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This policy describes how Hammerton Brewery ltd. uses cookies and collect (and then use) personal data obtained from you when you visit our websites. You acknowledge and agree that your personal data may be processed in accordance with this policy. Without this, we will be unable to provide you with certain marketing communications.
We are the data controller in respect of any personal data we collect about you.
We have appointed a data protection officer who is responsible for monitoring our data protection compliance.
We collect and process the following information about you; this is for the purposes explained in section 3.
Information you give us
Name, email address (personal and/or work), postal address, encrypted password(s), telephone number(s), date of birth, gender, interests, preferences, and competition entry details and answers
Information automatically collected from you
When you visit or use any of our Digital Applications, we automatically collect certain information from you (the majority of which is from a server log), including:
- geo-location data
- operating system and browser type
- domain name requested
- server log details
- browser language/access times
- application version, platform and settings
- URL of the website you visited before browsing to our websites
- time you spent on each page visited
- URLs of the pages you visited on our websites
- IP address used to connect your computer or mobile device to the internet
- other information about your use of and actions on our websites
- We may record or monitor calls, emails, text messages and other correspondence for training purposes to improve the quality of our offering and to prevent and detect fraud.
Information collected from third parties
Google analytics – collects information about how visitors use our Digital Applications.
Doubleclick (Data collection for Google Adwords) – collects information about how visitors use our Digital Applications.
Authentication information – see section 10
We may use your personal data for any or all of the following purposes:
- to provide a high level of customer service (including assisting with any of your enquiries and sales) and to notify you of any security and data breach alerts, and technical notices (including services messages and updates to our Digital Applications and terms);
- to help operate, maintain and improve our offering and our Digital Applications;
- to communicate with you about our products, promotions, upcoming events, reviews and other news or those of our selected partners – this may be via email, telephone, text message and/or push notification – you can change your marketing preferences (including the way in which we contact you) by contacting us;
- to facilitate profiling, segmentation and personalisation – these may be based on location, preferences, interests and past actions;
- to meet our legal obligations and for establishing, exercising or defending our legal rights;
- to compile reports and to help us understand and improve our Digital Applications; and
- to enable us to carry out targeted online advertising more likely to be relevant to you.
For more information about our use of cookies and other similar technologies, see section 11.
We sometimes need to share the personal information we process with other organisations and, where necessary or required, we may share your personal data with the following categories of third parties:
- service providers and suppliers assisting with our business activities, business associates, customers, payment services providers, hosting providers, providers of IT support, advertising platforms, providers of booking systems, providers of cloud-based software or services used by us, accounting firms and law firms;
- ombudsman, regulators, public authorities and security organisations, such as the police, HM Revenue & Customs and the Information Commissioner's Office, to the extent required by law, regulation, court order or if necessary to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights, including if we suspect fraud or attempted fraud;
- current, past and prospective employers, recruitment and employment agencies, trade and employer associations and professional bodies and educators and examining bodies;
- financial organisations and advisors, credit reference agencies, debt collection and tracing agencies, and tenants;
- staff including volunteers, agents and temporary and casual workers;
- family, associates and representatives of the person whose personal data we are processing;
Some third parties to whom we may transfer your personal data may be located outside of the UK or the EEA. In the event of a transfer, we will seek to ensure that appropriate safeguards to protect your data are in place, which could include entering into a data transfer agreement with such third parties to ensure adequate protection for your information. Examples of the types of contractual clauses we may use can be found at the following link: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/internationaltransfers/transfer/index_en.htm.
- We will process your personal data where it is necessary:
- for the performance or entering into of a contract with you, including in order to provide our offering, process your payment and to respond to enquiries made by you;
- for compliance with our legal obligations;
- for the purpose of furthering our legitimate interests including to:
- improve our offering and Digital Applications;
- operate our Digital Applications efficiently and effectively;
- carry out behavioural advertising; and
- prevent, detect and investigate fraud or illegal activity.
- We may also process your personal data on the basis of any consent given by you.
We are committed to protecting your personal data and to keeping it safe and confidential. We will therefore ensure that appropriate technical and organisational physical, electronic and procedural safeguards are implemented to protect it. Access to your personal data will also be limited to our employees and certain third parties who process it on our behalf.
Your personal data will generally be stored for up to 5 years.
We may, however, keep your personal data for longer than 5 years if we need it to fulfil our contractual obligations to you, the law requires us to maintain it for a longer period or you have not withdrawn your consent.
You have the following rights, albeit some of them only apply under certain circumstances:
- to have a copy of the personal data we have collected about you and to send a copy of it to another data controller;
- to update or amend the personal data we have collected about you if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
- to erase, or restrict the processing of, the personal data we have collected about you;
- to object to the processing of the personal data we have collected about you, including in respect of any data processed for direct marketing purposes;
- to withdraw any consents you have provided in respect of our processing of your personal data; and
- to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (www.ico.org).
- To exercise any of these rights, please contact us – see section 12.
- If you want to amend your personal data or preferences, please contact email@example.com
Our offering may contain links to third-party apps, services, tools and websites that are not affiliated with, controlled or managed by us (including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter®) and these services and links may also include social networking features (such as the Facebook® "Like" button and widgets, "Share" buttons, and other interactive mini-programs). These services may collect information, such as the web pages you visited and IP addresses, and may set cookies to enable features to function properly. We are not responsible for the security or privacy of any information collected by these third parties. You should review the privacy statements or policies applicable to the third-party services you connect to, use or access as the privacy practices of these third parties will be governed by their own privacy statements. If you do not want your personal information shared with your social media account provider or other users of the social media service, please do not connect your social media account with your account for the services we provide and do not participate in social sharing.
We collect data about how you interact with our Digital Applications through the use of cookies and other similar technology.
What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you access our Digital Applications. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie.
Why do we use cookies?
Cookies are useful because they allow our Digital Applications to recognise your device. We use them to make our Digital Applications work, or work more efficiently, as well as to store information about your preferences or past actions. You can find out more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.
We also use cookies to enhance and improve your online experience and to understand better how our Digital Applications are used. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited our Digital Applications before or whether you are a new visitor. They can also help to ensure that adverts seen online are more relevant to you and your interests. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
What types of cookies do we use and how?
We use the following types of cookies:
- 'session cookies': these are allocated to your device only for the duration of your visit to our Digital Applications – they are deleted automatically once you close your browser; and
- 'permanent cookies': these survive after your browser is closed and can remain on your device for a period of time – they can be used by our Digital Applications to recognise your computer or mobile device when you open your browser and browse the internet again.
- These cookies may be served directly by us to your computer or mobile device (so-called 'first-party cookies') or by one of our service providers (so-called 'third-party cookies'). A first-party cookie is only used by us to recognise your computer or mobile device when you revisit, or access content via, our Digital Applications. Third-party cookies can be used to recognise your computer or mobile device across different websites (and are most often used for analytical and advertising purposes).
What purposes do we use cookies for?
We use cookies for the purposes stated below:
- essential cookies: these are essential to provide you with services available through our Digital Applications and to use some of their features, such as access to secure areas – without these, providing core functionality, such as transactional pages and secure login accounts, would not be possible;
- analytics cookies: these are used to collect information about how you and others use our Digital Applications – the information gathered does not identify you and is aggregated – this includes the number of visitors to our Digital Applications, the websites or other applications that referred them to our Digital Applications and the pages that they visited on our Digital Applications – we use this information to help operate our Digital Applications more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our Digital Applications;
- functionality cookies: these allow our Digital Applications to remember choices you make (such as your user name or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features – they can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize – they may also be used to provide services you have asked for, such as watching a video or commenting on a blog – the information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites;
- performance cookies: these collect information about how you and others use our Digital Applications, for example, which pages are most visited, if error messages come up and how effective our online promotions are – they are only used to help us improve how our Digital Applications work and to ensure ease and speed of use;
- marketing cookies: these facilitate online advertising – our Digital Applications, for instance, use remarketing with Google – third-party vendors, including Google, use these cookies to tailor adverts based on someone's past visits to our Digital Applications and serve these across the web – you can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ads Settings; and
- social media cookies: these are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or "like" button on our Digital Applications or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking site such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or Google+ – the social network will then record that you have done this and the information may be linked to advertising activities such as targeted banners.
How to manage cookies?
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies. However, if you do not accept our cookies, you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Digital Applications.
You can find more information about how to manage and remove cookies at allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/ or by visiting the websites relevant to the browser you are using. Below we have provided links to some of the most popular browser websites:
If you have any comments or questions, please contact us at 8-9, Roman Way Industrial Estate, 149 Roman Way, London N7 8XH(marked for the attention of our Data Protection Officer), via phone (020 8875 7000) or via email email@example.com
To unsubscribe from any of our marketing-related activities, please follow the link at the bottom of any of our e-communications. Alternatively, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com and we will process your request.
From time to time we may change this policy. Changes made to it will be notified to you 30 days in advance of implementation.


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The Eclipse J2118 double balanced mixer series operates from 2.0 to 18.0 GHz. These mixers offer multi-octave bandwidth, wide DC to IF response, low conversion loss and high port-port isolation. The J2118 is available with SMA female connectors and 3 LO drive levels making it a versatile mixer product.
- Multi-octave bandwidths
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- Wide DC to IF frequency response
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Hi. I was at TEDxChristchurch today. If you couldn't make it, The Press was live streaming the day on their website, and videos will be up on TEDxChristchurch's website soon. Coming to TEDx each year is like watching a child grow up because the quality of the event gets better every year – like design of the slides introducing speakers, audience participation methods, and the name tag/programme.
Here's why you need to watch the videos of the talks when they go online… (And also because I've missed bits, I've misinterpreted and I've probably misquoted a little.)


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Since wabi-sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic system, it is difficult to explain precisely in western terms. According to Leonard Koren, wabi-sabi is the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of what we think of as traditional Japanese beauty and it "occupies roughly the same position in the Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values as do the Greek ideals of beauty and perfection in the West."
Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
It is the beauty of things modest and humble.
It is the beauty of things unconventional.
The concepts of wabi-sabi correlate with the concepts of Zen Buddhism, as the first Japanese involved with wabi-sabi were tea masters, priests, and monks who practiced Zen. Zen Buddhism originated in India, traveled to China in the 6th century, and was first introduced in Japan around the 12th century. Zen emphasizes "direct, intuitive insight into transcendental truth beyond all intellectual conception." At the core of wabi- sabi is the importance of transcending ways of looking and thinking about things/existence.
Material characteristics of wabi-sabi:
For more about wabi-sabi, see http://www.art.unt.edu/ntieva/artcurr/japan/wabisabi.htm


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For those who want more control over the experience provided by the developer portals integrated into Apigee Edge, Drupal 10 provides a powerful open-source, enterprise-level content management system (CMS). Using Apigee's modules for Drupal 10, you can build a fully customized developer portal with greater flexibility and control over the developer experience. Because the Drupal 10 projects and these modules are open-source, you can extend and contribute to their development and leverage the knowledge of the Apigee and Drupal communities.
Get up and running quickly with Apigee Kickstart
The fastest way to get a developer portal site up and running with Apigee Edge is to use the Apigee Developer Portal Kickstart. Apigee Developer Portal Kickstart is a Drupal distribution that enables you to quickly evaluate using Drupal 10 to create an Apigee developer portal. The Kickstart bundles together all of the open source Apigee Drupal modules and libraries that you need to create a portal, configure a connection to Apigee Edge, showcase your API products, and publish your API reference documentation.
Get Started
Instructions for installing the Kickstart distribution can be found on Drupal.org at Apigee Developer Portal Kickstart. The Kickstart installer will prompt you for all the information needed to install Drupal 10 core, configure your connection to Apigee Edge, and get your site up and running with a customizable theme. The Kickstart also includes preconfigured Drupal page entities for your developer portal homepage, API catalog page, and "Get Started" page. Modules for FAQs, Blogs and Forums to build your developer community are also included.
Use Kickstart with Apigee Edge for Private Cloud
You can also use the Kickstart installation profile to install a Drupal 10-based developer portal using CentOS 7/RHEL 7. This is the recommended path for customers who prefer a self-managed option for hosting a developer portal on local servers. The developer portal created with this installation can connect to an org in Apigee Edge for Private Cloud or an org in the public cloud. For more installation instructions, see Use Kickstart with Apigee Edge for Private Cloud.
Customize your developer portal
The Kickstart distribution includes a customizable home page, "Get Started" page, and API catalog page. Each of these pages can be modified to reflect your company's brand, logo, and customized developer experience.
- To customize the logo and color scheme of your developer portal, see Customize your developer portal.
- To create new content on your portal pages, see Edit the content and layout of your pages.
- To get started with FAQs, Blogs, or Forums, see Create an FAQ.
For additional customizations or page development, refer to the following sources:
- Drupal 9 Documentation
- Drupal Community
- Third-party with expertise in Drupal 10
Publish your API Documentation with the Apigee API Catalog
Apigee's API Catalog module lets you document your APIs in your Drupal 10 developer portal using OpenAPI specifications and Apigee SmartDocs. Publishing API documentation to your portals makes it easy for developers to learn, test, and evaluate your APIs.
For more information on using the integrated Apigee API Catalog with SmartDocs in your Drupal 10 developer portal, see Document your APIs.
Choose your hosting provider
Using the open source Apigee Drupal 10 modules provides you with complete control over the developer experience in your portal. With this self-managed option, you are responsible for hosting and maintaining the portal sites leveraging these modules. You can choose a provider to manage and host your developer portal, such as Pantheon, Acquia, or another provider.
For more information on working with Pantheon to host your Drupal 10 developer portal, see Pantheon powers Apigee Drupal-based Developer Portals.
For more information on working with Acquia to host your Drupal 10 developer portal, see Apigee and Acquia partner together to deliver development portals.
About the Apigee modules supported for Drupal 10
The following table summarizes the Drupal 10 projects that are available for use with Apigee and their corresponding GitHub Issue Queues for reporting issues. Contributions are appreciated, as outlined in the contribution guidelines for each project.
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Apigee Edge | Enables you to integrate Drupal 10 with Apigee Edge. Includes the following submodules:
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Apigee Edge Client Library for PHP | Makes it easy to develop PHP clients that call the Apigee Edge API. | Report issue |
Apigee Monetization | Enables you to create a developer portal for an Apigee Edge monetized organization. Includes the following submodule:
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Apigee Developer Portal Kickstart | Enables you to get started quickly using Drupal 10 to create an Apigee developer portal. The Kickstart distribution includes Drupal 10 core, Apigee Edge, the Apigee Edge Client Library for PHP, the Apigee API Catalog, Apigee Monetization, and customizable themes and templates. | Report issue |
Apigee API Catalog | Enables you to document your APIs using OpenAPI specifications and SmartDocs. | Report issue |


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October draws me in like a bonfire flickering on a cool Autumn night. It wraps me up in a over sized sweater, whispering promises and hope into my ear. October, my favorite of all the months, has arrived once again.
September seemed to come and go quicker than I could fill out emergency card paperwork. The girls started school one week earlier than usual this year. Each new school year brings sadness for me that another summer is gone but a slight flutter of happiness for a steadier pace to my days. My youngest daughter Evangeline, who is the sweetest soul, accompanies my days with plans of grocery shopping, browsing library aisles, and baking some new sweet treat for when school lets out.
Eva happened to fall while playing outside with her sisters a few weeks ago and fractured her tibia. I have never seen a tiny girl as happy as she was getting her leg fixed by the doctor. She has a cast now and is eager to fill it with all her favorite people's signatures. No crutches were small enough to accommodate her size so we are either carrying her around or she crawls. It is cumbersome but she seems to not mind it too much.
I am also still purging my home of things to create more order and peace. With a large family comes much clutter. I try my best to manage it and keep it at a minimum. With the holidays approaching, I have been scheduling Purple Heart pickups for donations at least once a month. It is a great way to motivate myself into creating another group of items to go. By clearing unused or unwanted items from my home, I am content knowing someone is getting much needed use from them elsewhere.
As for this space, I want to return and write and share more. Distractions and stress seem to pull me away from focusing here. Sometimes just everyday life gets in the way. At the end of a long day when quiet seeps in and I can finally hear only my own voice, the only thing I can think about doing is climbing into bed under a pile of blankets and sleeping for as long as the alarm will allow me. I hope to spend a bit more time listening to that voice, though. October may just be the perfect time to start.
"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."
~L.M Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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You may have been talking with a neighbor or simply heard a snippet on the radio or television, but suddenly you are aware that right now is a "seller's market." Thoughts of an instant million dollar sale of your home or timing the selling of your home may be coursing through your brain and if so, you should consult with a knowledgable real estate agent to get the inside scoop. Many areas are experiencing low home volume and high demand which could place your home for sale in prime position.
As a home owner, you may not understand the technicalities behind multiple offers and so working with a local real estate agent can provide you with the much needed guidance you'll require to navigate your home sale. There are some simple steps that can aid you in getting multiple offers and the basics are outlined below.
Sell Your Home For More Money
- Stage Your Home for Sale – In a "seller's market," potential buyers know they need to act fast to put in an offer on the house (or houses) they like. Make sure yours is on that list by tending to every detail, cleaning is a big part of it, so don't forget to clean every single spot, if necessary hire the pressure washing service in Katy TX for an more intense cleaning.
- Spread the Word – From hosting a Broker's Preview to the open house and other advertising, make sure that your home for sale is being properly promoted. Attention must be drawn to your home in order for it to be seen and offers to be submitted. Give your home the promotion it needs or find a real estate agent who will, so you can wait for the offers to roll in.
- Ask for a Lockbox – To have multiple offers, multiple people need to view your home (in staged condition) at all times. Realize that getting your home sold quickly will likely mean a bit of inconvenience for you in the short term. The sooner you accept an offer, however, the less time you'll need to spend adjusting your lifestyle.
If you need more advice or simply want a real estate agent you can trust with your home, please don't hesitate to call. I'd love to get you multiple offers!


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25 Lessons in 25 Years, by Bill Gross >
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From Ideas to Successful Companies
Founded in 1996, Idealab is the longest running technology incubator. We have created over 150 companies with more than 45 IPOs and acquisitions.
Great Ideas.
Great Companies.
We believe that entrepreneurship can unlock human potential and make the world a better place. We look for big problems in the world that have technology solutions and test many ideas in parallel. When one shows great promise, we recruit a great team, spin it off into a company, and help them grow a successful business.
Innovator Bill Gross presents at VERGE 16
Ground-breaking solar technologies and why clean technology is a trillion dollar opportunity
Idealab founder Bill Gross speaks at TED 2015
Bill's talk on the single biggest reason why startups succeed
2014 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
Bill speaks about regulation designed to foster technology-driven growth
Bill kicks off Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford
An informative and inspiring talk on innovation and starting companies
Bill Gates' blog goes behind the scenes at Idealab
A look at what it takes to bring ground-breaking companies to market
Our Current Companies
See a full list of all our companies since 1996 >
IPO and M&A Activity
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Image to ZX Spec 1.0.5 "Omega" is now available - try it online (requires Java 6, you will be shown a security prompt) or download it (more links bottom of this post beneath changes).
You can find out more about what Image to ZX Spec can do here and here
Bill and Ted agree being Omega dithered is most excellent (click image)
Version 1.0.5
- Added Bayer Ordered Dither (2x1)
- Added Omega Ordered Dither (2x2)
- Minor code changes including better error messages.
- Remembering directory locations in the file dialogs
- OpenGL hardware acceleration switch (disabled by default, source
code only adjustment required to enable it due to instability and
currently only rendering display improvements). - Small UI changes
YouTube video tutorial
Webstart Image to ZX Spec (i.e. "online" usage - requires Java 6)
Download Image to ZX Spec 1.0.5
Download the Image to ZX Spec 1.0.5 (GPL 2) source code


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Want to save money on your heating oil?
ACRE is an acronym for "Action For Communities of Rural England". The ACRE Bulk Oil Buying Syndicate has been formed in order to obtain cheaper heating oils for individuals by negotiating prices on a bulk order. Charity Number 1080038
The annual £20.00 membership fee covers any number of orders within the years membership, thus making it ideal for spreading the cost throughout the year by regular top ups. Members who ordered in November 2011 saved £30 on 500 litres, already having recovered the £20 membership. On each future order within the membership period, savings will be 100%.
There is no condition regarding quantity you can order other than the 500 litres min., thereafter, the price per litre remains the same. Also there is no restriction as to how often you can place an order of 500 litres plus – you can even request a "Top Up".
Membership forms can be downloaded from www.northantsacre.org.uk, completed and sent to Northamptonshire ACRE with a cheque for £20.00 prior to the next ordering date.


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Difference Between Drawing Male and Female Anime / Manga Heads & Faces
After learning the basic construction of the Manga / Anime head, there are other important factors yet to remember. There are many different types of heads and faces to be constructed. Such as the difference between the male and female head. You should know what makes an Anime / Manga female head look so feminine compared to a males' head.


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Extrusion die design and research
Dies are made of tool steels that are super-hard and abrasion-resistant. This makes them suitable for shaping other materials, like aluminium.
At Hydro, we make our own dies. We also buy dies from independent toolmakers. We develop design aids for effective extrusion die design, we correct dies to optimize productivity and we research die performance. We keep improving the production process to reduce costs for you, using:
- Material flow simulation in the dies
- Integration with computer-aided design systems to calculate flow resistance in ports, mandrel deflection and stresses in webs
- Heat treatment of tool steels
- Surface treatment of dies with methods such as nitriding, nitrocarburization, chemical vapor deposition and plasma vapor deposition
Extrusions and dies
Medium and large-sized extrusions are pressed through a die with only one opening. Smaller extrusions can be pressed through multi-aperture dies – with as many as 16 apertures.


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The rising tide of floating renewables
From a wind farm off the coast of Scotland to a solar plant in China, some record-breaking renewable energy schemes all share one common trait: they float.
As land becomes increasingly expensive and planning consent for large-scale projects is more difficult to acquire, both the number and size of floating renewables projects are on the rise worldwide – especially solar.
In the UK, the first fully-operational floating solar facility was completed in 2014, on a reservoir at Sheeplands farm in Berkshire. More recently, the largest floating energy farm in Europe powered up in 2016 on the Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir, in Surrey, England. Boasting a 6.3MW capacity, its 23,000 panels of solar PV cover the equivalent of eight football pitches. Coming in at twice that size is the floating solar installation on the Yamakura Dam reservoir, in Japan which will deliver 13.7MW of power.
In 2017, however, the rule book was rewritten when China switched on what is now the world's largest floating renewable energy plant. With a $45 million price tag, the giant installation of 120,000 solar panels covers an area equivalent to over 160 American football fields and generates enough energy to power 15,000 homes.
Setting new boundaries
In contrast, wind has only taken its first steps with the Scotland installation. This world first, known as Hywind Scotland has a 30MW capacity capable of powering up to 20,000 homes. Its five turbines were towed from Norway to around 15 miles off the coast of Scotland and tethered to the seabed at depths up to 129 meters.
Given that traditional fixed turbines operate typically in waters only up to 60 meters deep, the project illustrates perfectly the potential for floating technology, says Dominic Szanto, Director and Head of Offshore Wind, JLL Energy and Infrastructure.
"There are countries with water too deep for conventional offshore wind where floating technology provides significant advantages – such as off the coast of Japan, west coast of USA and the Mediterranean," he adds.
Full of promise, the technology is still commercially unproven though says Steven Black, Director – Planning and Development, at JLL.
"The ocean environment brings with it engineering challenges – as has been evidenced by struggles with emerging wave-power technology. The potential, though, is fantastic and allows deeper and more distant coastal waters to be looked at as an option," he explains.
"Floating technology, will open up new opportunities and could ease some of the challenges associated with existing sea bed-fixed development sites."
Economics at play
The numbers are stacking up more and more for renewable energy. New technology can be expensive in the short-term, but necessary and cost-effective in the longer-term.
When it comes to wind energy, costs are moving downwards worldwide. "General trends in offshore wind have seen costs coming down quite dramatically, not least with economies of scale coming into play. It was the auctions in the Netherlands and Denmark that proved the real catalyst for falling rates," says Szanto. "As a result, strike prices that might have been thought revolutionary not so long ago are now operating in the market."
And these lower costs could act as a big plus point for future floating projects, he believes. "Falling costs for wind and solar already help offset extra charges associated with floating, which combined with the costs involved in acquiring land, makes the business case more feasible and attractive. In addition, there's no fundamental reason why something that floats should be significantly more expensive, it is just a case of additional pump-priming costs."
Yet design remains a challenge before floating installations become more widespread. For solar, floating projects may have greater PV efficiency thanks to the cooling effects of the water and marine environment yet they also need to withstand effects of humidity and maybe salt.
At present, there are a number of competing designs for bases or foundations of floating wind technologies and it remains to be seen which ones take off commercially.
A sea of possibility
For real estate, floating energy installations could help to meet the higher energy demands of modern living without taking up scarce land resources. "At very high level, the more you take technologies offshore, the less pressure there is on land use, particularly with demand for housing, urban density and greenbelt concerns," Black says.
Storing the energy produced is another prime consideration to ensure that countries can meet drops in supply from intermittent sources and smaller grid-feed locations.
While government backing for renewables remains important for consumer and market confidence, the issues of energy use and decarbonisation remain priority topics within the property market. "There is an element of carrot-and-stick, as regulations tighten and occupiers such as RE100 corporates and brands commit to shrinking carbon footprints," says Black.
"In times to come companies may see higher value in having their own supply via renewable sources. This rising demand will inevitably encourage floating solutions for supply, at least indirectly. Ultimately, in real estate, the full effects of the revolution in floating renewables truly will be felt worldwide when it has an effect on capital values."


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Privacy Policy (Updated 12-10-2018)
This privacy policy was created notify you about our privacy policy and the ways data may be used when you visit this website. Carmen Chow Psychotherapy makes every reasonable effort to keep your personal information protected and private. We do not share personal information with 3rd parties.
This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") applies to this website, https://www.carmenchowpsychotherapy.com. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, process and distribute your information, including Personal Data (as defined below) used to access this Website. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. The use of information collected through our Website shall be limited to the purposes under this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use for customers.
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We generally collect two types of information from users of the CARMEN CHOW PSYCHOTHRERAPY sites: 1) Personal Information ( your name, email address, payment information); and, 2) Non-Personal Information (e.g. cookies or IP address).
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"Personal Information" is defined as information that identifies you personally, such as your name, address, phone numbers, or email address. CARMEN CHOW PSYCHOTHRERAPY collects and stores the Personal Information that you have provided to us. Here are some examples of manners in which we may collect your Personal Information on the Sites:
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2. Billing information including name, address and credit card information so that we can process payment to deliver our products or services to you under our contractual obligation.
3. A name and an email address if you complete our contact form with a question. We may send you marketing emails with either your consent or if we believe we have a legitimate interest to contact you based on your contact or question.
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To maintain our Website's high quality, we may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer the Website by identifying which areas of the Website are most heavily used, and to display content according to your preferences. Your IP address is the number assigned to computers connected to the Internet. This is essentially "traffic data" which cannot personally identify you, but is helpful to us for marketing purposes and for improving our services. Traffic data collection does not follow a user's activities on any other websites in any way. Anonymous traffic data may also be shared with business partners and advertisers on an aggregate basis.
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"Non-Personal Information" can be technical information or it can be demographic information, such as your age, gender, ZIP code or other geolocation data, or interests. Non-Personal Information does NOT identify you personally. Here are some examples of the Non-Personal Information that is collected via the Sites and a description of how this information is used:
Internet Protocol (IP) address — Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data — such as the webpages you view. We use this information to deliver our webpages to you upon request, to tailor our Sites to the interests of our users and to measure traffic within our Sites.
Cookies — our Sites use "cookies" to improve functionality and usability. We use this information for planning, tracking and to improve the technical functions of our Sites and products. By using our products and agreeing to this Policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this Policy.
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Cookies are text files sent by Web servers to Web browsers and are stored on the user's computer or mobile device. If the browser is loading a page and the server requests the information stored in the cookie, the cookie is sent back to the server.
Cookies contain data about the user's activities on the website, and can be used by Web servers to identify and track users as they navigate different pages on a website, and to identify users returning to a website.
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Users can also delete cookies already stored on their computers:
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• To contact you regarding additional services and features;
• To request your feedback about your experience with us;
• To notify you about a material change to this Policy, if necessary; and
• To allow you access to limited-entry areas of the Sites.
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The Sites may provide you with links to other websites, although we do not necessarily advise that you link to another website. In the event that you choose to access such websites, CARMEN CHOW PSYCHOTHRERAPY is not responsible for any actions or policies of those sites. Further, please note that the third party's privacy policies and security practices may differ from CARMEN CHOW PSYCHOTHRERAPY standards. CARMEN CHOW PSYCHOTHRERAPY neither assumes responsibility for, nor does it control, endorse or guarantee any aspect of your use of any linked sites. We recommend that you check the privacy policy of such a party before providing Personal Information to it.
The CARMEN CHOW PSYCHOTHRERAPY may also permit advertisers, third party ad networks or other advertising companies to serve advertisements on the Sites. Please be advised that such advertising companies may gather information about your visit to the Sites or other sites (such as through cookies, Web beacons and other technologies) to enable such advertising companies to market products or services to you, to monitor which ads have been served to your browser and which Web pages you were viewing when such ads were delivered. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS POLICY DOES NOT COVER THE COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION BY SUCH ADVERTISING COMPANIES.
We communicate with our members on a regular basis via email. For example, we may use your email address to confirm your request, to send you notice of payments, to send you information about changes to our products and services, and to send notices and other disclosures as required by law. Generally, members cannot opt-out of these communications, but they will be primarily informational in nature rather than promotional.
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Changes in Our Privacy Policy
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No data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you understand that any information that you transfer to CARMEN CHOW PSYCHOTHRERAPY is done at your own risk. However, CARMEN CHOW PSYCHOTHRERAPY uses website security measures consistent with current best practices to protect the Sites, email and mailing lists. These measures include technical, procedural, monitoring and tracking steps intended to safeguard data from misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, loss, alteration or destruction.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SITES DO NOT USE SSL ENCRYPTION. THE SITES DO NOT PROCESS PURCHASES. THE SITES USE THIRD PARTY VENDORS (such as, PayPal, Square, etc.) TO PROCESS PURCHASES. User and purchaser information is a high priority and we use our own protective measures, as well as the capabilities of our software and hardware vendors.
We realize there can be incidents of misuse or unauthorized program incursions, as almost every website, service and user encounters. In those instances, our goals are to move quickly to isolate the problem, ensure or restore proper functionality and minimize any inconvenience to our users. As appropriate and necessary, CARMEN CHOW PSYCHOTHRERAPY will notify the relevant authorities of these incidents of misuse or unauthorized program incursions of the CARMEN CHOW PSYCHOTHRERAPY Sites.
In the event that all or part of CARMEN CHOW PSYCHOTHRERAPY's assets are sold or acquired by another party, or in the event of a merger, you grant CARMEN CHOW PSYCHOTHRERAPY the right to assign the Personal and Non-Personal Information collected via the Sites.
Other ways we may use your information.
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We may contact you with information that you provide to us based on these lawful grounds for processing:
1. Consent. We may contact you if you give us your clear, unambiguous, affirmative consent to contact you.
2. Contract. We will contact you under our contractual obligation to deliver goods or services you purchase from us.
3. Legitimate Interest. We may contact you if we feel you have a legitimate interest in hearing from us. For example, if you sign up for a webinar, we may send you marketing emails based on the content of that webinar. You will always have the option to opt out of any of our emails.
Process Payments
We will use the Personal Data you give to us in order to process your payment for the purchase of goods or services under a contract. We only use third party payment processors that take the utmost care in securing data and comply with the GDPR.
Submission, Storage, Sharing and Transferring of Personal Data
Personal Data that you provide to us is stored internally or through a data management system. Your Personal Data will only be accessed by those who help to obtain, manage or store that information, or who have a legitimate need to know such Personal Data (i.e., our hosting provider, newsletter provider, payment processors or team members).
It is important to note that we may transfer data internationally. For users in the European Union, please be aware that we transfer Personal Data outside of the European Union. By using our Website and providing us with your Personal Data, you consent to these transfers in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Data Retention
We retain your Personal Data for the minimum amount of time necessary to provide you with the information and / or services that you requested from us. We may include certain Personal Data for longer periods of time if necessary for legal, contractual and accounting obligations.
We aim to keep the Personal Data that you share with us confidential. Please note that we may disclose such information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that: (1) such action is necessary to protect and defend our rights or property or those of our users or licensees, (2) to act as immediately necessary in order to protect the personal safety or rights of our users or the public, or (3) to investigate or respond to any real or perceived violation of this Privacy Policy or of our Disclaimer, Terms and Conditions, or any other terms of use or agreement with us.
To use certain features of the Website or its content, you may need a username and password. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the username and password, and you are responsible for all activities, whether by you or by others, that occur under your username or password and within your account. We cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to protect your username, password or account information. If you share your username or password with others, they may be able to obtain access to your Personal Data at your own risk.
You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized or improper use of your username or password or any other breach of security. To help protect against unauthorized or improper use, make sure that you log out at the end of each session requiring your username and password.
We will use our best efforts to keep your username and password(s) private and will not otherwise share your password(s) without your consent, except as necessary when the law requires it or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary, particularly when disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to others or interfering with our rights or property.
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You have the right to:
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2. Restrict processing if you think the Personal Data is not accurate, unlawful, or no longer needed.
3. Rectify or erase Personal Data and receive confirmation of the rectification or erasure. (You have the "right to be forgotten").
4. Withdraw your consent at any time to the processing of your Personal Data.
5. Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you feel we are using your Personal Data unlawfully.
6. Receive Personal Data portability and transference to another controller without our hinderance.
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The following guidelines are intended to equip street medics and health professionals to respond to some of the common injuries inflicted by police violence. They are drawn from experience in the struggle against an airport that the French government tried—and failed—to build in Notre-Dame-des-Landes. It can be difficult to find solid information about how to treat such injuries based on real-life experience. Most mainstream health professionals have little experience treating injuries caused by police weapons; this guide shares the knowledge that medics gained in repeatedly responding to these injuries, in hopes of saving others the trouble of having to learn by trial and error. Being medically trained does not qualify you to be a street medic, as the Do No Harm Coalition elegantly states. Street medics gain from sharing information about what works and what doesn't in a constantly evolving discussion. The red flags listed here can also help injured people identify when their symptoms are serious and when they should seek professional medical attention.
These guidelines are non-exhaustive; there are many things that are not included here. For instance, the police deployed thousands of tear gas canisters and flash-bang grenades on the ZAD during April and May 2018, but relatively little pepper spray. The focus here is on the protocols have been tested extensively. We prepared this translation in solidarity with the current uprising, sharing this information in hopes that it will be useful to street medics in the US.
What follows is not a do-it-yourself guide. Your local area or nearby large city likely has a street medic collective—find them! Medic collectives sometimes do trainings for new medics. Many of the practices detailed here require extensive knowledge and experience—and can really hurt someone if done wrong. Please don't jeopardize the health of others by claiming experience you don't have or trying to practice outside of your scope.
The title photograph is from Ujimaa Medics. Founded by Black women in Chicago, they train communities for urban emergency first response.
While the best way to learn how to be a street medic is from street medics themselves, here are some sources for more information about the history and practice of street medicine—from its inception as a self-defense tool during the Civil Rights Movement to its use in the recent uprising in response to the deaths of Black people at the hands of a system of brutal, racist policing.
Always prioritize sources that are up to date and use evidence-based practice.
- A Brief History of Modern Street Medics
- Street Medics: Keeping Our Movements Healthy and Safe
- Where to find your local medic collective—This is not always up to date, but offers a good starting point.
- Rosehip Medics, a long-running medic collective, offer a variety of information on their website—from "Health and Safety in an Insurrection and Pandemic" to free brochures about alternatives to Emergency Medical Services.
- Paper Revolution explains some ways to become a street medic and offers links to more detailed practical information, such as their Street Medic Guide or the Riot Medicine Guide.
The Origins of These Protocols
The following protocols were written by the ZAD healers group, an interdisciplinary team of nurses, doctors, street medics, herbalists, psychologists, naturopaths, and energy workers who were part of a larger network of healthcare workers involved in the struggle to defend the ZAD (Zone à Défendre, "Zone to Defend") at Notre-Dame-des-Landes.
In their words:
During the evictions of autumn 2012, a number of healthcare professionals came to support the medics on the ground. Over the years, we have worked together to prepare logistical and communications strategies, and to have the materials necessary in the case of eviction attempts or other police intervention. We also have regular discussions, and regular reciprocal trainings.
As soon as we turn our dissent into concrete action, or block the smooth functioning of the corporate economy, repression quickly follows. Whether for the duration of a protest or because we live in the wrong neighborhood or because of the color of our skin, when we are labeled "undesirable" or "radicals," the State hurts and kills us via its law enforcement.
Conscious of these risks, in many countries revolutionary groups and activist movements have developed their own medical support networks for demonstrations or direct actions. This practice differs from humanitarian groups like the Red Cross, because we don't pretend to be neutral. We take a clear political stance and an active role in the conflict and in the support that we bring to our comrades in struggle.
In a demonstration, street medic teams try to be present on the scene as early as possible to be able to provide emergency care to people who ask for it, and to evaluate the needs of the situation before an ambulance arrives, which is sometimes blocked or delayed by the police. There is also an assessment of the legal risks involved in resorting to official emergency care: for example, the risk of identity checks and arrests inside hospitals targeting those who are undocumented, who have outstanding warrants, or simply because the fact of being wounded makes someone a suspect.
The police regularly update their equipment dedicated to repression with new chemical, electrical and physical weapons. As street medics, we try to respond by spreading defense techniques developed on the ground and shared across the world for prevention, protection, and healing.
For us, medical knowledge comes with a political reflection on how we put it into practice, to avoid reproducing the relationships of domination, management, and dispossession that characterize the medical institution. As street medics, we want to make the consent of injured people a priority and give them the information they need to make clear and informed choices for themselves.
-Excerpt from a declaration of the ZAD street medics, 2015. (Published in print; not available online.)
Non-Exhaustive Protocols for Common Injuries from Police Weapons
The following protocols were written after the most recent eviction of the ZAD in 2018, during which medics set up a parallel system of emergency care as police blocked ambulances with tanks. These protocols were based in access to specific resources and skills and knowledge; they have been edited for clarity and context. Many of these protocols presume the ability to access medical care and transfer to a hospital as a backup option. The US does not have universal healthcare (yet). If you lack health insurance but have relationships with healthcare workers in your community, please reach out to them for resources or work with the people around you to find other ways to get the care you need.
These guidelines are written for trained street medics and healthcare workers to respond to police violence. They are not a substitute for medical treatment or diagnosis. Please do not practice outside your scope!
I. Chemical Agents
Also called CS, CN, or CR gas, tear gas is an aerosol that acts as a respiratory system irritant. Pepper spray is a red oil-based substance containing capsacin, derived from peppers, that is sprayed directly onto the skin and eyes.
A. Tear Gas
i. At low concentrations
—Symptoms: skin and eye irritations and burns
—Treatment: Rinse as much as possible, with water pressure or gentle friction.
- Eyes: rinse with saline solution (water + salt, 9 grams per liter). It doesn't need to be sterile.
- Skin: mix 90% water, 10% Maalox, or water with 4% baking soda. If you don't have access to those, plain water will serve for tear gas.
—Tear gas can cause trouble breathing or provoke asthma attacks. For people with asthma, employ Albuterol, or even oral prednisone (by an experienced medic) if they are out of breath. Avoid tear gas for several days afterwards.
ii. At high concentrations or with frequent repeat exposure
—Can result in disability or other neurological symptoms: nausea, vomiting, intense headache, confusion. In these presentations:
- Rule out concussion!
- Learn the mechanism of the injury. What happened? Gas? Sound blast from a grenade? Impact to the head? Fall? Ask the injured person and witnesses.
- Did they lose consciousness or do they remember everything?
—For pain: Ibuprofen
—For moderate nausea and vomiting: oral or suppository anti-nausea medications such as Metoclopromide (Ondansetron and Promethazine are more widely available in the US). Ginger chews and peppermint or chamomile tea also help.
—For severe vomiting and inability to keep liquids or medicines down (risk of dehydration): refer to hospital for IV fluids and observation.
—For intense confusion: Nothing by mouth. Place injured person in the recovery position and call for an ambulance.
Make sure people know to wear thick leather or specifically heat resistant gloves (such as barbecue gloves) before picking up or touching tear gas canisters to avoid burns.
II. Concussion Grenades and other Explosive Devices
A. Blast Wounds
Blast wounds mainly damage the ears.
i. Tearing of the eardrum
—Occurs infrequently in our experience. Not an emergency.
—Symptoms : pain, bleeding from the ear, temporary reduction in hearing.
—Treatment: Examine the ear with an otoscope, ideally within 24 hours. A torn eardrum heals itself in 2 weeks.
—If a medical exam is possible, an eight-day course of antibiotic drops (ofloxacine otic) can be offered preventatively to avoid infection of the middle ear and adjacent area (behind the eardrum). In any case, follow-up with Primary Care in 10 to 15 days is ideal for otoscopy and referral to ENT specialist if there is persistent anomaly.
ii. Blast injury to inner ear
—Occurs frequently in our experience.
—Symptoms: pain, ringing in the ears (tinnitus), loss of hearing, vertigo, or dizziness.
—Ringing in the ears does not come from the eardrum, but from the inner ear! Hearing loss is the guiding factor for treatment (not tinnitus).
—Simple hearing test: rub your thumb against your other fingers next to the person's ear. Ask them if they can hear, and do the same thing on the other side.
—Treatment: If hearing loss persists for 24 hours after the blast, make an appointment with an ENT (ear, nose, and throat) specialist as soon as possible. To avoid or at least limit permanent hearing damage (resulting from the death of cells in the inner ear), a steroid may be indicated: prednisolone in the ear (0.5mg at 1mg/kg/day for 2-3 days) is the most common prescription.
iii. Blast injury to lungs
—Occurs rarely in our experience
—Symptoms: Difficulty breathing in the days following impact.
—Treatment: Emergency. Pulmonary edema requires hospitalization. Air embolisms caused by blast injury to the lungs can cause seizures, strokes, and/or permanent brain damage when air bubbles pass from the lungs to the blood and enter the brain.
iv. Intestinal blast injury
—Occurs rarely in our experience.
—Symptoms: Abdominal pain, blood in stool (hematochezia) in the days following impact can indicate bowel perforation. Fever and abdominal distention (hard stomach) can indicate peritonitis.
—Treatment: Both of these are medical emergencies and require hospitalization!
v. Remember!
—Shelter the person from additional noise.
—Do not hesitate to contact emergency medical providers if there is any impact on cognitive function or damage to organs.
—ENT specialist consultation for blast injuries to ear is suggested within 24 to 48 hours.
—Observe people with blast injuries for several days. Symptoms indicating complications may be delayed, such as changes in hearing, breathing, and abdominal functions.
B. Shrapnel wounds
Shrapnel wounds occur frequently in our experience. Shrapnel is often plastic; sometimes it is metal. On impact with pavement, concussion grenades can propel dirt and asphalt alongside shrapnel; this increases the risk of infection. Sometimes entrance wounds are small, even tiny. Sometimes they are large and obvious. Shrapnel injuries are serious even if they don't look like a big deal. Examination, observation, and follow-up are vital.
NEVER approach or pick up a canister that is not yet smoking. It may be a concussion grenade with the capacity to blow your hand off. (This has happened both on the ZAD and in the Gilets Jaunes protests).
Examine and evaluate the breadth and depth of the wound before rushing to bandage it!
Treatment by area of injury:
i. Thorax, abdomen, face
Emergency: potential risk to life. See an experienced medic. Evacuate and evaluate respiratory/neurological/cardiovascular system distress and the extent of bleeding.
ii. Extremities
Check for:
—Damaged joints.
—Nerve damage. Nerve damage requires immediate hospitalization! Check pulse, movement, and sensation above and below the wound; compare the limbs next to each other for reference. Look for paralysis, weakness, or range-of-motion difficulties. Numbness, tingling, or pins and needles indicate nerve injury.
—Damaged tendons:
- Especially on hands and feet
- Occurs frequently with wounds on the back side of the hand (the side with the fingernails).
- Symptoms/Signs: Visible tendon injuries at the bottom of a wound, or suspicion of a tendon injury based on anatomy.
- Normal range of motion does not mean there is no damage to the tendons.
- Treatment: See an experienced medic if a tendon injury is suspected. Surgical intervention may be required within 24 hours to avoid risk of rupture.
Remove shrapnel based on size. All large pieces must be removed.
i. Large foreign body in a large wound
—Occurs infrequently
—Treatment: See an experienced medic who can refer patient to a hospital or remove the foreign body and close the skin, employing excellent knowledge of anatomy and controlling the risk of infection with follow-up care and prophylactic antibiotics.
ii. Small puncture wound that looks benign but with an unknown depth
—Occurs frequently.
—Treatment: Clean, bandage, and follow up. If there are many obviously shallow pieces of foreign object (like road rash), honey dressing can draw them out without physical removal. Monitor closely for infection.
Localized treatment:
- Direct compression will stop bleeding the majority of the time.
- Every open wound requires basic hygeine! The medic must wash their hands with soap and water, and wear medical gloves that they change between each person.
- Scrub with Betadine soap (the red kind) as soon as possible : some puncture wounds from shrapnel are not immediately visible.
Cleaning and drying:
—Wash wound with soap and water before you do anything (or with sterile saline solution if soap and water are not available).
—Follow with hydrogen peroxide, which has the advantage of foaming and can sometimes draw out little pieces of shrapnel.
—If the foreign body is small or difficult to see, use sterile forceps but don't tear at it or make it worse! It's not a big deal if it stays in, but it's usually worth trying to remove it. The body will either reject small pieces naturally, like a splinter, or create a buffer around them. The damage is done when shrapnel enters the body; the additional risk is infection.
- Use sterile medical tweezers. Normal tweezers (for removing hair) are too big and tear the flesh.
- A magnet can help remove metal shrapnel. Pull the shrapnel back through the path of entry—otherwise, you may create a new wound!
- If it's too painful, use local anesthesia such as lidocaine spray in the bottom of the wound.
Disinfect with antiseptics:
—Remember: if an antiseptic bottle is open for over a month, dispose of the bottle. Mark the date on the bottle upon opening. Prioritize smaller bottles to avoid expiration.
—Yellow Betadine, povidone iodine. (Use red Betadine first if washing with soap and water is impossible.) It exists in individual doses too. Iodine allergies don't apply to Betadine.
—Chlorhexidine is good, such as one-time-use Dosiseptine, but not Biseptine (alcohol-based) because it stings.
—Diluted sodium hypochlorite (Dakin's solution) works well but has to be diluted at 50% in sterile water, so it is impractical. Alcohol is efficient but burns a lot.
—For puncture wounds: Disinfect surface and interior. Use an antiseptic syringe without a needle. Put the end of the syringe inside the wound before injecting. Don't use hydrogen peroxide for this.
—Approximated wound with controlled bleeding: dry bandage, gauze compress, elastic bandage.
—Wounds oozing blood or pus: Consider an absorptive cushion like hemostatic packing, followed by a compress and bandage on top.
—If moderate bleeding or unapproximated wound: use clean raw honey (not the corn syrup kind), Neosporin, or tulle gras, then compress and bandage.
Dressing changes:
—Every 24 hours at the beginning (depending on severity), then every 48 hours.
—Rinse with saline solution. Don't reapply antiseptics, as this can delay healing.
—Prevent secondary infections. These occur frequently with shrapnel wounds! Signs of infection include redness, inflammation, pus and weeping, or fever. Get an experienced medic's advice and local or oral antibiotics for 48 hours after injury.
—Abscesses may necessitate x-ray, ultrasound, or surgical consultation depending on the wound.
To pass on to injured people: If you experience fever, chills, stiffness, redness, wetness around the wound, red plaques or streaks on the skin, or a neurological or motor deficiency, consult a doctor, medic, or go to an emergency department immediately.
Takeaways for shrapnel wounds:
Don't dig too hard to get out small pieces.
Assess immediately for nerve or tendon injury.
Monitor for signs of secondary infection for several days.
III. Rubber bullet injuries
Rubber bullet injuries often leave a big bruise. Check for other lesions! If you suspect trauma that will necessitate surgery, do not give them anything by mouth. No drinking, no eating, no smoking.
A. By location
i. Large bruises to extremities
—Assess neurovascular status: Pulse, movement, sensation, and color. If there's an anomaly, hospitalization is urgent.
—Palpate the bones for pinpoint pain and crepitus. Test each joint for range of motion. If you can't rule out a fracture, get an x-ray within 24 hours. Suspected displaced fracture (shortening, etc.) requires an x-ray immediately.
—Rubber bullet impacts on muscles and tendons are not an emergency.
—Treat all bruises or hematomas with Arnica (Arnica montana) tincture or gel or Ground Daisy (Bellis perennis) tincture. Apply topically as soon as possible (actual tincture, not homeopathic).
—If plan is to hospitalize, wait before applying topical treatment: it may mask the seriousness of the condition.
—The most important thing is to immobilize the injury.
ii. Facial impact
—See an experienced medic.
—Palpate facial bones looking for pinpoint pain and crepitus indicating a fracture: orbitals, nose, zygomatic processes, mandible, chin, dental articulation (closure and alignment). Examine each tooth.
—For teeth that are broken, moving, unseated, or painful—see a dentist immediately. Conserve the tooth in milk, saline solution, or saliva. Ideally, the injured person would carry it in their mouth, taking care not to swallow.
Simple Neurological Face Assessment:
- Compare sensation on both sides of the forehead, cheeks, chin
- Movement: symmetry in smile, eyes symmetrical when tightly closed, eye movement (in both directions, vertically, horizontally, diagonally, inversion and aversion), pupils equal, round, reactive to light and accommodating.
iii. Eye impact
—Immediate hospitalization.
—Nothing by mouth: no food, no drink, no smoking.
—Rinse area with sterile saline solution.
—Have the person lie down and cover both eyes with sterile compresses.
iv. Nose impact
—Probable fracture.
—Get an x-ray.
—Epistaxis is bleeding from the nose; it can become a large hemorrhage.
- Pinch the bridge of the nose between two fingers, neck bent forward.
- Experienced medics can plug nostrils with gauze.
- For large amounts of blood loss, call an ambulance.
v. Thorax impact
—Pain may indicate a broken rib or lung damage. See an experienced medic.
—Rib fracture: pinpoint pain when palpated along the sternal line.
- Pain with deep inhalation.
- No respiratory distress or coughing.
- If it's a simple fracture, treat with rest, painkillers to ensure deep breathing and avoid pneumonia, and topical comfrey (Symphytum officinale) salve 2 to 3 times daily.
—Pneumothorax: pain and cough, sometimes spitting blood.
- X-ray within 24 hours, or immediately if there is respiratory distress.
- Monitor respiratory rate. Normal is 15-20 breaths per minute.
vi. Abdominal impact
—See an experienced medic.
—Check for:
- Pain around the liver (right upper quadrant) and the spleen (left upper quadrant): signs of internal hemorrhage indicate danger. Get an ultrasound quickly.
- Blood in stool, abdominal pain, hard stomach area or fever, suspicion of peritonitis: immediate hospitalization.
vii. Both abdominal and thoracic impact
—Check for signs of internal hemorrhage (shock) such as pallor, weakness, diaphoresis (sweating), tachycardia with normal blood pressure. —Late signs include low blood pressure, altered mental status, loss of consciousness. —Watch them for several hours!
viii. Lower back impact
—Look for blood in the urine. Ideally get a urinalysis done to check for kidney damage.
ix. Testicular impact
—If bruising or excessive pain, get an emergency ultrasound.


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Setting the Course in September: Paying the Price in March
So I took a shot at Michael Grange's trade deadline entry earlier today.
Here's the trade deadline story as I would have filed it.
You don't need to look at the playoff races and the prices set in this sellers' market to know that the Leafs' fate wasn't sealed at the trade deadline. It was sealed in September, when Burke & Co. rolled the dice on the goaltending tandem of Reimer and Gustavsson.
Burke, who claimed to be building this team from the nets out, elected to go with the high-risk high-reward combo of Reimer and Gustavsson in nets.
As the 2011-12 season was set to unfold, James Reimer, ostensibly the Leafs' starting goalie, had just 37 games of NHL experience.
Gustavsson, his back-up, had all of 65 NHL games under his belt and was coming off a season with a disastrous .890 save percentage. To put that in perspective, Gustavsson's save percentage was 47th among NHL goalies with 20 or more games played. Only Rick Dipietro and Ty Conklin put up worse numbers last year.
This is what the team decided to roll the dice on. Their contingency plan? Nada. Zip. Zilch. Zero.
There would be no offer to Theodore, apparently no offer for Vokoun. Giguere would not be extended, Anderson was left for the Sens, and Emery signed on with Chicago. (Thankfully we took a pass on Turco).
Now, it could be argued that this was the perfect season for the Leafs to find out if either of their goalies had the right stuff. The Leafs were a bubble team, but if Reimer or Gustavsson found their groove, the club had enough up-front talent to cross the 92+ point threshold and make the playoffs for the first time since the lockout.
But if Gustavsson and Reimer don't have the right stuff?
Well, let's welcome your 2011-12 Toronto Maple Leafs!
A team in 10th place at the trade deadline, treading water, and feeling increasingly under pressure from all sides. A team that's 28th in goals against and put up a collective .904 save percentage, well below the league average.
In short, the issue with this team is not the trade deadline, "it's the goaltending, stupid."
The lack of even NHL-average goaltending has plagued the Leafs since 2006 and it is also Burke's largest career shortcoming/ blindspot.
Goaltending was his undoing in Vancouver, he dropped the ball on Bryzgalov in Anaheim, and he's been a complete failure with goalies in Toronto.
Nothing will change until it's addressed.
I don't think Ron Wilson is the primary problem in Toronto, I do think his approach to the game have exacerbated the problems with this team.
If the Leafs were to get a competent goalie (a big if, I know) I do wonder if their approach to the game would ultimately be successful? I can't recall the last run and gun hockey team that went deep into the playoffs.
The club lacks a true defensive defenceman and hasn't had someone who can eat tough minutes since they enjoyed 136 games of Francois Beauchemin.
Raw goalies who have struggled, no shut-down D and a run and gun style does not strike me, admittedly a coaching layman, as a recipe for success.
I found this to be a very telling item Eliotte Friedman's recent 30 thoughts:
Toronto and Philadelphia sniffed around Wild goaltender Josh Harding. Don't think either team got overly serious and one GM thought Harding was a poor match for the run-and-gun Maple Leafs. "He needs structure to be successful," the GM said.
Structure. Defence. Novel things in Toronto. Something the next coach should bring to the table.
I look at what Dave Tippet has done in Phoenix and I look at what the Leafs have become in Toronto and I can only conclude there's an issue with the systems and coaching.
Development curves
Stepping back from the obvious failures in goal and the questionable decisions behind the bench, the single biggest long-term issue facing the Leafs is the composition of their forward and defensive corps.
There has been substantial work on peak performance and ageing and, no surprise, forwards peak earlier than defencemen. For NHL forwards, the average age for peak point per game production is 25.
As the Leafs are currently composed, their top six forwards are at or nearing their peak, with an average age of 26.
1. Phil Kessel, 24
2. Tyler Bozak, 25
3. Joffrey Lupul, 28
4. Mikhail Grabovski, 28
5. Nikolai Kulemin, 25
6. Clarke MacArthur, 26
NHL defencemen have a longer development curve and don't hit their peak until closer to 28. As the Leafs D is currently composed, their top 4 guys have an average age of 23.5
1. Dion Phaneuf, 26
2. Carl Gunnarsson, 25
3. Jake Gardiner, 21
4. Luke Schenn, 22
What does this all mean?
It means the Leafs forwards are currently hitting their peak, while the Leafs D is four and half years away from their peak.
This is clearly not an ideal way to construct a hockey team and probably one more reason why the Leafs are 6th in goals for and 28th in goals against.
As a Leafs fan, I'd like to see the team address three key issues in the off-season:
- Bring in a capable goalie who can step-in if (more likely when) Reimer can't get the job done
- Replace Ron Wilson with a coach who can fix the penalty kill and implement a system with more structure
- Move to acquire a few older D (who can actually play D) to eat tough minutes, settle this team down and get the development curves of the F and D more aligned.
It would bee great if this team set a new course next September.
It would be even better if that course wasn't based on a high-risk, high-reward system that requires stop-gap solutions at the increasingly inactive trade deadline.