Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker even down to coming up with naming conventions that help consumers of our data logically deduce what the data represents,” said Krasnik As an undergrad at Johns Hopkins University Krasnik majored in math and computational linguistics Krasnik believes the work she does as Perpay’s sole (for now) data engineer engages the right side of her brain more than one might think “Building a data architecture — that’s my creative side,” said Krasnik I get the opportunity to figure out which direction to take how to mold all of the layers of data together into a nice little box from which we make informed decisions.” The mission to help people build healthier financial habits is what initially drew Krasnik to work at Perpay The opportunity to build a data analytics infrastructure from scratch was a close second “We’re building a data engineering infrastructure that can scale with us,” said Krasnik “I want to lay groundwork that can be built upon Krasnik might be a pioneer on her team, but she’s among a growing group of data engineers building the systems that companies use to access and gain insights from their ever-more-bountiful volumes of data The company boasts 3.5 million customer accounts and plans to increase that number as it continues to grow Krasnik is working to identify and pull in as many data points from the Perpay platform as possible from how its customers are using and growing with its products to which features and products it will make next “It’s always better to have too much data than not enough,” she said One of the current challenges data engineers face across the industry is the fragmentation of data analytics tools but nothing that covers multiple use cases Krasnik is constantly evaluating which tools to leverage as she designs an analytics space with the capacity and versatility to grow with Perpay design is the most interesting part,” she said ‘How does this work?’ I like getting to the very bottom of something; getting in on the ground floor Join 5,000 tech professionals and entrepreneurs in our community Slack today Your support powers our independent journalism we count on your personal and organizational contributions John Kibler and Dmitry Krasnik Appointed as Managing Directors and Co-Heads of Healthcare Information Technology (HCIT) 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P today announced the appointment of two new Managing Directors in its Healthcare Services Investment Banking Group John Kibler and Dmitry Krasnik will join Nick Beale to expand the firm's focus and reach into the HCIT vertical They will be based in Chicago and report directly to Sage Kelly "I'm excited to have John and Dmitry join our team and lead our HCIT effort Their longstanding relationships and reputations are built on a strong track record of delivering exceptional results for their clients," said Sage Kelly "We are excited to join the Healthcare Services team and help leverage each other's experience and commitment to the sector We look forward to working with Tony Munoz and all our new partners to further strengthen Cantor's market-leading practice in Healthcare Services and specifically HCIT," said Mr "Cantor has a reputation in the market as a strong sector-focused M&A and Equities platform with excellent client service capabilities Cantor provides us access to valuable resources and collaborative opportunities empowering our practice to better serve clients and the market," added Mr Kibler brings over three decades of experience in investment banking and strategic advisory He led and founded the HCIT practice at William Blair and more recently at Brentwood Capital Advisors He has advised on over 130 transactions in the HCIT sector over $50 billion in transaction value Krasnik brings over 20 years of investment banking experience He led global HCIT coverage at Jefferies and launched the initial HCIT practice at Houlihan Lokey He has completed over 110 transactions totaling more than $50 billion in transaction value Cantor has significantly expanded its investment banking franchise in the last 12 months Cantor now has nine Managing Directors covering all sector verticals of the Healthcare Services industry focusing on M&A and equity The group has completed over 80 M&A transactions in the past five years is a leading global financial services group at the forefront of financial and technological innovation and has been a proven and resilient leader for over 79 years is a preeminent investment bank serving more than 5,000 institutional clients around the world recognized for its strengths in fixed income is one of 24 Primary Dealers authorized to transact business with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York the parent company of Cantor Fitzgerald & Co Cantor Fitzgerald today announced that Anchorage Digital and Copper.co ("Copper") will serve as collateral managers and custodians for the firm's new .. Banking & Financial Services Personnel Announcements Do not sell or share my personal information: Sep 25, 2020 | Politics, Society A Polish town has voted to keep its declaration of being “free from LGBT ideology” despite the risk that it could result in millions of euros of lost European grants the town council also voted in favour of a proposed ban on 5G technology and Wi-Fi internet in schools has moved to the centre of an increasingly international dispute over the large number of Polish local authorities that have adopted anti-LGBT resolutions Some have been denied funds from the EU’s town-twinning programme and have also seen partner communities in western countries break off relations Kraśnik’s French twin town of Nogent-sur-Oise declared that it was suspending cooperation In response, Poland’s justice minister last month stepped in to provide one district that had lost EU funding with a cheque for three times more than the amount it had been denied Polish justice ministry compensates “LGBT ideology free” district for lost EU funds announced that local authorities in Poland that have passed anti-LGBT resolutions will not receive money from the grants that her country provides to support civil society Poland is the largest recipient of the so-called Norway Grants and is budgeted to receive €411.5 million during the current 2014-2021 funding period (plus a further €397.8 million from the related EEA Grants Eriksen specifically mentioned Kraśnik as a community that could see its funding suspended some in Kraśnik’s municipal authorities were already considering withdrawing their anti-LGBT resolution it declared the town “free from LGBT ideology” and promised to combat “homopropaganda” and the “sexualisation of children” “If it were to have an impact on the funds we were hoping to invest in developing the town, it would make our functioning very difficult,” said the head of the town council Polish courts annul “LGBT ideology-free zones”, finding they violate constitution the council held a vote on a proposal to overturn the resolution by an 11-to-9 majority the members chose to stick with it Among those who voted to keep the resolution were representatives of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, which has led a vocal anti-LGBT campaign since early last year One PiS councillor, Jerzy Misiak, warned that “we cannot allow Kraśnik to become a Catholic wilderness with rampant LGBT ideology”, echoing recent words by party leader Jarosław Kaczyński in reference to what he claims Ireland has become Ireland is a “Catholic wilderness with rampant LGBT ideology” and Poland could follow, warns Kaczyński the council also voted in favour of accepting a petition from the Poland Free From 5G Coalition an association that campaigns to “protect Poland from the implementation of untested next-generation 5G” technology which is one of many the association has proposed to local authorities warns that the “exposure to artificial electromagnetic fields” caused by 5G is a “threat to life and health” It calls on communities to stop the implementation of 5G networks until the effects are fully investigated The document also proposes the “dismantling of existing Wi-Fi networks in schools” and for pupils to be required to put their mobile phones in airplane mode during lessons Local authorities should also “conduct information campaigns for residents on the health risks associated with electromagnetic fields” the petitioners’ position was presented by a representative of the “Right to Life National Association for the Prevention of Electro-threats” Nine council members voted in favour of the petition the councilman who last year submitted the anti-LGBT resolution was one of those who voted for the petition “This is something absolutely new and we do not know how it will affect our bodies and our children,” he said Phone mast set on fire in Poland following rollout of first 5G network Poland has seen the development of a movement opposed to 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not deny that I will miss all the competent people eminent riders and not the least the amazing horses I have been so luck to surround myself with the last three years." 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"The grant would come from the Norwegian Mechanism [But] the Norwegian government's anti-discrimination policy made it difficult to secure the grant." Kraśnik also gained widespread attention when France's Minister for Europe said he was prevented from visiting the city's 'LGBT-free' zones during a recent visit Clément Beaune told French media in March that he was dissuaded by "political pressure" from Polish officials Poland's Foreign Ministry denied the allegations Kraśnik's mayor said the withdrawal of the city's "LGBT-free" status brought an end to "a period of serious crisis" "A negative image has been perpetuated in numerous Polish and foreign media reports," Wilk said "The rights of minorities are guaranteed by the Polish Constitution and there should be no doubt that the Kraśnik local government respects the law in Poland." "I am glad that the councillors have decided to repeal the resolution," he added "it was a difficult time for our local government and our city." have suggested that the vote to repeal could cause "a secondary worldview conflict" shows that some councillors on the right have no moral backbone," said the vice-chairman of the council "What triumphs is not common sense but the political result," he wrote on Facebook the European Parliament passed a resolution declaring all 27 member states an LGBT "freedom zone" although like the Polish resolutions declaring the opposite The mayor of Krasnik declared the town as an ‘LGBT Free’ zone in May 2019 but has since admitted the town has become a “laughingstock” Krasnik is a Polish town located in southeastern Poland close to the Ukraine border The town joined a handful of Polish towns which implemented the anti-LGBTQ+ measures to support Poland’s right-wing conservatives and the Roman Catholic Church which is heavily ingrained into Poland’s religious society “We have become Europe’s laughingstock, and it’s the citizens not the local politicians who’ve suffered most,” Wojciech Wilk told The New York Times The Polish politician now believes the pledge is a “symbolic and legally pointless gesture” which has caused economic hardship to the town Wilk denies the town’s growing reputation as an anti-LGBTQ+ location and has appealed for support for the town of Krasnik “My position is clear: I want this resolution repealed because it’s harmful for the town and its inhabitants,” Gscene magazine reports the European Parliament has passed a motion condemning Poland after local authorities in the country started declaring themselves as “free from LGBT ideology.” Most of the 80 ‘LGBT-free’ zones in the country are in the southeast local authorities pledge to refrain from actions that could be seen as tolerant of the LGBTQ community and prevent financial aid to NGOs helping to promote equal rights While the LGBTQ+ community are not strictly banned from these towns the labelling as ‘LGBT-free zones’ promotes an intolerance to their identities and an active agenda to work against LGBTQ+ education and acceptance in Polish communities In the two years following Krasnik’s declaration as an ‘LGBT-free’ zone the town has faced a loss of million in federal funding including a $10 million funding grant from Norway and jeopardised the economic future of the town Wilks is actively petitioning to have the pledge overturned and is urging councillors to reverse the anti-LGBTQ+ declaration Krasnik will not be the first Polish town to rescinded its declaration against “LGBT ideology.” In January this year, the Polish town of Nowa Dęba removed a resolution that set it up as an ‘LGBT-free zone’ after claiming the resolution had been “misunderstood” and “exploited” to harm the town’s image Local authorities are refraining from actions that could be seen as tolerant of the LGBTQ+ community and are working to prevent financial aid for non-governmental organisations helping to promote equal rights A conservative newspaper also printed “LGBT-free zone” stickers for readers to publicly display in their homes and as such it lost access to certain EU funding when they adopted resolutions against these “LGBT-free zones.” The ‘LGBT-free’ zones came to fruition after the country’s ruling Law and Justice Party inspired several towns in Poland to be free from “LGBT ideology” – putting vulnerable LGBTQ+ citizens at risk of discrimination Fifty countries from around the world recently signed an open letter calling for Poland to “protect all citizens from violence and discrimination and to ensure they enjoy equal opportunities.” Our weekly email is chockful of interesting and relevant insights into Jewish history The only antidote to anti-Semitism is pro-Semitism has anti-Semitism returned once again as a powerful evil force threatening contemporary world Jewry Hats not as a statement of fashion but as a statement of faith Hats worn by observant Jews to publicly identify themselves by way of a tradition going back thousands of years Hats symbolize our belief in a Supreme Being Who is above us – the Almighty who transcends our heads Hats played a central in what happened last week in Berlin An apparently Jewish man wearing said skullcap was viciously attacked and beaten that his only crime was the fact that he was a Jew It was a racist attack fueled by the ancient venom of anti-Semitism He had made a bet that anti-Semitism is no longer a problem in Germany today and to prove it he decided to walk the streets self-identified as a Jew The Arab paid a heavy price for his mistaken assumption And it seems he is not alone in his misreading of the current mood of anti-Semitism Copenhagen is a city renowned for Denmark’s historic generosity to non-Danes a neighborhood of immigrants who left their home countries for the stability of a welfare state were advised to heed the advice of Israel’s ambassador to Denmark who strongly suggested that Jews traveling in Copenhagen exercise extreme subtlety: “Don’t speak Hebrew too loudly cover up any visible Star of David jewelry fold your kippot and slip them into your pockets.” in the very place which served as an illustration of the goodness of people to triumph and for anti-Semitism to be abolished it is now the official advice to keep your Judaism to yourself – and to get rid of that piece of clothing on your head which lets everyone know that you’re Jewish The famous Danish journalist Martin Krasnik went to great pains to inform readers that the Israeli ambassador “was misunderstood or mistaken.” Clearly the ambassador was only offering advice to Israelis visiting the rest of Europe He couldn’t possibly be speaking about Copenhagen which has a long history of hospitality to Jews “Anti-Semitism is endemic in immigrant neighborhoods He put on a yarmulke and walked the streets of Nørrebrogade Krasnik describes numerous encounters in which he just barely missed being severely abused One of the anti-Semitic interlocutors explained that while ‘perhaps your religion tells you to wear this it doesn’t tell you to get killed.’ Another explained that the kippah was ‘not a problem for us but my cousin killed a guy for wearing a ‘Jewish hat.’” Finally after another demand was made for the “hat” to be removed Denmark – but surely not in the great state of New York with close to 2 million Jews An organization representing more than 950 US Orthodox rabbis has condemned an “alarming” increase in violent attacks on Jews in New York City saying it would work with authorities to provide protection to “neighborhoods under siege” after the latest anti-Semitic assaults within a week an ultra-Orthodox Jew was violently assaulted while walking home from Shabbat services in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn told him while knocking the hat off his head into a neighboring garden that he hated Jews and was going to kill him German Jewry has come up with what it believes is “for now the best solution.” The head of Germany’s Central Council of Jews warned against wearing religious symbols on city streets for fear of attack with a stark caution that Jews who wear the kippah or the Star of David could be courting danger on German streets The head of the European Jewish Association saying he was “mistaken in the cure for the serious problem Not wearing a skullcap due to fear of anti-Semitism is in fact the fulfillment of the vision of anti-Semites in Europe.” It is ironic that hats play such a significant role in these anti-Semitic incidents emphasized an incident in his life which he considered life changing – he called it “the primal scene in his life” – which helps us shed light on the matter in his fascinating book “The Ordeal of Civility” when my father began to take me with him on his walks and to reveal to me in his talk his views upon things in the world we live in on one such occasion that he told me a story to show me how much better things were now than they had been in his days “I went for a walk one Saturday in the streets of your birthplace A Christian came up to me and with a single blow knocked off my cap into the mud and shouted “I went into the roadway and picked up my cap,” was his quiet reply This struck me as unheroic conduct on the part of the big strong man who was holding the little boy by the hand Freud went on to describe his disappointment and shame at his father’s weak response Cuddihy relates this moment too much of Freud’s work – his ambivalent relationship with Jews and non-Jews and his strange assertion in Moses and Monotheism that Moses was not a Jew but an Egyptian became a lifelong reminder of shame – and for Freud had lifelong consequences a kippah is a way of publicly declaring religious affiliation and identity The Talmud tells us there were three reasons why the Jews survived in spite of being enslaved in the land of Egypt Their merit was threefold: they did not change their names Those are the three reasons which kept us from assimilation at the very beginning of our history; they remain the keys to our unique survival from amongst all of the nations in the world to this day The Jew maintains at least one special garment which declares his faith – and his unwillingness to hide his great pride in being a descendent of Abraham Jews need to have the fierce determination to be guided by self-identification as a Jew rather than self-negation even by as minor a gesture as removing our yarmulke in order “to avoid conflict” is not just to lose our hat – but to lose our heads Anti-Semitism must be fought with full force and energy with all of our efforts on the college campuses and all the other arenas where it has begun to infuse its deadly poison The antidote to anti-Semitism – the only antidote which has a chance of succeeding – is pro-Semitism the fierce determination to be guided by pride rather than fear by self-identification as a Jew rather than self-negation If we remove the signs of our Jewishness to appease our enemies The hat is but a symbol – yet it is a mighty symbol of our firm belief that the Almighty rules the world and He will bless those who bless us and those who curse us He will curse Thank you for signing up for the aish.com free newsletter France and Other EU States Should Act Decisively to Protect Rights in the EU “I will go to an ‘LGBT-free zone’ in Poland,’” said Clément Beaune, French Secretary of State for European Affairs, in a December interview in which he also publicly came out as a gay man. But when he asked to visit Kraśnik, authorities denied him access Kraśnik is one of almost 100 regions and municipalities in Poland that have endorsed discrimination against lesbian bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people by declaring themselves “LGBT-ideology free” or adopting “charters” that promote an exclusively heterosexual model of families Attacks on women’s and LGBT rights come amidst a broader erosion of judicial independence and pressure on media and civil society critical of PiS France’s EU presidency should oversee responses to these attacks against rule of law in the EU. This should start with pushing the European Council to revive scrutiny on Poland and Hungary under Article 7 – the mechanism dealing with EU governments that put the Union’s founding values at risk – and pressing the Commission to condition access to EU funds to respect for the rule of law. France should ensure its leadership centers on serious efforts to defend human rights everywhere in the EU. Russia’s “Gay Propaganda” Law Imperils LGBT Youth Get updates on human rights issues from around the globe. Join our movement today. Get the world’s top human rights news, every day. Human Rights Watch is a 501(C)(3) nonprofit registered in the US under EIN: 13-2875808 The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a tremendous burden on the healthcare system. Patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) have to get fast track treatment which is independent of environmental conditions. The aim of this study was to investigate epidemiological and clinical outcomes of early rehabilitation and compare it with the literature data during the non-COVID-19 period. The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant effect on the epidemiological data but not on the clinical outcome of patients with TBI. Early rehabilitation proved to be effective and to contribute to positive treatment outcome. Volume 14 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2023.1269564 Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a tremendous burden on the healthcare system Patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) have to get fast track treatment which is independent of environmental conditions The aim of this study was to investigate epidemiological and clinical outcomes of early rehabilitation and compare it with the literature data during the non-COVID-19 period Materials and methods: A retrospective study included 174 patients with TBI They all underwent treatment in the University Clinical Center Bosnia and Herzegovina during the period January-December 2021 We have analyzed the epidemiological data and clinical course in 174 patients as well as the outcome of early rehabilitation in 107 patients In clinical evaluation were used: Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) Functional Independence Measure (FIM) and Barthel Index on admission and at discharge as well as Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) at discharge Student t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient were used in statistical analysis The value (p < 0.05) was used for statistical significance Results: A total of 174 patients with TBI were included in this study Most of the patients (n = 94) were older than 60 male (n = 125) and the most frequent cause of TBI was falling over (n = 88) almost one third of the sample had moderate (n = 52) Total of 139 (80.3%) patients had the improved outcome while the fatal outcome was reported with 33 (18.5%) patients When comparing the scores on admission and at discharge the improvement of mean parameter values was reported for GCS (9.9 vs A complete recovery at discharge was found in 63.79% while serious deficit was found with 6.32% Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant effect on the epidemiological data but not on the clinical outcome of patients with TBI Early rehabilitation proved to be effective and to contribute to positive treatment outcome The aim of this study was to investigate epidemiological and clinical outcomes of early rehabilitation and compare it with the literature data during non COVID-19 period Flow diagram representing study design with inclusion and exclusion criteria as well as their share in percentages was calculated for all independent research variables: gender All listed independent variables are categorical: The Kolmogorov–Smirnov (K-S) test was used to test the normality of the distribution of numerical variables while Skewness and Kurtosis were also used as the measures of distribution asymmetry for the following variables: Barthel index at admission The psychometric properties of the tests were examined whereby Cronbach α was used to examine internal consistency The value of the test α ≥ 0.7 is considered as the acceptable test reliability median (Me) with interquartile range (IQR) arithmetic mean (M) with standard deviation (SD) as well as a range (Minimum - Maximum) were shown In order to determine whether there were statistically significant differences in the prominence of dependent variables while taking into account the independent variables (gender number of hospitalization days and outcome) Student's t-test and ANOVA were used Both tests are two-tailed tests for the possibility of an effect in two directions—positive and negative Split-plot ANOVA (SPANOVA) was used to investigate the effects of independent variables on repeated measures mechanical ventilation and early rehabilitation on the outcome of treatment was examined SPANOVA test was also used to test a separate recovery the difference at the beginning and at the end of measuring of Barthel test Wilks' λ and its statistical probability (p) were shown for the influence of the interaction of independent and dependent variable (e.g whether the change of the result on Barthel test is equal for men and women) Partial η2 was used to measure the size of the effect of independent variables on the change of the results at the beginning and at the end of measurement for the Barthel test the influence can be small (Partial η 2 = 0.01) medium (Partial η 2 = 0.06) and large (Partial η 2 = 0.14) Wilks' λ is also an indicator of a separate influence of time the difference at the beginning and at the end for the measured parameters Correlations between numerical variables were tested by the Pearson correlation coefficient and displayed using a Scatter Plot The level of statistical significance was set at p < 0.001 IBM SPSS Statistics version 25 was used for data analysis General data on patients with traumatic brain injury Differences among the functional scores in patients with traumatic brain injury regarding the epidemiology mechanism of injury and outcome of treatment Descriptive statistics of all measured tests and the psychometric characteristics of the questionnaire, as well as the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and Cronbach's α coefficient are shown in Table 3 We tested the normality of the distribution using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test since it is recommended to use it for large samples (≥50) the distribution of all variables deviates significantly from normal All scales have high or very high reliability (0.718–0.893) Cronbach's α coefficient Descriptive statistics and psychometric characteristics of the questionnaire An improvement was found at discharge measured by Barthel's index in patients with TBI [Wilks' λ = 0.438 η2 accounts for 56.2% of the variance which is classified as a large effect The influence of early rehabilitation on the value of the test was not recorded The presence of surgery shows a statistically significant influence on the change in the value of Barthel's Index [Wilks' λ = 0.945 as well as mechanical ventilation [Wilks' λ = 0.858 The size of the effect of surgery is medium (5.5% variance) and of mechanical ventilation high (14.2% variance) Patients who did not have surgery and who were not on mechanical ventilation had a higher score on the Barthel Index at discharge The FIM is better at discharge M = 103.25 (22.90) than at admission [M = 63.96 (28.21) The size of effect of FIM is high (72.0% of variance) The value of the FIM test is influenced by mechanical ventilation [Wilks' λ = 0.943 Mechanical ventilation has a medium effect size on FIM it accounted for 5.7% FIM based on mechanical ventilation Recovery measured by the FIM test is lower in patients who were on mechanical ventilation Outcomes of early rehabilitation of patients with traumatic brain injury Figure 2 shows the relationship between the outcomes studied (BD GOS negatively correlates with BD (r = −0.771 positive and statistically significant at the p ≤ 0.01 level Graph representing correlation between GCS Functional Independence Measurement admission; FIMD Functional Independence Measurement discharge; GCSA **Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed) The importance of the TBI problem is underestimated due to the lack of research and quality data We conducted a retrospective study of the patients who sustained TBI and were treated at the Republic of Srpska University Clinical Center the largest tertiary center in the Republic of Srpska Possible causes of falls as the leading mechanism of injury in our study included the following: social isolation Falling over by the elderly people can also be explained by lack of balance and coordination as well as lower availability of the health system in terms of postponing check-ups in all areas Changes in the mechanism of TBI during the pandemic differ among countries and are most likely to reflect their socioeconomic status. For example, in Austria during the lockdown there were no TBI reported caused by skiing; at the same time an increased frequency of TBI due to traffic accidents was registered in New York (15, 21). In Italy, no differences in the TBI mechanism were found compared to the period before the pandemic (16) Despite restrictive measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic the incidence of TBI remained high during the second wave of the pandemic we can only partially compare the results of our study with any other research The incidence of moderate or severe TBI before and during the COVID-19 pandemic varies among studies. A large multi-center study by Grassner et al. concluded that the number of patients requiring neurosurgical intervention was lower during the pandemic compared to previous years (19). A recent meta-analysis found no significant differences in frequency of moderate and severe TBI before and during the pandemic (20) The main advantage of our study is in the size of the sample The analyzed data were from the relatively long period of COVID-19 which included lockdown and restrictions imposed on movement and social life we paid special attention to the impact of COVID-19 on the outcome of TBI treatment We conducted a retrospective study in one center Our center covers approximately 30% of the population with mild TBI and about 90% with moderate and severe TBI we did not fully extend our results to the general population Most cases of mild TBI were treated in other hospitals all moderate and severe TBI were referred to our institution We did not compare the results of early TBI rehabilitation with studies conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina such studies have not yet been implemented COVID-19 has imposed many challenges for healthcare professionals in terms of treating TBI patients during the pandemic the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant effect on the epidemiological data rather than on clinical outcome in patients with TBI the patients with TBI continued being treated as the highest priority Early rehabilitation proved to be effective and to contribute to the positive treatment outcome The raw data supporting the conclusions of this article will be made available by the authors The studies involving humans were approved by Ethical Board of University Clinical Center of The Republic of Srpska The studies were conducted in accordance with the local legislation and institutional requirements Written informed consent for participation was not required from the participants or the participants' legal guardians/next of kin in accordance with the national legislation and institutional requirements The author(s) declare that no financial support was received for the research The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial 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equestrian federation has appointed Helle Krasnik Trolle as the new Danish Grand Prix Team Captain for senior and Under 25 riders Trolle is replacing Kimi Nielsen who resigned on 31 October 2017 For Danish dressage riders Trolle is no unfamiliar face She has been a judge for 25 years and trains Danish dressage jugdes alongside organizing competitions "I'm really excited to dedicate myself to this new challenges and I want to make sure that Danish dressage can ride on the wave of success which has already culminated with excellent results at the European Championships in Gothenburg My main focus is to support riders and coaches in their planning development and training so that we can continue to be at the top amongst the world elite," said Helle Danish team trainer Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein is pleased with the appointment of the 57-year old Helle "The team leader is an incredibly important player for the national team we risk that the set-up around competition planning coordination and much more will be a challenge It would make it difficult to focus 100% on performance Kimi fulfilled this role well over the years and I'm convinced that Helle is the right one for the task ahead Apr 29, 2021 | Politics, Society Councillors in the Polish town of Kraśnik have voted to withdraw the resolution declaring opposition to “LGBT ideology” that they introduced two years ago The mayor had warned that not doing so would put the community at risk of losing millions of euros in grants from Norway we can take a very big step in overcoming our image crisis,” said Mayor Wojciech Wilk ahead of the vote we are not presented very sympathetically.” we have a better chance of obtaining external funds in the future” who is affiliated to the centrist Civic Platform (PO) “I mean especially Norwegian funds,” he added saying that 35 million zloty (€7.7 million) was at stake Polish town becomes first to withdraw resolution opposing “LGBT ideology” It could have lost an estimated €3-10 million Polish town votes to remain “free from LGBT ideology” and to consider 5G ban Despite that threat, Kraśnik’s council last year voted by a majority of 11 to nine to keep its anti-LGBT resolution declared the town “free from LGBT ideology” and promised to combat “homopropaganda” and the “sexualisation of children” nine of 19 councillors present voted in favour of repeal Six others favoured keeping the resolution That means the resolution will be withdrawn Among councillors from Poland’s nationally ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party – which has led a strident anti-LGBT campaign and whose local officials are behind most anti-LGBT resolutions – three voted against repeal LGBT “ideology weakens the west and terrorises people”, warns Polish leader Kaczyński “We will face this [LGBT] ideology sooner than you think,” warned one of them “Will Christ still find faith on Earth when he returns It might well turn out that we are fighting against the Lord himself.” four other PiS councillors either abstained or did not vote That included the head of their delegation on the council who said that he was abstaining in order to “avoid disqualification” from Norway funds who had appealed to councillors to withdraw the resolution said after the vote that he was “very pleased with the decision He noted that the town had already seen its image severely damaged Whole EU declared “LGBTIQ Freedom Zone” in response to Polish anti-LGBT resolutions Kraśnik was one of almost 100 local authorities in Poland that passed anti-LGBT resolutions in 2019 Though such places are often referred to by critics as “LGBT-free zones” none of the resolutions specifically uses such language Around half express opposition to “LGBT ideology” – a term used by PiS to refer to what it claims is a dangerous set of ideas being imported into Poland Others are so-called “Charters of Family Rights” that do not mention LGBT specifically but reject same-sex marriage and call for the “protection of children from moral corruption” language often used to suggest that the LGBT movement is a danger to Polish youth Polish village sues activist over “harmful and defamatory” LGBT-free zone signs Earlier this year, the town of Nowa Dęba became the first place in Poland to withdraw a resolution declaring opposition to “LGBT ideology” The head of the local council said it has been “exploited” to damage the town’s reputation despite the fact that it is likely to result in the loss of 7.3 million zloty in Norway Grants that were to be used to build a museum “I’m devastated,” said the town’s mayor His proposal for the resolution to be replaced by a similar one expressing support for families but removing references to LGBT was rejected by the council Newsletter Main image credit: Max Bashyrov/Flickr (under CC BY-NC 2.0) [email protected] Today's print edition Home Delivery When local councilors adopted a resolution two years ago declaring their small town in southeastern Poland "free of LGBT,” the mayor didn’t see much harm in what appeared to be a symbolic and legally pointless gesture he’s scrambling to contain the damage.googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1499653692894-0'); }); What initially seemed a cost-free sop to conservatives in the rural and religiously devout Polish borderlands next to Ukraine the May 2019 decision has become a costly embarrassment for the town of Krasnik It has jeopardized millions of dollars in foreign funding and turned "our town into a synonym for homophobia,” which he insisted was not accurate In a time of both misinformation and too much information quality journalism is more crucial than ever.By subscribing Your subscription plan doesn't allow commenting. 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Roth asks Already I sense that this will be a difficult job the New York Times interviewed Roth about his work being published by The Library of America Only two other authors (Eudora Welty and Saul Bellow) have achieved this honour while still alive But Roth would say practically nothing to the Times's increasingly desperate journalist She says that she just returned from Berlin where they called her Blitz (German for flash) He looks at her with an empty stare while she jumps around taking pictures She takes a Polaroid photo of him and inserts it into one of those souvenir snow globes "It looks like I have a huge dandruff problem," he says in a low "That poor guy really needs a strong dandruff shampoo." "I always use that trick to make people smile," Flash says "There once was this photographer from New York 'Smile!' I couldn't stand her or the whole phenomenon So I got rid of both her and the smile." when I'm hiding in a corner and no one sees it." We are sitting in a backroom of Roth's literary agency in midtown New York The room is full of books by Salman Rushdie "It's probably wisest to place the Rushdie room in the back," Roth says - without smiling He has arrived from his home in rural Connecticut to give an interview about The Plot Against America which was published in America and Britain a while back but is only just being published in my home country of Denmark winning the presidential election in 1940 and establishing an alliance with Hitler "I got the idea when I read an autobiography by an American historian In a footnote he mentioned that the right wing of the Republican Party had made an attempt to nominate Lindbergh in 1940 I remembered that my family supported Roosevelt and that everyone around me hated Lindbergh and everyone worried about his extremely critical attitude towards Jews." but this one seems to be Roth's great Jewish history You would never tell Ralph Ellison that Invisible Man is his most Negro book "Those kinds of considerations are newspaper cliches Everyone who opens a book enters the story without noticing these labels." "But you are seen as an American-Jewish writer "It's not a question that interests me You can't talk about this without walking straight out into horrible cliches that say nothing about human beings And identity labels have nothing to do with how anyone actually experiences life." I say that he himself writes about identity in his books In Operation Shylock it is about who is a Jew "But I don't accept that I write Jewish-American fiction I don't buy that nonsense about black literature or feminist literature Those are labels made up to strengthen some political agenda." It takes all my strength to ask the next question: about Roth - and Roth He appears in many of his books - as a boy or an adult author "I just don't understand that question," he says "I don't read or perceive books in that way the aesthetic jolt you get from being inside this .. I have brought to the interview copies of The Dying Animal and The Human Stain - two books about the relationship between an older man and a young woman I tell him about a huge scandal in Denmark in which a 68-year-old author has just been stripped of all honour His crime: he wrote openly about a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old black girl in Haiti - the daughter of his servant Roth wants to know everything about the story Then he says: "That author asked for it Did he really write about how he had sex with the girl in his master bedroom If it was an affair with a 25-year-old student at the university in Port-au-Prince I tell him that interviewing him can be extremely difficult - like climbing an iceberg without clothes on I wasn't put on this earth to make your life easy Ha!" His laughter is like a proclamation - no smile "Maybe we shouldn't be talking about literature at all," I say I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk if you shut down all literature departments The readers should be alone with the books and if anyone dared to say anything about them they would be shot or imprisoned right on the spot A 100-year moratorium on insufferable literary talk You should let people fight with the books on their own and rediscover what they are and what they are not you are in a completely different universe than that of literature and there's no bridge between the two." Roth goes and fetches a small black plate - the cover for his new book It is completely black with a narrow red line framing the title: Everyman It's getting approved today," he says "It looks as if it's about death," I say Everyman is the name of a line of English plays from the 15th century It was right in between the death of Chaucer and the birth of Shakespeare The moral was always 'Work hard and get into heaven' Everyman is the main character and he gets a visit from Death 'I am Death' and Everyman's answer is the first great line in English drama: 'Oh thou comest when I had thee least in mind.' When I thought of you least My new book is about death and about dying and ask him if the publisher isn't worried that people won't want to buy it because of the colour I think it looks like a tombstone." He waits for me to ask the next question He thinks for a long time before answering "Do you think a lot about death?" "I was forced to think about it all the time when I wrote this book I spent two whole days in a cemetery to see how they dig the holes For years I had decided never to think about death but it wasn't until a good friend of mine died in April that I experienced it as completely devastating It doesn't say so in the agreement I signed "Are you satisfied with your life?" I ask "Eight years ago I attended a memorial ceremony for an author," he says "An incredible man full of life and humour And at this memorial ceremony there were all these women "What will the women do at your funeral?" they will probably be screaming at the casket." He looks out of the window The thirst for women becomes more poignant And there is a power in the pathos of sex that it didn't have before The pathos of the female body becomes more insistent "You said that you're afraid of dying But the difference between today and the fear of dying I had when I was 12 is that now I have a kind of resignation towards reality It no longer feels like a great injustice that I have to die." "I'm exactly the opposite of religious," he says "but I'm sure that life would be easier if I was." it's not interesting to talk about the sheep referred to as believers It's filled with fear and loneliness and anxiety - and I never needed religion to save me." "There are some days that compensate completely," he says a couple of months of these completely wonderful days as a writer It's actually a good question [at this point I silently jump with joy] it's a choice to be occupied with literature But you quickly identify with the profession Then you struggle across the decades to make your work better to do it again and to prove to yourself that you can do it." "I have no idea that I can do it again How do I know that I won't run out of ideas tomorrow It's a horrible existence being a writer filled with deprivation I didn't discover that during the first 20 years because I was fighting - in the ring with the literature but then I discovered that I was in the ring all by myself." "It was the interests in life and the attempt to get life down on the pages which made me a writer - and then I discovered that I am standing on the outside of life" The ad-free version is ready for purchase on iOS mobile app today we couldn't find that page";var n=e.querySelector("h2");return n&&n.remove(),{staticContent:e,title:t}},d=function(e){var t=document.createElement("button");return t.innerText=e,t.classList.add("error-page-button"),t},f=function(e){var t=document.createElement("div");t.id="recirculation-404",t.classList.add("brand-hint-bg");var n="\n \n \n Tick here if you would like us to send you the author’s response A lorry driver says he must have fallen asleep at the wheel before smashing his tipper full of gravel through a garden wall. Lukasz Krasnik was delivering the gravel when he lost control in Percy Street, Basford colliding with a lamppost before crashing through the wall and coming to rest just feet away from a property which took place at around 10.25am on November 2 told officers at the scene that he had no known medical issues and must have fallen asleep at the wheel After being charged with dangerous driving, Krasnik appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on May 31 and was given a 12-week prison sentence He was also banned from driving for a year Sergeant Steve Waft, of Nottinghamshire Police's Roads Policing Unit said: "This was a serious incident that in other circumstances could have caused very serious injuries to other people To his credit Krasnik quickly took responsibility for what happened admitted he was at fault and apologised for what happened "I am pleased that his case has now been resolved and hope it serves as a reminder to other professional drivers about the dangers of driving whilst tired As I have seen several times during my career nodding off even for a few seconds can have catastrophic consequences." Story SavedYou can find this story in  My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right Jan 7, 2022 | History, Society Over 10,000 volunteers – ranging in age from four years old to 90 – joined campaigns to restore nearly 100 Jewish cemeteries across Poland as part of a concerted push last year The activities were coordinated by the newly founded Coalition of Guardians of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland a network of organisations and activists caring for such sites Poland was home to the largest Jewish community in Europe Around 90% were killed under the German occupation while many others fled during and after the war an estimated 20,000 Jews live in the country Polish town commemorates lost Jews with new memorial That has left a rich Jewish cultural heritage – including hundreds of cemeteries – with very few Jews to care for it the maintenance of many Jewish sites relies on local communities and volunteers “The guardians see their activity as working…for their own identity and for the sake of building a broader awareness of the multicultural history of Poland,” said the Coalition of Guardians in a statement to Notes from Poland It has helped to coordinate many small-scale events across Poland with the largest number taking place in the province of Silesia Repairing the world: The Olympic athlete restoring Poland’s Jewish heritage Over a dozen mayors have organised clean-ups in their cities with four such events taking place in Silesia’s capital Katowice An extremely neglected Jewish cemetery in Kraśnik was also recently cleaned up by volunteers who collected over 1,500 kilograms of rubbish at the site The coalition also helps caregivers obtain grants and donations which came to a total of 300,000 zloty (€65,000) last year The newly established coalition is coordinated by the Cultural Heritage Foundation, an NGO that last year launched a mobile app allowing people to document abandoned cemeteries they encounter in order to build a database of forgotten burial grounds Polish foundation launches app to document forgotten cemeteries “When you connect separate actions into a network it automatically generates new ones of a similar kind,” said Michał Laszczkowski president of the foundation and initiator of the Coalition “We already know of a dozen or so neglected cemeteries that may be covered next year too.” One of the organisation’s most active members has for four years organised several cleaning efforts at the Jewish necropolis in Łódź which at 45 hectares is the largest in Poland he has employed people sentenced to community service Similar efforts have been undertaken at Poland’s second-largest Jewish cemetery 27 events employing 600 volunteers took place in 2021 to clear leaves and soil from tombstones Over 150 Jewish tombstones used for road construction in WW2 unearthed in Polish town According to the organisation’s figures there are some 800 surviving Jewish cemeteries in Poland today Before the Second World War there were reportedly 1,200 such sites in Poland’s modern-day territory but many were devastated during the war or liquidated by the subsequent communist authorities Other organisations have also been working in Poland to unearth the Jewish heritage at such sites. A database of Jewish cemeteries in Poland has been founded to catalogue all inscriptions on tombstones Occasional acts of vandalism also occur, however. In 2021 several dozen tombstones at the Jewish cemeteries in Wrocław and Bielsko-Biała were devastated Dozens of gravestones vandalised at Jewish cemetery in Polish city Main image credit: Katarzyna Bednarczyk / Agencja Gazeta Maria Wilczek is deputy editor of Notes from Poland [email protected] The world’s leading publication for data science An unsettling yet likely familiar situation: you deployed Airflow successfully but find yourself constantly refreshing the webserver UI to make sure everything is running smoothly You rely on certain alerting tasks to execute upon upstream failures but if the queue is full and tasks are stalling One solution: deploying Grafana, an open source reporting service, on top of Airflow To start, I’ll assume basic understanding of Airflow functionality and containerization using Docker and Docker Compose. More resources can be found here for Airflow, here for Docker, and here for Docker Compose Reference the code to follow along: https://github.com/sarahmk125/airflow-docker-metrics To get Airflow metrics into a visually appealing dashboard that supports alerting the following services are spun up in Docker containers declared in the docker-compose.yml file: Prometheus is configured upon startup in the ./prometheus/prometheus.yml file which is mounted as a volume: the scrape_configs section declares a destination (the airflow-prometheus container) and a source (the airflow-statsd-exporter container) to scrape Provisioning in Grafana means using code to define datasources, dashboards, and alerts to exist upon startup. When starting the containers, there is a Prometheus datasource already configured in localhost:3000/datasources and an Airflow Metrics dashboard listed in localhost:3000/dashboards The JSON can be retrieved from the Grafana UI by following these instructions Alerts in the UI can be setup as described [here](https://medium.com/@oleksii/grafana-alerting-and-slack-notifications-3affe9d5f688); there is also an excellent Medium article here on setting up Grafana alerting with Slack Alerts can be provisioned in the same way as dashboards and datasources Before there was an official Docker image, Matthieu "Puckel_" Roisil released Docker support for Airflow. Starting with Airflow version 1.10.10, the Apache Software Foundation released an official image on DockerHub which is the only current and continuously updated image many still rely on the legacy and unofficial docker-airflow repository relying on the legacy repository means capping Airflow at version 1.10.9 Airflow 1.10.10 began supporting some cool features such as running tasks on Kubernetes The official repository will also be where the the upcoming (and highly anticipated) Airflow 2.0 will be released The new docker-compose declaration found in the described repository for the webserver looks something like this: A few changes from the puckel/docker-airflow configuration to highlight: No more worrying if your tasks are infinitely queued and not running with dashboards and alerting available in Grafana at your fingertips The same architecture can be run on an instance deployed in GCP or AWS for 24/7 monitoring just like it was run locally The finished product can be found here: https://github.com/sarahmk125/airflow-docker-metrics there’s always room for improvement: Thanks for reading! 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