasting just one invocation. Pricing is based on the number of executions, not compute capacity purchased ahead of time.

Many cloud providers have serverless offerings, including AWS Lambda, IBM OpenWhisk, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions.

Serverless is on a Roll

A dramatic shift is taking place. In 2018, less than 5 percent of enterprises were using serverless, which was mainly employed for specific narrow tasks because it was cheaper than more traditional options. But now, more and more developers are realizing that serverless isn’t just cost efficient; it can serve as an extremely powerful tool to incorporate in production and core applications.

Serverless is being widely adopted, and companies such as Reuters, Netflix, Telenor, and AOL are already using it in production. Over the past year-and-a-half, serverless has experienced an annual growth rate of 75 percent, making it the fastest-growing cloud service model. A 2019 report that analyzed serverless activity over the previous twelve months found that serverless adoption increased by 206 percent during that period and that companies had expanded their serverless footprint, with the number of functions per account increasing by 178 percent. Let’s take a look at AWS Lambda, one of the market leaders in serverless, and see what makes it so popular.

The Benefits of AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda, Amazon’s serverless computing platform, provides its users with some major benefits:

Managed infrastructure - Developers can focus on the front-end business logic while AWS Lambda automatically handles tasks such as server provisioning, security patches, and scaling.

Integration with AWS tools - AWS Lambda seamlessly integrates with other native AWS services, such as Amazon SQS. Not only does this mean more functionality at the tip of your fingers, it also makes it much easier to harness the power of event-driven architecture.

Event-driven architecture - A1WS Lambda is event-driven. This means that Lambda functions are only invoked when a particular event occurs. This creates seamless, effortless, and less-wasteful processes. Take, for example, a payment platform. When a user wants to pay, this triggers a payment-processing function. The confirmation sent then triggers another function, which creates and sends out an invoice. This entire process is completed automatically, without developers having to create new servers or worry about patches or security updates.

Low costs - AWS Lambda users pay only for what they use. This means that developers can forget about reserved instances and provisioning ahead of time to meet maximum capacity levels. The event-driven platform allows you to use only the resources you need, exactly when you need them. This can lead to a serious reduction in operational costs.

Automatic scaling - AWS Lambda scales automatically, adapting to the rate of incoming requests as they come in. The number of requests has no upper limit and can increase with zero impact on application performance.

Higher modularity - With AWS Lambda, your applications are extremely modular, split into microservices which can easily be reused for different features, saving valuable coding time. In addition, the modular nature of serverless makes it much easier to test and refactor code without breaking other parts of the system, enabling faster changes and shorter development cycles.

A Closer Look at AWS Lambda: Two Serverless Success Stories

In this section we’ll look at how two companies, Vacation Tracker and Lego, successfully use AWS Lambda in production.

Vacation Tracker, an application that manages employee vacation days, runs almost entirely on AWS Lambda. By moving to serverless the company gained several major benefits. First, their developer teams were freed up to focus on business logic. Second, by reusing microservices they increased efficiency. For example, in binding a new product to an existing billing service, they managed to cut development time by 95 percent. In addition, the company leveraged the event-driven architecture to minimize wasted resources and operate at a much lower cost. Using serverless, they pay a mere $107 to serve 400,000 active users every month. Finally, the highly layered architecture allows the enterprise to more easily refactor code and accelerate the development lifecycle.

Lego also adopted serverless in production. Just two years ago, the company was still dealing with outdated on-premises infrastructure. One Black Friday, Lego experienced a system-wide catastrophic failure. Shaken up and looking to launch a global online shopping platform, the company decided to make the move to AWS. After getting familiar with S3, DynamoDB, and SQS, Lego decided to switch to serverless and started by migrating their e-commerce platform to AWS Lambda.

By moving to serverless, Lego was able to instantly leverage the many AWS managed services without having to reinvent the wheel. Embracing an event-driven approach and using EventBridge to trigger and filter events, Lego could flexibly build highly scalable architectures. Finally, serverless encouraged Lego to create a decoupled and loosely coupled architecture, making testing and feature creation faster and easier. For the full Lego journey, check out this podcast.

What’s Paving the Way to AWS Lambda Adoption?

Recent AWS Lambda developments are significantly easing the transition to serverless:

  • AWS Lambda supports most major languages out-of-the-box, including Java, Python, Node.js, Go, and C#, with functions written in any runtime.
  • Provisioned concurrency, launched in December 2019, keeps functions initialized as well as hyper-ready to respond, partially solving the cold start problem.
  • EventBridge manages event traffic based on custom business logic. When used well, EventBridge grants developers the ability to use decoupled services to create more flexible and scalable event-driven architecture.
  • Lambda destinations, launched in November 2019, is a feature that provides visibility into function invocations. This allows you to orchestrate functions more flexibly and reduce complexity.
  • AWS step functions have increased the maximum timeout to fifteen minutes for each individual Lambda function, making the decision to move to serverless less controversial.
  • Finally, AWS Lambda users are not alone. There is an extremely rich and supportive serverless community out there with meetups, talks, articles, user groups, and podcasts, not to mention some prominent serverless heroes such as Jeremy Daly and Slobodan Stojanović

Despite the points listed above, serverless is still regarded by many as uncharted territory, making the cultural shift to serverless challenging and even daunting. Serverless requires expertise, troubleshooting can be difficult, and existing tooling doesn’t always integrate easily with it. In addition, some microservices, like containers, don’t function optimally with serverless. Despite Amazon’s provisioned concurrency feature, for example, cold starts—e.g. when a container isn’t readily available to serve a function—remain a serverless weak point.

Thundra offers users the opportunity to jump right in to serverless with minimal effort and apprehension. Its unified platform provides end-to-end observability, debugging, anomaly detection, automation, and security capabilities designed for cloud-native microservices. The platform successfully handles large-scale serverless-centric workloads across development, testing, staging, and production environments.

A Final Note

Serverless has become widespread over the past year-and-a-half. Developers are beginning to recognize that beyond being a low-cost, nice-to-have solution, serverless comes with some awesome capabilities that can enhance core operations in production. In recent years, Amazon has widened the pathway into serverless, providing users with an array of features to smooth over the transition to AWS Lambda. That being said, moving to serverless is still a complex and challenging task. Thundra is a great solution if you’re looking to bypass these challenges and hop on to serverless, reaping its benefits immediately.


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Messaging in Technology Marketing Stinks, But Improvement Is Possible

by Hank Barnes  |  August 28, 2013  |  5 Comments

90% of technology marketing messages stink.

I can’t back this up with quantitative research, but the number feels about right based on the number of calls I take every day to help technology providers improve their positioning and messaging.   The cause is clear – its all about loving products and technology.  “Our stuff is so great, that we want to tell everyone about it–and assume that they will understand the value.”  That doesn’t work –unless you have buyers who know who you are and what you do before starting to engage with the information you provide.

Last week, I was participating in an executive briefing and one of my colleagues, Chris Howard, provided an example of great storytelling that was used to help Walmart improve the shopping experience for online users.  Let’s take a look.

The typical technology messaging approach (i.e. the wrong way):

“We analyze transactions and clickstreams and combine that with sentiment analysis and text analytics to provide your with deep insight into what your buyers are doing and thinking.”

The problems – Jargon rich technology terminology that does not address any specific problem or opportunity.   Many buyers would hear this pitch and their immediate response would be “So What”.

A Storytelling Approach (i.e. the winning way):

“We can help you increase the percentage of online visitors that actually complete a purchase by 10 to 15% by making it easier for them to find what they are looking for.”

This approach puts things in context that an e-commerce site owner, or business manager, would care about (increase % of purchases), while also giving a little detail to back up the claim (“making it easier for them to find what they are looking for”).  Its about value,  not about technology.

By leading with this outcome, you are encouraging the buyer/reader to say (or think) “Tell me more.”  It is Progressive Engagement in action.  And now, that the outcome is in their mind, you can tell the rest of the story, using the classic S-I-R Model (Situation-Impact-Resolution). (Note:  s  If you are a Gartner client, check out Richard Fouts’ notes on storytelling and value propositions for some great tips.)

(Situation) “When shoppers visit commerce sites, they often don’t find what they are looking for.  Search, in many cases, means “don’t find”, particularly in commerce sites with a broad range of products, where the context of a certain term (e.g. “House”) is hard to determine.”

(Impact) “As a result, many visitors simply leave and a sales opportunity is lost”

(Resolution) “We can help you make your search results more on target to what your buyers are looking for.  We’ve found that our approach helps most companies like yours increase the percentage of visitors that actually purchase by a minimum of 10 to 15%, generating a significant amount of additional revenue that is normally just lost.”

(Business Level Explanation) “We look at past transaction histories, the most common patterns that other visitors follow, while also collecting other information from social networks  that helps us understand what most buyers are probably looking for (e.g. We can figure out that when they type “house”, they are probably referring to the TV Show).  “

(Technical Explanation) ” “We analyze transactions and clickstreams and combine that with sentiment analysis and text analytics to give us more insight into what the buyer is probably looking for.”

Notice that the technology explanation does not come until the end of the story–and may be omitted entirely if you are only talking to business buyers.

The Storytelling Secret

Its not really a secret, but most technology marketers act like it is.   So let me lay it out simply.

  1. Lead with the Outcome (Make them say/think “Tell Me More”)
  2. Provide some context by introducing how you can deliver the outcome (“What you do”)
  3. Explain why this is important and something they need to prioritize highly (The situation and the impact)
  4. Walk them through how you do it —either at a business level, or a technical level–depending on the audience.

Follow those 4 steps and you can help us reduce that 90% number significantly.

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Hank Barnes
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6+ years at Gartner
30+ years IT Industry

Hank Barnes explores the dynamics, challenges, and frustrations enterprises face when buying technology products and services. Using that customer-centric lens, he advises those responsible for marketing technology products and services, general managers responsible for product portfolios, and startup CEOs on next practices to drive success for their customers and their business. Read Full Bio

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  1. […] everything under the sun”. It was just the customers that did not get it. I loved to read a Gartner blog entry this week about the challenges that technologist face when telling the market about the solution. […]

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Blog Tutorial – Make your own Blog

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How to make your own blog using Blogger ( with pictures )

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Create you own Blog with bloggeer

Blogger is by far the most used free public service provided by Google that is used for blogging and creating blogs. It has become the most popular choice between bloggers and it is very easy to menage and to start your own personal blog if you are new to blogging. The only requirement needed to start your personal blog is to have a Google account. In this tutorial we will explain how to make your blog in a few easy steps with blogger and explained with pictures also.

First off start by creating a Google Account on or log in with your Google Account if you already have one and get ready to create your own blog within minutes. After singing in in your account on Blogger click on the NEW BLOG button as shown in the picture below and enter your desired Blog name :

Start a blog on Blogger

Start a blog on Blogger

Choose your name for your Blog
You can try out different names when choosing and blogger will let you know if that name is available for use or not. Most common used names are already taken so make sure to choose a unique name that will best suit your blog.
After you have chosen a name for your blog continue to choosing a Template for your blog. You have some already pre made templates that you can choose from that have beautiful designs for your Blog. Choose the starter template which will be your blog primary design ( you will be able to customize your design on a letter not ). Choose the design and click on the create a blog button like shown in the picture :
Choose a Starter Template
Now you will be redirected to your blog homepage where you can add posts make changes to your design view the statistics of your blog and much more. Lets continue by adding a new post to your blog. Click the Posts menu link on the left side and add a new post :
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Add a new post on Blogger
Now here you can add the title of your new post and the content that you would like the post to have. Here you have many different basic text editor functions that you can use in order to optimize your post content like making different text sections bold, change the font size or font color, add links to your blog or images etc. You also have an advanced option to edit the HTML code of your blog post if you preffer.

Edit HTML of your blog post on Blogger

After you are satisfied with your post now you need to publish your post on your blog. That is done by clicking the Publish button right next to your Post title. You can also save your post for later publishing or Preview it to see how the post will look on your blog.

Publish Post on blogger

If you want to change the design of your Blog because you are not satisfied with the primary design you can change it by going to the main Blog menu and clicking the Design tab on your blogger menu. There you can choose from a variety of other already made blog templates for your blog. You can also customize your primary Template by clicking on the Customize link below your primary template on your Templates menu.

Customize Primary Template Blogger

From the Design tab you can also edit Page Elements, HTML and change your template with Template Designer any way you wish. In the Settings tab you adjust other settings like who is able to view your blog or the contribute to or comment on your blog etc. In the sub tabs in the Settings menu you can adjust the publishing , comments or permissions of your blog and a lot more.

Settings Tab Blogger

Also another important thing is that you can add authors that will be able to contribute to your blog by adding them in the “Permissions” sub tab in the “Settings” tab :

Add authors Blogger

That is it, you are all set and you know know the basic on how to create and menage your own Blog via Blogger. You can play around with the variety of options blogger offers to make your blog more unique and appealing to your visitors and customize your blog by your desire. I hope you liked this tutorial and i wish you all Happy Blogging !

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