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The World Bank has taken landmark steps to make information accessible to the public and globally promote transparency and accountability, according to the first annual report on the World Bank's Access to Information (AI) Policy.
The report, "Moving Forward Transparency and Accountability," outlines the AI Policy's central role in the Bank's modernization and Open Development agenda, and describes the systems and infrastructure that have been put in place to help maximize public access to Bank information, including the Access to Information Committee's policy interpretations and the appeals process.
The First Year in Numbers (July 1, 2010 to June 31, 2011)
119,639 Bank documents released to the public.
25 million page views on the Open Data website.
4.5 million page views on the Access to Information external website.
1.02 million visits to the Documents and Reports website.
795,000 documents downloaded.
According to the report, the policy is headed in the right direction for the development community. The policy has encouraged other development institutions to adopt similar public access policies, and, equally important, fosters more systematic engagement with civil society organizations (CSOs).
For example, local CSOs have leveraged the AI Policy to monitor project procurement plans, encourage access to information initiatives from their own governments, and conduct independent reviews of development outcomes. Ghana, Uruguay, the Philippines, and Kenya are examples of countries engaged in these efforts against the backdrop of the AI Policy.
"The World Bank's Access to Information Policy continues to set the standard for other institutions to strive for," said Chad Dobson, executive director of the Bank Information Center. Publish What You Fund recently rated the Bank "best performer" in terms of aid transparency out of 58 donors for the second year in a row. Furthermore, the Center for Global Development and Brookings ranked the International Development Association (the World Bank's Fund for the Poorest) as a top donor in transparency and learning in its 2011 Quality of Official Development Assistance Assessment (QuODA).
Looking forward, the World Bank will identify new ways to maximize the amount of information available to the public and improve its ability to meet the public's information needs. For more information, visit the AI website, download our free mobile apps, or contact any of our Public Information Services worldwide.


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Hard Rock Cafe Koh Samui
Est. April 30, 2016
Known for its tranquil, palm-lined beaches, Koh Samui is home to a brand-new Hard Rock Cafe. The cafe's design was inspired by the natural settings and textures of Thailand's second largest island, and is filled with natural stone and wood accents and surfaces. It features indoor seating for up to 200 guests, a vibrant bar, a spacious outdoor patio with seating for 100 more guests, and an outdoor bar area facing the concert stage.
The Hard Rock Cafe Experience
Hard Rock Cafe Koh Samui serves delicious American cuisine as well as some local favorites. During your dining experience, you'll be surrounded by our outstanding collection of music memorabilia from such artists as Elvis Presley, Madonna, The Who, Taylor Swift, The Beatles, Slash, Def Leppard, Carlos Santana, Kiss, and Pearl Jam. Be sure to stop by The Rock Shop® after your meal for a piece of your own Hard Rock Cafe memorabilia to take home.
Explore All Koh Samui Has to Offer
Our cafe is located in the heart of Koh Samui's vibrant Chaweng Beach area. Chaweng Beach is home to one of the island's best beaches and is well known for being a destination for nightlife, with bars and restaurants catering to every taste. But you'll also find a variety of boutique shops, high-end stores, and large shopping malls. No matter how you spend your days or nights, be sure to visit Hard Rock Cafe Koh Samui to refuel for more adventures.

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Is Monmouthpedia The Future Of Wikipedia?
from the wheels-within-wheels dept
One of the central questions the Wikipedia community grapples with is: What exactly is Wikipedia trying to achieve? For example, does it aspire to be a total encyclopedia of everything? What is the appropriate level of detail?
As might be expected in a community made up of volunteers, feelings run high over these apparently dry questions of philosophy. Just as there are free software and open source factions that work together for a common cause, but eternally snipe at each other over details, so the Wikipedia community harbors two groups that agree to disagree on what is the proper scope for the project: the deletionists and the inclusionists. Here's what Wikipedia itself has to say on them:
"Deletionists" are proponents of selective coverage and removal of articles seen as unnecessary or highly substandard. Deletionist viewpoints are commonly motivated by a desire that Wikipedia be focused on and cover significant topics – along with the desire to place a firm cap upon proliferation of promotional use (seen as abuse of the website), trivia, and articles which are of no general interest, lack suitable source material for high quality coverage, or are too short or otherwise unacceptably poor in quality.
One particular area where the limits of inclusionism and deletionism are tested is local information. Should Wikipedia strive to provide the same level of detail about local information as it does about global facts? If so, how?
"Inclusionists" are proponents of broad retention, including retention of "harmless" articles and articles otherwise deemed substandard to allow for future improvement. Inclusionist viewpoints are commonly motivated by a desire to keep Wikipedia broad in coverage with a much lower entry barrier for topics covered – along with the belief in that it is impossible to tell what knowledge might be "useful" or productive, that content often starts poor and is improved if time is allowed, that there is effectively no incremental cost of coverage, that arbitrary lines in the sand are unhelpful and may prove divisive, and that goodwill requires avoiding arbitrary deletion of others' work. Some extend this to include allowing a wider range of sources such as notable blogs and other websites.
Maybe Wikipedia has found a way to do so without overloading the main encyclopedia: create a mini-Wikipedia devoted entirely to one location – in this case Monmouthpedia, about the Welsh town of Monmouth:
Monmouthpedia will be the first Wikipedia project to cover a whole town, creating articles on interesting and notable places, people, artifacts, flora, fauna and other things in Monmouth in as many languages as possible including Welsh.
There are a number of interesting facets to this project. The first is the direct involvement of local people. By limiting the range of the entries to one location it might prove easier to motivate new contributors – a perennial concern for the larger Wikipedia – and allow them to capture key aspects of a place they know well.
We are very keen for local people to be involved in what ever way they would like. Computer skills are not that important, it's the interest and the willingness to be involved, suggesting and writing articles, taking and donating photos and recommending good reference materials. If you speak another language it would be a great place to practice your writing skills and learn new vocabulary and grammar. There are a lot of opportunities for community involvement including teaching and learning of I.T skills, local history, natural history, languages and people of different ages working together.
The amount, detail and quality of the information we could create is amazing. The Council for British Archaeology has designated Monmouth as the 7th best town in Britain. Knowledge gives us context, it allows us to appreciate our surroundings more, Monmouth may be first place in the world to offer its tourist information in up to 270 languages.
Monmouthpedia will use QRpedia codes, a type of bar code a smartphone can read through its camera that takes you to a Wikipedia article in your language. QR codes are extremely useful, physical signs have no way of displaying the same amount of information and in a potentially huge number of languages.
Articles will have coordinates (geotags) to allow a virtual tour of the town using the Wikipedia layer on Google Streetview, Google Maps and will be available in augmented reality software including Layar.
The use of QR codes in physical signage around the town will add a new directionality to the links between Monmouthpedia and the town it describes. Similarly, the geotags in the articles will allow text and images linked to geographical locations to be loaded automatically as people walk around with suitable apps on their smartphones. Obviously, once in place, that localized QR-coded infrastructure could also be exploited by other, quite different smartphone programs, to produce fascinating geo-informational mashups.
But perhaps the most interesting aspect of Monmouthpedia is that it creates a kind of fractal Wikipedia. That's important because if it functions well, it sets a precedent for a new, nested kind of Wikipedia whose entries can sometimes drop down a level to an entirely new Wikipedia-like resource about a specific topic. Maybe the ultimate test of Monmouthpedia's success will be when people start creating wikis about those same "places, people, artifacts, flora, fauna and other things" that will soon fill its pages – an Inception-like Wikipedia within a Wikipedia within a Wikipedia.
Update: see this comment from a Wikipedian involved with the project for some clarifications.
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Relax, folks. I don't have any firsthand experience with Naomi Wolf's Vagina, carnal or otherwise. Everything I know about it comes from what other people have told me. And let me tell you, am I ever grateful for those reviews, which tell me I never want to put my hands on it. In fact, as far as I can tell, the entire public purpose of Naomi Wolf, at this point in her brilliant career, is to be the target of other folks' smart sentences.
Let's start by assuming that you've already got the basic outline and flaws of the book from Jaclyn Friedman's review here. Every review I've seen has essentially the same gripes with the book. And can we take for granted that Naomi Wolf's "feminism," while it once may have had some political content, has now morphed entirely into narcissism, in which she mistakes her own emotions for meaningful thought? The Beauty Myth, the book that's the foundation of her outsize reputation, rehashed things that had been written and said before by second-wave feminists and many of us who went to various workshops and classes back in the day. Her contorted comments against Julian Assange's accusers have put her in the same discreditable category as Whoopi Goldberg's comment that Roman Polanski's night of isolating, drugging, and penetrating a 13-year-old girl against her will wasn't "rape rape." And now she's written a book that's gotten her vagina its own Twitter account, which, sadly, seems to have stopped after only 12 tweets. (Let me point out that I've written about vaginas here before. Hey, I was a college student during the whacky 1970s, when we went to speculum workshops with little hand mirrors and—oh, never mind. I cringe to remember it myself.)
I don't know how nonthinkers become celebrity thinkers, but it happens. So, let's look at some feminist luminaries' bad jokes, great sentences, and useful insights, to which Naomi Wolf's Vagina has inadvertently given birth. For instance, Laurie Penny's "The Problem With Naomi Wolf's Vagina" in The New Statesmen begins with a stupidly enjoyable pile of bad puns:
I have spent a disturbing few days with my nose buried in Naomi Wolf's Vagina. Naomi Wolf's Vagina is warm and inviting, but seems to lack depth. Naomi Wolf's Vagina is over-exposed. Naomi Wolf's Vagina is crassly attention-seeking. Naomi Wolf's Vagina is available in all good bookshops. There is something fishy about ... no, actually, can I stop now? Are we done? Good.
But Penny quickly moves on to say, as do they all, that the book is actually very troubling:
…for anyone who—let's be blunt—actually respects women, all women, as human beings for whom biology is not destiny, Vagina isn't funny at all. It's just upsetting. It's upsetting to see a prominent feminist having what can only be described as a dramatic public meltdown.
At The New York Review of Books, Zoe Heller destroys the book's main points with verve:
Lady, love your cunt.
Forty-one years after Germaine Greer issued her infamous directive, the ladies seem to have complied. Greer lost her battle on the question of nomenclature—"cunt" has remained, despite her best efforts, the worst of bad words—but "vagina pride" is now part of the common culture. Television celebrities like Oprah Winfrey speak publicly and with cheerful affection of their "vajayjays."... The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler's theatrical celebration of the female sex organ, has become an international franchise, endorsed and performed by glossy Hollywood stars and even Michigan state representatives. More than one website now exists for the sole purpose of allowing women to share and compare pictures of their vulvas in "a supportive context."
Heller dismantles some of Wolf's particulars, adding:
Wolf literally does not understand the meaning of "literally" and her grasp of the scientific research she has read is pretty shaky too. By repeatedly confusing correlates with causes, she grossly exaggerates what neuroscience can reliably tell us about the functions of individual brain chemicals.
My favorite of the various reviews is Ariel Levy's in The New Yorker. She takes the opportunity to look back at the "sex wars" that tore apart feminism in the 1980s and tosses in an analysis of the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise as precisely what Naomi Wolf seeks: a man worshipping the yoni. At the link you'll find an abstract; below I'm quoting from the full print article, which is well worth the price of admission.
Throughout "Vagina: A New Biography" (Ecco), Wolf refers to a "profound brain-vagina connection" but sometimes suggests that the vagina is, or ought to be, the rightful site of mission control. Wolf explicitly tries to distance herself, in this book, from her feminist foremothers. She accuses them of denigrating the vagina as something "retro, housewifey and passé" in their attempts at "reglamorizing the clitoris." Wolf adopts the pro-sex-feminist position that sex is the solution to every problem and the source of everything worth anything….
… Wolf forgets that vaginas—like their handmaidens, women—have distinct personalities and preferences. If my vagina heard a potential partner murmur, "Welcome Goddess," she would turn to me and say, 'Get us out of here now."
… the "Fifty Shades" series is less about a man being in charge of a woman than it is about a man worshipping a woman. The trilogy's hero, Christian Grey, is the full-blown Wolfian ideal—a born yoni-tapper who focuses his masterly Goddess Array on our passionate narrator, Anastasia Steele. He says her name "like it's a litany or a prayer." He likes to give her candlelit bubble baths. He talks and talks about his feelings and listens and listens to hers. Is it going too far to say that Wolf's book, which clearly belongs to the same realm of the erotic imagination as the Grey trilogy, is itself a kind of pornography? Wolf conjures a fevered, enchanted world where female consciousness is situated not between the ears but between the legs, where investment bankers see the Divine inside the yoni like Jesus in a piece of toast… Wolf has found a mistress we must please, serve, and honor. There is a new dominatrix in town. And her name is Vagina.
Michelle Goldberg at The Daily Beast adds an insight that I saw nowhere else, concluding:
In the end, perhaps the most embarrassing thing about Vagina is its Orientalism. When Wolf lauds Tantra for its "answers to the question of how female sexuality was best understood," it's roughly akin to pronouncing on imperial Japanese culture after taking a karate intensive at the YMCA. In reality, while Indian Tantra involved ritual sex and goddess worship, it has almost no relation to the New Age feminist sex therapy Wolf describes….
Wolf, it seems, has written at length about a medieval Indian religious movement without bothering to read a single credible book on the subject.
Katha Pollitt's review summarizes Wolf's career ruthlessly:
It's hard to keep up with Naomi Wolf. She wants women to take their sexuality back from the patriarchy—but she's written in praise of Muslim veiling and Orthodox Jewish headscarves. In a notorious New Republic piece, she argued that pregnant women are indeed fetal vessels and blamed abortion on drunken sluttery…. Even leaving aside the 2006 interview in which she described a vision of herself transformed into a teenage boy who saw Jesus, it's been a long, strange twenty-one years since The Beauty Myth…
The book gets loopier as it goes on. We learn that women think and feel through their vagina, which can "grieve" and feel insulted, for example, by slang terms (tell that to Pussy Riot). It is remarkable how Wolf's feminism ends up in the same place as the old patriarchal idea that women are reducible to, and limited by, their reproductive systems….
In writing about Wolf's adventures with Mike Lousada, the former investment banker who becomes a hands-on sex therapist, Pollitt asks, "What separates him from a sex worker?" In the end, Pollitt may be the one who best sums the book up:
It's lucky vaginas can't read, or mine would be cringing in embarrassment that Vagina is what millions think of as feminism.


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Ken is my sister Julie's boyfriend and Boon's dad.
He wrote the song and is singing it. Pretty neat stuff!
Welcome to the online diary of a Central Oregon Grandmother (me) who is busy celebrating the positive portions of her everyday life ... along with her best friend husband (Cary). It is quite an eclectic diary and I try to do my best to incorporate a little bit of history into many of my posts. Your visit to our piece of American Pie is greatly appreciated. This chatty Kathy posts frequently, so coming back to visit often is highly encouraged.
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splendid bob wrote:Hi all,
First of all, i am glad to see a decent conventional looking forum for php online. (i hate those pesky, unusable mailing lists)
anyway, just a general comment regarding php and image creation.
I am working on a complex flash/php project, which uses a flash interface for image manipulation and creation. Flash is limited in what it can do at runtime, so i am using php for backend manipulation then reimporting modified images into flash. The crucial element here is speed, so heres my thoughts based on my experiences with various php methods for image manipulation:
1)php with GD. Did some experimenting with this, found it to be veeery slow. Perhaps somebody could explain why this was the case, i.e. is php the problem, or is the gd library slow?
2)php with imagemagick. using the imagemagick executables and calling these from php. Although imagemagick does have a large amount of image manipulation features, i)it is buggy in certain areas (most notably alpha channels) ii)with 32 bit support enabled it is slow. (presumably due to the precompiled executables having everything possible thrown in..)
3)php with c++. Because the above two options were simply too slow i have had to create my own exes to be called from php via c++. Used the free paintlib libraries, and this exe is far faster than 1) or 2).
Still havent found a fast solution to the problem of compositing text onto an image though, anybody have any experience with gd's effectiveness for this?
I would be v interested in hearing from anybody who has knowledge of any alternative methods/free exe's/libraries for image creation with php, and how effective they are.
Hi Bob!
I'm open your site http://www.thebrightlight.co.uk and foget about it... 3 hour drowing.... Yea image - cool!
About GD, i don't think so what GD work slowly, some peaple drowing site using GD and all work ok! Maby you somethere have mistake?
I'm to glad see new face at this forum :wink:
see ya!


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Orthopaedic implants
Bio MEMS
Surgical needles
Bio chips
Cosmetic / dermatology
Heart valves
Orthopaedic implants
Orthopaedic implants is a wide term which covers a number of artificial devices which are used to replace joints in the body, e.g. hip, knee, finger and shoulder. Historically the domain of the elderly, orthopaedic implants are now increasingly used across the populace to replace arthritic and/or damaged joints. The combination of the increasing longevity of individuals and the wider use of implants on younger patients, has placed greater demands on manufacturers to produce longer lasting implants.
For hip implants, the form characteristics of the femoral cup and head are critical to its load bearing capability. Typically however the main cause of failure in hip joints is due to wear and in particular the particles that are generated. For example the most common cause of femoral bone loss is due to osteolysis. Although the total cause is not known, it has been attributed to a variety of factors including foreign body reaction to particulate debris, in particular to polymeric debris. As such the avoidance of wear in hip joints is critical. This requirement typically leads to a high tolerance on surface finish. Hip joint manufacture is controlled by international standards, which include ISO 7206 (parts I VIII).
The requirements for knee implants (and other orthopaedic implants) are similar to hips in that they require good form and surface finish characteristics to ensure they achieve the desired performance standards. Taylor Hobson offer orthopaedic implant manufacturers a range of measurement solutions which assist in improving quality and performance. For product information click the link below.
A large amount of research is completed on an annual basis in the area of dental wear. For dental amalgams (fillings), manufacturers are interested in identifying and improving erosion characteristics. To achieve this they complete wear tests in line with ISO standards, e.g. ISO/TS 14569-1 in which they try to mimic the erosion activity in the average mouth.
However wear mechanisms involving teeth and dental restorations in the mouth are very complex. In addition, these mechanisms may differ from one individual to another. Standard wear testing of both dental amalgams and toothpastes consists of using a toothbrush and paste. Typically the toothpaste is rubbed over a reference substrate for a certain number of cycles. The erosion caused by this process is then monitored.
There are a large number of oral care products available aimed at improving the appearance of teeth, e.g. filling paste, toothpaste, etc. Filling pastes need to be resistive to wear, while toothpastes and whitening products need to limit the wear they complete on teeth. As such dental manufacturers are typically interested in characterising wear on teeth or filling amalgams (pastes).
Taylor Hobson offer dental manufacturers and researchers a wide range of measurement solutions for monitoring the wear characteristics of dental pastes and amalgams. For product information click the link below.
Bio MEMS
BioMEMs applies micro devices to biological and medical problems. In their simplest form, technologies in the BioMEMS arena leverage advances in microfabrication and micromachining to create faster, cheaper, hands-off micro and nano scale laboratories, i.e. microfluidics. In more sophisticated forms, BioMEMS devices offer an avenue to artificial organs, personalised drug therapies, and new ways to view cell communication. BioMEMS can be categorised into two categories, Biomedical MEMS and biotechnology MEMS.
Biomedical MEMS deal in vivo with the body and the host anatomy, examples of which would include, biotelemetry, drug delivery, biosensors and other physical sensors.
Biotechnology MEMS deal in vitro with the biological samples from the host, examples of which would include, gene sequencing, functional genomics, drug discover, pharmacogenomics, diagnostics and pathogen detection/ID.
There is currently a large amount of BioMEMs work in the arena of drug delivery systems, using microfabrication techniques. Two main categories are envisioned: micromachined nanopore membranes and microparticles. Nanopore membranes are produced using photolithography, thin film depositions and selective etching to create membranes composed of silicon with highly uniform pores in the nanometre range. Microparticles, unlike conventional particulate drug delivery systems such as polymer microspheres, can be thin planar discs with a thickness and diameter of 1micron.
On top of this there are also interesting developments in microneedles, sensors and micropumps, which are all geared at delivering drugs in a rapid and targeted fashion. As the BioMEMS arena expands, the requirement for nanometric metrology increases, which is a area in which Taylor Hobson is very familiar. For product information click the link below.
Surgical needles
Standard surgical needles used in the medical arena need excellent quality to ensure efficient performance. They are typically used to transmit or withdraw fluid from the body and as such they need to exhibit excellent flow characteristics. To achieve this they need good internal finish and roundness and cylindricity characteristics. Taylor Hobson have a wide range of experience in addressing the particular requirements of surgical needle manufacturers, which typically entails using special stylii to access the narrow diameters of surgical needles.
There is a large amount of work in the field of microneedles, which are being used in a variety of medical areas, including biopsy and drug delivery. Arrays of hollow microneedles can be used to continuously carry drugs into the body using a simple diffusion or pump system. Hollow microneedles could be used to remove fluid from the body for analysis. Microneedles are opening up new areas of medical opportunity like highly targeted drug administration to individual cells, they are also opening a wide variety of metrology challenges which Taylor Hobson are equipped to handle. The challenges include 3D geometric analysis at the micron and nanometric level. For product information click the link below.
Bio chips
Biochips encompass a large area, which includes the field of microfluidics, microchips and lab on chip technologies. They can be broadly defined as measurement devices, prepared using microlithographic or microarraying technologies, that incorporate a biological recognition component. Biochips share much in common with biosensors but are distinguished from biosensors by the use of microlithography fabrication techniques in their production, hence chip.
Tremendous interest in microfabricated fluidic channel structures (biochips) has grown over the past decade due to the large number of powerful demonstrations that have appeared in the literature.
The diversity of chemical and biochemical measurement techniques implemented on biochips is large including various electrophoretic and chromatographic separations, chemical and enzymatic reactions, noncovalent recognition interactions, sample concentration enhancement, and cellular manipulations.
These devices have low cost and small footprints while consuming miniscule quantities of reagents and producing rapid results. Moreover, the manufacturing strategy used to make these devices, i.e., photolithography, allows highly parallel systems to be fabricated at low incremental cost. Biochips open up a vast potential in the area of chemical analysis, however they rely on good fabrication techniques to ensure effective performance.
Biochips require good channel structure (height and width) and surface topography to ensure efficient flow of chemicals (bioagents) within them. Taylor Hobson offer biochip manufacturers a range of measurement solutions which assist in improving quality and performance. For product information click the link below.
Cosmetic / dermatology
Skin is made up of two kinds of tissue. The epidermis is made up of stratified squamous epithelium and is full of keratin and hardened. The dermis underlies the epidermis, epi meaning above. Wrinkles consist of retractions of the upper skin layer, which are limited by a bulge in a linear way.
As the population across the globe ages, so to does the demand for anti aging creams. There is a requirement to verify the performance of these creams but there are also interesting developments within the creams themselves, which include the use of nanoparticles.
Cosmetic manufacturers spend vast amounts of money in R&D on new cosmetic products, which are aimed at improving appearance. Along with safety testing, cosmetic manufacturers need to provide quantitative data on the performance of these cosmetic creams and lotions.
Although microscopes can provide visual information they are often insufficient for the detailed analysis required. Typically anti ageing cream analysis amounts to analysing a skin sample before and after the application of the cream. Usually replicas of the surface are used, as it is not feasible to measure the actual substrates involved.
The Talysurf CLI or CCI platforms with a high-resolution gauge offer an ideal data acquisition tool for this application. While Talymap Textured Surfaces software offers ideal visualisation and analysis. Included in this software is the ability to analyse furrow depth and density along with overall texture direction. For product information click the link below.
Solid dose production typically starts with the formation of the drug into particles which range in size from 0.1 to 101¼m. It is often important to characterise these particles as their size and shape can provide useful information on the manufacturing process. Particle size has also been shown to influence dissolution rate, content uniformity and sedimentation rates.
The next stage of the pharmaceutical manufacturing process is often to form the particles into a granule by using a binding agent. The resulting granules are typically in the range of a few millimetres and show improvements in flow properties. It is useful to characterise the roughness of granules to correlate this with the manufacturing processes. The final element in tablet manufacture often entails applying a coating to the granules which can serve a variety of functions, including protecting the drug from air and controlling dissolution behaviour. It is often a requirement in tablet manufacture to correlate the surface characteristics of their coatings to their dissolution rate.
There are a wide range of requirements for surface characterisation within the pharmaceutical manufacturing arena. One of the more important is in ensuring that the surface finish of pipes and dies in the process area are of a suitable quality to minimise bacterial contamination. Pipes used in pharmaceutical plants can be made from stainless steel or plastic and they can have a range of surface finishes, from 21¼m to 0.21¼m Rq. The surface finish of these pipes is critical when one considers that a common bacteria cell like pseudomonas aeruginosa, which is rod shape can be approximately 0.3 to 0.81¼m wide and 1 to 1.21¼m microns long. Poor surface finish on these pipes could allow for bacteria to build up and would contaminate the manufacturing process. For product information click the link below.
Heart valves
The human heart is an efficient muscular pump that has four chambers �� two atria and two ventricles �� each closed off by a one way valve. In the course of a day, the heart contracts and expands on average 100,000 times, pumping approximately 2,000 gallons of blood. By opening and closing in a synchronised manner, the four valves keep the blood flowing in a forward direction.
More than 250,000 bioprosthetic heart valves are being implanted annually. The ability to replace a diseased heart valve with a prosthetic one has dramatically reduced the mortality associated with heart-valve disorders. Unfortunately, this shining success story is only one side of the coin. The other is the complication associated with all contemporary heart valve prostheses. For example if the prosthetic valve is made of titanium and/or pyrolytic carbon, then they require lifelong anticoagulation. In spite of decades of experience anticoagulation is still a dangerous treatment. Suboptimal anticoagulation carries the threat of major clot formation, leading either to catastrophic immobilisation of the valve leaflets or to the downstream occlusion of a major blood vessel.
Quality control is critical in heart valve components as the consequences of failure are catastrophic. Material properties and geometrical shape are all important in the design and manufacture of heart valves. However surface characterisation of heart valves in both 2D and 3D is also critical as it has a large influence on fluid flow and anticoagulation properties of the valve. For product information click the link below.


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Brendan Rodgers oversaw a goalless draw on his first return to the Liberty Stadium on Sunday.
It was a game full of chances, with Raheem Sterling coming closest with a volley against the crossbar, but honors remained even on what was billed as a special day for several members of the Reds' setup.
The result extends Liverpool's unbeaten run in the Barclays Premier League to eight games but keeps them in the bottom half of the table.
The team news saw Rodgers make seven changes from the side that drew with Young Boys on Thursday, although Stewart Downing and Jordan Henderson retained their places to make their second and first Premier League starts of the campaign, respectively.
Both sides created chances in an entertaining first half, although Liverpool looked to be the likelier scorer.
Sterling displayed superb technique to half-volley against the crossbar from the edge of the box, while Jose Enrique directed a Luis Suarez cross into the net only to have his celebration halted by an offside flag.
Enrique was guilty of missing from six yards after storming into the box to meet an excellent cross from Glen Johnson, whose performance in the first half was as good as you'll see from a fullback. The England man almost found himself on the scoresheet after a one-two with Enrique, but Gerhard Tremmel was off his line quickly to scoop over the crossbar.
At the other end, Wayne Routledge forced Pepe Reina into a reflex save, while Pablo Hernandez proved a real threat and twice came close with shots from distance.
Hernandez was first to probe in the second half with a curled free kick into the stands as Swansea upped its game. There was then an escape for those in red when Joe Allen cleared an Ashley Williams header off the line.
Suarez stung the palms of Tremmel with a vicious hit after fine work from Steven Gerrard, but Swansea now had the momentum. Nathan Dyer caught out Downing before Reina came to the rescue, making himself big to block the substitute's shot.
Rodgers acted, swapping Henderson and Downing for Joe Cole and Jonjo Shelvey.
Liverpool had a great chance to win it late when Sterling and Suarez found themselves running at just one defender. Sterling overcooked his pass, leaving Suarez with more work to do than should have been necessary. The shot was eventually saved.
Reina did well to keep out a Hernandez free kick with time running out, while Shelvey drew a save from Tremmel in what proved to be the final chance of note.
Liverpoolfc.com journalists' man of the match: Glen Johnson.
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by Jennifer Katz
Apparently in Chestnut Hill there is no end to the number of times lightning can strike. This week, the Local has published another letter by neighbors unhappy with development. This time it's about Bowman Properties plans to develop the former Magarity Ford dealership site, and as in previous instances they have engaged a lawyer to fight the development.
Their complaint? The plan is too big for the Avenue, for Chestnut Hill and for the neighbors, whose homes would stand to be dwarfed by the five-story building fronting the pristine sidewalk.
And the Chestnut Hill Community Association, which once again set up a subcommittee of volunteers dedicated to negotiating with Bowman on the issues that concern the neighbors and the community-at-large is being dismissed as ineffective and out of step.
In the letter published this week, Terry Halbert, whose property is adjacent to the Magarity parcel writes, "The design is out of scale and out of character with Chestnut Hill" and "residents have attended CHCA meetings for the past six weeks but have noticed little to no progress on their concerns." (See the letter on page 4).
To say that Chestnut Hill residents were surprised when Richard Snowden, managing partner of Bowman Properties, unveiled his plan to build a mixed-use commercial and residential development that would include a 20,000-square-foot retail space, four floors of condominiums and nine million-dollar townhomes would be an understatement.
Snowden has long been seen as the guardian of the historic character of Chestnut Hill as much as he has been criticized for vacant storefronts. Far from the forward-thinking visionary of a commercial corridor developer, Snowden's reputation has been marked by strict adherence to an even stricter palette of acceptable aesthetics throughout the Hill.
"I see this development in the context of doing this for 30 years," Snowden said in his offices at Germantown and Southampton Avenues last week. "We believe that this building with the proper design and adornments will enhance the Avenue."
Snowden said he takes his reputation as Chestnut Hill's gatekeeper "carefully." Ask any business owners who have had to come before him as a CHCA board member and they will agree.
Yet the near neighbors and the subcommittee members remain skeptical at best that this project, which includes bringing national upscale grocer Fresh Market to the Avenue, is right for Chestnut Hill.
"If you look at it from an aerial photograph, the footprint is much bigger than anything in the 19118 ZIP code currently," said John Beckman, who has the distinction of being a near neighbor, a member of the subcommittee and an urban planning expert.
It was Beckman's firm, Wallace Roberts and Todd, that was invited to New Orleans after Katrina struck and which eventually went on to plan that city's reconstruction. Beckman himself was the project manager.
Beckman shares Halbert's concerns as to the scale of the project.
"[It is] the sense of mass of the development," he said. "It is very tall on the Avenue, taller by far than any other building, except the very peak of the hotel, but this is much wider and goes all the way up."
"Why should we care," Beckman asked, anticipating the obvious question.
"Because it will change the physical character of the community," he said.
Beckman disagrees, however, that the subcommittee has been working in vain. He and Joyce Lenhardt, the subcommittee chair, agree that progress has been slow. Yet there have been significant compromises, both said.
Bowman has agreed to set the top three stories of the Germantown Avenue building back from the sidewalk, although the degree of setback still is being debated.
"It's not enough of a move," Lenhardt said. "It doesn't really change the overall mass on the Avenue. It's a gesture, but we don't believe it goes far enough."
According to Snowden, it has gone as far as it's going to go. There is simply no room to maneuver, he said. Despite repeated efforts from his consultants and project team to present a plan that was larger in scale, which could then be "trimmed" in response to community concerns, Snowden fought to bring this plan forward.
"I don't play that game," he said. "I think it's dishonest. I present the plan I think is best for Chestnut Hill."
It is a precarious position for Snowden to find himself in, where he is both the guardian of the old and the harbinger of the new. It is brining up lingering issues with his relationship to the community while simultaneously stepping into the cauldron of the community's relationship with the city.
For months, members of the CHCA development and zoning committees have been working with City Hall zoning officials to retain the prominence the CHCA has enjoyed downtown since its founding more than 50 years ago.
Their efforts have fallen on deaf ears. And while there is still hope among those involved in the process that the city officials will recognize the value the CHCA has brought and continues to bring to the development process, developers have been given strong encouragement from the city to proceed even without the approval of the community association.
It is hard to imagine that this new attitude from City Hall is not informing some of the recent choices that have been made on the Hill. Bowman is applying for zoning relief through City Council's legislative process, much like Chestnut Hill College, albeit the desired zoning designation is not the same.
The neighbors and the CHCA are equally concerned about this new trend. In her letter, Halbert refers to a feeling of powerlessness to stop Bowman from being able to obtain the zoning change it seeks. From a legal perspective, that is true.
Yet, as with the college, which continues its negotiations with the neighbors to this day, months after obtaining the zoning relief they sought from City Council, Snowden has pledged, in writing, to continue the same process with these neighbors. He has even promised that the CHCA board will have the opportunity to vote on the plan before the City Council will have the opportunity to vote on the zoning legislation for the property.
"That is the biggest misunderstanding here," said Seth Shapiro, Bowman's development and project management consultant. "We have chosen to subject ourselves to a longer, more difficult process that has more opportunity for public input than we had to because it is the proper planning route."
The City Council process requires public hearings where everyone will be able to voice their concerns or their support. Bowman postponed having the zoning legislation introduced until October.
"We had to get the ball rolling," Shapiro said. "It's been seven months."
Unfortunately in Chestnut Hill, along with zoning requirements, aesthetics compliance and community support, there is the inevitable bickering that too frequently turns personal. Halbert's letter also implies that Snowden has tried to intimidate the opposition.
Some neighbors started an online public forum to discuss the project. A contributor took the opportunity to make allegations against Snowden's family, claiming they had engaged in back door dealings with the city.
Snowden responded by notifying the group's moderator that if the allegations, which he said are "false and fabricated" were not removed he would be forced to refer the matter to his attorney.
"It was not an attempt to intimidate anyone," he said. "It was an attempt to stop people from spreading lies about my family."
Beckman said he is not in favor of the near neighbors, who he said have not participated in the subcommittee's meetings, taking legal action.
"It is the responsibility of the subcommittee to do their best to negotiate the best outcome for the larger community while taking into consideration the concerns of the near neighbors," he said. "We need to make the best of the opportunity we have. We are all going to have to live here."


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For months I have been obsessed with the idea of a Parisian macaron (gerbet) that looks like a burger. I finally got around to making some just in time to celebrate the upcoming Father's Day, a day typically associated with the outdoors and firing up the grill, on June 19th. And what is more father- and grill- friendly than burgers?
The macarons that I make always seem to look like little burgers. So instead of fighting my macaron's burger-like quality, I decided to embrace it fully with these whimsical "burger" macarons. I sprinkled some sesame seeds on my macaron shells before baking them so that they would look like burger buns.
For the burger patty, I felt a ganache or buttercream would be too smooth. I wanted something that had the texture of a real burger. So I made a chunky sesame butter by grinding sesame seeds with a bit of oil and salt. I combined that with some melted milk chocolate. I used milk instead of semisweet or bittersweet since its mild chocolate flavor would not overwhelm that of the sesame. I formed the chocolate sesame mixture into patties.
To complete the burger theme I had to come up with a couple garnishes. I didn't want to use colored fondant since that would be just for looks and not flavor. I wanted to use ingredients that would complement the milk chocolate and sesame filling as well as the almond shell. I like the combination of sesame with coconut, so I tinted some dried, shredded coconut with a tiny bit of green food dye. Voila - lettuce! And for those that like a little tomato on their burger, I thinly sliced sour cherries.
I haven't quite gotten the hang of making a good looking macaron shell yet. I keep trying but my shell is not correct. It's always smooth but very tissue thin instead of delicately sturdy. But at least my shells are not wrinkled. And I still haven't eliminated that air pocket under the shell. Oh, and that foot. The ruffled foot is never quite right. It sticks out beyond the border of the shell.
I've been using the French meringue method where the granulated sugar is beaten in with the egg whites. After so many not quite successful attempts using the French meringue method, I think I should explore other ones like the Italian meringue method where a hot sugar syrup is added to the egg whites. All in due time.
But in the meantime, please enjoy the cuteness of my "burger" macarons.
Macarons Shells ("Buns")
Makes about 60 shells (enough for 30 "burgers")
90 grams egg whites (about 3)
40 grams granulated sugar
110 grams almond meal
200 grams powdered sugar
About 1 tablespoon sesame seeds (for decoration)
In a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat the egg whites until it begins to foam. Then gradually add the granulated sugar and continue whisking until you obtain a glossy meringue that holds medium stiff peaks. Do not overbeat your meringue or it will become dry and separate into chunks.
Combine the almonds and powdered sugar in a food processor and pulse until well mixed. The mixture should look fine and powdery.
Add your almond-powdered sugar mixture to your meringue and using a large rubber spatula fold until the ingredients are well incorporated and the batter "flows like magma". You can test the batter by making sure a ribbon of batter drizzled on top of the rest of the batter disappears within 30 seconds. The whole mixing process should take less than 50 strokes.
Spoon the batter into a pastry bag fitted with a plain pastry tip (I use Ateco #804). Pipe out 3 cm diameter rounds of batter onto baking sheets lined with silicone liners (or parchment paper) spacing them about 1-2 -inches apart. Sprinkle with sesame seeds to make them look like burger buns.
Let the macaron shells sit at room temperature for about 30-60 minutes. In the meantime, preheat your oven to 315F. (I set my oven's analog dial to somewhere between 300 and 325). Then bake the shells at 315F for about 15 minutes. Let shells cool before filling.
Milk Chocolate Sesame Filling ("Burger")
8 ounces high quality chocolate, melted and cooled slightly
1/3 cup sesame butter (I made my own chunky version but store bought is fine)
1-2 tablespoons powdered sugar (optional)
Mix the melted milk chocolate and sesame butter. If the mixture is too runny, add some of the powdered sugar until you get the consistency of molding clay. Form thirty 2.5 - 3 cm diameter "burger patties".
Other garnishes
"lettuce" = dried, shredded coconut tinted with a tiny bit of green food coloring and "tomato" = pitted sour cherries, sliced thinly


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The Games
The East Central University baseball team will return home for the first three games of four-straight at Tiger Field, March 29-30. The Tigers will face Arkansas-Monticello in a Great American Conference series. The teams will play a single game, Friday, March 29 at 1 p.m. and then battle through a double-header, Saturday, March 30 starting at 1 p.m.
The Coverage
Fans who can't be at the game can find links to live stats, live video (if available) on ECUTigers.com. Go to the baseball schedule page.
Scouting Arkansas-Monticello
The Boll Weevils are 19-13 overall and 9-9 in the league after winning their last four games, including a non-conference double-header against LeMoyne-Owen College March 26.
UAM has a .294 batting average on the season, and is allowing a .266 mark from the opposition. The Boll Weevils have a 293 to 261 advantage in hits and a 4.74 to 6.38 ERA advantage.
Taylor Eaves is the team's leader at the plate, with a .336 average, 24 runs scored, 36 hits, 17 RBIs and a 9-of-11 stolen base mark. Alex Lang is also a key player for UAM, with a .333 average. Lang has scored 22 times, has 35 hits and 24 RBIs.
Bobby Bryan and Logan Johnson are two of the key pitchers for the Boll Weevils. Bryan has a 3-3 record in 46.2 innings of work, with a 5.01 ERA, 14 strikeouts and a .289 opponent batting average. Johnson has thrown 31.1 innings, has a 1-0 record, 2.01 ERA, 22 strikeouts and .212 average.
Against the Boll Weevils
Last year the series with UAM was cut short, with just two games played. However, the Tigers earned wins in both games.
Senior Mac Grace is the only returning player to see an at-bat against the Boll Weevils, recording one hit in two attempts. Senior Robert Buitrago earned a win on the mound, with a 3.60 ERA in five innings. He allowed five hits, two runs and struck out three batters.
Taylor Eaves is the top returner for UAM, with a .750 average on six hits and three runs scored. Eddie Smith is the top returning pitcher from the series, with a 2.08 ERA in 4.1 innings of work. Smith allowed four hits, one run and recorded four strikeouts.
Breaking the Streak
With the 3-2 come-from-behind win at Oklahoma Christian (March 18), the Tigers broke a 12-game losing streak that had started Feb. 22 at Henderson State. During the span ECU played nine of those games on the road and had three one-run games.
Mariano Making Moves
Junior Michael Mariano has been strong at the plate for the Tigers. The Okmulgee, Okla., native has a current hitting streak of 15 games going and has been on base in all 18 games that he has appeared at the plate.
Golden Grand Slam
Junior Ethan Gold hit the Tigers first grand slam of the season in the bottom of the sixth inning against Ouachita Baptist, Feb. 17. The home run was the first of the season for Gold and capped off a 14-run inning for ECU.
Shutting Out the Opposition
In the second game of the four-game series at Abilene Christian, seniors Andrew Olson and Gabriel Martinez combined to shutout the Wildcats and ECU went on to win 3-0. Olson picked up the win and threw five innings, striking out three batters and allowing five hits, but no runs. Martinez pitched the last two innings to earn the save, with no hits allowed and two strikeouts.
Benny Banging Away
Senior Benny Woodard was the first Tiger to earn a hit in the opening weekend of action, with a double. The Kennedale, Texas, native garnered a home run, two doubles, five hits, four RBIs and a .455 batting average in the first four games.
GAC Preseason Poll
The Tigers were picked to finish 10th in the 2013 Great American Conference Baseball Preseason Poll, as voted on by the league's head coaches.
Southern Arkansas was picked to finish first, with 63 points and seven first-place votes. Southeastern earned the second spot, with 56 points and one first-place votes. Arkansas Tech was the only other school to receive a first-place vote and finished third (48 points). Ouachita Baptist (44 points), Southwestern (35 points), Harding (29 points), Henderson State (22 points) and Arkansas-Monticello (17 points) round out the field.
Up Next
The Tigers will remain at home for a mid-week game against Bacone College, Tuesday, April 2 before returning to the road for a three-game series with Southern Arkansas, April 5-6.


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Thanks go out to Meghan Mullens for use of her digi pattern papers, buttons and scallops. You can find more of her work at Sweet Shoppe Designs. These items are from her FREE No Place like Home kit.
Thanks also go to Mari Koegelenberg for use of her digi flowers. You can find more of her work at her website My Digital Art Studio The flowers are from her FREE Sunny Daze Kit.


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Julie de Waroquier's photo series entitled Chimeras features sets of identical twins side-by-side in ethereal settings. The photographer from Lyon tracked down subjects through social media and word-of-mouth. She also attended the annual twins festival in the town of Pleucadeuc in Brittany.
Chloé and Marine, PleucadeucPicture: Julie de Waroquier / Rex Features


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Verizon to Launch Innovative Philanthropic Health Care Programs to Target Reduction of Health Care Disparities in Diverse Communities Across Country
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – The Verizon Foundation announced on Tuesday (Dec. 4) its new program strategy to reduce health care disparities, improve quality and access to care, and empower patients in need with better chronic disease management programs through collaborative partnerships with national health care nonprofits and health information technology solutions from Verizon Enterprise Solutions.
In total, the Verizon Foundation will invest nearly $13 million in grants and in-kind technology to fund and equip four nonprofit health care organizations with new health information technologies. The organizations focus on children, women and senior citizens.
"For the first time at Verizon we are integrating our technology solutions and philanthropy to accelerate change in health care and improve patient outcomes," said Rose Stuckey Kirk, president of the Verizon Foundation. "We are deploying our technology together with behavior modification programs to empower people to take control of their health.
"Through our philanthropy and corporate giving, we seek to share our success in technology in underserved communities," said Kirk. "To that end, we are working with our partner organizations to enhance patient-care models and empower disease education and management through technology."
Americans spend more than $2.6 trillion on health care each year, with 45 percent of the entire population living with at least one chronic disease such as heart disease, diabetes and lung diseases. Seven out of 10 deaths in the U.S. are attributed to chronic diseases, many of which are preventable. Seventy-five cents of every health care dollar is spent on chronic disease, and the impact of chronic disease on underserved populations accounts for almost 40 cents of that spend.
To help address these issues, the Verizon Foundation is launching programs with four innovators in the health care sector: the Children's Health Fund, the Society for Women's Health Research, the National Association of Community Health Centers, and the University of California, San Diego. The program will expand in 2013 to include additional partnerships.
The foundation's support of these four organizations will advance the utilization of technology to improve self-management, access to care, improved quality and care adherence. In addition, the foundation, in collaboration with Verizon Enterprise Solutions, will give each organization access to Verizon health information technology solutions.
The Verizon Foundation is focused on accelerating social change by using the company's innovative technology to help solve pressing problems in education, health care and energy management. Since 2000, the Verizon Foundation has invested more than half a billion dollars to improve the communities where Verizon employees work and live. Verizon's employees are generous with their donations and their time, having logged more than 6.2 million hours of service to make a positive difference in their communities. For more information about Verizon's philanthropic work, visit www.verizonfoundation.org; or for regular updates, visit the Foundation on Facebook (www.facebook.com/theverizonfoundation) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/verizongiving).
About Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ), headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to consumer, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America's most reliable wireless network, with nearly 96 million retail customers nationwide. Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers integrated business solutions to customers in more than 150 countries, including all of the Fortune 500. A Dow 30 company with $111 billion in 2011 revenues, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of 184,500. For more information, visit www.verizon.com.


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Recent Announcements
- AquaConSoil Antwerp 2019 will be held in Belgium on 20-24 May 2019
- AquaConSoil Lyon 2017: Book of Abstracts now available
Global Efforts to Advance Remediation at Contaminated Sites
- Overview
- AquaConSoil 2013-2017
- ConSoil 2005-2010
- US and EU Perspectives on Green and Sustainable Remediation
- Organizations of Interest
Technology innovation efforts of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Superfund Program focus on advancing state of the practice for remediation of contaminated sites. Advanced practices based on new or updated technologies, improved processes, and evolving science allow USEPA and other stakeholders to clean up contaminated sites in a more efficient and sustainable manner while achieving our core mission of protecting human health and the environment.
"Just as no country is immune from the impacts of climate change, no country can meet this challenge alone. That is why it is imperative for the United States to couple action at home with leadership internationally. America must help forge a truly global solution to this global challenge by galvanizing international action to significantly reduce emissions (particularly among the major emitting countries), prepare for climate impacts, and drive progress through the international negotiations."
The President's Climate Action Plan
U.S. Executive Office of the President; June 2013
In light of today's global economy and environment, USEPA and other agencies throughout the world recognize the need to continuously exchange information and leverage lessons learned by organizations and professionals in diverse situations. Sharing of the knowledge and experiences increases productivity within our global community and helps us collectively refine our site remediation practices in ways that address global issues such as climate change.
USEPA's Superfund Program, which focuses on the nation's contaminated sites of highest priority, continues to expand capabilities for exchanging information globally as well as domestically through online methods such as websites and Internet seminars and through periodic meetings and conferences.
Featured Venues for Global Exchange
- AquaConSoil, an international conference on soil-water systems in Europe
- US and EU Perspectives on Green and Sustainable Remediation, an Internet seminar series presented by the USEPA in conjunction with European Union members to exchange case studies and policy updates concerning green and sustainable remediation approaches for site cleanup
USEPA Involvement in Other Efforts
The USEPA maintains international programs involving collaboration with partners from around the world to facilitate commerce, promote sustainable development, and protect vulnerable populations. The programs entail partnerships such as the:
- International Committee on Contaminated Land (ICCL) (former Ad Hoc International Working Group on Contaminated Land), an informal forum for international exchange and cooperation concerning contaminated land and groundwater. Learn about the ICCL 2011 meeting in Washington, DC, and accompanying Innovative Approaches to Mining Site Remediation and Reuse Workshop .
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS), a forum for sharing technical, scientific, and policy information about social and environmental matters. The USEPA supported CCMS by directing pilot studies on several environmental topics. Learn more about the CCMS pilot studies.
- US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission Environmental Working Group (EWG), a partnership in which the USEPA and Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment work together to manage legacy waste sites and black carbon emissions in the Russian Arctic
Cross-Language Communications
To address language barriers potentially affecting advancement of site remediation practices across the globe, USEPA's Technology Information and Field Services Division periodically convenes non English-speaking events
- Eventos en Español. La Agencia de Protección Medioambiental de los EE.UU. presenta seminarios puntuales para profesionales en el tratamiento de suelos y aguas subterráneas contaminados. Estos seminarios, difundidos por internet, han sido diseñados con el fin de facilitar el intercambio de información y experiencias sobre soluciones para el tratamiento de suelos y aguas subterráneas contaminadas. Los seminarios son gratuitos y quedan grabados para su uso posterior público y gratuito. En seminaries archivados, conozca más sobre los eventos:
- Curso de Capacitación sobre Remediación de Sitios Contaminados
- Gestión de Sitios Contaminados en las Américas
- Acceso a Información Sobre Tecnologías de Tratamiento de Suelos y Aguas Subterráneas Contaminados
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GORHAM, Maine—Senior Mike Kuhn (Holbrook, Mass.) registered the first multi-goal game of his career with two second-period goals to help UMass Boston Men's Hockey (6-1-2, 3-1-2 ECAC East) earn a hard-fought 3-2 win over host University of Southern Maine (4-5-0, 3-4-0 ECAC East) Saturday afternoon.
The Beacons senior fourth-liner entered his fourth season having played in 36 games with three goals, five assists and one multi-point game to his name. Kuhn had added to that total in a hurry over the past four games, recording two assists November 30 in a win over Johnson & Wales University and adding a goal and assist in UMB's last two games entering Saturday afternoon.
With the Beacons trailing 2-1 midway through the contest, he scored the game-tying tally at 11:30 of the second and added the go-ahead goal, his first career game-winner, at 19:34 to lift UMB to a difficult road conference victory.
Fellow senior Travis Daniel (North Brunswick, N.J.) added the Beacons' first goal, while Peter MacIntyre (Norfolk, Mass.), Frankie DeAugustine (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Cody Dixon (Hales Corner, Wisc.) and Mark Grinhaus (Scarsdale, N.Y) each picked up an assist.
ECAC East Goalie of the Week Zach Andrews (Coral Springs, Fla.) helped the Beacons extend their unbeaten streak to seven in a row, by making 24 saves on 26 shots. In his last four games, Andrews has allowed two goals or less and posted 22 saves or more, to help the Beacons go a perfect 4-0.
Cole Klippenstein and Kelby Lorenz scored for the Huskies in the loss, while Dylan Wells recorded 24 saves on 27 shots.
UMass Boston outshot the Huskies 27-26, despite only earning an advantage in the shots column in the first stanza. The two teams combined for 16 penalties, with UMass Boston finishing 1-for-3 on the power-play and USM ending the day 1-for-5.
Klippenstein stunned the Beacons with a goal just 51 seconds into the contest, when he took a pass from Alex Pompeo and slid it by Andrews for an early 1-0 Southern Maine lead.
The Beacons' top-line power-play unit tied the score 10 minutes later, as Daniel fired home his fourth goal of the season, off of passes from DeAugustine and MacIntyre.
Southern Maine took their second and final lead of the day at 7:18, when Lorenz sent a shot by Andrews to make it 2-1. Todd Bannerman and Ryan Seward were credited with assists on the play.
Kuhn evened the score at 2-2 at 11:30, as he received passes from Dixon and Grinhaus and rocketed home a shot for his second goal of the year.
The former Boston Bulldog gave the Beacons the lead at 19:34. Kuhn skated in all alone and beat Wells for an unassisted tally to give UMB a 3-2 advantage.
UMass Boston managed to hold on to their one-goal lead in the third period, as Andrews stopped all 10 shots he faced.
The Beacons will look to finish off the fall semester on a high-note, when UMass Boston hosts Wentworth Institute of Technology on Friday at 7 p.m. Tickets to the Frozen Fenway game (January 7 at 4pm) will be given away during the contest, for more information check out beaconsathletics.com.


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Manage a conflict of interest in your charity
How to identify, deal with and record conflicts of interests within your charity.
About conflicts of interest
You have a legal duty to act in your charity's best interests when making decisions as a trustee. If there's a decision to be made where a trustee has a personal or other interest, this is a conflict of interest and you won't be able to comply with your duty unless you follow certain steps.
For example, if you're a trustee, you would have a conflict of interest if the charity is thinking of making a decision that would mean:
- you could benefit financially or otherwise from your charity, either directly or indirectly through someone you're connected to
- your duty to your charity competes with a duty or loyalty you have to another organisation or person
Conflicts of interest are common in charities – having a conflict of interest doesn't mean you've done something wrong. But you need to act to prevent them from interfering with your ability to make a decision only in the best interests of the charity.
Follow a 3 step approach (identify, prevent, record) so that you are able to comply with your duty and avoid:
- making decisions that could be overturned
- risking your charity's reputation
- having to repay your charity if you make unauthorised payments to trustees
How to identify a conflict of interest
Legal requirement: you must declare a conflict of interest immediately you are aware of any possibility that your personal or wider interests could influence your decision-making.
Have a standard agenda item at the beginning of each trustee meeting to allow trustees to declare any actual or potential conflicts of interest.
It's good practice to have a written conflicts of interest policy to:
- tell your existing trustees how to identify and disclose conflicts of interest
- help prospective trustees identify possible conflicts of interest before they're appointed
You can also keep a register of interests – make sure you change this if trustees' circumstances change and when new trustees are appointed.
How to deal with a conflict of interest
Once a conflict of interest is identified, prevent it from affecting your decision-making by:
- finding an alternative way forward which doesn't involve the conflict of interest (particularly if the issue is serious)
- taking appropriate steps to manage the conflict (if it's less serious), which will usually mean that the person affected doesn't take part in discussions about the issue
Follow any instructions on managing conflicts of interest in your charity's governing document. In some situations you need to comply with legal restrictions. For example, if your charity plans to sell land to one of its trustees, or pay a trustee for goods or services.
If there's nothing about the conflict of interest in your charity's governing document or the law, you will still need to make sure that it is declared and consider whether the conflicted trustee should withdraw from discussions and voting on the matter.
You will have to ask the Charity Commission to authorise a decision in advance if:
- it is going to involve any benefit to a trustee that hasn't already been authorised
- the conflict of interest is serious but there's no alternative way forward that will remove it
- most or all of your trustees share the conflict of interest
How to record a conflict of interest
Keep a written record of the conflict of interest and how you dealt with it in the minutes of your meetings. Explain:
- what sort of conflict of interest it was
- which trustee or trustees were affected
- if any conflicts of interest were declared in advance
- an outline of the discussion
- if anyone withdrew from the discussion
- how you and the other trustees made the decision in your charity's best interests
Legal requirement: if you prepare accruals accounts, they must include details of payments and benefits to your charity's trustees and people connected to them. You must say why the payments were necessary and the legal authority you had to make them.
It's good practice to include details of trustee payments and benefits if you prepare receipts and payments accounts.


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In my recent interview with Jack Armstrong, he and I got talking about how the mentality of Toronto needs to change. Well I failed in that I admit it. I can't help it think it is programed in my brain at this point. My mom is a fan of the Blue Jays and watches them quite a bit. The combination of their great start and the Raptors season being done has lead me to watching them a little bit. It is also a way to spend time with her which is always a good thing. Anyway as you may know already Pops Mensah-Bonsu was at the game last night. He said about 3 or 4 times that he hopes to be back with the Raptors next season. Anytime a player says he wants to be a Raptor you get warm and fuzzy feelings. I think we all get that way as most of us feel that players would not come to Toronto or want to be here. I am sure we all have a mental list of players we NEVER would think would come to Toronto. Here is mine off the top of my head.
Lebron James
Kobe Bryant
Andre Iguodala
Brandon Roy
Lamarcus Aldridge
Dwyane Wade
Chris Paul
Kevin Garnett
Carmelo Anthony
I am sure you have your own list as well. Anytime that anyone says they like Toronto and want to play here is like a shock. However why should it be? We have a great fan base. The city itself is better than a lot of others in the NBA. Sure it is a different country but it is not like we are like guys going to play in Europe.
So Pops likes us and wants to stay. He has never even had a long run in the NBA why would he not want to stay? We need to have some confidence and walk taller. However if you buy into the fact that Toronto is limited in who will come here. That means you also need to cut Colangelo some slack. If he is limited on who he can get to come here than he is playing with a disadvantage.
I find that the negative far seems to out weight the positive in Raptorland. I am not just talking now but all the time. Even when things go well people wonder if we can keep players if things are going to stay together. I refuse to believe the only way you avoid this problem is turn the Raptors into a Euro Team to do it. That seems to be the path Colangelo took to get team going in right direction when he got here. He brought in Garbo, Parker and Bargnani. Delfino was another although he is not from Europe. I think all fans in Canada still remember a pouting Steve Francis when he drafted by the Grizzlies. It was a slap in the face to people in Vancouver and to a lesser degree all across Canada.
I say enough of all of this. This sport is invented by a Canadian and Canada is a great country and Toronto is a great city. Pops Mensah-Bonsu, Chris Bosh or whoever comes along is lucky to be here in Toronto and in Canada. That is how we need to start thinking. People in New York just assume that everyone wants to play there. You know if you can make it there you'll make it anywhere. However not everyone wants to play in New York. It is a myth that is created out of confidence. We here in Toronto need that confidence.
Pops Likes Us He Really Likes Us.
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00686049
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : May 29, 2008
Last Update Posted : February 28, 2017
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The goal of this study is to assess the reliability of the HIV
Treatment Readiness Measure (HTRM) to assist clinicians in:
(1) determining whether or not youth living with HIV are ready to initiate HAART and (2) identifying youth who may be in need of additional support services to facilitate their adherence to HAART. The current study will examine the psychometric properties of the HTRM and establish its test-retest reliability over a two week period. If the HTRM is found to be reliable, a subsequent study will examine its predictive validity.
|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Study Type :
|Actual Enrollment :
|200 participants
|Observational Model:
|Time Perspective:
|Official Title:
|Validation of the HIV Treatment Readiness Measure (HTRM)
|Study Start Date :
|May 2008
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|January 2009
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|January 2009
Study Group
Participants will complete two audio computer assisted self interviews on laptop computers. This study will also involve the abstraction of participants' viral load and CD4 counts from their medical charts.
- To examine the factor structure and estimate the internal consistency of each factor of the HTRM. [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
- To estimate the test-retest reliability of the HTRM. [ Time Frame: Entry, Week 2 ]
- To determine an appropriate system for scoring the HTRM. [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
- To examine the acceptability of the HTRM. [ Time Frame: Entry, Week 2 ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|13 Years to 24 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV-positive youth, 13 years 0 days to 24 years 364 days of age
- Either HAART naïve (defined as never having taken HAART) or HAART experienced (defined as having had at least one experience taking HAART and not having taken HAART for 30 days prior to study entry)
- Not currently on HAART, but planning to initiate HAART within the next 2 months based on provider recommendation
- Enrolled in care at an AMTU or a collaborating site
- Able to speak and understand English
- Willing to provide informed consent, or assent with parental permission (if required by the site IRB) for participation in this study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Evidence of cognitive impairment or other mental condition that limits his/her ability to complete the assessment (per PI or designee discretion)
- Determined by the PI (or designee) to be under the influence of psychoactive agents or intoxicated at the time of assessment to a degree that would interfere with successful completion of the questionnaire
- Visibly distraught or unstable
- Any clinical condition that would likely interfere with the participant's ability to complete the study
Participants who are unable to speak English will be excluded from the initial testing of the HTRM's reliability and validity in keeping with traditional tool development strategies. If the initial study indicates that the English version of the HTRM is reliable and valid, appropriate methods will be employed to translate the instrument into Spanish and the reliability and validity will be re-examined for the Spanish version.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00686049
|United States, California
|Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90027
|University of California San Francisco
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94117
|United States, District of Columbia
|Childrens National Medical Center
|Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20010-2970
|United States, Florida
|Childrens Diagnostic & Treatment Center, Inc
|Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, 33316
|University of Miami School of Medicine
|Miami, Florida, United States, 33101
|USF College of Medicine
|Tampa, Florida, United States, 33606
|United States, Illinois
|Ruth M Rothstein CORE Center/ John H Stroger Jr Hospital
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|Childrens Memorial Hospital
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60614
|United States, Louisiana
|Tulane University Health Sciences Center
|New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 70112
|United States, Maryland
|University of Maryland Express Mailing Address:
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21201
|United States, New York
|Montefiore Medical Center
|Bronx, New York, United States, 10467
|Mount Sinai Medical Center
|New York, New York, United States, 10128
|United States, Pennsylvania
|The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
|United States, Tennessee
|St Jude Childrens Research Hospital
|Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 38105-3678
|Puerto Rico
|University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus
|San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00936-5067
|Study Chair:
|M. Isabel Fernández, Ph.D.
|Adolescent Trials Network
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00686049 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|May 29, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|February 28, 2017
|Last Verified:
|February 2016
Keywords provided by University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:
HIV Treatment Readiness Measure (HTRM)
Highly Active Antiretroviral Treatment (HAART)
Treatment readiness
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases


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She was born January 1, 1938 in Enid, Okla. She married J.D. Maulsby in March of 1955. She and J.D. had lived in the Rogue Valley for 50 years.
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Oh, wait, that's of no help to you. (I have a passable knowledge of high-school-level French, so I'll take it from here.) Parker thought he was OK, and then he went and saw a doctor who told him that the shard of glass had gone through 99 percent of his eye, so he was not OK. He had to have an operation. Parker hasn't yet joined the French Olympic team because he doesn't know if he'll be able to play—that's in the hands of his eye specialist. The Spurs are worried.
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