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Ejemplos del QDRS, el Sistema Rápido de Evaluación de Riesgos de Demencia

Ejemplos del QDRS, el Sistema Rápido de Evaluación de Riesgos de Demencia. Metodológicamente, QDRS consiste en un cuestionario de 10 ítems que abarcan diferentes áreas como la memoria, la comunicación, higiene, concentración, orientación y atención, entre otras, se califica de 0 a 30, diseñado para identificar los síntomas de los diferentes tipos de demencia, las puntuaciones más altas representan los pacientes con demencia severa. Si no hay demencia no hay desperdicio de recursos, pero si la demencia esta presente permite detectarla en las etapas tempranas, donde existe un mayor posibilidad de ser intervenidas de forma más efectiva.

Ejemplos del Sistema Rápido de Evaluación de Riesgos de Demencia, QDRS (Quick System Dementia Rating) (Gentileza James E. Galvin) Resumen en castellano MEMORIA Y RECUERDO 0 No hay pérdida de memoria obvia. Olvido irregular que no interfiere con las actividades del día a día. 0,5 Olvido leve regular o recuerdo parcial de eventos que puede interferir con actividades diarias, repite preguntas y…

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Keutamaan Ibadah Umrah di Bulan Ramadhan

Keutamaan ibadah umrah di bulan Ramadhan sangat banyak sehingga banyak orang yang melakukannya.

Bahkan, terjadi peningkatan jumlah jamaah saat ibadah umrah di bulan Ramadhan karena banyak orang yang ingin mendapatkan keutamaannya.

Beberpa keutamaan ibadah umrah di bulan Ramadhan yaitu di antaranya:

1. Setara dengan ibadah haji, umrah ketika bulan suci Ramadan sangat diutamakan. Sebab, umrah selama Ramadan menjadi jalan untuk mendapat pahala setara haji.Rasulullah SAW dalam hadis riwayat Bukhari dan Muslim bersabda:"Jika datang bulan Ramadan, lakukanlah umrah. Karena umrah di bulan Ramadan, senilai haji bersamaku. (HR. Bukhari 1782 dan Muslim 1256).

2. Membuka pintu rezeki, dengan beribadah umrah di bulan Ramadhan, umat muslim akan lebih khusyuk beribadah dan berdoa untuk membuka pintu rezeki.

3.  Memberikan Pengalaman Spiritual yang Berbeda karena melaksanakan sahur, berbuka puasa, hingga salat tarawih di Masjidil Haram. Bahkan, Rasulullah pun menempatkan ibadah umrah ketika bulan puasa sama dengan ibadah haji bersama Beliau. Sebagaimana diriwayatkan oleh Ibnu Abbas r.a, dari Rasulullah bersabda:"Sesungguhnya umrah di bulan Ramadhan seperti berhaji bersamaku." (HR Imam Bukhari).

4. Meningkatkan keimanan,  Ramadan menjadi waktu yang tepat untuk berdoa sebanyak-banyaknya. Pada bulan suci ini, kesempatan untuk terkabulkannya doa menjadi lebih besar dibandingkan waktu lainnya.

5. Mendapat pahala lailatur qdr yaitu pahala seribu bulan saat beribadah dan lailatul qdr turun.

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Syarat Umrah di Bulan Ramadhan

BaligUmrah di bulan Ramadhan menjadi impian banyak umat muslim karena memiliki banyak keutamaan.

Apalagi banyak yang bilang bahwa umrah di bulan Ramadhan bisa meningkatkan kekhusyukan dalam berimabah.

Apalagi jika umrah di bulan Ramadhan dilakukan pada saat 10 malam terakhir di bulan Ramadhan.

Seperti kita tahu bahwa di 10 malam terakhir bulan Ramadhan ada amalan yang sangat luar biasa yaitu pahala beramal di lailatul qdr yang jika mendapatkannya akan mendapat pahala seperti beribadah selama seribu bulan.

Oleh karenanya banyak yang ingin mendapatkan keutamaan lailatul qdr dengan melakukan itikaf di masjid.

Dengan melakukan ibadah umrah di bulan Ramadhan diharapkan akan lebih banyak berdiam diri di masjid dan melakukan banyak ibadah sehingga mendapatkan pahala yang berlipat ganda.

Namun ada syaratnya lho umrah di bulan Ramadhan, apa saja syaratnya?

Umrah di bulan Ramadhan dilakukan selama 18 hari dengan syarat-syarat yang bisa mengikuti umrah di bulan Ramadhan yaitu:

1. Beragama Islam

2. Baligh dan berakal

3. Merdeka

4. Kesanggupan tidak hanya dari segi finansial tapi juga dari kekuatan fisik karena umrah di bulan Ramadhan memerlukan kekuatan fisik yang lebih karena pastinya beribadah umrah sambil menjalankan ibadah puasa pasti akan lebih berat.

Demikian syarat umrah di bulan Ramadhan, semoga membuat kita semakin semangat untuk menjalankannya.

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A Quick Guide toUnderstanding QSFP28 LR4 Optical Transceiver

There is no denying that the 100G data center optics market is accelerating, which leads to the great demand for 100G optical transceivers. Among all the 100G optical transceiver modules, the QSFP28 LR4 optical transceiver is the most preferred type. It is small in size, has low power consumption, high density, and high speed. This paper will provide you quick guide to understanding QSFP optical transceivers.

What is a QSFP28 LR4 Optical Transceiver? 

QSFP28 LR4 is a hot-pluggable, 4-channel, and full-duplex optical transceiver designed for optical communication applications. It is compliant with 100GBASE-LR4 of the IEEEP802.3ba standard.

How Does QSFP28 LR4 Optical Transceiver Work?

QSFP28 LR4 optical transceiver converts 4 input channels of 25Gbps electrical data to 4 channels of LAN-WDM optical signals and then multiplexes them into a single channel for 100Gbps optical transmission. At the receiver side, the module de-multiplexers a 100Gbps optical input into 4 channels of LAN-WDM optical signals and then converts them to 4 output channels of electrical data.

The central wavelengths of the 4 LAN-WDM channels are 1295.56,1300.05, 1304.58, and 1309.14nm as members of the LAN-WDM wavelength grid defined in IEEE802.3ba.The high-performance cooled LAN-WDM EA-DFB transmitters and high sensitivity PIN receivers provide superior performance for 100Gigabit Ethernet applications up to 10km links and are compliant with optical interface with IEEE802.3ba Clause88 100GBASE-LR4 requirements.

Features and Benefits

QSFP28 LR4 optical transceiver provides the following features and benefits:

Hot pluggable QSFP28 MSA form factor

Compliant with IEEE 802.3ba 100GBASE-LR4

Up to 10km reach for G.652 SMF

Operating case temperature: 0~70C

Transmitter: cooled 4x25Gb/s LAN WDM TOSA (1295.56, 1300.05, 1304.58, 1309.14nm)

Receiver: 4x25Gb/s PIN ROSA

4x28G Electrical Serial Interface (CEI-28G-VSR)

Single 3.3V power supply

Maximum power consumption 4.0W

Duplex LC receptacle

RoHS-6 compliant

Applications

QSFP28 LR4 optical transceiver is used in 100GBASE-LR4 ethernet links, Infiniband QDR and DDR interconnect, client-side 100G telecom connections, data centers, high-performance computing networks, enterprise core and distribution layers, campus networks, etc.

Conclusion

QSFP28 LR4 optical transceiver is used with single-mode fiber optic cables and duplex LC connectors and can reach a maximum transmission distance of 10km. It has low power consumption, small in size, and is easy to install and deploy. Sun Telecom specializes in providing one-stop total fiber optic solutions for all fiber optic application industries worldwide. Contact us if any needs.

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Paige King Johnson’s Acoustic Video For Christmas Single “Santa Train” Is Available Now

Country music singer-songwriter Paige King Johnson is excited to release the acoustic video for her new Christmas single “Santa Train,” just in time for the holidays! Johnson’s roaring version of this bluegrass classic paints a portrait of small-town America during the Christmas season that brings excitement to the festivities during this particular time of year. The “Santa Train” acoustic video was premiered by The Dr. Ward Bond Show and is available on all digital platforms now! Listen/Stream/Buy: orcd.co/PaigeKingJohnsonSantaTrain2022 “Patty Loveless’ voice has always been a favorite of mine & “Santa Train” has always been at the top of my Christmas playlist,” shares Johnson. “I was so excited to be releasing my own rendition that it only felt right to record an acoustic video as well. This version of the great bluegrass “Santa Train” has all the energy & joy that Christmas brings for me, and I hope it brings that to everyone who listens!” Paige King Johnson’s Famous Enough was recently named the #1 Independent Female Record and #5 Independent Record on Music Row Radio Charts. Famous Enough was the first single from her long-anticipated album, Honky Tonk Heart, which is available now from PCG Records/BFD/Audium Nashville. The music video was directed by Grand Ole Opry member and country music legend, Pam Tillis, which showcases her God-given vocals with every note, painting a portrait of contentment that most of us strive for and never achieve. “Famous Enough” was premiered by CMT.com and Heartland TV and was recently the top 5 streamed song on Play MPE. Johnson has partnered with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture as their Musical Ambassador for the Got to Be NC campaign. She recently performed at 2022 Got To Be NC Festival, playing her popular songs and crowd favorites including “Homes in The Hometowns,” a recent single serving as the anthem for the Got to Be NC campaign. Paige is also in the midst of carrying out the first-ever NC Ag Star Talent Competition in connection with Got to Be NC. The North Carolina Ag Star Homegrown Voice Talent Search finale will be announced soon. For more information on AgStar, visit HERE. To view the AgStar feature on Fox News Digital, visit HERE. To view Johnson’s feature on Newsmax visit HERE. Paige King Johnson On Tour: DEC 18 – QDR Acoustic Christmas for the Kids of UNC Children’s / Raleigh, N.C. (w/ Scotty McCreery, Kylie Morgan, Cooper Greer, Jason Adamo, and George Birge) JAN 19 – Headquarters Bar and Beer House / Angier, N.C. JAN 20 – Champion Autism Network Fundraiser / North Myrtle Beach, S.C. JAN 21 – Carolina Country Music Awards / North Myrtle Beach, S.C. JAN 24 – Boardwalk Billys / North Myrtle Beach, S.C. JAN 26 – The Laughing Owl Restaurant / Goldsboro, N.C. JAN 27 – Smoke and Barrel / Sanford, N.C. FEB 03 – N.C. Songwriters Round / Cary, N.C. FEB 04 – Pinehurst Brewing Company / Pinehurst, N.C. FEB 15 – Boardwalk Billys / North Myrtle Beach, N.C. FEB 17 – Trali Irish Pub & Restaurant / Raleigh, N.C. To keep up with everything Paige King Johnson, visit HERE and follow the socials linked below. About Paige King Johnson: Born in a quiet North Carolina town just 22 miles south of Raleigh, as a young 9-year-old girl, Paige King Johnson spent her summers under the crepe myrtles imitating the styles of Loretta, Patsy, Waylon, and Merle. Having a grandpa as her biggest fan also meant receiving the gift of her first guitar – a baby Taylor – and enrolling in lessons. As she grew older, Johnson added “opening act” to her resume, supporting chart-topping artists like Scotty McCreery, Neal McCoy, and James Otto. Upon starting school at Belmont University for Music Business, Johnson honed in on the magic that had heavily influenced her as a child: the art of storytelling through songwriting. The famous Bluebird Café was just one of many writers’ circuits around Nashville that provided a safe space for Johnson to meet other writers. In the last four years, Johnson has traveled back and forth between Nashville and the Carolinas, playing shows like the North Carolina State Fair and running her dinner theater, Country on the Outskirts of Town, that she founded in high school. Johnson’s quarterly show provides an atmosphere for locals to enjoy Southern cooking, fellowship with friends, and the sounds of classic and current country music with some gospel thrown in. A three-time Carolina Country Music Awards Winner for Female Vocalist of the Year, Country Emerging New Artist, and Tour of the Year, Johnson’s devoted homegrown fan base continues to expand farther than just her backyard. For more information, visit paigekingjohnson.com. About PCG Records: PCG Records is an independent record label in partnership with the Artist. PCG records will be distributed by Bob Frank Distribution (BFD) and Sony Orchard (The Orchard). The Orchard is the top music distribution company in the industry which reaches digital and physical retailers worldwide. PCG Records offers label services including digital experts who specialize in best practices for social media marketing, advertising, sync license, video monetization, music streaming, performance rights, and much, much more. Collectively, PCG Records and the Orchard industry pros, empower artists to connect with fans across the globe. About Bob Frank Distribution (BFD): Bob Frank Distribution (BFD) was formed in 2013 as a boutique independent music distributor with a global sub-distribution arrangement with The Orchard. BFD currently represents over 50 companies and artists with thousands of masters including Righteous Babe, Blue Hat, DPTV, Astor Place Recordings, Big Deal Records, Once Upon A Time, Node Music, Silva Screen, Woodward Avenue Records, The Atlantic Screen Group (Filmtrax), REMT, Pra/Bad Dog, UFO, as well as artist-owned labels and catalogs including Crystal Gayle, Dale Watson, Dave Davies, Mark Collie, Darryl Worley, Lee Roy Parnell, Trini Lopez, and Charlie Daniels. About the Got to be NC Agriculture Program: Got to Be NC is an initiative on behalf of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services to promote North Carolina agricultural products and goods. From its beginning in 1985, the brand has always supported North Carolina’s diverse agriculture economy through education, engagement, and promotions. Our initiatives are designed to increase consumer awareness of local products, leading to increased sales and continued growth for North Carolina’s food, fiber and forestry industries. The program has adapted and evolved along with the global agriculture market and provides support to an industry that serves the world and touches all lives. For more information, visit gottobenc.com. Suggested post: .@paigekjohnson releases new acoustic video for #Christmas single #SantaTrain premiered by @DrWardBondTV. Listen/Stream/Buy: orcd.co/PaigeKingJohnsonSantaTrain2022 Read the full article

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Memories of "Gold"

I wrote this piece, inspired by the death of John Stewart, just a week or so after I wrote the Dan Fogelberg piece that’s published immediately below this one. The artists died a month apart – Fogelberg on December 16, 2007 and Stewart on January 19, 2008 – so it’s fair to presume I was already in that sentimental headspace. But while my time as a rock radio DJ is a side note in the Fogelberg piece, the Stewart piece is all about radio, really, about what his death reminded me of: my nascent days as a rock jock, at the time maybe two-and-a-half years into the business, at most.

That sentimentality is in large part why I’m quite fond of this essay. It’s one of the most stream-of-consciousness, easy-to-compose pieces I’ve ever written, so clearly when I wrote it I was missing the time it describes.

I still miss that time, and the kind of radio that cranky old bastards like me made back then. The kind of fiercely passionate, poetic, open-armed radio that was the norm, back in the day.

Don’t get me started. Hope you enjoy the piece.

Chris

It was probably 1980, although it could have been 1979. The album, Bombs Away Dream Babies, was released in 1979, and I was a freshman at East Carolina University in the fall of 1979 and that’s when I first remember hearing it. So it was probably around then.

I could have heard it on any number of radio stations, but I probably heard it first on WQDR in Raleigh, NC, back when it was one of the Southeast’s pioneering album rock FMs, the first station Lee Abrams consulted, the one that put the Superstars album rock format on the national map. ‘QDR in my memory was glorious, staffed by laid-back jocks who sounded stoned and probably were. When I think of it, I invariably envision Q-SKY, the fictional West Coast album rocker from the 1978 radio fairy tale movie FM. ‘QDR might have been nothing like that in reality, but who cares about reality?

I visited WQDR once, before the owners flipped it to country in 1984 while it was still at the top of its game. I don’t remember why or how I got in there, but there I was. Just a couple of years a jock myself then, standing in WQD-F****n’-R.

All I remember is that the lights were low and the hallway walls were carpeted (I think) and hung with gold records – Clapton, Tom Petty, Heart, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Eagles, The Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan.

I swear you could smell the pot smoke soaked into the shag, or maybe that’s just a wanna-be memory, too. It was exactly what I wanted it to be. It was cool as hell.

WQDR was the big badass regional rock FM and if you didn’t listen to it, you weren’t shit. If you didn’t have a ‘QDR bumper sticker stuck somewhere – on your car, a college notebook, a guitar case, the side of your stereo receiver – you weren’t shit. And if you heard a song or album on ‘QDR, it was officially OK to buy it. Hell, it was mandatory.

Yes, radio really did use to be that way. Good radio.

And WQDR is where I first heard “Gold,” by John Stewart. Like I said, I could have heard it anywhere.  It reached #5 on the Billboard all-genre Hot 100, so damn near everyone played it.  But in my heart, I heard it on ‘QDR.

I heard it in the evening, in the sultry Carolina summer, when the dusk was just breaking the day’s heat but not the humidity, and walking from the campus dorm to The Attic nightclub downtown sometimes meant arriving soaked with sweat, stoked for that first beer.

I heard it coming out of open car windows as they idled at the light, frat-boy drivers leaning right to snog their sorority chick add-a-bead squeezes in the brief space before the green.

I heard it on my roommate Shawn’s killer Realistic stereo, the biggest system on our dorm floor, the one on which we listened to Styx and Queen and America and Supertramp and Zeppelin and Carlin and Pryor and Firesign Theatre and Monty Python and Holst and Wagner and even Flatt and Scruggs. And WQDR, whenever we weren’t playing albums.

John Stewart died on January 19th. He was 68 and he’d evidently been ill for a while. I’m no expert on his career so I won’t even try to comment on it here, other than to note that he was a member of American folk greats the Kingston Trio, that he wrote the Monkees hit “Daydream Believer,” and that he spent his later years, his post-“Gold” years, writing hits for other artists, mostly folk and country.

John Stewart was also tight with Fleetwood Mac, Lindsay Buckingham in particular. Stevie Nicks sings the harmony on “Gold,” and it’s said that the song was inspired by Stewart’s friendship with Buckingham. It fits. The song could’ve been a Fleetwood Mac song, easy, with Buckingham singing it instead of Stewart. And it had that Southern California mellow rock feel that you could still find on American album rock radio then, but that was already on its way out.

Joe Jackson, The Police, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Dire Straits, The Ramones, Marshall Crenshaw, XTC, The Fixx, Pretenders, Elvis Costello, The Cars, Peter Gabriel, Squeeze, Gary Numan, the B-52’s. Lots of folks with skinny ties and spiky hair were turning up on album covers and though lots of stations hated it, album rock radio was changing. Just a year or two later and “Gold” might not have been a hit at all, and I might never have had the chance to play it as a young punk jock, just a year into the business, playing the songs that I’d first heard on ‘QDR. Playing the regional bands too: Glass Moon, PKM, The Brains, The Fabulous Knobs, Super Grit Cowboy Band, Mike Cross and others I can’t begin to recall.

I wasn’t nearly as cool or polished as the ‘QDR jocks but hell, I was spinning the tunes, the songs I heard them play. Although the walls of our little radio station most certainly did not smell of pot. You had to go back into the production room for that. Or the air studio, after hours.

So I was sort of fringe cool. And it was enough. I mean, c’mon. I was a rock radio DJ. You get automatic cool points straightaway for that. Or used to, at least. Back when having the right radio station bumper sticker on your car was akin to a political statement.

John Stewart has died. I read the news and pow, there I am, back in time, quick as a sneeze. Cuing up vinyl on the clunky Russco turntable, looking out of the big street-level studio window into the dusk, at couples walking glued to one another, hips riding together in easy synch, hands slipped into one another’s back jeans pockets. Cigarettes on the broadcast console, spliff burning in the ashtray and the big studio monitors going bump-buh-BUMP-buh bump-buh-BUMP-buh with that bass line shuffle as I start the song, turn down the program master on the old Gates board and answer the request line.

All of that, from one song. It’s not exactly tea and biscuits with Marcel Proust, but it’s good. It is very, very good.

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