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Taking Lean Manufacturing Beyond the Shop Floor
Consistent Value Creation Should be the Goal
Manufacturers tend to spend a great deal of time looking at the concepts of lean manufacturing and Six Sigma and how they can apply on the shop floor. But on the whole, they've given far less thought to how they can benefit by applying lean principles in corporate "white spaces" — their business process environments, which include such functions as engineering, product development, order to cash, procure to pay, and sales.
According to Karl Kelton, a consultant who specializes in the manufacturing industry, organizations need to educate themselves on how to apply lean in non-traditional areas. "The traditional thinking out there is, 'I'm familiar with lean. It's the Toyota Production System, and it applies to the shop floor and discrete manufacturing processes,'" says Kelton. Taking lean principles into organizations' business process environments can help in myriad ways, Kelton stresses, but only if those organizations stop looking at lean as simply cost or waste reduction, and start looking at it as a way to create value.
Lean Manufacturing is More than Cost-cutting
"Lean thinking is really about defining value from a customer's perspective, to the extent that you can free up capacity and convert that capacity into additional top-line growth, or reductions in working capital or improvements in material expense," explains Kelton. "You can use lean to create additional value for your business and for your customers."
For example, after implementing lean, a sales team can increase its face time with customers, gaining a better understanding of client needs as well as increased sales. A finance department that is able to streamline its work processes will see fewer errors and, with lower receivables, will start to see improvements in cash flow. A leaner procurement department can free up capacity to develop its strategic sourcing capabilities and lower the total cost of ownership of the goods and services it procures.
Applying Lean Principles Beyond the Shop Floor
Karl recently completed a lean assignment with a leading Canadian firm. Originally, the job was focused on the client's supply chain and production environment. But its order book was growing rapidly and, according to Kelton, the company couldn't build and ship its products fast enough. "They asked us, 'Do you think lean principles could be used to shorten our design and development time, improve the effectiveness of our processes, and drive additional value for us and our customers?'"
This engineering department works on several thousand projects a year. At the time, the manufacturer was working on half of its projects, and the other half were on hold. Of the active jobs, more than half were past their planned completion dates, and more than a third hadn't been touched in the last six months. Too many design jobs were being cancelled or put on hold, too many others were significantly over budget and, often, those were subsequently killed.
Kelton and his team applied some simple lean principles and techniques; instituting a process where engineers work on no more than two projects at a time. They implemented input filters that facilitated the "pull" of projects into engineering, rather than a "push" system. This forced the engineers to sort out problems on the job, rather than putting them aside for later. "Otherwise you would start to re-institutionalize all the old behaviours of managers who would say, 'If I can give him two projects, maybe I need to give him three, or maybe four.'"
Thinking of Lean as a Way to Create Value
Most companies have multiple improvement programs going on. The trouble starts when they are perceived as just the flavour of the month. "Plus, the real issue for employees eventually becomes 'Why should I play, when I'm going to work myself out of a job?'" says Kelton. "This is a fear many organizations have about adopting an operating philosophy like lean or Six Sigma. You've got to provide some level of amnesty for employees."
That amnesty is related to ensuring that individuals who adopt and participate in process improvements are not let go as a result. In this case, it was demonstrated that the manufacturer could free up the equivalent of between 15 and 25 percent of its engineering capacity. And its order book was growing, so the excess capacity was moved to where it could be more useful — other areas of engineering. The company also re-deployed these resources in support of manufacturing efforts such as manufacturing engineering and technical support.
"The key is, 'How do you convert peoples' thinking away from simply equating lean with waste reduction to thinking of lean as value creation?'" says Kelton. "That's one of the hurdles you've got to get past."
Six Ways to Implement Lean Throughout Your Operations
A company's organizational culture is but one dimension that must be addressed when implementing lean. Different organizations will require different methods of bringing lean principles into their business process environments. Kelton offers six other methods of facilitating change, though he stresses not all will be applicable in each situation:
- Flow — Part of having good flow throughout your business processes is being able to add value continuously by producing what is desired in the shortest time possible, with the least resources. A company must physically and visually link all operations, eliminate delays in value-adding processes, simplify processes and consolidate operations.
- Pull — The idea is to produce everything at the rate of "production" of the final product, rather than whenever a production step gets completed. This is known as "pull production control."
- Integrate sourcing and suppliers — Build "shared destiny" relationships with suppliers. A lean organization works with and through suppliers to apply lean practices throughout the value chain.
- Employ lean work methods — A concentration on standardized specifications (for engineering or product development departments, for example) to eliminate re-work and mix-ups between departments; good housekeeping, to make looking for company information easier; better foolproofing of company processes; and more visual control so that when a problem does occur, its roots are quickly uncovered and the problem is permanently resolved.
- Focus on organization and culture — Flexibility is key in lean organizations. Those with decentralized management, good internal education and development programs and multi-skilled staff are able to re-deploy resources or staff when it's time to take advantage of changing market conditions or company strengths.
- Pursue perfection— A lean organization must ensure that employees have a continuous improvement attitude that brings empowerment and a feeling of ownership of the processes.
All of these operating techniques require significant changes to operating policies, workflow and supporting business rules, says Kelton, as well as new behaviours.
Management Expectations
When senior executives are looking at adopting a lean or Six Sigma operating philosophy, says Kelton, they expect three things. First, what they implement has to fit and facilitate their business strategy. Second, they're looking to improve their external relationships with customers, suppliers and partners.
Finally, the philosophy must provide for sustainable operational and financial improvement. "Companies that focus on value creation — and not simply on eliminating waste to reduce cost — will be able to achieve these goals," says Kelton.


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How does it work?
After signing a contract with Belorusneft, you will get the required number of Belorusneft fuel cards.
After Belorusneft receives an advance payment and activates your fuel card, you will be able to tank up without cash at Belorusneft fuel filling stations and the network of the company's partners.
The instructions on the use of the Belorusneft fuel cards are provided in the note that can be downloaded following the link.
The goods and services at the service points (SPs) using fuel cards are provided:
|at Belorusneft SPs
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|not later than five hours after receipt of payment to the beneficiary's account on workdays from 8:00 to 16:00
|not later than nine hours after receipt of payment to the beneficiary's account on workdays from 8:00 to 16:00
Please note that the moment of transfer of funds from the account of the buyer is not the moment of the receipt of payment to the beneficiary's account and the difference between them being the time lag necessary to carry out banking transactions and transmission of information about the receipt of funds to the Service Point.
If you need to update the parameters of the fuel car, you need to contact a corporate customer service division of the company with which you signed the contract.
Average densities of petroleum products are defined in the Completion Guide in the forms of state statistical reporting on statistics of fuel and energy complex of indice of fuel consumption in conventional units approved by the Resolution of the National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus №105 dated 29.07.2009.

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kattu-pavatti-ṭṭhāna-bhāva, m., the fact of being the
place of the activity of the agent; idha pana kiriyāya
~o icchito ti kammam eva ādhāravasena vuttaṁ,
Sv-nṭ I 152,20.
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Robert Heinlein once said, "To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks." Life is made up of so many possible experiences, and surely, even if we are just passing through, the point is to get the most out of it that we can. We dance, we sing, we learn, we grow, we live. Why live if we are not going to be alive, if we are not going to experience life? You may never see it all, but it can certainly be fun to try.
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BEIJING GREEN GARDEN GROUP CO., LTD. was set up in 2001, which is a group enterprise affiliated to BEIJING CAOQIAO INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION. Its businesses section includes design and construction of landscaping, large-scale indoor and outdoor plant rental and placement, mosaiculture, roof greening, floral project, production and sale of flower seedlings, design and operation of exhibition.
BEIJING GREEN GARDEN GROUP CO., LTD. covers an area of 1.3 hectares, built a 400,000㎡of modern intelligent greenhouse and a 3,000㎡ of flower research laboratory. It has been named "Agricultural Standard Production Base" by Beijing Municipal Agricultural Commission, Agricultural Bureau, Forestry Bureau and Quality Supervision Bureau. In 2002, this company got access to foreign trade rights. It was named "the national top ten planting enterprise" in 2010 and "the national women's title base" in 2011. During 2012-2013, the company was awarded "abide by contract and value credit" enterprise by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce. It was also awarded "the national demonstration base of flower culture", "the national verdurization top 100 landscaping enterprise", "the national top ten greening maintenance enterprise", "the national top ten scientific and technological innovation enterprise" and "the national top ten design and construction integrated enterprise" during 2014-2016.
As a first-level qualified enterprise in landscaping construction, this company is strongly developing the business of landscaping projects with abundant technology and excellent technical team. So far, BEIJING GREEN GARDEN GROUP CO., LTD. has built an industrial chain of tourism, research, production, sales and service. It owns Beijing Garden of World's Flowers, Changyang International Golf Course, Olympic Flower Distribution Centre, Century O'bridge Garden Centre, Yang Town Flower Planting Base, Plant Sculpture Garden, China Floral Arrangement Art Museum, Beijing Huaxiang Flower Market, Yuquanying Flower Exhibition and Sales Hall, Beijing Huaxiang Flower Industrial Park, Huaxiang Flower Research Center and Green Waste Disposal Centre.


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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has been a song for many while a good number are not doing it right, something that results to poor ranking by search engines. There are three approaches to SEO that include:
Today, am going to cover the technical SEO part; which seems to be a scary to those who are familiar with search engine optimization. In that case, technical SEO just refers to any SEO work that is done aside from the content. Essentially, it's laying a strong foundation to give your content the best chance it can have to rank for relevant keywords and phrases.
Just like they have for on-page SEO, technical aspects of SEO have changed as search engines have become more sophisticated. While there isn't much you can do to "game" search engines from a technical standpoint, there are some new factors in 2015 that you need to consider if you want to improve your or your clients' rankings.
I'll go over the most important aspects of technical SEO from a beginner's perspective as well as give you a few specific tactics and next steps to fix common problems in each area.
To get fast rankings, you need a fast site
This fact isn't new: if your website loads slowly, a large portion of visitors will quickly leave. What you need to know from an SEO standpoint is that a slow website can harm you in two ways.
First, site speed is one of Google's ranking factors. First announced in 2010, it started to affect a small number of rankings at that point. We now know, the "time-to-first-byte" (TTFB) correlates highly with rankings.
TTFB is exactly what the name suggests: the amount of time needed for a browser to load the first byte of your web page's data. If that was the whole story, we'd only focus on improving TTFB. But there's more.
We also know that 40% of people will close a website if it takes longer than 3 seconds to load. Further, 47% of polled consumers expect a page to load within 2 seconds. Google may not take total page speed into account, but users do.
Even if your TTFB is good, if it takes 3-4 seconds for your full page to load, many visitors will leave without waiting. The worst part is that they'll click the "back" button and choose a different search result. This is known as "pogo-sticking," and it's one of the most important signs that a user isn't satisfied.
If it happens too often, your rankings will drop in favor of a competing search result that doesn't have the same issues. Finally, while it isn't a strictly SEO point, consider that just a one-second delay in loading time can cause conversions to drop by 7%. Even if site speed didn't affect search rankings, you'd still want to optimize it.
Not all site speed problems are of equal importance: While there are hundreds of factors that affect site speed, some are much more common than others.
Zoompf analyzed the top 1,000 Alexa-ranked sites for site speed and found that the following four problems were the most common (in order from most to least):
- unoptimized images
- content served without HTTP compression
- too many CSS image requests (not using sprites)
- no caching information (expires header)
Keep in mind that the sites in that analysis were some of the best on the web. They fixed many basic problems that may affect you, especially if you use WordPress:
- excessive plugin use
- not using a CDN for static files
- a slow web host
Don't guess your site speed problems; diagnose: You very well may have one of those issues that I just listed, but first, you need to confirm them.
There are a lot of great tools out there, but I always recommend starting with Google's PageSpeed Insights tool. Enter a URL, and let the tool do its thing:
Any score above 80 is decent. That being said, higher is better, and improving sophlix's speed is on my long list of things to do. If you'd like a second opinion, use a tool such as GTmetrix. Notice that some tools will give you different scores. That's because they weigh problems differently.
The following are the two most important things you need to ensure: that (1) your page loads quickly (under 2 seconds) and (2) your page is as small as possible with the least number of requests.
The Google tool is the simplest and a good place to start. It will give you the most important issues to fix (in red). Fix the orange ones if possible, but they don't usually cause too much of a slowdown in your loading speed.
I do recommend using another tool to get more details. With GTmetrix as an example, you can click on the "waterfall" tab to see the exact amount of time each request took to fulfill.
This lets you see if your hosting isn't up to par (a lot of waiting) or if one request on your page is taking way longer than another.
Once you know what your problems are, fix them. As I said before, there's no way I can go into everything in this guide, but I'll show you what to do if you have some common problems.
Start with your images: If you do nothing else, compress them. Most types of images have unnecessary metadata that take up space, which can be deleted without causing any harm.
Use a tool such as Optimizilla to compress pictures beforehand, or use a plugin such as WP Smush to compress any pictures you upload to WordPress automatically.
In addition, pick your file size carefully. JPEG files are usually smaller once compressed although not as high quality as PNG files. If possible, use vector images (SVG is the most popular format), which can scale to any dimension with no loss of quality.
Next up: Combine images into sprites.
A "sprite" is simply an image file that contains many small images. Instead of having to make a separate request for each image, you only have to get the one. Then, you use CSS to tell the browser which area of that image to use. Sprites should include often used images such as navigation icons and logos. Here is a complete guide to CSS sprites if you'd like to do it manually. An easier way to accomplish this is to use an online sprite creator.
How do mobile visitors see your site?
The biggest recent changes to technical SEO have revolved around increasing the importance of mobile friendliness. On April 21, 2015, Google released the "mobilegeddon" update. While it was hyped up as a huge update, it only had a slightly higher impact on rankings than normal:
Test your website's mobile friendliness: The first and last place you need to test your site is on Google's mobile friendly checker tool. Enter your URL, and the tool will show you exactly what Google thinks of your page. Most sites do have mobile issues. In fact, 44% of Fortune 500 company websites are not mobile-friendly. So if your site is not currently mobile-friendly, you are not alone. But, it's something you should fix as soon as possible.
To start with, you can choose from three different approaches to mobile-friendly design.
Approach #1 – Responsive design: This is the best option in the vast majority of cases. A responsive design shrinks and expands according to the visitor's device. Instead of setting widths for elements, you set a percentage.
Approach #2 – Separate URLs for desktop and mobile visitors: This method has mostly died out in favor of responsive design.
This approach involves creating at least two different versions of each page of your website: a mobile one and a non-mobile one.
Approach # 3 – Serve different content based on the visitor's device: Finally, you can have a single URL for each page, but first check for a mobile user agent. If a visitor is on a mobile device, you can load a specific page, but if they aren't, you can load the default page.
It's similar to Approach #2 in that you'll have to code for two different pages. The one upside is that all backlinks will point to a single URL, which will help content rank better.
Common mobile design mistakes: Making a site mobile-friendly really isn't that hard. In most cases, it's much easier than optimizing page load speed. That being said, there are seven fairly common mistakes to keep an eye out for:
- Blocked JavaScript, CSS, and image files: access is controlled by your robots.txt file (more on that later).
- Unplayable content: don't use flash videos, which aren't playable on many mobile devices. HTML5 videos are a better option.
- Faulty redirects: don't just redirect mobile users to your home page. Redirect them to an equivalent page they were looking for.
- Mobile-only 404s: if you're serving dynamic (separate) URLs, make sure they both work.
- Avoid interstitials and pop-ups:Pop-ups are always a controversial subject. While they're annoying to some on desktops/laptops, they are much more annoying and often difficult to close on mobile. If you can, don't have anything that blocks your content on a mobile device:
- Irrelevant cross-links:If you have a separate mobile version of your site, always link within that. Don't make the mistake of linking to a desktop site page from the mobile site.
- Slow mobile pages:Remember that most mobile users are on a slower connection than desktop users. This makes optimizing your load speed crucial (see above section).
Stop confusing search engines
Redirects are necessary to keep any site up to date, but you need to do it the right way. Use the wrong codes, and it will not only hurt your visitors but also affect your search engine rankings. There are two popular types of redirects:
- 301: a permanent redirect
- 302: a temporary redirect
Simple rule: If you no longer need a page, create a 301 redirect to an updated page.
Describe your content like a pro with structured data
Modern search engines are pretty good at putting together what your page is about just by looking at the on-page content. However, you can make it even easier for them by using structured data markup.
While there are multiple libraries you can use, stick to schema.org, which is a project created by all the major search engines. Structured data isn't new, but it's still heavily underutilized. Usually, it's because an SEO hears the term and gets squeamish, just like with "technical" SEO. It's actually really simple, and I'll show you how to use it for your site in this section.
What schema is – the simple version: The schema vocabulary is just a way of describing content to search engines. You can insert schema terms into your existing HTML.
While Google doesn't use schema markup as a direct ranking factor, it can use it to help categorize a page and to create rich snippets. Rich snippets are those things you see in certain searches, e.g., star ratings, pictures, and anything else besides the plain text:
Rich snippets can affect your search rankings. They almost always the increase click through rate, which could tell Google that your page is more important than the surrounding results, leading to more traffic and better rankings.
You can add schema terms to existing HTML code to describe a section of content. For example, the following common term—"itemscope"—tells search engines that the entire "div" section is about the same topic:

Director: James Cameron (born August 16, 1954)
Science fiction
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But there are thousands of other terms you can use. Here's the full list.
Ever wonder how some SEOs charge tens of thousands of dollars per month for their services?
This is why. Consider that this is just a beginner's guide to technical SEO, and we haven't really scratched the surface.
Expert SEOs learn as much as they can about all these individual elements and practice their skills for years to master them.
For now, you don't need to do that. Instead, pick one or two of these technical SEO aspects. Then, see how they apply to your site, and fix any errors. Track your work and the results so you can quantify how much the mistakes hurt you.
I realize that there are some fairly complicated topics in this article, so if you need any clarification or you have some experience with technical SEO that you'd like to share, leave a comment below.


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Mixware is a US distributor of Pro Audio, DJ, and Lighting equipment. Mixware was founded in 2008 and is based in Los Angeles, CA. We feature an assortment of unique gear and accessories from exclusive brand partners including ColorKey, Decksaver, Fusion, Headliner, Icon Pro Audio, Magma, Mirfak, MWM, Novopro, and Phonic.
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2 Chronicles 29:1-3; 30:1-27; 1 Corinthians 7:32-40; Matthew 7:1-12
The demands of the law might have kept people away from the Passover Feast. But see how King Hezekiah encouraged the people to be faithful to the Lord? He did not judge them for their uncleanness but instead, prayed to God to forgive the people while he called them to come back to the Lord their God.
The requirements of the law can also cause us to turn away from God because it accuses us of our sin and makes us wary of an angry God. So, we must always remember the place of the law and place of the gospel. We see it lived out in Hezekiah. He brokered the grace of God while he called the people to faithfulness. Indeed, it was God's grace that enabled them to be faithful.
We too, like Hezekiah, should seek the Lord's forgiveness, remind others of his grace, and encourage them in the faith. This, after all, is precisely what we want others to do for us. So we should do the same for them. This is the law and the prophets—as well as the grace of Christ's gospel.
Prayer: Enable me by your grace, O Lord, that I may be faithful unto you. Amen.
Today's devotion was written by Mark Ryman, Pastor of Saint John's Lutheran Church, Asheboro, NC.


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This is not a new story but with the ever more urgent push to bathe us all in 5G radiation, both from the telecoms industry and government who are raking in the license fees, it is worth revisiting.
I was reminded of it by a colleague who pointed me to an article in Principia Scientific International (of which more anon) – but the issue has been on the minds of insurers for ten years. Back in 2010 in their report, Electromagnetic fields from mobile phones: recent developments, Lloyds were already drawing the parallels with asbestos. As a result they were wary about accepting too trustingly the assurances that exposure to electromagnetic radiation was harmless. Note the cautious tone of the conclusion to their 20 page report:
5. Conclusions
The large bulk of scientific evidence shows that exposure to EMF from mobile phones does not cause cancer, with the exception of exposure over ten years where there are some indications of an increased risk of certain types of brain cancer, namely acoustic neuromas and gliomas. Similarly, other health problems, such as self-reported symptoms do not seem to be caused by EMF. However, the lack of long-term data coupled with the long latency periods of many cancers means that further long-term studies are needed to confirm there is no health risk from long-term low EMF exposure.
With regards to the implication to insurance, as the current scientific evidence stands, it is unlikely that insurers will be liable for compensation for bodily injury on product liability policies. However, as asbestos has shown, new scientific developments coupled with a small number of key legal cases can change the situation very rapidly.
10 years later
Now, nearly 10 years later, a great deal more scientific evidence has accumulated as to the possible health risks, especially to children, of man-made electromagnetic radiation (see the Bioinitiative Report's latest 2019 updates). Meanwhile the use of the technology has proliferated massively. As a result insurance companies are increasingly nervous about the possible financial implications for them.
Swiss Re, one of the world's largest insurance companies, in their Emerging Risks Insight in 2013, class the possible 'overall impact' as 'High' within a 10 year time frame:
Unforeseen consequences of electromagnetic fields
The ubiquity of electromagnetic fields (EMF) raises concerns about potential implications for human health, in particular with regard to the use of mobile phones, power lines or antennas for broadcasting. Over the last decade, the spread of wireless devices has accelerated enormously. The convergence of mobile phones with computer technology has led to the proliferation of new and emerging technologies. This development has increased exposure to electromagnetic fields, the health impacts of which remain unknown.
Anxiety over the potential risks related to EMF has risen. Studies are difficult to conduct, since time trend studies are inconsistent due to the still rather recent proliferation of wireless technology. The WHO has classified extremely low-frequency magnetic fields and radiofrequency electromagnetic fields, such as radition emitted by cell phones, as potentially carcinogenic to humans (Class 2B carcinogen). Furthermore, a recent ruling by an Italian court suggested a link between mobile phone radiation and human health impairment. Overall, however, scientific studies are still inconclusive regarding possible adverse health effects of EMF.
If a direct link between EMF and human health problems were established, it would open doors for new claims and could ultimately lead to large losses under product liability covers. Liability rates would likely rise.
And now Lloyds of London and its underwriters, CFC Underwriting, in their 2015 Policy Document for Architects and Engineers (P.7) include claims arising out of
32. Electromagnetic fields –
directly or indirectly arising out of, resulting from or contributed to by electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic electromagnetism, radio waves or noise.
in their list of 'exclusions' – eg claims that they will not cover.
If an insurance company will not cover a risk that is because they regard it as a genuine risk with a credible likelihood of claims that will cost them a lot of money.
Badly burnt by asbestos, they see all too many parallels between it and EMR: a heavy push by industry and government to use a new technology, initially very little research on the health risks, a growing scientific and public concern over these risks backed by more and more credible evidence – but denied by industry and governments now heavily invested in the technology. What the insurance industry envisions is that the refusal to apply the precautionary principle may end in a pandemic of EMR-related illnesses, potentially far more costly than asbestos which was at least limited to one, albeit fatal, condition.
If they are worried, should we not be worried too?
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Anne Frank – and smart meters…
Many of you will have heard me talk before about the lovely and wonderful Dr Olle Johansson, one of the leading academic scientists fighting the electrosensitivity cause and one of the authors of the Biotinitiative Report. (For the un-initiated – A Rationale for Biologically-based Public Exposure Standards for Electromagnetic Fields)
Apart from producing endless papers and reports, speaking all over the world and being on everyone's interview list, he runs an unofficial one-man news agency, dispersing emails on (mainly) ES related topics to his huge mailing list, on which I am fortunate enough to be. And among this week's batch was the following:
I have been away for a few days visiting Amsterdam. (To be electrohypersensitive in The Netherlands is not easy, trust me.)
I also spent a few hours during my visit at the Anne Frank House, located on the Prinsengracht canal in Amsterdam. It was in the Achterhuis (Dutch for "back house") or Secret Annex that Anne Frank and her family hid. It is the rear extension of the building, concealed from view by houses on all four sides of a quadrangle. Though the total amount of floor space in the inhabited rooms came to only about 500 square feet (46 square meter), Anne Frank wrote in her diary that it was relatively luxurious compared to other hiding places they had heard about. They remained hidden here for two years and one month until they were anonymously betrayed to the Nazi authorities, arrested, and deported to their deaths in concentration camps.
When I walked through the museum I learnt that they had (in the evenings and very early mornings) access to water, a gas stove and some electricity for single light bulbs. While standing in the kitchen I suddenly realized that if this had been today, the Frank family would not have stood a single chance; they would have been caught within a few hours. Why? Well, the very moment they would have used the water tap above the kitchen sink, or put on the gas stove, or lit the electric light, the water, gas, and electricity smart meters of the building would immediately have signalled additional use to the Gestapo. The Gestapo would have loved smart meters!!
Bioinitiative Report 2012 and 'bad science'
Why would the CEO of Belgacom, Belgiums' equivalent of BT, have banned wifi from his 27th floor office, preferring to use wired connections, ask callers to call him back on his land line rather than his mobile and warn children that they should turn off their mobile phones at night and not use them as alarm clocks? (See here if you don't believe me!) Could it just be that, even at the heart of the telephone industry, they are getting worried about the possible fallout from the stratospheric growth in wireless technology – and the man-made electromagnetic radiation to which is it subjecting us all?
They should be. Well, they should be if they pay attention to the ever growing mountain of peer-reviewed research papers suggesting that excess electromagnetic radiation could have dire public health consequences for those who are subjected to it. Many of these papers are referenced in the recently published Bioinitiative Report 2012, the work of 25 odd top scientitists, public health and public policy experts who have 'assessed scientific evidence on health impacts from electromagnetic radiation below current public exposure limits with the purpose of evaluating what changes in these limits are warranted now to reduce possible public health risks in the future.' They have looked at over 1800 new studies published in the last five years, all of which report adverse health effects at exposure levels ten to hundreds or thousands of times lower than allowed under safety limits in most countries of the world.
The possible link between mobile phone use and brain cancer is now well known, if not always accepted, but that is only one of a myriad of adverse health effects that have been logged. One of the scariest, as far as I am concerned, is the mounting evidence that just carrying a mobile phone in your pocket or on your belt, without even using it, can damage human sperm and their DNA beyond repair. I quote:
Human sperm are damaged by cell phone radiation at very low intensities in the low microwatt and nanowatt/cm2 range (0.00034 – 0.07 uW/cm2). There is a veritable flood of new studies reporting sperm damage in humans and animals, leading to substantial concerns for fertility, reproduction and health of the offspring. Exposure levels are similar to those resulting from wearing a cell phone on the belt, or in the pants pocket, or using a wireless laptop computer on the lap. Sperm lack the ability to repair DNA damage.
Several international laboratories have replicated studies showing adverse effects on sperm quality, motility and pathology in men who use and particularly those who wear a cell phone, PDA or pager on their belt or in a pocket (Agarwal et al, 2008; Agarwal et al, 2009; Wdowiak et al, 2007; De Iuliis et al, 2009; Fejes et al, 2005; Aitken et al, 2005; Kumar, 2012).
Other studies conclude that usage of cell phones, exposure to cell phone radiation, or storage of a mobile phone close to the testes of human males affect sperm counts, motility, viability and structure (Aitken et al, 2004; Agarwal et al, 2007; Erogul et al., 2006).
Animal studies have demonstrated oxidative and DNA damage, pathological changes in the testes of animals, decreased sperm mobility and viability, and other measures of deleterious damage to the male germ line (Dasdag et al, 1999; Yan et al, 2007; Otitoloju et al, 2010; Salama et al, 2008; Behari et al, 2006; Kumar et al, 2012).
There are fewer animal studies that have studied effects of cell phone radiation on female fertility parameters. Panagopoulous et al. 2012 report decreased ovarian development and size of ovaries, and premature cell death of ovarian follicles and nurse cells in Drosophila melanogaster.
Gul et al (2009) report rats exposed to stand-by level RFR (phones on but not transmitting calls) caused decrease in the number of ovarian follicles in pups born to these exposed dams.
Magras and Xenos (1997) reported irreversible infertility in mice after five (5) generations of exposure to RFR at cell phone tower exposure levels of less than one microwatt per centimeter squared (μW/cm2).
Then of course there is the increased risk for children and the foetus, the growing likelihood that excess electromagnetic radiation (EMR) may be implicated in the huge rise in cases of autism, the possibility that EMR may be breaching the blood-brain barrier (not to mention the blood-ocular, blood-placenta, blood-gut and blood-testes barriers). And what about the significant number of studies linking EMR with genotoxic outcomes, neurological conditions, childhood leukemia, breast cancer, Alzheimer's disease……
If you want to know more you can download the whole report for yourself from www.bioinitiative.org
Not, of course, that even this mountain of evidence will convince everyone. 'Unbelievers' will point (as does Dr James Rubin in his 2010 'review of provocation studies' and as did Dr Ben Goldacre in a much quoted blog from 2007) to the fact that, in numerous 'provocation studies', so-called electro-sensitives have been unable to tell the difference between a 'live' mobile phone and a dummy one. Therefore, although the symptoms from which they suffer may be perfectly genuine symptoms, they are not caused by electromagnetic radiation. The trouble is that the premise on which the studies were based was totally misbegotten.
If someone has a raging outbreak of eczema and is itching all over, asking them to stroke a cat to see whether cat dander triggers their eczema is pointless. They will already be itching so much, and the outbreak may have been set off by so many different triggers, that it would be completely impossible to assess whether stroking the cat has made any difference. If you want to test whether cat dander triggers their eczema they need that eczema to be totally dormant and for there to be no other possible eczema triggers present – and then ask them to stroke the cat and see what happens.
Similarly, if someone is suffering from symptoms which have been caused by excess electromagnetic radiation, their symptoms are going to be, like the itchy eczema sufferer's, so overwhelming that adding one extra trigger (be it cat or live mobile phone) is going to make very little difference to their level of symptoms. But, in these studies, the 'test' of whether or not the subject is genuinely reacting to electromagnetic radiation is whether they react to a 'live' mobile phone but not to a dummy one.
Further more, unless the environment in which the test is carried out is totally electrically 'clean', there is no way of knowing whether the subjects are reacting to the mobile phone or to some other source of EMR in the vicinity.
Even if these provocation studies were done in an electrically clean environment (which I doubt that they were) they most certainly were not done with symptom-free electrosensitives.
As with the eczema sufferer and the cat, the only way that you can genuinely test whether an 'electrosensitive' is reacting to the 'live' mobile phone is by ensuring first that they are symptom free, so that that any symptoms/reactions they suffer do not get confused with any pre-existing symptoms or reactions, and then by ensuring that the test is done in a virginally electrically clean environment so that if there is a reaction to can be attributed to the mobile phone and not to some other EMR-radiating device in the vicinity.
That would be a study that was well worth doing and which would have some validity.
Meanwhile, if you want to know more about electrosensitivity, there is a mass of information on the FoodsMatter site here – where you will also find links to the many other organisations providing information and support for electrosensitivity sufferers.
Smart meters – what are they and why should we be campaigning against them?
So, what is all the fuss about Smart Meters? What is wrong with your utility company checking your meter via a radio controlled meter rather than sending round a man to read it, or asking you to read it yourself and tell them what you have used? Sounds rather efficient…
Well that is what the energy companies are telling us anyhow, adding that it will help them and us to be 'greener' in our use of energy. 'By understanding how we use our energy, this will help us all to find ways of reducing our consumption and also help make our individual contribution to the overall carbon reduction targets….'
But….. And there are lots of buts. For much more detail on smart meters, their possible effects and who is doing what elsewhere in the world, see articles and research on the FoodsMatter site. However, for a very brief introduction – the 'buts', fall in to three main sections.
Energy companies claim that smart meters will enable them to save costs as they will not need to employ meter readers (can this really be regarded as a virtue in these times of high unemployment?) and that the readings will be more accurate and will allow them to plan and monitor usage so as to make more efficient use of energy. In fact, the experience of several states in the US where smart meters have already been installed and where bills have suddenly soared into thousands of dollars, have suggested that this may be far from the case.
There are huge concerns about the data that will be collected: how it will be stored and how it could be used. The meters will be operational 24/7 and will collect data an ongoing basis or at very frequent intervals. So that if you choose to get up in the middle of the night to go to the loo, make a cup of tea, watch TV, or work in your workshop because you can't sleep, that information will be logged via your smart meter.
In a comment on a Which? blog on smart meters, the NPower Press Office says:
'Customer privacy and data security is key to the work being done in the industry and we are working with Ofgem to ensure that the appropriate customer protections are in place when the mass rollout starts next year. There are already customer protection mechanisms in place, such as the Data Protection Act, European Convention and Human Rights and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, that will ensure data is used in an appropriate way and that marketing information is only sent to those customers who have agreed to receive such messages.'
Ouch – that does not sound reassuring. Who decides what is appropriate? And do we really want them to have the information anyhow? Seems to me that Big Brother has finally found the ideal tool for monitoring our every move and I, for one, do not have faith that those 'customer protection mechanisms' are sufficiently robust to prevent me being harassed by sellers of everything from roof insulation to garden mowers.
But even if one believes in the integrity of the utility companies, what is to stop a hacker with more malign motives accessing the information – information such as when you are normally out so it would be a good time to burgle you could be deduced from your power usage. Or, on a much larger scale, a hacker could successfully bring the whole country to a standstill by breaking into the system and just turning it off! The energy companies maintain that their systems are 'secure' but history suggests that no system is truly secure against a determined and skillful hacker. (For more on this see this article in the Denver Post.)
Health risks – more electrosmog
For anyone who is already electrosensitive – and potentially for all of us – smart meters pose a greater hazard than having Big Brother breathing down your neck; they will effectively 'irradiate' your house or flat 24 hours a day and you will have no way of turning them off. Although in some countries (such as Italy) the information is sent down a cable network, the proposal for the UK (along with much of North America) is to use a wifi or wireless network. This effectively means that every dwelling in the UK that uses energy and has a meter will be connected through a wifi network to a hub in the street which will then pass the information on to a central data processing centre. It is even possible that some meters may act as relays to boost the system, in which case they will be using an even stronger signal.
A wifi smart meter system is already up and running in Canada and its emissions are currently significantly higher than the international Bioinitiative safety limit for mobile phones. Indeed one calculation suggests that, working at two thirds of its maximum capacity, one meter would give off the same amount of radiation per day as the recent Interphone study suggested would be enough to increase cancer risk over a period of 10 years.
In some countries (such as the Netherlands) you can opt out – although opting out yourself will not protect from the emission from your neighbours which, if you live in a flat, could be very high. However, as it stands, in the UK there will be no opt out on health or any other grounds, so we will all have the ambient electrosmog in which we are forced live to dramatically increased, with whatever health consequences that may have.
As far as those who are already electrosensitive are concerned, they know only too well what the consequences will be: considerable extra expenditure to try and shield themselves from the emissions and an almost inevitable decline in their health as it will not be possible to entirely exclude the meter emissions from their homes. As far as the rest of the world is concerned, the effect will largely depend on whether theories like Andrew Goldsworthy's (outlined in my previous post) that conditions such as autism are directly related to the increase in man-made electromagnetic radiation, prove to be true – in which case it could be catastrophic. Certainly, the low level reactions (headache, fatigue, ear tingling, general malaise etc etc) that many people who are not overtly electrosensitive already experience to excess mobile phone or computer use, compact fluorescent bulbs, dirty electricity, power lines etc are likely to get worse with the resultant loss of population-wide productivity and general well being.
So, what to do?
Well, in the US, where the grid is far more advanced than ours in the UK, there are a number of groups, such as Stop Smart Meters and the Center for Electrosmog Prevention campaigning vociferously, and in some cases successfully, to stop the roll out or even to have smart meters removed. In the UK MCS-Aware, ES-UK, The Radiation Trust and Wired Child have joined together to petition the government to install a fibre-optic wired network instead of a wifi one and to allow an opt out on health grounds for those who are electrosensitive. This obviously does not address the larger concerns of the invasion of privacy, security and efficiency raised by the universal installation of smart meters, but it certainly does address the main health concerns.
If you feel you should get involved – and you should – they have set up a website, www.SmartMeterPetition.org from which you can sign the petition. They also give you templates for letters and emails to be sent to your MP, the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and anyone else who could be relevant, lots addresses plus suggestions as to how you can protect your own home against smart meters.
For other ideas as to why the government should think again about their Smart Meter roll out, check through some of the other articles on the Foods Matter site. Even though it is unlikely that they will actually take it on board, you might also want to quote Dr Goldsworthy's appeal to the Nuremberg Code; it might at least make them think!
'One thing that I did not mention in my original communication, but is very relevant, is that the enforced introduction of wireless smart meters is a clear contravention of the Nuremberg Code which forbids the performance of experiments on human beings without their consent. Insofar as the long-term safety of continual irradiation from these devices has never been tested and many people (including many eminent scientists) believe that it is potentially harmful, the whole nation is being made a part of an uncontrolled experiment on their electromagnetic safety.
In fact, it doesn't matter whether they turn out to be harmful or not; the fact that the experiment is being performed at all without the expressed permission of the consumer is a contravention of the Nuremberg Code. If we are to adhere to the Code, no consumer should have a wireless smart meter fitted without their voluntary consent after being warned that some scientists believe them to be a health hazard. Furthermore, should the property change hands, any new consumer should have the right to ask for the meter to be removed and replaced by a conventional one.'
Smart meter petitions to sign – and ES update
For those of you who have not yet met 'smart meters' they are, or at least they are sold as, the energy companies' and the government's way to help you reduce your energy consumption and allow the whole country to become greener and more sustainable. Anyone who has had an energy audit by their local council will already have been offered a version of smart meter – a neat little electronic device that will monitor your energy usage in each room of your flat or house and thus allow you to minimise your energy consumption – and reduce your bills! The only problem for those of us who are already electrosensitive (and possibly for many of the rest of you too, since our numbers seem to be growing all the time) is that the way that meter or monitoring device communicates with your energy supplier is via a wifi system running though your house.
Likewise a smart meter. In its case, it sends information about your energy consumption, on an ongoing basis, via a wifi network, to a local 'hub' that, in due course, remits it onward to a central database. This allows the energy provision companies to monitor your energy consumption 24/7 and to send you bills without having to send out that irritating meter-reading man to ring your door bell. (Good for their profits – maybe not so good for the employment statistics in these times of shrinking employment.) [Read more…]


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With 17 years Martial Arts experience under her belt BODYCOMBAT® Trainer and Presenter Natasha (Tash) Ekmekjian has been appointed Les Mills Asia Pacific's new Head Program Coach for BODYCOMBAT®.
Tash always had a love for sports and staying active. As a kid, Tash was an avid basketballer, gymnast and participated in numerous athletic events, but it was the 1984 movie 'The Karate Kid' that ignited her interest in Martial Arts. At the age of 12 this young Grasshopper, started learning the art of Viet Quyen Dao Karate, a martial art which Tash would go on to master and become the first female to achieve a Black Belt at the Viet Quyen Dao Karate school. Martial Arts not only taught Tash the skills needed to protect herself, but also the strength to pick her battles and how to stay calm. "Learning Marital Arts taught me that having the skills isn't about trying to hurt someone; it is about knowing how to stop someone from hurting you. It's about having confidence that you could protect yourself and your loved ones" Tash shares.
Tash holds a Black belt in Tae Kwon Do, another Martial Art she is very accomplished in. Leading up to the Athens 2004 Olympics, Tash was busy training in order to try out for the Australian team. One day she paused and realised she wasn't enjoying it like she use to; it had gotten too serious, so she made the decision to pull back. Tash explains "it's important to love what you are doing."
In 2005 Tash's husband Michael started talking about returning to study in order to get into the radio industry. Tash saw his motivation and excitement grow and taking a leaf out of his book, decided to focus on what she loved. It was shortly after that she became a Group Fitness Instructor.
Tash attended her first LES MILLS™ class in the middle of studying her Certificate III in Fitness. Although, finding her first class a little challenging, she completed BODYPUMP® remembering her enjoyment of the class and the energy from the Instructor. For most people this would be the moment when you congratulated yourself for trying a new class, stretched out your muscles and headed home feeling proud of yourself. Not Tash, she went for it and took part in a BODYCOMBAT® class immediately following BODYPUMP®. I know, I thought the same; she is going to be sore tomorrow! But Tash said "It was exactly what I knew, and what my body knew how to do. Without the bumps and bruises!" Tash was hooked.
In mid 2005 Tash became a BODYPUMP® instructor and true to form immediately followed it up by becoming a BODYCOMBAT® instructor. We are glad she doesn't do things in halves though as now Tash's impressive resume includes; Trainer in SH'BAM and Certified Instructor in BODYPUMP®, BODYJAM®, CXWORX® and GRIT™.
As Tash steps up from BODYCOMBAT® Trainer to BODYCOMBAT® Head Program Coach I asked her what the highlights are of being a Trainer. Tash explains "The thing that gets me most -especially when I first started as a Trainer – is being able to instil the same passion for the program I have, in a fellow instructor. When someone contacts me especially to thank me, it overwhelms me. Group Fitness is a powerful thing. And being with others who feel the same way makes it all the more enjoyable."
And finally I asked the question our Trainers and Presenter both love and fear, what is your favourite track? Tash did not disappoint and met me with a, "You're killing me, I can't choose one!" before launching into an enthusiastic explanation of her fav BODYCOMBAT® tracks. "Fire (track 4, release 47). It's my fall back when I need to pick a track quickly. I know it so well. I also love Excalibur (track 7, release 47). It's a Muay Thai track. I tend to gravitate towards the technical tracks, because of my fighting background. So usually the track 2s,4s and 6s are my favourites"
It's with a passion for the program like Tash has and her years of experience that we know she will take BODYCOMBAT® in the right direction.
About Tessa
Tessa has recently moved into the Marketing Coordinator position at Les Mills Asia Pacific after falling in love with the LES MILLS World. Tessa continues to add LES MILLS™ programs to her favourites list, now including CXWORX®, BODYBALANCE®, BODYPUMP® AND BODYSTEP®.


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March 2015
Q. I follow your columns in the magazines, and I find them very informative. I have a '46 Chevy COE that I'm working on, and I want to patch some rust damage in the center of the roof, above the windshield.
At first glance, it would appear to be a simple fix, but the area has subtle compound curves, with a peaked character line that fades back into the roof. To top it off, the recess for the windshieldhas to be part of the patch panel.
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At first I thought I could make this part on an English wheel, but there are just too many curves and angles.
I saw an article in the September 2013 Street Rodder Magazine, where the guys at Honest Charlie's Garage changed the nose profile on the hood of a '51 Ford. They made the part in three pieces, and I believe it was because the center portion had a raised character line. The general shape is similar to what I need for my truck. They made a buck to ensure that the profile of the new panels was correct. I was hoping to be able to make a patch panel by using the roof of the truck as my buck. Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated.
Barry Fletcher
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A. While the patch panel you need could conceivably be made on an English wheel, the peak in the center would be quite difficult to form from one piece of metal, as would the Z-shaped flange on the front edge that the weatherstrip for the windshield fits against. Therefore, your idea of making the panel in two pieces makes a lot of sense.
If you have an English wheel available, it would be advisable to give each piece a little compound curve, so it will better match the contours of the existing roof. Yes, you can simply rest the panels against the roof to check the contours as you are doing the shaping. I'd make the panels a little oversize, and once you got the all-over contours close to what you need, I'd carefully trim the center edge of both panels, where they will fit together to form the slightly peaked character line. Once the panels are trimmed on the inner edge, you can easily form the Z-shaped flange on the front edges with a sheetmetal brake.
The next step would be to tack-weld the panels together, and lay them in place, resting on the original roof panel. If all looks good at this point, the center joint can be carefully worked with a hammer and a dolly that has a contour with the roundness you want. This will gently curve the joint, and when it's shaped to your liking, it can be finish-welded, and then sanded flush.
Again, check the fit of the panel at this stage, and if everything looks perfect, you can scribe around the outside edge of the patch, trim the old, rusted metal away, and butt-weld your new patch into place.
You can see an example of rounding a tack-welded sheetmetal peak on my "Slicing and Dicing" YouTube video.
You can email your questions to Professor Hammer at firstname.lastname@example.com, or mail to Professor Hammer, c/o Classic Trucks Magazine, 1733 Alton Pkwy., Irvine, CA 92606. You'll receive a personal reply! We'll print your name and city unless you request otherwise. Ron Covell has made many DVDs on metalworking processes, and he offers an ongoing series of workshops across the nation covering all aspects of metalworking. Check them out online at www.covell.biz, or call for a current schedule of workshops and their free catalog of DVDs. Phone 800-747-4631, or 831-768-0705. You can send a request by mail to: Covell Creative Metalworking, 106 Airport Blvd. #105, Freedom, CA 95019. You'll also enjoy Ron's YouTube channel: youtube.com/user/covellron.


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A Global Enterprise: Germany Works (GRMST-231GW)
Instructor: Mark Lauer
Spring semester, 2018. Students will explore how the Humanities and Social Sciences contribute to our understanding of the changing role of work from a historical perspective. We will investigate how the concepts of work effect social organization and individual identity formation. By concentrating on the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries within the German speaking countries and beyond, the seminar will shed light on the two eras when technological changes and their concomitant transformations in social and individual organization brought disruptive change to our notions of work. We will focus our attention on work by literary scholars, artists, and philosophers who often work in cross-disciplinary research networks. This course fulfills the 1A Humanities requirement and counts towards the German Studies major/minor, as well as the Global Business Nexus.


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Laundry Love is a collaboration between St. Anne's, St. Paul's and the Episcopal Student Fellowship at Wake Forest. Every 3rd Tuesday, volunteers meet at Fresh Spin Laundromat: 7838 North Point Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27106 from 6:00-8:00 pm. We serve pizza and welcome folks in to do their laundry at no cost to them. It's a wonderful way to love and serve our neighbors through a very simple act of laundry and fellowship. If you would like to learn more, please contact the Rev. Nancy Vaders at email@example.com.
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Last week, I taught a class at Aurora University this week (actually two) for a masters degree program. They were both trying to create a campaign for a luxury travel company that provides experiences. What I did is outline the keys to success. By the time I was done, they started to understand how to create a strategic plan that would help them communicate to their perfect audience and start to build communities.
In this episode, I will outline the five steps that I taught them on how to start building a tribe and how to get them to know, like, and trust you.


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A 2017 University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA) doctoral graduate has been awarded the Robert J. Trumpler Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The distinction recognizes a recent PhD thesis considered unusually important to astronomy. Benjamin J. "BJ" Fulton is the fourth IfA graduate to receive the award in the past six years.
Fulton's landmark doctoral dissertation focused on the discovery and categorization of extrasolar planets, particularly smaller planets between the sizes of Earth and Neptune. Fulton analyzed data from the W.M. Keck Observatory for more than 1,300 planets that were initially discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. The primary result of Fulton's thesis, under the advisement of Professor Andrew Howard, is the discovery that the size distribution of extrasolar planets has a gap separating two types: super-Earths with sizes smaller than about one-and-a-half Earth diameters, and sub-Neptunes with sizes two-to three-Earth diameters.
The interpretation of this gap is that it represents the separation of rocky planets from low-mass planets with gas atmospheres, and its discovery has already sparked numerous theoretical and observational studies. Fulton's paper announcing this gap garnered immediate attention. A measure of how important this effect is on the field is that it has been given a name, the Fulton Gap.
One nominator stated the Fulton Gap "will undoubtedly be in undergraduate and graduate textbooks. It demonstrates a natural division among planets, on par with the division between rocky planets, ice giants and gas giants in our Solar System."
Fulton is currently a staff scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, based at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, a science and data center for astronomy at Caltech. He serves as the deputy project scientist for the NASA-National Science Foundation Exoplanet Observational Research program, which funds and operates the NEID spectrograph, an instrument with the ability to discover Earth-like planets orbiting the nearest stars.
This award continues a remarkable streak for graduates of IfA's PhD program who have won four awards in the past six years. The previous recipients were H. Jabran Zahid in 2015, who is now a Clay Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Brendan P. Bowler in 2014, who is now an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin; and Emily Levesque in 2012, an assistant professor in the University of Washington's astronomy department.


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Harare - Prince Masvaure struck his maiden Test fifty while opening partner Kevin Kasuza approached a half-century on debut as Zimbabwe reached 108 for 1 at tea on the first day of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Harare.
Zimbabwe captain Sean Williams elected to bat first despite overcast skies at the Harare Sports Club, where the African nation are playing their first home Test since 2017.
The two-Test tour was only announced by the Sri Lankan cricket board earlier this week.
Zimbabwe last played a Test at home against the West Indies in October 2017.


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Hobart Warewash MD, David Riley, has had his current role expanded to cover warewashing sales operations in Scandinavia, Holland and Belgium.
The manufacturer believes the appointment is testament to the success of the UK branch within the company's global portfolio, and is an ideal fit, with the Scandinavian and Benelux businesses sharing a key focus on dealer business development.
The warewashing sales teams in each country will now report directly into Riley, who has been working at Hobart for 25 years and is credited with revitalising the company's dealer-led business through the creation of Hobart Independent, some 10 years ago.
He said: "I'm delighted to be working even closer with our Scandinavian and Benelux partners, helping to shape their sales strategies and further develop the dealer business that they have worked so hard to cultivate.
"The move is a signal of intent from the wider business to never stop developing and demonstrates the strength of Hobart UK in always being at the forefront of the progression."


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The bedroom is the perfect place at home for leisure and rejuvenation. Hence you must be careful while choosing Best Bedroom Furniture online for your bedroom decoration. The furniture items for your bedroom should be a perfect combination of comfort and style. To choose appropriate furniture for bedroom is a tedious task when you visit furniture stores. We had made a sincere attempt to make this task very easy. Be focused on several below listing items:
King PU Leather Deluxe Bed
Your master bedroom deserves the best bedroom. Add instant elegance and luxury to your existing decor with the PU Leather King Bed Frame and Button Tufted Headboard. An exceptionally sturdy all-wood frame and support slats provide a rock-solid foundation for your mattress that will surely lead to many restful nights.
Red fire Engine Bed
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Tallboy particle chest with 6 drawers storage
This tallboy drawer is perfect for those who looking for extra storage space for their bedroom.
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Linen square foot stool
You can use it extra seat, handy stool or as a decor cent. This stool has a handy design having various practical uses. Upholstered in breathable natural linen, filled with sponge for supreme comfort. Having most compact and space saving it will become a handy tool for your bedroom.
Mariza bedside table
Traditional elegance meets modern charm with the Mariza Bedside table. Made from natural wood like MDF, this bedside table has enduring look that will become the point of attraction in any bedroom.
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When you want to Buy Bedroom furniture, it's not an easy task to accomplish. Time is nowadays a luxury thing. We have become more materialistic than ever before. We are getting busier in day to day life but redecorating our most important place in the world our bedroom might be our topmost priority. You might have bought furniture from offline stores all your life, but one good change that ultimately saves your valuable time is getting these things done from online stores. To facilitate this dream these are several things you need to consider while buying bedroom furniture online.
Visit a good and reputed online furniture stores
In the era of the Internet nowadays there so many online furniture stores available. Each of them claims superior over one another. However, there can be only one store that has all furniture items that satisfied all your needs. The first and most important consideration while buying furniture online is to find out best online furniture store that suits all your requirements. You should do in-depth research about the online furniture stores that you have chosen.
List out your needs and then start shopping
Make a draft of your needs in advance before you actually drive bedroom furniture shopping. Be more specific about your requirements and identify the best bedroom furniture item that is as per your desired needs. Before buying the furniture items online make the things in mind why you had chosen this online store? And what are their capabilities that you are influenced to call them the best?
Must check the delivery and installation policies of the online furniture stores
The biggest advantage of buying bedroom furniture online is quick and prompt delivery but it might not true in all cases. Ensure in all conditions an online store must need to provide a doorstep delivery and installation assistance in a most quicker and prompt manner.
Search out for some hot deals
There is no single online store that hasn't ever offered a discount or hasn't dropped out deals for their customers. Make most of now from searching a right and most suitable deals based on your requirements.
Make a comparison
Do not stick to one price opinion about your selected product online. If you had compared once the product price, check it again after few days. Who knows you might get a great quality product at an unbelievable lower price.
The bedroom that is ideal begins with Best Furniture. Choosing the correct furnishings for your room depends upon the space in which you're designing. While curating this blog we have followed several articles and we have found some good details about bedroom furniture here at Wikipedia.
For those who have a large bedroom, there might be room for a sitting room with an accent chair and lamp for reading and relaxation. Small spaces will need to perform double duty by providing a great deal of storage in a small footprint. Storage beds, chests of drawers, armoires and under-bed storage supply ample places to store bedding and clothing. When you visit your local furniture stores they will have several furniture sets but they won't have furniture items like we have done. We have tried to list all the Best Bedroom Furniture set that will make your life easier when you want to decorate your bedroom.


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Google recently announced their new Android Wear 2.0 OS, at the same time they announced some devices that wo0uld be getting the update.
Absent from the list of devices that were going to be getting the Android Wear 2.0 update was the Sony Smartwatch 3, this lead to speculation that Sony would not be updating the device.
Sony has now confirmed on their website that the Sony Smartwatch 3 will not be getting the Android Wear 2.0 update, the device only supports Android Wear 1.5.
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If you saw on my previous post on El Dorado Royale Casitas, you know that the resort is an absolute win. Not just for Riviera Maya, or being an all-inclusive, but for the quality in cuisine offered at the resort.
From a greenhouse that supplies a lot of the ingredients used at all of the Karisma properties, to sourcing locally grown ingredients, there really is a different level in care when it comes to food. Every meal had a bold flavors whether it was from the onsite grown mint in the mojitos to the fresh tomatoes in the salads and ceviches — you could truly taste the difference.
It makes sense that none other then the iconic Jackson Family Wines would pair up with Karisma Resorts to bring their guests an experience unique only to them. Jackson Family Wines has been growing and bottling world class wines out of the heart of wine country in California for many years. They are known for their outstanding labels like La Crema, Freemark Abbey, Stonestreet Broken Road, and of course Kendall-Jackson.
When Karisma and Jackson Family Wines paired up, what they created was something beautiful. Something new. Something unique.
It offered guests an opportunity to have a culinary experience via a week long series of events. Every night, something new is offered to the guests to experience the wine and food. Hosted by a notable chef and winemaker, the guests get to learn world class wine firsthand.
The series events feature an array of different experiences. Beginning night is an intro to the wines, getting to taste a sampler of foods and wines in a private event. Throughout the week, highlights like a six course tasting where Yucatan Meets California is introduced after a wine tasting, the event goes well into the evening to be truly immersed in the wines. Another highlight of the series is a cooking class, where the notable chef prepares a multitude of dishes, and you get to take home the recipes.
Overall, this add on experience at Karisma Resorts, gives guests one more reason to not only see the difference but taste it. Every night was a great entry to learning about wines, how to taste, and how to pair wines in the best way.
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*Bon Traveler was welcomed as guest of Karisma Resorts. As always, all opinions are own.


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Bezan, Priscila, Holland, Héric, de Castro, Gabriela, Cardoso, João, Ovidio, Paula, Calder, Philip and Jordao, Alceu (2018) High dose of a conjugated linoleic acid mixture increases insulin resistance in rats fed either a low fat or a high fat diet. Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes, 126 (6), 379-386. (doi:10.1055/s-0043-118348).
Obesity and related diseases are becoming more prevalent. Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) might be a useful coadjutant treatment helping to decrease fat mass. However, the precise impact of CLA is unclear because the decreased body fat mass is followed by an increase in insulin resistance. This study aimed to evaluate some of the consequences of a high dose of CLA in rats fed a normal low fat or a high fat diet for 30 days. Male Wistar rats were separated into 4 groups (each n = 10): Control group receiving 7% fat (soybean oil); CLA group receiving 4% soybean oil and 3% CLA mixture; animal fat (AF) group, receiving 45% fat (lard); and animal fat plus CLA (AF+CLA) group, receiving 42% lard and 3% CLA mixture. The CLA mixture contained 39.32 mole% c9,t11-CLA and 40.50 mole% t10,c12-CLA. After 30 days, both CLA groups (CLA and AF+CLA groups) developed insulin resistance, with an increase in glucose in the fasting state and in an insulin tolerance test. The CLA group had increased liver weight and percentage of saturated fatty acids in liver and adipose tissue. Feeding the high fat diet resulted in increased hepatic triacylglycerol accumulation and this was exacerbated by dietary CLA. It is concluded that a high dose of CLA mixture increases insulin resistance and exacerbates hepatic steatosis when combined with a high fat diet.
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Rainfall totals have climbed to nearly 3 inches in some spots today in Monmouth and Ocean counties, according to unofficial reports to the National Weather Service.
That's on top of the 4 to 5 inches that fell in some areas during Tropical Storm Andrea last week, according to the NJ Storm Dashboard.
And more rain is on the way, according to the weather service.
Rainfall totals include:
– 2.9 inches in Sea Girt.
– 2.89 inches in Point Pleasant.
– 2.79 inches in Lakewood.
– 1.98 inches in the Cream Ridge section of Upper Freehold.
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Bedsheets are creating a sign of organized home. A beautiful bedsheet can make a difference in the whole room. There are many different types of bed sheets available in the market. But the best are available on Trend Eve online shopping website in India. Trend Eve has a big collection of the double bedsheet and single bedsheets. We have a great collection of cotton and printed Jaipuri bedsheets.


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Three trillion trees currently exist globally. A further one
trillion trees can be planted.
We want to inspire the world to do just that.
These trees could capture 25% of human made carbon
emissions every year.
If every single person, every company and every institution becomes climate neutral, we can save our future
The children need help to plant a Trillion Trees! On March 9, 2018 30 representatives of companies, NROs, and VIPs like Prince Albert II of Monaco and Patricia Espinosa, General Secretary of the United Nations Climate Change UNFCCC, signed the Trillion Tree Declaration. Felix, Yugratna, Paulina and Sagar, Members of the Plant-for-the-Planet Global Board read out the declaration on the stage of the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo.Plant for the Planet.org
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(Big woods) ↑ " The dominant trees are American elm, basswood, sugar maple, and red oak. The understory is composed of ironwood, green ash, and aspen. The Big Woods would have once covered 5,000 square miles (13,000 km2) in a diagonal strip 100 miles (160 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide. Today most of this region has been cleared for agriculture and urban development. Remnant and secondary stands of Big Woods remain in parks and other protected areas."


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Haircare has seen huge changes over the last 10 years with the current trend seeing formulators using rich and nourishing plant-based ingredients. The hair care market share was valued at USD 95.45 billion in 2018 and will only ever increase with consumers always looking for new and unique ingredients to enhance their hair care routine.
As antioxidant-rich foods make their way to our plates and into our breakfast smoothies, we are starting to see them creep more and more into our hair care products. Consumer are now armed with powerful knowledge of what oxidative damage is and what they can do to protect against it. With hair products exhibiting antioxidant powers it seemed inevitable that we would see them front and centre of hair care formulations. With beauty starting on the inside and working its way out, it's now more than ever that we need to look for hair care products that use new and innovative botanical ingredients.
With the younger demographic of buyers looking for transparency in their ingredient listing. Brands will need to look at moving away from some of the previously used harsh and damaging chemicals and surfactants used to encourage a thick and foamy lather for a more natural approach.
Hair care products that are naturally based using essential oils and botanical extracts are being formulated to help hydrate, repair and nourish dry and damaged hair to leave it soft and smooth. These types of shampoos and conditioners will appeal to consumers looking for an alternate option to the tired and outdated products seen on supermarket shelves.
If your brand wants to tap into the power of natural hair care ingredients contact us here at Aromatic Ingredients. We can help source the products you need to benefit from natural properties to achieve the best results for your hair care company. With an onsite sensory lab, you can sit down with our cosmetic chemist and hair care expert to sample and test the amazing formulas we have on offer.


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