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Case Definition: Phosphine
Clinical description
Exposure to phosphine gas most commonly occurs by either: 1) inhalation of gas generated by external sources such as in the workplace or 2) when phosphide-containing pesticides are ingested and come into contact with water or moisture, thus generating phosphine gas. Severe poisoning in either scenario can result in multi-organ dysfunction (e.g., convulsions, cardiac dysrhythmias, shock, and death). If one of the following lower respiratory signs and symptoms is reported, the clinical description for phosphine poisoning by inhalation has been met (1-5): chest tightness or cough; dyspnea; or pulmonary edema, which might have a delayed onset (See Phosphide Case Classification for further information). If a phosphide-containing product was ingested the person also likely will experience gastrointestinal symptoms such as vomiting, abdominal pain, and nausea. Dermal exposure to liquid phosphine can lead to skin burns.
Laboratory criteria for diagnosis
- Biologic: No biologic marker for phosphine gas exposure is readily available. Finding measurable amounts of urinary phosphorus and phosphorus-containing compounds is not a reliable indicator of exposure.
- Environmental: Confirmation of phosphine in environmental air samples is performed via methods detailed by NIOSH and OSHA (6,7).
Case classification
- Suspected: A case in which a potentially exposed person is being evaluated by health-care workers or public health officials for poisoning by a particular chemical agent, but no specific credible threat exists.
- Probable: A clinically compatible case in which a high index of suspicion—credible threat or patient history regarding location and time—exists for phosphine exposure, or an epidemiologic link exists between this case and a laboratory-confirmed case.
- Confirmed: A clinically compatible case in which laboratory tests (not available for phosphine) have confirmed exposure.
The case can be confirmed if laboratory testing was not performed because either a predominant amount of clinical and nonspecific laboratory evidence of a particular chemical was present or the etiology of the agent is known with 100% certainty.
Additional resources
- Baselt RC, Cravey RH, eds. Phosphine. In: Disposition of toxic drugs and chemicals in man. 9th ed. Foster City, CA: Chemical Toxicology Institute; 1995:628.
- Harbison RD. Phosphorus. In: Harbison RD, ed. Hamilton and Hardy's industrial toxicology. 5th ed. St Louis, MO: Mosby-Year Book; 1998:194-7.
- Hathaway GJ, Proctor NH, Hughes JP, eds. Phosphine. In: Proctor and Hughes' chemical hazards of the workplace. 4th ed. New York, NY: John Wiley; 1996:516-7.
- Carter DE, Sullivan JB Jr. Intermetallic semiconductors: arsine, phosphine, and inorganic hydrides. In: Sullivan JB Jr, Krieger GR, eds. Clinical environmental health and toxic exposures. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2001:958-63.
- Erdman A. Chapter 81 – Phosphorous. In: Brent J, Wallace KL, Burkhard KK. Critical Care Toxicology: Diagnosis and Management of the Critically Poisoned Patient. Elsevier-Mosby: 2005:851-61.
- NIOSH. NIOSH manual of analytical methods [online]. 2003. [cited 2013 Apr 5]. Available from URL: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2003-154/.
- OSHA. Sampling and analytical methods [online]. 2010. [cited 2013 Apr 5]. Available from URL: http://www.osha.gov/dts/sltc/methods/index.htmlexternal icon.
- FDA. Food: Laboratory methods [online]. 2013. [cited 2013 Apr 5]. Available from URL: http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodScienceResearch/LaboratoryMethods/default.htmexternal icon.
- EPA. Selected analytical methods: chemical methods query [online]. 2013. [cited 2013 Apr 5]. Available from URL: http://www.epa.gov/sam/searchchem.htmexternal icon.


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The Australian National Internships Program provides students from any discipline with the opportunity to undertake a significant research project within a work place. Academic credit will be awarded towards the students' degrees. Placements are in national institutions (eg government departments and agencies), peak industry bodies, large industry organisations, public policy-focussed NGOs, or international organisations (eg embassies). As part of a real-world experience, students will have the opportunity to work in an office environment, learn to prioritise tasks and deadlines, develop the skills to express themselves concisely and provide a succinct précis of a complex topic.
Admission to this course is selective due to the high academic standards required to successfully complete the course.
The research topic is agreed between the Intern and the placement and topics usually have a focus relevant to both the organisation and the intern. Students attend workshops to assist with the write up of their report and enhance professional skills.
Internship placements may be offered within Australia or overseas, and workshops will be delivered over the course of a semester or in intensive mode. This course is available for cross-Institutional enrolment.
The mandatory orientation workshop runs over two days during Orientation Week.
Admission to this course is selective due to the high academic standards required to successfully complete the course. For more information on the entry process please visit anip.anu.edu.au.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- demonstrate and apply, with basic understanding, a range of applied research and professional skills;
- source, analyse, synthesise, and interpret information from diverse sources;
- think, write, and argue about complex public policy issues and questions; and
- engage professionally with stakeholders on policy-relevant topics.
Other Information
Completion of 96 units.
A permission code is required to enrol in this course.
For some internships, in order to be given permission to enrol, the student will be required to demonstrate to the course convenor sufficient understanding of the social, cultural and political context of the country in which the internship is to be taken. This may be demonstrated by completion of relevant courses or by having spent significant time in the relevant country.
Indicative Assessment
- Research Project Proposal, 500 words (10) [LO 1,2,3,4]
- Research Report, 5000 words (70) [LO 1,2,3,4]
- Poster (10) [LO 1,2,3,4]
- Poster presentation, 15 mins followed by 5 mins Q&A (10) [LO 1,2,3,4]
The ANU uses Turnitin to enhance student citation and referencing techniques, and to assess assignment submissions as a component of the University's approach to managing Academic Integrity. While the use of Turnitin is not mandatory, the ANU highly recommends Turnitin is used by both teaching staff and students. For additional information regarding Turnitin please visit the ANU Online website.
130 hours of total student learning time made up from a combination of workshops, attendance at internship placement and applied research and writing. The structure and delivery of contact hours is dependent on internship type.Inherent Requirements
Not applicable
Requisite and Incompatibility
You will need to contact the Australian National Internships Program to request a permission code to enrol in this course.
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An All Recovery Meeting is a meeting any person in recovery, in addition to allies of those in recovery, can attend and find support at. This is a space where everyone, no matter what pathway, can come and lean on one another for support, empowerment, and compassion.
Like all YPR chapter events, All-Recovery Meetings are free and open to the public. We believe there are many pathways to recovery and there is no single best way to find and sustain an individual's long-term recovery. In order to support and cultivate a thriving community of people in recovery and their allies, it's important to bring individuals from different pathways together to discuss recovery broadly and break down the barriers and misperceptions that may exist between pathways.
These meetings are settings where individuals from 12-step, faith-based, medication-supported recovery, responsible use, harm reduction, SMART recovery, etc. can come together to foster a deeper sense of inclusion.
Come join us for our Wednesday weekly All-Recovery Meeting at Turning Point Recovery Community Center!


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Next-Generation Electric Cars May Never Need A Battery Swap
U.S. Department of Energy researchers pinpoint the reasons why rechargeable batteries lose their ability to hold a charge over time
From laptops to smartphones to the burgeoning electric car industry, our world is increasingly reliant on rechargeable batteries. But as anyone who's owned a laptop for more than a few years knows, batteries eventually lose their ability to hold a full charge.
Scientists never really understood why this happens, which has made it a hard problem to fix. But according to a pair of recent studies by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy, published in the journal Nature Communications, we may be closer than ever to a battery that doesn't degrade.
Working specifically with lithium-ion batteries, commonly used in consumer devices because of their light weight and high capacity, the scientists have mapped the charge and discharge process down to billionths of a meter to better understand exactly how degradation works. They discovered two culprits in battery degradation. The first: microscopic vulnerabilities in the structure of the battery material steer the lithium ions haphazardly through the cell, eroding the battery in seemingly random ways, much like rust spreads across imperfections in steel. In the second study, focused on finding the best balance between voltage, storage capacity and maximum charge cycles, researchers not only found similar issues with the ion flow, but also tiny accumulations of nano-scale crystals left behind by chemical reactions, which cause the flow of ions to become even more irregular after each charge. Running batteries at higher voltages also led to more ion path irregularities, and thus a more rapidly deteriorating battery.
It may seem like scientists should have fully understood the battery—a technology that's effectively been around since 1800—decades ago. But Huolin Xin, a materials scientist at Brookhaven Lab and coauthor on both studies, says the winning combination of new technologies only recently became available.
"Many state-of-the-art characterization tools, such as aberration-corrected electron microscopes and new synchrotron X-ray techniques, were not available 10 years ago," Xin says. But now, he says, they can be applied to the study of lithium-ion batteries.
The new data gives researchers a clearer picture of the how these batteries work, which could lead to longer-lasting batteries in consumer electronics in the not-too-distant future. But, it also presents new problems. Xin says maximizing surface area is important to battery performance, but a larger surface area also likely facilitates degradation.
"To prevent [surface degradation], we can either coat the cathode with a protection layer," Xin says, "or hide these surfaces by creating boundaries within the micron-sized powders [inside the cell]."
Finding the most efficient, cost-effective ways to do this will be part of a future phase of the research.
But Daniel Abraham, a scientist focused on lithium-ion battery research at the Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago, is skeptical that the new studies represent a real breakthrough. He says mapping work with similar materials has been done in the past, including by his team about 12 years ago. He also believes there may be more to battery degradation than what the new studies have found.
"They're trying to make a correlation between performance degradation and the pictures that they see, which may not be correct," Abraham says. "It's partially the story, but I don't think it's the entire story."
Xin, is more optimistic that the work will lead to battery improvements, not only for future electric vehicles, but for portable electronics as well.
"Lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt-oxide cathode has recently been identified as the only commercially viable material for next-generation lithium-ion batteries," Xin says. "By resolving its degradation problem, we can make next-generation batteries smaller and make them charge and discharge more reliably."
The two battery experts do agree though, that for many important future applications, finding a way to make batteries that don't wear out as quickly is just as important as creating batteries that have a greater capacity.
Xin points out that electric car buyers justifiably worry about battery failure after their warranty expires. Abraham notes that while you likely only need a couple of years of performance from your smartphone or tablet battery, for electric vehicles, most owners are looking for a battery that lasts 10 to 15 years. And for use in the electric grid (to store excess energy produced on off-peak hours), batteries should last 30 years or more.
That makes building a better battery for your laptop a lot easier than solving longevity problems in other areas.
"It's good to have a higher energy density, but if you get a high energy density but not a long life, then the commercial viability of those technologies comes into question," Abraham says. "Whereas, if you can show that you have a new technology and it can last between two and 30 years, that becomes immediately viable commercially."
While the work of Xin and his colleagues may help researchers create batteries that don't degrade as quickly, it's clear that further breakthroughs will be necessary before we'll see rechargeable batteries that last a decade or more without serious wear.


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The gold rush is a simple riff on the classic whiskey sour. Created by T.J. Siegal, the friend and business partner of cocktail baron Sasha Petraske, this cocktail represents a keystone moment in the modern cocktail renaissance, and is now a bonafide classic mixed in bars around the world. As Richard Boccato notes in Regarding Cocktails, "The Gold Rush is one of the fundamental examples of the Milk & Honey cocktail program: three ingredients, perfect balance, and no fuss."
We love this cocktail as a late summer sipper. The honey syrup and lemon combine for a bright, effervescent nose with a big wash of nutty bourbon on the finish. Its slightly opaque texture reflects light outward in a brilliant orange-gold hue, and a big chunk of ice looks handsome poking just above the waterline. Fans of whiskey gingers will adore this drink, as will bourbon lovers. Indeed, this drink is so simple, balanced, and delicious, we struggled to think of any reasonable drinker who wouldn't like it. The excellent penicillin cocktail—another Milk & Honey classic—is based off this recipe.
We really like Four Roses in this drink, but then again, we like Four Roses in a lot of things. A sweeter bourbon might appease your aunt, but will probably lack enough complexity and heat on the finish to appease most cocktail drinkers. While this drink's satisfying simplicity is an undeniable asset, we can think of several additions that might be good. A single dash of angostura bitters would compliment the bourbon nicely, and a small lemon twist usually looks good and rarely hurts, though a full peel might be too much for such a balanced drink.


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The Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal Project
The Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal collection contains 49 video interviews conducted with personnel from the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Collected in 2008, these interviews reveal the challenges of striving for justice and reconciliation after genocide. In their own voices, tribunal personnel speak to Rwandans, the international justice community, and the global public, now, 50 and 100 years from now. We offer this digital collection to all people to watch, tag, curate, and download for their use in future projects. This work is carried out under the auspices of the Information School at the University of Washington and is independent from the ICTR, the United Nations and the Government of Rwanda.
We welcome your suggestions for new tags. Tags are words or short phrases that come to mind for you when you watch a video and can be in Kinyarwanda, English, or French. You may suggest as many tags as you like.
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The Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal project is guided by a vision to provide to the world, especially the people of Rwanda, free and open access to these interviews with personnel from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). As part of this vision, all the videos are provided to download. You can download the interviews to use in your projects or to share with other people who do not have access to the website. The interviews are released under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
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1962. It all seems so far away: President Kennedy, the Cuban Missile Crisis, "The Twist." How can we relate to the time of the first Beatles' hit, the first James Bond movie, and the first manned space orbit of the Earth? How did it feel to live in the year of Ray Charles' "I Can't Stop Loving You?" and the film To Kill a Mockingbird?
Well, judging from what people were telling the Post, it felt a lot like today.
"We don't have the family as a unit as we used to have. As a result, a lot of the kids have got out of control."
"People seem to have lost something. They don't seem to care anymore. Maybe what we've lost is Americanism. They don't teach it to the kids anymore."
"These teenagers that really scare you, with their gangs … and all. What's got into our kids? I don't know."
"We're all living too fast. … We're all running and we can't catch up."
"We're becoming decadent. … Moral values have declined. People don't feel patriotism as they used to.
These quotes were typical of the responses from the 500 people interviewed by Stewart Alsop for his article, "The Mood of America." Our country was in a "curious national mood" that year, according to Stewart Alsop. After talking to Americans in seven states, he concluded that the country's odd mood was "balky, ambivalent, and contradictory."
"For example, the American people, to judge from their talk, are in an essentially conservative frame of mind. The word 'socialism' to most of them is almost as bad a word as 'communism.' They are worried about Government spending, and instinctively resistant to what they call 'too much government.' A surprising number of them are firmly opposed to any tax cut unless it is accompanied by a balanced budget.
"In view of all this, one might suppose that there was a great tide of public sentiment in favor of the … more conservative Republican party. [Yet] most voters prefer the Democratic Party, and they prefer President Kennedy to any now-visible Republican rival by a big majority. And except in the Middle West, most voters like the President's Medicare program, which is anathema to conservatives.
"There are other odd ambivalences. For example, most of the people we talked to fear nuclear war more than anything else, but only one in five thinks there is much danger of such a war.
"Finally, the American people are by and large a strongly moral, even moralistic people, who are deeply worried about … the morality of the American people."
It seems strange now that Alsop expected more consistency among American voters. It was understandable, though; the country was entering an age of changes and challenges. In February of that year, America had taken another giant step into space with John Glenn's orbit of the earth. In October it would confront Russian missiles pointed at us from Cuba. Ready or not, the country would have to consider how it would respond to the changes of the modern world.
Many responded with divided loyalties between the old and the new. The division had already begun to show in the change of presidents. While America had always revered and identified with Dwight Eisenhower, they were increasingly drawn to the more aloof, intellectual, charismatic Kennedy. They were still soundly against 'big government' but they were growing more supportive of the struggling NASA program and Medicare.
The ambivalence between the old and new loyalties was particularly noticeable on the question of racial equality. The basic view of White Americans, according to Alsop, was summed by a Baltimore housewife who said, "They got rights, just like anybody else. They ought to vote and have just as good schools and all that, but I don't see why we got to mingle together." Many could accept the new thinking about equal rights; they just couldn't yet accept Black Americans.
It was a time of great challenge, not unlike today. And, like today, the uneasiness and uncertainty over the way forward lead some Americans to believe we have lost our moral compass. The economy had stalled, and some feared a recession was on its way. The Cold War was close to going 'hot,' and we were regularly conducting air-raid drills against the possibility of a nuclear attack. Yet, Alsop was "really surprised [by] the number of people who felt [our] greatest problems are moral rather than economic or political. … A surprising number seem to feel that somehow, somewhere, America has lost something—a sense of purpose, a sense of right and wrong, a sense of home and family … something that was good that has gone out of American life."
If he was interviewing Americans today, Alsop would probably get the same sense of concern about our moral condition and the feeling of loss. He might feel the same atmosphere of "part nostalgia, part moral indignation."
But would he find the character of the American people the same as he did in 1962: "a pleasant people, unsuspicious and openhearted"?
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See what you may have missed or take a time machine back to a blast from the past on The Bold and the Beautiful with our flashback videos.
B&B made its debut in 1987 and is one of the longest-running daytime soap operas in American history. It has outlasted other soaps to become a mainstay for many households! The sudser airs weekdays on CBS. Check your local listings for air times.
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Twitter, it seems, is in a bit of trouble. Whether true or not, the growing sentiment is that Twitter is losing the social media war to Facebook. Increasingly, the two are seen as competing in the same spheres, even though their application and use patterns are quite different. It is true that they are both social media platforms, but in fact there are more differences than similarities between the two companies.
Twitter, for example, is used for real time, short bursts of information, rather akin to CB Radio traffic between an ambulance or police car and a dispatcher, which is incidentally, where the idea for Twitter first came from. Facebook on the other hand, offer the ability to create posts which are more in depth and personal, allowing for more connection between members of the same social network. Nevertheless, the mindset is what it is, and unless Twitter can either convince investors that it really is a completely different kind of social media company, or demonstrate that its user base is large and vibrant, and that its reach extends well beyond the number of logged on users, then these problems will persist.
The Root Of The Problem
At the root is the fact that while Twitter's income is growing, it's still bleeding red ink. It is trying to fix that by creating a more robust advertising platform and tying it to its services, but of course, in order to do that, the company needs to show that it's got a large and growing user base. The trouble there is that only half of that is accurate.
The company does have a large user base, but it's not growing. In order to put that fact in a better light, Twitter is making the claim that even people who don't actively Tweet and are not logged on are still guided by the trending tweets in the company. For example, when you hear that something is trending in the land of Twitter on the social media segment of the TV show "Good Morning America," you are likely to go investigate that on your own.
If you don't Tweet, and many more of us use Facebook than use Twitter, ask yourself to what extent you feel that Twitter has the slightest influence on how you think, and specifically, on what you buy. If you are anything like me, the answer comes back, "Not at all", and that is Twitter's problem.
Not A Great Comparison
The argument that Twitter is influential even to non users is the same basic argument that print magazines have been using to justify their ad prices. A person need not actually subscribe to the magazine "Good Housekeeping" for him or her to be influenced by a piece of content in the magazine if it gets talked about far and wide.
There is some truth to that, but the obvious counter is that if Twitter wants to cast itself in the same light as struggling print magazines, then the company should be prepared to be valued as one of those print magazines, and not as a darling of the Internet. It would appear that they're trying to have it both ways, and that is going to be a tricky line to walk. It's too soon to say whether or not investors or advertisers will buy into that logic and continue to give the company time to get to profitability, but even if they do allow more time, their patience is far from infinite. Twitter needs to post a profit soon, or it will find itself in dire straits.


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Emirates Introduces Tablet Loan Service To US-bound First and Business Class customers
Customers in all classes welcome Emirates' laptop and tablet handling service on flights to US
Emirates has introduced another service to mitigate the inconvenience of the recent ban on electronic devices on board US-bound flights. Beginning today, First and Business Class passengers will be able to borrow tablets on board Emirates' US-bound flights allowing them to continue working during their flight.
The new service is in response to the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) directive which requires all passengers travelling on non-stop flights to the US from Dubai to check-in their laptops, tablets, and other personal electronic devices larger than a smart phone.
As part of this latest service, Emirates premium customers will have Microsoft Surface tablets equipped with Microsoft Office 2016 available for loan on board. Customers can download their work on to a USB which can be brought on board and plugged into the devices to continue working seamlessly.
The service is complimentary and will be available on all non-stop flights from Dubai to Emirates' US destinations.
For customers who prefer to stow away their personal devices and simply enjoy the award winning inflight entertainment and service on board, Emirates had introduced a laptop and tablet handling service for US-bound customers. This complimentary service has been made available to passengers in all cabin classes since 25 March 2017, which was when the new TSA rules took effect.
This service allows customers to retain and utilise their personal devices until just before they board their US-bound flights. Passengers must then declare and hand over their laptops, tablets, and other banned electronic devices to security staff at the boarding gate, who will pack and tag each device to be stored in the aircraft hold and returned to the customer at their US destination.
Watch a video on how Emirates' handling service works here.
To date, nearly 8,000 passengers have utilised Emirates' laptop and tablet handling service on the airline's 112 weekly non-stop flights departing Dubai International airport to cities in the USA. Emirates has received positive feedback from appreciative customers, and reports an even mix of Economy, Business and First class passengers utilising its laptop and tablet handling service.
These two new services by Emirates gives customers travelling to the US several options, such as: packing their electronic devices into their check-in baggage at their point of departure; the opportunity to use their laptops and tablet on their first leg of their journeys and during transit in Dubai, up to the moment they board their US-bound flight; and for premium customers the choice to continue working on loaned devices on board. Customers can stay connected in the air with mobile phone connectivity, in-seat telephones with SMS and email and live TV on most flights. Currently, over 85% of Emirates' fleet of passenger aircraft is equipped with Wi-Fi on board.
The TSA directive does not apply to Emirates' US-bound flights via Milan (EK205) and Athens (EK209). It also does not impact flights departing from the US, or Emirates' flights to any other destination.
Emirates customers flying to the US can find out more about how the new TSA rules impact them at www.emirates.com/electronicsban.


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Prototype implementation of a language Push, accompanying our recently submitted paper. The prototype is implemented and prepared by Ta-Chung Tsai.
While studying XML stream processing, we noticed that programmers need concurrency to save space, especially in a lazy language. We propose the idea of pushing datatypes — when a pushing closure is demanded, all expressions referring to it are evaluated concurrently to weak head normal forms. The closure is no more alive and may thus be garbage collected.


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BEDFORD, MA--(Marketwire - Dec 14, 2012) - Insulet Corporation (
"The OmniPod revolutionized insulin delivery with its tubeless and wireless design when it was introduced in 2005 and today, the next-generation OmniPod raises the bar for insulin pump therapy again," said Duane DeSisto, President and Chief Executive Officer of Insulet. "We are thrilled to have received FDA approval and it is my hope that our new Omnipod insulin pump will continue to make living with diabetes easier for our customers across the United States."
"When technology can make diabetes management easier for my patients, they have better clinical outcomes," said Steve Edelman, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California at San Diego and founder of Taking Control of Your Diabetes (TCOYD), a not-for-profit organization with the goal of teaching and motivating patients in diabetes self-care. "As an OmniPod wearer myself, I love its ease of use and no tubing! Now with its smaller and sleeker design, it will make it even easier for more people to take control of their diabetes."
"Preparations are underway to launch the new OmniPod, including training of healthcare professionals and transitioning the rest of our manufacturing production," said Mr. DeSisto. "We expect that these initiatives will take approximately two to three months to complete and anticipate our first shipments in the U.S. to occur in late Q1 2013. Like the System itself, converting our current OmniPod users to the new system has been designed to be extremely easy as to ensure a seamless transition."
Customers are encouraged to keep informed via http://www.MyOmniPod.com/NewOmniPod where the Company will publish its latest information about the exact timing and availability of the new OmniPod System, including details on how current users will be converted. Additionally, current users will receive direct notification from the Company when the conversion process is commencing.
While performing its launch preparation initiatives, Insulet continues to collaborate closely with healthcare providers and patients so they can enjoy the many benefits of the current OmniPod today.
About the OmniPod Insulin Management System
The OmniPod® Insulin Management System is the world's first tubeless insulin pump. The OmniPod offers people living with insulin-requiring diabetes all the benefits of insulin pump therapy, with freedom and ease. The tubing-free OmniPod insulin pump has just two easy-to-use parts: the discreet, waterproof Pod, which automatically inserts and can be worn on many parts of the body to hold and deliver insulin; and the Personal Diabetes Manager (PDM), a hand-held device that wirelessly programs the Pod, calculates suggested doses and has a built-in blood glucose meter. For more information on the OmniPod insulin pump, please visit: http://www.myomnipod.com.
Forward-Looking Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 concerning Insulet's expectations, anticipations, intentions, beliefs or strategies regarding the future, including those related to its planned expansion of sales of the next generation OmniPod System in the U.S. and abroad, product demand, the market acceptance of our next generation OmniPod System, regulatory matters and financial performance. These forward-looking statements are based on its current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects on Insulet. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting Insulet will be those that it has anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond its control) or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: risks associated with the Company's dependence on the OmniPod System; Insulet's ability to increase customer orders and manufacturing volumes; adverse changes in general economic conditions; impact of healthcare reform legislation; potential supply problems or price fluctuations with sole source or other third-party suppliers on which Insulet is dependent; international business risks; Insulet's inability to obtain adequate coverage or reimbursement from third-party payors for the OmniPod System and potential adverse changes in reimbursement rates or policies relating to the OmniPod; potential adverse effects resulting from competition with competitors; technological innovations adversely affecting the Company's business; potential termination of Insulet's license to incorporate a blood glucose meter into the OmniPod System; conflicts with the intellectual property of third parties, including claims that Insulet's current or future products infringe the proprietary rights of others; adverse regulatory or legal actions relating to the OmniPod System; failure of Insulet's contract manufacturers or component suppliers to comply with FDA's quality system regulations; product liability lawsuits that may be brought against Insulet; reduced retention rates; unfavorable results of clinical studies relating to the OmniPod System or the products of Insulet's competitors; potential future publication of articles or announcement of positions by physician associations or other organizations that are unfavorable to Insulet's products; the expansion, or attempted expansion, into foreign markets; the concentration of substantially all of Insulet's manufacturing capacity at a single location in China and substantially all of Insulet's inventory at a single location in Massachusetts; Insulet's ability to attract and retain key personnel; Insulet's ability to manage its growth; intense competition among distributors of diabetes supplies impairing Insulet's business; failure to retain key supplier and payor partners; the expansion of Insulet's distribution network; and other risks and uncertainties described in its Annual Report on Form 10-K, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 28, 2012 in the section entitled "Risk Factors," and in its other filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of its assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements. Insulet undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements.
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This week, Douglas middle schoolers came together for a #GoodCharacters Expo to share powerful service projects with community members, mentors and peers. We were blown away!
After weeks in the American Character Program, learning about historical figures who transformed America, they were then challenged to begin transforming things themselves. What we saw next proved they are on their way to making this world an even better place to live.
Speaking from their booths, students shared how they formed groups, identified problems, worked with local mentors and began taking action. In addition to civics and character learned in the program's curriculum, they gained real-world practice in collaboration, service, empathy, compassion and communication.
It was a proud moment for our Liberty Learning team as we saw first-hand how our 3rd and 5th grade programs had paved the way for these middle schoolers to take ownership in their roles as citizens. Their ideas, ingenuity and determination showed us America's future is in good hands!
This immersive educational experience is made possible because our generous local and state sponsors understand that these lessons must be taught despite time and budget constraints.
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This year, the Pilot Vanishing Point 2015 Limited Edition is called Twilight. I hope they make a whole range of these in a variety of colors! It's called Twilight and is a gradient of ice blue to royal purple. While packaging rarely gets to me, this gift box is rather attractive. I love the purple at the end.
I really like stub nibs, so I'm pretty excited Pilot is releasing a stub nib. The 18k rhodium-plated nibs are precise, tidy writers, so I'm looking forward to trying that stub out. I thought you might like to see some pictures! Pilot has set up a 10% off code for you guys on their site: Pilotpen.us. The code is: GourmetPens10. No affiliation, no commission, it's just for you in case you would like a Twilight of your own (no vampires). Code is valid from July 31, 2015 - August 30, 2015.
Update: Pilot USA has let me know the Twilight will not be available on their site. It should be available from retailers in the fall. Coupon code is valid on the other VPs on the site. Sorry for the confusion - I, too, thought they would be on the site! Bummer.


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Much criticism is levelled at the WTF Taegeuk series of Poomsea (patterns) due to peoples misunderstandings. In this post, Orjan Nilsen answers these criticisms and points out how there is in fact a lot of practicality that is not immediately obvious. Continue reading
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The tsearch2 module provides backwards-compatible text search functionality for applications that used tsearch2 before text searching was integrated into core PostgreSQL in release 8.3.
Although the built-in text search features were based on tsearch2 and are largely similar to it, there are numerous small differences that will create portability issues for existing applications:
Some functions' names were changed, for example rank
to ts_rank
. The replacement tsearch2 module provides aliases having the old names.
The built-in text search data types and functions all exist within the system schema pg_catalog. In an installation using tsearch2, these objects would usually have been in the public schema, though some users chose to place them in a separate schema of their own. Explicitly schema-qualified references to the objects will therefore fail in either case. The replacement tsearch2 module provides alias objects that are stored in public (or another schema if necessary) so that such references will still work.
There is no concept of a "current parser" or "current dictionary" in the built-in text search features, only of a current search configuration (set by the default_text_search_config parameter). While the current parser and current dictionary were used only by functions intended for debugging, this might still pose a porting obstacle in some cases. The replacement tsearch2 module emulates these additional state variables and provides backwards-compatible functions for setting and retrieving them.
There are some issues that are not addressed by the replacement tsearch2 module, and will therefore require application code changes in any case:
The old tsearch2
trigger function allowed items in its argument list to be names of functions to be invoked on the text data before it was converted to tsvector format. This was removed as being a security hole, since it was not possible to guarantee that the function invoked was the one intended. The recommended approach if the data must be massaged before being indexed is to write a custom trigger that does the work for itself.
Text search configuration information has been moved into core system catalogs that are noticeably different from the tables used by tsearch2. Any applications that examined or modified those tables will need adjustment.
If an application used any custom text search configurations, those will need to be set up in the core catalogs using the new text search configuration SQL commands. The replacement tsearch2 module offers a little bit of support for this by making it possible to load an old set of tsearch2 configuration tables into PostgreSQL 8.3. (Without the module, it is not possible to load the configuration data because values in the regprocedure columns cannot be resolved to functions.) While those configuration tables won't actually do anything, at least their contents will be available to be consulted while setting up an equivalent custom configuration in 8.3.
The old reset_tsearch()
and get_covers()
functions are not supported.
The replacement tsearch2 module does not define any alias operators, relying entirely on the built-in ones. This would only pose an issue if an application used explicitly schema-qualified operator names, which is very uncommon.
The recommended way to update a pre-8.3 installation that uses tsearch2 is:
Make a dump from the old installation in the usual way, but be sure not to use -c (--clean) option of pg_dump or pg_dumpall.
In the new installation, create empty database(s) and install the replacement tsearch2 module into each database that will use text search. This must be done before loading the dump data! If your old installation had the tsearch2 objects in a schema other than public, be sure to adjust the CREATE EXTENSION command so that the replacement objects are created in that same schema.
Load the dump data. There will be quite a few errors reported due to failure to recreate the original tsearch2 objects. These errors can be ignored, but this means you cannot restore the dump in a single transaction (eg, you cannot use pg_restore's -1 switch).
Examine the contents of the restored tsearch2 configuration tables (pg_ts_cfg and so on), and create equivalent built-in text search configurations as needed. You may drop the old configuration tables once you've extracted all the useful information from them.
Test your application.
At a later time you may wish to rename application references to the alias text search objects, so that you can eventually uninstall the replacement tsearch2 module.
Tsearch2 Development Site http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/


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Welcome to Ottawa, the beautiful and historic capital of Canada that is booming with new condo developments.
Sitting on the South Bank of the Ottawa River in southern Ontario, Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the center of the National Capital Region. It has a population of over 1.3 million people and a history dating back to 1826. It's famously home to many cultural landmarks and educational institutions.
As well as being a cultural and educational hub, Ottawa is also home to countless condos. There are 428 condo buildings in Ottawa, and you can find a wide range of Ottawa condo buildings like Low-Rise, Mid-Rise, High-Rise, Luxury, Pre-Construction, and Lofts too. In short, there are many types of Ottawa condos for sale, offering something for everyone.
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You can find a wide range of Ottawa condos in some of the city's most popular and rapidly-developing neighborhoods, including Centretown, Downtown Ottawa, Sandy Hill, Westboro, Hintonburg, Mechanicsville, Byward Market, The Glebe, and Lebreton. Centretown, Downtown Ottawa, and Byward Market tend to have the most condos in Ottawa.
Centretown, Downtown Ottawa, and Byward Market all have a high number of condos in Ottawa. These neighborhoods are also some of the best places to live in Ottawa, home to famous landmarks like the Peace Tower, the Canadian Museum of Nature, and ByWard Market Square.
The city also boasts many other exciting neighborhoods with Ottawa condos for sale, including neighborhoods that are quieter and calmer, ideal for growing families, and many of the best condo buildings offering easy access to Ottawa's top sights like Parliament Hill, the Rideau Canal, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Canadian War Museum.
The average days on market for condos for sale in Ottawa is 40 days, and the average sale price of condos in Ottawa is $390,239. There were 2039 Ottawa condos sold last year. Ottawa saw a decrease in the number of condos sold of -5% compared to the previous year. There are also plenty of new constructions of condos in Ottawa too, opening up more opportunities for new arrivals to this fabulous city.
In terms of general lifestyle for a condo in Ottawa, the city has a walk score of 7, a bike score of 25, and a transit score of 26. Ottawa condo dwellers can rely on the city's OC Transpo public transport system of buses and light rail transit to get around with ease, and the capital region has more than 300km of bike paths too, ideal for cyclists.
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WASHINGTON - Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden said he acted alone in leaking US government secrets and that suggestions by some US lawmakers he might have had help from Russia were "absurd," the New Yorker magazine reported on Tuesday.
In an interview the magazine said was conducted by encrypted means from Moscow, Snowden was quoted as saying, "This 'Russian spy' push is absurd."
Snowden said he "clearly and unambiguously acted alone, with no help from anyone, much less a government," the New Yorker said.
"It won't stick.... Because it's clearly false, and the American people are smarter than politicians think they are," the publication quoted Snowden as saying.
The head of the US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said on Sunday he was investigating whether Snowden had help from Russia in stealing and revealing US government secrets.
"I believe there's a reason he ended up in the hands - the loving arms - of an FSB agent in Moscow. I don't think that's a coincidence," Representative Mike Rogers told NBC's "Meet the Press," referring to the Russian intelligence agency that is a successor of the Soviet-era KGB.
Rogers did not provide specific evidence to back his suggestions of Russian involvement in Snowden's activities, but said, "Some of the things we're finding we would call clues that certainly would indicate to me that he had some help."
Snowden fled the United States last year to Hong Kong and then to Russia, where he was granted at least a year of asylum. US officials want him returned to the United States for prosecution. His disclosures of large numbers of stolen US secret documents sparked a debate around the world about the reach of US electronic surveillance.
Other US security officials told Reuters as recently as last week that the United States had no evidence that Snowden had any confederates who assisted him or guided him about what National Security Agency materials to hack or how to do so.
Snowden told the New York Times in October he did not take any secret NSA documents with him to Russia when he fled there in June 2013. "There's a zero percent chance the Russians or Chinese have received any documents," Snowden told the Times.
Snowden said in the New Yorker interview that if he were a Russian spy, "Why Hong Kong?" and why was he stuck for a lengthy period in Moscow's airport before being allowed to stay in the country.
"Spies get treated better than that," he said.


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Manila, Philippines, August 2, 2019: DAWN OF HEROES. Once again, the finest martial arts talent in the world came out to showcase their incredible skills (ONE Featherweight World Title).
In the main event, Martin Nguyen retained his ONE Featherweight World Title with a technical knockout victory over Koyomi Matsushima.
The main event, Martin "The Situ-Asian" Nguyen of Australia and Vietnam continued his reign over the featherweight division with a second-round technical knockout victory over Japanese challenger Koyomi "Moushigo" Matsushima to retain the ONE Featherweight World Championship.
Matsushima put the pressure on Nguyen early in the opening round with his solid ground game.
The champion was able to make the necessary adjustments in the second round, however, as he picked apart a tired Matsushima with a barrage of strikes to get the stoppage win and successfully defend his title for a third time.
In the co-main event, Rodtang "The Iron Man" Jitmuangnon of Thailand dethroned English striking sensation Jonathan "The General" Haggerty via unanimous decision to become the new ONE Flyweight Muay Thai World Champion.
Haggerty utilized his length in the early going, using front kicks to keep the challenger at bay.
Rodtang picked up steam in the succeeding rounds and managed to drop Haggerty twice.
After five rounds of explosive action, it was Rodtang who walked away with the victory and the prestigious ONE World Title.
In the ONE Lightweight World Grand Prix Semi-finals, Eddie "The Underground King" Alvarez of the United States recorded his first victory under the ONE banner with a rear naked choke of former ONE Lightweight World Champion Eduard "Landslide" Folayang of the Philippines.
Folayang attacked Alvarez with a blitz of strikes to open the contest and a low kick brought "The Underground King" to the mat.
Alvarez, however, was able to sweep Folayang to wind up in mount.
From there, Alvarez took Folayang's back, fished for the submission, and forced the tap.
In the ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix Semi-finals, Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson of the United States outlasted Tatsumitsu "The Sweeper" Wada of Japan to take home a three-round unanimous decision.
After a brief exchange on the feet in the first round, Wada was able to take Johnson to the mat and secure his back.
Johnson however defended very well. Action continued in the second round with Johnson dominating the grappling exchanges.
In the third and final round, Johnson appeared to have Wada figured out and took control of the bout to cruise to a unanimous decision victory.
Filipino flyweight star Danny "The King" Kingad secured his spot in the ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix Finals with a split decision win over Australian Reece "Lightning" McLaren.
Kingad survived a number of precarious situations in the first two rounds to rally back in the final round (ONE Featherweight World Title).
In the last two minutes of the bout, Kingad dominated a fading McLaren as he was able to land a couple of takedowns and unload some ground-and-pound to swing the decision in his favor.
Kingad is now one win away from becoming the ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix Champion.
Muay Thai star Rodlek PK.Saenchaimuaythaigym of Thailand opened the main card in spectacular fashion with a third round knockout victory over Andrew "Maddog Fairtex" Miller of Scotland.
Rodlek overcame Miller's significant height and reach advantage as he outstruck his foe in the first two rounds of action.
In the opening minute of the final round, Rodlek dropped Miller with a short right elbow followed by a knee to score the stoppage win.
Japanese flyweight Yuya "Little Piranha" Wakamatsu captured his first win under the ONE banner in highlight-reel fashion with a first round knockout of former ONE Flyweight World Champion Geje "Gravity" Eustaquio of the Philippines.
The heavy-handed Wakamatsu timed his shot, found the opening and unloaded a solid straight right hand that had Eustaquio out before hitting the canvas.
Wakamatsu followed up with a few more shots before the referee stepped in to stop the bout.
In a lightweight contest, South Korea's "Crazy Dog" Dae Sung Park overwhelmed former ONE Featherweight World Champion Honorio "The Rock" Banario of the Philippines over three rounds.
Park came out firing powerful combinations and actively pursuing the takedown in the first round. He dropped Banario with a head kick and followed him to the mat for some ground-and-pound nearly finishing the Filipino.
Banario survived and came back with a flurry of his own, sending Park reeling towards the ropes.
Park rocked Banario again in the third with a high kick, which "The Rock" again recovered well from. In the end, all three ringside judges scored the bout in favor of Park to win by unanimous decision.
Japan's Daichi Takenaka and Brazil's Leandro "Brodinho" Issa figured in an epic back-and-forth battle in a bantamweight contest.
Takenaka and Issa began the bout testing each other's grappling skills, with both men taking turns in dominant positions.
As the bout wore on however, action shifted to the feet and Takenaka began to pull away with superior striking.
After a right hand put Issa down in the third, Takenaka followed up with a plethora of punches on the ground to force the stoppage.
American top welterweight contender James "Nako" Nakashima put together a well-rounded performance, defeating Japanese mixed martial arts legend Yushin "Thunder" Okami.
Nakashima came out to a fast and aggressive start, taking the action right to Okami in the opening moments of the contest.
For three full rounds, Nakashima got the better of Okami in the striking and grappling departments. In the end, all three judges scored the bout in favor of Nakashima to win by unanimous decision.
In a featherweight contest, China's "The Stalker" Xie Bin took on the Philippines' Edward "The Ferocious" Kelly.
However, after an unfortunate halt to the bout in round two, Xie was awarded a technical decision victory over the Filipino.
China's Miao Li Tao was impressive in his return to the ring, defeating Thailand's Pongsiri "The Smiling Assassin" Mitsatit via unanimous decision. Miao was in control from the get-go as he took Mitsatit down and controlled him on the mat for the majority of the three-round contest.
Mitsatit had no answer for Miao's aggressive and powerful grappling as the Chinese warrior coasted to a convincing decision win (ONE Featherweight World Title).
Japanese women's strawweight contender Ayaka Miura continued to roll in her ONE Championship career, defeating former World Title challenger Samara "Marituba" Santos of Brazil with an Americana submission in the second round.
Miura bucked a slow start in the opening round and displayed her superior grappling in the second round by taking Santos down and locking in the Americana in just 39 seconds.
Malaysia's Muhammad "Jungle Cat" Aiman kicked off the action at ONE: DAWN OF HEROES with a unanimous decision victory over Indonesian veteran "The Terminator" Sunoto.
Aiman remained a step ahead throughout the three-round bout as he outstruck and outgrappled Sunoto to walk away with the curtain-raising win.
Official results for ONE: DAWN OF HEROES/ONE Featherweight World Title
ONE Featherweight World Championship bout: Martin Nguyen defeats Koyomi Matsushima by TKO (Strikes) at 4:40 minutes of round 2
ONE Super Series Flyweight Muay Thai World Championship bout: Rodtang Jitmuangnon defeats Jonathan Haggerty by Unanimous Decision (UD) after 5 rounds
ONE Lightweight World Grand Prix Semi-final bout: Eddie Alvarez defeats Eduard Folayang by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 2:16 minutes of round 1
ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix Semi-final bout: Demetrious Johnson defeats Tatsumitsu Wada by Unanimous Decision (UD) after 3 rounds
ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix Semi-final bout: Danny Kingad defeats Reece McLaren by Split Decision (SD) after 3 rounds
ONE Super Series Muay Thai Bantamweight bout:
Rodlek PK.Saenchaimuaythaigym defeats Andrew Miller by Knockout (KO) at 0:49 minutes of round 3
Mixed MartialArts Flyweight bout: Yuya Wakamatsu defeats Geje Eustaquio by Knockout (KO) at 1:59 minutes of round 1
MMA Lightweight bout: Dae Sung Park defeats Honorio Banario by Unanimous Decision (UD) after 3 rounds
Bantamweight bout: Daichi Takenaka defeats Leandro Issa by TKO (Strikes) at 1:39 minutes of round 3
MMA Welterweight bout: James Nakashima defeats Yushin Okami by Unanimous Decision (UD) after 3 rounds
Featherweight bout: Xie Bin defeats Edward Kelly by Technical Decision (TD)
MMA Catchweight bout (57.0kg): Miao Li Tao defeats Pongsiri Mitsatit by Unanimous Decision (UD) after 3 rounds
MMA Women's Strawweight bout: Ayaka Miura defeats Samara Santos by Submission (Americana) at 0:39 minutes of round 2
Bantamweight bout: Muhammad Aiman defeats Sunoto by Unanimous Decision at after 3 rounds. —- ONEFC


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Which is why we offer restaurant-style dining and serve a variety of delicious dishes using only the freshest ingredients.
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Autumn 2006
That's art direction
Words and pictures – and the way they are used to tell a story – lie at the heart of every magazine, big or small
Judging by the design meetings I sit in, these are tense times in magazine publishing. While the technology to design and print magazines has never been quicker or cheaper to use, the publishing environment has never been more commercially aggressive. There are free competitors, mature markets where every readership niche seems to have been explored, changing postal and environmental regulations, newsagents wanting a better return on their shelf space and supermarkets planning to cut out newsagents altogether.
But of course it is the internet that has really concentrated everybody's minds. Publishers watch it eating away at the newspaper industry and ask how they can prevent themselves becoming the next victim. This is competition from a different media species that wants print's readers and advertisers.
The Web is having positive creative effects as well as negative commercial ones. It has reminded editors and designers that there are other ways of organising content and that they need to stay closer to their readers, especially those who have grown up with online and don't have a cultural attachment to print. But sometimes the Web is also a reminder about the virtues of the printed object and the varieties of editorial page design: magazines can exploit the tactile qualities of different formats, the physical scale of the page, richer photographic styles and different paper stocks.
In the face of the internet, magazines certainly have a continued life as a specialised product, better produced, more expensive, less frequent... think 'bookazine', as one Dutch publisher called their venture.
At the heart of the magazine is the relationship between words and pictures and the way they are used to tell a story. That can be anything, from the New Yorker with its small headlines, long texts and cartoons to the English celebrity weekly Heat where the photographs and shouting type are the story. And it's these kinds of editing and design choices – why something looks the way it does – that the following case studies explore.
New York: a love affair with the city
Founded: 1968
Redesign: Luke Hayman, Autumn 2004
Frequency: weekly
Circulation: 435,949
Design and photography team: 16 (design 5; art / production 4, photography 7)
Photography budget per issue: not disclosed
New York magazine has the editorial energy of a weekly combined with the art direction standards of a monthly. Smart and intensely media literate, it rips through story ideas and packs its pages, but executes them perfectly, from headline and caption writing to photo editing and typographic detailing.
The magazine was founded by Clay Felker and Milton Glaser (see Eye no. 25 vol. 7) in 1968 as the first 'city magazine'. With regular features such as 'The Insatiable Critic', Glaser's own 'Underground Gourmet', and contributors such as Gloria Steinem, Tom Wolfe and Steven Sondheim, it perfected a then new combination of reportage and service feature journalism.
Adam Moss was appointed editor in March 2004 and hired Luke Hayman as design director soon afterwards. 'We try not to imagine a single type reading this magazine,' says Moss. 'The magazine is all about embracing the variety of characters who pass each other on the streets of the city. The magazine has to speak to all of them, otherwise it doesn't work.
'Adam Moss has brought a specific tone of voice to the magazine,' says design director Hayman. 'It's complicated and nuanced: sophisticated, intelligent, funny, serious, self-depreciating. The art direction tries to reinforce that. A huge part of the look of the magazine is due to photo director Jody Quon'
Stories are told with a huge variety of techniques: infographics and tables, annotated photographs. Sections like 'Strategist' use a box-ruled, centred style like a nineteenth-century illustrated magazine but made contemporary by different styles of photography and illustration.
Covers are a team effort, sometimes trying dozens of variations. 'There's some sales difference between covers,' says Moss, 'but we're still never entirely sure why something sells or not. So we try hard (and not always successfully) to not think too much about newsstand sales. The magazine's newsstand circulation is just five per cent of our total circulation. We're much more interested in the subscriber than the casual buyer.'
The Architects' Journal:
the quick and the long
Founded: 1895
Redesign: A collaboration by APFEL
(A Practice For Everyday Life) and
art editor Sarah Douglas, June 2005
Frequency: weekly
Circulation: 13,491
Design team: 2
Photography budget per issue: £1000
Established in 1895, The Architects' Journal is a paid-for magazine for the UK architectural profession. Its redesign last year (2005) is one whose apparent simplicity belies a very subtle approach. Like much young contemporary English architecture, it is deliberately unheroic and uses a restrained palette of basic materials very effectively.
'In recent years the growth of free, controlled-circulation competitors and the rise of the internet has undermined the AJ's position,' says art editor Sarah Douglas, who designs the weekly with assistant art editor Eriko Shimazaki.'The redesign of the AJ was informed by market research which found that architects feel overwhelmed with information and long for clarity and simplicity.'
As a result of the redesign, in-depth information and breaking news are published on the AJ's website, leaving the magazine to carry the material most suited to print: analysis and visually rich features that use photography, architectural drawings and sketches. The expansion of written information online has meant that the AJ has been able to reduce the amount of text it prints by a third.
Douglas continues: 'We wanted it to be bold and modern without losing its authority.' They chose Bembo Schoolbook and Akkurat (including a monospace for captions and drawings) to differentiate running copy, captions and boxes.
'Editor Isabel Allen and I wanted to create a magazine that could be read at two levels – the quick and the long read. The cover's simplicity reflects the layout inside; the date provides the immediacy of a weekly. 'The news pages reflect a transformation in the way we report news. We now break stories daily online.
'A key part of our new approach to AJ is to emphasise that our buildings features are a highly subjective response – the result of a particular critic and photographer, at a particular moment in time. I now commission all our own photography, which allows us to capture imperfections, moments, inhabitation and context, rather than the contrived uninhabited timelessness of conventional architectural photography.'
Reader response has been mixed: 'A lot love it, some hate it,' she says. 'There doesn't seem to be any in between.' Paid subscriptions to the AJ have risen by five per cent.
Die Weltwoche: more neutral,
more matter of fact
Founded: 1933
Redesign: Müller + Hess,
Autumn 2002
Frequency: weekly
Circulation: 80,000 (print run)
Design team: 4-5
Photography budget per issue:
In 2002, a new editorial and design team arrived at the Swiss publication Die Weltwoche (which literally means 'world week'). Their redesign process culminated in the format being changed from a Berliner-sized newspaper to a magazine. Within a tightly detailed typographic system (horizontal rules, tinted panels and the font Lexicon) the magazine ran long articles with a few carefully selected large images. Small headlines, direct layouts and unbroken texts signalled to readers that this was a serious magazine.
'Die Weltwoche was unprofitable for several years,' says co-art director Wendelin Hess (see article about Müller + Hess, Eye no. 32 vol. 8). 'New Sunday papers were launching and eating away at advertising revenues. We decided to move into the magazine market, where the competition was not as strong. We had high journalistic ambitions and wanted to create the most intelligent and sophisticated magazine in Switzerland.
'As far as the design was concerned, we wanted to achieve a combination of the feeling of a traditional highbrow newspaper and the appeal of a "classic" modern magazine. We didn't want to lose subscribers, but we also reached out for younger readers.
'A few subscriptions were cancelled, but we gained a lot of newsstand sales. The readers appreciated the new format. The management, however, wanted to water down some of our artistic decisions and presented a paper with proposed changes. Their proposals were withdrawn after several weeks. An "experienced media expert" said before the relaunch that we would lose up to 30 per cent of our readership. In fact, we increased our readership by 30 per cent after six months. After two years, even the financial deficit was gone.'
Du: the art direction goal is to be functional
Founded: 1941
Redesign: Müller + Hess,
September 2003
Frequency: ten issues per year
Circulation: 17,000 (but print run
can change for special editions)
Design team: 2
Photography budget per issue: CHF†25,000ñ30,000
Du, like Die Weltwoche, has a long tradition. Created as a publishing extension to the printers Conzett & Huber, it evolved into one of Switzerland's leading cultural magazines, known for its strong combination of words and images. By the 1990s the title had started to lose money and was sold.
'In the redesign we wanted to have a main thematic core,' says co-art director Beat Müller. 'Around the core we created a more pluralistic choice of articles to broaden the appeal of the magazine.'
Single-issue themes included 'bargain products of high quality' and 'everything you always wanted to know about everything', as well as famous personalities such as David Bowie or Philip Roth. The design of each issueís core is different. The Bowie issue begins with a series of large portraits, a visual history of the performer, followed by text pages and archive photography. The Roth issue mixes texts and new reportage photography of the author, but its typographic concept springs from the bilingual nature of the issue. German and English text are split horizontally across the page and end at different points.
'Our art direction goal was to be functional,' continues Müller. 'We wanted to create a design that responded to the main topic of the magazine. The design should not look dated after a few years, should not be, in retrospect, part of superficial design trends.'
The magazine exploits its small run, using mixed papers, gatefolds and complex gestures such as the Bowie issue, which was available with 22 different covers.
Make: designing for the 'armchair geek'
Founded: March 2005
Launch design: Albertson Design
Circulation: 80,000
Design team: 3 (but only art director Kirk von Rohr is full time)
Art budget per issue: 00 (5-6 photo shoots, 5-6 illustrations, 2-3 internal shoots)
Make is a small-format magazine about DIY technology published from San Francisco. It harnesses the instincts of the traditional hobby magazine to contemporary devices such as digital cameras and iPods, with a dash of anti-corporate hacker spirit thrown in.
Art director David Albertson, whose studio Albertson Design created the original format and now produces each issue, works for clients such as Wired, the Whitney Museum and Sun Microsystems. 'When the publisher and editor approached me,' says Albertson, 'we began looking at a lot of old Popular Mechanics magazines, and workshop manuals from the 1920s to the 60s. I loved the direct and unadorned way that these publications laid out each project. The digest size was also an inspiration from the past, but it fitted in with the plan to sell back issues on bookshelves. There's something about the size that feels portable and 'handy'.'
At the heart of Make is a projects section where readers are taken through illustrated step-by-step guides to building things like aerial photography kites.
'In Make's art direction, we try to build a bridge between the mechanically adept and the rest of us who have trouble navigating a wiring diagram. So, we try to give everything a clean sense of organisation, and use as few screengrabs as possible. We're designing for the 'armchair geek', who may not undertake a project, but loves being able to follow the way something comes together from raw materials to finished piece.
'Most of the photography is supplied by the authors. Many of the images are technically not printworthy, but the unprofessional artwork underscores the authenticity of the source material. We've found that a home-made piece of technology becomes folk art in its raw beauty, and we show that whenever we can. We make the good stuff big, and the not so good small.
'The magazine and website have a symbiotic relationship – our readers spend a lot of time online, and the website draws over 1 million visitors a month. Makezine.com brings together Makers, ideas and inspiration from around the world.' [...]


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The environment significantly influences whether or not a certain bacterium will block mosquitoes from transmitting malaria, according to researchers at Penn State.
"Bacteria in the genus Wolbachia represent a promising new tool for controlling malaria due to their demonstrated ability to block the development of the pathogen within Anopheles mosquitoes — the mosquitoes that are responsible for the transmission of malaria parasites in many parts of the world," said Courtney Murdock, postdoctoral researcher, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics and Department of Entomology, Penn State. "However, much of the work on the Wolbachia-malaria interaction has been conducted under highly simplified laboratory conditions. In this study, we investigated the ability of Wolbachia to block transmission of malaria — Plasmodium — parasites across variable environmental conditions, which are more reflective of conditions in the field."
The researchers used a species of malaria parasite — Plasmodium yoelii — that affects rodents and the mosquito Anopheles stephensi as a model system to investigate whether Wolbachia would block the ability of the malaria parasite to infect the mosquitoes. The scientists divided the mosquitoes into an uninfected control group and a group infected with Wolbachia. Next, the team raised all groups of mosquitoes in incubators set to different experimental temperatures — 68, 72, 75, 79 and 82 degrees Fahrenheit.
The scientists found that at 82 degrees Fahrenheit, Wolbachia reduced the number of mosquitoes infected by malaria parasites, the number of malaria parasites within each mosquito and the intensity of oocysts — non-infectious cysts created by malaria parasites that occur on the outer lining of a mosquito's midgut. At 75 degrees Fahrenheit, Wolbachia had no effect on prevalence of malaria parasites, but increased oocyst intensity. At 68 degrees Fahrenheit, Wolbachia had no effect on prevalence of parasites or intensity of oocysts.
In addition, the team identified a previously undiscovered effect of Wolbachia. Infection with the bacterium reduced the development of sporozoites across all temperatures, suggesting that Wolbachia and malaria parasites may compete for similar hosts.
"Typically, the more oocysts a mosquito has on its midgut, the more sporozoites it produces," Murdock said. "So, depending on the environmental temperature, Wolbachia either reduced, enhanced or had no effect on the number of oocysts. At 75 degrees Fahrenheit, Wolbachia-infected mosquitos had three times the numbers of oocysts relative to uninfected mosquitoes. Thus, we would predict these mosquitoes to produce more sporozoites. But instead we see that this is not the case, and that is because Wolbachia infection significantly reduces the number of sporozoites produced per oocyst regardless of the environmental temperature. This effect counteracts the enhancement we see at 75 degrees Fahrenheit. How the influence of Wolbachia on parasite establishment and the production of sporozoites under different temperatures plays out to ultimately affect transmission remains to be determined."
The researchers published their results in a recent issue of Nature Scientific Reports.
According to Murdock, the team's results demonstrate that the transmission-blocking ability of Wolbachia is significantly influenced by the environment.
"These results suggest that the development of this promising control technology requires an improved understanding of how mosquitoes, Wolbachia and malaria parasites will interact in diverse transmission settings," she said. "The worst-case scenario is not whether this technology will be ineffective under particular environmental conditions, but whether or not there is a possibility that certain environments will actually enhance malaria transmission by Wolbachia."
The researchers plan to duplicate their experiment using a species of malaria parasite that affects humans to determine whether or not the temperature effects they observed in the mouse model system also will be observed in a human system. The team plans to explore the effects of additional environmental variation — such as daily temperature fluctuation and differential access to food resources in the mosquito larval and adult environments — on the transmission-blocking ability of Wolbachia.
Source: Pennsylvania State University
Published on 18th February 2014