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Simon Cowell finally breaks his silence on Ant McPartlin's return to BGT next year
1 September 2018, 12:23 | Updated: 19 October 2018, 18:07
...and reveals he's been sending him secret messages in rehab.
X Factor boss Simon Cowell has finally lifted the lid on whether Ant McPartlin will be joining his co-host Declan Donnelly presenting Britain's Got Talent next year.
The 42-year-old backed out of this year's BGT live shows to focus on his recovery from alcohol addiction, leaving his pal Dec to front the live shows as a solo presenter.
But while Ant also stepped down from his hosting duties for Saturday Night Takeaway and most recently I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here, the childhood star hasn't been short of support - especially from Mr Cowell.
Speaking to The Sun at the launch of this year's X Factor, the SYCO music label boss seemed convinced that Ant would be back joining Dec presenting Britain's Got Talent.
Breaking his silence on the matter, he said: "He is welcome back and we have missed him. But he has done the right thing by taking some time off, and he will come back fresh and will enjoy it."
Simon also revealed that Ant's stint in rehab hasn't stopped him from communicating with him, with the star revealing that he sends secret messages to him through Dec.
He said: "We didn't speak while he was in rehab but we got messages through Dec – as we have always done – but I didn't want to impose on his privacy.
"But we have always made it clear what our relationship is, we help each other. We are friends and he is welcome back anytime."
Ant pleaded guilty to a drink driving charge after being involved in a collision involving two other vehicles earlier this year. The TV presenter was charged fined £86,000 and banned from driving for 20 months.
Just last month the OBE holder announced that he would ""continue to take a break from all television presenting roles until 2019" including both Ant and Dec making a joint decision not to host a new series of Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway next Spring.
The new series of X Factor returns to our screens tonight (September 1st) at 8pm on ITV.
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I have had the busiest week ever- multiple training sessions to teach fitness classes, revision (for the next level of my PT course), workouts, prep for my assessment day, the assessment day, a New Balance blogging event (that I'll be posting about soon), castings, more revision, dinner dates, oh and did I mention revision? It's been quite a week and there's still no rest today! I've just made the most delicious Pink Berry Porridge to fuel me up for the day ahead and I'm now about to head out for a shoot. There's no rest for the wicked and it's about to get busier.
Tomorrow, I'll be kicking off the week by shooting with a Leeds & London-based photographer named Tom Joy. I can't say that I've met Tom before, but I am sure a fan of his work! We'll be getting sporty (yay!) so I thought that I'd share some of his existing fitness work with you guys. Click here to have a little gander.


* 1. Are your processes/procedures documented and reviewed periodically?
* 2. How often do you evaluate the time expenditures of yourself and your team?
* 3. What least enjoyable/least skilled accountability that you perform could you hire a specialist to take off your plate?
* 5. Do you facilitate weekly team meetings to gather updates and encourage engagement?
* 6. How often do you set and review goals for yourself, your teams, and the company?
* 7. Do you use any project management or business systems applications to streamline and organize team work?
* 8. Do you have written accountability measures (position descriptions) for employees that are evaluated upon?
* 9. How often do you review and update your break-even?
* 10. Do you regularly survey or request feedback from your clients?
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Art Now! Lecture Series: Annika Marie
Art and Art History Associate Chair Annika Marie will present a lecture on modern and contemporary art history, theory, and criticism as part of the department's Art Now! Lecture Series.
Art and Art History Associate Chair and Associate Professor Annika Marie will give a lecture as part of the Art and Art History Department's Art Now! Lecture Series on Wednesday, February 20.
Marie's areas of research and teaching focus are modern and contemporary art history, theory, and criticism. She received her BA in art history from Mills College (Oakland, Calif.), her MA in art history from Columbia University in New York City, and her PhD in art history from the University of Texas, Austin.
Marie has engaged the contemporary art world through art criticism and curatorial projects. She has written on Allan Sekula, David Bunn, and Andrea Zittel, among others, for publications such as Art issues and Xtra. Her scholarly publications include "Action Painting Fourfold: Harold Rosenberg and an Arena in Which to Act," in The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists (University of Chicago Press, 2010); and "Ad Reinhardt: Mystic or Materialist? Priest or Proletarian?," in The Art Bulletin (December 2014).
The Art Now! series is organized by Art and Art History Associate Professor Amy Mooney and Professor Adam Brooks. The series is a one-credit course in which students attend the five lectures sponsored by the department. Art Now! invites students and the public to engage with a diverse group of creators, critics, historians, and other working professionals to gain exposure to a wide range of perspectives, practices, and professionalism in the arts.
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Graviditetsdiabetes är ett tillstånd där kvinnor som inte tidigare fått diagnosen diabetes utvecklar höga blodsockervärden under graviditeten (hyperglykemi). Det kallas ibland också havandeskapsdiabetes eller gestationsdiabetes.

Symtom, behandling och komplikationer
Graviditetsdiabetes upptäcks i regel genom provtagning under graviditeten eftersom tillståndet oftast medför få eller inga symtom. Vid mycket höga blodsockernivåer kan dock samma symtom uppträda som vid annan obehandlad diabetes: främst trötthet, törst och stora urinmängder. Slumpmässiga blodsockervärden tas på alla gravida inom mödravården . Diagnosen graviditetsdiabetes ställs med hjälp av glukosbelastning, vilket innebär att den gravida dricker en sockerlösning och blodsockervärden kontrolleras före och efter. Riktlinjerna kring screening för graviditetsdiabetes ser olika ut i olika regioner i Sverige, samt internationellt, men generellt görs glukosbelastning vid högt slumpmässigt blodsocker eller om någon riskfaktor för graviditetsdiabetes föreligger.

Barn som föds av mödrar med graviditetsdiabetes har ökad risk för komplikationer. Sannolikheten är större än normalt att barnen har högre födselvikt (något som kan medföra svårigheter vid förlossningen) och lågt blodsocker (hypoglykemi). Kvinnor med graviditetsdiabetes har ökad risk för att utveckla diabetes typ 2 efter havandeskapet, och deras barn har ökad risk för barnfetma samt diabetes typ 2 senare i livet.

Graviditetsdiabetes går att behandla och riskerna kan minskas väsentligt genom att hålla nere blodsockernivåerna. De flesta patienter behandlas endast med kost och motion. Om det är otillräckligt ges läkemedel i form av Metformin eller insulin .

Tidigare användes oftast ett gränsvärde med glukosbelastning på 75 g, och graviditetsdiabetes förelåg om antingen blodsockret fastande var >5,5 mmol per liter eller blodsockervärdet var >9.0 mmol per liter två timmar efter glukosbelastning..
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följande gränsvärden vid 75 g glukosbelastning: Fasteglukos ≥ 5.1 mmol/l, ≥ 10.0 mmol/l en timme efter glukosbelastning eller ≥ 8.5 mmol/l två timmar efter.

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Under en graviditet utsöndrar moderkakan hormoner som bland annat minskar moderns känslighet för insulin. Kroppen kräver därför större mängder insulin för att reglera blodsockernivåerna. Om bukspottkörteln inte kan producera tillräckliga mängder uppträder graviditetsdiabetes.

Risken för graviditetsdiabetes är högre för kvinnor som har föräldrar eller syskon med diabetes, som har haft graviditetsdiabetes tidigare, är överviktiga eller om de har fött barn som har vägt mer än 4,5 kilo.

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Graviditetsdiabetes uppträder i 3–10 % av alla graviditeter i USA, med skillnader som beror på vilken population som undersöks. Där har till exempel kvinnor av afrikanskt, indianskt eller asiatiskt ursprung en förhöjd risk.  I Sverige utvecklar cirka 1,7 % av alla gravida kvinnor graviditetsdiabetes och i Finland 4–7%. Kriterierna för diagnosen varierar dock mellan olika länder.

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Season 6: Exploring the African Circular Economy
Season 5: Digital in the Circular Economy
Season 4: Diversity & Inclusion
Season 3: Purpose-driven Agency
Season 5, Episode #19: Building Digital Infrastructure for the Circular Economy with Claire Rampen and Emily Rogers
Dec 17, 2020 | Podcast: Season 5 Digital in the Circular Economy
Reath is on a mission to build the digital infrastructure required for businesses to shift to the circular economy.
That essentially means helping businesses to adopt safe, compliant scalable reuse systems. Reuse systems for Reath are products or businesses that are reusing things that have typically been single use and sent to landfill. Examples include cosmetics packaging or PPE since COVID. They specialise in the tagging and tracking of those reusable assets, creating "digital passports" that provide full insight into the current status and history of each individual item.
Co-founders, Claire Rampen and Emily Rogers combined their professional backgrounds in operations and commercial strategy in technology businesses to help other companies adopt circular economy practices.
The Reath platform helps businesses do this while staying compliant, generating insights, creating new revenue opportunities, and identifying savings.
Learn from Claire and Emily how they discovered the challenges brands had in reusing their packaging effectively and legally, and how they joined forces to tackle those challenges and become actively involved in the solution.
Hear about how the Reath team have had to jump off multiple cliffs, apply for multiple grants, and solve multiple problems, as well as how their collaborative approach contributes to systemic change.
The future of the circular economy is never having to throw anything away again.
This is Reath's vision and, by creating a reuse ecosystem using digital products, they are striving to achieve it!
Tune in to find out more.
Claire Rampen & Emily Rogers
Emily Rogers and Claire Rampen are co-founders of Reath; a start-up that is tackling the challenge of single-use packaging and systems, with technology and data at the core.
We founded the company to make reusable packaging more accessible, because finding scalable solutions to our linear economy is crucial.
The journey began with the same goal but a completely different approach (it's never a straight line!) and is now backed by investors and other partners like the Open Data Institute and Zero Waste Scotland.
"We wanted to put the technology backbone in place for how the world is going to cope with the "getting rid of" stage." — Emily Rogers
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Claire and Emily introduce themselves and Reath.
Emily weighs in on where her and Claire's journey started and why they founded Reath.
How they discovered the challenge that brands had in reusing packaging safely and legally.
Barry explains how he fits into the Reath story by helping them build their software.
From acknowledging the problem to becoming actively involved in the solution.
Jumping off the cliff is the first step, but you have to jump off multiple cliffs.
What success looks like for Reath: a world where you never have to throw anything away.
Learn more about the software Reath uses and how they use data to address the problem of single use packaging.
Collaboration, Reath's open data standard, and how it contributes to systemic change.
Creating a reuse ecosystem, the players in that ecosystem, and what it ideally looks like.
Emily weighs in on the fact that the buck might stop with them – and she never underestimates the scope of the problem.
The role of digital products in the circular economy: why Reath chose a software approach.
What's next for Reath – such as working with Innovate UK to apply their system to PPE.
"Our focus is very much in packaging, but with other opportunities [like PPE] to demonstrate where circular systems can be run safely, in a compliant way, and digitally at their core." — Claire Rampen
Links mentioned in this episode:
Claire Rampen on LinkedIn
Claire Rampen Email
Emily Rogers on LinkedIn
Emily Rogers Email
Reath
Reath on LinkedIn
Reath on Twitter
Other Circular Economy Episodes
Season 5, Episode #9: Air Conditioning As-A-Service with Dave Mackerness
Season 5, Episode #13: Turning Pollution Into Profit with Stephanie Benedetto, Co-Founder of Queen of Raw
Read our follow up article:
Reath: Digital Infrastructure for Packaging Reuse
Full Transcript for this episode:
[00:00:05] ES: Hi, everyone. Welcome back to Happy Porch Radio. This season, Season 5, we are looking at digital solutions in the circular economy. Today, we have been joined by Claire Rampen and Emily Rogers from Reath.
Reath is on a mission to build a digital infrastructure required for businesses to shift to the circular economy. Emily and Claire have been through quite a journey with Reath over the past couple of years. Both Barry and I know them personally, so it's nice to have them on the episode and hear about this journey in much more detail than I ever have before. Also, to hear about their motivations and where they hope to go with this whole journey. It was so nice to hear both the ups and the downs from the conversation we had, Barry.
[00:00:53] BO: Yeah, definitely. It was really interesting to have somebody in the podcast that we know, or that we've worked with and to see some of the similarities to the conversations we've had throughout the season. Also, to hear, like you say, more detail and some of the reasons that I think Claire and Emily and Reath are really inspiring on the work that they're doing.
[00:01:13] ES: Yeah. I think there's a lot of things that have come up again in this episode that we hear time and time again over this season of collaboration and what it feels like to be pioneering in this particular sector. I think if anything comes across from our conversation with Claire and Emily, it's the determination that they both have. I mean, they weren't shy about telling us how it is. I really think that it just demonstrates how much energy and passion they have for this subject that they've given it all they've got, time and time again, every step of the way.
[00:01:45] BO: Absolutely. I think there's so many threads I'd like for listeners to pick out. There's this startup journey of the real challenges. They talked about jumping off the cliff repeatedly. There's the circular economy challenges. They're pioneers in creating a whole thought process around business, or mindset. Then there's the journey that I personally find interesting of the actual software, and the data, and the tools, and processes that are used to actually implement their goals.
I hope listeners enjoy that conversation and be inspired little bit about the opportunity for those of us in this sector, of all different skill-sets, to be involved in the solutions, I think. I want to tie that back to something, Emily, you said right at the starter and our first episode of the season, which we talked about the challenges and how difficult it all is. Within all that, there's still hope and there's still opportunity. I think I definitely got that from Claire and Emily.
[00:02:44] ES: Yeah, definitely.
[00:02:46] BO: Without any further ado, let's meet Claire and Emily.
[00:02:54] ER: Hi. I'm Emily.
[00:02:56] CR: Hi. I'm Claire. We co-founded a software business called Reath. We build the digital infrastructure for circular systems. That essentially means, we help businesses to adopt safe, compliant, scalable reuse systems, reuse systems that are fit for the 21st century. When we talk about reuse systems, we're looking at reusing things that have typically been single use and sent to landfill. That might be packaging, or PPE since COVID hit, or electronics. Electronics, exactly.
[00:03:28] BO: Awesome. Welcome to Happy Porch Radio.
[00:03:30] CR: Thank you. We're happy to be here.
[00:03:35] BO: Let's go back a little bit and see where – if you can share a little bit about where the journey started. How come you ended up where you are now, starting Reath?
[00:03:44] ER: We ask ourselves that every day. Claire and I met at university and we've been what I would call eco nerd. Not so much warrior. Just super geeky about different ways that our daily decisions impact the environment. At university, Claire implemented the first keep cup system there, which was what? A decade ago? Oh, my God.
I had been working earlier to get classic water bottles banned from campus and we met through love of the arts, but then really connected over our environmental passion. We both went into work. Claire went into work with Telefonica. I went to work for a couple of different startups. We both wanted to learn as much as we could about business and really get a strong understanding of what it means to run a commercially viable company.
We found ourselves spending so much of our time still focused on that campaigning element around the environment and what our day-to-day choices do to support our beliefs. Then we started an accidental letter-writing campaign effectively. We wrote a ton of e-mails to all the different cosmetic brands that we have in our bathroom cabinets, because we found it so silly and confusing that we had these fantastic face moisturisers that were vegan and ethically sourced, but they come in a single-use plastic bottle.
We were like, who is not connecting the dots? There must be a reason that no one is allowing us to reuse these. This was around the time that, I think, the other shoe dropped on recycling really, and then people really started to understand that such a small percentage of what they're trying to recycle is actually going where they think it is.
Yeah. We started a pretty industrious e-mail campaign. Just being quite annoying, I think, emailing lots of brands, saying, "Why aren't you doing reuse yet? This is something we really want." That's when it clicked for us that we could use our brand to try to solve this problem, because we got a lot of similar responses back from the brands.
[00:05:58] ER: Yeah. They were saying, first of all, that legislations means that it's really hard to reuse packaging safely and legally. For example, it's something you probably don't notice, but actually, most if not all packaged goods have a batch code stamped on them and that's usually done with a laser-ink printer. That batch code connects the product that's in the packaging with the packaging itself, which means if there's ever a product recall that needs to happen, if something gets contaminated, businesses can recall that by using that batch code.
The challenge there, obviously, is how do you reuse a piece of packaging if it has a unique code stamp on it that can only be used once, and is only relevant to that one batch of packaging or product? That was one of the issues that came back. Then the other problems brands had or claimed they were having was that their systems were built for a linear economy, not for a circular one.
For example, their inventory management systems could handle buying packaging, filling it, shipping it out, never seeing it again. They couldn't handle it coming back in and how they were going to deal with that and forecast that and change all their other processes around that. Then the third problem was that this was a big change. This is a huge change that businesses need to make. They were saying, "Well, how do we know that we're making the right decision if there's no data, there's no pre-existing data to call on?"
For example, you know how to make a perfectly optimised piece of packaging that will last once and, particularly, industrial engineers know how to build products that last for a long time, but no one really knows how many times a piece of packaging is going to be reused and therefore, how to design for that and how robust to make that piece of packaging. Because if you make it too robust, it's a waste of resources. If you make it too flimsy, the chances are it won't be used as many times as it could be.
It felt to us like, data was really something that could connect the dots on all these problems and that was where we began, and we were excited about it, because we've spent our careers, Claire using data to optimise businesses commercially, and me using it to optimise for logistics and operations. I think we were naturally quite drawn to this very empty space.
At that point, that's where we met you, Barry.
[00:08:16] BO: I was a catalyst for all the disaster since then.
[00:08:19] ER: You definitely [inaudible 00:08:20] a lot of it.
[00:08:23] CR: Well, actually Barry, we were just fresh from finishing our "pilots", and I would use air quotes there, where we were trying to just even test the hypothesis of if reusable packaging was viable. There weren't so many options on the market at the time, so we were doing little pop-up shops, going to offices, and selling these products and then trying to track the return rate by using a QR code, and we hooked up this pretty ridiculously coded Excel, which was going to break after about a 1,000 uses.
Anyway, we were trying to test the whole end-to-end system. That was when we realised, around the time we met you, that actually, there were enough of these other – enough people were interested in this market to make a software, a specialist software company viable. Actually, the problem was too big to tackle, as two people, one company.
[00:09:10] ER: We couldn't do end-to-end. We just want to make the product and sell it and make the software that does that traceability in health and safety. We focused on where our expertise was, which was around data and making it useful.
[00:09:25] ES: Let me turn the tables on you, Barry. How do you fit into this story? I'm asking you the questions now.
[00:09:33] BO: That's a complete shocker, Emily. I am really interested in that story, for Emily and Claire to share it, and I want to go back a few things to what you said as well. To answer your question to me, well, we build software. That's when I met Emily and Claire. I only met them once in person, because 2020 has been so bizarre. I guess, really inspired by exactly what we just heard them talk about, trying to genuinely solve a problem and approaching it.
I really like the fact that you talked about that, and you were laughing, Claire, there, about doing pop-up stores and trying to validate it. For me, that was one of the things that I – that it's real. It's not just sitting in theory, thinking about something. It's going out and doing the startup part and doing things that don't scale, like hitting the ground, getting out of the building, all these things that you talk about in a startup world, that's about trying to really understand the real world problems and validate it all. Then, over time, getting more and more excited about the work we're trying to help out with some of the software. I don't know. That's where our relationship built up.
[00:10:37] CR: Yeah, Barry. I don't know if you remember this, but over Christmas, the 27th of December, we were on a phone call co-bidding on a grant, because the grant closed in about five days and we really wanted to get some money to be able to work with you properly. Fortunately, we won that grant and we were to able to pick up the first [inaudible 0:10:54] of work to build the prototype.
[00:10:56] BO: Yes. I do remember that. I want you to step back. Before we go into the next step, one part of this process that I'm always intrigued by is you're describing they're having seen the problem and doing this e-mail campaign and starting to understand the problem. Then there is a mental shift, I think between going, "There is a problem" to "I am going to be the one to get out and try to get involved in the solution."
Did that come very naturally to you both? Or what was that process like, that journey from moving from "there is a problem" to "we're going to try and help solve it."
[00:11:33] ER: We both got into points in our careers where, I think we were – It's not that the work we were doing wasn't engaging. It's just that we were seeing or thinking, "Is this what I want to be using my brain for?" We were lucky enough to have really varied careers working with great people, that were quite inspiring, and it – I think that really challenged me to say, "Actually, how am I spending my time right now?" It's a little bit of an existential, scary question. Claire, you'd always wanted to start your own business.
[00:12:04] CR: Yeah. I think that, like Emily mentioned, I previously was using data to optimise revenue for businesses; i.e. advertising optimisation stuff. I remember someone saying to me, "It's a bit depressing that the best brains of 2000 to 2015 are spent on optimising clicks and optimising advertising efficacy." I think that's quite true and that really resonated in me. As Emily mentioned at the beginning, we spent a lot of time trying to solve environmental problems.
I always think of the quote, "If not you, who? If not now, when?" I don't think we can sit around here waiting for leadership. I think it's really important, if you see an opportunity and you have the drive, and the capacity, and the privilege to be able to take advantage of that opportunity, then the risk-taker in me is like, "Why would you not?" I appreciate that does take a certain amount of privilege in terms of education, in terms of network, in terms of self-belief. Those aren't things that everyone has an abundance and, to a certain extent, financial stability and the ability to save money before you take this kind of leap is really critical.
One thing that Emily and I talk about a lot is how the first, jumping off the cliff. The first time you jump off the cliff, that's the first step. That's maybe, it might quitting your job, or it might be deciding to commit every weekend from now to Christmas on this new idea. Whatever days. You're spending time, you're spending money to do it. We're continually having to jump off a cliff. Just once and then it all smooth-sailing from that. It's not. You have to continually reckon with yourself and take the next step.
Every time you take the next step and jump off the next cliff, you're bringing more people with you. That's really great. In time, it's very, I don't know. It's incredibly reassuring. We look out for traction and the signals all the time. We set ourselves milestones, like if we haven't achieved this, then we're going to reconsider. We're not just looking at vanity metrics, or we're not looking at do we enjoy our jobs. It's like, no. Are we actually having the impact that we want to have?
I think, when we were doing the first iteration, which was these pop-up shops, on the one hand it was interesting and we were learning and we were meeting people. Every time we did one, we got over a – it reiterated to us that it was not systemic change and we really wanted that. In January, we sat down and said, "Oh, we have an impact we want to have? Are we hitting the most ones we want to hit?" The answer was no. Then it was like, okay. Pivot or leave. We chose to pivot.
[00:14:41] ES: I love that truth bomb of you don't just have to jump off a cliff once. You have to keep doing it and doing it and doing it and doing it. Is there a point where it starts to get a bit easier? I mean, you mentioned seeing your impact and making sure that you're having the kind of impact you want to have. Does that help with the jumping off the cliff?
[00:15:02] ER: Honestly, not as much as you think it would. We look at each other and we're like, "Oh, my God. Another one. We need to do it again." The only reason I say not as much as you think it would is because when the decision comes down to, you realise just how uncertain what you're doing is. It's like, you really have to look at it with clarity and say, "This is a risk." As we get more traction, as we get bigger, like Claire said, you're taking more people with you. We have employees now who depend on this to work, but we still have to have the agility of being able to have the mindset of this isn't working, we're going to walk away.
I think, almost the momentum you gain and the more stakeholders you gain, it's harder to maintain that exit mentality. I'm not saying that, because we want to get – we want to walk away, but having that as an option, I think keeps us from making bad decisions and keep us pivoting and adjusting and iterating and not just getting complacent.
[00:16:04] CR: Yeah. You have to stay as agile as you can. To your point, Emily, it's very easy to fall into the mindset of like, well, if we get this grant, then it will be up – it will all be easy from here. I think quite quickly, you realise that you can never have enough accolades. You can never win enough prizes. You can never have enough customers. You can never have enough in the eyes of your –
[00:16:27] ER: Financial stakeholders or impact. Any of the above.
[00:16:30] CR: Any of the above. This problem isn't going to go away overnight and it's brick by brick mentality that you need to have. Setting your expectations that maybe we get this amazing grant. It's not going to change our life entirely. It's just another brick. Maybe it's three bricks, instead of one. You have to have this very methodical approach.
[00:16:52] ES: I don't want to jump ahead here, because there's a lot to talk about. Just because you mentioned moving brick by brick and you will never have enough impact, you will never reach enough people, what would it look like to feel like you've accomplished what you want to accomplish? What's the end dream goal that Reath is aiming for?
[00:17:18] ER: When we pitch, we have a line that says, "Imagine a world in which you never have to throw anything away again." Then I say, "That's what we are building here." I don't laugh. That's high-level. I think for us, we do want to have a measurable impact in terms of diverting billions of items from landfill.
In many ways, it's like, every time we have to jump off a cliff, we're measuring it against that next milestone that we wanted to hit. I think we could both walk away from this really happy that we've built and published an open data standard and we've started a lot of conversations and we've gotten a lot of brands thinking about their impact and really pushing them to analyse the cost of what they do that goes beyond what they currently pay.
Our next one is really working with a corporate global partner to get an implementation of this solution in life to really see, really put the software through its paces in terms of working at scale, and see how we can help them optimise this by putting that data that we're collecting to good use and really prove its value. I think that's our next big one.
[00:18:37] ES: Nice. Tell me a bit more about the software. We've talked around it and talked about the story, but tell me specifically about the open data standard and digital passport and everything behind that.
[00:18:50] CR: Sure. Our first use case was packaging. The reason for that is because even if you look on an individual industry level, it's really depressing the amount of packaging that's produced and it is produced as single use.
For example, there's a 142 billion pieces of cosmetic packaging are produced every year. Given the percentage of products that are refilled at the moment, 99% plus of that will be single use and will likely go to landfill, unless it's recycled, which, given the recycling rates globally, 9% the chances are the majority will be in landfill.
[00:19:26] ES: That is an insane amount.
[00:19:28] CR: The packaged goods industry is very problematic in terms of its single-use packaging consumption. That's why we were focusing on that industry first. The software we set out to solve some of the main problems that I mentioned. We wanted to accurately collect data. We wanted to store critical compliance data. By that, we mean things like batch codes to enable product recalls and basically keep the consumers safe.
We wanted to also be able to use that data to help optimise the system that the company is operating. We set about building, essentially, a track and solution, which if you know much about the Internet of things, track and trace is a very fast-growing market. It's essentially where you put a machine readable tracker and that could be anything from a very packed tracker, like a QR code, to something more sophisticated.
In our case, because we're talking about relatively low-value items that are high-volume, we would use a passive tracker that's very cheap. QR is a very good example. You put a passive tracker onto your packaging and then you link that to a unique ID in the Reath system. Then you're able to track everything, all the different steps that that piece of packaging goes through. You can set that up in our system and it's completely configured to your system, your purposes and your business.
For example, if you want to track when it's filled with a product, maybe when it goes out with the customer, maybe once it's coming back and it's being cleaned, and you can attribute data to – and certain fields of data to those different steps. You can let the system know what we filled it with, what type of product it was. Let's say, it was lavender shampoo. What batch of that product it was. Then you get this really nice digital ledger, which shows exactly what's been in that piece of packaging.
You're also capturing the information about when it was cleaned and you can describe to that, so you might know that it's being cleaned 60 degrees Celsius in a certain cleaning process. You can start to build an idea of their reuse rate. How many times it's gone round and round your system. That's at the very core. We have a lot of exciting – Yeah, we're building a lot of exciting features in the next few months, in the next few years. The vision that we have is we need to build on those data processing capabilities and be able to feed back more information to the user, so that they can better optimize their system.
[00:21:56] BO: The other thing you mentioned was the open data standard. Before jumping into that, I thought it would be worth just quickly, getting your thoughts on I guess, collaboration generally. One of the themes that I've seen recently quite often in circular economy discussions is the – and you've touched on as well, like changes and, as an individual, it needs to be systemic. It needs to be in order to solve these problems, some of them are so big that it's going to take more than one piece to make those changes.
I'm interested in, maybe you can just take a little bit more, or explain a little bit more of what you meant by systemic and maybe how that open data standard that you mentioned, connects to that?
[00:22:33] ER: Yeah, absolutely. When we say systemic, we're talking about building infrastructure. We talk a lot about how the world today has been designed and optimised for this throw-away culture. I can take something, make something out of it, use it, and then "get rid of it," because it doesn't go anywhere really. It just moves out of your sphere. We wanted to put the technology backbone in place for how the world is going to cope with that getting rid of stage, going away properly and it coming back in a loop.
We're big believers in collaboration. We think that there are ways that we can share data that don't infringe upon companies' USPs or their company mote, which is why we started looking at this idea of open data. Because when you're going to start something new and you're going to trail-blaze effectively, you could make a lot of costly mistakes in terms of time and money, but also, in terms of the waste that you produce accidentally by going down the wrong path, or a path that's not as truthful.
What we don't want to see is all the different big FMCGs take on reuse in a different way and not learn from each other. Because we just see it as it's going to happen. It is going to happen. It's going to become part of our normal every day. We want to do it smart and we want to do it well quickly, because time pressure is real here also.
[00:24:09] CR: The other thing to bear in mind is just how much the government legislation, particularly in the UK, is changing. There's this thing called extended producer responsibility and that's essentially, for every ton of packaging you put on the market. All of your shampoo bottles filled. Every ton of that packaging, you have to offset that with essentially, like, a tax. That's changing significantly and they're bringing what's called a plastic tax to try and reduce the amount of single-waste plastic that's put on the market.
We're seeing this greater focus on individual producer responsibility and their responsibility to pay the true cost of their packaging, rather than just the cost of it at point of manufacture. This is an excellent opportunity to look at what environmental protection agencies need in order to monitor and incentivise the uptake of reusable packaging. Because you can see, there's a lot of fraud issues in the waste industry and you can foresee there being a lot of issues with people claiming the packaging is being reused when it's not actually. This is additional infrastructure to prevent that and to try and improve the credibility around reuse, we could see is absolutely vital.
[00:25:20] ER: You have to measure your actual impact. There are so many arguments right now that reuse isn't a good option. I mean, we get frustrated by that argument, because no one's properly measured it yet. If you actually measure the cost of single-use, not just its creation and manufacture, but the cost of disposing it and how you quantify that in terms of impact on the environment, single-use is hugely effective. We want to put some hard numbers down.
[00:25:49] CR: There's also been so little optimisation. I often use the example of when the internet first arrived, when people first created e-commerce websites, the likelihood that their check-out flows were optimised, that people were really improving systematically their conversation rates was very, very low. That's a whole industry and discipline that's emerged over the last 15 years.
We have to see these new circular systems, reuse systems as a very similar challenge. It's something that's new. It's not going to be perfect in day one. But we've got this great opportunity to capture data on it and use that to help us optimise.
[00:26:26] ES: There's a lot there, I've got so many questions. I'm going to start with questions about your idea of creating a reuse ecosystem, which is a phrase you've used and you used in your report about the research that you've been doing. This is actually something that's come up a few times in the series that we've done on this podcast, this idea of the organisations we're talking to, just being one piece of a much bigger puzzle in terms of creating a whole, as you say, infrastructure around a transition towards the circular economy.
I wonder if you can describe a little bit what the rest of these ecosystem might look like? Or just in a thought experiment, imagine kind of way, in an ideal world, what does that look like? Then second part of that question, which I suppose is related, as we're creating a collaborative infrastructure, where does the buck stop on this?
[00:27:29] ER: Who's responsible for maintaining it?
[00:27:32] ES: Maintaining it, or making sure that everything works, and making sure that this is actually something that people are utilising, and that it can be real?
[00:27:43] CR: To your point about the ecosystem, this is as you can imagine, this touches so many different spheres, so many different types of organisations. To start with the ones that we interviewed for the open data standard, because we essentially did an ecosystem map, where we looked at all the people that might be interested in this and what they might want to contribute to a standard and what they might want to get from a standard.
There is the obvious ones, these are brands that produce the packaging. There is the retailers that sell it. There is the environmental protection agencies who monitor and ensure compliance of both of those bodies, or types of companies. There is the health and safety trading standards compliance. They're the ones that are looking out for consumer health and safety, making sure that things are being packaged correctly and that companies can offer a product recall if something goes wrong. There is the customers themselves who might have different thoughts on reusable packaging and whether or not they're comfortable using it or able to use it.
Then there's the waste management companies, the ones who currently pick up our recycling, or our waste. They're obviously not so – at the moment, the companies that are doing reuse are doing it on their own. They're the ones that are – they're either relying on the customer to bring the packaging back to the store, or they're picking it up on their behalf. We have to look forward to a world, where this is integrated, that reuse becomes more mainstream.
Then there's the councils that often operate those waste management contracts and they're the ones that are the point of contact. There is all these different players in the ecosystem. We need to think through how everyone is going to continue to playing their role as they do for single-use waste, or a single-use yeah, recycling, but adding in reuse as a third stream.
[00:29:34] ES: Nice. Yeah. It's actually really encouraging to hear you talk about all of these different people and organisations and levels of involvement in this system because, to a certain extent, they're always two-sided, because it is a bit scary thinking about just quite how much change needs to happen in order to read a truly circular ecosystem.
On the other hand, when we're thinking about opportunities for people to get involved and space for people to be creative and productive, there's so much opportunity there and that's really encouraging.
[00:30:11] CR: Exactly. I was listening to the other podcast episode you guys did when you interviewed, I think it was Stephen from Loop, and you were talking about – he was talking about specialties and how they don't see themselves – Loop doesn't see themselves as an e-commerce company, or TerraCycle , they see themselves as an e-commerce company. I think that was a really great point that thy were doing their best, because they were very well placed. They recognise that they were well placed to trial this.
I think it's really important to recognise that this entirely new world will require so many different players and actors. It's like we're building the equivalent of a single-use economy, but in parallel, and it requires very different processes and very different suppliers and very different types of roles. Yeah, it's a huge opportunity as well.
[00:31:00] ES: At this stage, before this – we're not at the point where we have this infrastructure in place. This is very much in some ways, the first steps of the transition to a circular economy. Does it ever feel a bit like – this is a scary question. I'm warning you now. I apologise. Does it ever feel a bit like the buck stops with you, because you're the pioneers in this arena?
[00:31:26] ER: We don't underestimate how hard it is. I feel like we use such a random mix of analogies. We're in the middle of the ocean on this boat. We don't know where we're going. now and then there's no path, or we're dragging up the road. Actually, I think literally use –
[00:31:41] CR: All of them.
[00:31:41] ER: Every kind of exploratory analogy. I think also for us, we're used to managing projects and being a central point of contact within businesses. We do end up taking on a lot of coordination and we encourage momentum, but I think what we've had to learn, especially in the last six months, is that if a business isn't ready to do reuse, there's nothing that we can say or do that's going to get them there.
We find the best collaboration and energy with businesses that share this idea of the future and want to make it happen. I think, right now, what we have focused on is really just getting case studies to show the value that reuse can bring to business, because right now, a lot of the big guys just see cost.
[00:32:31] CR: The value that we can bring to reuse.
[00:32:34] ER: Exactly.
[00:32:34] CR: I mean, I think we would feel a lot more alone. I don't think we could've done this 10 years ago, five years ago, even two years ago. I think we would've been really struggling. Because I really want to give a shout out to all of the support that is out there for sustainability businesses on the whole, but specifically around resource efficiency, circular economy, and plastic reduction.
It's amazing and we have been recipients of those types of grants. We've been beneficiaries of this tidal change that we're seeing in public consciousness and government's consciousness around this issue. That's where luck comes into it. Also, timing comes into it. It's really important to emphasise that.
[00:33:23] BO: Just to switch gears a little bit for the last few minutes we have of this conversation, one of the reasons for this podcast season is to talk about, I guess, the role of digital software creative sector, verticals, business, whatever we want, however it's seen. I'm interested in – basically, it's not like you – you have all these experience and this knowledge that you're bringing to this role, but it's not like you have built software before. Did you see that as a challenge? Or why did you end up with okay, it needs to be software, and it's going to be this kind of thing? Then, how easy was it to move from that to all the great work you're doing now?
[00:34:06] ER: We're very comfortable working with digital products. I think that was a useful background for us to have because, although we can't code it ourselves, we understand roughly what we need to consider when we're thinking about designing it and setting it up. We didn't set out to build a software company. We really were very open to the problem and we were just trying to find the best solution to that.
We're just so aware of the world's addiction to data now. It's not that data gives you a guarantee about the decision that you make based on it, but it gives us comfort, and it gives us a guide, and it's something real to pin your decisions to. Well, we just kept hearing over and over again is like, from these businesses, "Where do I start? I don't even know what material to make my reusable bottle out of." We have to start somewhere. We have to draw a line in the sand and say, "Okay. We're going to start collecting information on it."
It's going to take a little while for it to become statistically significant. If we don't start collecting, it's going to take even longer.
[00:35:13] CR: The other thing which we look to the more macro-environment, so things like the European data.
[00:35:18] ER: Their strategy.
[00:35:19] CR: The European data strategy and what they were projecting around the use of digital passports, for example, which is essentially what our solution is, and its role in the circular economy. We, I suppose saw the writing on the wall and it's a very high-level strategic government/global level.
Then also, we built approach type using Excel. When we came to you, Barry, it wasn't like, "We have no idea what we're doing. Can you build this for us?" It was like, no, we've built out a solution that has user journeys. We've thought through them all. They might not be perfect. They definitely weren't, but can you help us refine this and turn this into a more robust product? Rather than it being like, "Here's a problem. Can you solve it using a software?" We had a really clear idea of what the software was going to do to solve that problem.
[00:36:10] BO: Yeah. Because you've had the problem first. That was really struck out what you said there, Emily. Unfortunately, as usual, I could keep talking for ages, especially about this where I'm connected and really interested in the work you're doing, but we're running out of time. I wanted to finish off with a quick question but, before that, just to reiterate something I've been trying to say in a couple of episodes, recent episodes, the reason for this season is about sharing the amazing work that people like Reath are doing. I guess, to demonstrate the opportunity or the need for people who work in software and creative, thinking about the amazing team that Claire and Emily are building, project management design, UX, in terms of individual opportunities, but also as businesses that provide services.
I think there is a huge opportunity for us as a sector to be part of this journey by helping the people who are actually where the rubber hits the road, like Reath.
Just to finish this off, Emily and Claire, two quick questions. One, you've talked a little bit about the vision or the future of, I guess, the dream for the future. What are the immediate next steps for Reath? Where are you going next? Then for people who want to find out more about that journey and more about the work you're doing, where should they go?
[00:37:28] ER: Great question. Claire, that just slipped through to like, what are we doing next? We hear and we see that businesses, especially the larger ones want to try reuse. They want to put their toe in the water. Innovate UK, as a government-funding body, have a great opportunity, a few coming up this year, that we're building consortiums, so teams for it to tackle. A bit of funding to not only de-risk the project, but also – I think there's something about the innovate projects that make you really think through the concrete steps that come next. They're a great discipline to put yourselves through. That's our next big thing over the next quarter.
[00:38:10] CR: Yeah. We're focusing on packaging for those, but we didn't really talk about it much, but one of the things that we did do after COVID hit was we won a grant from Innovate UK to apply our system to personal protective equipment. Working quite closely with the NHS, we designed a system that could work for reusable masks, aprons, that kind of thing, in hospital or medical environments. We're releasing that pilot next week, which is really exciting.
We're not too sure. The pandemic has been a surprise to us all. We have no idea how it's going to shake out. We have no idea what the world is going to look like when it's "over." That has been a fascinating project and really shone a light on an industry that was very reliant on single-use and therefore very vulnerable to disruption of supply chain as we saw earlier in the year. Our focus is very much in packaging, but with these other opportunities to demonstrate where circular systems can be run safely, in a compliant way, and digitally at their core.
[00:39:09] ER: Yeah. We are at reath.id. If you have questions for us, it's claire@reath.id and emily@reath.id.
[00:39:17] CR: You can follow us on LinkedIn at reath.id and on Twitter @reath_ID.
[00:39:21] BO: Awesome. Thank you so much. We'll share all those links as usual on happyporchradio.com. Thank you so much, Emily and Claire for coming and joining and sharing all about Reath.
[00:39:29] ER: Thanks so much for having us.
[00:39:30] CR: Barry, you know this, but we absolutely love working with you and Happy Porch. It's been the best partnership we could've asked for. Yes.
[00:39:38] BO: Awesome. Thank you so much. That's a perfect way for us to finish.
[00:39:42] ES: Thank you.
[00:39:44] CR: Thank you.
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BOSTON, Mass.—Revolutionary medical guidelines on how to care for the LGBT community were released by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) late last year. Such guidelines are impacting the overall standard of care received by creating an inclusive environment for patients.
The guidelines have 30 competencies that future doctors must master, according to the AAMC. These competencies fall under eight major themes: patient care, knowledge for practice, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, systems-based practice, interprofessional collaboration, and personal and professional development.
The AAMC began developing these guidelines in 2012 with funding from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. The non-profit organization is dedicated to improving the health of the public by advancing the education and training of health professionals. The AAMC developed an advisory committee composed of medical education experts that helped develop these set of standards.
Dr. Harvey Makadon, Director of the National LGBT Health Education Center at The Fenway Institute, says one of most nerve wracking experiences for LGBT patients can be in the waiting room.
"Every frontline staff needs to be trained about how to ask people their preferred [way] to be addressed," Makadon said.
This is especially true for transgender patients.
Also, the Fenway Institute suggests doctors correct their colleagues if they use the wrong name or pronoun when talking about a patient. This helps to create an environment of accountability. Mistakes will, however, be made from time to time. If a doctor makes a mistake, they need to acknowledge it and apologize, according to Fenway.
Makadon said having an inclusive welcoming environment makes LGBT patients, especially transgender people, feel like they can keep coming back.
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New Country Station in NYC
By NYR2711
January 24, 2013 in TV, Music, & Movies
NYC has a new Country station, 94.7 Nash FM. Its a fitting name for us Rangers fans as well. Seems pretty good, but so far I am still screwed where I live. It comes in a little fuzzy around where I live, and the Long Island country station barely come in by me as well. I hope Nash FM boosts their signal a little bit. From what I have heard, it has been pretty good.
Where do they broadcast out of? I've had trouble with picking up any country stations anywhere near North Brooklyn, where I live.
Morphinity 2.0
Yes! I love country! Are they on iHeart Radio or TuneIn?
Not sure, they just started Tuesday. It comes in a little crackily near me in Suffolk County, and I'm not sure where it gets clearer. I work in Manhattan up in Harlem and it comes in perfect up at work. I usually listen to XM Radio on the way into work, but so far this station is pretty good. It used to be some Christian rock station, and they bill themselves as in NYC. Their website doesn't have much yet and their Facebook page doesn't have much up yet either, I think they are brand new. Jason Aldean was promoting them on Facebook today.
That's good news for me.
They actually talked about the Rangers win last night on their Facebook page and have a Nash jersey as their cover photo. Another reason to like them.
This was actually the former Family Radio station WFME, you know the one with Harold Camping who predicted the world ending back in May of 2011.
I tried to listen the other day to the new country station for about 30 seconds before my ears started to bleed so I had to switch it off.


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Q: Using command line arguments in Python: Understanding sys.argv I'm currently going through Learn Python The Hard Way. I think this example might be out dated so I wanted to get feedback here on it.
I'm using Python 3.1
from sys import argv

script, first, second, third = argv

print("the script is called:", (script))
print("your first variable is:", (first))
print("your second variable is:", (second))
print("your third variable is:", (third))

I'm getting this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/path/ch13.py", line 3, in <module>
    script, first, second, third, bacon = argv
ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack

Any idea what's wrong?

A: You forgot to pass arguments to the script, e.g. foo.py bar baz quux.

A: sys.arg is a list of command line parameters. You need to actually pass command line parameters to the script to populate this list. Do this either in your IDE's project settings or by running like this on the command line:
python script.py first second third

Note that the first argument is always the script's name (python script.py in this case). Due to your usage of unpacking, you will get a ValueError whenever you pass fewer or more than 3 parameters. You can check the number before unpacking using len(argv)-1 and presenting a suitable error if not 3.
On a related note, look at getopt if you need to do more complex argument passing.

A: In order to pass arguments, you will need to run the script in this manner:
python fileName.py argument1 argument2

Depending on how many variables you have = to argv, this is how many you need to have minus the first argument (script). E.g.,
 script, first, second, third = argv

should have 3 arguments.

A: You're trying to unpack the argv into separate values. Unpacking requires, that the exact amount of values is matched by the size of the value to unpack. Consider this:
a, b, c = [1, 2, 3]

works fine, but this:
a, b, c, d, e = [1]

will give you the same ugly error, that you just produced. Unpacking sys.argv in the way you did is especially bad, because it's user input, and you don't know, how many arguments the users of your script will supply. So you should unpack it more carefully:
if len(argv) == 5:
    script_name, a, b, c, d = argv
else:
    print "This script needs exactly four arguments, aborting"
    exit()

A: All you have to do is type any three things when opening the script. For example, run python (then your filename.py) 1 2 3. The "1, 2 and 3" can be replaced with any three numbers or words.

A: In order to run this script on the command line, you need to use three arguments.
You will have to type something similar to the following:
python /path/ch13.py first second third

A: Execute the code like this:
python ch13.py first second third

A: from sys import argv
a, b, c, d = argv
print "The script is called:", a
print "Your first variable is:", b
print "Your second variable is:", c
print "Your third variable is:", d

Save this script as: s.py
Run this script from terminal as follows:

A: You can do
(script, first, second, third) = argv

and pass 3 arguments
python filename arg1 arg2 arg3

when you  run it from command line.
I am using Python 3.6.0. Before i was not wrapping the argv arguments in braces. But now it works.

A: I think this example will help you. You can pass the number of arguments you want, that is, the number of parameters is variable. :D
def main(*args):
    print("Arguments Passed: ", args)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    name_Script, *script_args = sys.argv
    print("Name of the script: ", name_Script)
    main(*script_args) #Send list of arguments

A: Here is another way of writing it:
*script_args = sys.argv

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EEOC sues Wayne Farms
DECATUR, Ala. – The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit against Oakwood, Georgia-based Wayne Farms discriminated against a class of workers with disabilities by maintaining an inflexible attendance policy. The alleged conduct is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), EEOC said.
Wayne Farms' attendance policy capped the number of allowable employee absences leaving little to no allowance for disability-related absences, the agencysaid in a statement.
"For example, the suit said that an employee, Latonya Hodges, provided medical excuses for absences related to her asthma, yet was fired upon reaching the maximum number of allowable absences," the agency explained.
The EEOC filed the lawsuit after attempts to reach a pre-litigation settlement failed.
"The ADA requires that employers provide reasonable accommodations, including time off, to workers with disabilities," Delner-Franklin Thomas, district director of EEOC's Birmingham District Office, said in a statement. "Attendance policies that categorically limit an employee's absences, without consideration of the individual circumstances of disabled employees, can run afoul of federal law." The Birmingham, Alabama District Office has jurisdiction over Alabama, portions of Mississippi and Florida.
In a statement, Wayne Farms said the company will "actively dispute" the lawsuit. The company said the litigation stems from a previous investigation in 2011 related to employee absenteeism and termination of employees following repeated unexcused absences.
"While we have not seen the EEOC's reported disability discrimination suit, it appears it was based on the extensive investigations conducted five years ago," the company said in a statement. "Wayne Farms is completely confident that management met all legal and contract obligations to the two Decatur, Alabama employees who filed the underlying EEOC charges, neither of whom raised any issue through the agreed union contract processes. Given the facts we presented in response to the investigation, and given the EEOC's inexplicable delay in pursuing this matter, we will vigorously defend the action when received."
The agency is seeking a court order requiring Wayne Farms to comply with the ADA and barring the company from applying its attendance policy to disabled employees who require additional medical leave as a reasonable accommodation. The lawsuit also seeks lost wages and benefits, compensatory and punitive damages, and other relief for victims and the public.
Wayne Farms is the sixth largest poultry processor in the United States with annual sales of more than $1.9 billion. The company, which is a subsidiary of Continental Grain Co., owns and operates 11 fresh and further-processed facilities throughout the Southeast and produces more than 2.6 billion lbs. of poultry products annually.
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Digital health and wellness company Aduro this week announced its membership in the Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The alliance aims to support well-being research that advances human flourishing in life and the workplace.
SHINE conducts applied research to understand how the workplace environment and culture affect workforce well-being, productivity and business outcomes. The goal of the program is to discover the connections between what employees do at work and how they regard their well-being and the organizational culture. The program also aims to understand the links between mental, physical and psychosocial health and work performance.
Aduro is introducing a new index based on SHINE's research on human flourishing, which centers on six central domains: happiness and life satisfaction, mental and physical health, meaning and purpose, character and virtue, close social relationships and financial and material stability.
The index is designed to help organizations better understand, predict and influence behavior and aggregate both active and passive data, so that organizations can drive individual and population-level strategies for improving well-being.
"Aduro has incorporated SHINE research on human flourishing into its data-driven human performance approach, which empowers organizations to leverage real-time assessment and deliver interventions that build flourishing workforces," said Renee Petrie, vice president of healthcare product strategy at Aduro.
Petrie told MedTech Boston™ that the index will allow for more continuous measurements of the data, which could be more valuable to individuals and organizations.
Participants will complete the index and get instant feedback to see areas that they are and are not flourishing and are provided with human performance interventions and actions to take that are aligned with the individual's needs and preferences, Petrie told us.


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In light of the large variety of racks for grinders available on the construction market from domestic and foreign manufacturers, it is worth considering the most demanded of them.
A simple attachment for an angle grinder can be made as follows:
As a base, take a 20 mm thick chipboard sheet and cut out two pieces of 500×400 mm in size.
The workpieces are combined and twisted together with self-tapping screws to make a plate 40 mm thick.
Take the narrow side and, stepping back from the edge in the middle at a distance of 100 mm, cut a 40×40 mm square with a jigsaw.
Take a steel profile pipe with a section of 40×40 mm and a length of 500 mm. One end of the pipe is smeared with epoxy glue and inserted into the square cut at the base.
When the post adheres well to the base, stepping back from the top of the pipe 100 mm, drill a through hole with a diameter of 8 mm parallel to the short side.
They take a section of a profile pipe 400 mm long and a section of 30×30 mm and, stepping back from the edge of 50 mm, drill a through hole with a diameter of 8 mm. this is a pendulum console.
The movable part is twisted with the stand so that it moves freely, but without backlash in the horizontal direction.
the angle grinder is fixed to the console using steel clamps. The handle of the angle grinder will serve as a control.
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An important part of the angle grinder bed is the counterweight. This structural element has a very specific function: it returns the angle grinder to its original position when the metal cutting operation is completed. If you do not provide a counterweight, it will be very difficult to work with an angle grinder. Before installing the workpiece, you will have to lift and hold it in your hands. You will also have to turn on the angle grinder by weight, which is unsafe. Counterweights come in two designs:
Traditional type. It is made by installing a weight on the tail of the cantilever bar. The weight of the load is selected in such a way that in the initial position the angle grinder is at the top, but when it is lowered onto the workpiece, no great efforts have to be applied.
Spring mechanism as counterweight. In this case, the angle grinder is held in the upper position by the spring force. The most suitable for these purposes is a spring for closing the door leaf.
A shock absorber or stop is also required in the design of the angle grinder stand. The main task of such an element is to prevent the tool from moving downward below a certain level. The moment the pipe is completely cut, the lowering of the angle grinder should stop.
The stop can be made rigid, for example, in the form of a metal stand with a rubber gasket at the point of contact with an angle grinder, or soft. it can be realized due to a small spring at the end.
Products of a universal sample, which can be jointly operated by the consumer not only with the grinders of this brand, but also with any other similar tool. The device works with cutting discs, the diameter of which varies from 125 mm to 230 mm.
With the stand, you can cut to a depth of 30-70 mm, with a cut width of 100 to 180 mm. Thanks to the work with the stand, you can work with material at an angle of 0 to 45 degrees. Depending on the modification, the rack can weigh from 2.9 kilograms to 5 kilograms. The manufacturer offers an auxiliary element with base dimensions: 185×235 mm, 285×277 mm, 336×350 mm.
The angle grinder stand, as mentioned above, is a simple mechanism, but this statement applies only to the simplest designs. Having considered all the variety of factory-made devices and homemade products, three main types of devices can be distinguished:
the simplest pendulum bed;
pendulum mechanism with a rotary unit for cutting with an angle grinder at different angles;
bed for an angle grinder with a so-called broach.
The most common and easy-to-manufacture homemade angle grinder is built on the basis of a pendulum console. With the help of such equipment, you can easily saw various pipes of both round and profile sections, as well as rods, fittings and metal parts, the thickness of which does not exceed the thickness of the working part of the disk, and the length of the cut can be adjusted by moving the workpiece along the bed. Features of Attachment for Angle Grinder:
ease of manufacture and operation;
high reliability, since only one moving unit is used here;
such equipment will not be able to cut at an angle;
difficult to cut sheet material: low accuracy and injury risk.
The device of the bed with a swivel mechanism for an angle grinder allows you to carry out all the above-described metal cutting operations, but at the same time the function of sawing with an angle grinder at different angles is added. There is also a pendulum unit here, and, besides it, the pendulum support itself can rotate, or the stop-clamp, which holds the workpiece, rotates. Features of the device:
expanded possibilities of metal processing angle grinder;
relative simplicity of design;
here it is more difficult to obtain an accurate perpendicular and corner cuts due to the rotary mechanism and the need to calibrate the angle.
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The broaching mechanism is the most difficult to execute. In addition to the pendulum unit, it uses a unit for pulling the angle grinder in the horizontal direction.
The bed for an angle grinder can be of different designs, as shown in the drawings:
With upright column when the angle grinder is lifted off the base. This design has more convenient control and a larger length of the longitudinal cut.
No upright. here the hinge is formed straight from the base. This type of design is the simplest and allows the angle grinder to saw pipes of small diameter and cross-section.
A device for a pendulum angle grinder can be easily created with your own hands. Main structural elements:
Support or bed. the part from which the vertical stand departs and where the workpiece is laid for cutting. The supporting part also performs the main function of keeping the entire machine in a stable position.
A vertical fixed stand, or a tripod for an angle grinder. this structural element is part of the pendulum mechanism and a support for a movable arm.
Movable bar or console. a part to which the angle grinder is directly attached.
The support is mainly made of sheet metal. It can be a factory bed, for example, from a drilling machine or any other where there is a flat platform. On the bed for an angle grinder, there must be a guide, where the pipe is abutted during cutting. The guide does not allow the workpiece to move during the operation. In addition, for greater convenience, you can equip the support with a clamping mechanism that will motionlessly fix the pipe to the guide during operation.
A stand, or tripod, is a vertically going up element. It can be made from a shaped or round pipe. In the upper part, a bearing unit is attached for the movable connection of the rack with the pendulum arm of the angle grinder. The height of the tripod depends on the size of the angle grinder and the pendulum device. The type of pipe (its geometric parameters and wall thickness) is selected depending on the power and weight of the power tool.
The pendulum bar of the angle grinder has two functions. Firstly, it rigidly holds the angle grinder, thereby preventing the disc from moving in the axial direction. Secondly, with the help of it, the tool is fed into the processing area, that is, the angle grinder can be lowered into the working position, cut and returned to the starting position again. It also has a special handle to control the console.
securely attach the tool to the console;
ensure minimal deviations from the cutting plane during operation;
hold the tool securely in the upper position.
For attaching the angle grinder to the console, the threaded attachments of the handle on its head are suitable. There are 3 of them, and this is more than enough for reliable fixation.
And sometimes, to attach the angle grinder, they use a protective casing that is sufficiently rigid and securely attached to its head.
For small grinders working with discs up to 125. 150 mm, sometimes it will be sufficient to fasten the body to the console using powerful clamps, but to prevent axial rotation of the tool, the stop of the grinder head must be used.
angle grinder, working with cutting discs of large diameter (200. 230 mm), in addition to their reliable attachment to the console, must have a good support base for attaching the console itself to the work table.
This ensures the minimum deviation from the cutting plane.
Many DIYers provide the oscillating motion of the console by installing one or two bearings to attach it to the work table. For this, ready-made bearing assemblies for cars or bicycles are often used. However, a simple bolted connection will provide sufficient mobility, the parts of which, with good lubrication, will work as conventional plain bearings.
So, as shown in the video describing the simple design of the rack for an angle grinder made of metal:
True, we would not rely on such reliability of fixing the tool in the upper position, as the author of the video recommends, but would install the tension spring in a convenient place.
It is clear that the repair of such a console mount is reduced to replacing the bolt, or, in extreme cases, to simply increasing its diameter or installing a sleeve with a lot of wear of the mating parts.
A similar principle of ensuring compliance with the flatness of the cut is also ensured when the rack is made not from corners, but from shaped pipes. Watch a short video about a simple homemade metal drain for an angle grinder:
Few people decide to make a wooden stand for an angle grinder, but this does not mean at all that it cannot be done. But some of the design solutions that we want to show you may well serve as source of ideas for creating a rack of your own design, incl. and from this material.
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Sometimes, to ensure the return of the tool to the upper position after the cut, instead of a tension spring, a conventional counterweight is used to compensate for the weight of the tool itself.
One of the most popular power tools in the household is an angle grinder (angle grinder), commonly referred to as an angle grinder. Despite the fact that its main purpose is grinding, it is more often used as a tool for cutting various materials. This is primarily facilitated by the abundance of types of disks that can be installed on it.
The main disadvantage of the angle grinder when performing such work is the low cutting accuracy, because holding the angle grinder in your hands, it is extremely difficult to maintain the exact angle and direction of the cut. Rarely is it possible to cut off any material strictly at a given angle. Especially if you have to perform the workpiece of the same type of parts of any design, and even with the specified cutting angles. This disadvantage can be minimized by applying a special stand to the angle grinder.
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There are such factory-made attachments for various models of angle grinder, some of them are quite versatile. But the relatively high cost makes them unaffordable for most DIYers. Meanwhile, most of these craftsmen are able to make a stand for their angle grinder with their own hands, without spending a lot of money, and even time.
There are not so many drawings of such racks on the Internet. Basically, these are primitive sketches illustrating the principle of operation of the device rather than the exact dimensions and order of its assembly. And even those that exist do not have all the necessary information.
And the very design of such devices quite often raises doubts about the use of such a drawing without a certain correction.
Therefore, we advise you not to waste time looking for them, but after carefully considering the options for implemented projects to create homemade racks for an angle grinder, choose the one that suits you. Or, taking into account their shortcomings, implement your own.
It will not be superfluous for your safety to remind that not all types of discs can be directly used for an angle grinder. First of all, this concerns discs for sawing wood, which have significantly lower speed indicators than are used in almost all grinders.
The exception is special discs for wood, designed for standard rotational speed of angle grinders.
It's good if your tool has speed control. And if not, then, before using your angle grinder as a miter saw for wood, make a simple regulator of its speed based on the KR1182PM1 microcircuit, or close to it in terms of indicators, according to this scheme.
It is not worth using a simple rheostat for this. Along with decreasing the RPM, it will also proportionally reduce the power and torque of the tool. And for the angle grinder itself, use in such operating modes is harmful.
We strongly recommend that you provide your stand with an emergency shutdown button, as the shutdown button can be difficult to access once the angle grinder is installed in the rack. And even an angle grinder securely fixed in the device. the tool is quite traumatic.
You can put such a button in the cut of its power wire, but it is better to break the supply electric line with it, because the angle grinder removed from the rack becomes an ordinary mobile tool with all its advantages.
Actually, this device cannot be called a stand, and you can do almost the same work with it, which is provided by the most technologically advanced stand. The principle of its operation is clear from a short video:
But if, instead of a strip, you use a corresponding corner with a sawn-off part of one of the shelves, as one of the authors of a similar design did, then there will be no need to drill a blind hole in the head of an angle grinder.
In this case, the tool will be fastened with two screws into the threaded holes for the handle existing on the head of the angle grinder. And the principle of the sole will not change. only its rigidity will increase.
The method of using an angle grinder as a kind of circular saw using the same sole, shown in another video by the same author, will not change either:
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Grinder machines, which can cut sheet material from steel, are much more complicated than conventional pendulum machines. The main difficulty here lies in the fact that the sheet of metal has certain linear dimensions and throughout the entire mowing line it is necessary to keep the cutting evenness. Another difficulty here can be considered the effect of heating the cutting area, in which the metal expands and clamps the disc of the angle grinder in the channel, which is fraught with jamming and rupture of the tool with all the ensuing consequences.
Base. Ideally, it should be no less than the sheet that is supposed to be cut with an angle grinder, or allow the entire cutting area to be laid on it. It is necessary to use steel as a material for manufacturing so that it absorbs heat, preventing overheating of the mowing line for cutting steel.
U-shaped rack. This structural element serves as a guide for extending the angle grinder. The length of the segment between the legs of the stand should be sufficient to put a sheet between them, plus allow the body of the angle grinder to fit freely.
The carriage is a movable element that moves along the U-shaped rack on bearings. A pendulum arm and a depth limiter for lowering the cutting disc are attached to it.
The pendulum arm serves as a mechanism for lowering the angle grinder to the level of the working position. It also has a tool control knob attached to it.
You need to pull the angle grinder in the opposite direction to the direction of the sparks, otherwise the tool will undermine with a high probability of jamming.
For an objective understanding of the functionality of the racks for the "angle grinder", you should consider their positive features.
In the course of work, you can accurately position the workpiece on the fixture. This detail is important for very precise cuts on hard and soft materials.
During operation of an angle grinder on a universal bed, the risk of injury hazardous situations is reduced, since the fixed tool will work with precise movements of the cutting element.
If you use the rack for all sorts of construction, production or repair issues, you can increase productivity and speed of solving work tasks.
If you install and fix a workpiece or structure made of wood or other material, then the quality of operations with the object will significantly increase.
Angle grinder stands for metal cutting allow the operator to position the workpiece at the desired angle. This can be done quickly and accurately. A vice will be very useful in this case.
The bed makes it possible to work with any type of raw material.
Most of the platforms allow you to fix the working element not only horizontally, but also vertically. A similar positive feature is relevant for prefabricated structures, with which the master performs manipulations without preliminary disassembly.
The work of the master is greatly facilitated, since the material will be securely fixed on the device, and it will not be necessary to hold it.
Racks can be used in a small workshop and in everyday life. There is also the possibility of creating homemade auxiliary elements.
However, this mechanism also has some disadvantages:
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The angle grinder belongs to the category of tools that have a high degree of risk of injury. This is due to the fact that the saw blade of the angle grinder rotates at high speeds, and the probability of it jamming in the workpiece is very high. This is especially true for long longitudinal cuts, when the abrasive tool is clamped when the metal is heated. When cutting pipes, the section to be removed can compress the cutting disc. this leads to a rupture of the body of the blade. To avoid the negative consequences of working with an angle grinder, an angle grinder stand is used.
When the angle grinder is rigidly fixed and moves only along a predetermined path, observing a certain cutting angle, the likelihood of danger decreases significantly. Angle grinder stands are commercially available, but this is not such a complex mechanism that you need to buy.
For your tool, you can make a simple device with your own hands. it will come out cheaper, and a self-developed design for a specific model will always be more accurately adjusted.
Multifunctional stand, which is compatible with grinders with a disc diameter from 115 mm to 125 mm. Suitable for household use. The device facilitates the work of the master, has a reliable fastening, therefore it is used to perform serial work with materials of various types. Rack cuts can be cut from 0 to 45 degrees.
The stand is designed to work with discs with a diameter of 115 and 150 mm. The model has a protective cover and a solid base with a clamping system for working materials. The products have small dimensions, and the base of the rack itself is made in the shape of a square, which makes it easier to maintain.
In the course of selecting an accessory for the "angle grinder", you should first of all decide on the question of the compatibility of the rack with the diameter of the discs that the angle grinder works with. It is important that the entire rack structure is fully compatible with the existing cutting and grinding tool. Therefore, you can go shopping together with the operated unit. As practice shows, pendulum struts are especially effective when working with ceramics, wood or metal, with which you can implement a wide range of tasks, in addition, they are quite simple in design and operation.
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Current Pennsylvania Legislation On E-Scooters
Electric scooters, or E-scooters, have been appearing in cities across the country. Designed to fill the final leg of a journey – from a bus station or a parking lot to work – or short trips that are too long to walk but too short to warrant a drive, shared E-scooters have been very popular for residents and city visitors who want a cheap and easy transportation option. When E-scooter companies like Bird and Lime offered that option without the need to return the scooters to designated drop-off points, E-scooter sharing took off.
But it has not all been good. E-scooter accidents have been incredibly common and costly and disproportionately impact innocent victims. States and cities have stepped in to try to regulate E-scooters in an attempt to keep everyone safe, to varying degrees of success.
In Pennsylvania, this path of regulation has been different, though. The personal injury lawyers at Gilman & Bedigian explain.
The Difficulties of Regulating E-Scooters
What happens on the roads is regulated by numerous different sections of the law. The traffic code, however, is where most of the regulations are found.
Because there are so many different kinds of vehicles on the road and because each one has different dangers and concerns that warrant different regulations, a state's traffic code first has to categorize and define the types of vehicles allowed on the road. In most states, unfortunately, E-scooters do not fall clearly into any of these categories. Typically, E-scooters are like motorcycles without the requisite engine power, or they are like bikes with an engine.
As a result, most traffic codes – both at the state and the local level – do not specifically say anything about E-scooters.
How E-Scooter Sharing Companies Enter New Cities
E-scooter sharing companies like Lime and Bird have used that regulatory silence to swoop into new cities, drop off a bunch of E-scooters, and charge people to rent them. The regulations do not say that E-scooters cannot be ridden, so the companies provide the service and force cities to figure out how to respond. Some cities embrace the presence of E-scooters by crafting regulations that allow them. Other cities tolerate E-scooters by keeping their traffic code silent. Still others, like New York City or Los Angeles, have filed cease and desist letters against Bird and Lime until they can regulate E-scooters. Some cities have preemptively banned them altogether.
E-Scooter Regulations in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, however, has been in a unique position from the very start. Well before the rise of E-scooters and E-scooter sharing companies, the commonwealth's Department of Transportation (DOT) had already outlawed "motorized scooters" – whose definition included the vehicles used by E-scooter sharing companies Lime and Bird: A "2-wheeled vehicle powered by an engine or an electric motor and does not have a seat or saddle for the driver." Under the DOT's rules, "these vehicles cannot be operated on Pennsylvania roadways or sidewalks."
Without being allowed to use the roads or sidewalks, E-scooters could not be used meaningfully in public in Pennsylvania. The preemptive prohibition – created before E-scooter sharing was even a thing – is responsible for the glaring absence of a Pennsylvania city on either Lime or Bird's map of participating locales.
Changes on the Horizon
However, some cities in Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia, are trying to get those regulations changed so that E-scooter sharing can come to their area.
Movement in that direction has been happening on a serious level as late ago as May 2018 when Philadelphia Councilman Mark Squilla created a city ordinance that directed Philadelphia's Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (OTIS) to come up with a set of regulations for dockless bike and E-scooter sharing. The bill was signed by Governor Wolf on June 10, 2018, and left OTIS with the feeling that they were ahead of the E-scooter regulation game – a game that many other cities were losing as they struggled to fashion rules while E-scooters careened by on the sidewalks.
However, it was later discovered that the provisions of Philadelphia's new ordinance contradicted the DOT's outright ban against E-scooters. The commonwealth's prohibition against any "2-wheeled vehicle powered by an engine or an electric motor and does not have a seat or saddle for the driver" trumped Philadelphia's local regulation, sending OTIS back to the drawing board for its E-scooter regulations. The portion of the city ordinance pertaining to dockless bike sharing, though, is set to continue.
The setback has put the future of Pennsylvania's E-scooter regulatory structure in the hands of the state rather than individual cities. Bird and Lime are likely to lobby lawmakers in Harrisburg for a change to the DOT's regulations that would allow them to provide E-scooter sharing in cities like Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Scranton, and Erie. If successful, Pennsylvania would be unlikely to issue detailed regulations about where, when, and how E-scooters could be ridden. Instead, it would likely punt the issue back to local cities to come up with the details to the regulation based on the specific concerns, dangers, and goals that are unique to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, or any other city in the commonwealth.
Personal Injury Lawyers at Gilman & Bedigian Serve Pennsylvania
The personal injury lawyers at the law offices of Gilman & Bedigian have been closely monitoring the spread of E-scooters and the companies that provide them for shared rides. As E-scooters have proliferated throughout the U.S., so too have serious injuries associated with them. Most of those injuries involve innocent people – often pedestrians – who deserve to be compensated for the losses that came from the incident. Other injuries have happened to E-scooter riders who failed to notice a hidden but dangerous condition on their E-scooter, or who happened to select a vehicle that was plagued with defective brakes, wheels, or other important device.
Whenever someone gets hurt on an E-scooter and was not at fault, expecting them to cover the costs of their injury would be unfair. The personal injury lawyers at Gilman & Bedigian know that and strive to legally represent E-scooter accident victims in Pennsylvania. Contact them online for help.
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I'm new to the forums, hopefully I posted in the right place.
With coloured glass gobos being quite expensive I wondered if anyone had tried Cool Ink or Cool Ink HD gobos with the Focus Spot Two.
I don't believe it's on the approved list, but that's not to say they won't work, so wondered if anyone had taken the risk and how it worked out.