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Leonard Snellman, MD, FAAP
August 1, 2014
Re: De Novo, Inc. AC Cookie
Dear Dr. Stang,
I am a general pediatrician in an office based practice in Minnesota and the Vice Chief of Staff of Children's Hospitals and Clinics. I am writing this letter to express my support for the De Novo, Inc. AC Cookie. The following three paragraphs are copied from an article on Prevention of Poisoning in Children from the UpToDate subscription website (Author Nancy R Kelly, MD, MPH; Literature review current through: Jun 2014. This topic last updated: Apr 08, 2014):
Exposure to poisons is a common problem. The Institute of Medicine estimates that the incidence of poisoning in the United States is approximately 4 million cases per year, with 300,000 cases leading to hospitalization, and approximately 30,000 deaths (1]. In 2003-2004, poisoning accounted for 18 percent of all injury deaths and 10 percent of hospital discharges for injuries [1].
Poisoning is a significant public health issue for children. Each year in the United States, more than 1 million poison exposures among children younger than six years of age are reported to the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) [3-5]. In addition, approximately 140,000 to 150,000 exposures are reported for children 6 to 12 years and 150,000 to 160,000 exposures for teenagers 13 to 19 years. Because not all poisoning exposures are reported to poison control centers, these numbers are most likely an underestimate.
Over 90 percent of poisoning exposures occur in homes [3-5]. The pattern of poisonings varies by age and sex. For preadolescents, poisoning occurs slightly more often in males than females, but this trend reverses in teenagers, with slightly more than half of all poisonings in the 13- to 19-year age group occurring in females (55 percent in 2012) [5]. The majority of poisonings involving young children are classified as unintentional. In contrast, more than one-half of poisoning exposures involving teenagers are intentional (54 percent in 2012) [5]
In the past, pediatricians relied on families having syrup of ipecac available in their homes for early treatment of poisonings. Unfortunately, although well intentioned, research showed that treatment with ipecac was unsuccessful and often caused the vomiting of activated charcoal given when the child arrived at a medical facility for treatment. In a study published in Pediatrics in 2004 (Risk Factors for Emesis After Therapeutic Use of Activated Charcoal in Acutely Poisoned Children. Pediatrics, Apr 2004; 113: 806- 810), 20% of patients treated with activated charcoal in an emergency room setting vomited. One of the independent risk factors for vomiting was the use of a nasogastric tube. In addition, the American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement on poison treatment in the home (American Academy of Pediatrics: Committee on Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention: Poison Treatment in the Home; Pediatrics, Nov 2003; 112: 1182-1185), despite stating that activated charcoal "is the most effective intervention for reducing the bioavailability of ingested substances" felt that the most important factor mitigating against its use in the home is that "it is poorly accepted by young children." The policy statement also states that "Because it is often vomited and very messy, caregiver acceptance is an issue."
Thus, for me, a practicing pediatrician, I see poisoning as a very common, dangerous condition, with the most impo1tant impediment to home treatment, with the most effective intervention, being poor acceptability by children in the highest risk age range. In addition, in Minnesota, families spend large spans of time together at remote cabins, often separated from emergency medical care by large distances and long travel times. The availability of activated charcoal in a vehicle acceptable to young children will be a great advantage. The AC Cookie is the solution to this problem. Cookies are not just well accepted, but sought out by young children. They would be easily stored by parents, and because of the inherent safety of activated charcoal, would not be a risk to the child who finds and ingests them as "real" cookies. I see the availability of this treatment option as a tremendous opportunity for pediatricians and the families in their care.
If you have any questions for me, I would be happy to talk with you.
Leonard Snellman, MD, F AAP
Vice Chief of Staff, Children's Hospitals and Clinics
General Pediatrician
HealthPartners Medical Group and Clinic
- Committee on Poison Prevention and Control, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Magnitude of the problem. In: Forging a Poison Prevention and Control System, National Academies Press, Washington, DC 2004. p.43.
- Bergen G, Chen LH, Warner M, Fingerhut LA. Injury in the United States: 2007 Chartbook, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD 2008.
- Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, et al. 2010 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System (NPDS): 28th Annual Report. Clin Toxicol (Phila) 2011; 49:910.
- Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, et al. 2011 Annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System (NPDS): 29th Annual Report. Clin Toxicol (Phila) 2012; 50:911.
- Mowry JB, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, et al. 2012 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System (NPDS): 30th Annual Report. Clin Toxicol (Phila) 2013; 51:949.


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"The Un-Instagramable Self"
Northeastern Commencement Address 2019
Hello and good morning. President Aoun, members of the board, faculty, staff, and of course, graduates: it's an honor to be with you this morning to celebrate this milestone. This huge achievement. For you graduates, it's a celebration of the last several years and all the work you put in. For your parents, it's a celebration of work put in your whole lives. Maybe even before your lives. Let's take a moment, and thank them for that.
First, I'd just like to say, that my being awarded this degree for a few minutes of public speaking in no way diminishes the many years of hard work that you had to put in to get yours.
Actually, I've never given a commencement speech before. In fact, this is the largest crowd I've ever spoken to, by about ten times. You can imagine, then, that I was a little tense about it. I'm not all that much older than you, ten years maybe, and this is a scary gig. So what I did is, I looked up last year's commencement speaker to see how I would measure up. I'm a published author, with a book on the New York Times list, so, you know, I thought would measure up pretty well.
Welll….Here is what I found. Last year's speaker was an Emmy-nominated actor. Okay, that's okay I thought. Then I kept reading. She is also a sprinter, who broke several world records. Wait for it. She is also a double-below-the-knee amputee (just wait, there's more) who pioneered the technology for her own prosthesis. Which of course is now the international standard for prosthetics. It also casually mentioned that she's a runway model and was recently inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
If I were going to tailor-make a nightmare act to follow, she would be it.
I, in contrast, am not a model. I've overcome no major surgeries, and I've developed no technology to help others. My athletic abilities are pitiable, but probably better than my acting skills. Still, here I am. And you're stuck with me for the next 15 minutes.
So. Looking out at you all in your black caps and gowns, I'm reminded of my own graduation, which wasn't that long ago. I was twenty-one years old. I remember that back then I was an avid Facebook user, and that like everyone, when the ceremony ended, I uploaded photos to my page. Specifically, I uploaded three photos. One of me, standing alone, in my cap and gown. Another of me with my mother, and a third of me with both my mother and father.
There was nothing unusual about the photos. In them we were smiling, or near enough to it. In them I was just another happy graduate full of promise, embracing my happy parents. But this was a fiction, and I knew it. In fact, it was because the photos were untrue, and not in spite of it, that I wanted them online. Because they showed my life as I wanted it to be, rather than as it was.
Here are four things that I remember about that day. Four things you can't see in the photos, but that tell the real story.
Number one. That it was my first graduation ceremony. That unlike my classmates, I had neither a high-school diploma, nor a GED. I'd been raised in the mountains of Idaho by parents whose radicals beliefs meant that I had never been allowed to go to school. (I was sort of the equivalent of a kindergarten dropout.) It was a miracle that I'd made it to that university at all, let alone that I was leaving with a degree.
Number two. That although I was graduating from a Mormon university, I no longer believed in Mormonism. All of the previous year, I had struggled to hold on to the beliefs of my childhood—to the faith I shared with my parents as well as with every other person I cared about, every brother, sister, aunt, uncle, cousin. I was, at the moment I walked across the stage to get my diploma, still wondering what the loss of my faith would mean. Could I be a good person, even without my faith? It sounds strange now, but I really did think that without Mormonism, I might turn out to be an ass.
Number three. That I was alone. Although my parents are standing next to me in the picture, they had not been at the graduation ceremony. At least, I don't think they were there. I had quarreled with my father some weeks before on some point of ideology, and he had declared that he wasn't coming. That morning he had changed his mind, and he and my mother had raced down from Idaho, but they were too late. They missed the ceremony, and were, in fact, only present for the photo.
Number four. That my apartment was empty. I'd been up all of the previous night packing every item I owned either into boxes for storage or suitcases, which now sat packed by the door. I was leaving that night for the University of Cambridge in England, a country about which I knew very little.
Adding these four things together, I don't believe there was any part of my life that I felt secure in, or proud of. The prospect of Cambridge terrified me. I'd grown up in a junkyard; I felt deeply that I didn't belong in that place.
Faith was the rock I'd built my life on, and now that rock was turning to sand before my eyes.
My family was a tangle of love and radicalism and what I now suspect was mental illness. The love was real, but so were the other things, and I didn't yet know how I was going to navigate them.
That was who I was, but that is not who I uploaded to Facebook. I uploaded a happy woman, a woman who was all joy and smiles. Who was "fun." Even though I was terrified. Even though I spent most of that day just trying to get through it, and wishing it was over.
Something strange happened in the weeks and years that followed my graduation. Something bizarre. Which is that I came to think of my graduation photos as my graduation. I came to identify more with the woman in those pictures than I did with my actual self.
We humans have always struggled with two identities. There has always been a difference between who we are when we are with ourselves and who we are when we are with others. But now we have a third self: The virtual avatar we create and share with the world.
For most people, "sharing themselves" online means carefully curating an identity that exaggerates some qualities while repressing others that they consider to be undesirable. Online, no one has acne or dark circles or a temper; no one washes dishes, does laundry or scrubs toilets. Mostly, we brunch. And we take exotic, rarified vacations. We pet sea turtles. We throw ourselves from airplanes.
They are beautiful, unblemished lives. But sometimes I think that when we deny what is worst about ourselves, we also deny what is best. We repress our ignorance, and thus we deny our capacity to learn. We repress our faults, and thus we deny our capacity to change. We forget that it is our flawed human self, and not our avatar, who creates things and reconsiders and forgives and shows mercy.
But ultimately the real problem, as the writer Zadie Smith has pointed out, is that sharing a self is not the same thing as having a self. Your avatar isn't real. It's a projection. It's not terribly far from a lie. And like all of the lies that we tell, the real danger isn't that others will believe it but that we will come to believe it ourselves. That we will come to identify with our virtual self (who looks so beguiling in photographs, whose life is bright and free and literally filtered).
In this way we become alien to ourselves. Who is this person who spends so much time studying? Washing dishes? Taking care of grandma? This is not how I see myself.
I learned at my own graduation that over identifying with your idealized self is a deeply alienating experience. It is a form of self-rejection. Because what you are saying to yourself is: I'm not good enough the way I am.
So today, I would like to pause for a moment to appreciate the parts of you that you don't put online. I would like to mount a defense of them. Of your boring, internal, book-reading, dishwashing, thought-having life. Of the parts of you that can't be captured by any technological medium. It's a concept that I'm going to call "the un-instagramable self."
Here's something I truly believe: everything of any significance that you will do in your life will be done by your un-instagramable self. It is, for example, your un-instagramable self who is graduating today. I say this with confidence because I've yet to see a Facebook or Instagram account which is dedicated to photos of someone studying or attending lectures or writing essays.
All of the most substantive experiences that you will have in your life will be had by the boorish slob you are trying to edit out of existence. The you who falls in love at your dingy entry-level job will not be the glamorous and airbrushed you who will appear in your wedding photos. And parenting will be nothing like you will represent it to be online. For one thing, there will a lot more actual shit than you will ever post on Instagram. There will be sleep deprivation and petty standoffs and moments of self-doubt. But the moments of love and tenderness and belonging will touch you more deeply than anything you will find in the virtual world.
You will look wonderful in the photos you will post of you and your children. You will look wonderful because you will make sure that you look wonderful, and you will delete the ones in which you look harassed and depleted because your five-year-old woke screaming from a nightmare at 3am. You will not look wonderful as you crouch on your hall floor in stretched-out pajamas and rock your child back to sleep. You will look like hell. But you will remember the weight of your son on your chest long after the perfectly staged portraits have faded from all relevance.
And in twenty-five or thirty years, when your daughter graduates from a university, and she is sitting where you are now, and some random commencement speaker tells her to thank her Mom and Dad, she will not be thinking of your avatar—of the carefully chosen cover photo that obscures the lines in your face and the grey in your hair. She will be thinking of you. Creased and sweaty, with thinning hair and warts and liver spots and whatever other signs of decay that you've got going on by then.
So. Class of 2019. March up here, and claim your degree, and give the camera your best smile. But tonight, as you upload that photograph, take a moment to check in with your un-instagramable self—and thank them for getting you this far, and for taking you the rest of the way.
Thank you.

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I am asking this as I do not recall anyone speaking of any study to this end. Many comments about adding insulation under a house with a crawl space and the benefits of doing that. I do not recall hearing of any study or before and after type of readings.
Heat travels towards cold and radiant heat travels in every direction, including straight down. There is great amounts of discussion on the heat loss through walls and ceilings with lots of facts and figures.
I dont recall seeing any type of facts and figures like that from heat loss through the floor. Did I miss that somewhere on here?
Has anyone ever applied / installed any type of insulation under a house and gathered before and after floor temperature readings from inside the house to determine the temperature difference and energy savings??
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I just remembered seeing a report by a federal adency, many years ago, that basically said "65% of heat is lost / gained through the roof, attic and ceiling. 35% through the walls, doors and windows'.
They made no mention of heat loss through the floor.
Surely there must be other data besides that report.
Hi Hal,
Search "Basecalc basement heat loss". From memory Canada (nrcan) has/had a software for calculating heat loss through basements and now I see ornl uses the same term. But you are correct that there is a ton of data out there "somewhere".
Good morning Bud,
Took a quick look at the site and a couple others listed on the Yahoo search. I was kind of hoping to find a general or maybe generic answer like that old report I referred to. No such luck there. Most seemed to be only concerned with homes that had basements.
If we can ever say that a certain percentage of heat is lost through the floors of a home, it would surely vary a great deal depending on the climate of that area.
I have never applied the RCC that I have worked with to the underside of the wood flooring of a house. However, my counterpart in Texas had done that "A few hundred times" over the last 20 years or so. I asked what the results were and if he had any data on the results at all. He said all he had was the people saying, especially little old ladies, it made a great difference. Statements like "My tile floor isnt cold under my feet anymore", The linoleum in the bathroom and kitchen isnt cold anymore, Very comfortable now", and similar remarks.
I asked him if it made a noticeable difference in their heating bills. He assumed so but didnt know for sure because he never asked. I asked why not and he said he didnt need or want to because every residential he did led to 3 or 4 more residential calls and he didnt have time for those little jobs because of all the commercial jobs he had. "Joe, you're not helpin me here buddy!"
Painters for the East Bay Regional Park District, in the SF Bay area, coated the underside of a mobile home in the Oakland Hills. . They did a before and after test in the winter, temps in the low 40's all that week. The unit had been unoccupied for a few months and was as cold inside as it was outside. Propane heater runs full blast until the thermostat is satisfied. It took 4 hours 45 minutes to reach 72 degrees.
They sprayed the entire undercarriage and the 32 foot length of metal heating duct. They gave it 3 days to cure and then repeated the same test and temperature readings.
It only took 45 minutes to reach 72 degrees this time. That is a reduction in heater run-time of 84% .
Based on that one single application and results, I am under the strong opinion that the heat loss through the floor of a mobile home is tremendous. I am also, based on my guy in Texas statement to me, the heat loss through the wooden floor of houses is quite alot more than anyone realizes.
I would be very interested to see floor temperature readings before and after insulating the wooden floor.
With conduction that ends at the bottom of the joists and convection that is naturally suppressed due to the "warm over cold" winter condition, radiant heat loss is the only remaining path (assuming no air flow) and from articles I have read it IS substantial. I know you know this but for our readers, radiant heat transfer occurs very rapidly. The limiting factor is how fast the lost heat can be replaced via a path to the source. When a basement or crawlspace is exposed to mother earth, both the surface above and the earth are radiating energy, the cooler earth radiating less of course. It becomes the difference between the two sources that determines the basic exchange.
Add a radiant barrier and everything changes. I just went looking but have evidently deleted a reference from ASHRAE where they provided some equivalent r-values for having a radiant barrier in the floor cavities. I'll keep looking.
Also, here is a building science link that mentions the importance of radiant heat loss. Maybe they provide a reference or related document.
I found the buildingscience article interesting. Interesting that they noted the wet bottom of the fiberglass batts were caused by the humidity in the air in the crawlspace. I also found it interesting there didnt seem to a relationship there to explain why that happened.
Wet insulation is no insulation. The moisture build up in the fiberglass is due to the radiant heat energy from the floor passing right through the fiberglass and carrying the humidity along for the ride. Alway humidity in air and always air in the fiberglass.
The radiant barrier needs to be against the the wood flooring. The fiberglass is stopping some heat loss by convection, not radiation.
In the case of a Radiant Control Coting being applied to the underside of the wood flooring, it maintains an intimate bond with the wood. The floor stays warmer because the RCC stops the heat enrgy from radiating out to the ground. At least that is how they are supposed to work.
Still no before and after temperature readings of the floor inside the house. LOL Oh well! Maybe some day.
For self-heating homes I'm using an insulation board under the joists to be able to use that space as a duct space to move air to store heat/cold in water-filled pipes, it will reduce radiative losses by having two more layers of foil along with insulation and an air seal to separate basement air from the area between joists.
By doing remodels my experience in the Pacific NW is that it's typical for batt insulation to get soaked in many areas of the home for similar reasons, the dewpoint falls within the batting and moisture can migrate to that point, with the insulation board it eliminates that, true for exterior walls as well.
For my purposes the RCC will go on the insulation board not on the flooring because I want heat to transfer through the floor.
From your posts I'm still trying to figure out a thermal model, R-factor was measured but it's 0.083 or something like that and from examples it definitely reduced heat gain over white roofing paint so that's where most of the benefit was derived, reducing long-wave radiant energy transfer so what I'm working to include in the model.
The technique has changed radically and the crawl space now considered how to add thermal-mass to an existing home. The key is a layer of concrete blocks laid sideways and the holes are used as ducting so it can support the weight of the mass and is easy to install, using roof/attic heat to warm it is intended yet it's plugged into the existing heater to capture that air first and return to the rooms and back to the heater so most of the very hot air is used by the mass.
This is a lot better way since you can add more mass and engineer the amount of kJ's stored to match the heat-loss rate of the building. Other drawbacks to pipes were the costs & labor to install, difficulty sealing the space with plumbing & wiring and the weight preloads the floor so might need an extra girder.
The image is a brief summary of the idea, a bladder water tank is used as the main mass, these are available in any size & gallonage so what's adjusted to heat-loss rates. Some of the crawl space dirt is used as thermal mass to soak up what radiates down from the source by installing a layer of soil-contact foam insulation below about 18" of dirt, this increases the efficiency of the system a lot so worth the trouble and you find things from when the home was built:
Hello again Bud.
The ORNL test that determined the R rating of R-0.0083 was based on 'Thickness of the material applied'. This was a generic formula for basing the thickness of a material to determine an R- rating. For that test I applied a thickness of 12 - 15 mils if I remember correctly.
Installing insulation boards on the joists to create an air cavity, with an RCC applied to the side of the insulation board facing the wood floor? As IO understand this. Wouldnt the heat loss through the floor be a greater expense than the heat saved in those pipes? OR, are you doing that to keep the water warmer, to prevent them from freezing?
An RCC sprayed directlyu om to the underside of the floor creates an intimate bond. Now, speaking only of the coating I have worked with, an "Intimate bond" means that the RCC will penetrate into and become part of the wood. An airtight seal that stops the heat from radiating out of the floor.
Attaching insulation board to the joists surely cant make an airtight seal, I wouldnt think. How brittle those insulation boards are could make a differenced if one gets broken.
I would go with foam wrap around the pipes if your intention is to protect thm from freezing. Rcc to ther wood as I mentioned.
Dont know if this will help you or not.
Hal, Unless you are looking at some type of cantilevered overhang or 'bump out' looking for floors will not get you much. Start looking at foundations and slabs.
Hanging any type of insulation from a floor will not help much. Insulation must be in contact with the air barrier and batts must be encapsulated on all 6 sides. Gravity will pull the insulation away every time.
The software based on the DOE2 engine (almost all in use) will use this distinction, not one of floors; for the info you want.
Hi John,
Do those spec take into consideration spraying a Radiant Control Coating directly onto the wood before any other insulation? Do they consider an RCC at all? Or just some other type of radiant barrier material hung below or attached to the wood? The RCC should penetrate into the wood and become a part of the wood. It should NEVER giv up that bond, Our RCC can and has been applied to concrete slabs and works well there also.
I pointed you to possible data sources for heat loss information through the floor. I merely pointed out that foundation walls might give you a better chance at data.
Now you are asking about effects of specifications for a specific material applied to the floor. Different question. Typically, manufacturers, such as Johns Mansville or Certainteed for fiberglass insulation follow an ASTM standard and have their own products tested by an independent lab to this standard.
Beginning your data search with a source other than the manufacturer is not the best. Start there. Then perhaps you can find confirmation the testing is accurate or not accurate.
What Radiant Control Coating are you referring to? A specific brand? A generic?
Thanks for the link John.
I am the one that had to do most of the testing with the coating I have worked with for many years.. I have to refer answers I give as a generic to all RCCs but all my years of data is on one.
I had originally hoped others would join my group below and tell of their experiences with RCCs. That did not seem to be happening so I changed the name of the group to THE RCC CLASSROOM as that seemed to be what it turned into..
There are many statements there that refer to the product specifically.
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urban farmers
My wife and I recently started an organic vegetable garden in one of the communal flower beds of our suburban North Shore apartment building. We'd been talking about growing vegetables for years – owning a bit of land one of these days and producing food with it is a key goal for us. When we got back from Abu Dhabi a couple of months ago, we finally had the will and the downtime to give it a test run. The flower bed was full of compost. Summer was approaching.
There were a couple of harbingers that the garden was meant to be. A cherry tomato vine had taken over much of the flower bed during the four months we were out of town. Though it had nothing to climb on, and was just sprawling on the ground, still it had produced lots of fruit – some of it harvested by my mother-in-law, some of it still on the vine, or falling off into the flower bed. I was sorry to have to pull it out to make room for new seedlings. And among the weeds I also pulled out, I found a little nondescript cucurbit seedling right at the edge of the bed. I wasn't sure if it was a cucumber, a melon or a squash. But any of those possibilities were welcome. I left that one, carefully clearing away the long grass around it, to be the flagship seedling of our new garden. Both of these plants were volunteers – the seeds had come from the composted vegetable scraps we'd been systematically burying in the flower bed earlier in the year.
I was so happy to see with my own eyes that winter in New South Wales is mild enough that a tomato plant can grow and produce by itself. That's totally alien to my experience in New York, where the growing season runs from April to November at the latest, and there's not much for farmers to do over the winter but catch up on TV watching and go through seed catalogs. The mild climate here is one of the many reasons I migrated of course. You really can grow veggies right round the calendar here if you know what you're doing.
Which we don't, really. Neither of us have ever done this before. We both spent formative seasons working on organic farms when we were younger, and I spent ten years working in the organic produce business, but it's very different when you're growing your own.
It's not easy. The host of problems we've experienced comes across like the lyrics to a bad folk song about hard times. The roma tomatoes have blossom-end rot. The summer squash have downey mildew, and they're not pollinating. The habañero pepper plants aren't producing at all. The jalapeño plant produced one lonely pepper, now it's just sitting there. The yellow beans were attacked by slugs. The onion seedlings died a miserable death. The radishes are being eaten by… something. Seriously, I wanted to take some more snapshots to post here, but so far the outlook is pretty grim.
But some things are going well. The heirloom tomatoes (pictured) are looking great now – big green things that will theoretically be blackish-purple and juicy in a couple of weeks. A new crop of beans is growing. The herbs – basil, thyme, sage, marjoram and parsley – are really thriving in the hot weather and regularly contribute to our kitchen. Same with the rocket, mizuna and rainbow chard. And the little volunteer cucurbit has grown into an enormous vine that's taking over our front lawn. Turns out it's a butternut squash, and the fruit on it is getting bigger all the time. We'll have plenty of squash this year if nothing else. (Figures the volunteer is the one that's really producing. There's a lot to be said for just letting things happen.)
It's going to take years to get good at this – that's what everyone who knows tells us. I have such great memories of helping my grandpa with his garden on long summer days in Oregon when I was a kid. I'm not sure if it's the haze of nostalgia, but it seems the beans and tomatoes formed perfect rows of ten-foot-tall plants, and the crookneck squash and cucumbers exploded out of the ground. My grandpa had been doing it all his life. It's not going like that in our small, overcrowded garden. There are a hundred mistakes we've made, a hundred tricks we haven't learned yet.
But it's amazing how satisfying it is, how it makes me feel like myself, how quickly the stress melts away and I get into my right mind when I'm down near ground level with the skinks and the ladybirds, weeding or mulching or just observing the plants. I mean to spend the rest of my life doing this. Even if it has to be part-time.
Once I thought I wanted to move to the country and become a farmer – get back to the land and get off the grid. It didn't take me long to realize I have a lot more city in me than that. I just don't want to be that far away from all the fun and the danger and the film festivals. Not yet anyway. At this point I think I'd be happy with a kitchen garden on a half acre. And maybe some chickens, like my mate who lives in downtown Denver. But this is the point I'm coming to: you can do a lot with that – you can grow a lot of food on a little bit of land.
I've always struggled to incorporate the different elements in my life: music, writing, film, a love of history, a love of everything nautical, a strong belief in organics and sustainable living, vegetarianism, a commitment to spiritual living, a passion for baseball. At times I think I just have too many influences. Sometimes the lifestyles that spring from these interests seem to contradict each other. How does playing funky urban beats fit in with growing food?
Well, the phrase I had stuck in my head as I was thinking about this entry was urban farmers. That happens to be the name of a house music production and remix crew from England; they released a couple of my favorite late-90s jams on the 20:20 Vision label, including this one:
I have no idea why those guys chose the name Urban Farmers. Might've just been random. But the point is it inspires me.
Then there's the Rurals, a house-music collective from Devon, England led by a husband-and-wife team who live and produce music in a farmhouse in the country. They've made a career of incorporating pastoral concepts and imagery into their projects (contrary to the hyper-urban or futuristic motifs that are the hallmark of electronic music), naming albums Farmyard Flavours, Nettle Soul and Farming Grooves. The sleeve design of Messages, with its birds and bees and floral patterns in a tribute to old-school printmaking, is one of my favorites. (It was done by Studio NMO.)
So it doesn't have to be either/or. Anyway I'm starting to realize that the so-called contradiction between urban and pastoral urges in my life could represent possibilities for integration, mapping the way my life can fit into a sustainable future. I can take what I've learned about organic growing and apply it to city living. You could say this is a necessity. The world's population is urbanizing at a crazy pace; farming is going to have to become more urban to keep up with it. This is the crucial next step in the local food movement.
Take a walk around the neighborhoods of the North Shore and you'll see plenty of gardens, some of them pretty ambitious – beanstalks or cornstalks towering over the fences. It's not a new idea. People have always loved growing a couple of tomatoes and some basil with their extra garden space. But I think more systematic, widespread and large-scale food growing in the city and suburbs should be considered. The population density of greater Sydney is skyrocketing. Suburban living as we think of it, with its wasteful and selfish tendencies, won't work anymore. Nor is crowded urban living desirable for anyone. Medium density is the way forward. We're already seeing it in classically suburban Lindfield: apartment blocks are replacing detached houses in some places. The paradigm is shifting.
Integrating urban food production into the region's economy seems to me a great solution for this medium-density, mixed-use future. Increasing the land's productivity, reducing supply lines while decreasing fossil-fuel use, making food a more immediate and involved experience for more people: win, win and win. It will be especially important here in Australia, the nation with the most urbanized population on earth. Much of this continent is not suitable for growing food, and the little that is has often been mismanaged and damaged. (This issue is tackled in Jared Diamond's Collapse, which I just finished reading.)
But think of all the fertile land that exists in the suburbs. It's like a huge untapped growing region made up individual plots of land. Most of it being used to grow lawns. But there are alternatives. Recently my wife visited a home not far away in posh, über-suburban Killara that had a huge and very productive garden taking up the entire backyard, with a chicken coop on the side.
And growing food is something everyone can do. As much as I'm going on about the problems I've had, it's not something you need a degree or a certificate in. It's part of everyone's heritage. And it's something you can do while also having a job and having a life. We just have to find the collective will to make it practical and desirable for more city and suburban people to do it – in backyards, in containers, on rooftops, in little flower beds like ours.
So, yeah. Urban farmers. The other day I was in Hyde Park (in Sydney's city center) and noticed a container flower bed full of vegetables: kale, chard, lettuce and lavender. Purely for ornamentation you know. But just think of how much food we can produce like this when it comes down to it. It's gotta be another sign.


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I spotted this clutch from CC sky on eLuxe a while a go. For those who don't know what eLuxe (formerly known as dealuxe) is, I would say they are the Canadian equivalent of a net-a-porter. They have reasonable shipping fees; basically it's free with an order of at least $25, free returns, and best of all there are no astronomical duties to pay (cough cough US)
I really don't need another clutch but I am stalking this and waiting for it to go on sale, it's the only way I can justify the purchase.
Are you curious?
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There is something about the hot neon pink, I don't know why, but when I first laid eyes on it I was like "I want..." It may be due to the fact that I have an upcoming wedding to go to, and this would be the perfect pop of color if I do decide to go with a black dress.
But I feel like because it is a hot neon pink bag, it's such a in the moment trend item that they only way I can even justify the purchase is if I can catch it on sale.
The more sensible choice would be this:
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But the hot neon pink one still lingers in my mind.
Should I be safe and go with the blue or be daring and go for the hot neon pink?
Let the stalking begin.
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Whitfield Street Space is a unique ground floor, blank canvas showroom event space based in Central London, W1, 3 mins walk from Tottenham Court Road Underground Station. Available for dry hire and ideal for Press Shows, Product Launches, Photography Shoot, Samples Sales, Business Seminars & Presentations.
Whitfield Street Space has ground floor access, ideal for loading and unloading.


text: Have you heard of EWG, the Environmental Working Group? This website is a great resource for looking up products and finding out their toxicity levels. You can look up brand name personal care products, foods and more. Then pick one that safe. EWG is also a great source of research articles.


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The Isle of Stories weekend was humming with activities for all ages from Shakespeare on the Beach to a massive community lunch at the Community Village Hall. As part of the Festival Team we were delighted to welcome visitors and families from all over Kintyre and further afield. Achamore Gardens provided a beautiful site for AWA's curated line up for Isle of Stories Festival 2017 with storytelling sessions and workshops by Storytellers Amanda Edmiston and Eric Brennan in the Walled Garden and Botanical inspired arts sessions with AWA in the the Gardens Education Hut.
AWA would like to say a huge thank you to all those who helped make the Festival possible; the staff, parents and children of Isle of Gigha School, Achamore Gardens Staff and our wonderful storytellers! We are delighted to announce that we helped the Isle of Gigha School Parent Council raise £854.75 for the Isle of Gigha School Fund. Isle of Stories Festival was brought to you by Isle of Gigha School, Amy Wilson Arts, Achamore Gardens and the Scottish Book Trust.


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After hearing from Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Lloyd Doggett, and dozens of others that Obamacare will save us all, we have nothing to fear from it, everybody wants this, and whatever other talking points they have on a particular day, I decided that my blog (with its incredibly tiny sphere of influence) needed to point to some actual truth about it. Let's face it: people on both sides of this have made some pretty absurd statements.
But here is some truth, as disclosed by CNN, of all places: you'll lose 5 key freedoms under Obama's health care plan. The article discusses these in detail, but in short, those freedoms are:
1. Freedom to choose what's in your plan
2. Freedom to be rewarded for healthy living, or pay your real costs
3. Freedom to choose high-deductible coverage
4. Freedom to keep your existing plan
5. Freedom to choose your doctors
Do please check this out, since some of these items have been routinely misrepresented by President Obama and others. The gist is this: did you like the HMOs of the early 1990s? Then you'll really love Obamacare. If you didn't, then tell your representative and senators before it's too late.
(Hat tip: Conservatives 4 Palin for the link)


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Carmel McLure, Hon. Justice
Opportunity, Audacity and Diversity - Some Career Tips
We heartily thank Carmel McLure for her visit to the Rotary of Elizabeth Quay and delivering such a great message. What a pleasure to listen to Her Honor!
The Honourable Justice McLure's career began at the University of Western Australia where she obtained a Bachelor of Jurisprudence with Honours in 1976 and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours in 1979.
On 23 April 2001, the Supreme Court welcomed Her Honour to the Bench. Carmel became a member of the Court of Appeal upon its inception in 2005 and was appointed as President of the Court of Appeal in November 2009. In June, 2016, Her Honour retired from the Bench.


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Woo-hoo!!!! My article is up at Skirt! Magazine. Go read it!!
I also have a new book review up on Edge of the Page.
Woo-hoo!!!! My article is up at Skirt! Magazine. Go read it!!
I also have a new book review up on Edge of the Page.
Love the article.
I think a lot of women our age/our generation can relate to "How feminist am I if I'm a stay-at-home mom?" I've divided my time between working and parenting, and whatever it makes me, I get more of a sense of satisfaction from the latter than the former. I was very proud when my then ten-year-old was listening to CNN with us during the 2004 primary season and said, "I can't wait until I'm old enough to vote." It would be great if we could be Activists 24-7, but activism sprinkled throughout our day can be just as effective.
Loved the article. I so understand about the lack of ability to get out there and do the stuff I would like to do. I liked the positive spin you put on it, a lot.
Nicely done!
Really good. Really really good. I especially like your point about supporting working moms. Being feminist doesn't mean you work, anyone can work or not, it means that you can work if you choose to, or not if life takes you another way. And it means raising your kids with choices.
Oh well done! Love to see intelligent writers actually out there DOING it. Congratulations
Great job, Em!! I'm very impressed.
Read the article and totally disagree with one thing: not having an out-of-home job every day does not make you any less of a feminist than the rest of us. You are raising all three children to live the world without gender bias. You will tell them you will support any choice they make – whether to work or "stay at home" – and you do not feed career moms guilt by thinking what you are doing is any more noble or "right".
You're living your life on your terms, while recognizing this is what works for you and not all women – that is MORE of a feminist than most women are.
As for the girls that are "anti-feminist", I don't know what to think. Perhaps it's time to relabel "feminism" as "self esteem and equality for all", and it will get more respect.


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Diversity statement woes April 27, 2016Posted by mareserinitatis in career, education, feminism, science, teaching, work.
Tags: application process, diversity, diversity statement, feminism
One of the newer things I've seen in academic job postings is a request for a diversity statement. If you haven't seen them, it's a statement addressing how you would address issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, etc. I came across a request for one recently, and I have to admit that they make me cringe for a couple reasons. On the surface, they make a lot of sense: obviously if you have a diverse student body, you want to make sure that you're hiring someone who is aware of that and has communicated all they ways they are prepared to deal with it.
So why do they make me cringe?
First, I see a potential for abuse. Academics tend to, on the whole, be a rather liberal lot, and one could easily see this as a screening mechanism to ensure that someone with a wildly different perspective doesn't make it through the door. While I personally find it frustrating that people have issues with marginalized groups (and FSM knows how much of this I've dealt with first hand), I still think this means that people with differing viewpoints will be weeded out. I don't see an easy answer to this, though. As I said above, you don't want to hire someone who refuses to work with these groups or who creates an asymmetric educational experience for them lest, as an institution, you end up on the receiving end of a discrimination lawsuit. I'm just going to throw that out as a concern and leave it there.
My other concern, though, is more grounded in my background. These requests are severely biased towards those in the humanities and soft sciences where many of them can use part of their course topics and research as evidence. If you're in the hard sciences, that's obviously not an option. If you have access to resources to address this at all, it may be dependent on institutional support which may or may not be present. In the sciences, training for education/teaching at all is severely limited to begin with and what we do get has to be sought out through other departments in the university, if it's even available. Depending on the size of the institution, there may not be a women's center or diversity office to provide information and training.
As I've been contemplating writing such a statement, it leaves me in an odd spot. I could personally use some of my blogging about women in the sciences. However, depending on who is reviewing the statement, I may also get dinged because this may be viewed critically rather than as an asset. The same goes for membership in female-oriented professional societies such as IEEE Women in Engineering, Society of Women Engineers, or Association of Women Geoscientists. Realistically, some people who review these statements will have a negative view of such participation and advocacy even while the statements are a required part of the application package. Let's be honest: not everyone sees the need to increase or address diversity in their departments, and being too much of an advocate could have negative repercussions during the selection process.
My personal feeling is that, in STEM, a lot of these issues are going to be limited to classroom accessibility and student mentoring. I would prefer that universities could ask STEM faculty how inclusivity of these groups would be addressed as part of the teaching statement and omit requests for a diversity statement.
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On 11 November REV JOHN CLIFFORD lead worship to commemorate the Armistice Sunday centenary. JOHN shared his chalice lighting words, printed below. To end the two minute silence JAMES MACDONALD REID played 'When the Battle is Over' composed by Pipe Major William Robb, (1863-1909) of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
We light our chalice candle this morning, exactly 100 years to the hour since the cessation of World War I, in remembrance. Of course, we remember the tragic deaths of young military personnel and the tragic deaths of civilians and animals killed in this four-year war, as also in the almost unceasing wars since then, but we also remind ourselves of the tragic waste and terrible cost of this war and succeeding wars. May the symbolism of service and sacrifice inherent in this flame and the continuing memory of this world tragedy spur us to greater efforts for peace, respect, and mutual understanding.


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There must be a lot of people like me who need to integrate Clover with internal systems but need to be able to build these things without having to make a public app. Also, even if the "private" application is adapted to a "public" version, the pace of the approval process can also be a problem. I have created an app called "Overstock" for my client, which syncs the Clover inventory with their database and lets them scan items into inventory, however in order to deploy this app for my client I've had to conform to all of the requirements of a public app including the Privacy Policy and EULAs, screen shots, customer support, Etc, and because the app has not yet been approved they have already lost the benefits of having it through Black Friday.
The solution to this issue would be to have an app which is simply an API wrapper, perhaps with some additional security restrictions to prevent abuse. Does anyone think that this might be a good idea and could I build and publish something like this for the other developers?
Answer by intirewebb · Nov 30, 2015 at 07:04 PM
Hey Erik,
Have you tried having your client go to https://www.clover.com/oauth/authoriz...id={YOURAPP_ID}? I've used this before to load an app directly onto a client's Clover without going through the approval process and it works without an issue.
Regards, Mike
I tried that but it says "Not Found". It works when I'm logged in as myself and use one of my test merchants but I guess it's not part of the "Real" world yet.
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The life and duties of a big-time college athletic director, when done right, are obscure to most sports fans, and even some student-athletes.
The life and duties of a big-time college athletic director, when done right, are obscure to most sports fans, and even some student-athletes.
Case in point: Jim Phillips, NIU's associate vice president and director of athletics for nearly four years, and soon to be Northwestern's AD.
Phillips was most often seen as the man standing silently with his arms crossed in the back corner of the room during news conferences. But few leave such a large imprint in their wake after just four years, especially in a business where the results of a good decision or plan don't usually surface until a couple of years after it is implemented.
He announced on Thursday — "with a very heavy heart, and wishing it was under different circumstances" — that as of April 14, he will be the new director of intercollegiate athletics and recreation at Northwestern in Evanston. Phillips, 42, made the move public so soon after the shooting tragedy on the DeKalb campus only because the DeKalb Daily Chronicle broke the news of his leaving two days earlier.
"Emotions are really strong right now," Phillips said after a long pause. "It's a lot of mixed emotions. I'm really excited about the opportunity."
After another long pause, a choked-up Phillips continued: "But a large part of my heart, and my family's heart, will always be here at Northern Illinois University."
Phillips, emotional throughout his teleconference Thursday morning, briefly highlighted some of his accomplishments at NIU. The list was impressive, but also incomplete.
"I'm very proud of the unprecedented academic status of our student-athletes," he said. "Five straight semesters of 3.0 (GPA) or better. And the records we set, that's such a great accomplishment for everybody involved.
"And the model citizens that we have had in this athletic program is tremendous. Some 8,000 hours of community service they've put in, and all the wonderful things they've contributed has just been amazing."
Of course, for a man who's built such a strong reputation in such a short time, there's a whole lot more.
Phillips spearheaded the $14 million Yordon Academic and Athletic Performance Center, which stands majestically within short field-goal range of the north goal post at Huskie Stadium.
He was a key player in solidifying NIU's football team as an annual opponent on Big Ten Conference schedules, and he has boosted the Huskies' profile by signing contracts with Chicago's WSCR radio (670-AM) as well as putting Huskies sports on the TV screens.
And through it all, Phillips has remained a class act. He has a warm and kind personality, and being one of 10 children, and having four of his own, has clearly marked him as a family man through and through.
He knows how to play the game, using a pleasant and caring demeanor as his No. 1 weapon. His charm and his thoughtfulness, however, are as genuine as his smile.
He is, in its basic form, just a nice guy. Those kind sof people — especially those with power — are hard to find these days. Northwestern should feel lucky.
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The wrongful conviction of Lawyer Johnson
The Boston Globe published this article about Lawyer Johnson, our client who was wrongfully convicted and spent 10 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Our firm obtained compensation for him under the Massachusetts Erroneous Conviction statute.
"Where most people measure the time of their lives in forward progress, Lawyer Johnson measures his life strictly in terms of before and after. Before 1982 and after 1982. He was 30-years-old in '82, when a judge freed him from the prison where he'd served time on death row for a murder he didn't commit. It has been 30 years since Johnson, the last person ever sentenced to death in Mass., was freed. And while 'people tell you that with time you can move on, I haven't been able to,' Johnson says." James H. Burnett III. "The long, hard half-life of Lawyer Johnson." Boston Globe April 08, 2012.


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Saturday, November 29, 2008
Lou Reed-Caroline Says Part 2
Been trying to write all day, will let one of my all time favorite songs from one of my all time favorite albums "Berlin" by Lou Reed speak for me.
Bit of trivia, it's the only album I own as a record, an 8 track tape, a cassette and a CD.
ETA: I am not suicidal. Just empty and hollow.
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Empty? Hollow? The perfect mood for Lou Reed. I love Lou Reed. I saw him with Nico and the Velvet Underground at the Boston Tea Party an embarrassingly long time ago. They were great. Mr. Duck still has his banana album. Minus the peel, as they all are.
Thanks for the shot of Lou.
- November 30, 2008 at 1:09 PM
- Polar Bear said...
I hope you feel better soon.
In the meantime, I'm sending big HUGS your way.
- November 30, 2008 at 3:19 PM
Oh my. A hug from a polar bear and Lou Reed. You're definitely on the road to recovery now. {;>)
Sherry (watching the snow outside her window)
- November 30, 2008 at 6:35 PM
- Raspberry said...
I hope you are feeling brighter soon.
Love and hugs
- November 30, 2008 at 7:30 PM
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The Pelham plays host to some of the best up and coming local and visiting bands around Portsmouth. We also feature regular DJ's and themed nights.
The Pelham Arms is a popular community based pub, we welcome families, and hold regular events for kids, especially in the summer as we have a large, fully secured garden.
We hold Pool & Darts competitions, Karaoke, we show all major sporting events and we also have a function room to hire.
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Asylum for Afghan Interpreters
The Home Office have been reluctant to recognise the right of interpreters who worked with Allied Forces, including the USA and the UK, to protection in the UK.
In 2016 we successfully prevented the removal of a former Afghan military interpreter, on the grounds that he would be at risk from the Taliban on return, and then secured refugee protection for the client. As a result of the litigation, the Home Office reviewed its policy so as to recognise Afghan interpreters, who had assisted HM Armed Forces, as a distinct category of persons at risk of persecution on return to Afghanistan.
Supervising solicitor Lewis Kett was made The Times Lawyer of the Week in April 2016 as a result of this work.
In the media:
The Times article announcing Lewis Kett as Times Lawyer of the Week April 2016
Patrick Page writing about story of Afghan Interpreter in The Independent
Patrick Page Afghan Interpreter Story for Refugee Week Campaign 'Cooperate Or Die'


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Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." His concept of "sea power" was based on the idea that countries with greater naval power will have greater worldwide impact; it was most famously presented in The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783 (1890). (Wikipedia)
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International Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Volume 2011, Article ID 908735, 9 pages
The Molecular Evolution of Animal Reproductive Tract Proteins: What Have We Learned from Mating-System Comparisons?
Department of Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1S 5B6
Received 24 December 2010; Accepted 23 March 2011
Academic Editor: Alberto Civetta
Copyright © 2011 Alex Wong. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Postcopulatory sexual selection is thought to drive the rapid evolution of reproductive tract genes in many animals. Recently, a number of studies have sought to test this hypothesis by examining the effects of mating system variation on the evolutionary rates of reproductive tract genes. Perhaps surprisingly, there is relatively little evidence that reproductive proteins evolve more rapidly in species subject to strong postcopulatory sexual selection. This emerging trend may suggest that other processes, such as host-pathogen interactions, are the main engines of rapid reproductive gene evolution. I suggest that such a conclusion is as yet unwarranted; instead, I propose that more rigorous analytical techniques, as well as multigene and population-based approaches, are required for a full understanding of the consequences of mating system variation for the evolution of reproductive tract genes.


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There has always been a long debate on what is women empowerment and why is there a need for strong women. Amongst all of this, we have completely forgotten as to what women empowerment actually comprises of. According to the U.N., there are five main components of women empowerment listed below:
There has been an incredible shift from what gender equality used to be than what it is right now. Women back then had a number of issues with which they had to deal and the one which topped all the lists was them being denied to go to work. It is rightly put that patriarchy had deeply entrenched in our laws and mindsets making the situation worse for women. But the gender inequality in the name of intimidation and denial of rights still goes on. However, numerous patriarchal customs have been abolished but the modern day patriarchy doesn't end, wage gaps and indiscriminate sexism being the incredible examples of the same.
The acid attack is one of those heinous crimes for which no punishment can ever be enough. There are hundreds and thousands of acid attack survivors all across the world and it is astonishing that the major numbers are in India. It isn't wrong at all to say that the acid attacks in India have a gendered inclination as more than 70% of the acid attack victims are women. Most of the cases that have been reported comprise of teenagers and women in their twenties.
There are a number of reasons behind the increasing cases of acid attacks in India. Punishment for throwing acid or an attempt at acid attack is given according to the Section 326 A and B of the Indian Penal Code demanding an imprisonment of 7 years. However strong the laws have become, the horrendous crime hasn't ceased to exist. The prime reason being an easy availability of acids in the markets and no regulation at the sale of vitriol in common marketplaces.
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Q&A: How to Deal with a Traffic Ticket
What do I need to know to properly look after my interests if I receive a traffic ticket?
invalid traffic violation?
I received a violation last night for failure to stop at a stop sign. The officer had followed me through about 6 stop signs, I believe waiting for me to commit a violation, as I am known to our local police. FInally, he did get me rolling through one, barely. I had stopped but not at a "complete" stop where the brakes actually locked. Anyways, I got into an arguement with him, finally he threw the ticket in my window and I sprayed gravel at him as I left. Later, as I looked closely at the ticket, I noticed that he had thrown me the original, white copy of which he was supposed to keep and sign the back that he had served it to me, rather than the blue copy they're supposed to give you.
My question is, could that be rendered invalid as it was the wrong copy?
Thank-you for your quick
Thank-you for your quick reply. So do I need to take the ticket to my ICBC office in order for them to either say its invalid, or to send it in as they usually do when I dispute it, and then have to go to court and have the judge rule it invalid, or can I just igonore it....I'm not sure if I do that if I will mess it up for myself as it may be considered uncontested and after 30 days become due & payable.
Thanks once again,
(And I know that spraying the gravel was a dumb thing to do, but it felt good anyway, although I do know they could've easily come after me again.)
to answer your question...
As I mentioned, they were behind me for at least 6 stop signs, I was trying to lose that one but another one was hiding . I carefully came to a stop every other time, and I kind of hoped that he would take that into account when I didn't completely stop that last time. And, it was after 1 a.m. with no traffic around period, and if cars would have been coming the other way who had the right of way, then yeah I would've stopped.
But all those are moot points anyways.
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incorrect sign size
This may not be the right spot to post, but I was hoping for opinions.
I recently received a ticket for speeding in a 30km/hr zone. I was speeding, but I never even saw the tiny, tiny sign. There were branches blocking the view and when I went back to look at the sign I measured it and found that its the not the correct size!
PS-001-Tb is the sign and as far as I can tell, it needs to be 45cm x 45cm, and the sign that I missed was 45cm x 30cm.
Is this worth fighting? Could I win? It's a $200 ticket!
Traffic Officer demanding mug shot
I understand from researching the law that the Police have the right to photograph you only if you are arrested for an indictable offense.
If a motorcyclist was stopped in BC and cited for failure to produce a drivers license, and the officer then demanded (specifically did not ask permission) the rider remove his helmet for a mug shot and took one, how could the rider address this? Is there anything she could do to have the photograph destroyed? Would this be something appropriate to bring up in traffic court in some way?
The issue is that a photograph taken of a rider moments after removing their helmet would be prejudicial to anyone viewing it (due to an obviously disheveled appearance that was never viewable in public).
Failue to stop at stop sign
It was late at night in a neighbourhood area and I came to an awkward 5stop where the lane to the right of me comes somewhat out of the blue. (It is not a 90degrees to the right of me btu perhaps more like 45). I failed to stop and the cop pulled me over, gave me a talk and issued mea $167 ticket. I am a student and have tons of student loans to pay off and don't know if I can pay this off! I am going to dispute it, but do I dispute the allegation? (because he has no evidence) or do I dispute the ticket? If I dispute the ticket, what do I say in court to reduce it as much as possible? Perhaps the cop could have been recording me (doubt it?) but he said "did you make a complete stop" and i said "no". So he has me there if he did in fact record our conversation.
What do I do? Please reply
The right time to ask for evidence
Thank-you very much for your answer above.
I have a related procedure question. When is an appropriate time to ask for disclosure of the crown evidence? Is there an opportunity to do this in writing prior to the hearing? Should this be done once the court date is set, or any time is ok?
Speeding Ticket
This weekend I was issued a speeding ticket for speed against a highway sign. On the ticket the motor vehicle act section says 143(3), however I was looking at the ICBC website which says it should be 146(3).
Can I dispute a ticket on this basis? I was speeding and am willing to pay the fine but of course would rather not if I can get out of it. I'm assuming the ticket is still valid but I would appreciate your expertise.


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99X Technology's Shehani felicitated for 'Leadership Excellence in IT'
Awarded Silver at the Women for Governance Professional and Career Women Awards 2014/2015
99X Technology's Process and Delivery Manager Shehani Seneviratne was recognized for her vast contributions to Sri Lanka's IT industry when she was awarded Silver for 'Leadership Excellence in Information Technology' at the Women for Governance Professional and Career Women Awards 2014/2015, organized by Women in Management.
Held for the fifth year, the Women in Management Awards recognised the achievements of women for their professional or entrepreneurial milestones, and those demonstrating outstanding leadership and managerial qualities in their respective fields, contributing significantly to society and the country's development. This time around, the awards ceremony was held at The Kingsbury Hotel on 26 June.
As a key member of 99X Technology's senior management team, Shehani has played an integral partin the growth and success of the company over the past decade. As Process and Delivery Manager, she was instrumental in bringing about process excellence within the organizational framework, with the introduction of processes such as CMMi, ISO 9001:2000, Agile, Kanban etc.
Her timely introduction of such processes made 99X Technology pioneers in the Sri Lankan IT industry in certain process spheres and aided the company greatly in keeping abreast with the rapidly changing global IT landscape. Given her immense experience in this area, she also provides consultancy on process improvement to other companies.
Her influence is not merely limited to the company alone as she is influential in advancing the role of women in leadership in the IT industry as a whole. Shehani is an active participant in SLASSCOM's HR and Quality Forums, a founding member cum director of the industry body Colombo Camps Community and has been a visiting lecturer at the Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT) for over five years.
She also reaches out to students of a younger age group by providing continuous career guidance and IT awareness at Bishop's College, her Alma Mater. Understanding the importance of giving back to the community at large, Shehani keenly participates in many CSR initiatives, including several ICT in reconciliation projects.
99X Technology is an award-winning software product engineering company that specialises in delivering high-end software product development services to independent software vendors (ISVs) worldwide, with a primary focus within the European region. Headquartered in Sri Lanka, the company also has offices in Oslo, Norway and has an outstanding track record in building and delivering over 150 high quality commercial products. It has been named one of Asia's Best Workplaces for 2015 and has been ranked among the top 20 best companies to work for in Sri Lanka by the Great Place To Work Institute for three consecutive years.
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The church of my childhood and teenaged years was Glencliff United Methodist Church in Woodbine—lovingly known as "flatrock" around Nashville. Glencliff UMC was the place that formed my Christian faith in many ways. Beginning with my earliest memories of Louise Strohl--a 4ft. 2 inch, bandy-legged German woman who drilled into our little heads that Jesus was the kind shepherd who loved all his little lambs. And then on to Bobby Goodall, the President of our UMYF who, as a Sr. in High School made a big impression on me as a 7th grader that being a person of faith was not "uncool". Later, there was David Birdsong who taught Jr. High Sunday School and made room for me and others to ask all manner of questions about the faith and learning that questions were O.K. And then Henry and Evelyn Franklin who were the UMYF leaders for two decades and who influenced many, many young people searching for the faith.
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Last week I was able to attend a groundbreaking at the church—a very unique groundbreaking The little Glencliff Church has dwindled over the years and has struggled to redefine its mission. There was talk of potentially closing the church. And then something remarkable happened. In partnership with Open Table of Nashville—an agency led by one of our more courageous UMC pastors who ministers to the homeless—Glencliff UMC has broken ground on a tiny home community on its property.
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