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If we want cleaner air, we need cleaner trucks
By Daniel J. Gage, Opinion Contributor
March 30, 2018
The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill
A lot of discussion is ongoing this week about the Trump administration's move on light-duty vehicle standards. But there's so much more to consider.
Heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) — not passenger cars — are the fastest growing segment of U.S. transportation in terms of energy use and emissions. And today's just-in-time delivery expectation and expanding goods movement industry ensure the number of trucks on our roads won't be reduced anytime soon.
While HDVs total 7 percent of all vehicles on America's roadways, they account for upwards of 50 percent of all smog-precursor emissions and 20 percent of all transportation-related greenhouse gases (GHGs). And 74 percent of all HDVs on the road today are not certified to the latest nitrogen oxide (NOx) emission standard.
Over 125 million Americans reside in areas of exceedingly poor air quality; 40 percent of our population is regularly exposed to unhealthy levels of ozone and particulate matter. Most of those impacted neighborhoods are in urban and suburban communities with heavy truck traffic.
The bottom line? If we want cleaner air, we need cleaner trucks.
There is an immediate and commercially-available solution to this problem for fleets of all sizes and applications — expanded use of natural gas in transportation.
In fact, replacing one traditional diesel-burning heavy-duty truck with one, new Ultra Low-NOx natural gas heavy-duty truck is the emissions equivalent to replacing 119 traditional combustion engine cars with 119 battery electric vehicles.
The cleanest truck engines in the world are powered by natural gas. The Ultra-Low NOx natural gas engine — made in America — is 90 percent cleaner than the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) current NOx standard. It is certified by both the EPA and the California Air Resources Board to a 0.02 gram per brake horsepower hour (g/bhp-hr) standard, making it zero-emission equivalent (ZEE).
When renewable natural gas is used to fuel it, even greater CO2 and GHG emissions reductions are achieved, helping to clean our cities and improve the environment. With renewable natural gas, the product becomes carbon neutral or even negative.
Natural gas vehicles (NGVs) have long been the choice of fleet managers interested in escaping the volatility of ever-changing gasoline and diesel prices. Natural gas currently powers passenger vehicles, medium-duty work vehicles, short- and long-haul trucks, school buses, transit buses and shuttles, refuse trucks, construction and mining equipment, marine vessels, and locomotives.
Natural gas technology is commercially-proven and readily-available in the United States right now, not in a projected five or even ten years as is the case with other heavy-duty alternative fuel technologies. Compared to expensive electric or fuel cell technologies still in development, investing in natural gas vehicles is the most cost-efficient solution delivering more new vehicles and far more emission reductions than any other available alternative right here, right now, today.
It's important that we have light-duty transportation options with the cleanest profile available. But if federal and state policymakers are really concerned about cleaning our air now, we as a Nation need to focus on transitioning existing heavy-duty fleets to clean natural gas-powered technology.
Daniel Gage is the president of NGVAmerica, a national organization of over 200 companies, environmental groups, and government organizations dedicated to the development of a growing, profitable, and sustainable market for natural gas or bio-methane use in on- and off-road transportation applications.


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It's a well known fact that pollution is one of the major concerns in all the major countries of the world and scads of people are facing health problems because of this. Air pollution, in particular is one of the most critical environmental problems and can be counted among the severe challenges that the modern societies are facing. Air pollution is the key reason for many health problems. It not only affects human health, but also harms animal lives and disturbs the natural ecosystems. Pollution in air can be both indoors and outdoors, and is rooted by certain human activities and natural mechanisms.
However, it is essential to understand that long-term exposure to polluted air can cause numerous amounts of health problems. Air pollution impinges on the quality of our life as it can intensify certain lung conditions such as Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, COPD, which causes difficulty in breathing, mainly due to the thinning of the airways. What's more to it is it reduces the development of lungs in children. And thus, it is highly recommended to use good quality respirators and breathing mask while you move outdoors, as they can provide effective filtration and give you clean air to breath.
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The vacation rental industry is in for a real treat. Entrepreneur Tamara Knight keeps her vacation rental homeowners and vacationing clients happy through an innovative small business.
Knight, a client of 1-800Accountant, is the proud owner of White Linen Rental, LLC (WLR for short). Based in Marina del Rey, California, the company was formally registered in November 2013 and, after a year of preparing the blueprint, the company will be ready to launch for business in January 2015.
Knight's company specializes in providing sheets and towels for rent to vacation rental homes and corporate housing. WLR will also service bed-and-breakfasts, luxury yachts, celebrity tour buses, and private jets, just to name a few. More specifically, she can have sheets and towels shipped directly to clients nationwide. In addition, she supplies a convenient "Welcome Starter Kit" for guests to enjoy, which includes samples of everything from paper towels to toilet paper to bath products and even light snacks.
She explains how her former career managing vacation rental properties full-time gave her the idea of starting a linen service focused on the furnished housing community.
"My company doesn't service hotels, beauty salons, nail salons, or other types of locations like those," she says. "That's already been done.
"I've managed vacation rental homes for the past 10 years. The biggest problem was having to replace the sheets and towels. I reached out to some of the big linen companies that provide linen services to huge hotel chains. I told them I manage properties in Florida, New York, and Los Angeles. I got turned down left and right because the big linen companies didn't want to ship their linen to so many different locations. Or even worse, some companies told me that my account was too small."
It was this experience that ultimately led her to opening up her own linen provider.
"I told myself that I wanted to start this company because I know that there are people like me who do not live in the same city of their vacation rental home, and there is no way to handle quality control. You have to rely on your housekeepers to spot-check. What separates this business from the rest is that I am able to ship the linen at a decent rate due to the fact that I have shipping stations on each side of the country. This way, I can reach clients from coast to coast. The favorite guest standard in the country is still white sheets and towels."
She explains what she believes will make this small business a success over time.
"I know this is a great concept because of the fact that vacation rental homeowners – especially homeowners who own vacation rental property but live elsewhere – will have the peace of mind knowing that their guests will receive fresh, crisp, ironed linens," she says. "I also provide a service for the savvy traveler who would rather stay in a vacation rental home as opposed to a hotel. Some vacation rental homes do not provide linen. The traveler will be able to rent linen from WLR, and we will ship our linen to their destination. They don't have to pack linens in their luggage. Plus, it will give housekeepers more time to clean and less time to worry about waiting for towels to dry."
Handling Small Business Competition
Small business competition is never fun. But, according to Knight, she feels like she has paved a unique path in her line of work that competition is not a huge bugaboo for her.
"Most big linen companies with large warehouses serving hotels basically service a specific area of the country. They use big trucks for delivery and pickup. With my company, I'm basically servicing more of the individual or the small vacation agency. Plus, I can have linens shipped anywhere at a reasonable rate."
Advertising a Small Business
To spread the word about White Linen Rental, LLC, Knight has a website at www.whitelinenrental.com. She has also delved into social media with pages on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Google+, and YouTube. In addition, she is looking to get articles published on the company in relevant publications, and she has a salesperson who will assist with marketing efforts on the ground.
Overcoming the Challenges of Owning a Business
Getting past struggles is often a big challenge for entrepreneurs and small business owners alike, especially if they've never owned a company before. Knight points to two big challenges – funding and working out the logistics. She had to personally fund the small business, and she had to come up with the best shipping methods that are both financially sound and make sense for everyone involved.
She offers some advice to entrepreneurs and anyone interested in starting a business.
"It's definitely hard work, so be careful what you wish for. Create a plan for yourself and stick with it, which is the hardest thing to do. You can think of every great idea under the sun. But if you don't start it and stick with it, it will never happen.
"Also, don't stop when you hit stumbling blocks. I've thought things weren't going to work. You have to just get over those hurdles and know there are solutions to everything."
While Knight admits that starting a business and running it over time comes with pros and cons, she firmly believes that the advantages always outweigh the disadvantages.
"The advantage is the flexibility of working from home. The disadvantage is that you really have no regular paycheck coming in like you would as an employee. I don't get to have much of a social life, either. It's really a 24-hour commitment."
Knight says she has been quite satisfied with the small business accounting support she has received as a 1-800Accountant client.
"My advisors all know exactly what they're talking about, and they've been very attentive and helpful," she says.
She adds that she'd definitely recommend the national accounting firm to all entrepreneurs and individuals seeking tax guidance for a small business.
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WHO: Christopher Clinton Conway, 39
CLAIM TO FAME: As executive director of the Joffrey Ballet,
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A triumphant reprieve from madness
Humanity still lacks the luxury of a peaceful world. Often, we are forced into seeking solace from the world of art. Whether that be film, music or even video games rarely matters so long as the days drift by carelessly, releasing the weight of the soul for only a moment. Music in recent times has held so little of this in the face of overwhelmingly grim odds at a future, music has turned to protest, the voice of the people, as it has so many times before. Yet, with each artist taking a stand, where does that leave humanity when its mind needs to be lifted? Even the halls of neo-classical, once so soothing and pale, have become infected with the dour shadow of experimentation, leaving it exhilarating but exhausting. Enter John Kaada's Closing Statements, a shimmering opus painstakingly crafted to soothe the collective woes of humanity.
It's a small miracle to come across music like this these days. Much of the world has readily abandoned lush symphonies, trading them for electric guitars and 808s. While that music certainly has its place, it is a shame that society has moved toward new genres at the expense of those perceived as old. Lucky for new listeners, Closing Statements is recognizable as timeless. It contains a vibrant, cinematic quality that makes it far more easily digestible than more obtuse productions such as the immaculate Nils Frahm or the somber Winged Victory for the Sullen. Instead, Kaada focuses on the inherent beauty of commonplace instruments.
Opener "It Must Have Been The Coffee" is a quaint melody comprised almost entirely of cello and piano, calling to mind a sparsely populated coffee shop in a quiet corner of the city. "Everything Is An Illusion" again highlights the piano, but puts a somewhat more frenzied pace on it, listeners may notice a resemblance to something like "Deers" from Masayoshi Fujita's Stories. Though that record focused entirely around a forest, something about Closing Statements feels deeply intertwined with urbanism; there's a sense of place and belonging among concrete castles and apartment balconies. Yet despite all that, the album is not cold, one can positively feel the way it focuses on the life within the city, as opposed to the oft uncaring nature of urban environments. This is especially noticeable on "Useless, Useless," where one can almost see the despondent twenty-something holding a box of their belongings to settle on the street that is now their home. Despite the despondency of the late run of tracks, it all wraps back to home on the closer "Home In The Dark," a title that would suggest fear or urgency, but is instead content to take its time and play with joyful melodies. It flips itself on the head, leading eyes to see things that ears never hear, the track is cool but hopeful, for, at the end of this long night, there is a home.
Kaada has done the unexpected with Closing Statements, taking a genre that is frequently regarded as overly technical and breathing a joyful, accessible life into it. There is triumph here, Closing Statements is the flower that grows between sidewalk cracks. It can be heard in the music, budding a new leaf with each trumpet flair, steadily growing as the piano clicks ever onward, a throng of voices bidding it heavenward.


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Top 5 Premier League attackers who were one-season wonders
- Here are a few players who started with a bang, but ended with a whimper!
For foreign players coming into the Premier League, the challenge can be at times quite daunting. However, some players take to the Premier League just as if they were born to ply their trade in English football. Goals flow, victories follow and comparisons with legends are rife on a weekly basis.
However, some are able to sustain their performances, while the others fall apart. Be it confidence issues, fitness woes or just negative attitude, the 'second season syndrome' tends to separate the weak from the strong. Strikers and attacking midfielders are more prone to form worries and hence dominate this list without much surprise.
So here are the top 5 one-season wonders in Premier League history:
#1 Michu
Michu is quite literally the first name that comes to mind when one thinks about one-season wonders in football.
When Michael Laudrup, the then Swansea manager, brought Michu to South Wales for a mere £2m transfer, he was a relatively unknown figure. Adapting to English football like a swan to water with 18 goals, Michu became a major star in his first season itself. A brace against QPR on his Premier League debut set the tone, as Michu fired Swansea to an impressive mid-table finish and a League Cup triumph, the first ever silverware in Swansea City's history.
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Goals flowed and offers poured in as the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United queued up to secure the services of the Spaniard. In fact, what should have been the high point in the striker's career, a Spanish national team call-up, led to a major downfall.
Clearly shaken by the club's shock sacking of Laudrup, he scored only two goals in his second season. Let down by a combination of bad attitude, constant injury woes and a flop loan spell at Napoli, Michu was shipped off to boyhood club Real Oviedo and remains little more than a memory among Swansea spectators.


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citcelaid wrote:I always thought "Probotector" sounds like some device a proctologist would use.
SuperDeadite wrote:I hated Contra 4, but mostly because I kept dieing from the screen gap. Beyond that the design just felt like it was pure pandering to NES/SNES fans.
Contra 4 is superb. Anyone who doesn't think so simply hasn't invested enough time to clear the first couple of stages. Wayforward brought together a bundle of influences from classic era Contra and worked out a lengthy, robust and fresh experience littered with wonderful set-pieces.
Above all else, it's designed around classic arcade style memorisation
proving both enjoyable and rewarding if you learn the weaponry
and push beyond the second stage.
Pretas wrote:It's obvious that your opinion of the game has been unfairly swayed by it pandering to your nostalgia. I guess this is how people get suckered into buying crap like Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing.
Pretas wrote:Above all else, it's designed around classic arcade style memorisation
Well, no shit. It's not like there's hundreds of other arcade memorizers out there. What actually matters is whether they're designed well, which you fail to address in specific or concrete terms, something Florence and Peters' review was at least able to do.
Pretas wrote:proving both enjoyable and rewarding if you learn the weaponry
Translation: "use the spread gun."
Pretas wrote:and push beyond the second stage.
If an arcade-style game takes more than two stages to start getting interesting, then that's a drain on one's patience and a serious flaw. This is what killed Gynoug for me. In a sub-mediocre game like Contra 4, it especially hampered my willingness to continue playing.
Pretas wrote:No disagreements about Uprising, though. Although Arc makes amazing fighters, they were clearly way in over their heads. WayForward at least had some decent experience designing 2D platform action games, even if none of them were that good.
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The film Atonement is about to open in Britain with a star cast and more of the fanfare of publicity that it received at the Venice Film Festival.
It is further testimony to Ian McEwan's status as the leading literary novelist in Britain - and certainly the best-selling. Like many of McEwan's novels, Atonement is both a suspenseful narrative and a wonderfully clever fictional construction. It is the story of a girl who loves making up stories - and of the terrible consequences of a lie that she tells.
McEwan's work has been garlanded with awards. In 1998 he won the Booker Prize for Amsterdam. His most recent book, On Chesil Beach, is the only one by an established author to have made the long list for the Man Booker award. His novels are more often studied at A-level than those of any other living British author.
Productive yet willing to experiment, exacting in his attention to every formal detail of his writing, he might seem the consummate literary professional.
"I was a bit of a hippy in those days, but I was a more flowered shirt and velvet jacket kind of hippy. Ian was more serious and more spiritual about it. Then the friendship developed and we played a lot of squash together - and as everyone did in those days, you sat around for hours and hours smoking joints and drinking a lot of instant coffee.
"We talked a lot about writing but it didn't feel like a pressing ambition. He had an Arts Council grant and I rather envied him the fact that he didn't have a day job as I did."
Book after book
McEwan's apprenticeship is part of literary folklore. The short stories in his first book, First Love Last Rites, were substantially written while studying creative writing at the University of East Anglia in the early 1970s. The course was pioneered by Malcolm Bradbury, and McEwan was its first ever student.
"It was a fantastic year. No contemporaries sitting around tables saying 'well I have a problem with your main character' which is how it goes now - and could be very destructive if you're not the right kind of person."
Alex Clark of the Observer says this stood him in good stead for what is demanded of 21st Century novelists by publishers.
"His books come with great regularity and with consistency. I think that Amsterdam was a terrible novel but, by and large, McEwan has amazing consistency. That is something that publishers and booksellers prize above anything else."
Long and winding road
McEwan himself compares fiction writing to embarking on a journey. "It has excitement but it also has a lot of drudgery attached to it, but crucially it has that element of exploration that you don't know quite what you want. Unless you can surprise yourself, you've failed."
His early work - his short stories and then his 1978 novel The Cement Garden - certainly took readers into disconcerting territory. With an icy stylistic calm, McEwan told tales featuring incest, sexual abuse and infanticide.
McEwan himself acknowledges that, in his early work, he was interested in the ways in which fiction might shock the reader. Did he shock himself?
"No, not at all. But I had been a very quiet boy and more or less obedient to all the demands of O-levels and A-levels and getting a degree. I'd been sort of depressed, I see in retrospect, through my teenage years at boarding school, separated from my parents who were 2,000 miles away in north Africa. When I started writing I was bold and maybe a little too violently so."
McEwan may no longer trade in the narrative shocks that were once his trademark, but he still anatomises human passions with a dispassionate exactitude.
"That was when I wanted to make history and place and politics to some extent - or the way that politics fades into moral questions - part of the fiction so it was a real shift," he says.
More recently, in his 2005 novel Saturday, he has grappled with issues of the day - in this case the invasion of Iraq. Those who know him say he had always had a interest in politics. In the late 80s he contributed to the drafting of Charter 88, a manifesto for constitutional reform.
Anthony Barnett was one of its originators. "He's interested in detail to push things to the edge, to test their reality. So his sense of detail is quite a profoundly radical one. What he liked about the Charter 88 was that it took a new overview. This was at the very zenith of Thatcherism and it said let's have a politics that has got passion in it, but which has also got reason and which articulates the way we want to be governed."
Stiff upper lip
His fiction has remained memorable for its brilliantly described episodes of horror or violence, but these usually shatter a carefully imagined surface calm. For McEwan is a peculiarly English writer, interested in reticence and propriety.
"In Saturday there are very poignant scenes with people who for one reason or another have got damaged brains or their minds have been warped by religious fundamentalism - and communication has become snarled up because of this.
"His latest book, On Chesil Beach, is really all about the damage that can be done by being polite, by being reticent, by being so considerate that you don't say things. Key moments in his books are when people start speaking directly to each other and things improve after that."
Atonement, probably his most perfectly achieved and widely admired novel, is largely set in the 30s and 40s, partly because McEwan is fascinated by circumstances in which people cannot say what they want.
"No one ever said anything in my household like 'I love you', although the 50s was not a decade for saying that kind of thing. Although there are attempts to write off the 60s these days, they did warm up private relationships and warm up the home in ways that we've benefited from ever since."
If his novels do survive the test of time, it will probably be because of the formal precision and beauty of their architecture, rather than the big themes they take on, says Amis.
"His novels are incredibly well put together, they are like a watch - everything fits and everything balances. He's always had that up to a point but it's really disciplined now."
John Mullan is Professor of English at University College London. Profile is on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 1 September at 1900 BST, repeated on Sundays at 1740.
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Multi Agency Neglect Strategy and Graded Care Profile 2
Multi Agency Neglect Strategy 2019 – 2021
Neglect can have an adverse impact on a child's daily lived experiences including their physical, emotional, health, education and social development. Apart from being potentially fatal, neglect causes great distress to children and leads to poor health, education and social outcomes in the short and long term.
This strategy has been developed to provide a consistent approach to reducing incidents of neglect across Knowsley.
Multi Agency Neglect Strategy 2019 – 2021
Neglect and Graded Care Profile 2
One of the key priorities for the Knowsley Safeguarding Children Board is to assist all who work with children and families in assessing child neglect. The original Graded Care Profile tool was introduced in Knowsley in 2015. Following a rigorous review of the current tool by the NSPCC a number of improvements have been made and the GCP2 has been launched. The GCP2retains the core concepts, design and structure of the original GCP but adds value in relation to new, more accessible language. It now includes new 'items' such as obesity and online safety and still focuses on strengths and concerns.
The GCP2 is a practical tool which supports practitioners in measuring the quality of care delivered to an individual child from a carer/s over a short window of time and is designed to give a representative overview of the current level of care. The grades are based on observations and good quality evidence gathered. The GCP2 reviews "what it is like" for the child not "why it's happening". The lived experience of the child. Parental issues are taken into account during the analysis and planning stage.
The quality of care is 'graded' on a scale of 1 (best) to 5 (worst). The GCP2 separates out different areas of parenting and the needs of the child: physical, such as quality of food, clothes and health, care of safety, safety in carers presence and when carer is absent, emotional care, such as the relationship between the carer and child and developmental care, such as if a child is encouraged to learn and if they a praised for doing something good. These areas are based on Maslow's principals.
The GCP2 has been rigorously evaluated and found to be reliable and valid. It can be used where neglect is suspected, giving a baseline measurement and can be used to target interventions and to monitor progress after interventions.
It can be used for all ages of children, including adolescents.
The majority of children subject to child protection plans in Knowsley are under the category of neglect. The aim of this tool is to assist staff in undertaking a comprehensive and evidence based assessment of families when neglect is known or suspected and particular emphasis should be given when neglect is first identified at early help. If you would like more information please access the NSPCC website.
It is a requirement that practitioners that will be utilising the GCP2 will do so either via the Children's Social Care ICS system or the Early Help Module. Please see below if you will access the tool via EHM.
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Timesheet Templates enables an organization to record employee working hours by maintaining sign-in and sign-out timings. They help in calculating the number of hours worked by an employee for a particular project or a client. They help the managers to verify and track employee's production hours and eliminate unnecessary break hours. They come in various formats including excel sheet template to perform time calculations easily and swiftly. They are widely used by varieties of industries to complete organization's procedures.
This weekly timesheet template presents employee name, approving manager name, in and out working hours of the employees, regular working hours, overtime hours, sick leave, and vacation for all the week days. This timesheet template excel format allows easy editing.
This daily Sheet Templates provides the name of the employer's and the employees. It provides complete working details of the employees for each day of the pay period. The start time, break time, restart time, finish time, other unpaid break time as well as overtime working details are mentioned.
This contractor timesheet template presents the employee names, week ending date, client name, site department and reporting authority details. It also presents the starting and finishing working time for each day of the week as well as overtime working hour details. It comes in word format.
This monthly timesheet template which comes in word format provides the contractor's name, client, and location, supervisor name as well as the month for which timesheet is produced. It presents the basic hours, night hours and overtime working hours for each day of the month.
This employee timesheet template word format presents an apartment community, employee name, and management company name. It presents working hours of the employees for each day of the week including regular and overtime hours. It comes in word document.
Timesheet template enables employer's to maintain the working hours of the employees. They are widely used in various industries to generate pay slips or to invoice the clients. They provide information about the basic working hours, break hours and overtime hour details. You can also see Overtime Sheet Templates.
They can be used to generate timesheet for a day, a week or for a month. They enable to assign different pay rate for regular hours and overtime hours. They enable an easy and accurate calculation of the employee working hours. Since these templates come in either excel or word formats, they are easy to edit and customize according to one's requirements. They help the managers in providing reports for invoicing.
There are a lot of varieties of timesheet templates which can be utilized by any kind of industry or corporate. Marketing industry can use them to identify each team member's efforts by recording their visits to the prospects, promotional calls made and other marketing activities.
They help the software industry to know the time taken for an engineer to perform each task. They help the manufacturing industry to know the worker's efficiency and record their break hours. Freelancers can also utilize these templates to improve their productivity and know break periods easily. They help the construction industry to pay the workers smoothly by recording the construction workers in and out timings.
There are many advantages of timesheet templates and some of them are presented below –
They get approval from supervisors or managers and hence provide proof for paymentTimesheet template is also known as sheet templates to record sign-in and sign-out timings of the employees. They are also used as project timesheet template which helps in tracking and managing various projects. They are easily editable and one can print them to record employee's working hours. They are extensively used for billing purposes and processing payrolls for the employees.


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Quorum sensing signalling in root symbioses
The aim of this project is to find out how microbial signals from the rhizosphere alter root symbioses and root development
The rhizosphere is the zone immediately around the roots, it is influenced by root exudates and the microbes living around roots. This project is particularly interested in the role of bacterial communication signals called quorum sensing signals, which bacteria use to coordinate behaviours associated with host infection. Plants can detect these quorum sensing signals and respond in specific ways that could alter the outcome of plant-microbe interactions.
Key publications
- Teplitski M, Mathesius U and Rumbaugh KB (2011) Quorum sensing signal perception and degradation by mammalian and plant cells. Chemical Reviews 111:100-116
- Mathesius U and Watt M (2011) Rhizosphere signals for plant-microbe interactions – implications for field-grown plants. In: U. Lüttge et al. (eds.), Progress in Botany 72: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
- Bauer, W. D. and Mathesius, U. (2004) Plant responses to bacterial quorum sensing signals. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 7: 429-433
- Mathesius U., Mulders, S., Gao, M., Teplitski, M., Caetano-Anolles, G., Rolfe, B. G. and Bauer, W. D. (2003) Extensive and specific responses of a eukaryote to bacterial quorum sensing signals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 100: 1444-1449.


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Ever fancied learning the secrets behind Thai Cooking? Well from 2014 the Sukhothai restaurants (based in Harrogate and Leeds) will be doing chef master classes on selected Wednesday evenings. head chef and owner Ban Kaewkraikhot will be personally teaching these classes at their Chapel Allerton Branch. During the 3 hour class you will learn to make a starter, main course and traditional Thai dessert. There will be limited numbers per class so that each student will get one on one time with the teacher and a goodie bag on departure - all for the Yorkshire price of £50.00. for more information email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Here's what you ought to learn about buying these various kinds of cars. The brand new cars offered from the dealership are overpriced, they are the most expensive money even though you finance, as well as their resale value is terrible. The older cars offered by a person are potentially mere days from a significant malfunction and can need hundreds otherwise 1000s of dollars in repairs. The very best value on cars is by using the marginally used, still relatively recent cars which have a smaller sized quantity of miles in it, continue to be in great condition, and represent an excellent value.
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|A sequential zero valent iron and aerobic biodegradation treatment system for nitrobenzene.
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|PMID: 14568399 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|The remediation of nitroaromatic contaminated groundwater is sometimes difficult because nitroaromatic compounds are resistant to biodegradation and, when they do transform, the degradation of the products may also be incomplete. A simple nitroaromatic compound, nitrobenzene, was chosen to assess the feasibility of an in situ multi-zone treatment system at the laboratory scale. The proposed treatment system consists of a zero valent granular iron zone to reduce nitrobenzene to aniline, followed by a passive oxygen release zone for the aerobic biodegradation of the aniline daughter product using pristine aquifer material from Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Borden, Ontario, as an initial microbial source. In laboratory batch experiments, nitrobenzene was found to reduce quickly in the presence of granular iron forming aniline, which was not further degraded but remained partially sorbed onto the granular iron surface. Aniline was found to be readily biodegraded with little metabolic lag under aerobic conditions using the pristine aquifer material. A sequential column experiment, containing a granular iron reducing zone and an aerobic biodegradation zone, successively degraded nitrobenzene and then aniline to below detection limits (0.5 microM) without any noticeable reduction in hydraulic conductivity from biofouling, or through the formation of precipitates.
|L S Bell; J F Devlin; R W Gillham; P J Binning
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|Title: Journal of contaminant hydrology Volume: 66 ISSN: 0169-7722 ISO Abbreviation: J. Contam. Hydrol. Publication Date: 2003 Nov
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|Created Date: 2003-10-21 Completed Date: 2004-03-02 Revised Date: 2009-11-19
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|Nlm Unique ID: 8805644 Medline TA: J Contam Hydrol Country: Netherlands
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|Languages: eng Pagination: 201-17 Citation Subset: IM
|GHD Pty Ltd., New South Wales, Australia.
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Water Pollutants / metabolism*
Water Supply
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Global Dispensing Systems Market: Overview
A device that gives out inks, chemicals, or other solvents is known as dispensing systems. Dispensing systems are used in the day-to-day life of consumers; various applications include pharmaceutical sector where it is used for syringes and disinfecting solutions, dispensing oil, and other solvents; in household chemicals such as cleaning solutions and other detergent liquids; personal care products include moisturizers and shampoos; beverages such as aerated drinks and water; foods such as syrups and sauces. These dispensing systems are very convenient when compared to traditional systems.
Global Dispensing Systems Market: Growth Factors
Factors that contributed to the dispensing systems market growth in the various industries include electronics, automotive, and healthcare & pharmaceutical. These systems offer reliable, high quality, repeatable solutions to the end user industries thus increasing the chances of market growth. Other factors that are responsible for the dispensing systems market growth are enhanced time management, reduction of errors, and continuous technological innovations. Increasing use of dispensing systems will assist in reducing direct and overhead costs of the company, which results in higher profitability for the company thus boosting the dispensing systems market growth in the future years. Technological advancement for developing innovative dispensing systems with esthetic designs is available in the market, which increases the rate of the market growth. Many industries are focusing on adopting automated dispensing systems in their plans for handling volatile chemicals and other solvents. These systems are cost-effective and can be upgraded with the changing consumer needs.
Global Dispensing Systems Market: Segmentation
The global dispensing systems market is segmented on the basis of application, type, and technology. The application segment is classified into automotive, industry & manufacturing, electronics, food & beverages, chemicals, construction, healthcare & pharmaceuticals, and others. The electronics segment accounted for the largest market share whereas automotive sector is the second largest. Based on the type, the global market is segregated into the manual dispensing system, robotic dispensing system, and semi-robotic dispensing system. Based on technology, the dispensing systems market is segregated into manual dispensing systems, robotic dispensing systems, and semi-robotic dispensing systems.
Global Dispensing Systems Market: Regional Analysis
Region-wise, the global dispensing systems market is diversified into North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East & Africa. China dominated the market owing to emerging middle class, rising demand for consumer goods, high-quality lifestyle, and medical care. Asia Pacific region contributed for the high growth potential for dispensing systems market due to rapid industrialization, the emergence of advanced manufacturing procedures, and adoption innovative technologies.
Global Dispensing Systems Market: Competitive Players
Major market players operating in the global dispensing systems market include Esys Automation, Dymax Corporation, Dema Engineering Company, Dürr AG, EMS-Eftec, ABB Ltd., EMC2, Eisenmann, Dover Corporation, and Buehler. Other prominent market players include Corporation, Intelligent Peripherals Robotics, Kleerblue Solutions, Exact Dispensing Systems, Kremlin Rexson, Jensen Global Dispensing, Fisnar Inc., Techcon Systems, Inc., Nordson, SCA Schucker, and Graco Inc.
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Schools on two-hour delay Thursday
(Local News ~ 02/05/15)
Clay Community Schools are on a two-hour delay today, it was announced shortly after 5 a.m.
Clay County treasurer resigns over bonding difficulties
(Local News ~ 02/05/15)
Clay County Treasurer Sam Glover resigned on Thursday after the county was unable to economically secure his bond as a public official. Glover, who was beginning his first term, said in a statement that his past financial problems made it difficult for the county to bond him at a cost that wouldn't burden taxpayers...
Motorists get a glimpse of bygone glory of Lark Theatre
(Local News ~ 02/05/15)
Since 1983, Clay County residents and their friends have attended hundreds, perhaps thousands, of performances in the Lark Theatre, across from Riddell National Bank on National Avenue in Brazil. They have been entertained by the talents of local singers, musicians and actors in all kinds of shows from Disney to a stage production of "MASH" and everything in between...
Donald L. Ream
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Donald L. Ream, 79 of Center Point, passed away on February 4, 2015 at Union Hospital. Don was born February 10, 1935 in Center Point, the son of the late Albert and Nancy "Florence" (Steiner) Ream. He graduated from Brazil High School. He was a resident of Center Point area all of his life with the exception of 2 years where he served in the United States Army. He retired from the Center Point branch of Riddell National Bank...
Vincent Stearley
(Obituary ~ 02/05/15)
Vincent Stearley, 56 of Center Point, suddenly called to his Heavenly Home, February 3, 2015 in the emergency room of St. Vincent Clay Hospital. He was born August 14, 1958, in Clay County, the son of James J. Stearley and Mary Catherine Robison Stearley. ...
First Farmers Financial announces 2014 financial results
(Local News ~ 02/05/15)
First Farmers Financial Corp., parent company of First Farmers Bank & Trust Co., announced earnings of $3.9 million, or $1.10 per share, for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2014, compared with $3.8 million, or $1.07 per share, for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2013...
Regional Knights looking to take next step
(High School Sports ~ 02/05/15)
By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor Five Northview wrestlers take their talents a bit farther south than they did last weekend as the Knights compete at the Bloomington South Regional on Saturday. The top-four finishers in last week's Bloomington North Sectional qualified along with the top-four competitors in each weight class from the Southridge Sectional...
Cheesman awarded scholarship
(Community News ~ 02/05/15)
Indiana Department of Corrections Deputy Commissioner of Operations James Basinger visited Putnamville Correctional Facility recently to award Glenna Cheesman, wife of caseworker Robert Cheesman, with one of the $500 CPAFI Fall 2014 Part-Time Scholarships...
Clay City girls wrap up regular season with victories
(High School Sports ~ 02/05/15)
Times Staff Report The Clay City Eels wrapped up their regular season with a pair of wins by knocking off Owen Valley on Saturday afternoon and South Putnam to finish at 14-9 heading into the sectional at Bloomfield. Against the Patriots, Clay City got 23 points from Kyndall Boyll and the Eels took advantage of the Patriots' foul trouble during a third quarter surge. ...
America Saves Week: Raising Money Smart Kids
(Community News ~ 02/05/15)
America Saves Week (Feb. 23 -- 28) is an annual event to increase awareness among institutions and individuals about the need to save money, reduce debt and build wealth. The primary focus is in taking financial action, with the slogan: Set a Goal. Make a Plan. Save Automatically...
Court News: Feb. 3-4
(Local News ~ 02/05/15)
Clay County Courthouse The following transactions took place at the Clay County Courthouse Feb. 3-4: Superior Court State Criminal Charges Kyla Eubank, 23, 1: Possession of marijuana Nicholas W. Coltharp, 21, 1: Resisting law enforcement Bartholomew J. Gurchiek, 24, 1: Operating a vehicle while intoxicated 2: Operating a vehicle with an ACE of .08 or more...
Jail Bookings: Feb, 4-5
(Local News ~ 02/05/15)
Clay County Justice Center The following bookings were reported at the Clay County Justice Center Feb. 4-5: Chad R. Gibson, 31, was arrested and preliminarily charged with battery with bodily injury. Everett W. Rogers, 53, was arrested and preliminarily charged with trespassing...
Harrison Twp. fire department getting financial increase
(Local News ~ 02/05/15)
The Clay City-Harrison Township Volunteer Fire Department is getting a financial boost from the town. At the February board meeting, Clay City Town Council members Guy Dickerson, Roy Chenoweth and Rob Freeman voted to increase the fire department's budget by $2,000. The town budgeted $12,000 each of the last several years and Harrison Township has also given $12,000...
Wintry weather makes travel difficult
(Local News ~ 02/05/15)
Wintry weather made travel difficult for some Wednesday night and Thursday morning as Indiana State Police report responding to more than a dozen weather-related incidents. The ISP District in Putnamville reports that from 5 p.m. Wednesday to 8 a.m. Thursday, troopers responded to seven property-damage crashes, four personal-injury crashes and four vehicle slide-offs...
10-digit dialing begins Saturday
(Local News ~ 02/05/15)
Beginning Saturday, residents across southern Indiana must use a 10-digit dialing code when making local calls. The change is part of the much discussed area code overlay, which was necessary because the 812 area code was running out of phone numbers. ...
Senior Center to have music on Saturday
(Community News ~ 02/05/15)
The Clay County Senior Center, 120 S. Franklin St., Brazil, will have a Country Music Night at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 7. The Country Express will play and sing country and gospel music. Food and drinks will be provided as a fundraiser. The community is invited at no cost...
Clay City Calico Quilters
(Community News ~ 02/05/15)
The December Quilt Club meeting/party was held at the bank community room. We had a pitch in dinner, played quilt related games and had show and tell. We were all given a gift bag of fabric and asked to make a Council on Domestic Abuse (CODA) lap quilt, 4-feet by 5-feet, using the fabric and adding some of our own by the April meeting...
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Hello to all of you sweet stamping friends. I am still playing with the adorable Christmas digis that were just released. I love these gorgeous images and they are so much fun to color.
Today I have used Reindeer Games for my card. This sweet image brought back some childhood memories for me. I didn't have a reindeer like this but I did have a horse and I loved playing with that toy! So I have used copics and colored pencils to color this cutie and I also used lots of Glamour Dust and Star Dust Stickles for plenty of sparkle. Her little "pearl" earrings are dots of Liquid Pearls and I used some Glossy Accents on the reindeer's nose to make it shiny. I added a bow with some tiny jingle bells and some sparkly snowflakes with pearls. The sentiment is from the Crafty Impression's Someone Special stamp set - there are lots of great holiday sentiments in this set. You can find all these great digis and sentiments over at Funky Kits.
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October 18, 2018 @ 10:00 am - October 20, 2018 @ 5:00 pm$
Nano Technology 2018 Session of the International Congress 2018 focuses on Nano Technology Application, Nano Electronics, Nano Circuits, Nano Robotics and many parameters. This session aims to summarize the latest development of Nano Technology as well as deployment experiences.
The International Congress 2018 is a massive attempt by the Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties. This aims at the higher end quality selection of the paper. At a single instance, there are almost 44 International Conferences happening at the same venue. All the participants will get the certificate from the Committee whomever it be if Listener or Author or Poster presenter.


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The engineering solution conceived during the early product design stages are considered to be very critical, as the first 20% of design activity determines almost 70% of the total product development cost. With the advancement of "Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE)" technology, efficient and accurate assessment of design solution with in-depth scientific calculation and analysis becomes possible. CCTC equips with CAE software, Moldex 3D, for optimizing the plastic injection moulding process in which the molten plastic flows through a gate and runner system, fills the mould cavity, solidifies and finally cools down. The CAE simulation could reveal all the critical design information, such as molten plastic flow behaviour, interaction of heat transfer among molten plastic, tooling and thermal management channel, and the formation of moulding defect.
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Read more about the people who volunteer with us and what motivates them
Lynn Orridge – Melton Mowbray Group Leader
Suicide barged permanently into my family's life on Tuesday 8th February 2011.
I was bereaved by suicide and in my head, I knew immediately the heartache to come, whilst my heart struggled to comprehend the loss of my eldest child and only daughter.
I was powerless, had no choice and no control – probably the main reason I volunteered to set up and run a support group for Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide in my hometown. To take some control, it's my choice, and in time I hope to lessen the power of the shadow hanging over the rest of our lives. Whilst I'd lost loved ones previously, nothing remotely came close to the emotional turmoil and devastation of losing Nicola by her own hand.
Also, the nearest group to us at the time was over an hour away and I felt I would be able to draw on my experience of running support groups for the charity I worked for at the time of our daughter's death. Also, unfortunately, there was a cluster of suicides and attempted suicides, many young, in our area in the months and years after Nic's death, something that bothers me due to the media coverage of Nic's death.
When setting up the group I had two main concerns, fundraising and was I strong enough? I had developed a habit of bursting into tears at any time.
Fundraising; early on I decided to only raise just enough to cover venue hire, refreshments and the cost of a dedicated mobile. Ultimately both my husband and I were happy to cover the costs for a while but we didn't need to, family & friends were very generous and two car boots later we had enough funds to run for a year. Then once the group was up and running we benefited from wonderful donations. After attending my first volunteer's conference in November 2013, we will ensure that we support the running costs of head office as much as we can, as we would be lost without their helpline, resources, advice and encouragement.
Was I strong enough? I don't need to be strong on my own, we all support each other, a lot of people are on Facebook and we have regular contact between meetings, as our grief ebbs and flows facing anniversaries, birthdays and the festive season. We are there for each other; we explore the complicated emotions that we barely understand in a safe and non-judgemental atmosphere. And tears, yes I cry for my daughter and I most likely always will, I'm comfortable with that.
Rest in peace Nicola Ann Orridge, you are loved and missed every single day. Something special has come from such a waste.
Joy and Phil Heal – Uttoxeter Group Leaders
We were very fortunate that when we lost our son to suicide in May 2011, someone noted details of Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide in their condolence card. This meant that we attended meetings at Ilkeston quite soon following our loss.
My husband Phil decided very quickly, that we should open a group local to where we live, as soon as possible. We waited the 2 years recommended and held our first meeting in June 2013.
The first issue was to think of a third member to join our group. Our sister in law with her P.A. background seemed perfect, but in the end, she found the prospect too upsetting which we obviously appreciated as she loved Jonathan very much. Luckily Jonathan's best friend Jane stepped into the breach and is an invaluable asset to the team.
We started to look for premises a good 6 months before we planned to open. It was very difficult to find suitable premises that met the recommendations of the charity, at an affordable price, that would be available on the same day each month and within the insurance cover agreement. Fortunately, we did eventually find our premises with disablement access, large car park, private access to our meeting room, toilets and kitchen area.
The next challenge was to advertise our existence. A lady who lost her husband to suicide got in touch with Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide headquarters offering help to support us. She works for the Local Authority and managed to get our group details put on the GP Agenda. This has meant that every GP in Staffordshire has been given our details. To date we have had two GP referrals from different parts of Staffordshire. She also managed to get me an invitation to join the Stoke on Trent Prevention of Suicide Strategy Working Group, were I can influence the agenda from the Survivors points of view.
Prior to our first meeting we drove around Stoke on Trent dropping posters and leaflets off at Health Centres, GP Surgeries and asking retailers to display posters in their shop windows. We contacted several local free papers and they all published articles free of charge. We contacted the main local Newspapers who also published articles on our group free of charge. I was invited to talk on BBC Radio Stoke before and after the first meeting which was very nerve racking.
Jane set up a Facebook page and email address for our Uttoxeter group – we have been contacted by several survivors via these medias. At the meetings we have two very dear friends who provide us all with tea and coffee, biscuits and homemade cakes free of charge. They come to every meeting and make drinks as Survivors arrive at 7pm and make another drink around 8pm.
This means we don't actually break the meeting and the Survivors always seem ready for another drink. It works for us. I personally worried a lot about actually facilitating our meetings. I have attended a few different meetings and each had its own way of doing things.
I still worry about people not turning up, I spend a lot of time speaking to newly bereaved on the phone. Some come to meeting, some are not ready or are not interested or are able to attend. I write to anyone I hear about being bereaved by suicide (provided I can find out their contact details) and enclose SOBS details.
We fundraise not only for funds but to keep our group in the local media.
Running a group is not easy, it is time consuming and as an emotional cost to yourself. However, the rewards of reaching other Survivors, some who are in a desperate state, to bring some comfort to fellow survivors and to meet and listen to some truly amazing and inspirational survivors means that we receive more than we give. To be there for someone else is our way of paying back the help and support we received and continued to receive from Eric and Geoff at the Ilkeston Group.
Did we appreciate just what we were taking on? Probably Not. Would we do it again? Definitely.
Good luck if you are thinking of setting up a group. Head Office will hold your hand and support you all the way. If you want to talk to me then don't hesitate to contact me.