) Maintenance of lower frequencies of certain musical instruments like guitar, piano, and bass.
c) Strong, even and dynamically constant quality of sound that brings about a certain depth making it sonorous.
The audio compressor audio effects impart a unique flavor and a wonderful effects to the sounds we hear almost daily in the broadcast industry. The richness and density in the voice quality of announcers has much more to it than seems to our ears. It owes a lot to perfect equalization and intense dosage of compression. The effects of strong compression are often felt prominently while watching a program on the TV, when the loud volume of advertisements acts as a bolt from the blue. The whole idea is to cram the maximum level of signal into a narrower range, to vie against competing stations in terms of a higher levels of volumes..<gh_stars>0
import Airtable from "airtable";
import {
  array,
  decodeType,
  field,
  Pojo,
  record,
  string,
} from "typescript-json-decoder";
import { unique } from "./utils";

export type Skill = decodeType<typeof decodeSkill>;

export interface Field {
  name: string;
  mentorSkillId?: string;
  seniorSkillId?: string;
  skills: Skill[];
}

export const decodeSkill = record({
  id: string,
  field: field("Field", string),
  name: field("Subfield", string),
});

export function decodeFields(value: Pojo): Field[] {
  const skills = decodeSkills(value);
  const fields = unique(skills.map((s) => s.field));
  return fields.map((field) => ({
    name: field,
    mentorSkillId: skills.find(
      (skill) => skill.field === field && skill.name === "_mentor"
    )?.id,
    seniorSkillId: skills.find(
      (skill) => skill.field === field && skill.name === "_senior"
    )?.id,
    skills: skills.filter(
      (skill) => skill.field === field &&!skill.name.startsWith("_")
    ),
  }));
}

export async function loadAllSkills(): Promise<Field[]> {
  const apiKey = process.env.AIRTABLE_API_KEY as string;
  const base = new Airtable({ apiKey }).base("apppZX1QC3fl1RTBM");
  const results = await base("Skills").select({ maxRecords: 200 }).all();
  const recordsWithIDs = results.map((record) => ({
    id: record.id,
   ...record.fields,
  }));
  return decodeFields(recordsWithIDs);
}

const decodeSkills = array(decodeSkill);
The first, I do not know. Politics? Efficiency? Having a crosstrained lab/x-ray personnel probably makes more sense than having two people to do those jobs, especially at a site where the workload is less? But I may be reaching. I don't know of any lab in the city that hires CLXTs though, and I've been employed by three hospitals in the region as well as a brief stint at Dynalife.

My understanding (again, not CLXT myself) is that the training is quite similar, but CLXT includes Xray, (MLT does not), while MLT includes transfusion medicine (CLXT does not, or includes much less emphasis in this area). Rural hospitals have very minimal blood banks and rely on Canadian Blood Services for more complex transfusion testing.Hollywood has seen legends such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Peter O’Toole giving everything they have in their movies for the sake of entertainment for millions of people yet they have never won the most coveted prize of their careers: the Academy Award. On the other hand, Hollywood has also witnessed many celebrities who won the Oscar when they worked in a specific field for the very first time. The following list chronicles those valiant and talented celebs who won Oscar on their first attempt:
15. Delbert Mann
Before stepping foot in the film-making business, Delbert Martin Mann was a television director behind the 1953 teleplay Marty. After the well-received reception of the teleplay, Mann considered the idea of a film-adaption and eventually turned the idea into a reality.
Starring Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair, the film-adaption was Mann’s very first motion picture project and much to the surprise of the film industry, Marty amazingly garnered eight Academy Award nominations; winning four for Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Motion Picture and of course Best Director for Mann.
14. Mercedes McCambridge
Died a decade ago, Mercedes McCambridge is best known among the current generation as the voice of none other than the demon Pazuzu in the perhaps the most beloved horror movie of all time The Exorcist. Apart from being a Hollywood starlet, McCambridge made quite a name for herself a radio and stage actress.
Once she set the goal of entering the glamorous world of Hollywood, she starred as Sadie Burke in Robert Rossen’s 1949 drama film All the King’s Men.
Nominated for seven Academy Awards, the movie won three including the award for Best Supporting Actress for McCambridge – a great start for her nearly four-decade movie career.
13. Diablo Cody
Having the distinction of being one of the very few celebrities who won an Academy Award on their very first attempt, there is one controversial back story of Diablo Cody which separates her from every other entry on this list: an early career as a stripper in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
As strange as it may sound, she shared a passion for writing as well and wrote for a few blogs, magazines and newspapers as well in her free time.
Impressed with one of her blogs about stripping, Los Angeles based talent manager Mason Novick persuaded her to write a screenplay for the comedy-drama film Juno.
Despite being a comedy movie, Juno was nominated for four Academy Awards and won just one: Best Original Screenplay for the stripper-turned-writer.
12. Haing S. Ngor
Among the Asians who have won the Academy Awards, the Cambodian American actor was the very first one from his nationality who won the prestigious award for Best Supporting Actor in his debut performance as the Cambodian refugee Dith Pran in The Killing Fields. Similar to his character, Ngor was an actual survivor of Khmer Rogue’s labor camps.
Haing never acted before in his entire life, his casting was a mere stroke of luck as the movie’s casting director Pat Golden noticed him at a wedding and chose him as one of the most vital characters.
Proud of his unexpected win, Ngor exclaimed to People magazine:
“I wanted to show the world how deep starvation is in Cambodia, how many people die under Communist regime. My heart is satisfied. I have done something perfect.”
11. Harold Russell
Apart from Haing S. Ngor, Harold John Russel is the only non-professional actor who has won the Academy Award. A Canadian-American World War II veteran who lost both of his hands, director William Wyler saw him as a perfect choice for the role of sailor Homer Parrish in his drama film The Best Years of Our Lives.
The casting resulted in a Honourary Academy Award at the beginning of the ceremony for “bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans”. That was just the beginning of his stardom as later in the night, Russell won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; the only time an actor has won two Academy Awards for the same role so far.
Realizing that there “weren’t many roles for actors without hands”, Russell went back to Boston University and successfully graduated with a business degree.
10. Timothy Hutton
Young, down on his luck and tired of having minor roles in ordinary television films and plays, Timothy Hutton attempted to break into the Hollywood business as he was cast as a supporting character in Robert Redford’s American drama film Ordinary People.
It takes sheer talent to pull off the role of a post-traumatic stress disorder patient yet Hutton gave an incredible performance.
Winning four Academy Awards including one for Best Picture, it was Hutton who was the man of the hour as he not only won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor but established himself as the youngest winner of the category at the tender age of 20.
However, fate was never much kind to the promising star after the big win as Hutton returned back to television roles; most notably being the TNT drama series Leverage.
9. Kevin Costner
If there is one word that best describes the magnitude of Kevin Costner, it is “multi-talented”.
While the present generation may only be familiar with him for his role as Johnathan Kent – the adoptive father of Super-Man from Man of Steel – they would be surprised to know that there is much more than acting as far as the man’s occupations are concerned as Costner is also a director, philanthropist, businessman, and a country musician.
Stepping his foot in the entertainment world in the year 1974, Costner has more than fifty movies under his name and is pretty much a decent actor at best. Having never won the big one, Costner decided to pursue other ventures in his field and