The mediatization of self-tracking

This article investigates a community of men who use the pharmaceuticals Minoxidil and Finasteride to enable and restore beard and hair growth, and who track and trace the effects on YouTube. It argues that the traditional positions of expert and patient are deterritorialized by the digitalization of health discourses and practices, and that the camera in these YouTube videos acts as a mediating/performative factor. The article seeks to answer the question of community formation among the male self-trackers. It offers a generic, analytical model where knowledge production is outlined as either expert or practitioner and community formation as either community member or community leader, both of which figure as intersecting axes on a continuum. Although derived from the case material, the article suggests that the generic, analytical model works across different audiovisually mediated selftracking communities and practices.

Contribution of Siddi Lebbe for Educational Development of Sri Lankan Muslims – A Historical perspective

Mr. Siddilebbe was one of the great personalities of Sri Lanka. He was a lawyer, educationist, scholar, philosopher, divination, writer, publisher, social reformer, proctor, visionary and Muslim community leader. Also as the leader of Sri Lankan Muslim community, he guided the Muslims to be released from the traditional conservative thoughts of refusing modernization to forward looking one in order to survive in the prevailing contemporary situation. During the era of Siddi Lebbe, the Muslims face a huge drawback in all the fields such a political, economic and social. The service rendered by Mr Siddi Lebbe were widespread and countless in the fields of politics, economy, education, culture and religion of Sri Lankan Muslims. We can figure out these facts when we analyze and asses his works and services accomplished by him having considered the prevailed situations of Muslims in the 19th century. Thus the ultimate aim of this research is to bring to light the contributions made by Mr Siddi Lebbe to the development of motherland, to both Muslims and the other brotherly communities. Furthermore, I hope this would be secondary date based research and useful for those who engage in researches about the great scholar Mr Siddi Lebbe.

Determinant of Obesity Among Women From Low Income Family In RW 05 Area Sub-district Cibubur 2021

Obesity is one of the nutrition problems that the prevalence increases continuously. People from low socioeconomic status significantly increase. Likewise, obesity in a woman is more prone than man. This study aims to explore the causes of obesity in adult women who come from middle and lower families. The research was conducted using qualitative principles, which research method in-depth interviews and observations. The primary informants involved ten adult women who have obese nutritional status and the key informants were community leader and family members. Results showed the influence perception of body shape on the intention and willingness to lose weight. Wrong eating patterns are excess food intake and consumption of food and beverages, which lead to obesity along with less exercise and passive activity. Its behavior is affected by individual perceptions, social support, and the environment..

Marion Mahony Griffin

Marion Mahony Griffin (b. 1871–d. 1961) excelled in a range of creative endeavors as extensive as the geographic expanse of her long and storied career. Between 1894 and 1949, Mahony worked as an architect, illustrator, planner, real estate developer, community leader, public speaker, and author in the United States, Australia, and India. From the outset, Mahony’s career included solo commissions, independent exhibitions, and lectures as well as work completed in conjunction with contemporaries who, like Mahony, began their careers in Chicago’s Steinway Hall loft. They included, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hermann von Holst, and Mahony’s husband and professional partner Walter Burley Griffin. Critical interest in Mahony’s contribution to architecture and urbanism mirrors the reception of architectural modernism in the United States. At the beginning of the 20th century, Mahony’s work was examined for its potential to herald a new age. In the middle of the century, it was seen as a possible beacon and alternative to European modernism. Since the dawn of the 21st century, and after a period of apathy toward her work, historians and professionals have begun analyzing Mahony’s practice, its conceptual surround, and the history of its reception to reflect on the transnational routes of architectural modernism, biases in the historiography of architecture, and the potential for an ecologically sensitive approach to urbanism. This trajectory of US reactions to Mahony from hope to apathy to renewed interest is curiously also true of popular and scholarly portrayals of Mahony in other countries. It evinces a US-centric approach to understanding Mahony’s work that, until very recently, obscured the importance of anti-colonialism in shaping Mahony’s visual, spatial, and literary practice after 1914 when she began to live and work outside the United States. New scholarship on Mahony’s work has led to popular and professional acknowledgement of her talent: the Marion Mahony Emerging Practitioner Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology honors a distinguished alumna; Marion’s List is a public register of women working in architecture and the built environment in Australia, launched by Parlour in collaboration with the National Committee for Gender Equity of the Australian Institute of Architects; the Australian Capital Territory Government named the lookout on Mount Ainslie in Canberra, made famous by a Mahony rendering the Marion Mahony Griffin View; and the Chicago Park District and current residents in Mahony’s old neighborhood named a lakefront beach in Chicago the Marion Mahony Griffin Beach Park.

Between Implementation and Legislation: The Shiʿi Imam Muḥammad al-Jawād’s Khums Demand Letter of 220 ah/835 ce

The Imami Shiʿa are usually treated as a community defined by belief. By analysing a letter attributed to the ninth Imami Imam, Muḥammad al-Jawād dated to the year of his death in 220/835, I show that the Imami Shiʿa were defined also by institutional structures that tied them to their Imam in his capacity as community leader. Details of transmission, form and content suggest that the letter may well be authentic, giving us a unique window onto the Imamic administration. The letter is a tax demand, encouraging payment of the khums levy upon the spoils of war and other items. My analysis suggests that the understanding of khums and ghanīma among Imamis at this time continued to be fluid, subject to the Imam’s adjustment, and that implementation influenced the elaboration of the law. Subsequently, hadith scholars and jurists were thus forced to interpret how such ad hoc, pragmatic acts fit into Islamic law, which is conceived as eternal and divine.

Resilience of Communities in Puerto Rico Following Hurricane Maria: Community-Based Preparedness and Communication Strategies

Objective: This study aimed to examine factors that may have contributed to community disaster resilience following Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Methods: In April 2018, qualitative interviews (n = 22) were conducted with stakeholders in 7 Puerto Rican municipalities (9% of total). Transcripts were deductively and inductively coded and analyzed to identify salient topics and themes, then examined according to strategic themes from the Federal Emergency Management Association’s (FEMA) Whole Community Approach. Results: Municipal preparedness efforts were coordinated, community-based, leveraged community assets, and prioritized vulnerable populations. Strategies included (1) multi-sectoral coordination and strategic personnel allocation; (2) neighborhood leader designation as support contacts; (3) leveraging of community leader expertise and social networks to protect vulnerable residents; (4) Censuses of at-risk groups, health professionals, and first responders; and (5) outreach for risk communication and locally tailored protective measures. In the context of collapsed telecommunications, communities implemented post-disaster strategies to facilitate communication with the Puerto Rican Government, between local first responders, and to keep residents informed, including the use of: (1) police radios; (2) vehicles with loudspeakers; (3) direct interpersonal communication; and (4) solar-powered Internet radio stations. Conclusions: Adaptive capacities and actions of Puerto Rican communities exemplify the importance of local solutions in disasters. Expanded research is recommended to better understand contributors to disaster resilience.

STUDI DESKRIPTIF TEMPAT WUDHU ERGONOMI PADA LANJUT USIA (LANSIA) DI PANYABUNGAN, MANDAILING-NATAL

The level of comfort in performing ablution movements is very dependent on the shape of the ablution position, especially the height of the faucet and the movement position of the person standing or sitting for ablution, as well as the type of person who performs ablution. Purpose: to describe and describe the design of an ergonomic ablution place for the elderly in Panyabungan, Mandailing-Natal. Methods this study uses a qualitative method. The research approach used is a case study. Research informants were determined by purposive sampling consisting of key informants 3 elderly people, and 1 person from the mosque BKM. Supporting informants consist of 1 community leader, so the total informants are 5 people. Data analysis was collected by free-guided interviews using the Miles and Huberman technique. Processing using ATLAS.ti9 software. Result analysis of the data obtained that comfort affects the need for ablution facilities can be seen based on the value of the co-occurrence correlation coefficient (0.30). Based on ATLAS.ti9 analysis, 5 themes were obtained, namely: comfort, complaints, ablution time, frequency of use, and facility needs. Conclusion From the analysis it was found that the ablution place with a sitting position had the best value in this study, the need for facilities affected the comfort of ablution in the elderly, the floor in the ablution place was made flush with the road

John Berkeley James (John) Wells (1935–2018)––Life, career and remembrances

John Wells, who died at age 83 on 12 November 2018, was a research scientist, teacher, Professor of Zoology, Dean of Science at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, family man and community leader. He was a man of his time, surviving World War II, progressing to a career that stretched around the world.

Rabbi Yeheil Michel Epstein and his Arukh Hashulchan

Yechiel Mikhel Epstein (also Yeheil Michel Epstein, b. 1829–d. 1908) was among the most distinguished Jewish Law authorities of the last half of the 19th century. Along with Moses Maimonides, he shared the accomplishment of preparing a full restatement of all of Jewish law, which he presented in two works, the Arukh HaShulchan and the Arukh haShulchan HeAtid. These two works established Rabbi Epstein as one of the leading Jewish law authorities of all Jewish history, both past and present. Although he wrote a few other works, such as Or Li-Yesharim, Mikhal HaMayim, and Leil Shimurim, as well as a recent work collecting his many letters titled Kitvei HaArukh HaShulchan, none of them have been seen as of any great significance. Rather, Epstein’s legacy resides in his complex, nuanced, and nearly complete commentary on the full breadth of Jewish law. Epstein was born on 24 January 1829 in Bobriusk, Russia. Epstein’s father was a successful businessman and competent Jewish scholar who provided his son with a thorough rabbinic education. By many accounts, Epstein demonstrated an aptitude for Talmudic studies at a young age and thus spent his formative years studying under the direction of Rabbi Elijah Goldberg, the Chief Rabbi of Bobriusk. He also studied briefly at the famous Volozhin Yeshivah from 1842 through 1843. While Epstein briefly pursued a career in business, he was quickly appointed as a rabbinical judge and assisted his teacher, Rabbi Goldberg, in his hometown of Bobriusk. Having subsequently decided to pursue service as a community leader, Epstein received his first appointment in 1865 when he was selected to become the rabbi of Novozybkov, a Russian town in which a few thousand Jews lived. The Jewish population there included Orthodox, secular, and Hasidic Jews, as well as Jews who resisted the Hasidic movement (called Mitnagdim). At the age of thirty-five, Rabbi Epstein married Roshka Berlin, the daughter of Rabbi Jacob Berlin and sister of the famous Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Yehudah Berlin, who would later become head of the Volozhin Yeshiva. The couple ultimately had five children. Notably, their daughter, Braynah Welbrinski, was twice widowed before settling into her parents’ home and managing the publication and distribution of the Arukh HaShulchan, which was edited and produced in the years following the death of Rabbi Epstein in 1908.