Officials in Edinburgh are looking into how to quiet silent discos, after residents complained that the tour groups make too much noise. Other residents say they're happy to see the tours. Here, one of the groups is seen on a tour operated by Silent Adventures. Silent Adventures hide caption
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Silent discos have run afoul of local authorities before. The Swiss city of Lausanne famously chose to ban the "noisy" events in 2016, and Salzburg, Austria, clamped down on a long-running silent disco back in 2014. In both of those cases, the discos were held outdoors, running until 4 or 5 a.m.
Both Mowat and Councillor Claire Miller say the city council isn't likely to ban silent disco tours outright. There are other ways to address the problems, they say, including encouraging tour operators to adjust the way they operate.
One of the most popular Edinburgh silent discos is run by Guru Dudu, an entertainer who now travels through Europe and Australia, leading packs of dancing people on city streets. His first tour in Edinburgh was at the 2015 Fringe Festival; to meet demand, Guru Dudu now employs other disco tour guides, as well.
Noting the proliferation of silent discos during the city's famous Fringe Festival, Feeney says, "some of the visiting operators chose to take very busy and varying routes across the city which were, from time to time, rather obstructive."
While Edinburgh's lawmakers consider how they might address residents' concerns, the city is also planning to hold its own silent disco, as part of the upcoming New Year's Eve celebration, titled Hogmanay 19 (using the Scots word for the final day of the year).
What kind of imprinting might come from such a socialization model? And what does this mean, more broadly, for business education? Answers to these questions lie, in part, in more openly acknowledging who might benefit from such silence. Despite their innovative curricula and cutting-edge research, business schools remain old communities in new clothes. They reflect and uphold the norms of older elites. Silence therefore benefits the established order. By remaining silent on moral goals, business schools make it easier to ignore glaring social inequities. If gaining market share is seen as being as important as creating jobs, flagrant injustices are hard to pinpoint, let alone address.
Do you know one of the core unix principles? Unix is silent. It is assumed the user knows what he does.But every time, the ssh client tries to access the agent after some minutes or hours or a reboot, I get 2 popups: one for allowing access to the agent, then immediately after it another popup for the Windows Hello pin prompt. This severely intrudes established workflows. It's tedious, especially the 1st popup. Always have to click it away makes me ignoring what it says. The Windows Hello prompt can be used or not, depending on how paranoid you are.
But in general, ssh agents were designed to silently serve ssh keys loaded into it. They just run in background and serve the keys. Please make it so.The current implementation is so that I deactivated the 1Password agent and use pageant again.
If you insist to protect the user from unauthorized agent use, please offer options for turning on and off paranoid mode. I don't need it - I just want the agent silently serve requests and to be able to store the private key not as file but as entry in 1Password. Storing in 1Password with its cloud sync to have it automatically available on every machine I use is the benefit I see from using 1Password as ssh agent. Not the prompting to allow access to it.
Cardiac ischemia happens when an artery becomes narrowed or blocked for a short time, preventing oxygen-rich blood from reaching the heart. If ischemia is severe or lasts too long, it can cause a heart attack (myocardial infarction) and can lead to heart tissue death. In most cases, a temporary blood shortage to the heart causes the pain of angina pectoris. But in other cases, there is no pain. These cases are called silent ischemia.
The American Heart Association estimates that 3 to 4 million Americans have episodes of silent ischemia. People who have had previous heart attacks or those who have diabetes are especially at risk for developing silent ischemia. Heart muscle disease (cardiomyopathy) caused by silent ischemia is among the more common causes of heart failure in the United States.
Silent hypoxia occurs in some COVID-19 patients when blood oxygen saturation levels are exceedingly low, indicating they aren't getting enough oxygen to their lungs, yet these patients do not show symptoms of breathlessness. In response to suggestions of widespread monitoring for silent hypoxia, American Lung Association Chief Medical Officer Albert Rizzo, M.D., issued the following statement:
In patients with silent hypoxia, the amount of oxygen carried in our blood, otherwise known as blood oxygen level, is lower than expected compared to the other vital signs. Silent hypoxia is not usually an early symptom to occur in COVID-19 patients. They frequently arrive at the emergency room for other reasons, such as muscle aches, fatigue, fever and cough. Typically, when a patient begins to demonstrate silent hypoxia, they already have other COVID-19 symptoms and may be in critical condition.
There are several theories as to why this occurs with COVID-19. One theory is that the virus may affect the airways of the lungs as well as the blood vessels flowing through the lung. For normal oxygen levels to occur, the blood flow through the lung needs to match where the airflow through the lungs is occurring. The virus may be disrupting this normal matching of blood flow and airflow. This disruption may not be enough for us to sense a feeling of shortness of breath since the lung has not become stiffer or congested as it might in other pneumonias or ARDS.
Myocardial ischemia occurs when blood flow to your heart is reduced, preventing the heart muscle from receiving enough oxygen. The reduced blood flow is usually the result of a partial or complete blockage of your heart's arteries (coronary arteries).
Now I have spoken to several faculty, staff, and students about being right leaning on various issues on the USD campus. Without exception all of them keep silent on many issues because of repercussions that they fear will occur. Students fear reprisal from other classmates and concern over their grades. Yes, some students have experienced reduction in their grades at USD due to their opinions being different than that of their professor. No I will not give names. Faculty worry about backlash not just from their students but also from fellow faculty.
Currently, 72 million people in the United States have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19. The U.S. has been fortunate enough to have access to three vaccines; Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Moderna.
Gender-Based Violence (GBV) or violence against women and girls (VAWG), is a global pandemic that affects 1 in 3 women in their lifetime. In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region this silent cancer often goes undetected yet leaves its marks on the victims for years if not a lifetime. Recently, various allegations against individuals related to rape, assault and sexually harassment prompted outrage and encouraged sways of women and girls to speak out about their own experiences of violence. This led to unprecedented attention from the public, demonstrating an urgent need for a systematic approach to prevention and response.
In Miranda v. Arizona, the Court held that the privilege against self incrimination did extend to custodial interrogations. If you are in custody and the cops are asking you questions, they must advise you of your right to remain silent and inform you that anything you do say can be used against you in court. However, the Supreme Court has held that that the mere act of remaining silent is not enough to invoke your 5th Amendment rights.
Recent events in the United States have catalyzed the need for all educators to begin paying attention to and discovering ways to dialogue about race. No longer can health professions (HP) educators ignore or avoid these difficult conversations. HP students are now demanding them. Cultural sensitivity and unconscious bias training are not enough. Good will and good intentions are not enough. Current faculty development paradigms are no longer sufficient to meet the educational challenges of delving into issues of race, power, privilege, identity, and social justice.Engaging in such conversations, however, can be overwhelmingly stressful for untrained faculty. The authors argue that before any curriculum on race and racism can be developed for HP students, and before faculty members can begin facilitating conversations about race and racism, faculty must receive proper training through intense and introspective faculty development. Training should cover how best to engage in, sustain, and deepen interracial dialogue on difficult topics such as race and racism within academic health centers (AHCs). If such faculty development training-in how to conduct interracial dialogues on race, racism, oppression, and the invisibility of privilege-is made standard at all AHCs, HP educators might be poised to actualize the real benefits of open dialogue and change.
Despite experiencing dangerously low levels of oxygen, many people infected with severe cases of COVID-19 sometimes show no symptoms of shortness of breath or difficulty breathing. Hypoxia's ability to quietly inflict damage is why it's been coined "silent." In coronavirus patients, it's thought that the infection first damages the lungs, rendering parts of them incapable of functioning properly. Those tissues lose oxygen and stop working, no longer infusing the blood stream with oxygen, causing silent hypoxia. But exactly how that domino effect occurs has not been clear until now.
To help get to the bottom of what causes silent hypoxia, BU biomedical engineers used computer modeling to test out three different scenarios that help explain how and why the lungs stop providing oxygen to the bloodstream. Their research, which has been published in Nature Communications, reveals that silent hypoxia is likely caused by a combination of biological mechanisms that may occur simultaneously in the lungs of COVID-19 patients, according to biomedical engineer Jacob Herrmann, a research postdoctoral associate in Suki's lab and the lead author of the new study. 2ff7e9595c
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