The vicinity of a new I-95 southbound exit 33 in Stratford, Conn. on Wednesday, April 9, 2014.
STRATFORD - The state Department of Transportation says asbestos has been found in the soil at the site of the planned Exit 33 project on I-95.
Preliminary indications find there is no immediate threat to public health, according to the the DOT and the Department of Public Health.
"There is no reason to believe at this time that the asbestos, which is a known carcinogen, found at the Exit 33 project site is posing an exposure concern to workers or the community," said DPH Commissioner Dr. Raul Pino in a release announcing the discovery.
At this time, there is no construction activity occurring in the vicinity of Exit 33.
The estimated $24 million project calls for two additional ramps at Exit 33 on Interstate 95. Those Exit 33 ramps were purposely left out during construction of I-95 in the 1950s to make it harder for drivers to avoid the Stratford toll plaza, which was removed after a 1983 crash in which a tractor-trailer with its driver asleep at the wheel slammed into a line of cars waiting to pay, killing seven people and injuring others.
Town and state officials have argued that the new ramps would alleviate congestion on local streets leading to and from Exits 32 and 34, which are 2.4 miles apart. Designers went so far as to track scores of cars by helicopter as they moved through Stratford to determine which ones would use the new ramps. Animated computer simulations were also created showing anticipated traffic flows with and without the new ramps and their related improvements in place.
Some residents expressed oppostion to the plan, fearing that toxic waste would be disturbed. Stratford Action for the Environment, or SAFE, collected more than 2,000 signatures in opposition to the idea. Neighbors said the the construction would compromise the bedrock that's protecting them from waste. Some said they would have to install volatile organic compound fans in their units, which will drop their resale values.
State officials said earlier contruction was expected to beging sometime next year.
"The asbestos was detected during preliminary design work for this project. CTDOT found the presence of both Raymark Industries waste and asbestos in surface soils at several locations, although the source of the surface asbestos contamination has not been pinpointed," DOT said in a release.
The Raymark waste was left behind by the manufacturer of brakes, clutch discs and other friction components for the automotive industry. The Raymark plant used to stand where Walmart is today; the polluted soil it generated was used as fill in a number of places in town. Raymark closed in 1989.
DOT officials surveyed the site last week week to determine the best path forward, which will include a testing and monitoring program for the area to measure specific air soil asbestos levels, followed by any specific recommendations once the data is collected and analyzed. The testing is expected to begin in mid- to late November. Furthermore, CTDOT is suspending any roadside maintenance activities through this stretch of I-95 until the situation can be more completely assessed.
DOT is in ongoing consultation with the federal Environmental Protection Agency regarding the new Raymark waste findings. The department's response to the surface asbestos contamination is being coordinated with the DPH, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, the Department of Labor and ConnOSHA - the Connecticut arm of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. DEEP, specifically, will be involved in the monitoring and any remediation process along with the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Like many Connecticut towns, Stratford has been home to companies, such as Raymark Industries and Tilo Roofing Company, using asbestos in their products for decades. Specifically, CTDOT has identified a previously unknown deposit of Raymark waste located below the surface and not known to have been disturbed in the recent Moses Wheeler Bridge reconstruction activities.


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Katharina Klafsky (19 September 1855 – 22 September 1896) was a Hungarian operatic singer whose acclaimed international career was cut short by a chronic illness which proved fatal.

Klafsky was born at Szent-János, Wieselburg, of humble parents. Being employed at Vienna as a nursemaid, her fine soprano voice led to her being engaged as a chorus singer, and she was given lessons in music. By 1882, she became well known in Wagnerian roles at the Leipzig theatre, and she increased her reputation by appearing at other German musical centres.

In 1892, she appeared in London, and had a great success in Wagner's operas, notably as Brünnhilde and as Isolde, her dramatic as well as vocal gifts being of an exceptional order. She sang with the Damrosch Opera Company in America in 1895, but died of brain cancer in 1896.

Klafsky was married to the conductor Otto Lohse.

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Colgate University is proud to welcome Robin Wall Kimmerer, mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has earned wide acclaim and was chosen as the 2021 Community Read at Colgate University. As such, Braiding Sweetgrass has been the foundation of a shared intellectual experience for both the incoming class and the community for the last year.
Professor Kimmerer's first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She tours widely and has been featured on NPR's On Being with Krista Tippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of "Healing Our Relationship with Nature." Kimmerer lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability.
As a writer and a scientist, Kimmerer's interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. She holds a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF, an MS and PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild.
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On Jan. 31, Mayor AbouAssaly delivered Marion's 25th annual State of the City address before a sold out crowd.
The City of Marion was recently honored with the 2018 Tree City USA Growth Award at the 29th Annual Community Forestry Awards Luncheon in Des Moines. Marion has achieved Tree City USA status consistently since 1993.
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The Price of Regular Distribution: Fueling Our Investment in Rotavirus Vaccines
Ruth Bechtel
Country Director, Mozambique
I was thrilled to witness President Nyusi launch the rotavirus vaccine in Mozambique last fall. Tens of thousands of little Mozambicans will be spared severe dehydration, even death, due to rotavirus-induced diarrhea – if the vaccine reaches them. And herein lies the problem. When a vaccine sits in a national or district warehouse, a truck, or a broken "fridge," it cannot save lives.
Over a four-year period, the Mozambique government, supported by Gavi and its donors will spend over $19M to purchase the rotavirus vaccine. At roughly $3.50 per dose, it is one of the most expensive vaccines the country has ever helped purchase. To protect the investment in providing rotavirus and other vaccines for Mozambique's children, we must ensure they are available when families visit health centers.
Mozambique has developed and implemented a new approach for vaccine distribution. This next-generation supply chain is now serving more than 500 health centers and eight million people. Vaccine availability in these health centers has increased from an average of 64 percent in 2011 to an average of over 95 percent today. Investments in data, people, and infrastructure are all required for these gains. But one of the biggest impediments to making sure vaccines reach children is operating expenses that are needed to actually distribute them.
Recent studies estimate that for every $.99 spent on vaccines in a low-income country, an additional $.32 is needed for supply chain costs including transportation, labor and storage.[1] To bring this point home, let's look at how this translates at a local level.
Niassa is Mozambique's most sparsely populated province. Trucks carrying vaccines must travel 4,583 kilometers a month on average, or 230 kilometers each day. It requires significant maintenance to ensure these trucks are in working order to travel Mozambique's poor roads. Drivers and field coordinators must be paid daily to cover travel expenses. This means that in Niassa, about $4,500 must be available on a monthly basis to ensure vaccines can get to all 135 health centers.
With its next-generation immunization supply chain system, Mozambique has proven it can make sure vaccines are available for children. There are ten provinces, though, and each one of them needs funds available at the local level on a monthly basis – a total of approximately $500,000 annually. When transportation or funding for fuel isn't available, or when the cold chain is inoperable, vaccine programs ground to a halt. Such delays can have deadly consequences.
[1] Vaccine, Portnoy et. al. "Costs of vaccine programs across 94 low- and middle-income countries" 2015
Categories: distribution system, Funding, Mozambique, Supply Chain, Uncategorized
Tags: Funding, infrastructure, Mozambique, next-generation iSC, Supply Chain, Vaccines


Due to requests, I have finally decided to compile a little playlist. These are the songs I play when it's treadmill torture-time in the mornings.. especially effective on Mondays. They have a good mix of "wake up, its a beautiful day" leading to dancier beats. This playlist is also one of those "dancing in my underpants" kinda things. The frilly kinda underpants, too.
If you ever asked yourself why I am way too chipper on Mondays, this playlist is why. Also, massive amounts of dark roast black coffee. Like, a whole bath of coffee.. I am much friendlier in the mornings when baited with caffeinated beverages. Oh, and chocolate, obviously!
Love this! I've always loved your song choices (Instavids!) <3 Can you make a hip-hop playlist, please?
Love your playlist! Looking forward to more of these!


acorncentreblog.com: Is there anyone listening or caring enough to see beyond my cheque or purchase?
Is there anyone listening or caring enough to see beyond my cheque or purchase?
Everyone has experienced the "no-response" response from the big corporations. Phone them, email them, fax them....and all messages vanish into a black hole of emptiness, with no one knowing about their origin, their existence, their importance....and you have the scenario that defines contemporary business, especially in the service sector.
We all grew up knowing our family doctor, our lawyer, our accountant, our car's mechanic, our insurance agent, our dentist, our kid's teacher and the operator of the preferred gas bar where we filled the tank in our cars. And the first line response personnel in each of those offices/organizations knew us and answered our calls or appearances with a smile, a listening ear and a deft triage decision about how to proceed although they never over-stepped with answers 'above their pay grade'.
There was a kind of fabric to our existence, a trust even with price comparisons, and a degree of ease and comprehension of at least how we might find answers when we needed them, While the level of "education" may not have reached the kind of "market data" or even the diagnostic skills and access to a bank of information respecting the patient, the client, the car or even the insurance policy options, we were engaged, served, respected and even honoured in our pursuit of customer/client/patient SERVICE.
Back in the mid-eighties, while working in Public Relations and Marketing at a local community college, I had the opportunity to host a "teleconference" from a southern university, in which two business professors, authors of a text entitled "Service America", told audiences across North America not only how important the "service" component of their businesses/professions is but also how to reach new levels of excellence in the provision of that service.
It is not rocket science to answer the phone, to read the emails, to surf the texts or even to schedule time in a manner that accounts for both those files/customers/patients/clients that require extended time allocation, but also for those "walk-in's" who present for the first time, or for a modest need/request.
Human engagement, of the kind that formed communities through their multiple encounters among people whose status never interfered with the transactions, and even whose transactions themselves did not define the experience.
There is a profound difference between completing a transaction, collating the sum of those transactions, mining those transactions for their exclusive benefit to the organization's growth and profit potential (what additional 'products' could we unload on which prospect we already service?) and a human interaction that sees, hears, acknowledges and even wants to know the person seeking service. There is a profound difference between a focus on the profit potential of the company as a measure of "my" contribution and thereby potential for notice and promotion, and an authentic interest in, commitment to and delivery of a meaningful, purposeful, engaged and mutually beneficial exchange with the client.
The reduction of our working lives to the primary service of our careers and thus our employers results inevitably in our shaping our performance to those goals and thereby to the performance objectives set by our "masters" who give us the direction and the training and the reinforcements to perform as their pawns.
And the atrophy of the notion of relationships between the professional provider and the recipient is not only a signature of our culture; it is a sign that the "suits" have become our masters. And we have not only witnessed this change; we have essentially enabled its swallowing up too many of our ordinary experiences.
And the elimination of our being known and valued and respected has been replaced by our "preferential choices" as data for those service providers to use in their insatiable appetite for more profits and their pursuit of those profits.
A few months ago, for example, I surfed the web for a product that was not available in local stores, only to find, following my search, that ads for that product were popping up in my research for information on public issues. After a purchase, the web jumps into my face offering after-market purchases that complement the initial purchase as if not only have I been reduced to a "target market" rather than a human being, but so has the source of those ads.
We as individuals, are much more, more complicated and more interesting and more demanding than anything that can be reduced to a business transaction, a cheque, or a card insertion, tap or swipe.
We are much more than a tooth ache, an abdominal pain, a soldier trying to march to the legal requirements of a jurisdiction like a province, or a country or even a municipality that sets some mutually beneficial rules and guidelines.
We need insurance, for example, in order to protect us from catastrophies beyond our control and the costs of cleaning up those incidents. And in the process of filling that need, we also need the few minutes of a service agent's time who may not always be seeking another sale. Service cannot and must not be reduced to the provider's pursuit of additional sales. Service, when provided as a discreet provision, can and may lead to a gestalt that the customer might actually want to do additional business with that provider. Service, however, as merely another opportunity to make a sale, is a perversion of that service.
The abuse of power when viewed in so many situations, is cause for alarm, even for legal action. However, that abuse is never applied to the organizations providing clients with service, only the individual doctor, lawyer, dentist who may inadvertently make some error. Corporations are not being held accountable for their abominable disrespect of their clients/customers....the only reason for their existence. The needs of the investors in the corporation have come to trump the needs and expectations and the persons whose needs have created the corporations in the first place.
We have morphed the corporation from a service provider to a glutton whose appetite for profit and thereby reduced costs (making fewer people work longer and faster to produce more profit, without regard to the working conditions of those serfs). And those corporations are not only eager and willing to swallow our cash, but they are also willing and eager to swallow the people working for them, as if they were nothing more than "raw materials" in the production process of a factory.
Labour has been gutted by the linked forces of governments and corporations, the silencing of the lambs/innocents whose ancestors fought and even died to guarantee some respectability for the workers, who were being exploited by their employers. Now even client base is being slapped in the face with the back of the corporate hand, as if without the power of association, and without the power of embarrassment, and without the power of a consumer protection provider, and certainly without the protection that once was expected and often came from governments (now reduced to merely those incidents that cause injury or death, exempt as they are from the scrutiny that would attend the kind of expectation that accompanied our small communities where everyone knew where to get respect as a consumer.
And there are mountains of deficits to our corporate culture: the cold shoulder, the recorded phone message, the disinterested and apathetic front-line worker, the lost file, the lost email, the lost fax, and the failed transaction....but not enough to bring the corporations down. In the big picture, however, our losses are even more significant.
They include a loss of something we might call community, or even shared expectations, shared needs, and the meeting of those legitimate needs, the alienation of humans not only from families, but also from their neighbours, and the people with whom they interact as customers/consumers/clients/patients.
A family doctor, now literally an artifact of history, cannot and will not be replaced by a computer file stuffed with some numbers about our health condition. We will always need a trained professional to see into and beyond those numbers to a gestalt of our person, our lifestyle and our capacity to commit to our own health.
Our alienation and our disconnect from the world represented by the corporation, and the larger the corporation the more profound is the alienation (for the simple reason that only our cash/cheque/purchase/contract matter to the provider).
Removing the human contact, the human interest, and the human engagement from our transactions, in the service of our idols: "profit", "dividends", "promotions", "attention", and "business growth"....really all substitutes for the "dollar".....has reduced our culture to the jungle of Darwinian survival and now we all wonder why our health budgets are exploding, our police and social service budgets are empty and starving for funds, our libraries are closing and our casinos and digital gambling outlets are booming.
And we are both victim and enabler of our own reduction....victim as described, and enabler by continuing to act as if we have no power to reverse this wave of insult.


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The loss of rapper Mac Miller continues to be felt. Miller's posthumous album Circles adds much more to the "what if..." pondering of his future creative output as he matured as both a person and an artist, with the tracks showcasing more of Miller's vocals rather than rapping style. Producer Jon Brion finished the project that had already been in the pre-planning stages before Miller's death, adding only the most organic of elements to the already existing tracks. Circles now gets the deluxe treatment after its initial release, with the addition of two bonus songs: "Right" and "Floating."
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The product is not ready. According to the roadmap, within 18 months since the white paper and position paper conclusion, all parts of the product would be realized. Partnerships with government and industry agencies is announced, however, it is hard to verify the value from this partnerships.
All services and products, which are built on the platform would be available for the PCH tokens.
The market of blockchain platforms is highly competitive. A lot of projects are entering this market with the familiar entering.
Product has not been developed yet.
There is no information about mining conditions and opportunities. Benefits for token holders is not described.
The project is overvalued for current development stage. The financial model has not been presented.
No information about the company in team's LinkedIn Profiles. The team has technical focus, the business part of the team is not strong enough.
The project is going to compete with other blockchain platforms for creating smart contracts and implementing it to the everyday business processes. It represents the new generation of the blockchain platforms, which is going to solve the problem of scaling and consensus protocol. At the same time, there are many other projects with the same goals, which are entering the market right now. SEELE, dFINITY, Metronome, Zilliqa, Lisk, Waves and Stratis is not the full list of the competitors. Moreover, existing leading players, such as Ethereum and NEO, is working on this issues. The team states, that Pchain is one of the first project that supports Ethereum Virtual Machine. However, it could be not enough, to win in such fierce competition. The most important factors, which is likely to affect the future development of cryptocurrencies are, in our opinion, interventions by the government and central banks and questions on how the sector will be regulated.
The product is consist from few key competitive advantages. First is multi-chain approach. It is proposed to improve the support for DApp. PCHAIN supports cross-chain calls. With the toolkit provided by PCHAIN, the smart contract on PCHAIN can be invoked using non-native Token on other chains. The toolkit currently supports BCH and Tokens following the ERC20 protocol. The second feature is consensus of sharding for accelerating the speed of transactions. PCHAIN supports Shardings at different levels and offers a choice of POS consensus mechanisms to improve the efficiency of operation and storage and support chain expansion. The last feature is knowledge graph and smart data, which allows standardizing parsing of external data to smart contracts. Supporting EVM, which allows you to create smart contracts without knowledge of Solidity language. It could significantly raise the usage of the smart contracts. There is no proved information, that team's project has already spend ages, working on it. As a result, it is hard to understand founders commitment and beliefs in the product. Now, it seems, that project team has just been formed and has promised to develop highly promising technologies.
The model of this platform is not described in the white paper. However, 15% of funds will be spent on rewarding of minners. At the same time, there is no information about any rewarding mechanism. The Pchain ecosystem consists of two major components, the Pchain foundation and the Pchain system. The Pchain foundation supports the development of the project, also, it is responsible for tracking and managing all the DApp added, code reviewing to raise the security of the platform and financial and personnel management. No other information is presented in the white paper or social media channels.
At this moment, there is not so much information about financial side of project. The name of PCHAIN's Token is PCH, and a total of 2,100,000,000 (2.1billion) PCH will be issued. Price per token is yet to be announced. There will be 2 main stages: target donation (private sale) and public donation (public sale). 15% is reserved for private sale and 20% is hold for public sale. Also, it is stated, that 25% will be issued for community building. As a result, it seems that share of potential investors would be significantly diluted by community members. In addition to that, it is not stated what exactly token holders would receive. In VC reality, such product would pass through seed stage funding. Product is not ready, 65% of raised fund is going to be spend on R&D and only 20% on marketing. We conclude, that hard cap should be between 10000-20000 ETH. Higher valuation for that moment is too much. According to current information, hard cap is about 50k ETH. Moreover, there is no information about vesting period. As a result, it looks, that project is overvalued.
Currently, according to the website, the project team consists of 6 people. The team consists of the high professional in programming and computer science. However, there is no professionals with relevant business experience. There is no marketing director or product development team. For current development stage, it is possible. Founder of the project is well-known blockchain specialist. He has 22 papers in ACM/IEEE top conference and 30+ international patents. Other team members also have a huge technical background in SAP, Global Top 500 companies, and leading universities. However, the team has not the common experience. As a result, it is impossible to predict team's efficient.


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Can Former American Tyron Akins lead Nigeria to 110m Hurdles Medals @ C'wealth Games?
Amidst the ongoing controversy surrounding the American Athletes recently recruited to Team Nigeria, we analyse the chances of Nigeria's current 110m Hurdles Champion, 28-year-old Tyron Akins, formerly of Team USA, in the 110m Hurdles at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday, as well as the chances of runner-up at the Nigerian trials, 25-year-old Alex Al-Ameen, the former British athlete whose father is Nigerian.
On Sunday we asked the question of whether the recently recruited Americans had improved Nigeria's 100m sprinting pool and whether they could help Team Nigeria to win Commonwealth Medals, and today we're asking the same question for the 110m hurdles. At MAKING OF CHAMPIONS, we have EXCLUSIVELY put together the 2014 Commonwealth Athlete rankings in the 110m Hurdles to analyse Nigeria's medal chances in the event!
Essentially, Akins and Al-Ameen are evenly matched at the moment based on their Season's Bests, but Akins came out on top at the Nigerian Trials when it mattered, winning in 13.66s, with Al-Ameen second in 13.75s and three-time National Sports Festival Champion, Martin Ogieriakhi, third in 13.93s. While Al-Ameen and Akins have certainly given Nigeria an upgrade in terms of the men's sprint hurdles pool, they are only ranked 13th and 14th amongst Commonwealth athletes this year, as such it looks like they would have to shave two or three tenths of their best times this season to be in medal contention at these Games.
Akins could be capable of that, if he rediscovers his best form – he has a PB of 13.25s from 2008, and ran 13.30s in three consecutive seasons from 2010 to 2012. Al-Ameen's best this season is also his lifetime best, and at 25, he still has a number of years to improve in the 110m hurdles, so it remains to be seen if this Games has come too soon for him to make an appreciable impact. The 110m hurdles kick off tomorrow (Tuesday) with 3 stacked Semi-Finals, with one of the three Nigerian hurdlers in each one – given the better ranked athletes that each race is filled with, our hope is that at least one of them can make the Final on Tuesday evening!
Men's 110m Hurdles Semi-Finals on Tues July 29th
10.55am: Heat 1 – Alex Al-Ameen (NGR No. 1, C'wealth No. 13) vs
Andrew Riley (JAM No. 2, C'wealth No. 2) &
Shane Brathwaite (BAR No. 1, C'wealth No. 5)
11.01 am: Heat 2 – Tyron Akins (NGR No. 2, C'wealth No. 14) vs
Hansle Parchment (JAM No. 1, C'wealth No. 1),
Greggmar Swift (BAR No. 2, C'wealth No. 6) &
Lawrence Clarke (ENG No. 2, C'wealth No. 7)
11.07am: Heat 3 – Martin Ogieriakhi (NGR No. 3, C'wealth No. 19) vs
Wayne Davis II (TTO No. 1, C'wealth No. 3),
William Sharman (ENG No. 1, C'wealth No. 4) &
Ryan Brathwaite (BAR No. 3, C'wealth No. 10)
MoC PREDICTION: Based on how stacked each Semi-Final is, Akins and Al-Ameen might be racing each other for a fastest losers' spot in the final – at least one of them could scrape through, but anything can happen in the hurdles, so a great result would be to have both of them reach the final! It would be a huge surprise if either of them were to claim a medal in the Final on Tuesday night. Once again, it's the hurdles and anything can happen, so we can only hope!
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Ipso dismisses complaint over The Sun's Adam Johnson video
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-44970748
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Image caption Adam Johnson was sacked by Sunderland following his conviction
The Sun acted in the public interest publishing a secret prison video of disgraced footballer Adam Johnson, the press regulator has ruled.
The winger's father, David, complained to Ipso about an online article headlined "I wish I'd raped her".
Johnson was filmed discussing his conviction for sexual activity with a minor and saying he would have "only got a caution had he not been famous".
Ipso ruled the piece did not breach the Editors' Code.
Published on 20 April 2017, the footage of the ex-Sunderland and England player was believed to have been recorded in the laundry room at HMP Moorland near Doncaster.
Johnson was seen talking to a fellow inmate about a six-year sentence imposed in March 2016 after he pleaded guilty to grooming and sexual activity with a child.
He was heard to say: "I wish I did [commit rape] for six years."
In his complaint to Ipso, David Johnson said publication of the footage was intrusive and the use of a hidden recording device unjustified.
'Paedophile not misleading'
He said his family were the subject of a witch-hunt by the press and claimed "numerous inflammatory newspaper articles" had been published about his son, many of which were "completely untrue".
David Johnson also described his concern at the use of the terms "paedophile" and "paedo".
In its defence, The Sun argued there was "an overriding public interest in exposing the true face of remorseless Johnson" as the comments had been made shortly before he lodged an appeal against his sentence.
Ipso said there was "a strong public interest in publishing the footage in order to highlight the conflict between the statements he made in private with those he had made in mitigation to the court".
It also said the level of subterfuge employed by the newspaper's source had been "limited" because Johnson had been speaking openly to inmates.
Using the word "paedophile" was also neither inaccurate nor misleading as the article clearly stated the age of the victim, the regulator added.
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