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New Occupational Health Hazards Emerge in Unconventional E&P
In 2010, the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) launched the Field Effort to Assess Chemical Exposures in Oil and Gas Workers to determine the chemical exposure risks workers faced during drilling, completions, and servicing operations. So far the agency has identified a number of chemical compounds and substances that carry significant exposure risk, particularly in unconventional exploration and production (E&P).
At a presentation hosted by the SPE Gulf Coast Section's Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and Social Responsibility (HSSE-SR) Study Group, Bradley King discussed some of these risks, as well as other research NIOSH has performed as part of the its field effort. King is an industrial hygienist at NIOSH and is a commander in the US Public Health Service.
One of the first areas NIOSH researchers examined was the exposure of respirable crystalline silica dust during hydraulic fracturing operations. The agency conducted exposure assessments at 11 hydraulic fracturing operations in five states. Full-shift exposures were found to exceed occupational exposure criteria set or recommended by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), and NIOSH.
King said the best way for companies to limit exposure is to incorporate controls wherever possible, focusing on the sources of silica dust like thief hatches on sand movers. Onsite dust control measures may include changes in storage, handling, and delivery of proppant; the use of ceramic or coated sand proppant; dust collectors with filters; or a personal decontamination booth.
Regardless of the control, King said it was imperative for companies to ensure its reliability by examining data collected from the field.
"There are controls being developed, and our best recommendation is to do your due diligence. When looking for a type of control, make sure that whatever control you're looking at has had the data collected to show that it's actually doing what it says it's doing," King said.
Another issue addressed under the field effort is worker exposure to hydrocarbon gases and vapors during manual tank gauging operations. NIOSH identified a series of worker deaths in the US connected to the inhalation of volatile hydrocarbons, with nine deaths coming during a 4-year period. Each fatality was traced back to an incident at a crude oil production tank, either through a tank gauging operation or sampling.
King said there were a number of other factors that could have contributed to the fatalities, from a rising rig count to the use of traditional work practices. Current methods for manual tank gauging and thieving may be inadequate to handle the increased exposure to hydrocarbon gases that results from a higher rig count. In addition, King said the US Environmental Protection Agency's Quad-O regulation may have also helped increase worker exposure to hydrocarbon gases.
"The Quad-O standards made sure there was very little release of hydrocarbons from tanks, but in doing that they increased the amount of pressure of these hydrocarbons in the tanks themselves, so when the thief hatches are open, there is a substantial amount of hydrocarbons opened in that period of time," he said.
Additional factors from project sites may also increase worker exposure to hydrocarbon gases. NIOSH grouped these factors into three categories: the characteristics of produced fluids from the reservoir, such as fluid temperature, location, and composition; environmental factors such as temperature, wind speed, and wind direction; and the operational factors such as the locations of various tanks on-site.
"In many of the ways these tanks are situated, they're all interconnected, so if those tanks are not isolated prior to opening the hatch, you get a lot of vapor and gases that are collected coming from that thief hatch," he said.
King said NIOSH's primary recommendation for reducing exposure is for companies to develop alternative tank gauging procedures that eliminate the need for workers to mount tanks and physically open them. He said there are a number of reliable procedures. BHP Billiton, for example, created a video that discusses how it came to implement a control system and the hazard reduction it has seen as a result.
Some of NIOSH's other recommendations include improved hazard communication between company management and workers, a reduction in the number of times workers manually gauge tanks, proper use of multigas meters, and even standing upwind of a thief hatch opening.
Equinor Plans Extension of Statfjord Field
The plan will extend production of the largest field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf to 2040, while also deferring plans to decommission the Statfjord A platform. Statfjord A was originally scheduled to be decommissioned in 2022.
Water Desalination Applications in Shale-Gas and Polymer EOR Produced Waters
Oil and gas extraction using water has opened up new hydrocarbon resources. However they can produce four times more salty water byproduct than oil. Desalination in shale gas and polymer-flood EOR remain niche markets for lowering cost and improving production.
Wood To Modify Platforms for Equinor's Floating Wind Project
As part of the contract, Wood will provide the topside modifications needed for the Snorre A and Gullfaks A platforms to integrate the Hywind floating wind park with existing systems powering the facilities. The platforms will be the first to receive electric power from floating wind turbines.
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Do you have a child that delays his or her homework from the time they get home from school until about nine or 10 o'clock at night? If so, you may be the parent of a child who has a preference for conceptual thinking.
How do you handle this situation? "You must become their green." Green is the color on the Emergenetics model that represents structural thinking.
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A rookie goaltender is trying out for a hockey team. The pucks are lined up and shots are ready to be taken.
The first puck is shot down the ice. The goalie leans left. Knocked down. Save!
But only one section of the crowd goes wild.
That's not because the other sections fell asleep. It's actually quite the opposite. Everybody is out of their seats and moving around, despite the fact that there isn't a single hockey player on the ice.
That rookie goalie isn't real at all, he's merely a videogame avatar displayed on the Urbandale Centre's giant screen above the rink, being controlled by the entire crowd. And those quieter sections? They failed to stop the puck and gave up the goal.
It's between periods at an Ottawa 67's junior hockey game and everyone is playing Save!, a casual hockey videogame running on the Vision Interactive system from CrowdWave.
This gaming platform works by using a series of high-resolution cameras placed around the arena to capture crowd movement and convert it into gameplay. In Save!, sections of the crowd are pit against each other trying to make the goalie stop as many pucks as possible. If enough people in a section move their arms to the right, that's where the goalie goes and vice-versa.
"It's a videogame where the crowd is the controller," says Ottawa 67's Vice President Randy Burgess.
Motion-controlled games have been around for quite some time, peaking in 2006 with Nintendo's release of the Wii. Both Sony and Microsoft have made their own entries into the motion gaming market with the Move and Kinect respectively, but while these systems will be set up in living rooms, the Ottawa, Ontario-based CrowdWave has brought a similar experience to arenas.
The Vision Interactive system made its debut on home ice October 2009 and had its first away game a few months later when it was picked up by the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team for games at the Quicken Loan Arena.
There, sections of the stadium would compete against each other at a variation of Dance Dance Revolution called Dance Off, played by having spectators wave their arms around in the directions shown on the giant screen.
The system can also be used to take a poll of the crowd through movement to find out, for example, which highlights fans would like to see replayed or which player was the crowd favorite at that point in the match. Venues can also use the technology to compile data on which sections of the game had spectators moving and cheering the most.
A lot of computing power is required to perform the analysis of high-res video and calculate the average crowd movements that make the system work. In that sense, CrowdWave's development was helped out by the constant decrease in the price of computer hardware.
"I don't think we would've been able to do this three years ago and have it be economical," says CrowdWave president and founder Mark Edwards.
The story behind CrowdWave begins in 2007 when Edwards, a former lawyer and animation producer, started up Bent 360: Medialab Inc. (of which CrowdWave is a division) as a branded entertainment firm. Edwards quickly realized the market had become quite competitive and he'd need a unique product to differentiate his new venture.


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By combining communication skills with experience from stuttering, Filip has inspired thousands of employers, leaders and students to overcome the challenge and fear of public speaking and how to optimize pitches, speeches and presentations techniques.
With his personal experience with bullying, Filips also holds inspirational talks for high schools, companies and universities on the importance to make benevolence and kindness a priority in human communications in order to both reach greater personal and career success as well as to chance the world for the better.
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Poor pay will scupper new GP minor surgery target
GPs have denounced a new Government target for practices to carry out up to 285,000 more operations in the next three years.
GPC members said continuing acute GP shortages and derisory funding for minor surgery as an enhanced service meant GPs either could not or would not do the work.
Under the Department of Health plan announced last week, the extra operations would be split between GP surgeries and outpatient clinics. A spokesman said local negotiations would be held to agree how many cases GPs would be expected to handle.
The shift is aimed at covering a 17 per cent rise in NHS non-urgent operations by 2006, as predicted by the 28 strategic health authorities in their local development plans for the next three years.
Dr Julian Neal, chair of the GPC primary care development sub-committee, said much of the funding for the minor surgery enhanced service had already been spent by PCTs and would not tempt GPs to do the work.
'I am very sceptical that enhanced services will be successful,' he said.
'Almost three-quarters of the £350 million is already in the system. If the funding can be found there is nothing
to stop GPs with special
interests from doing it, but if the money can't be found I would advise GPs not to take part.'
Under contract proposals, GPs would be paid between £150 and £350 for a session of minor surgery as a directed enhanced service.
GPC negotiator Dr Peter Holden said he doubted trusts would shift money from secondary care to fund the work. 'The bottom line is, no new work with no money,' he added.
Dr Rob Barnett, a member of the GPC primary care development sub-committee and secretary of Liverpool LMC, said the department needed to clarify which procedures could be safely undertaken by GPs. He added: 'When we get the civil servants opting to have these procedures done on themselves in the community we will know it's safe.'
The department pledged 100 new diagnostic and treatment centres would be open by 2006 to handle some of the operations.


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Marc Marquez tops timesheet on opening day of 2015 testing
With 30 riders featuring on track, the full 2015 MotoGP grid were all in attendance other than Pramac Racing rider Yonny Hernandez who should return from injury at Sepang 2. Five test riders from the various factories also gathered data for their respective manufacturers.
Repsol Honda's double MotoGP™ World Champion Marquez recorded his best time on the 62ndof 63 laps, whilst his teammate Dani Pedrosa was 0.483s behind in fifth place. Pedrosa had a crash late on at turn nine without consequences.
HRC have arrived at Sepang with numerous bikes for the factory riders and their test riders to use – 2014 machines for comparison and 2015 prototypes for development. Marquez's timesheet-topping best effort was 0.024s quicker than his fastest lap on the first day of testing last year.
In second place on Wednesday was Movistar Yamaha MotoGP's Valentino Rossi (2'00.380), with the Italian and his teammate Jorge Lorenzo on similar YZR-M1 prototypes to those they tested in November at Valencia. Yamaha continue testing a shorter exhaust pipe, this time featuring a grill covering the air exit, with a view to avoid flame escapes and prevent the entry of gravel and debris.
There was also a special new 'winter' helmet for Rossi featuring snowflakes and reindeers, neither of which are likely to otherwise feature at Sepang this week. Lorenzo was third fastest, 0.141s behind Rossi.
Meanwhile Rossi and Lorenzo's Monster Yamaha Tech 3 colleague Pol Espargaro showed good pace in sixth despite an early light crash as he begins his second year in the premier class. Espargaro's teammate Bradley Smith lapped further down the timesheet in ninth. Yamaha test rider Katsuyuki Nakasuga also crashed unhurt in the morning.
The new CWM LCR Honda team duo of Cal Crutchlow and Jack Miller got down to work with their RC213V and Open spec RC213V-RS packages, finishing the day 10th and 19th respectively. Miller focused on adapting to the Magneti Marelli MotoGP electronics package – the Australian aiming to achieve better performance with traction control, whilst for Crutchlow the test is simply about reacquainting himself with his new factory machine.
Estrella Galicia Marc VDS Team's Scott Redding also got plenty of laps in on the RC213V factory prototype, finishing the day 11th.
Ducati Team's Andrea Dovizioso and his new teammate Andrea Iannone used a GP14.3 – an update on the GP14.2 which features some visually different aspects and electronics upgrades. The new Ducati GP15 is due for delivery for Sepang 2, later in February.
Dovizioso was fourth overall with a 2'00.617 best lap time, nearly two seconds quicker than on the same day of action at the same test last year. Iannone tried a new front fairing and finished the day seventh.
The Factory Aprilia Gresini pair of Alvaro Bautista and Marco Melandri (15th and 26th respectively) worked hard on their new machines – with pneumatic valve engines – after test rider Michael Laverty carried out an early morning shakedown on the Italian brand's evolving prototype.
There was an early mechanical fault for Bautista on new Aprilia and he needed a push from Suzuki test rider Nobu Aoki – who was watching trackside at turn 4 – to get restarted.
Aleix Espargaro appeared not to be held back too much by a knee ligament injury sustained over the winter as he and MotoGP Rookie Maverick Viñales got back to work on the Suzuki GSX-RR. Espargaro ran off without major consequence at one point and ended up 14th – just under two seconds down on Marquez. Viñales lapped just under a second behind his new colleague in 21stplace on the timesheet.
Suzuki also have a shorter exhaust pipe for testing and their factory riders only got started once test rider Takuya Tsuda had given the bike a shakedown early on.
In the absence of Pramac Racing's Hernandez, Michele Pirro (12th) worked on electronics for Ducati using the GP14.2, whilst Danilo Petrucci (13th) worked with the GP14.1 using Open software.
Avintia Racing's Hector Barbera (18th) and Mike Di Meglio (23rd) got used to the new Open Magneti Marelli software, as will all the riders using the new electronics package this season. Improvements to traction control and anti wheelie settings should assist the riders with their performances and set-ups.
NGM Forward Racing pair of Stefan Bradl and Loris Baz (25th) made progress on the Open Yamaha, with German Bradl impressing in eighth overall as the fastest Open rider – 1.294s off Marquez's pace. Bradl had some electronics issues earlier in the day and was only able to produce a fast time after 5pm.


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Saigal, Chirag (2013) Reaction Sintered Zircon-Dolomite Compositions for Insulating Refractories. BTech thesis.
Insulating refractories are used to increase the thermal/fuel efficiency of high temperature processes. Higher degree of porosity and pores with uniform size and even distribution increases the insulating properties of a refractory material. Zircon and Dolomite are used as raw materials for preparing of insulating bricks because their mixture, when sintered results in making of a highly porous material with good strength. Also, since no combustible material (pore formers) is used, the process of manufacturing do not results in formation of any harmful gases and thus is environment friendly. Densification studies like Apparent Porosity and Bulk Density of the fired samples was done. Cold Crushing Strength was also determined. Phase analysis was done by X-Ray Diffraction method to get an idea about various phases of Ca-Si-Zr-Mg formed after sintering. Microstructural analysis on the fractured surfaces was done by Scanning Electron Microscope to observe the pore morphology and distribution.
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Dance, Theatre & Games
One of the reason I enjoy reading Ngakpa Chögyam (NC) is that I resonate with many of the images he uses. In this post I link to several Triangulation posts which perhaps illustrate that resonance — that yuan.
In chapter 1, "Limitless Dance", NC describes Tantra as a "florid, fecund and fiery dance" (pg 29). The Dance reminded me of one of the gods on my Atheist altar , Shiva — the Lord of the Dance.
If I have a non-Buddhist, inner theist self, he would look toward a monkey-god deity like Shiva. In his ecstatic dancer form (Nataraja), Shiva is oblivious to the details of the world. His dance both indiscriminately creates (Lasya) and destroys (Tandava) — to me it declares a beautiful roadkill theology. Yes, 'beautiful' because it is what is! I see specialness in the mundane and find glory in insignificance. Saying life is a game, is a positive statement for me.
Having done acting when I lived in Japan, I thoroughly enjoyed a theatre analogy NC made on page 33 where he writes:
The theatre provides a form for the formlessness of not knowing what's going to happen next — but life doesn't seem to provide that. The theatre and the theatrical performances that occur can be understood as the structural back-drop for uncertainty [emptiness]. You don't mind the uncertainty because you have the definition of being a spectator — of being part of an audience. But who are you when the theatre is the entire context in which you find yourself? … What happens is: you experience emptiness.
Though I meditated and was sympathetic to much of Buddhist thought, before reading David Chapman's site "Approaching Aro" and then NC's writings, the Buddhist theological notion of "Emptiness" was not inviting. In his theatre analogy, NC tells us that tantra is the ability to experience emptiness as exhilarating and to know its inseparable (non-duality) with "Form". These are not terms I would have used before, but when understood in the Aro sense, they resonate with what I understand with games, dance, theatre, insignificance and yuan — my mind's familiar tromping ground.
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Pharma industrialists demand rise in drug pricesJanuary 20, 2015
KARACHI: Chairman of Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA) Saeed Allahwala has demanded to increase prices of medicines in Pakistan.
Addressing a press conference at a local hotel Wednesday, said that 61 percent of top 28 selling medicine brands are cheaper in Pakistan as compared to India and even Bangladesh. However, 39 percent of these top selling brands are a costlier in Pakistan than in India.
He said government should focus on four major initiatives to develop pharmaceutical sector. It should be reformed and rationalized to support public health and industry performance, and incentives be offered to invest in FDA-quality plants to gain access to largest export markets. Contract manufacturing should be allowed without limitation and the government should set high and uniform quality standards.
He further said that there is misconception about pharma industry that it is earning huge profits. "Some people claim that drugs in Pakistan are costly as compared to India but in fact, 61 percent of 28 top selling pharmaceutical brands are cheaper here than India and even Bangladesh. Only 39 percent of these top selling brands are a bit costly than India which in not a big issue.
He said pharma industry is in dire need of raising medicines prices to be saved from more losses. He said after 2001, the cost of production and utility services, transport and other expenses has now risen by 300% but ironically the government has done nothing to address this grave situation. Since 2001 to 2013, cost of general items is increased by 467 percent, fuel and lighting 53, transportation and communication 90, non-food items 63, groceries like flour 338, sugar 155, petrol 230, fresh milk 538 and chicken price is increased by 316 percent. Now, owing to this situation how this industry can survive without price rationalization, he asked.
Referring to Pakistan Business Development Plan and National Trade Corridor Sector Strategy report launched by Planning Commission of Pakistan, he told that pharma companies have seen low declining profitability leading to lack of investment in FDA certified plants.
There are 90 FDA certified plants in India while Italy has 40. China 22, Taiwan 10, Bangladesh 4, Jordan has three, such plants but unfortunately Pakistan has not a single plant which is certified by FDA. Since 2006 to 2008 profitability percentage of Glaxo Smith Kline is decreased from 22 to 14, Abbott Laboratories Pakistan 23, to 6, Wyeth Pakistan Limited 20, to 10 which depict the actual picture of business environment. There is a global ratio of pharmaceutical profitability of less than 30 percent which can only be dreamed by us, he lamented.
Due to pricing issue, availability of essential drugs in Pakistan is becoming a grave issue. Percentage of availability of essential drugs is 65 in public and 95 in private sector in Tunisia, 50% in public and 90% in private in Sudan, 28% in public and 80% in private in Jordan, 18% in public and 5% in private sector in Kuwait, 8% in public and 73% in private in Yemen while this is just four percent in public and 25 percent in private sector in Pakistan.
He said that about 100 pharmaceutical factories had been closed during 15 years and it was feared that more would face closure. "Five lacs people are directly linked to this industry. The delay in the price raise will cause further shortage of medicines in the market and ultimately sale of substandard and smuggled medicines will get a boost, which will endanger the health of millions of patients in the country."
He appealed to Prime Minister, Finance Minister and Health Minister to ply their due role to increase the prices of drugs for ending crippling crises hitting pharmaceutical industry hard and save it from heavy losses.
Mohammad Zakaurrehman, Chairman Price Committee, Dr Shaikh Qaisar Waheed, Chairman Media Committee, Syed Haroon Qasim and other PPMA members were present in the occasion.
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This may be the most important story I've written. In The Wired CIO, I speak of the wonders of technology for business excellence, and the need for today's IT leader to transform business. Yet, not all is so well in the world. Human trafficking exists for forced labour and sexual purposes. Trafficking is a big business model and enslaves and holds captive real, live human beings. It can only be described as evil.
The Global Emancipation Network, or GEN, is a non-profit organisation committed to the fight against traffickers, leveraging big data to unite international partners and law enforcement in this fight. It's no hyperbole to speak of trafficking as "big business"; it brings in roughly US$150 billion annually, according to the International Labour Organisation. Around 21 million women, children and men are trafficked annually, but fewer than 50,000 of these victims are identified and rescued.
Human traffickers in developed countries such as the United States and Australia are keeping up with technology to increase their revenue and stay one step ahead of law enforcement. They use the marvels of the Internet to find and groom victims, to transport them, and to advertise their services. Yet, this same technology can be used against them.
GEN was founded by Sherrie Caltagirone, who told iTWire the threat intelligence and security community is a small one. Caltagirone knew Monzy Merza, Splunk's Head of Security Research, who was working with Splunk Pledge's Corey Marshall to identify the right partner for Splunk's non-profit commitment. "Not just a partner, but the right partner," Caltagirone says, "someone doing something tangible."
Thus, GEN signed up with Splunk Pledge for education credits, expertise and licensing. "We hit the ground running," Caltagirone says. "We brainstormed, flew out to Seattle and put the plan together."
GEN describes itself as the global clearing house for trafficking intelligence, and its mission as facilitating communication and technology-sharing initiatives between anti-trafficking organisations.
Specifically, GEN collects data from the open Web, the deep and dark Webs, and anywhere it thinks trafficking is happening in all its many forms. The organisation looks to find patterns in the data - perhaps the same phone number appearing at the same time in different places, or maybe where a dark web screen name is used on public Internet social sites. All of this effort works towards GEN's mission – to identify and rescue every victim, to identify and stop every trafficker.
Much of this data may be seen as disparate or useless in isolation, but by correlating all this information together through big data analytics GEN is able to identify human trafficking activity and rings and to work with law enforcement in real time to act fast in tracking them down.
As well as its software, Splunk brings its smarts and its people. Merza has applied his learnings from cybersecurity practices — whether using machine data to detect ransomware or other anomalous activities — to get crafty to identify these traffickers and make this data usable to non-data scientists, like police and detectives. Data analytics are used to find correlations in advertisements and phone number origins. GEN's Splunk system is connected to the law enforcers' text message systems so they can be alerted in real time.
"The other thing that's really important to GEN," Caltagirone says, "is people can use their skills for good. People have their day job but then can use their skills for human impact. Not just with trafficking, but to other non-profits.
"People in the tech sector with cyber-threat backgrounds or web developers and coders can help us at any time. We have tonnes of projects. I love watching the light bulb click when people can apply the same skills they use during the day to a different problem. Really, it's the same methodology to hunt traffickers as it is to hunt hackers."
"We believe everyone has the responsibility and the ability to end human trafficking."
Caltagirone's background has been in legislation, drafting anti-trafficking laws, and sought to identify metrics to measure impact. It struck her there was no easy way to measure success. These ideas percolated with her and she realised sharing data made the most sense, leading to the creation of GEN.
It's no easy task. Countries around the globe have a wide range of attitudes towards trafficking. Some will do anything to tackle the problem while others are closed. Additionally, the European Union mandates any personally identified European information must be hosted in that region.
Despite obstacles and compliance overheads, GEN remains undeterred in its mission. "Sharing data helps find the victims and find the traffickers. The more I share this, the more the walls come down," Caltagirone says.
"The number of victims ranges from 20 million to 46 million," she says. "There's no hard data to back any figure up, and there is no repeatable methodology. Every single report that comes out identifies the magnitude of the report, but can't say with authority if there are more men or more women, or more labour or sex trafficking."
In fact, in this arena, the only number which can be taken as credible is the 9,000 convictions recorded each year.
Historically, data sharing problems and technology limitations have hindered collaboration and precision in reporting, so Caltagirone sought to launch GEN akin to a technology startup, seeking to measure success from the beginning.
"Using these methods coupled with Splunk we have brought about world change already," Caltagirone says. "We just completed an investigation that identified 167 users in a small area. This is now in the hands of law enforcement."
In this domain, a "user" is someone who is engaged in trafficking activities. "One example is an escort review forum, a place where people buying sex can review providers. Each user has an account. Our goal is to find the traffickers, seeking attribution, names, addresses and other information, enriching it with public records. We can find the same user handle in the open web," she says.
Trafficking and exploitation of people is not confined to remote, far-flung third-world countries. "Australia has a trafficking problem," Caltagirone told iTWire. "It is a transit and destination country, and sex tourism takes place from Australian nationals to South East Asia."
"Trafficking is going on under law enforcement eyes. Corruption is a big issue we face from the ground up."
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German automaker Mercedes is known far and wide for the reliability and safety of its high-end automobiles. But the manufacturing behemoth recently issued a pair of recalls over safety issues that will undoubtedly concern consumers.
Honda recalls vans with dangerously faulty sliding doors
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Google has announced an end to older versions of Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Sheets and Google Slides starting April.
"This month, users of these legacy versions will begin seeing the below prompts to upgrade. Please note that after March 1, some users with very old versions will be forced to upgrade when they receive the prompt." Said Google in a statement
Google has asked users to download and install the latest versions of the apps with an assurance that corresponding web and desktop applications will not be affected by the change. On most devices, you can find an app's version type in its settings menu. Here is a list of versions to be cut off…
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In addition, google has also put to rest Google Contributor which launched in 2015. The service which enabled users to pay a small amount of money to see fewer adverts on AdSense shut down in Mid-January as had been. Google promises to launch an alternative to the services early this year-a promise all previous users are eagerly waiting for.
In an effort to focus the use of its social applications Allo and Duo, google is disabling the hangouts API from April 25TH. However, this may backfire as studies show alienation of the users to other social interaction platforms like WhatsApp and Messenger. Google has reaffirmed future support for major applications that use the hangouts API like Slack, dialing to call and hangouts on Air tools.


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The Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) has released a monitoring report indicating people with intellectual and developmental disabilities living in the Richmond State Supported Living Center (SSLC) remain at high risk for abuse and neglect due to the facility's continued noncompliance on basic health and safety provisions.
More than two years since the implementation of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) settlement agreement with DADS, which was established to ensure residents' mental and physical health and safety, the Richmond SSLC was found to be compliant in only 27 of 171 provision areas, a mere 16 percent of all areas. Further, during the six months between reports, the Richmond facility actually lost compliance in a provision area related to protection from harm – abuse, neglect and incident management.
The DOJ settlement agreement delineates specific deadlines by which compliance must be met for each of the 171 provisions, ranging from 2009 through 2013. These deadlines require the Richmond SSLC already to have met standards in 140 provision areas; the facility was found to be out of compliance in 113 of those provisions, resulting in noncompliance outside of settlement agreement deadlines in 81 percent of those areas.
The following significant failures were reported at the Richmond SSLC:
- A lack of timely, accurate and thorough assessments is a pervasive problem at the facility that merits immediate attention, as careful assessments lay the groundwork for all protections, supports and services to be provided.
- Monitors found that acute and chronic medical conditions are not being addressed in accordance with appropriate standards of care.
- Monitors found poor oral hygiene at the living areas and that often oral hygiene has not been provided for several days or more.
- Staff did not implement proper physical and nutritional management plans or display safe practices that minimize the risk of decline in these areas, resulting in increased risk for choking/aspiration.
- Most investigations of non-serious discovered injuries reviewed by the Monitoring Team were insufficient in scope and depth to ensure all instances of abuse and neglect are discovered and reported.
- Relative to psychiatric care, in many cases, records did not indicate how and why the psychotropic medications used were part of a resident's treatment plan. Further, in psychiatric clinics, medications were not linked to specific behavioral characteristics of proposed disorders.
- During the review, monitors were unable to confirm that staff is adequately trained in the use and assessment of restraints. Further, nursing staff did not consistently or correctly monitor individuals in chemical or medical restraints.
- Health assessments were not consistently conducted in response to changes in health status, and both routine assessments and assessments for chronic conditions were not comprehensive.
- Monitors found that progress towards credentialing behavior analyst staff had "stagnated."
"The Richmond monitoring report shows severe gaps in the facility's ability to meet the health and safety needs of residents," said Beth Mitchell, supervising attorney for Disability Rights Texas, the federally designated legal protection and advocacy agency for Texans with disabilities.
"The Richmond facility's lack of progress is unsettling given how little time it has left to gain compliance," Mitchell added. "To date, the facility remains outside the compliance deadline in 81 percent of all provision areas. It is unimaginable that the facility will make the necessary protections, supports and services improvements by the mandated DOJ deadlines."
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One of the great ironies of Greenbuild is the disconnect between the myriad of "green" products and the anything-but-green booths in which companies show their wares. In relief to the candy-colored plastic and vinyl clad arrangements, Construction Specialties used a low-tech paper tower to show off their high-tech green chemistry. By putting the message of sustainability in materials first, CS gets our nod as the best booth at Greenbuild 2013.
After seeing a few football fields worth of fancy booths touting everything you can think of in the building world, the sparse accordion folded paper tower was a simple but effective presentation. The low-cost material was also very lightweight, cutting the embodied energy and transportation cost to nil. Posters were attached using presentation clips in the back and magnets on the front. Just a few of their products were on display, but having a large open area was a relief on the crowded floor.
The real story, though, is that materials count. Construction Specialties makes products like hospital doors and bumpers, floor tiles and sunshades, but with their emphasis on Cradle to Cradle certification, and removing PVC from their healthcare products, they are a leader in green chemistry. Now that C2C products can achieve points in LEED 4.0, we want to see a lot more manufacturers make the same effort in having safe materials be standard.


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"And there came a spaceman and he said, lo, Elvis has left the Inn – and the star is now hovering above the X Factor studio where Three White Toothed Men and Two Wise Women hold vigil."
By far one of the silliest stories I read this week concerned the near-demise of the traditional school nativity.
I take such stories with a hefty pinch of frankincense because so much is laid at the door of political correctness or the elf and safety lobby or UKIP trying to catch us all napping.
But this was down to an online survey by parenting website Netmums. A particularly irritating pop up advert for Strepsils on one tabloid website – rivalled only by those "what do you think of our website?" surveys which appear three seconds in - tested my patience (click, off, click, off, click, off, CLICK OFF!) until I finally managed to determine 2,000 parents had been quizzed.'
Journalists like terms such as quizzed. You don't get questioned, you get quizzed. Your specialist subject is Nativity Anno Domini … is it zero or one?
And your next question is: if Herod wanted all potential candidates for Messiah killed off at two years old and under, why do some historians say he died in 4 BC? Wouldn't it be AD? Or am I suffering attention deficit?
The nativity is confusing enough without 'contemporary' versions featuring spacemen, fairies, Frankenstein, aliens, Elvis, Frozen's Elsa singing "Let it go" (for pity's I wish they would), snowmen singing "Let it snow" and even a retelling of the story modelled on The Apprentice.
Now there's a first…Sir Alan, I invested the gold, flogged the myrrh and frankincense down at the Inn, got some insider tips on fracking from the Wise Men, did a deal with one of the shepherds (the one washing his socks because they stank so much) over a pint and sank the prophets, sorry profits, into a nice new sheepskin coat for you. Am I hired?
Other mums in the survey tell of kids turning up for the nativity dressed as sprouts – or pumpkins.
I get a bit sick of sweeping generalisations when it comes to surveys. You know the kind of thing – 50 per cent of women (based on a sample group of 12) say they would rather date a shepherd with stinky socks than discuss cosmology with a Wise Man called Hawking.
But 2,000 is a fair enough figure on which to base such assertions as "only a third of schools stage a full nativity" and "one in eight schools drop the religious references".
Nativity, for the record, doesn't have to refer to the birth of Jesus Christ. It quite simply means the occasion, or circumstances of birth, any birth.
Indeed, I could talk of my nativity, having been born at midnight so no one knew whether I was full of woe or had too far to go. I'd argue both apply. Auntie Gladys turned up and declared I was a "plain child." You were no oil painting yourself, auntie. And the Three Wise Grans (one of them a wannabe) dutifully turned up bearing gifts of second-'hand' terry nappies, teething gel and Farley's Rusks, to which I developed a lifelong addiction.
Unsurprisingly, a cursory glance at the coverage reveals that 99 per cent of headline writers (based on perilously few because they are more endangered than nativities) went for the same heading: "No room at inn for baby Jesus."
My god, it's taken them more than two millennia to catch up with that story…
So days after learning Monty Python's Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (from Life of Brian) has toppled Sinatra's My Way as top funereal song choice, we learn the Messiah, in school nativity terms, really may be a very naughty boy … dressed up as Olaf, the snowman from Frozen.
Or Elvis. It really is time to leave the building. The cold never bothered me anyway.
Play your cards right to help local charity
This is an unashamed plug for a worthy cause…
The only financial association I have with Cards for Good Causes is the £9 I spent on two packs of cards there last weekend.
The only local charity involved appears to be Trinity, as ever. There are local branches of many of the other 34 charities featured. Each charity gets about 70p of every £1 after production and distribution costs are paid.
It is the ultimate pop-up shop and has been long before we called them such. Few pop up shops sell anything of real substance but Kathleen Smith's pop-up shop sells Christmas cards.
The profits go directly to charities supported by the Cards for Good Causes organisation.
She'd probably like me to list the charity number but I'm not risking another "what do you think of our website" pop up advert to check it out.
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Athanasius Kircher was a true Renaissance man, a polymath. A biography of him, published in 2004, was subtitled The Last Man Who Knew Everything. Kircher, a Jesuit scholar who was born in Geisa in what is now Germany, lived from 1602 to 1680 and made important contributions to a wide range of fields. He wrote pioneering studies of Egyptian hieroglyphics and China; had himself lowered into the crater of Mount Vesuvius to better understand volcanoes; used a microscope—one of the first to do so—and suspected the link between microorganisms and disease; taught mathematics and physics; and built a magnetic clock, projection devices, and other technological marvels of his age.
The library, which holds many of Kircher's eclectic writings, recently acquired a copy of the first edition of his Musurgia Universalis, the first comprehensive encyclopedia of music. Published in 1650, the work contains a wealth of information on music theory and composition in the Baroque period and influenced the work of Bach, Beethoven, and many other composers and musicologists.
The Musurgia also contains music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which, at the time, had not appeared elsewhere, along with musical notations of birdsong and one of Kircher's own musical compositions. In keeping with Kircher's wide-ranging interests, the work also focuses on the technology of music. It includes illustrations of ancient instruments and discussions of acoustics and hearing, along with plans for musicmaking machines, many of them Kircher's own invention.
A masterpiece of bibliographic beauty as well as musicology, the Musurgia contains more than twenty large engraved plates and many tables, diagrams, and pages of musical notation. Kircher's works often benefited from, and even required, such complicated presentations of image and text to explain his ideas, making them beautiful objects as well as repositories of research and knowledge.


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A Quick Run Down of Today's Headlines
Whenever any big news item happens, I like to visit some of the major news websites. They will all be reporting the same thing, but it's always interesting to me to see how they phrase their main headline and how they approach the subject.
As of noon, Eastern Standard Time, here are the headlines taken from the homepages:
NY Times: "G.O.P. Takes House as Voters Divide Power
Republicans Fall Short of Controlling Senate; Many Centrists Are Defeated"
CNN.com: "GOP soars to historic victories, falls short in Senate"
Christian Science Monitor: "Obama, GOP leaders face the press for election post-mortems"
NPR: "GOP Declares A New Morning In America"
The BBC: "Republicans to fight Obama agenda"
ABC News: "VOTE 2010: Shell-Shocked Dems Ready to Move On After Staggering Loss"
FoxNEWS: "Now What? After stunning GOP victory, Obama speaks today about the new balance of power."


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Since 1935, Social Security has been a factor in an American's plan for retirement. Since 1954, people have also assumed the program would provide a livable wage if they became too disabled to support their families. However, in the current age, there is deep concern among Americans that Social Security will no longer be a realistic option for either financial situation.
Many people think the large number of Baby Boomers (the generation born in the years after World War II) reaching retirement age is stressing the Social Security System, allowing the system to go bankrupt. However, the actual problem with funding is the drop in the birthrate around 1965. Women began to average only two children a piece instead of three. In other words, instead of three workers feeding into the Social Security system, now only two worders pay into it, bringing revenues down.
The Social Security Administration says that the Social Security Disability Insurance program is increasing in costs and declining in income, threatening insolvency in 2023. At this time, the fund will only be able to pay out 89 cents for every dollar owed. Actuaries predicted these shifts and no agency made the financial adjustments necessary.
The possibility of Social Security actually being totally defunded by Congress is unrealistic because politicians are, well, politicians. The fact that a large portion of the American voters depend on their Social Security income to retire or to support them in case of disability is never far from the minds of representatives and senators. It should be noted that Social Security is not a budget line item and that even administrative costs are cover by citizen contributions.
"Members of Congress like to get reelected, and if Congress voted Social Security out of existence, the likelihood of its members getting reelected would probably not be very good," explained Stephen Goss, chief actuary of the Social Security Administration.
The responsibility of saving Social Security Disability lays on Congress. Several of their options include:
· Altering the benefit formula or eligibility rules, ensuring that fewer people qualify for SSDI benefits,
· Increasing the share of payroll taxes that go directly into the Disability Insurance Trust Fund as they did in 1994 when the SSDI fund faced insolvency,
· Raising overall payroll taxes,
· Increasing the tax base, allowing FICA to be based on more than the first $118,500 of earnings.
About one out of every three SSDI recipients is already living below federal poverty level. A cut in the scheduled benefits could mean very significant financial hardship for disabled people who depend on SSDI to protect them and their family from financial ruin. Whatever the solution chosen, there is no question that Congress must act to protect its citizens who have paid into this system with faith it will be there when they need it.
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Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is so impressed with the natural beauty of Koh Chang he wants the island to become a popular eco-tourism destination like Phuket.
Gen Chaisuek Ketudat, inspector-general of the Defence Ministry, said the prime minister became fascinated with Koh Chang's beauty during a personal trip to Trat province.
Gen Chaisuek was assigned to select and oversee 50 army generals from those who applied to join the prime minister's advisory staff at Ban Phitsanulok. Mr Thaksin wants the advisory team to promote tourism in military areas and specifically promote Koh Chang.
Some of the military advisers would be assigned to deal with complaint letters sent directly to the prime minister and about 4,000 messages sent daily through the premier's website.
The generals would begin work at Ban Phitsanulok from Nov 1. The selection process would be completed this week and those selected would undergo a three-day training course before being assigned to various duties.
What no-one knew at the time was that members of the government had already snapped up a lot of land on the island prior to the decision to develop it. The first luxury resort, Aiyapura, allegedly indirectly owned by PM Thaksin, opened in mid-2002.


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Antique English Stained Glass Window
This stunning stained glass window has a mixture of blue and red stained glass with etched glass centre panels.
The frame surrounding the stained glass is pine.
Condition Report
In excellent condition, no cracks and the frame is sound. The reverse of the glass panes requires new putty.
Date of Manufacture
Circa 1880
Materials and Techniques
Handcrafted, Etched, stained and bevel cut glass. Pine.
-Wear consistent with age and use
-Minor Losses, scuffs and scratches.
Height 120 cm
Width 55 cm
Depth 10.5 cm
Weight 16 kg
Price: £845.00
Provenance: Yes
Stock No: 25002


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3 Tips from Someone With Experience
Factors to Consider When Choosing Furniture.
Home and office furniture are very important dcor for your house as they define your quality of life. Furniture is important as it enables you to live comfortably. Beds, tables, and chairs are the most common furniture installations you will find in any home. Here are some guiding tips you need to keep in mind when choosing furniture.
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As you choose furniture for your premise, you need to look into the material used to make the furniture. Natural materials such as wood and metal are the most common structural materials while synthetic materials such as fiber glass, plastic, and acrylic are becoming very popular for cheap furniture. Wood and metal based furniture are the best as they have long lifespans and are easy to repair as compared to the artificial ones. It is also recommended that you maintain uniformity of the materials you choose for your premise or for each room. Hardwood furniture is more durable and for this reason, ensure that you pick tables, beds, and chairs made of hardwood furniture.
The fabric colors and material used in the furniture such as sofa set and dining set chairs is also an important consideration you need to keep in mind when making your choice. It is highly recommended that you choose furniture fabric colors which are in line with the theme colors of the room you are looking to have them installed on. If you have kids, choose a material which is easy to clean and go for a material which doesn't catch animal fur if you have a dog or a cat. Leather is a great material for both of these scenarios and it is also durable.
The prices placed on the different furniture installations is also an important factor you need to take into consideration. The best furniture is the highest priced ones as their quality is high and they give you value for your money through the long time frame they serve you without the need for repair or replacement.
The last thing you ought to do is ensure that you purchase the furniture from a reputable furniture seller like Matt Blatt. With a reputable furniture seller like Matt Blattyou are guaranteed of getting quality and durable furniture installations.


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NEW DELHI: India can approach the World Trade Organization's compliance panel to preempt the US from imposing trade sanctions following its allegation that India failed to comply with the intergovernmental organisation's ruling on American poultry imports, according to a senior official.
Last year, the WTO had ruled that India's ban on poultry shipments from the US was not tenable. Although India followed it up by issuing a notification on the requirements for poultry and poultry product imports from countries reporting outbreak of avian influenza, the US has been maintaining that India failed to comply with the WTO's ruling, and has threatened to use retaliatory measures against it.
Under WTO rules, any disagreement related to compliance is decided by the WTO's compliance panel.
"This is the logical step for India to show that the measure conforms to WTO (rules)," the official cited earlier said, adding that the two parties will have to ink a sequencing agreement to achieve this. The agreement will ensure that the US refrains from imposing trade sanctions on India and does not retaliate through any other route.
"It will be of mutual advantage to get into a sequencing agreement, now that the implementing measure is in place," said Abhijit Das, head of the Centre for WTO Studies at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.
As per the notification dated July 8, the government has said that import of poultry and poultry products will be allowed from countries free from avian influenza in accordance with the norms set by World Organization for Animal Health.
Apart from that, the government has issued guidelines on import. "We have sent a questionnaire to USA to know about the animal health services, legislation, poultry industry, disease, avian influenza, laboratory network, meat processing units, etc.," the official said, adding that they might visit the US to inspect the processing units.
India is the fourth-largest producer of chicken meat in the world after the US, China and Brazil, with production touching 3.5-4 million tonnes a year. Organised players like Godrej Tyson, Suguna, Venky's and Alchemist have been expanding their retail base, apart from augmenting capacities.
The per capita consumption of chicken in India has been on the rise, with eating habits changing predominantly in the metro cities.
In 2006, US-based Tyson Foods entered the Indian market through a joint venture with Godrej. In the 1980s, US poultry breeding company Cobb had a joint venture with Venkateshwara Hatcheries, which sells meat under the Venkys brand. Also, the Aviagen Group, the world's premier poultry breeder, had set up an integrated backend processing plant in Coimbatore.


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We are looking back on these incredible 10 weeks and there were so many stories that were so
much fun to create, but we picked a few to highlight in our 2018 Spark Story Book. We hope to
see you again next summer where we get to add another chapter.
Wearable Tech
Who doesn't remember the feeling of the first day of summer? It is a day so full of promise that
sets the tone for all the rest. And we started it off right by using every second. Sparklers quickly
learned about wearable technology and wasted no time applying what they learned while
creating a design for the official 2018 Spark Summer t-shirt. We loved watching each child make
their mark on this shared canvas that was worn proudly all over Lincoln every week for the rest
of the summer. Truly incredible. But that wasn't enough. Sparklers were joined by Troy and
Nick, engineers from Lincoln Electric Systems, who taught them the secrets of circuits and
helped them develop their own series or parallel circuits. Some circuits looked like sharks,
others spelled out names, but all were as individual as the kiddo who made it. Sparklers screen
printed again, but this time with the magic of electric ink they created patches they could attach
to their shirt that lit up LED's. One particularly incredible design placed two LED right where the
eyes of their cat design were. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of that one, but below are
some pics so you can see the full effect.
Analog and digital strategies - At Spark, we love giving students options when designing and
producing their projects and something we really enjoyed this week was how readily they took to
this. Many of our students used the Circuit Builder in Tinker Cad to quickly and creatively design
and test their circuits. Two of the successful Tinker Cad examples are pictured below as well as
one example of a circuit being designed with graphite. We also have final t-shirt designs on vinyl
and prepped for transfer to our screen fro printing, as well as some of the finalized LED patches.
Mass Making
The dog days of summer are in full effect, but so are the Sparklers. In fact, our K-5 group welcomed
a group of middle school students to the party and the making began. We started each day
with the BIG idea of "Make it BIG and make a LOT!" LPS high schoolers from the precision machining pathway
of The Career Academy as well as pros from local manufacturer Lincoln Machine jumped on board
with CAD skills, CNC routers, plasma cutters, and expert advice. The whole team went to work and
you can't believe what they made: a ladybug 20 times bigger than nature intended, a biplane from
paper then license plates then plywood, an owl with sunglasses, and over 30 different fan-powered
inflatables in the shape of pterodactyls,
fish, elephants, and so much more.
Animal Engineers
"Adaptations are tools that your body makes," said Emma Hazel Lincoln Children's Zoo's Animal
Manager just before the Johnny the Serval Cat leapt 10 feet in the air from a sitting position.
Johnny and the rest of the natural world guided our sparklers on their path to create new and
exciting inventions. Drawing on inspiration from observations made at Pioneers park Sparklers
dreamed up protective gloves modeled after a giraffes tongue, a hotel designed for animals, the
Split Crane (more on this below), and about 100 versions of what a "dolphin boat" might look
The Split Crane took on a life of its own after the group dreamed it up. They borrowed the idea
that a giraffe needs to splay its legs fairly wide so that it can lower itself enough to get a drink of
water and this group decided that their crane would have legs that would move apart and come
together so the crane could dig much deeper than its normal range would allow, but also lift
and dump higher as well. Below you can see the Tinker Cad model of this invention as well as a
3D printed prototype.
The Failed Dolphin Boat (pictured below) is a great example of something we talked about on a
regular basis at Spark - the difference between a failure and a first try. The group didn't even
want to attach their names to this model, but the group simply needed to build a few more
iterations of their idea before it lined up with their vision.
Beyond all the incredible projects and fact-finding field trips Sparklers also squeezed in some all out
fun with a field day (where the winners of the sponge relay got to soak a staff member of
their choice), popsicles for all, and of course, a Sparkler favorite our weekly trip to the pool.


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Of course this is all happening at the expense of UK taxpayers who have to fund the Pakistani Dream of having three wives, all of whom are cousins of each other and their husband, and their 20 kids, half of whom have severe birth defects and/or learning disabilities and criminal records for a combined total that comes out to about the cost of the Iraq War.
Muslim men in some communities are having up to 20 children each because of polygomy and the rise of "religiously sanctioned gender discrimination" under Sharia Law, peers have warned.Cameron once said that Muslims had much in the way of British values to teach the British. I didn't realize trying to sell your own wife while passing her off as a virgin was a British value. Or having 20 kids while charging the bill to British taxpayers was a British value.
Baroness Cox, a cross-bench peer, highlighted a series of "shocking" examples of the impact of Sharia law on Muslim women in Britain as she called for them to be given greater protection under equality legislation.
She disclosed one case in which a 63-year-old man tried to divorce his 23-year-old wife and arrange her marriage to a Pakistani man who needed a visa.
He asked a gynaecologist to "repair the hymen" of his wife so she could remarry, and stood to make £10,000 "for effecting the arrangement".


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The most common areas of excessive sweating are the hands, feet, and armpits. And the toxin can be used in all three areas.
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Firstly the area in question is assessed and markings made on the likely injection sites. A cold compress is applied to the area for several minutes to help numb the area and the toxin injections can begin. On average the injections are given 1cm apart and 1-2 units are injected. Given the number of units needed for good results and the large areas covered, the number of units can easily hit 50 per side. So you can imagine that this is a costly procedure costing approximately $750 per side. However the results are usually incredibly profound and can last up to 9 months before the procedure needs to be repeated.
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Our table bases comes in variety of materials like stainless steel , wood and cast iron. All the bases have nylon level adjustors to balance on uneven surfaces . These tables comes in the standard dining table height of 750 mm and 1050 mm.
various options of table top colour,material and sizes are available.
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