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Obesity Initiative
Addressing Obesity as a Disease
For the past few decades, employers/purchasers have been challenged by effectively addressing obesity, a condition with serious health and economic consequences that is now being called an epidemic. Obesity contributes to rising rates of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other complications, but it is not diagnosed, treated and covered like other medical conditions.
The National Alliance has developed a multi-faceted approach to engage multiple stakeholders in addressing obesity. This initiative has a longer-term focus of producing meaningful impact in the health of our populations through education, policy, population/community health, and treatment. An online portal was developed to share resources and best practices. A helpful guidebook outlining a multi-stakeholder approach to address obesity as a disease was developed and used with a set of matching grants that brought together 10 coalitions from across the country to have half-day programs for employers, health plans, and providers to rethink obesity solutions in their markets.
Our Next Steps
With a renewed focus on the employer community, follow-up activities give employers access to more "real-world" information on the costs and benefits of coverage, so they can make more informed decisions for the health of their populations.
Obesity Portal
Educating everyone on the new research highlighting obesity as a disease.
Misunderstood and Undermanaged Workforce Disease
The importance of enhancing benefits to support medical care
Access Action Brief
A fresh look at benefit design considerations.
Featured Coalitions in Action
Obesity and diabetes prevention and management are top priorities for the Greater Philadelphia Business Coalition on Health (GPBCH). Previous efforts have included promoting the National Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), convening regional stakeholders to discuss obesity data, and developing employer benefits Action Briefs on obesity drugs and bariatric surgery. Through an Obesity and Diabetes Action Collaborative, 12 GPBCH employer members are now working together to identify and implement best practices; findings will be shared with GPBCH and National Alliance members. Learn more.
The number of diabetes and prediabetes cases in the US has reached epic proportions. Recognizing that employers play a significant role in driving community health and wellbeing, St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition (BHC) members have identified diabetes as an area of focus for their collaborative efforts. Working together, local employers will establish and execute an action plan to prevent, better manage, and reverse type 2 diabetes among employees and their family members. By leveraging this collective impact, we can #DefeatDiabetesSTL. Learn more.
Our Collective Value Agenda:
Uniting and raising our voices together
Develop strategies that eliminate obesity stigma at the workplace
Encourage employers to work with PBMs and health plans to ensure coverage for evidence-based behavioral, pharmacological and surgical interventions
Promote obesity prevention and scientific, strategic treatment options
Focus on improving, health and establish supportive cultures that promote wellbeing
"For the past few decades, employers have struggled to combat obesity. Though it contributes to the rising rates of conditions like diabetes and cardiovascular disease, it is not diagnosed, treated or covered like other medical conditions, in spite of being recognized as a disease by authoritative health organizations."
John Miller, Executive Director, MidAtlantic Business Group on Health and Obesity Initiative Advisor


When planning a trip to Paris, it doesn't take long to realize that the city is divided up into areas called "arrondissements," equivalent to what other cities refer to as neighborhoods or districts. (Leave it to Paris to have such a beautiful word for it, non?) Paris also offers families more to see and do than can be fit into one trip, no matter how long. So it's best to avoid crisscrossing the city, wasting time and depleting everyone's energy levels with unnecessary walking.
Instead, organize the time you do have strategically and efficiently. Spending a day or two in each of the central arrondissements makes a lot of sense for these reasons. And it might even leave with you some extra time to explore some of the lesser known areas of the city and make your own discoveries!
Please note that I've taken a little liberty with this guide to some of Paris' more popular arrondissements. There are a few attractions or sites located very close to the border between two arrondissements. I grouped them where I thought it made the most sense to visit that particular site. I've noted these instances with an asterisk (*) to provide clarity. By organizing your day this way, you'll be able to walk to all the destinations within each sample itinerary.
Sample Itinerary: Get to the Louvre at opening time (earlier if you don't have tickets). Spend the morning here hitting the highlights or taking a private tour with a vetted kid-friendly guide. Re-energize everyone with a picnic lunch and playtime in the Tuileries. If you don't have picnic fixings or you want a hot lunch, Café Renard, located within the Tuileries itself, has plenty on the menu that appeals to children and adults alike.
Alternatives: The much smaller and far less crowded Musee de l'Orangerie (full of Impressionist art, including Monet's Water Lilies) and Musee en Herbe (a children's art museum) would be great alternatives to the Louvre and are still very close to the Tuileries for an afternoon of play.
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Sample Itinerary: Get to Notre Dame as early as you can and do as much inside as your children can handle (guided tour, self-guided audio tour or even just a climb to the top of the towers). If entrance lines are long, kill time by playing in the small park behind the cathedral. Then head to Pont Neuf, where you can relax for an hour with a boat ride along the Seine. After disembarking, refuel with lunch. I recommend Happy Days Diner for a casual and kid-friendly option (2 Rue du Roule, directly across Rue de Rivoli from Pont Neuf). Then head to the Pompidou Centre to take in the modern art. Kids can have plenty of creative fun in the Galeries des Enfants or in one of the museum's many children's workshops.
Alternatives: If the line at Notre Dame is long, then admire the stained-glass windows at nearby Sainte-Chapelle* instead. If you've already reached museum overload, skip the Pompidou and walk to Hotel de Ville in the afternoon; get some fresh air in the open square in front of this gorgeous building (Paris' city hall since the mid-1300s).
Sample Itinerary: Spend your morning at the Jardin du Luxembourg. When you picture your children playing in a Parisian park, this is likely what you've been imagining, from carousels to miniature sailboats. Then head to Le Bon Marche,* Paris' oldest and most elegant department store. The adjacent La Grande Epicerie de Paris is the food hall and market, where you can grab gourmet picnic fixings. After your picnic, spend the afternoon in the Jardin des Plantes, walking through the scenic Latin Quarter en route, and take your pick from the zoo (Menagerie), Les Galeries de Paleontologie (mostly dinosaur exhibits) or Grande Galerie de l'Evolution (with many animals on display). Cap off your day at the Manege a Dodo, one of Paris' most charming carousels.
Alternatives: If the weather doesn't cooperate for a morning at Jardin du Luxembourg, then go straight to the top of Tour Montparnasse for amazing views of Paris. Even the top terrace has a roof to protect you on a rainy day. It's an average-looking skyscraper full of offices, but it'll be far less crowded than the Eiffel Tower and has views to rival it.
Sample Itinerary: This is probably the trickiest day to plan, as lines can be exceedingly long at most of the main attractions. Personally, I'd skip going to the top of the Eiffel Tower, and admire it from below at leisure. Instead, head to the Musee d'Orsay first thing in the morning and spend a couple of hours admiring the Impressionist art and the gorgeous building (a former train station). Then head to the Champs-Elysees to have lunch at Chez Clement, just two blocks from the Arc de Triomphe. It's got a fancy atmosphere worthy of its location, but caters specifically to families. If the line is short at the Arc, go to the top, where you can admire a great deal of the city without the dizzying heights of the Eiffel Tower. Give everyone a rest back at your hotel before heading to the Eiffel Tower in the early evening. Take lots of photos while there's still daylight (approach it from the Trocadero metro stop for the best angles), and then stick around until dark to watch the Tower be illuminated. It happens for 5 minutes at the top of each hour throughout the evening.
Alternatives: If you have older children who love to shop (or even window-shop), spend more time browsing the big fashion names along the Champs-Elysees.
By visiting these eight central arrondissements and their most famous sites, you'll only be scratching the surface of what Paris has to offer families. But c'est la vie, there's always next time.
Almost all of your recommendations are for families with young children. It would be nice to see more emphasis placed on families with teenagers.
Hi Bonnie, thanks for the feedback. I echo Amie's suggestion, but also wanted to point out that while I now travel with relatively young kids, I visited Paris as a teenager and basically did most of this itinerary (although not as efficiently as what I've outlined above…I've learned a few things since then). On that trip, I spent a bit less time in the parks I mention above, and extended my time in some of the museums. I hope that's helpful to you. I think the itineraries would work for most age ranges, with a few minor adjustments depending on interests.


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Politicizing Aphid Poop
By Hank Campbell | January 11th 2022 10:20 AM | Print | E-mail
We all know there is no Beepocalypse by now, right? Seeing it referenced in sit-coms from the 2010s is as anachronistic as watching "Soylent Green" from the 1970s and seeing them lament that they didn't listen to scientists and make the hole in the ozone layer larger. Sure, Washington Post readers probably still believe bees are dying, just like their contributors think "Soylent Green" got a lot right, but it's as unscientific as acupuncture.
Environmental activists have moved on from saving bees, just like they have moved on from endorsing hydroelectric power, natural gas, and biofuels. Once the thing they lobbied for is in use, the money is in saying it is all killing us. Like they now do with hydroelectric power, natural gas, and biofuels.
With bees in higher numbers than ever, it is time for doomsday prophets to move on, perhaps to saving...an obscure non-native wasp species? Yes indeed, a recent Penn State press release warns us that neonicotinoid pesticides - derived from the natural nicotine in tobacco plants that pests dislike - "can contaminate honeydew, which is an important food source for beneficial insects in agroecosystems."
This is the environmental meltdown linked to invasive species the authors have rebranded as "beneficial insects"
Honeydew? They don't mean the melon, they mean aphid poo. Which the invasive species of wasps eats.(1)
The environmental apocalyptic chain of events due to a targeted pesticide that has been much better for the environmental than mass spraying is this:
1. Crop-destroying aphids sometimes eat soybean grown from treated neonic seeds, but don't die. That's right, the authors are implicitly criticizing the insecticide for not being toxic enough.
2. The hearty crop-destroying aphids excrete 'honeydew' that supposedly contains neonics from eating the plant.
3. Parasitic non-native wasps eat this honeydew.
4. Some wasps died faster than average.
That is worth them writing about? If you are going to politicize science it is important to publish even if "The longevity of A. glycinis females was not statistically different between the three honeydew types."
The three types were honeydew from plants treated with TMX, TMX+fungicide, and untreated. A. certus wasps in the study had their median lifespan shortened from 17 days to 14 days. (2)
They are calling for a shutdown of modern agriculturre because of three fewer days of non-native parasitism. Yet despite this being a paper that weirdly finds 3 days less of an invasive species parasite is a bad thing, environmentalists are going to sound the alarm over this impending crisis. Because this invasive species can be a biological pest control.
It is going to be fun to see them roll out a campaign endorsing biological pest control because
while Rachel Carson, author of the famed environmental plea "Silent Spring", loved the idea of biological pest control over chemicals, modern activists hate GMOs, RNAi, CRISPR and most all science. They hate biology. The only modern plant biology they accept is mutagenesis, even though those are mutants literally created by bathing plants in chemicals and radiation. Those plants they certify "organic."
In case there is still any doubt about the political nature and goal of the study, even if you know they did part of this to try and legitimize a 2019 paper that was debunked because the test case couldn't exist in the real world, I present their own conclusion:
"Nowadays, only the European Union (which represents less than 4% of the global agricultural land) has banned the application of neonicotinoids after a risk assessment report carried out by the European Food Safety Authority. This risk assessment, as well as others carried out by other environmental agencies, did not consider honeydew as route of exposure to beneficial insects. This route is especially relevant because environmental agencies are now evaluating the use of neonicotinoid coated-seeds in crops that are harvested before the flowering period, without considering that these plants can hold phloem-feeding herbivores that excrete contaminated honeydew as we demonstrate here under field conditions. Therefore, honeydew should be included in future environmental risk assessments as a route of exposure to neonicotinoids applied as seed coating."
There is an upside to all this. I get to start referencing my honeydoo when I talk to my wife after a morning coffee. I hope you are also moved by how poorly designed this study is.
(1) Geckos too.
(2) The authors simulated this chain of events by stuffing around 120 "newly emerged and unfed female adult" wasps into a test tube and forcing them to eat nothing but honeydew from plants grown from neonic seeds (or the untreated control). If they ate everything and survived, well, those results are tossed. Bugs with the strength to bug out were also uncounted: "We censored those beneficial insects that escaped, died for other reasons, or had finished all the honeydew administered in one day (honeydew not ad libitum)… For A. certus, we censored nineteen females out of 116 that escaped or died for other reasons and five because honeydew had not been administered ad libitum."
It is hard to tell the public to accept the science of a COVID-19 vaccines when this mishmash methodology is also peer-reviewed.
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FJ Benjamin signs deal for Raoul franchise in Sri Lanka
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FJ Benjamin has inked a franchise agreement to open the first standalone Raoul store in Colombo, Sri Lanka, this December, just two months after it sealed a similar deal in China.
The franchisee, White Lotus Fashions, is owned by Sri Lankan entrepreneur Rayynor Silva, the chairman of Asia Broadcasting Corporation, which operates some of the country's radio stations and one television channel. He also has interests in hotels and properties.
The agreement is for an initial five years, with an additional three-year renewal option.
Douglas Benjamin, the chief operating officer of FJ Benjamin Holdings, said: "This franchise agreement will give Raoul first-mover advantage in a country where the market for luxury fashion is still at a nascent stage, with very few quality brands available for the discerning, fashion-conscious shopper."
FJ Benjamin secured a franchise deal - its first major one for Raoul - with Anderson Wang's Budy (Chongqing) Import & Export Trading Co in May. Under this deal, it will open 27 stores across China by 2017, with the first one raising its shutters in Chongqing in mid-September.
The deal is for an initial five-year period with an option for renewal.
A Maybank Kim Eng report dated May 8 cited Mr Wang as having helmed franchises with Porsche Design and Georg Jensen.
FJ Benjamin has said that it plans to scale up its retail network to 210 stores by the end of its fiscal year ended June 30, from 191 a year ago.
A slowdown in demand for timepieces in China, reduced tourist spending in Hong Kong and cautious consumer spending in South-east Asia caused FJ Benjamin's earnings to tumble to $417,000, from $3.5 million a year ago in its fiscal third quarter ended March 31. Turnover dipped 3 per cent year-on-year to $92.6 million.
Raoul is one of two in-house brands for the FJ Benjamin Group, the other being Catherine Deane. The group also distributes fashion and timepiece brands such as Givenchy, Banana Republic, Gap and Guess.
Its shares last closed at $0.26 on Wednesday.


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Pachycara is een geslacht van straalvinnige vissen uit de familie van puitalen (Zoarcidae). Het geslacht is voor het eerst wetenschappelijk beschreven in 1911 door Zugmayer.

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 Pachycara alepidotum Anderson & Mincarone, 2006
 Pachycara andersoni Møller, 2003
 Pachycara arabica Møller, 2003
 Pachycara brachycephalum  Pappenheim, 1912
 Pachycara bulbiceps Garman, 1899
 Pachycara cousinsi Møller & King 2007
 Pachycara crassiceps Roule, 1916
 Pachycara crossacanthum Anderson, 1989
 Pachycara dolichaulus Anderson, 2006
 Pachycara garricki Anderson, 1990
 Pachycara goni Anderson, 1991
 Pachycara gymninium Anderson & Peden, 1988
 Pachycara lepinium Anderson & Peden, 1988
 Pachycara mesoporum Anderson, 1989
 Pachycara microcephalum Jensen, 1902
 Pachycara nazca Anderson & Bluhm, 1997
 Pachycara pammelas Anderson, 1989
 Pachycara priedei Møller & King 2007
 Pachycara rimae Anderson, 1989
 Pachycara saldanhai Biscoito & Almeida, 2004
 Pachycara shcherbachevi Anderson, 1989
 Pachycara sulaki Anderson, 1989
 Pachycara suspectum Garman, 1899
 Pachycara thermophilum Geistdoerfer, 1994

Puitalen

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In the struggle for inclusive information and knowledge societies, and in the present context of gross inequalities, is it too late to achieve what one contributor to this issue describes as "the equal distribution of resources, power and dignity"? WACC's own position is unequivocal. It works with those denied the right to communicate because of status, indentity, or gender, advocating full access to information and communication and promoting open and diverse media.
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Q: Autosize WinForm in Panel VB.Net How to make the form A size follow the panel size in the form B when i maximize or normal size form B, because form A is displayed in the form panel B in vb.net. sorry for my bad english, hope the masters can help me. This my code in form Main :
Private Sub TVMenu_KeyPress(sender As Object, e As KeyPressEventArgs) Handles TVMenu.KeyPress
    If e.KeyChar = Chr(13) Then
        Select Case TVMenu.SelectedNode.Name
            Case Is = "nGuru"
                FmGuru.Close()
                FmGuru.TopLevel = False
                FmGuru.FormBorderStyle = Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.None
                FmGuru.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized
                PContent.Controls.Add(FmGuru)
                FmGuru.Show()
        End Select
    End If
End Sub

I mean FmGuru show in panel FormMain, when i show FmGuru when FormMain size Normal FmGuru show Normal, but when I maximize FmMain, FmGuru not follow to maximize.
thank before
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Normal Form Size Condition
Max Form Size Condition

A: Private Sub TVMenu_KeyPress(sender As Object, e As KeyPressEventArgs) Handles TVMenu.KeyPress
    If e.KeyChar = Chr(13) Then
        Select Case TVMenu.SelectedNode.Name
            Case Is = "nGuru"
                FmGuru.Close()
                FmGuru.TopLevel = False
                FmGuru.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal
                pContent.Autoscroll = True
                FmGuru.Dock = Dockstyle.Fill
                FmGuru.FormBorderStyle = Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.None
                FmGuru.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized
                PContent.Controls.Add(FmGuru)
                FmGuru.Show()
        End Select
    End If
End Sub

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Q: Enumerator's loop magic (No break and no endless loop at the same time) How do loop inside a Enumerator.new knows where to stop?
Now more descriptive example. Here are tow snippets of code both of them return same array: [1,2,4,8]. But in first example break condition in loop exists, when second example stops somehow.
Example #1 with break
def simple n
  x  = []
  a = 1
  i = 0
  loop do
    x << a
    a *= 2
    i += 1
    break unless i < n # in this case condition for stop used
  end
  x
end
p simple(4)== [1,2,4,8]

Example #2 "magical"
def enumer
  Enumerator.new do |x|
      a = 1
      loop do # How do this loop know where to stop?
       x << a
       a *= 2
      end
  end
end
p enumer.take(4) == [1,2,4,8]

A: Consider the following:
enum = Enumerator.new do |x|
  x << "hello"
  x << "world"
end

enum.take(1)
 #=> ["hello"]
enum.take(100)
 #=> ["hello", "world"]

What's going on here?
Well, the yielded variable x is an instance of Enumerator::Yielder. Whenever you call << or yield on the variable, a value will be appended to the final array of results.
enum.take(n) is saying "try to collect up to n values for this enumerable".
So, looking back at your original example, we had:
loop do
  x << a
  a *= 2
end

Because you called take(4) on the enumerable, the Enumerator::Yielder will know to return immediately, if has collected 4 items.
...On the other hand, if you try running e.g. enumer.to_a then the loop will just go on forever - as it wasn't given any condition to exit early!
From what I've found, the ruby documentation on how this works is a little sparse; but there is this helpful description of the behaviour in the source code:
/*
 * call-seq:
 *   Enumerator.new(size = nil) { |yielder| ... }
 *   Enumerator.new(obj, method = :each, *args)
 *
 * Creates a new Enumerator object, which can be used as an
 * Enumerable.
 *
 * In the first form, iteration is defined by the given block, in
 * which a "yielder" object, given as block parameter, can be used to
 * yield a value by calling the +yield+ method (aliased as +<<+):
 *
 *   fib = Enumerator.new do |y|
 *     a = b = 1
 *     loop do
 *       y << a
 *       a, b = b, a + b
 *     end
 *   end
 *
 *   p fib.take(10) # => [1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55]
 *
 * The optional parameter can be used to specify how to calculate the size
 * in a lazy fashion (see Enumerator#size). It can either be a value or
 * a callable object.
 *
 * In the second, deprecated, form, a generated Enumerator iterates over the
 * given object using the given method with the given arguments passed.
 *
 * Use of this form is discouraged.  Use Kernel#enum_for or Kernel#to_enum
 * instead.
 *
 *   e = Enumerator.new(ObjectSpace, :each_object)
 *       #-> ObjectSpace.enum_for(:each_object)
 *
 *   e.select { |obj| obj.is_a?(Class) }  #=> array of all classes
 *
 */


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Plumstead is a haven of tree-lined streets and this is how the story began;
Owned and farmed by Sir Richard Southey, a keen cattleman, he was knighted in 1891 and died at his residence "Southfields" which is today known as St Michael's Orphanage.
During his illustrious lifetime he was often seen walking about his farm dropping pine tree seeds into holes he made with his walking stick – they flourished and are now a feature of the suburb.
Many of the streets still have their original names taken from his home country of Devonshire.
Plumstead is one of the larger southern suburbs just south of Wynberg, and divided in two by Main Road and the railway line, into what some call Plumstead Upper (or Plumstantia) and Plumstead 'proper'.
Regarded as the 'Cinderella' of Wynberg and Diep River, the suburb is filled with homes built during the 1940s and 1950s. Its residents are diverse with home owners buying the older homes and renovating and modernising them. The train station is within walking distance, and bustles in the morning as people commute in and out of the city.
Plumstead has easy access to the M3, the M5 and False Bay's beaches. The suburb is also close to Constantia, Kirstenbosch and Wynberg.
The Main Road is well known for its numerous antique and quality second-hand furniture shops.
Old and young people are often seen walking their dogs and kids on their bicycles all enjoying the tree lined streets and providing proof that Plumstead is a safe friendly suburb.
Other places in Plumstead:
Plumstead Pick `n Pay – Open every night till 8pm the busy shopping centre offers:
Feelgood health herbal shop
Dulce Coffe shop
Blockbusters Video shop
Kids-a-peal – craft-a-peal (Educational toys & arts & crafts.)
Pick `n Pay Bottle store
KFC drive through
Harrington`s Dry cleaner
Plumstead Tennis club – off Victoria road
Plumstead Bowling club – (also available for private functions with a huge hall and kitchen and secure parking behind an automatic gate.
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Throughout the duration of the UEFA Europa League Trophy Tour, fans and players of all ages will be encouraged to donate used and unwanted boots. In partnership with the UEFA Foundation for Children, the boots will be taken to the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan to be given to Syrian refugees of all ages.
Visit Gravells Kia Abergavenny, Bridgend, Swansea, Kidwelly or Narberth to deposit your boots and have the chance of winning tickets to the UEFA Europa League final, amongst other prizes. Boot donations can be made at any stage of the UEFA Europa League Trophy Tour.
The UEFA Europa League Trophy Tour, Driven by Kia, kicked off at the Geneva International Motor Show on Tuesday 5 March and will end on 12 May, ahead of the UEFA Europa League final in Baku, Azerbaijan. The tour will visit Geneva, Seville, Berlin, London, Milan, Moscow, Paris and Baku, where fans will have the opportunity to see the UEFA Europa League trophy up close and meet football legends at a variety of city-centre pop-up locations, local amateur clubs and schools.
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Kia has the honour of conducting this inaugural tour that will make stops in eight major European cities. The stopovers will feature school visits in addition to city-centre activations with the trophy and UEFA ambassador on show.


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Tryouts held for new Lomond Lakers Junior B team
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Tryouts for the Lomond Lakers Junior B team were held Aug. 25-26 and Aug. 29 at the ATB Centre in Lethbridge. Here, Lacombe's Carson Sloan skates with the puck Aug. 25. Jasmine O'Halloran Vulcan Advocate
LETHBRIDGE – About 30 hockey players tried out at the end of August for the Lomond Lakers Junior B team.
The players will know if they have been selected for the squad by Sept. 15, said manager Brad Koch. The team will have 23 players, between the ages of 17 and 21 years old, on its roster.
Koch and coach Mike Glawson are evaluating players' speed, hockey sense and character.
"That's one of the biggest things is for a (player) to have the right character," said Koch. "If they are a good, happy (player) and they don't cause a problem that's a big thing we look at as well."
While most of the players are working or going to school, they want to continue playing hockey, Koch said.
"It takes a lot of commitment from the players," said Koch. He added that "it's a good group of guys. Most of these guys know each other."
The Lomond Lakers Junior B team is playing its inaugural season in the Heritage Junior Hockey League. The Lakers will play their home games at Claresholm's arena due to the roof at Lomond arena's needing repairs.
The Lakers are scheduled to play exhibition games this Friday, Sept. 7, against Strathmore and Friday, Sept. 14 against Medicine Hat.
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Like a favourite jumper, dining in Must's cosy Parisian-inspired bistro always feels right. A haven of calm and relaxation in one of Perth's liveliest precincts, the Must Bistro has developed a long and loyal following of fine food and wine-loving locals.
Expertly executed, the food is now as famous as Must's extensive wine list. The Must Bistro menu is refreshingly simple and marries the very best local produce with homely French provincial flair, while daily changing specials make the most of the kitchen's fresh seasonal fare.
The service is delivered with finesse yet the ambience is casual and chic. Perfect for a celebratory lunch or dinner, the bistro is also a romantic favourite – many a question has been popped over a creamy crème brulee at an intimate table for two.


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Need more colorways of the adidas Yung 96 in your rotation? Look no more as four different offerings of the retro-inspired model are slated to drop tomorrow. Above you will find the adidas Yung 96 in your choice of Collegiate Burgundy, White/Purple, Black/Mint, and Collegiate Navy. All four pairs are constructed out of mesh, nubuck and leather to exude that retro aesthetic look and feel. Below you will find an EVA midsole that adds comfort to the style of the shoe. Which of the four colorways are you feeling most? Priced at $100, I don't blame you if you decided to pick up more than one colorway. Look for these to drop February 1st at select adidas Originals retailers and adidas.com.
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Campsite Le Cézanne is a campsite in Puyloubier, Bouches-du-Rhône, located in a wood.This terraced camp site has pitches with some shade. It is possible to rent mobile homes and rooms. The campsite has a sports ground.
This inspector visits Campsite Le Cézanne every year and inspects the campsite on the basis of more than 200 amenities and other points of interest. The inspector is an ACSI staff member and does not work for the campsite.
I think this site is an absolute gem. George and his Daughter are very hospitable and speak very good English. George also makes the best pizza outside of Naples. The pitch we had was number 9 which is very convenient for the toilets despite the fact we didn't use them but also the reception bar/cafe is just down a flight of steps. Great to stagger home. So far the best and most hospitable stay of our holiday.
Would you like to book Campsite Le Cézanne or request more information? You can do both using the information below.
From Aix-en-Provence take A8 exit 32. Then take D7 for 7km towards Puyloubier D57.
ACSI Eurocampings will send your information request to "Campsite Le Cézanne".
Located at the foot of Sainte-Victoire, in the peaceful countryside. Good base for cycling and walking. Public transport by the campsite. Visit Aix-en-Provence. Within walking distance (1 km) of village. Close to climbing walls on the rocks.


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The Finnish government has announced its decision to unlock more than 9 million euros to support Tech start-ups across Africa.
Following Partech Venture's announcement of the launch of a multi-million fund to invest in high-growth tech start-ups across Africa, it is now the turn of Finland to accelerate on the continent.
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland is releasing the second phase of its Southern Africa Innovation Support (SAIS) Programme, a regional innovation program that was first launched in 2011 and that supported 150 companies across Sub-Saharan Africa.
The funds will be allocated to companies located in Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Botswana or Zambia until June 2021, aiming to support entrepreneurship in the region and the development of social and environmental businesses.
Africa is still facing some challenges due to modest funding being allocated on the continent compared to its potential, while struggling to find skilled talents in emerging technologies.
Such a program will undoubtedly contribute to tackle these challenges to unveil the African continent as a tech champion.


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Q: Stored procedure to find first day of month when an End Date and number of month differences is given in sql server I have a requirement to write a SQL Server stored procedure calculate the first day of month when the user provides the Till date and number of month differences from start month.
The parameters to the stored procedure will be
@TillDate DATE, @NoOfMonthFromStartDate INT

Example:
@TillDate = '2015-10-31', @NoOfMonthFromStartDate = 5

The result should be like:
01-10-2015
01-09-2015
01-08-2015
01-07-2015
01-06-2015

Please provide your valuable help.

A: Use a tally table to generate N number of dates
DECLARE @TillDate DATE = '20151031'
DECLARE @NoOfMonthFromStartDate INT = 5

;WITH Tally(N) AS(
    SELECT TOP(@NoOfMonthFromStartDate)
        ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY(SELECT NULL))
    FROM sys.columns
)
SELECT
    DATEADD(MONTH, -(N-1), DATEADD(MONTH, DATEDIFF(MONTH, 0, @TillDate), 0))
FROM Tally

If @TillDate is always the end of a month:
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        ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY(SELECT NULL))
    FROM sys.columns
)
SELECT
    DATEADD(MONTH, -N, DATEADD(DAY, 1, @TillDate))
FROM Tally


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Humans have always had a complicated relationship with technology.
As the fire environment is changing, FSRI is evolving and expanding its mission of advancing fire safety to include new fire threats and concerns. (FSRI)
Thomas Edison's patent of the incandescent light bulb in 1880 and the related technologies that brought electric power into buildings revolutionized daily life for millions of Americans.
But as we've seen throughout time, with every new technology comes unintended consequences.
By the time the widespread use of electric power was celebrated at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, electricity-related fires were raising concern in the insurance industry. This created an opportunity for an electrical engineer named William Henry Merrill Jr. to found the Underwriters' Electrical Bureau in 1894. This predecessor organization to today's Underwriters Laboratories conducted its first test on non-combustible insulation that year.
"Merrill created the idea of a standard that must be met, in order to give comfort to the insurance industry that they can write a policy and that the people using that technology will ultimately be able to use it safely," said Steve Kerber, vice president of research at Underwriters Laboratories and director of FSRI. "We're still following that same mission that he created in the late 1800s. It's just more dynamic now."
Since its founding, Underwriters Laboratories has continued to foster innovation while safeguarding the future. This means staying on top of emerging technologies and global trends and mitigating against the unknowns.
FSRI is evolving
For over a decade, UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute (FSRI) has advanced fire safety by partnering with the fire service to address the hazards firefighters face. While fire itself has not changed, the fire environment is changing, introducing new challenges to be overcome.
To keep pace with those changes, FSRI has rebranded as UL's Fire Safety Research Institute and broadened its mission to encompass not only firefighter safety, but fire safety as a whole.
"Our job is to pay attention to all the trends that are happening in the world," said Kerber, "and ask what that means for fire safety of the public? What does that mean for our workplaces? What does that mean for firefighter safety?"
Here's a look at just three of many factors that are changing the fire environment and impacting fire safety.
1. New sources of energy
New sources of energy, like lithium-ion batteries that power our mobile devices and electric cars and battery storage technologies that enable us to store and access energy from renewable sources, are becoming increasingly prevalent alternatives to fossil fuels. They are also introducing new hazards that require a different kind of fire response.
"We're now putting new ignition sources in homes. So, you see things like smart phones lighting pillows on fire when the kids sleep with it underneath their pillow, or it gets caught in a sofa cushion," said Kerber. "Or hover boards get dropped and then they go into thermal runaway in the middle of the night and start spewing flaming debris onto a sofa."
Without oxygen, a burning sofa would put itself out. But when a battery is on fire, one of the byproducts is oxygen, so even in an enclosed environment, a battery will keep burning and go into thermal runaway.
Because the lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles are enclosed for vehicle safety, a battery fire in an electric vehicle is impossible to put out in the same way as a normal car fire.
"The problem is you're essentially fighting a trick candle," said Kerber. "You can flow water on what's burning, but when you turn it off and gases come out, they reignite. You can't get water onto the source of the fire, so you've got to wait it out or do something else."
Being unable to isolate an electric vehicle on fire in a parking garage introduces not just a fire hazard to nearby vehicles, but also an explosion hazard since hydrogen is another byproduct created when a battery burns.
"Cars in garages is a big unknown right now," said Kerber. "I am personally concerned that we're having a situation where firefighters are going to open garage doors or occupants are going to open garage doors and we're going to severely injure or kill people because we think it's just a normal fire. And it's not."
In a webinar exploring the explosion of a lithium-ion battery energy storage system that severely injured four firefighters in Surprise, Arizona, Kerber expressed concern that the use of lithium-ion batteries has outpaced understanding of the hazards associated with them.
As part of its efforts to mitigate these unknowns, FSRI is expanding research into explosion hazards related to energy storage systems in houses and garages.
2. Aging populations
Demographics present another challenge. In 2019, there were 54.1 million Americans age 65 and older. This population is projected to reach 80.8 million by 2040 and 94.7 million by 2060, according to the Administration for Community Living.
Data from FEMA shows that the older adult population faces the greatest relative risk of dying in a fire. Factors like limited mobility, the design of residential facilities and types of materials used in building them make older adults especially vulnerable.
"We've got an aging population that is going to escape differently from fires than previously," said Kerber. "We need those folks to have more time, and the environment in which they live is not giving them more time. It's giving them less time."
The elderly and the young could be more at risk when a fire occurs, so good education around fire prevention is critically important, Kerber says, and FSRI is working to better understand how to best address these issues.
"We need to make sure that we're protecting those demographics that are most vulnerable, whether it be fire protection systems, or just general public education as to why they need to pay more attention," he said.
3. Housing growth in the wildland-urban interface
"Recent dramatic and deadly increases in global wildfire activity have increased attention on the causes of wildfires, their consequences, and how risk from wildfire might be mitigated," states a recent Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences on the changing risk and burden of wildfire in the United States. The report estimates that, as of January 2021, there are nearly 50 million homes in the wildland-urban interface in the U.S., an increase of approximately 1 million houses every three years.
This encroachment of human activity into the wildland increases the number of wildfires due to human ignitions. Combined with a natural increase in fuel aridity due to a warming climate, those wildfires – as we've seen – consume more acreage and become harder to fight as letting natural fires burn becomes impossible.
"We're putting houses where houses never were, or maybe were never meant to be," said Kerber. "When you get a community that's built within the trees and there are dry conditions, lightning strikes can start a fire, even independent of human behavior. That's how you start getting situations where there's not enough time to escape or people have not followed the guidance and built defensible places around their homes."
FSRI will be expanding its research and expertise in the urban component of the wildland-urban interface and partnering with wildland experts to do more research and reporting to help better manage these issues.
Watch this video to learn more about the next chapter in FSRI's evolution.
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New York Herald Tribune columnist Walter Lippmann, writing upon Edison's death in 1931, correctly predicted that "the 'wisdom' modern Americans would require to fully comprehend the rapid changes around them would grow far more slowly than the inventions themselves."[1]
That is still true today. As time marches on, innovation will continue. The devices we use, the homes we live in, the cars we drive and our natural environment are changing and will continue to change.
"I think we're going to have more challenges than we're going to have solutions. That's just the nature of how things evolve," said Kerber. "But the vision is really that we get to a point where we understand the current issues in such a way that we can tackle new and emerging issues in real time."
By expanding its mission and conducting practical research into how the fire environment is changing, FSRI will be giving the fire service more insight to deal with changes in the fire environment and find new solutions to existing and emerging challenges before an emergency response is required.
"We have to rise to this challenge and keep pace with this change," said Kerber, "if we're going to fulfill the ultimate goal for everyone to live in a fire-safe world."
Visit FSRI to learn more.
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[1] Baldwin, N. (2001). Edison: Inventing the century. University of Chicago Press. Page 409.
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The Financial Crisis and Consumer Citizenship
Submitted by Arthur Dahl on 30. May 2011 - 15:16
Dahl, Arthur Lyon
Arthur Lyon Dahl
paper presented at the
Sixth International Conference of the Consumer Citizenship Network
Berlin, 23-24 March 2009
The concept of consumer citizenship evolved in a period of economic growth and unsustainable consumption. The financial crisis has changed the context radically, creating a wider range of consumer circumstances.
The globalized economy rests on an unlimited growth paradigm, despite warnings about unsustainability. Maintaining growth has meant living beyond available means, accumulating debt at governmental, corporate and individual consumer levels. The banking system collapsed from loss of confidence in debt repayment, producing recession and undercutting consumption. The system has accumulated excessive financial, social and environmental debt.
Today consumer education must address different classes of consumers:
- those who can still afford the consumer society, ethically challenged by their relative wealth;
- those forced out of the consumer society through dispossession, unemployment and loss of savings;
- the poor whose dream of joining the consumer society is now shattered;
- poor victims of economic and environmental catastrophes, paying the biggest price for problems they did not create.
Responding to these groups requires alternative more ethical visions of society and human purpose, shifting emphasis from "consumer" to "citizenship". This includes detachment from material consumption once basic needs are met, finding true pleasure in voluntary sharing. The economic system should become more altruistic and cooperative, aiming for poverty reduction and employment creation. Consumption should be reoriented towards the more intangible dimensions of civilization: culture, art, science, human consciousness and spirituality. Such consumer citizens will depend less on variations in the material economy, directing their priorities and interests towards a broader vision of human prosperity.
The concept of consumer citizenship evolved in Europe in a period of continuing economic growth leading to excessive consumption that is environmentally unsustainable at the planetary level. The main driving forces for this effort at consumer education were the environmental problems produced by pollution and excessive production of waste, and health problems linked to consumptive lifestyles, together with some concern for the imbalance between industrialized and developing countries. Consumer citizenship education has focused on consuming less and consuming better in societies defined as wealthy in global terms.
With the sudden emergence of a major crisis in the financial system, starting in the United States, the major consumer country and largest economy, but spreading to all parts of the world and extending to the whole economy, the context has changed radically. A deep recession (commentators are still mostly avoiding the term depression) is affecting the whole world and unemployment is rocketing. The British finance minister has described it as the worst recession in 100 years (The Guardian Weekly 13.02.09, p. 12), and governments are taking emergency measures of a scale previously unimaginable. In late February, the head of the European Central Bank said "We live in non-linear times: the classic economic models and theories cannot be applied, and future development cannot be foreseen" (quoted in Seager 2009).
The problem may become much worse. A number of European countries are on the brink of insolvency (Spiegel Online 2009). The crisis began with a loss of confidence in the ability of the banking system to honour its obligations resulting in a collapse of credit. Excessive and "toxic" debt in the banking system has been transferred to governments in an attempt to restart the system. There is now a real risk of a loss of confidence in the ability of governments to repay their debts, which would result in the collapse of the whole global financial framework underpinning trade and commerce, with unimaginable consequences for the functioning of an increasingly integrated global economy. The only hope is a rapid replacement of an economic system that has proven fundamentally flawed by a new global system with effective governance and proper regulation, while addressing the ethical lapses that have been revealed. This new and still evolving situation has profound implications for consumer citizenship. The following reflections are intended to launch the discussion.
CRITIQUE OF THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM
It is important to understand first what went wrong with the economy that caused it to collapsed so readily and unexpectedly. The modern globalized economy has been driven by a growth paradigm that refused to consider any limits, despite decades of warnings about its ultimate unsustainability. The main driver of economic growth has been consumption, and anything that would increase consumption was good for the economy: planned obsolescence, aggressive advertising and marketing, encouraging addiction, carefully orchestrated changes in style, etc. The new information technologies and media have globalized this and made it more effective, so that everywhere people want to live the western consumer lifestyle. Whenever the economy has slowed, there are calls for increased consumption. Citizens in the industrialized countries have come to expect steadily increasing purchasing power, and the prospect of a decline with the recession has triggered strikes and people in the streets.
However, maintaining this growth often required living beyond the available means. Consumer debt has risen steadily, helped by instruments such as credit cards. The average American has 6 credit cards with a median total credit card debt in 2008 of $6,500. The U.S. banking crisis began because of unwarranted mortgage lending for house purchases to people without the means to repay the loans, combined with encouragement to borrow against property for consumer purchases. Growth in consumption turned into a giant pyramid scheme. Debt was accumulated at the governmental, corporate and individual consumer levels. Business cannot function without credit. Investors borrowed to leverage their speculative positions. The American government allowed a steadily growing current accounts deficit as it borrowed 70% of the world's savings to maintain its role as a superpower and the lifestyle to which its population was accustomed, to the greater profit of the business sector.
While there were a few warnings, even from leading economists, that this could not last, life was too good, so no one wanted to believe them. The inevitable collapse of the banking system due to a generalized loss of confidence that these levels of debt could ever be repaid has driven the world into deep recession despite major efforts by governments to inject cash and restore confidence. It is the accompanying collapse in consumption that requires consumer citizenship to rethink its messages.
More worryingly, financial debt is only part of the problem, as there has been a similar world-wide accumulation of social and environmental debt. The increasing warnings of a possible collapse of civilization need to be take seriously (Dahl 2008b).
ADAPTING CONSUMER CITIZENSHIP TO TODAY'S WORLD
Faced with the present and probable future economic challenges, the underlying concepts of consumer education in Europe need to be re-examined to explore how the approach can be broadened and be made more effective for the wider range of consumer circumstances now present in Europe as well as in developing countries. These could be grouped into different classes of consumers for whom the approach to consumer education needs to be very different:
• those who can still afford the consumer society, but who face the ethical dilemmas of being the "haves" surrounded by "have nots";
• those who have been forced to drop out of the consumer society through dispossession, unemployment and loss of savings, and have suffered the trauma of finding previous consumptive pleasures now beyond their reach;
• the poor who have dreamed of joining the consumer society, but now find that dream shattered;
• the most disadvantaged of the poor who are often the first victims, who never contributed to the problems but now must pay the biggest price.
For those who are reasonably well-off or materially comfortable, existing arguments for healthy, more energy-efficient and low carbon lifestyles need to be complemented with a stronger ethical dimension of responsibility for global environmental impacts such as climate change, and solidarity with those paying the price. They need to come to a recognition that sustainability and their own future welfare may require wealth redistribution and thus reductions in their own purchasing power and consumer choice. They should come to see the advantages of voluntary simplicity and more emphasis on social relationships and community, so that they realize that they gain more than they give up in this transition.
The newly unemployed and those who have lost homes, savings and pensions need to learn how to get by and meet basic needs on minimal revenue, which means efficient consumption focused on basics. Too many people fall back on fast and unhealthy food, become increasingly sedentary, and make poor consumer choices because they do not have the right knowledge and skills. Obesity is more prevalent among the poor in industrialized countries. Consumer education needs to teach how to live well even when poor.
Those who have always been poor usually know how to get by, although consumer education can probably bring improvements. What is more important is to counteract if not to replace the sales pitch for the Western consumer lifestyle portrayed in the media and advertising with alternative visions of society that are more appropriate and sustainable. Consumer education could become a kind of social and cultural vaccination against the siren call of advertising, building awareness of how one is manipulated into buying unnecessary or even damaging things. This of course will be deeply subversive to the present economic orthodoxy, but that orthodoxy has now discredited itself, and more discerning consumers will help the transition.
In this context, the new response of consumer citizenship to these different groups needs to propose alternative more ethical visions of society and human purpose, with a shift of emphasis from "consumer" to "citizenship". This requires a spirit of detachment from material consumption once basic needs are met, finding true pleasure in voluntary sharing, social relationships, and intangibles like culture and spirituality. It is at this basic ethical level that the approach to the different consumer groups finds its basic unity. Justice and equity are equally relevant to the rich and the poor, even if their expression in action will be different in each case.
A first step can be to reveal the hollowness of the present consumer society in ethics, values and meaning, so that those within it do not regret the sacrifices they are called on to make, and those who have dropped out of it into poverty or who never could do more than admire it from a distance give up their attachment to materialistic desires and turn their attention towards alternative visions of the society of the future, and actions that are accessible to everyone.
For example, a recent Bahá'í text contains the following critique:
"Consumer culture, today's inheritor by default of materialism's gospel of human betterment, is unembarrassed by the ephemeral nature of the goals that inspire it. For the small minority of people who can afford them, the benefits it offers are immediate, and the rationale unapologetic. Emboldened by the breakdown of traditional morality, the advance of the new creed is essentially no more than the triumph of animal impulse, as instinctive and blind as appetite, released at long last from the restraints of supernatural sanctions. Its most obvious casualty has been language. Tendencies once universally castigated as moral failings mutate into necessities of social progress. Selfishness becomes a prized commercial resource; falsehood reinvents itself as public information.... Under appropriate euphemisms, greed, lust, indolence, pride - even violence - acquire not merely broad acceptance but social and economic value. Ironically, as words have been drained of meaning, so have the very material comforts and acquisitions for which truth has been casually sacrificed." (Bahá'í World Centre, 2005, p. 10)
One new challenge for consumer education is the fact that the years ahead will likely see either an unprecedented economic disaster or a rapid evolution towards an alternative economic system in which the concept of consumption will be very different from that of today. The growth paradigm on which the present economy has been based was founded on four fundamental drivers: population growth, the energy subsidy from cheap fossil fuels, discovery and exploitation of new natural resources, and technological innovation. However the world population should plateau around 2050; oil production is expected to peak shortly and climate change requires a rapid transition to renewable energy; the planet has now been quite thoroughly explored and its resources overexploited. This leaves only innovation as an economic driver, and this will produce a different kind of system. It is not yet possible to imagine what that might be like. However, at an ethical level, it is possible to suggest some of the design principles that will have to underly this new economic system to make it socially and environmentally sustainable.
In a sustainable society, the goal of wealth creation should be to make everyone wealthy, which would give everyone access to reasonable levels of consumption to meet basic needs. The economic system therefore needs to be reoriented to become more altruistic and cooperative, aiming for poverty reduction, employment creation, and providing the means to advance the more intangible dimensions of civilization: culture, art, science, human consciousness and spirituality. Consumption of these intangibles does not have to be limited and escapes from the economic concept of scarcity; the more knowledge is shared, the more valuable it becomes, not for a specific owner, but for the whole of society. If each individual sees his/her reward in service to others rather than self-acquisition, then consumption becomes merely acquiring the capacities and tools necessary to be of service, rather than an end in itself. The economy will be driven not by maximizing consumption but by the fulfilment of all the human potential for wealth creation, including in that concept much more than material wealth.
TURNING A VISION INTO ACTION
It is important that consumer education not be founded primarily on a negative critique of the consumer society, but that it propose positive alternatives such as those outlined above. Where such concepts would have been rejected as idealistic if not utopian only a year ago, the economic world has now been stripped of its certainties and shaken to its roots, and does not know where to go next. This is the perfect opportunity for a wide public debate on the alternatives, and consumer citizenship provides an excellent framework for such a debate in an educational context.
It is also important to go from general principles and values to specific actions. This is a constant demand in discussions of environmental sustainability or responding to climate change (Dahl 2008a). Just as the economy is driven by many individual acts of consumption, so many small acts of individual responsibility can sum up to a significant positive change at the global level. Class discussions can focus on choices that are immediately relevant. For example, material signs of identity or belonging to a group are an important characteristic of youth culture, but they do not have to be particular clothing styles or brand names cultivated by the manufacturers for commercial ends.
Another advantage of values-based consumer citizenship education is that it is more adaptive and flexible in times of rapid and perhaps turbulent change. Education about particular consumer choices becomes less relevant if those choices are no longer available, whereas values are equally relevant in new contexts.
With the major challenges we now face, new partners are joining in the effort to change lifestyles at a large scale. The Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) and UNDP are working with all the major religions to prepare action plans on climate change and the natural environment for presentation before the Copenhagen climate change conference in December 2009 (ARC 2008). These are intended to be seven-year plans for generational change, and will give a major push to values-based responses to our present unsustainability.
One challenge is to measure the effectiveness of education aiming to form or implement values, as is often the case in consumer citizenship. A project has just begun with European Commission funding for a partnership of academic institutions and a variety of civil society organizations to develop values-based indicators of education for sustainable development. Five organizations are involved initially, but a larger number will be invited to join as the project develops over the next two years (ESDinds 2009). The results will certainly be of interest to the partners in CCN.
These are only small actions relative to the scale of the problems facing the world, but they have the potential to leverage much larger effects because of the power of action at the level of values. Using such approaches, the new consumer citizen will be better protected from the ups and downs of the material economy because his/her real priorities and interests will be directed towards a much broader definition of human prosperity.
REFERENCES CITED
ARC. 2008. UN/ARC: The Seven Year Plan. Alliance of Religions and Conservation. http://www.arcworld.org/projects.asp?projectId=358 (consulted 1 March 2009)
Bahá'í World Centre. 2005. One Common Faith. Báhá'í World Centre, Haifa. http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/bic/OCF/
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Dahl, Arthur Lyon. 2008b. Preventing Overshoot and Collapse: Managing the Earth's Resources. Paper on the introductory theme of the 2008 UNEP/University of Geneva/Graduate Institute Environmental Diplomacy Course, August 2008. https://iefworld.org/ddahl08d.htm
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Seager, Ashley. 2009. Torrent of bad news ends hope of 'quick' recession. The Guardian Weekly, 27 February-5 March 2009, p. 1-2.
Speigel Online. 2009. Can countries Really Go Bankrupt? Speigel Online 30 January 2009. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,604523,00.html (viewed 2 February 2009)
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Atropine is a tropane alkaloid extracted from the deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) and other plants of the family Solanaceae. It is a secondary metabolite of these plants and serves as a drug with a wide variety of effects. Being potentially deadly, it derives its name from Atropos, one of the three Fates who, according to Greek mythology, chose how a person was to die. more...
Physiological effects and uses
Generally, atropine lowers the "rest and digest" activity of all muscles and glands regulated by the parasympathetic nervous system. This occurs because atropine is a competitive inhibitor of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptors. (Acetylcholine is the neurotransmitter used by the parasympathetic nervous system.) Therefore, it may cause swallowing difficulties and reduced secretions.
Ophthalmic use
Topical atropine is used as a cycloplegic, to temporarily paralyze accommodation, and as a mydriatic, to dilate the pupils. Atropine degrades slowly, typically wearing off in 2 to 3 days, so tropicamide is generally preferred as a mydriatic. In atropine-induced mydriasis, the mechanism of action involves blocking the contraction of the circular pupillary sphincter muscle (which is normally stimulated by acetylcholine release), thereby allowing the radial pupillary dilator muscle to contract and dilate the pupil. Atropine is contraindicated in patients predisposed to narrow angle glaucoma.
Injections of atropine are used in the treatment of bradycardia (an extremely low heart rate) and asystole, which is a condition of pulseless electrical activity (PEA) in cardiac arrest. This works because the main action of the vagus nerve of the parasympathetic system on the heart is to slow it down. Atropine blocks that action and therefore may speed up the heart rate.
The main action of the parasympathetic nervous system is to stimulate the M2 muscarinic receptor in the heart, but atropine inhibits this action.
Secretions and brochoconstriction
Atropine's actions on the parasympathetic nervous system inhibits salivary, sweat, and mucus glands. This can be useful in treating Hyperhidrosis and can prevent the death rattle of dying patients, even though it has not been officially indicated for either of these purposes.
Antidote for organophosphate poisoning
By blocking the action of acetylcholine at muscarinic receptors, atropine also serves as an antidote for poisoning by organophosphate insecticides and nerve gases. Troops who are likely to be attacked with chemical weapons often carry autoinjectors with atropine and obidoxime which can be quickly injected into the thigh. It is often used in conjuntion with Pralidoxime chloride.
Some of the nerve gases attack and destroy acetylcholinesterase, so the action of acetylcholine becomes prolonged. Therefore, atropine can be used to reduce the effect of ACh.
Side effects and overdoses
Adverse reactions to atropine include ventricular fibrillation, supraventricular or ventricular tachycardia, giddiness, nausea, blurred vision, loss of balance, dilated pupils, photophobia, and possibly, notably in the elderly, confusion, hallucinations and excitation. These latter effects are due to the fact that atropine is able to cross the blood-brain barrier. Because of the hallucinogenic properties, some have used the drug recreationally, though this is very dangerous.
Meperidine Hydrochloride 50-mg and Atropine Sulfate 0.4-mg/mL Injection
From International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding, 9/1/05
METHOD OF PREPARATION
Note: This formulation should be prepared in a laminar airflow hood in a cleanroom or via isolation barrier technology by a validated aseptic compounding pharmacist using strict aseptic technique. This is a high-risk preparation.1
1. Calculate the required quantity of each ingredient for the total amount to be prepared.
2. Accurately weigh and/or measure each ingredient.
3. Dissolve the meperidine hydrochloride and atropine sulfate in about 95 mL of sterile water for injection.
4. Add sufficient sterile water for injection to volume and mix well.
5. Filter through an appropriate sterile 0.22-pm filter into a suitable sterile, single-use container (vial, syringe).
6. Package and label.
Package in sterile containers.1
Keep out of reach of children. Use only as directed. For professional use only.
If not sterility tested: A beyond-use date of up to 24 hours at room temperature, up to 3 days at refrigerated temperature (2° to 8°C), or up to 45 days if frozen can be used for this preparation.
If sterility tested: A beyond-use date of up to 14 days stored in a refrigerator can be used for this preparation.1
Meperidine hydrochloride/atropine sulfate injection is used in the treatment of severe pain.
Quality-control assessment can include weight/volume, physical observation, pH, specific gravity, osmolality, assay, color, clarity, paniculate matter, sterility, and pyrogenicity.2,3
The endotoxin unit (EU) maximum would be 12,000 for 5,000 mg of meperidine hydrochloride. The EU maximum would be 2,224 for 40 mg of atropine sulfate. The total maximum endotoxin level would be 12,000 + 2,224 = 14,224 EU for the 100 mL, or 142.24 EU per milliliter.
Meperidine hydrochloride (C^sub 15^H^sub 21^NO^sub 2^.HCl, MW 283.79, isonipecaine hydrochloride, pethidine hydrochloride) occurs as a fine, white crystalline, odorless powder. Meperidine hydrochloride is very soluble in water and soluble in alcohol. It melts between 186° and 189°C and should be preserved in well-closed, lightresistant containers. A solution of 5 g in 100 mL of water has a pH of about 5. Meperidine hydrochloride injection has a pH of 3.5 to 6.0 and a maximum endotoxin limit of not more than 2.4 EU per milligram of meperidine hydrochloride. Meperidine hydrochloride is used in the management of moderate to severe pain and as an adjunct to anesthesia and preoperative sedation.4
Atropine sulfate [(C^sub 17^H^sub 23^NO^sub 3^)^sub 2^.H^sub 2^SO^sub 4^.H^sub 2^O, MW 694.33] occurs as colorless crystals, or as a white, crystalline powder. It is odorless and effloresces in dry air. It is slowly affected by light. It is very soluble in water and freely soluble in alcohol and glycerin. It should be preserved in tight containers. Atropine sulfate injection contains not more than 55.6 EU per milligram of atropine sulfate.1
Sterile water for injection is water for injection that has been sterilized and suitably packaged; it contains no added substance. Water for injection is water purified by distillation or a purification process that is equivalent or superior to distillation in the removal of chemicals and microorganisms. It is prepared from water that complies with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Primary Drinking Water Regulations or comparable regulations of the European Union or Japan. It contains no added substance.4
1. United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc. United States Pharmacopeia 28-National Formulary 23. Rockville, MD: US Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc.; 2004: 200-201, 1208, 2345-2349, 2457-2477, 2878, 2901.
2. Allen LV Jr. Standard operating procedure for participate testing for sterile products. IJPC 1998; 2(1): 78.
3. Allen LV Jr. Standard operating procedure: Quality assessment for injectable solutions. IJPC 1998; 3(5): 406-407.
4. Ellison A, Nash RA, Wilkin MJ. Water. In: Rowe RC, Sheskey PJ, Weller PJ, eds. Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients. 4th ed. Washington, DC: American Pharmaceutical Association; 2003: 672-676.
Copyright International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding Sep/Oct 2005
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Kanye and Kim's True Romance
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by Alex Pappademas
Bigger-than-usual doings this week on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, a terrible show that is also the flame I hold my hand over, G. Gordon Liddy–style, to demonstrate my loyalty to television.
Increasingly torn between House Kardashian and House Odom, Khloe (ever more clearly The Smart One, by virtue of being The One Who Doesn't Even Try To Conceal How Profoundly Over This Bullshit She Is Anymore) continued her doomed, Michael Bluth–like quest to extricate herself from her family's squabbling orbit; Kim attempted to lure Khloe back into the fold by blasting old family photos out to her 15 million-plus Twitter followers, which is totally the kind of thing a normal person does when trying to heal a family rift. Everyone except Bruce flew to New York for the opening of Scott Disick's new Meatpacking District restaurant, Ryu, for which "notoriously hard-to-please Yelpers" have apparently had "less-than-kind words." Rob Kardashian, who is always sad about something, was sad about the delaying of his own passion project, a line of dress socks. (Later, Kim consoled him by saying, "My Tyler Perry movie, a huge production, got delayed — to make it better.") People continued to feed Mason candy, the cornerstone of any healthy toddler's diet.
Oh, and Kim introduced her family to her new boyfriend, a well-dressed, soft-spoken young man named Kanye.
Kourtney Kardashian pronounces Kanye's name with the emphasis on the "ye," as in "soigné." It's weird. "Kanye West is a rapper," a talking-head Kim explains, helpfully. They have been friends for a while, and romantically interested in one another at different inopportune times, but now they're dating; this episode introduces that plotline via a (completely spontaneous) voice mail message from Rob to Kim regarding Kanye's song "Way Too Cold," in which Kanye confirmed the relationship by saying, "I'll admit, I fell in love with Kim."
Funkmaster Flex first dropped "Way Too Cold" (briefly known as "Theraflu," until Novartis declined the plug) on April 5; Ryu opened on April 23. As always, Kardashian Standard Time lags behind tabloid reality by a month or two. By the time this episode aired, everyone watching it had presumably already seen Beyoncé and Kim "dancing all night" (per an Us Weekly source) at a Watch the Throne gig in England, or Kim doing the paparazzi perp-walk in Nike Air Yeezy 2 space boots, or possibly the E! promos for this very show in which Kanye appears. But for much of this episode, Kim plays the coy mistress anyway. "What's the big deal?" she says when questioned about why she's driving Kanye's silver, gull-winged Mercedes. "I'm just borrowing my friend's car."
Finally, over salad, she's asked point-blank if Yeezy is, like, her boyfriend, and answers, "I don't know if I do titles." Exciting synth-swoosh!
Then, in New York, Kanye shows up. He's less all-caps and more aw-shucks than we're used to — smiling, mumblingly un-mic'd, answering fashion queries from Kim while staring at her feet. (She asks, "Don't you think this clutch is too busy?" He does not.) It's all very Warren Beatty in Truth or Dare: a superstar defined by his self-consciousness adjusting to a role in another superstar's narrative. They go to Scott's restaurant party; Kanye finds out that Kim's never been to Japan, and says he'll take her there. The next day, Kim and momager Kris Jenner meet on the roof of the Gansevoort Hotel for a (completely spontaneous) expository catchup conversation, and Kim suggests that Kanye may have found the attention "a little overwhelming." The scenes from next week's episode tease additional Kanye, and also Scott (completely spontaneously) dresses up like the guy from Men Without Hats during a family trip to England, because dignity.
As a doggedly cynical hate-watcher of this show, I long to agree with the people who think the whole Kanye-Kim thing is a baldly bogus PR/ratings stunt, conceptualized in a top-secret dry-erase-board summit meeting by high-ranking executives from Ryan Seacrest Productions, E!, G.O.O.D. Music, and the Illuminati, just like Kim's marriage to Kris Humphries, the "leak" of her sex tape, and 9/11. At this point, there are probably people who believe in Santa Claus who understand that reality TV is just Blair Witch kabuki, and I want to be there with them, united in skepticism.
But I can't. There's just too much on my heart right now, man.
This is the video for Kanye West's first hit single as a rapper, 2003's "Through the Wire." If you haven't watched it in a while, you should. It's great. And given the kind of public figure Kanye became once it launched his solo career, it's illustrative. Over a Chipmunked Chaka Khan sample, West — so fresh off a brush with car-wreck death that his jaw is still wired shut — raps through clenched teeth about gratitude, reconstructive surgery, and sipping Ensure, documenting and dramatizing a moment while still more-or-less inside that moment. Many rappers are real; from "Through the Wire" on, Kanye's been a reality show, obsessively narrating his own rise and how it makes him feel, perpetually transforming the catastrophe of his personality (as Frank O'Hara once wrote of Don Draper) into something beautiful and interesting and modern.
It makes sense that an artist whose great subject is the spotlight itself would be drawn to someone who's turned being famous into an art form, but ultimately I think that's as simplistic an explanation as the theory that Kanye wants to be on TV more. Kanye doesn't need a supporting role on a tacky E! show, because he's already Kanye. And there are already rumors — probably made up, but nonetheless totally believable — about Kim, a compensated endorser of Sears intimates and Midori and possibly-anus-injuring hair-removal lasers, not exactly fitting into the high-flown film-and-fashion circles Kanye likes to move in.
He has nothing to gain from this, in other words, and everything to lose. Keeping Up With the Kardashians is a show about money, and all-American striving, and rich people's hilarious use of the word "work" to describe the dumb things they do to amuse themselves, and the interpersonal dynamics of a family where everyone's on the same emotional-maturity level regardless of age, cherishing every tiny slight as an opportunity for a tantrum or a kamera-ready konfrontation. But at its core it's a show about powerful women and the men they keep as pets. It's about men who've accepted emasculation as the price of comfort, and the pathetic attempts at rebellion by which they attempt to reassert themselves. Scott buys an expensive cane! Bruce borrows money from Khloe after Kris confiscates his ATM card to keep him from spending $500 on a remote-controlled helicopter! Rob sneaks Vienna Fingers and Shark Bites in the middle of the night, until Khloe puts an alarm on the pantry!
Kanye is friends with Jay-Z, Jeremy Scott, and Pusha T, for God's sake; there's no way he actually wants to sneak off for a bottle-service boy's night at 1Oak with Rob and Scott, play pull-my-finger with Lamar Odom, or go diamond-earring shopping with Bruce Jenner, television's most reupholstered pussy. No — I choose to believe that Kanye loves Kim because I find it hard to imagine anyone not on love lockdown wanting to go anywhere near these people.
Filed Under: Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, The K! Network
Alex Pappademas is a staff writer for Grantland.
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A: The easiest way to do this can be having another model which is the same and has exploding out animation and exploding inward animation, and you can render this model with the outward explosion onClick.
onClick normal view plays inward animation and after render the first model without animation.
Or you can do all these with one model and two animations in it.


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We've been quiet because we've been busy. After giving up all hope of ever being able to find a suitable and affordable space for our very own bookstore, a space went on the market in July. This month we purchased the property and now hold the keys.
For years, we've told people about the plethora of items that need to be addressed during the start-up phase and how this all takes time. Countless times I've said, "Make sure you take your vitamins and wear your roller skates!" Now, we're heeding this advice.
Construction drawings for the renovations went to City Hall for review this week. When will we be open? That's a good question.
We begin our blog entries to document our process so others can have a sense of how even a small-scale bookstore start-up requires so many decisions and requires a whole team of advisers to avoid the pitfalls. Each decision usually relates to two factors: time and money.
Our Story & Song Bookstore Bistro is a hybrid concept that includes retail and food and beverage service and The Second Story for Art & Creativity, a second level with books, art on consignment, hands-on creative areas, and a gathering space for lectures, concerts and jam sessions, discussions, a reader's theatre, and story time. It's a reflection of the interests of our community and ours too.
You'd think the start-up phase would be fairly straight-forward: Buy a building, build it out for your needs. Sounds simple. It isn't. Although we met with our City officials in a pre-construction session, the questions only multiplied. Did the space need a sprinkler system added? How did the "change in use" translate into new building requirements? When was the building constructed and what code changes have happened in the meantime? Is the space "grandfathered" in or will you need to comply with all of the updated requirements?
Keep in mind before you lease or purchase a building, what happened in the building before matters. So does any updates to the code and all of the changes you'll need to make to accommodate your business. It's important not to make assumptions, but to check in with your city or municipality to have the space assessed.
We know first-hand some factors that can make the space a "no-go". We once investigated a space in our Historic District that had been occupied by the same tenant for the last thirtysomething years. It turns out the space would require over $100,000 in improvements to meet current codes. Our bookstore build-out would be in addition to these upgrades. The landlord was unwilling to make the necessary investment in her own building.
Today our construction drawings we submitted to the City for review. We're told the review and feedback (hopefully approval) can take two to six weeks. Our contractors are in place, the signs are up in the window, and the community is excited.
When will we be open? All we can tell our eager friends and neighbors is the truth … so much right now is outside our control. We''ll open a pop-up shop during the holidays if we don't have our certificate of occupancy.
In the meantime, there's much to do to acquire the restaurant and liquor licenses, and develop the opening inventories which will require weeks of concentrated effort.
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The daughter of a man hanged in what is claimed to have been Huddersfield's greatest miscarriage of justice has spoken of the devastation her family suffered in the wake of her father's execution.
But in her first media interview Bronwyne Ashby, daughter of Alfred Moore, says there may be a breakthrough in her campaign to have her father posthumously pardoned.
After sending a Freedom of Information request to West Yorkshire Police, Ms Ashby has been told that the force still holds several exhibits which may have helped send her father to the gallows.
Mr Moore was hanged for the murders of Det Insp Duncan Fraser and PC Gordon Jagger outside his farm on Cockley Hill Lane, Kirkheaton, in 1951.
It is thought that Mr Moore did not pull the trigger and the trial, which secured his execution in 1952, was riddled with errors and dubious evidence.
Ms Ashby, 65, of Middlesex, hopes the exhibits can be re-examined to help convince the Criminal Cases Review Commission to reopen her father's case.
The grandmother, who was two when her dad was hanged at Armley Prison, said: "We never talked about it.
"My mum had a breakdown. You just don't think that can happen to someone who was innocent.
"I was protected. My sisters never said anything to me but I knew something tragic had happened. There was a tension.
"I found out when I was 16. I just couldn't believe it and at the time I thought he had done it.
"Most of our family moved to Australia and New Zealand because of the stigma.
Mr Moore, who burgled several properties to supplement his income as a chicken farmer, had become an embarrassment to Huddersfield Borough Police.
Ms Ashby, who works as a bookkeeper, believes he was framed as the police had been unable to pin the burglaries on him.
Ms Ashby added: "Apparently he had a temper but he spent a lot of time with the girls and they remember having fun with him.
Following a nine-year campaign by retired detective Steve Lawson and Ms Ashby, both claim police have now found the exhibits.
But the forces' legal team is deciding what to do with them, Mr Lawson and Ms Ashby say.
The pair have accused the force of dragging their heels.
A police spokesman said: "This information request is still under consideration and we will be responding to the requestor in due course. A written apology has been sent to the requestor apologising for a delay in responding to their request.
Mr Lawson, now a pub landlord, alleges he had previously been told by police that they did not have any of the exhibits used in Mr Moore's trial.