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Bank Street School for Children
We are a private, progressive school in NYC serving children ages 3-14. In the 6th grade, our students study water contamination in Science class, Human Rights in Social Studies, and read "A Long Walk to Water" in English. As part of an integrated, cross-curricular unit of study, our students wish to raise awareness, in our community, about the water crisis and specifically to help a school in South Sudan where the book they are reading takes place.
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As 6th Graders at Friends Seminary we have read The Long Walk to Water and are inspired by Salva Dut's story. After participating in a water simulation this fall, we researched the struggles around the world to access clean, safe water. We are eager to raise funds to help with a WASH (water, sanitation, and health) installation to benefit the Chilamate Kum school in Nicaragua. Currently, the school needs a well, new latrines and handwashing stations. Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the Western hemisphere. In a country where 37% of rural people have no safe drinking water (UNICEF) and 47% of the forest cover has disappeared over the last 50 years (UN Food and Agriculture Organization), these water, sanitation, and reforestation programs are a critical way to improve the living standards of the rural poor while conserving environmental resources. We believe in the power of youth to make a difference in this world. We carefully selected our nonprofit partner, H2O for Life, because they work hard to impact the access to clean, safe water around the world. We also want to help the issues of those seeking asylum at our southern borders by helping build infrastructures in Nicaragua—one of the countries from which many are fleeing.
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Our 7th graders have begun reading A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park. While reading this novel, we wanted to have the opportunity to directly help a school in need. We have read Nya's struggles so far, and it saddens us that children have to live in these conditions because of a lack of access to clean water. We want to do our small part to help other children in need.
Kenmore West High School
Our school recently began the International Baccalaureate program. Part of the IB mission encompasses becoming globally minded and aware of the needs of the world. The CAS (Creativity Action and Service) program within IB encourages students to pursue this global interaction. In America, we rarely recognize the need for fresh water in areas around the world and as a group, we believe it is important to give people the same opportunities we have been given. So, the swim team is collaborating with the IB program to have a fun, swimming competition at the school to raise money benefiting this great cause. We're excited and we hope it is a success!
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As part of our curriculum, we have been reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, and were moved to help others overcome the scarcity of water that poses such daunting challenges to our counterparts in Sudan.


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Singapore manufacturing PMI inches up to 50.9 in June
SINGAPORE'S manufacturing sector saw its 10th straight month of improving conditions in June this year, as its Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) inched up to 50.9 from an earlier 50.8.
This came as the electronics sub-sector, which had been leading manufacturing output growth thus far, saw a fall in the PMI. It was at 52.1 in June, down from May's 52.4.
These results were released on Monday by the Singapore Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management (SIPMM), which compiles the data.
The PMI, based on surveys, is a leading indicator of economic performance. The higher the reading is above 50, the faster the rate of expansion for the sector from the previous month.
June's headline PMI was better than what economists had expected. Three economists who responded to a Bloomberg poll had expected a PMI reading of either 50.5 or 50.6.
In June, stocks of finished goods recorded a slightly faster rate of expansion. However, a slower rate of expansion was recorded for the indicators of imports, input prices, supplier deliveries and order backlog.
"The latest PMI readings indicated that growth in the local manufacturing sector remained unfettered, despite headwinds and uncertainties in the global market environment," said SIPMM.
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Struggling 51s unable to complete comeback, fall to Iowa
The team has now lost 12 of 15 games.
For the third straight night, the 51s dug a deep hole early on. And for the second straight night, the hole was too deep for Las Vegas to climb all the way out.
On Wednesday night, the 51s fell behind 5-0 after three innings and eventually lost 5-4 to the Iowa Cubs (17-21), marking Las Vegas' 12th loss in 15 games. The 51s lost to Iowa on Tuesday night, 8-7 in 10 innings, after falling behind by five runs in the first two innings.
The 51s had plenty of opportunities to win both games.
They nearly completed the comeback Wednesday in the ninth inning, scoring once before stranding Brandon Nimmo, the tying run, 90 feet away.
"It's tough as an offense to come back from big leads by the other team, but I've been really proud of this team for the past few nights of being able to come back and make games out of it," Nimmo said. "I really think that speaks more to the resiliency of the guys and the common approach of not giving any at-bats away."
Wilfredo Boscan made his first start since May 1, a game which he left early with left knee tendinitis, according to manager Pedro Lopez.
Boscan entered the game on a 60-65 pitch count. He cruised through the first inning but the second and third innings were a disaster. He lasted only 2 1/3 innings, giving up five earned runs on seven hits and one walk. He struck out two.
"He had a really good first inning, looked sharp, and then after that (he) just started working behind in the count," Lopez said. "Maybe he was trying to be too fine with pitches. Maybe the umpire squeezed him some, I don't know. It's kind of hard to tell from over there but he started working behind and then made some mistakes up in the zone."
Ben Rowen relieved Boscan and threw one pitch, inducing an inning-ending double play.
Blake Beavan, who has been starting for the 51s (16-24) since he was signed from the Mexican League, followed Rowen and tossed 3 2/3 scoreless innings, but he left the game in the seventh inning after deflecting a ball with his hand.
Lopez said Beavan's hand was bruised but he should be good for his next outing.
Thanks to the bullpen and some solid defense, the 51s kept the damage to a minimum and remained in striking distance.
In the second inning, Gavin Cecchini fielded a grounder and then cut down on Taylor Davis trying to score.
And in the fifth, Desmond Jennings threw out Bijan Rademacher from right field at the plate.
But though their defense prevented a pair of runs from scoring, the offense couldn't scrape together enough to come back.
The 51s left 10 runners on base and went 2-for-13 with runners in scoring position.
"We hit some balls hard toward the end of the game. … We just couldn't get that big hit and too many strike outs," Lopez said. "(We) did a much better job at the end of the game. We had the tying run at third base, the winning run at the plate so whenever that happens I guess it's always good. But I felt like it should never have gotten to that point."
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Who: Iowa Cubs at 51s
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I'm beginning to suspect that the first answer to any question asked of the Ministry of Education, or any other Belize governmental agency for that matter, should be taken with a grain of salt.
We want to change the name of the Belieze Friends Boys School to Belize Friends School, because we have begun accepting girls. So Candi called a lady who works for the ministry and asked her what the process was. Her reply was that we would need to write a letter asking for the name change, that it would be received in the office here, they would forward it to Belmopan, the Capitol City where the main government offices are, and it would be approved. We could then start working with our suppliers and the other people we do business with to make the name change with each of then.
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Today the same lady called from Belmopan. If our initial charter says that the school is for boys and we want to take girls then we will have to have the correct bathrooms, and the lunchroom arrangement will need examination, and they will have to inspect this and they will have to inspect that, and besides all that, the application process will take about 16 months, but she would be glad to forward the proper paperwork.
Silly us, we said, "Send it."
After looking it over, it became plain that the process was identical to starting a new school. We would have to include building plans, what grades we would be teaching, and so on and so on. And the old category, post-primary, that we operate under now, is not even one of the choices any more.
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The power regulations spiral
Since the 1990s, the external power supply has become the target of a series of regulations that are gradually being tightened around the world. It is a landscape that is potentially confusing because, although there is international agreement on many aspects, regions have opted for different forms of legislation. The US, for example, has recently introduced mandatory standards but the European Union (EU) is operating a voluntary code of conduct based on an older set of specifications.
The efficiency standards for external power supplies started to take form at the end of the 1990s, when research in the US indicated there were more than one billion products with such supplies in operation. Most of them employed linear conversion techniques with efficiencies as low as 50 per cent. Although such supplies tend to draw low levels of current, because they may be plugged into a wall socket for the lifetime of the product they power, significant amounts of energy can be drawn during that time and simply wasted as heat. Experts at the time calculated that this 'vampire' power could account for as much as 30 per cent of domestic electricity consumption.
In the early 1990s, the US Environmental Protection Agency created a voluntary effort to improve efficiency. But the first mandatory regulations did not appear until the mid-2000s, focusing on the energy drawn by external power supplies when the load is inactive. Since then, the regulations brought in by various governments around the world have progressively tightened specifications, with different regions occasionally leapfrogging each other. The most recent lay in changes made by the US Department of Energy (DoE) to its EISA 2007 efficiency standard for external power supplies. The DoE published the changes in early 2014; they became mandatory on 16 February 2016.
As with earlier standards on external power supplies, the revised EISA 2007 specification follows the limits set by the International Efficiency Mark (IEM) scheme developed by the US Environmental Protection Agency as part of the Energy Star programme.
The IEM protocol provides a system for power supply manufacturers to show the minimum efficiency performance of the external power supplies they produce so that makers of finished products, as well as government representatives, can easily determine a unit's efficiency. The mark demonstrates the performance of the external power supply when tested to the internationally supported test method.
The method used for the IEM scheme tests the efficiency of the power supply under different load conditions. There are five load conditions that represent different percentages of the supply's rated maximum: 0 per cent; 25 per cent; 50 per cent; 75 per cent and 100 per cent. An average of the latter four load conditions is used to provide a single rating for the supply that represents its overall active efficiency. The 0 per cent measurement determines its performance for the important no-load power-consumption rating.
Having performed the measurement, the manufacturer identifies the most appropriate IEM level for the power supply. The mark comprises a Roman numeral that corresponds to specific active and no-load power-consumption levels, as well as a power factor requirement that was introduced for IEM Level V. The current US regime corresponds to Level VI. The requirements for Level VII have yet to be specified.
The manufacturer shows the IEM level on nameplate of the power supply, providing an easy to understand indication of the unit's overall efficiency. Manufacturers can also identify whether the power supply meets a specific IEM level under different input voltage conditions. For example, a power supply may support Level VI at 115V/60Hz but Level V at 230/50Hz. The supply would carry a dual marking, showing the appropriate level for each input voltage, denoted by a subscript of 115 or 230. Level I is used if the power supply meets none of the requirements specified at higher levels of compliance.
Although the IEM was developed in the US, it has had an impact on other parts of the world. The EU EcoDesign Directive corresponds to Level V of the IEM. The active-mode requirements specified by the EU's revisions to its later and voluntary Efficiency of External Power Supplies Code of Conduct were influenced by continuing work on the IEM specifications. The mandatory European Ecodesign Directive for External Power Supplies is currently going through a revision process and is expected to harmonise with much of the US standard, if not completely. History indicates that Canada, Australia and New Zealand, among others, are likely to harmonise as well.
Successive tightening in the move from the mid-2000s Level III standards to the Level VI grade now required in the US market has pushed active-load efficiency ratings higher, with small changes in the boundaries between power limits. At Level III a power supply with a maximum load rating of more than 50W and up to 250W had to be 84 per cent efficient or better based on the average of the four different load measurements. Level VI has increased the required efficiency to 88 per cent for single-voltage supplies operating between 49W and 250W when their load is active.
One of the most important changes in the move from Level V to Level VI is the reduction in no-load power consumption for single-output AC/DC power adapters able to deliver up to 49W. At Level V, such external power supplies could not draw more than 0.3W. The shift to Level VI sees the limit cut to just 0.1W. Level VI also introduces differences between single- and multiple-voltage external power supplies. All multiple-voltage adapters must have a no-load consumption of no more than 0.3W.
Above 250W, single-voltage supplies are allowed to consume up to 0.5W under zero-load conditions, with the remainder between 49 and 250W expected to draw only 0.2W. The efficiency ratings for different load capacities vary for both single-voltage and multiple-voltage supplies.
Furthermore, the Level VI standards draw a distinction between direct- and indirect-operation supplies. The difference means that, in the case of a load that cannot operate without a battery being present – an indirect-operation device – it is regulated by the original EISA 2007 standard.
Another exception is for products that need approval from the US Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), such as medical devices. The medical environment has, for reasons of safety, much more stringent requirements. External power supplies are themselves considered to be, in effect, standalone medical devices. So, the power supply manufacturer needs to provide a full risk assessment and accompanying documentation that follows the procedures laid out in the ISO 14971 standard.
As many manufacturers will want to sell the same core product in different territories, the simplest approach will be to design and specify to the most stringent mandatory standard. Suppliers can use the improved specifications of their products in regimes with looser regulation as a way of providing competitive differentiation. Because of this effect, the introduction of a tighter standard in one large region can be seen to have a long-term effect on the technology supplied into all of the others, so it pays to keep abreast of developments in the IEM.


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New Delhi: Retail inflation hit a "historically low" level of 1.54 percent in June on dip in food items like vegetables, pulses and milk products, which may prompt the Reserve Bank to go in for rate cut next month.
"The number of 1.54 percent is historically low and reflects the firm and ongoing consolidation of macro economic stability," Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian told reporters.
"The last time we saw such inflation -- according to slightly different CPI (IW) -- was in 1999 and before that in August 1978," he added.
The latest series of Consumer Price Index (CPI) was introduced in January 2012.
Inflation in the previous month - May this year - was 2.18 percent.
On the other hand, in June last year, it was 5.77 percent.
As per the data released by Central Statistics Office, inflation in the food basket as a whole contracted further to 2.12 percent last month as compared to (-)1.05 percent in May.
Vegetables inflation declined to 16.53 and that of pulses and products to 21.92 percent.
There was decline in rate of price in eggs (-0.08 percent). On the other hand, the protein rich meat and fish turned costlier as the inflation spiked to 3.49 percent in June from 1.87 percent in May.
Fruits too were dearer on monthly basis.
The retail inflation in the fuel and light segment slowed to 4.54 percent as compared to 5.46 in May.
The Reserve Bank, which mainly factors in retail inflation to arrive at its monetary policy, is slated to meet in early August to announce the next bi-monthly policy rate.
In its last policy in June, the central bank had kept the key lending rate unchanged citing risk to inflation.
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BOSTON — All week long we're taking a look at how to save money on all of your back-to-school shopping. A student's supply list used to be as simple as a few notebooks and pencils, but now more than ever, expensive electronics are on the must-have checklist.
Here are some ways you can save money when shopping for big-ticket items.
"Deals are happening all the time." says Gerritson. He says, though there's been a spike in sales for ipads, laptops and cellphones, you can still save money buying these electronics, just by doing some research, "Check out all the reviews. Check not only the retailer you're buying from but also the model that you're looking at as well."
Students like McDonnell agree, "If you just start online and work your way through all the websites, it's pretty easy now."
But Gerritson says buying brand new items isn't always the best option, "Refurbished is a great way to go. It's a heavily regulated industry. I think people get a lot of value from refurbished. As well as items that might not be the newest item in the line."
Bryan Harwell, owner of the electronics store Replay'd, warns what to look for when buying used electronics, "You want to make sure that you can test an item before you purchase it. You want to make sure that you have a warranty. Try not to buy things off of craigslist because you have no background."
And both Gerriston and Harwell agree that buying older models is just as cost friendly as buying refurbished.
Harwell tells me, "If you want to save even more money, you can go all the way back down to the first generation. This item is still supported by apple, still has all the same features, it might not be the latest and greatest, but it is an incredible deal."
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Lean Six Sigma Improvement and Work Design, Part 7
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This is the seventh post in a series taken from a lesson in Pyzdek Institute Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training. Future posts will continue the topic. You can find all of the articles in the series by searching this site for the title.
How many people are needed?
Consider the process described in Figure 3 in an earlier article. The requirement for this process is shown in the figure to be 255 units. The team's idea for the process was to set it up as shown in Figure 7. The U shape will minimize the distance that people need to move. Figure 8 shows the standard operations routine sheet for the process. This sheet graphically shows a time line for each operation, the manual time, the automated machine time, and the travel time. The total time to complete a full cycle for this process is 113 seconds (see either Figure 8 or Table 2.) Although some machines continue to operate automatically at this time, the operator can return to the beginning of the process and start another cycle. By the time the operator reaches each operation on the next cycle, the machines will have completed their cycle and, due to autonomation (Jikoda) they will have automatically stopped.
This process can be operated by one person. A full day's production can be produced from this process in 28815 seconds. Since a full work day is 51600 seconds, the worker will have time to perform other duties each day, including 5S (see below.)
Figure 7-Work cell Layout
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Sparkling wine fans, this advent calendar is right up your street. Featuring a number of 20cl bottles, of cava, Prosecco and Italian Rosé, plus festive metallic nail varnishes, Christmas themed Yankee candles Popaball shimmers for your drink, too.
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Fox News again took the top spot among media during a Republican presidential debate.
The conservative news network, which hosted the 11th GOP debate Thursday night in Detroit, generated more than 1.5 million actions (likes, comments, shares and retweets on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. That's 256% more than the engagement generated by CNN, which came in second among media on the night with 430,000 actions.
The debate was an engagement bonanza for Fox News. While other networks and publications saw their cross-platform engagement decline on Thursday compared with Wednesday, Fox News saw a 39% day-to-day increase.
Fox News generated 84% of its engagement from Facebook, where it was the most-engaged brand on the platform in 2015 . The most-engaged post included a message reminding its audience to tune in .
Fox News also got an engagement bump from Donald Trump, in spite of the network's feud with the polarizing GOP front-runner. Facebook posts that mention Trump generated 31% more actions than Fox News' average content on the platform. It's most-engaged post that mentions Trump includes a statement from Miley Cyrus about her plans should Trump become president.
A Fox New anchor was also the subject of the most-engaged post about the debate. Instagram posted a photo featuring Fox New anchor Bret Baier, who served as one of three moderators during the debate. The post, which includes insights from Baier about moderating a debate, generated 426,000 actions.
Trump Wins Again, but Rubio Goes on Offensive
Among candidates, only John Kasich saw a day-to-day increase in engagement as Fox News did from Wednesday to Thursday. But it was nowhere near enough to dethrone Trump as the social media winner among Republicans.
Trump generated nearly 1.5 million total actions, 286% more than Ted Cruz with 383,000. Marco Rubio and Kasich were a distant third and fourth with 81,000 and 51,000 actions, respectively. Trump generated 95% of his engagement on Facebook.
Trump's top posts on Facebook and Twitter attacked Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 GOP presidential candidate. Romney recently criticized Trump, calling him a fraud and phony . However, Trump's top debate-related tweet appealed to fans of Ben Carson , who didn't participate on Thursday. Carson hasn't suspended his campaign, but Trump's tweet insinuates that it's only a matter of time.
While Trump was attacking Romney, at least one of his challengers was attacking him. Rubio's most-engaged Instagram post featured a photo with #NeverTrump, a slogan that appears to be a new campaign strategy.
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All I have is her name - Kiyomi Jo - and info dated 1996. Her phone number then was 092(73)5139. I called this number (probably dialed the wrong way), it was not she.
Her address in 1996 was Ohara-rose #702, 1359-1 Oho, Ogoori-city, Fukuoka 838-01, Japan.
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Patricia Arquette: 'Britney has Stockholm Syndrome'
(contactmusic.com) - Patricia Arquette has urged troubled Britney Spears to reconsider her friendships with members of the paparazzi - because the pop star is sleeping with the enemy. The actress is baffled by Spears' relationship with the photographers who follow her everywhere, and accuses her of suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. She says, "When you see her seeming like she's friends with the paparazzi, she's got, like, Stockholm Syndrome. "I mean she's becoming friends with her captors. She's being torn apart by this business." Stockholm Syndrome is common among hostages and abuse victims, who show loyalty towards their captor/abuser. Spears has gone one step beyond befriending the paparazzi - she's reportedly dating British photographer Adnan Ghalib, who was once among the snappers following the singer's every move.


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Ooligan Press, local author Jeff Alworth, and the Craft Brew Alliance have teamed up to bring you Ooligan's next title: The Widmer Way: How Two Brothers Led Portland's Craft Beer Revolution. The book, out March 26, explores the rise of Portland's own beer titans: Kurt and Rob Widmer.
Book Sales, Or Math for English MajorsBy Grace Evans @gracemalizia
Sit in a room full of English majors long enough, and you'll eventually hear someone groan, "Ugh… math." The topic may be differential calculus or how to split the tab, but the sentiment is always the same. Why, the lover of words bemoans, do we have to take a break from talking about books to do things with numbers?
An Interview with Connie King LeonardBy Kristen Ludwigsen
Connie King Leonard is the author of Sleeping in My Jeans, a YA novel about a teen girl who has to live out of her car with her mother and young sister. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Connie to discuss what inspired her to write a book about being homeless, what message she hopes it will send, and the unique protagonist at the center of it all—Mattie Rollins.
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Ooligan in the WorldBy Grace Evans @gracemalizia & Elizabeth Hughes @elizabig
From intimate readings to established conferences and book festivals, we've spent a lot of time over the past few months arranging opportunities for the world—at least our Pacific Northwest corner of it—to meet our books and their authors. There have been plenty of volunteer schedules to fill, promotional marketing and social media posts to plan, and boxes of books to cart to and fro. In return for that work, we've watched our authors delight and charm audiences while their books are admired, applauded, and carried away to new homes. So where in the world have we found Ooligan authors this fall?
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When thinking about a writing career, the first words that come to mind are usually not "conferences" or "networking." While it's a romantic notion to imagine authors holed up in cabins producing great works of literature all on their own, the truth is that the writing community is vibrant, collaborative, and surprisingly social. Writing conferences in particular have become an indispensable resource for anyone looking to stay connected to what's current in the industry. Literary culture is constantly evolving, and conferences and other large-scale gatherings offer writers, publishing professionals, and other producers a chance to connect and learn from each other. Listed below are some of the great writing conferences around the state that Oregon authors should be sure to check out.


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The Big Diabetes Lie
The relationship between impaired symptomatic awareness of hypoglycaemia and an increased rate of severe hypoglycaemia is well established (Hepburn et al., 1990; Gold et al., 1994; Clarke et al., 1995), although affected patients in these studies were not subject to strict glycaemic control. The association between counterregulatory failure and increased risk of severe hypoglycaemia is also well recognised (Ryder et al., 1990). Indeed, counterregulatory failure was proposed as a predictor of risk of severe hypoglycaemia in the subsequent application of intensified therapy (White et al., 1983), and it was not until later that the ability of intensified therapy to cause counterregulatory failure was suggested (Simonson et al., 1985a). It is indeed very important to appreciate that neither asymptomatic nor severe hypoglycaemia are restricted to people using intensified insulin therapy.
Apart from a previous history of severe hypoglycaemia, the greatest risk may be the degree of insulin deficiency, as reflected by the absence of C-peptide (Muhlhauser et al., 1998), as well as the glycaemic control prior to embarking upon intensified therapy and the determination to reach the glycaemic targets (Bott et al., 1994; Muhlhauser et al., 1998). Preservation of endogenous insulin is not affected by intensification of insulin therapy, although there is evidence to suggest that if strict glycaemic control is imposed when diabetes is diagnosed, this may result in more prolonged preservation of endogenous insulin secretion (Shah et al., 1989, The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Research Group, 1998b). Other factors, related to the patient rather than to treatment, may increase the risk of severe hypogly-caemia, including social class (Muhlhauser et al., 1998) and possibly genetics. In a study from Denmark, much of the risk of severe hypoglycaemia was attributed to ACE genotype (Pedersen-Bjergaard et al., 2003), although this has not been confirmed and has aroused controversy; also, the absence of traditional risk factors in the Danish study is a cause for concern.
The Effects of Intensified Insulin Therapy Upon Risk of Severe Hypoglycaemia
In the DCCT, a clear link was demonstrated between intensified insulin therapy and the frequency of severe hypoglycaemia. In that trial, a three-fold higher rate of severe hypogly-caemia was recorded by the patients in the intensive treatment arm when compared with those on conventional therapy (The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Research Group, 1991; 1993; 1997). This persisted throughout the entire study, although absolute rates declined gradually in both groups. Furthermore, the risk of severe hypoglycaemia was higher for any given HbA1c, for the people receiving intensive treatment. This phenomenon has not been adequately explained. It is now known that exposure to hypoglycaemia per se can induce defects in counterregulation and loss of subjective awareness of hypoglycaemia (Heller and Cryer, 1991; George et al., 1995; 1997; Davis et al., 1997). It has been assumed that intensive therapy exposes the patient to a greater frequency of mild hypoglycaemia that is sufficient to induce such defects and thereby increase the risk of severe hypoglycaemia by that mechanism. However, methods for delivering intensified diabetes therapy have subsequently improved. Modern methods that focus on transferring skills of insulin adjustment to the patients themselves are reported to achieve improvements in HbA1c with multiple daily injection therapy regimens, without causing more episodes of severe hypoglycaemia, and in their most successful forms achieve a parallel reduction of hypoglycaemia (Jorgens et al., 1993; DAFNE Study Group, 2002; Plank et al., 2004; Samann et al., 2005). The judicious use of insulin analogues in intensified regimens may be associated with slightly less risk of hypoglycaemia (Ashwell et al., 2006), whereas the use of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) with pumps is associated with a much lower frequency of severe hypoglycaemia, and has been used successfully as treatment for patients with problematical hypoglycaemia (Bode et al., 1996, Rodrigues et al., 2005) and in the context of clinical trials (Hoogma et al., 2006).
The Link Between Intensified Insulin Therapy and Risk of Severe Hypoglycaemia
Patients describe symptoms of hypoglycaemia at a wide range of blood glucose concentrations. In an individual patient, the main determinant of the blood glucose concentration at which protective responses commence is probably the recent prevailing range of blood glucose concentration to which the patient has been exposed. For example, when patients with poorly-controlled type 2 diabetes were studied with a controlled hypoglycaemic challenge after blood glucose had been normalised overnight, their epinephrine responses to hypoglycaemia were triggered at higher blood glucose values than in well-controlled patients (Korzon-Burakowska et al., 1998).
As mentioned earlier, the first indication that strict glycaemic control might cause abnormal responses to hypoglycaemia was observed when controlled hypoglycaemia was induced in a small group of patients with type 1 diabetes before, and after, they had been treated with intensified insulin therapy (Simonson et al., 1985a). Following the improvement in glycaemic control, the magnitude of the counterregulatory hormonal response to an abrupt lowering of blood glucose to 2.8 mmol/l was significantly less than observed previously. This study had been planned to investigate the potential of better glycaemic control to restore some of the defects of normal counterregulation that develop in people with type 1 diabetes (see Chapter 6), so these results were unexpected. The importance of these preliminary observations was underlined by a subsequent study in which patients with type 1 diabetes receiving intensified insulin treatment were found to have impaired glucose counterregulation (Amiel et al., 1987). During an intravenous infusion of insulin, most patients were unable to maintain arterialised plasma glucose above 3.0 mmol/l, in contrast with conventionally-treated diabetic patients whose glycaemic control was not as good (as demonstrated by higher glycated haemoglobin concentrations) or non-diabetic volunteers. The intensively-treated diabetic patients were less symptomatic, and although the rise in their plasma epinephrine was of similar magnitude to the other groups, this occurred only when the hypoglycaemia was more profound. Further studies of hypoglycaemia, using a stepped glucose clamp to produce a controlled reduction of blood glucose, confirmed that the symptomatic and hormonal responses started at lower blood glucose concentrations in patients with strict glycaemic control, and were delayed in onset and diminished in magnitude for any given blood glucose concentration (Amiel et al., 1988) (Figure 8.1).
The delayed onset and diminished vigour of symptomatic and hormonal responses to hypoglycaemia in strictly-controlled diabetic subjects offers a partial explanation for the increased
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Figure 8.1 The effect of intensified diabetes therapy (IRx) on epinephrine responses to a slow reduction in plasma glucose over four hours. Copyright © 1988 American Diabetes Association. From Amiel et al., 1988. Reprinted with permission from The American Diabetes Association
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Figure 8.1 The effect of intensified diabetes therapy (IRx) on epinephrine responses to a slow reduction in plasma glucose over four hours. Copyright © 1988 American Diabetes Association. From Amiel et al., 1988. Reprinted with permission from The American Diabetes Association occurrence of asymptomatic biochemical hypoglycaemia. The risk may be particularly manifested when the glycated haemoglobin concentration is reduced to within, or just above, the non-diabetic range (Box 8.1). This was shown in a study of 34 subjects with type 1 diabetes who had a wide range of total HbA: values (Kinsley et al., 1995). They were subjected to a stepped glucose clamp to lower arterialised blood glucose to 2.3 mmol/l and the responses were compared with a non-diabetic control group. Symptomatic responses (particularly autonomic) and some counterregulatory hormonal responses were diminished in the seven diabetic subjects who had a total HbA: of 7.85% or less, i.e., glycaemic control that was within their local non-diabetic range of total HbA:. A very similar study by Pampanelli etal. (1996) produced identical observations in 10 of 33 subjects, whose HbA1c was within the local non-diabetic range, and in whom it was also noted that the onset of some aspects of cognitive dysfunction was delayed. Current evidence would suggest that it is the increased exposure to episodic hypoglycaemia, associated with the treatment strategy that is promoting the problem. Most importantly, a series of studies has shown that hypoglycaemia awareness and counterregulatory hormone responses can be restored in well-controlled diabetic subjects by avoidance of blood glucose concentrations below 3.0 mmol/l in daily life, confirming the circular link between hypoglycaemia exposure and impaired awareness of hypoglycaemia (Fanelli etal., 1993; Cranston etal., 1994).
Thus, although impaired awareness of hypoglycaemia is a major problem in clinical practice, it is by no means exclusively confined to intensified therapy. Although the risk remains greater with lower mean glucose and glycated haemoglobin concentrations, impaired awareness is reversible, at least in the setting of carefully controlled research studies, by scrupulous avoidance of even modest hypoglycaemia in daily life (Fanelli et al., 1993; Cranston et al., 1994). Although this may result in a deterioration of glycaemic control as the problem was reversed, with a rise in mean HbA1c from 6.9% to 8.0% in one small study of seven patients with impaired awareness of hypoglycaemia (Liu et al., 1996), this is not inevitable (Cranston et al., 1994). It is possible for avoidance of hypoglycaemia to result in an improvement of glycated haemoglobin, as post-hypoglycaemia hyperglycaemia is eradicated.
Much less work has been done in type 2 diabetes, although there is increasing evidence that in patients with insulin-treated type 2 diabetes of long duration, the prevalence of severe hypoglycaemia is not greatly different from people with type 1 diabetes (see Chapter 11). Modern trends of starting insulin earlier in type 2 diabetes, when insulin deficiency is not
Box 8.1 Effects of strict glycaemic control in type 1 diabetes
• Reduction in microvascular and macrovascular complications.
• Potential increase in risk of severe hypoglycaemia.
• Diminished counterregulatory and symptomatic responses to hypoglycaemia.
• Altered glycaemic thresholds for activation of responses (i.e., lower blood glucose required).
• Promotion of increased frequency of exposure to hypoglycaemia which exacerbates impaired awareness of hypoglycaemia.
• Tendency to weight gain.
severe, are likely to reduce the overall risk of hypoglycaemia in patients with insulin-treated type 2 diabetes. Recent studies using bedtime basal insulin as the first line of intensifying diabetes treatment for type 2 patients who are not achieving glycaemic targets, have reported a low risk of severe hypoglycaemia, even when using conventional insulins (Yki-Jarvinen et al., 2006). However, caution is indicated when patients require conversion to full insulin therapy. In a small study of poorly-controlled patients treated with oral medication, in which responses to hypoglycaemia were measured before and after improving glycaemic control with insulin, counterregulatory responses and the blood glucose thresholds at which these were initiated were modified, as occurs in type 1 diabetes (Korson-Burakowska et al., 1998).
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Internet Marketing and Better Backlinks - Different? Better?
Which is better: Exact Duplicate Content or Similar?
Should you stay away from using PLR articles because Google hates duplicate content???
It's not that Google hates duplicate content – after all – they index millions of pages that have duplicate content – so if they hate it – why do they bother indexing it at all???
The "duplicate content penalty" myth has gotten out of control! You really need to be more SPECIFIC when you talk about this stuff or tons of people will get scared and take the poor advice on avoiding duplicate content because they think they will get banned or hit in the face with a brick.
Simply not so.
So – does that mean that Google LOVES duplicate content – or do they just hate it but tolerate it???
I wrote a few articles that will give you insight – I suggest you read them because they have all the dirt! I'll link them at the bottom, but let's try to get one of those summary type statements in the mix.
I say that you need to look at it like Google and the other search engines do – they want to rank a page on top – so they do their calculations and stuff and make decisions.
Do they do something DRASTIC when they see a page that looks like another page in their index???
NO! They don't PENALIZE you just for being similar to another page – but they might penalize you for something else!
Yes, Google most likely prefers content that is NOT "EXACT DUPLICATE CONTENT"!
Ahhhh… so that means similar content is better than EXACT, right???
YES! That's the best way to look at it! (continued – read more of this article…)
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Frank Words - Protected Disclosures - on 29th July 2013 Section 111A(3) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 now enables employers to have frank but fair discussions with employees as to their performance with a view to a settlement and lawful termination of contract. There is no statutory right to have a companion or trade union representative present but the accompanying Code of Practice on Settlement Agreements recommends it. However, it only renders inadmissible the discussion in respect of unfair dismissal claims. Any claims relating to discrimination or grounds for automatic unfair dismissal (such as whistleblowing) are not protected. Also you must avoid "improper behaviour", i.e. stating that the employee will be dismissed if they do not sign the settlement agreement or giving an unreasonable period of time to consider the offer (a minimum period of 10 calendar days is a safe bet). Take legal advice before having such a discussion with an employee or, if an employee, review the offer with a solicitor.


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You've probably seen him around campus, and he probably had his camera on him. As a passionate photographer and The Catalyst's Chief Photo Editor, Daniel Sarché '20 is always ready to take a snapshot. He is also an active member of the Film and Media department, as well as the Theatre department. This week, The Catalyst sat down with a talkative Sarché to discuss photography and his views of Colorado College's campus.
The Catalyst: When did you realize you were interested in photography?
Daniel Sarché: That's actually a really good question because my history with it is long — long, long actually. My grandma is a really great photographer. When I was a little kid, I would sometimes borrow her camera and take pictures of stuff, but it was just because I liked taking pictures of things. The reason why I actually got a DSLR in the first place [a few years ago] was because my grandmother […] bought my brother a camera, and I was like, "If he's got one, I want one, too! Are you kidding me?" Which is stupid. So I did some research, and I ended up getting exactly the same model of camera as he did. But then, where [my brother] was like, "I'm going to shoot video with it and do all this stuff," I was like, "I'm going to take pictures." And I just started taking pictures of everything […] and I have continued to expand in a whole massive variety of directions because I do fine art photography and events and headshots and senior portraits; I've tried to do every kind of photography that I can think of, and it's just kept on growing. So it's all kind of been a series of happy accidents since I was a little kid.
TC: Why is it important to consider photography an artistic medium?
DS: Photography itself has a really long history of people not seeing it as an art and other people trying to fight for its place in the art world. And nowadays that becomes especially tricky to balance because of iPhone cameras and the incredible power of Photoshop and Premiere […] people have for a very long time said that photography is only an art if everything is created in camera and there's no manipulation of any kind. But the fact is, even Ansel Adams — he's a landscape photographer [known for] these amazing photos of the American Southwest — but even his work is edited. His [work was] manipulated in the darkroom, but nothing that you will ever see printed by a photographer like that is straight out of the camera; photography and painting and drawing and sculpture all require similar amounts of effort. But the difference nowadays is that the effort for a photographer, unless they're a film photographer, is all digital. Some people look down on that because they see it as being easier, but it's not. Everything takes time; everything takes work. There's a learning curve to photoshop; there's a learning curve just to the camera. It took me five years to figure out my first camera. So I think that what qualifies photography as an art is that you have to learn every tool. And then you find that there are things that you prefer to look at, there are things you prefer to focus on, and there are techniques that you have that no one else has […] I think of art as something that anyone can access and should feel welcome to […] And I think all it takes is being willing to put in the work, and that the work is to do something creative and free and with a point that is either for you as a person or for whoever is looking at your work, and that qualifies you as an artist.
TC: What is the strangest thing that has happened to you while you've been trying to take a photo?
DS: In Colorado Springs alone, so many people just walk up to you and want to talk to you […] I could tell you four or five different stories just off the top of my head, but I'll tell you the most recent one because I wish I had followed up about it. I was over by this coin-op laundromat.; it's got this urban, little bit rusticated aesthetic, and it's small and looks very clean. But apparently there's a very weird history to it that I had no idea about. This is about three weeks ago, I was setting up my tripod […] but while I was standing there, this guy walked up to me from across the street and he started telling me this like 20-minute long story about how the owners of the coin-op laundromat, the previous owners, had been really helpful to homeless people. They gave them a place to stay [and] a bathroom and like the basic human necessities. And then apparently the new owner has become much more closed off and a lot more inflexible and seems like the kind of person who would call homeless people "derelicts" and "vagrants" and is less likely to look at them as people and more as a problem. But this guy talked to me for like 20 minutes about that and kept telling me, "This is a story that you should be writing, I want you to write this story, I want you to call us and interview," all this stuff. I was like, "Yeah I work for a newspaper at school," but I lied to him about what school I went to because he kinda freaked me out. I think I told him UCCS. He was giving me a freaky vibe but was also being friendly, but I didn't want to give him too much information. So I told him, like, "I'll see what I can do. We'll see what happens." But he was really fighting hard for me to make sure that a story ran, and I wish I had actually followed that up because it could have been really interesting. But the fact is, every time I take my camera out — I have a really big camera and I usually carry some pretty big lenses with me, and I look like a photographer. And then I go and I make myself a little bit of a spectacle — it always catches someone's attention.
TC: How do you maintain an upbeat attitude even when you're dealing with the weight of the Block Plan?
DS: It's tough. Last year especially, I had a very hard time […] First block, I had a full-on panic attack the first day of class because my class was way more than I anticipated, and it kind of set the tone for the rest of the year. I was also feeling really far away from all my friends and feeling really isolated. The only way that I stayed relatively okay was by throwing myself into all the work that I was doing, so I worked my fingers to the bone taking pictures for the newspaper. I didn't really hang out with people and I fell into a very dark place for most of last year, and then I realized that I didn't belong there. That was worse than just about anything else. So I started to try and reach out; my family is incredibly supportive. I'm incredibly fortunate to have a really wonderful family that talks to each other and is willing to let me talk to them when I'm in need. I have come to learn that the best thing — I don't know if this is true for anyone else — but definitely the best thing for me in general is knowing that there are people out there who care about me. Last year I felt like I didn't have anyone that I could turn to. Even though I was constantly turning to people, I felt really isolated. So what I've been working really hard on lately is just finding people that I can be myself around and who I love and like and who want me to be with them. So pursuing avenues of actual like wholesome connection — all of the things that I have to say about what I like about the world are incredibly cheesy. I find the easiest way for me to feel good about things is to force myself to be as optimistic as possible, which is obviously so hard. Especially when you're like constantly working your butt off in all your classes and all your extracurriculars, staying optimistic and staying grateful and appreciative for things — it's a chore. But I got really lucky to end up in an apartment full of wonderful people who asked me to be a part of it. I try to tell them that I'm grateful for them and that I want them around, and people like to hear that and they tell you the same right back. I'm just trying to share what's good when things go bad. I think that's really really important.
TC: What has been your favorite part about Colorado College over the past 2 1/2 years?
DS: There's a lot of good stuff. Access to the mountains is amazing. The Block Plan is pretty alright, most of the time. I don't know. I think that my favorite thing about it is that no one goes to CC because they don't care. No one is at this school because they are unqualified. No one is at this school because someone gave them a free lunch, and you find that out in the coolest ways. It's amazing the kinds of things that people are capable of on this campus … I'm in an advanced photo class right now where everyone is working with each other and pushing each other in new and dramatic directions. Literally four of us got up at 4 o'clock in the morning to go and shoot the stars, and we all got in it together and we were just like, "We're gonna help each other." And that's amazing. When there are this many people, while simultaneously being such a small campus, everyone can help each other and challenge each other and show one another: Number one, it's okay to fail; number two, it's OK to succeed; number three, here's how I've failed and how I've learned from those failures and how I'm trying to succeed. We all have so many amazing opportunities to learn from each other, and I love that. I'm so grateful to be surrounded by the people that I am.
TC: If you could change one thing about CC, what would it be?
DS: Honestly, it's kind of a small thing, but I think everyone deals with it: Take your laundry out of the frickin dryer. Oh my god. I don't want to be a hypocrite; I have left my laundry in the washing machine before on accident, but like, set alarms and actually just go and move [your laundry] because everyone always does their laundry on the same day. People usually do it at the same time. Everyone's like, "Saturday at 9 a.m., that's the best time to do laundry!" and then the laundry machines in every building become so congested because people are going to brunch and then they're like going to concerts or whatever and just leave their laundry […] No one else should be responsible for your laundry. So I think that people should set alarms at the very least.
TC: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
DS: Oh gosh. I don't even know where I see myself in two years. I guess, ideally — 10 years from now, wow. Like I've changed a lot in two years — anyway, my big goals are pretty open-ended. There's a lot of things that I'm really interested in and a lot of things that I want to learn and places that I want to end up. But the big one is Los Angeles. My brother is already out there doing what he loves, and if he can do it, I feel like I can too. Also I love L.A.; it's sunny, it's colorful, it smells interesting. I think Los Angeles is like one of my top three places in the entire world. And then working on films somehow. Even if I'm building sets and helping like push dollies and cranes and operating the equipment that's holding the cameras, I'll be happy. I've always liked behind-the-scenes work. Or being like a fashion photographer? If that ended up being what I did, amazing, great, good for 10-years-from-now Daniel. If not, also great. I am so intimidated by the people who know exactly where they are going to be 10 years from now. They have an energy that cannot be contained and an overwhelming drive that is amazing, but that does not fit my approach to the world.
TC: If you could invite any celebrity to a party, who would they be and what would you talk about?
DS: I would invite — and my brother is going to make fun of me about this but that's OK — I would invite John Darnielle, the lead singer and original [sole] member of the band, The Mountain Goats, which is my new and very likely all-time favorite band. Because he is as real of a human being as you can possibly get. This guy has an incredibly interesting story: he was addicted to meth at 17, recovered, had an abusive stepfather, became this overwhelmingly prolific singer-songwriter plus novelist plus just all-around cool dude […] just hearing him speak — I don't even know if we would be friends, but I know that I want to talk to him about anything. I kind of want him to be my surrogate dad for a while because this guy is seriously so cool. There's always that issue that people have with famous people about idolizing them, this guy makes it very hard to idolize him but very easy to respect him. He puts out a vibe of being this pure, good soul, but then he also is very open about the bad things that he's done and had happened to him. And that's as real as you can get, that's as genuine and open as I believe everyone should be. I have enormous amounts of respect for the guy. He's, ugh, so cool.
TC: Do you think more people should engage with photography? Why?
DS: I really, really do. And part of it is because I'm really annoyed at how good the iPhone cameras are nowadays because people look at an iPhone image that's got the portrait mode turned on and they're like, "Oh yeah, a professional took that." I think more people should engage with photography because, for me personally, being behind the camera very regularly has fundamentally changed how I look at things. I don't mean that in like, "Oh I have a new appreciation for people's attitudes" or anything. I literally look at the world differently than I did before I got my first camera. I just remember this one story from when my family and I were in L.A. visiting my brother over last spring break; we were visiting, and my mom and my brother and I were driving, and my mom pointed out this wall with these really gorgeous vines all up and down it and was like, "Hey Daniel, you should take a picture of those vines." But I had also noticed this tree in the background standing up over the vines that made for really dope composition. It reminded me of Yggdrasil from Norse mythology, like the tree of life, and like, "This is going to be a cool picture." I showed my brother and my mom and they were like, "I didn't know that tree was there." It was a big old tree, but they literally didn't notice it. All they saw were the vines. I realized that I look for like shapes and lines and colors in places that even a couple of years ago I wouldn't have looked for. I think that picking up a camera and forcing yourself to look at the world through a much smaller frame makes you look at a lot more because you don't want to miss anything.