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Synthesis of CH3K in the gas phase: Structural and mechanistic trends for monomeric, unsolvated CH3M and HCCM (M = Li, Na, K)
Douglas B. Grotjahn, T. C. Pesch, M. A. Brewster, Lucy M Ziurys
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Monomeric, solvent-free CH3K has been made in the gas phase and its precise structure determined by millimeter/submillimeter spectroscopy, from which the following parameters were deduced: C-K and C-H bond lengths are 2.633 and 1 135 Å, respectively, and the H-C-H angle is 107.0°. The structure completes a series with those reported for CH3Na and CH3Li, showing the expected decrease in metal-carbon bond length (2.633 to 2.299 to 1.961 Å) ascending the periodic table, but little change in the H-C-H bond angles, which are all near 107°. The latter observation on these simple monomeric species clearly differs from the range of 104.8-108.2°reported for oligomeric CH3M samples in the solid phase, which feature several metal- carbon contacts, showing the importance of measurements on monomeric species. Synthetic details for the methyl compounds and HCCM (M = Li, Na, K) are also discussed. Preparation of HCCLi from HCCBr and Li vapor produced LiBr but possible intermediate radical HCC· was not detected, suggesting synchronous reduction of the C-Br bond. The linear structure of HCCM is contrasted with nonlinear structures of LiCCLi (predicted theoretically), NaCN, and KCN, using Coulombic arguments to explain the different molecular geometries.
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Grotjahn, D. B., Pesch, T. C., Brewster, M. A., & Ziurys, L. M. (2000). Synthesis of CH3K in the gas phase: Structural and mechanistic trends for monomeric, unsolvated CH3M and HCCM (M = Li, Na, K). Journal of the American Chemical Society, 122(19), 4735-4741. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja993136+
Synthesis of CH3K in the gas phase : Structural and mechanistic trends for monomeric, unsolvated CH3M and HCCM (M = Li, Na, K). / Grotjahn, Douglas B.; Pesch, T. C.; Brewster, M. A.; Ziurys, Lucy M.
Grotjahn, DB, Pesch, TC, Brewster, MA & Ziurys, LM 2000, 'Synthesis of CH3K in the gas phase: Structural and mechanistic trends for monomeric, unsolvated CH3M and HCCM (M = Li, Na, K)', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 122, no. 19, pp. 4735-4741. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja993136+
Grotjahn DB, Pesch TC, Brewster MA, Ziurys LM. Synthesis of CH3K in the gas phase: Structural and mechanistic trends for monomeric, unsolvated CH3M and HCCM (M = Li, Na, K). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2000 May 17;122(19):4735-4741. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja993136+
Grotjahn, Douglas B. ; Pesch, T. C. ; Brewster, M. A. ; Ziurys, Lucy M. / Synthesis of CH3K in the gas phase : Structural and mechanistic trends for monomeric, unsolvated CH3M and HCCM (M = Li, Na, K). In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2000 ; Vol. 122, No. 19. pp. 4735-4741.
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February 26th, 2019 - BabylonBee.com
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Calling the maneuver a "cheap political stunt," Democratic senators who were forced to vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act accused their Republican colleagues of trying to pin them down on the complex issue of whether or not it's OK to let newborn babies who survived a murder attempt die on the table.
"This is a nuanced discussion," said Senator Kamala Harris, who voted against the act. "I mean, should we or shouldn't we murder babies? It's not really cut and dry for many Americans. What if the baby is inconvenient? What if the mother has already decided it's a nuisance and might interfere with her school or work? What then?"
Wildly gazing into television cameras as though in a staring contest with the American public, Senator Cory Booker said, "My associate Kamala is right. A mother doesn't want a baby and tries to kill it. Then it comes out anyway and is just sitting there crying. Nobody likes crying, right? I mean, this is obviously a decision for a mother and her medical provider. It's a toughie."
The Democrats who voted against the measure, many of whom are running for president, pointed out that they would need to take a high school philosophy class before they could even begin to explore all the facets of the difficult question of whether or not we can kill living babies just out of the womb, or at least watch an episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood to develop that kind of moral reasoning.
At publishing time, these same senators announced their plan to lecture the nation on "black and white" issues of morality like gun control, paying for other people's college debt, and taking more of your money by force.
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Reviewer Stats: 6'1" (186cm) and 180lbs (81kgs)
"I ordered the 22.5" Carbon (not Hollow) thinking it would be a bit more challenging than my 23.5" Edge 2.0, but would offer more flat water speed over longer distances. In other words I thought it would be a flat water only board. As it turns out, I've found this board to be substantially more capable in rough water than I was ever expecting. I take it out in rough water regularly now. I am 1000% pleased with my width choice."
"The soft rails make for a slightly more initial "rolly" feel, which just takes a little getting used to. But the secondary stability is very high. I think this is due to two things, first the very low standing area and high sides. Secondly, the rear "shoulders" or "wings", which are normally out of the water when paddling. But as you lean far enough over, they eventually make contact with the water and seem to catch you. I think a lot of people mistakenly make decisions on boards because of perceived initial stability, but there's so much more to it than that. Even at my size, my 22.5" is perfectly at home in choppy semi-open waters of the Puget Sound. I've even done a few small downwinds on it, including my 16-mile virtual M2O recently."
"I've found the EDGE PRO 2.0 to be significantly faster in any condition to any board I've been on previously. ESPECIALLY upwind. It absolutely flies upwind. And does really nicely in small downwinds too. The narrow, lower volume tail makes it very easy to trim the board for different conditions. As opposed to boards with big chunky square tails, the EDGE PRO 2.0 only requires a small foot placement adjustment to keep the nose just above the water when in following seas. I've watched other boards around me hobby-horsing in upwind grinds, but on the EDGE PRO 2.0 with moderate effort I just motor past them. I also think the softer rounded rails allow for improved performance in rough water because there's nothing for chop to "grab" onto. And it goes without saying that it is fast in the flats! All one has to do is look at the lack of wake behind it."
"I was able to do a back to back comparison with my friend's 2019 14x21.5" Starboard Sprint a few days ago. In flat water the achievable speeds seemed pretty close. Which is saying a lot since my EDGE PRO 2.0 is an inch wider and the Sprint is supposed to be the industry leader for speed. But interestingly the owner of the sprint acknowledged that the EDGE PRO 2.0 seems to have better glide. But the upwind grind was faster on the EDGE PRO 2.0, no contest. And I think the downwind was faster too. It just "settled" into bumps so much more easily than the Sprint. The standing area is lower on the EDGE PRO 2.0, which is to say there is more board thickness below your feet on the Sprint. This could be the reason the Sprint is listed as having more volume. I prefer the lower center of gravity that I have on the EDGE PRO 2.0. The Edge Pro 2.0 also feels more stable to me. The Sprint has a decent amount of initial stability considering its width (due to the squarer rails and wide tail). And it resists rolling the first few degrees, but once it passes that point it was more snappy and I found it to be a bit more of a nervous feeling. Whereas the EDGE PRO 2.0 has a more noticeable initial roll, and the secondary stability is extremely high, creating a more consistent roll sensation."
"I certainly wouldn't insist that someone should go overly narrow with an EDGE PRO 2.0, because ONE has created an outrageously sleek outline that doesn't require going silly narrow. A 23.5" in hollow is probably the workhorse of the stock size offerings. But after owning a 22.5" I wouldn't hesitate considering the 21.5" if you're on the lighter side, or if you're a more advanced paddler who mostly paddles inland or sheltered waterways. With all that said, this board is so sleek through the water that I'll bet the 25.5" still blows the socks off most 23" boards."
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Motorcyclist killed in accident on Ranch Road 12
Posted By The Mercury Staff On 10/18/2016 @ 9:11 pm In Cops & Courts,Driftwood,Dripping Springs,Featured,Hays County,In the News,News,Wimberley | No Comments
by MOSES LEOS III
One man was killed in a single vehicle accident Tuesday after his motorcycle traveled off of Ranch Road 12 south of Dripping Springs.
Authorities have identified James C. Caudle, 55, as the victim in the accident, Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Robbie Barrera said. Caudle's next of kin has been notified, Barrera said.
The accident occurred at 1:05 p.m. Tuesday on Ranch Road 12 roughly 1.5 miles south of Dripping Springs.
According to a DPS accident report, a 2004 Honda motorcycle, operated by Caudle, was traveling southbound on Ranch Road 12 when the driver "failed to negotiate a curve and traveled off of the roadway."
Barrera said Caudle was wearing a helmet, but due to the crash, didn't survive his injuries.
This story is developing. We will provide updates as more information becomes available.
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In the lifetime of Umar, Gog and Magog were powerless to cause corruption, this was due to the firm faith Umar possessed and the fact that he had good followers. Because of all this he was like a closed door standing between Gog and Magog and their spreading of corruption on earth. This goes to show no matter how much Gog and Magog may transgress and assume that they are greater than Allah. This is a mistake which they are in because Allah is still in full control over the occurrences of the world.
The Hadith states 'Umar asked, "Will the door be opened or broken?" Hudhaifa replied, "No, it will be broken." 'Umar said, "Then it is very likely that the door will not be closed again." The Hadith indicates that the door which stands in front of afflictions will be broken and as the Hadith indicates this door represents Umar. What does this mean? To open a door is a sign of welcome but if a door was to be broken it means force was applied (to take down). So the door to affliction is not welcomed but forced. This means that afflictions in the time of Umar will not be welcomed (unable to pass through Umar's leadership) since he does not allow the door to be open, so instead the door was forced open. How? The door being broken represented the death of Umar, it represented the way in which Umar passed away which occurred in the form of an assassination, murdering a person is to forcefully take their life.
And after the death of Umar, the afflictions in the world have been steadily increasing to the present age. Umar possessed the quality of a strong faith and good followers; in the present age faith is being erased by the western culture, our defense mechanism is being forced down; allowing a person to be open to afflictions. Furthermore we would not like to call out any name of sects but the image of Umar is appeared to be viewed as a negative concept. A figure of a villain is applied to Umar in a certain sect formed not to long after the death of Umar Ibn Al-Khattab (RA). Ask yourself, why is this? Because it is believed Umar was assassinated in a plot constructed by the disbelievers, unsurprisingly Khazar tribe (Gog and Magog) came to be known in history 6 years later after the death of Umar when they defeated a Muslim army of Arabia. In the lifetime of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) he foretold the hole in the barrier of Gog and Magog before he passed away on 632 A.D. The Khazar tribe (Gog and Magog) was released in the time of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) who passed away in 632 and Umar's death occurred in 644, this calculates to 12 years for the Khazar tribe to plot against Umar.
Point being the Khazar tribe (Gog and Magog) was capable of carrying out tactical activities and deploying deception therefore they possessed the ability to infiltrate religion and been able to create a sect after Umar's death to downgrade his character. Gog and Magog may appear unstoppable because believers of today have lost the value of faith; faith is and was always being targeted all along by the enemies of Islam. Muslims of today have been targeted to follow culture, a culture designed to replace a person's faith causing him to be defenseless against afflictions widespread in the society. We know in the future the Black Banner Army and Imam Mahdi & Prophet 'Iesa (SAW) will be a force which can compete with the force of Gog and Magog. But one must not sit back and wait for the Black Banner Army and Imam Mahdi & Prophet 'Iesa (SAW) assuming everything will be okay, this is the trick of the Devil to make the Muslim Ummah weak.
Allah will only allow victory to the Muslim Ummah when we have earned it; once majority of the Muslims across the world adopt a firm faith then only will Allah grant us with victory. We must better ourselves in Islam adopting a better understanding so that the Muslim children of tomorrow possess faith instead of playing the waiting game and waiting for the Black Banner Army and Imam Mahdi & Prophet 'Iesa (SAW). The waiting game to wait for the arrival of the Black Banner Army and Imam Mahdi & Prophet 'Iesa (SAW) and assuming everything will be okay is deception if we are not contributing towards the cause. Whereas even the enemies of Islam are to waiting for the arrival of the Dajjal (Anti-Christ) and they are only successful so far because they strive hard for their cause. Yes, please read the Book "Witness to the Dajjal by Taimur Saeed" which can be found in our website (http://aljumaareminder.com/books/) to see how the secret societies (Gog and Magog) are working hard to ensure the Dajjal comes. But Muslims of today are showing no effort or contributing towards the Ummah, but want to wait for the the Black Banner Army and Imam Mahdi & Prophet 'Iesa (SAW) assuming all will be well.
You can contribute by building a sense of a firm faith which can be passed on to the coming generations leading to the children which consists of the Black Banner Army to be born. The final conclusion is that Dajjal's army is striving hard for the arrival of the Dajjal. They plan day and night even as you are reading this; their efforts don't stop whereas the Muslims of today are showing no effort or contributions towards the Ummah. Victory will only be given to those who work towards it. When the Muslims of today begin working as a family and understand that we are one. Then and only then will the Black Banner Army and Imam Mahdi & Prophet 'Iesa (SAW) emerge. Let us better ourselves to possess firm faith, pray Salah and keep Allah always on your heart and do not stop with your remembrance of Allah.


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Q: "exec" in Emacs lisp ? In an Emacs lisp script, I would like the script to start a new process and replace itself with the started process, in the same way it can be achieved using "exec" in Bash or Perl.
To clarify the use case, I'm writing a command wrapper in Elisp (using emacs --script) and would like to run the wrapped command as-is in some circumstances.
Is that in any way possble ?

A: nope.  emacs isn't a "command shell" or true scripting language interpreter.
You could maybe turn your problem inside out though and have a wrapper shell script that either execs emacs or execs some other command, and possibly that decision could be made by some elisp code run in an initial emacs instance.

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It's official: Mercantil Bank is now Amerant
Mary Wisniewski @MaryMWisniewski
May 6, 2019 in Banking
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After announcing a new brand identity in October, Mercantil Bank made it official Monday. The 40-year-old bank is now Amerant Bank in its branches and online.
The rebrand of the Coral Gables, Florida, bank comes on the heels of separating from its parent company, Mercantil Servicios Financieros in Venezuela, in August. The new brand — with the tagline "meant for you" — represents the bank's strategy to connect more deeply with customers.
"We are fully focused on the needs of today's customers and wanted our brand to be a powerful word that is easy to pronounce and remember," said CEO Millar Wilson in a press release first announcing the rebrand. "Our new name reflects our heritage and experience, while strengthening our commitment to serving our markets and our valued domestic and international customers with an innovative and comprehensive range of financial services."
What the rebrand mean for customers
The institution has been transitioning into its new identity for about six months — a process that's included updating the brand name on communications, products, signs and services, and of course, preparing customers for the change.
"It is a huge endeavor," says Roberto Isasi, executive vice president of marketing at Amerant Bank.
While rebranding takes a lot of work on the bank's end, the ripple effects on current customers required no adjustments in the way they bank. For example, customers did not have to replace their ATM, debit and credit cards and checks as a result of the rebrand. If you visit the old bank website, the bank will automatically redirect you to the new one.
On a larger scale, expect the rebrand to reflect changes in the way the bank approaches customers' needs and wishes to deliver on the brand's promise. For example, Amerant is asking and listening to what customers who have been in contact with the bank and then using the input to make changes. Secondly, Isasi says the bank is investing "significant resources" in building capabilities designed to better understand customers, including anticipating their needs.
"A big change in our strategy is to bring the customer to the center of all of our efforts and all our decisions," Isasi says. "That's part of the brand promise."
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Montopolis School property owner tells his side of story
By Bridget Spencer, FOX 7 Austin
The Montopolis School for Negro Children educated black kids from 1935-1962. After that it was repurposed into a church. Developer Austin Stowell bought the land two years ago, and has been surrounded in controversy ever since.
"We had no idea of what we were purchasing," said Stowell.
Stowell hopes to rezone the property from single family, to mixed use commercial-historic.
"It would make excellent office space, we've explored other options, including a public/private event space," said Stowell.
But some community members don't want any type of commercial use. Local historian Dr. Fred McGhee mentioned what he'd like to see at a community meeting back in July.
"We would like it to be preserved as a park and museum. We would like to do heritage preservation based development," said McGhee.
"I can understand the situation is frustrating for all parties. You have a situation where the neighborhood wants to be preserved as a park but at this point it's private property," said Stowell.
Stowell's request passed the historic landmark commission. However, just last week, planning and zoning unanimously denied his request, putting rezoning on hold.
"A unanimous vote is not what I expected," said Stowell.
It is possible city council could negotiate buying the property from Stowell.
"At this point, the decision is whether or not to purchase the property. Later on down the road I assume they can rezone the property to "p" which would be public or park," said Stowell.
Stowell admits he didn't know what he got himself into, however he sees the historic value of the Montopolis School, and hopes everyone can come to an agreement. He has no plans to demolish the property.
"The community and I have the same goal which is to preserve the structure, the path on how we get there is where we disagree," said Stowell.
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I've seen pictures of the "car" boats at disney world, I'm just wondering where you could catch one? Where they go? Basically how it works! Thank you in advance. Staying at art of animation!"
Hello again, Christine! Welcome BACK to the Disney Parks Moms Panel!
If "Life is a Highway" that some want to drive all night long, then a Walt Disney World Resort vacation must be a leisurely Amphicar ride around Lake Buena Vista at Disney Springs.
Whether you want to think of these amazing vintage vehicles as floating cars or driveable boats, Amphicars are truly an awesome experience for any car, boat, or one-of-a-kind experience aficionado. Built in 1961 through 1965, these autos were once thought to be the multipurpose vehicle of the future. Plus they just look plain cool.
Things didn't quite pan out for that whole reinventing transportation goal, but luckily for us Disney rounded up and restored a handful of these beautiful antique automobiles and then introduced a 20-minute tour around scenic Disney Springs. A Car Captain will guide up to three guests per vehicle for a ride of your life. You'll literally make a splash as you enter the water, and can then wave to all like you're staring in your very own parade float as passersby gaze in amazement at this unique nautical adventure.
These car boats launch between 10 A.M and 10 P.M. daily, weather permitting of course, from The BOATHOUSE, which is located in The Landing section of Disney Springs. Tours are $125 per vehicle. It looks like reservations can only be made in person, but call (407) 939-2628 for more information.
I hope you're getting even more excited for your upcoming Walt Disney World vacation, Christine, and We'll See You Real Soon!
~Kristen
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Q: Connect 2 Computers with .NET I'm working on an online version of Connect 4, and I want to be able to connect 2 computers together.
I have some knowledge on creating networks between computers the TcpClient and Listener classes, however to my knowledge these only work on computer connected to the same network (LAN)
I want to be able to be on a different part of the Earth and play connect 4 with my little sister, regardless on what LAN we are on.
Is this possible?

A: Yes.
Connecting two computers on a LAN is the same as connecting over the Internet. The only differences are:

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*You will need to connect based on your external ip address instead of your local (try http://whatismyipaddress.com)

*You will need to ensure that your router understands to redirect incoming traffic to your computer (your external IP address maps to your router. You need to ensure the router makes the connection back to your computer).

Without a more specific question, I can't get more detailed than that.

A: Take a look at Jabber, it is an instant messaging protocol (used by Gtalk). Hookup with either a public jabber server or setup your own Jabber host. Jabber-net is a library for .NET
You can extend it to do pretty much all you want including gaming etc.

A: TcpClient will be able to connect to a socket anywhere on the internet. However, firewalls or a NAT-ed network could get in the way. You'll have to make sure at least one of you has a publicly accessible IP address and open port.
Since you're writing this game, you may consider writing a server-only application that will allow two people to connect from behind firewalls. Then, you'll just have to figure out a way to host it.

A: That was the first network game I wrote too.
It might be possible. The problem is that you may have to open ports on a firewall, router, etc. to allow incoming communication from one computer to the other. This is a problem even for professionals.
Your best bet might be to create a "game server" with a well-known address. A cheap webserver with a domain name would work nicely. One application sends messages to the server using a Web Service, while the other application checks it once a second looking for new messages.

A: You can use the .NET client and listener classes to connect to any computer on any IP address located anywhere on the planet.  The catch is you will need to know the IP address of the other machine and it will need to accept connections from you.
If the other machine is behind a firewall, things get more difficult.  The firewall will block unsolicited connection requests - including requests from your machine to talk to the other machine behind the firewall.  Instant messaging clients have this problem all the time - they work around it by having each end of the connection talk to an intermediate server that relays data between the two connections.
That is, your machine can make calls out to machines that are on the public internet, and when you make such a connection through a firewall your firewall will allow the machines you connect to to reply to you, but you cannot connect directly to another machine that is behind a firewall unless you make prior arrangements like opening a specific TCP/IP port number on the firewall.
There are now protocol standards such as UPnP that would allow your computer to request that your local firewall open a port for a specific connection.  If the computer at the other end also does this, then it would be possible to establish a TCP/IP connection between the two machines through their respective firewalls, IF you can figure out a way to communicate the port numbers to each other.  You would need to send the port number that is opened on your firewall to the other computer, and they would need to send you the open port number on their firewall.  So you'll still need some sort of intermediary to at least exchange this connection info so that each party can connect directly to the other.

A: Build a web site/application for this, and then you do not need to worry about conectivity. It will also work cross-platform, esp. if you avoid flash.

A: If you have a website you can call a page on the website and log the IP address of the calling computer. In PHP you can do:
$Calling_IP_Address = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

Then, save the data to a text file. When you want to play one of the players needs to call the webpage to log their IP address and the other player reads the saved text file to find out where to connect to.
Job done.


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Could a common diabetes drug ease bipolar disorder?
July 28, 2022 Er. Gurinderbir Singh 0 Comments
A half-century-old diabetes drug appears to help treat bipolar disorder by reversing patients' insulin resistance, according to a small-scale clinical trial.
Bipolar patients who responded to the drug metformin experienced improvement in their mood disorder as their insulin resistance decreased, said lead researcher Dr. Cynthia Calkin, an associate professor of psychiatry at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
"We saw this improvement as early as week six in the study," she said. "Week 14 was the study endpoint, and patients remained significantly improved or in remission. And then we went on to follow them up to 26 weeks and these patients remained well."
Calkin noted that some patients who started off in the trial are still in remission, six or seven years later.
Metformin helps treat type 2 diabetes by reducing production of glucose by the liver and increasing the body's sensitivity to insulin.
Studies have shown that more than 50% of people with bipolar disorder also have insulin resistance, said Dr. Claudia Baldassano, director of the Bipolar Outpatient Resident Teaching Clinic and the Mood Disorder Comprehensive Consultation Service at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
"As a clinician who treats thousands of bipolar patients, I found this really intriguing and not that surprising," said Baldassano, who wasn't part of the study. "Our bipolar patients, so many of them are overweight. They have problems with obesity. They have problems with type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance."
The potential link between insulin resistance and bipolar disorder is causing a "paradigm shift in psychiatry," Calkin said.
"We need to start thinking more about underlying mechanisms and not be treating patients simply from the neck up," she said. "We have to look at the whole patient and what's going on besides their psychiatric illness, because all of these things appear to be connected."
The key is not that metformin is an antidepressant, "because I don't believe it is," Calkin said. "The key is reversing this underlying aberrant mechanism, reversing the insulin resistance."
For the clinical trial, Calkin and her colleagues randomly assigned 20 patients to take metformin for half a year, and 25 to take a placebo. Both groups of patients had both bipolar disorder and insulin resistance.
"These patients on average had been sick for 25 years without a remission," Calkin said. "Over 55% had failed all four drug classes that we use in terms of mood stabilizers—lithium, anti-epileptic drugs, antipsychotics and antidepressants. And over 90% had failed three out of four of those drug classes. So this was really, really a very, very sick population."
Half of the metformin patients responded to the drug, and no longer were insulin resistant by 14 weeks, the study found.
Those patients also experienced significant improvements on standard tests used to assess symptoms of bipolar disorder.
The drug also proved relatively safe, Calkin added.
"When we looked at the side effect profile with metformin, there is no difference from patients who are on placebo," Calkin said. "We've had this drug for 50 years. It's a very, very benign, cheap, safe drug."
Researchers think insulin resistance might do something to the blood-brain barrier—which separates the bloodstream in the brain from the bloodstream in the rest of the body—that either causes or influences bipolar disorder, Calkin and Baldassano said.
"My hypothesis was that this barrier that normally protects the brain, it became leaky when people were insulin resistant," Calkin said. "Then inflammatory molecules could get into the brain where they otherwise wouldn't have been able to, and that this would affect a brain disorder like bipolar disorder."
Disruption of the blood-brain barrier caused by insulin resistance also might hamper the effectiveness of medications that directly treat bipolar disorder, Baldassano said.
The good news is that psychiatrists are becoming increasingly comfortable prescribing metformin to treat weight gain associated with mood-stabilizing drugs, she said.
"If you can prescribe a medication that can help a bipolar patient with two things—something that could prevent them from developing type 2 diabetes and help reduce their depressive symptoms—I think that is something psychiatrists will definitely use," Baldassano said.
Insulin resistance will be the key to determining who might be helped by metformin, Calkin said, and that's not just people who are carrying excess weight.
"Obesity tends to lead to insulin resistance, but I have as well slim triathletes in my practice who are also insulin-resistant," Calkin said. "So I think there's a genetic component there as well."
For metformin to be widely adopted, however, there needs to be a large-scale trial definitively proving its benefit, Baldassano said.
"The results were impressive, but it does need to be replicated in a larger-scale study," she said.
The findings were recently published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
Increased fracture risk in patients using insulin compared to metformin
The American Diabetes Association has more about oral medications for diabetes.
Cynthia V. Calkin et al, Treating Insulin Resistance With Metformin as a Strategy to Improve Clinical Outcomes in Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Depression (the TRIO-BD Study), The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (2022). DOI: 10.4088/JCP.21m14022
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History of Kadak & Garam Chai
Posted by Food and Streets by Sadaf on January 3, 2018 January 5, 2018
Ek kadak garam chai ki cup is what starts the day of a lot of households around the world—some will ask for masala chai while others will call for Earl Grey. In fact, Indian tea is famous all over the world. Every time I am travelling outside India, when people offer me a cup of chai, they'll always say our tea might not be as great as the one in India. Chai for Indians is like an eternal love; this is the second most common beverage after water that you get offered when you visit someone. We Indians do Chai pe Charcha about everything from politics to gossip, from a humble date to marriage proposals. A nukkad ki chai shop has seen and heard everything possible and still chai has remained humble.
Hot Masala Ginger Tea from Old Delhi | Photo Courtesy: Sadaf Hussain
There are many stories about the usage of tea leaves or something which was like tea leaves. One legend says that the concoction of Sanjivini booti was the first brewed tea during Treta Yuga to bring Lakshman back to life whereas others would claim that it was one ancient Buddhist monk who accidentally discovered the leaf when he chewed on it. These leaves made him feel rejuvenated and made him focus on his work. The third story about chai is that it was a king in ancient India (most likely Harshavardhana, under whose patronage Nalanda University reached its zenith) who developed chai to remain alert during long court hours. Some historians also believe that Emperor Ashoka too had made it a part of his various peace treaties and court culture, a habit that eventually percolated down to common people. In fact, Dutch traveller, John Hughen Von Linschoten who was travelling India in the 16th century found a vegetable dish was also being prepared using tea leaves with garlic and oil. The common factor or the leaf between all these legends is the shrub that finds mention in each of the tales which was similar to Camellia sinensis, a tea shrub that was first discovered by Robert Bruce and his brother Charles in Assam in 1823.
However, tea wasn't the common beverage that we used to consume. We had kada as the substitute. It was the British who made tea drinking famous in India.
The British used to consume Chinese tea in massive quantities but eventually, it became an expensive affair for them. Even though they tried to counterbalance it with the opium trade to a large extent, the consumption was exorbitantly expensive and unsustainable.
'Tea is Swadeshi.' Poster made for the Indian Tea Market Expansion Board, 1947. Reproduced from Gautam Bhadra, From an Imperial Product to a National Drink (Calcutta: CSSSC, 2005), p. 19, fig.24.
This prompted the British to start tea cultivation and production in India in 1774. Warren Hastings (then Governor-General of Bengal) sent a few select samples of tea seeds from China to his British emissary in Bhutan – George Bogle – for planting. English botanist Sir John Banks was asked to make notes on tea in 1776 and he concluded that the British must undertake tea cultivation in India. Due to weather conditions in our country, they were unsuccessful in their initial stints of trying to grow their own tea. In 1823, Scottish explorer Robert Bruce discovered a native tea plant that was growing in the Upper Brahmaputra Valley and being brewed by the local Singhpho tribe. Assamese nobleman Maniram Dutta Barbhandari Baruah (also known as Maniram Dewan) gave this vital information to Robert and his brother. Maniram went on to become the first Indian to undertake private tea cultivation in Assam.
On further analysis and research it was found that these leaves can be classified as a variation of the Chinese tea plant (Camellia sinensis var Sinensis)—so this plant was named Camellia sinensis var Assamica (Masters) Kitamura. By 1838, the first consignment of 12 chests of Assam tea had reached London. Subsequently (in February 1839) the Assam Company – the first joint stock tea company – was formed in London. This was followed by the setting up of other companies like George Williamson and Jorehaut Tea Company.
Street side chai wala preparing chai | Photo Courtesy: Sadaf Hussain
Once the British started growing their own tea in India, they then ventured out to make it a profitable business and make it a common drink for Indians. In fact, my grandmother told me that during British Raj, they used to get free tea. Salesmen used to come to give free samples to every house. They started training Indians how to brew a nice cup of tea. To get Indians accustomed to the taste of tea was a real struggle. Each region and community in India took its own time to adopt and adapt tea to its own tastes. Although, they were not able to adapt to just the flavour of brewed leaves, and hence started making their own versions by adding Indian spices, ginger and many other indigenous ingredients, along with milk.
Many tea historians believe and would say that that the first iteration of chai with milk was developed by travellers and traders mostly likely from Gujarat, Maharashtra and Bengal. People in these states have easy access to good quality milk. With growing trade, sweet milky chai became the go-to drink, at least for the office bearers (and workers), to sustain a rather long day. This was ridiculed by the British and they did try to "teach" the real way of brewing tea, but soon, masala chai (chai flavoured with aromatic spices) became famous and the demand for tea increased. Seeing this, the British left the masala chai alone, because their company was finally drawing a profit.
Now in today's India, you aren't ever far from a small Chai Tapri (Tea Stall), who'll serve you your favourite kadak chai. So remember, it is not "just" chai you are sipping but you are enjoying a cup full of history, culture, fusion and constant perseverance.
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Over the course of his career, William Fitzsimmons has made his living writing a specific brand of honest and inward-looking folk songs that fearlessly and candidly examine the evolving self while dexterously communicating his talent for robust melodies and catchy instrumentation. That the subject matter tends to dwell on the darker parts of human existence and relationships is no coincidence.
'I get that question all the time: "You ever gonna write some happy music?"' Fitzsimmons says. 'There are a million different good answers – to paraphrase Ani DiFranco, "When I'm happy I just want to live, I don't want to write about it" – all that's true. Personally, my job description when it was handed to me, for whatever reason, was: "You need to write about the hard shit." It became my responsibility. It might sound a little egotistical, and I don't mean it to, but it's just my job. That's what I do, and I do it well. So, I write "sad music"; if that's how someone wants to categorise it, that's fine. But if you look a little deeper, I think there's a lot more going on.'
Beginning with his debut album Until When We Are Ghosts, Fitzsimmons has released nearly a dozen full-length, EP, and live records of profound and intensely personal material. When it comes to his songwriting, nothing in his private life is off limits: he has written about being raised by disabled parents, experiencing two divorces, adopting his two children, and working with the mentally ill as a mental health therapist prior to his music career. His 2018 album, Mission Bell, chronicled his separation from his then-wife caused by her infidelity; when he realised that, despite their attempts to save the marriage, the split was destined to be permanent, he began work on a new album as a response to both the imminent divorce as well as his own turbulent behavioural reaction. Now, Fitzsimmons is set to release Ready the Astronaut as a powerful testament to his own past, and by weaving his story through the familiar tale of Icarus, he illustrates his willingness to accept his life's highs and lows by paying tribute to the influence they have on the future.
Following an earnest attempt at reconciliation with his ex that included a move to Nashville for a fresh start with their two children as well as couples counselling, Fitzsimmons found the marriage at a point beyond salvation. He sat down with his classical guitar in the house they shared and began plucking out a three-chord cyclical vamp, playing it over and over for an hour. The imagery for title track Ready the Astronaut came to him in a flash ('still I am running scared/cursed with a living ghost/still I'm afraid to fall/ready the astronaut/I'm never coming home'), detailing a metaphor Fitzsimmons has been drawn to since his childhood.
'I've always been fascinated by the astronaut thing,' he says. 'When I was a kid, the idea of escaping my situation was attractive. Having disabled parents, being fat, being a band nerd and made fun of on the bus every morning… I wanted to escape the corporeal realm, to escape my body and my family. The farthest you can get is putting on a space suit and getting the hell out of Dodge. Somewhere that was always in the back of my head. And in that moment in Nashville, at 41 years old and already through one divorce, I had thought this was the relationship that was gonna fix everything. And all of a sudden everything was happening all over again; I was right back to where I started, again. That was an overwhelmingly bad feeling and I just wanted to escape. The album was born out of wanting to not have to live over the same mistakes that I had made so many times already.'
Compared to his usual creative bursts, the rest of the songs came to him more slowly and deliberately – due in part to the subject matter, perhaps, but also to circumstance. Once the marriage had been determined unfixable, Fitzsimmons found himself on tour and decided to treat himself to what he refers to as his 'rock and roll walkabout' – a time of unapologetic excess, something the man who had first married at age 19 had never experienced. It was at this point that the theme of the Icarus myth first entered his mind for the album: rather than putting his feet on the ground to take stock of his life and start over, Fitzsimmons instead resolved to fly. But just as the mythological son of Daedalus was advised to not soar too high for fear of melting his wax wings in the sun, the musician, too, soon discovered his own flight had not allowed for proper preparation. And what's more, a commonly overlooked moral of the Icarus tale is that the character was also warned to not fly too low in order to avoid the salt in the sea destroying the wings' plumage – another shared detail Fitzsimmons would soon discover in his own story.
'I was having a blast, but it was extreme and I hadn't allowed myself the chance to heal,' he says. 'My life has always been very up and very down. In fact, "down" is a common theme in the record. The Icarus myth is usually abbreviated as a moral against pride, but the idea of "ascension-ism" – that I'm going to be greater and go farther than anyone thinks is possible – also includes the idea that there's a crash coming. Even while I was living in this self-destructive way, I just didn't care – if I couldn't have what I wanted then I was gonna watch myself and the whole world around me burn. So some of the songs are about me coming to terms with the end of not just the marriage but the end of the life that I thought I was gonna have, and the other half is about those experiences after the fact, when I was trying to be somebody I wasn't. There were a lot of crashes, but even that's not necessarily a bad thing.'
Relocating to the small town of Jacksonville, Illinois, Fitzsimmons continued writing in response to those major life events. While Mission Bell had served as a more visceral, gut reaction to the preliminary breakup and also included a sense of hope for the relationship's future, new songs like Dancing on the Sun, Down with Another One and You Let Me Down began to lend a heavier tone to the new work, representing a more complete and total response to the finality of it all. To the songwriter, there is some sadness in the album, as well as anger, betrayal, indignation and frustration, but there is also plenty of resignation and peace – qualities he identifies as among his favourites in any piece of music. To Love Forever, which ends the record, exemplifies that sense of resigned complacency by identifying a love that has run its course. And the seven-minute long Daedalus, My Father is a cyclical, confessional exercise with only a single chord change to lend it a sense of slow acceleration, but by its end the song reaches a moment of clarity that echoes in both the singer and the listener's minds. The balance achieved in the process suggests that the singer has reached that ideal flying height Daedalus wanted Icarus to follow for a proper escape – somewhere in between the sun and the surf, not too high yet not too low.
'Both of those things are very dangerous,' Fitzsimmons says. 'Daedalus was right; there's a middle, a balance, where the peace is. Religions call it different things. That's why I'm in therapy, why I write, why I journal: I want the balance. I don't want the extreme depravity, nor do I need the heights or the adulation. To me, even the hard shit, the bad shit, is a part of the orchestra, and I want to hear it all. That's what's going to help me be a good person, a good dad, a good partner. A lot of the writing is about me being OK with who I am and giving myself permission to be happy. I'd been living a fantasy about what mattered, what happiness was supposed to look like. I'm happier when I look at the truth: two divorces; lots of mistakes. But I'm doing OK now. I think life gave me a few more colours to mix with, but my goal as a songwriter hasn't changed. I want somebody to hear this record and for them to feel something so strongly that it disturbs them in a healthy way. I want to disrupt the heart in a way that can help somebody get through something. Honestly, I don't think that's ever gonna change. I was hired to do this job, and I'm gonna do it until I'm dead.'
Tour support comes from Beharie. Beharie (Christian Beharie) is a young, old soul with a distinctive expression that balances neatly between searching for an identity and independence. His vulnerable vocals are immersed in delicate harmonies located deep within the indie-soul landscape. Drawing inspiration from artists like Frank Ocean, Moses Sumney, Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver, Beharie pulls the strings between the rawness of soul and the melodic and experimental lines from pop, indie and the singer-songwriter genre.
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Japan to Issue Redesigned 500-Yen Coin
Richard Giedroyc
The function of most circulating coins today is as small change. There are exceptions. Canada has successfully circulated both $1 (Loonie) and $2 (Twoonie) coins. Great Britain has it's formerly round (not so round anymore) pound. Circulating coins of Australia include $1 and $2 denominations.
Switzerland uses a 5-franc coin in circulation that is the equivalent of about $5.50, making this one of the highest value coins in use anywhere. Japan is part of this group as well. Japan has its ¥500 (yen), with a value equivalent to about $4.60 U.S.
On April 27 the Japanese Ministry of Finance announced a newly designed ¥500 coin will be released into circulation. The coin in some respects is overdue, primarily due to the coronavirus pandemic. The coin's release date was originally scheduled for April. Updating automated ticket, vending, and automated teller machines took longer than was originally anticipated. The cost of refitting all this equipment has been estimated at about 490 billion yen or more than $4.5 billion U.S.
The new coins will be similar to those already in circulation, but with changes meant to keep the coin technology one step ahead of counterfeiters. The significant purchasing power of the ¥500 has made it a target of forgers ever since it was introduced in 1982 due to the needs of the vending machine industry. Problems appeared almost as soon as the coin replaced a bank note of the same value since South Korea was circulating a ₩500 or 500-won coin of the same metal content and diameter as was the new Japanese coin. The South Korean coin was valued at about one tenth of the value of its Japanese counterpart. For that reason, the South Korean coin was commonly used in Japanese vending machines.
By the end of the 1990s about 70 percent of the estimated 5.5 million vending machines in Japan had been reprogrammed to stop taking the ¥500. Police found 657,000 altered coins between January and October 1999.
The problem persisted until the Mint of Japan began issuing new nickel-brass composition ¥500 coins with anti-counterfeiting devices in 2000. Vending machines were reprogrammed to recognize the conductivity of the nickel-brass. Counterfeiters soon followed by using lower alloy nickel-brass tokens or foreign coins. By 2012 what the Japanese press called "extremely well crafted" fake ¥500 coins believed to have been made either in China or in South Korea were being used successfully in ATMs.
The new generation of ¥500 coins will replace those first introduced in 2000. The 26.5-millimeter diameter of the denomination has remained consistent since the denomination was introduced in 1982. The 1982 to 1999 coins are composed of copper-nickel, have a weight of 7.2 grams, and a lettered edge.
The 2000 to 2020 coins are composed of 72 percent copper, 20 percent zinc, and eight percent nickel. The coins have a weight of 7.0 grams and a slanting reeded edge.
The new 2021 coins are a ringed bimetal three-layer structure issue composed of 75 percent copper, 12.5 percent zinc and 12.5 percent nickel. The coins have a slightly different weight of 7.1 grams and a helically reeded edge on which Japan and 500 Yen will appear. The coin has been described as being bicolor clad since two different colors are visible. The center is composed of copper-nickel, while the ring is composed of nickel-brass.
The 2021 coin uses the same paulownia plant obverse design, however on the reverse a bamboo leaf under the denomination numeral 500 has been replaced with the regnal (Reiwa) date of the issue (Year 3). A latent image has been incorporated into the numeral with the word Japan visible in a vertical direction. As on the issue that was introduced in 2000 micro-printing will appear on this coin as a counterfeit prevention device.
The Ministry of Finance indicated the estimated five billion copper-nickel ¥500 coins outstanding will continue to be considered as legal tender but will no longer be accepted by vending machines. The Mint of Japan is expected to produce about 200 million of the new coins during fiscal 2021.
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FEATURE | SOUTH AFRICA
Wastewater audit missing as countrywide water shortage looms
25 February 2019 By Steve Kretzmann
After reports were sent to cabinet, water test results have not been released for five years
Green-brown water flows directly from the Cape Flats sewage works into False Bay at Strandfontein and remains trapped in the surf zone. The last full national Green Drop Report of 2011 scored the quality of this treated water at 20%. Without independent testing, it is very difficult for the public to find out if it has since improved. On the day this photograph was taken, 23 February 2018, the sewage smell of the water remained strong despite a breeze coming in from the sea. Photo: Steve Kretzmann/WCN
25 February 2019 - By Steve Kretzmann
A countrywide water shortage is a decade away unless urgent action is taken to rehabilitate and preserve our rivers and catchment areas, fix and maintain crumbling infrastructure, and implement water re-use.
Without intervention, South Africa faces a deficit of about 3,000 billion litres of water per year by 2030 the Department of Water and Sanitation told a ministerial interactive session on transformation in Boksburg on 15 February.
That is three times more than South Africa's total current household usage. At 237 litres per day, which is what the DWS states is average household use, the 14.5 million households (2011 census figure) use over 1,250 billion litres per year. To this must be added agricultural, industrial and business use.
The new National Water and Sanitation Master Plan to ensure water security was presented by deputy director-general Trevor Balzar. Along with co-ordinating budgeting, planning, and implementation across departments and spheres of governments, the DWS announced its intention to:
Set up a unit to assist municipalities with their water and sanitation;
Start a programme to use alternative water sources such as desalination and recycling;
Form a team to fix the water infrastructure.
However, the department's Green Drop Report, which was welcomed by scientists as a way to improve wastewater management, was not mentioned in the department's press release, nor in the presentation of the master plan.
But the Green Drop Report, which was introduced in 2009 as an annual audit of the country's 824 sewage works, has not been published in any form since 2013. How functional these wastewater treatment works are is an indicator of the health of our groundwater, rivers, vleis, estuaries and, where they release into the ocean, our coast.
The last Green Drop Report indicated that over four million litres of untreated or inadequately treated sewage was flowing into our rivers every day, according to Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation member Leonard Basson. He suspects the situation has got worse in the intervening years.
The 2013 report is only available as an executive summary that shows provincial, and not municipal performance. The last full Green Drop Report that drills down into the waste treatment plants managed by every municipality dates back to 2011.
It appears the five-year gap in information is due to a lack of capacity in a department that until recently was run by Nomvula Mokonyane, who was accused in testimony at the Zondo commission, of receiving Bosasa largesse. But there is also a strong indication that withholding the Green Drop was a political decision by Cabinet.
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In the 2013 Green Drop Report summary, just under half (49.6%) of treatment plants achieved a score of 50% or less, and almost a third (30.1%) were in a critical state. Some have since failed altogether.
Balzar's presentation says that about 56% of municipal treatment plants are now in a poor or critical condition and need urgent rehabilitation, with some 11% completely dysfunctional. This, states the DWS, "is having a significantly detrimental impact on the environment and driving up the cost of water treatment".
The dysfunction of treatment plants in the Emfuleni municipality, from which raw sewage has been flowing into the Vaal for years, according to Save the Vaal chairperson Malcolm Plant late last year, resulted in the SANDF deploying technical teams to help restore the crumbling infrastructure.
The polluted Vaal River is a popular recreation getaway for Johannesburg residents and a source of irrigation for agriculture. Fortunately, Emfuleni is downstream from the Vaal Dam, which supplies drinking water to Gauteng.
But according to the chair of the portfolio committee on water and sanitation, Lulu Johnson (ANC), the Hartebeesport Dam, which provides drinking water to Brits, has had raw sewage flowing into it due to breakdowns at the Madibeng municipal treatment works. The dam has been severely polluted for decades due to treatment plant failures in its catchment area, despite almost R1 billion spent on trying to clean it up.
Meanwhile, infrastructure failures, combined with drought, have led to severe water shortages in Makhanda in the Eastern Cape, where taps run dry for days and residents have to line up to fill containers from water trucks.
All not necessarily well in the Western Cape
The Western Cape, although it achieved the top provincial Green Drop score (84.5% in 2013), had problems with its sewage plants. Some of them were in Cape Town.
The 2011 report revealed that the Cape Flats sewage works in Strandfontein scored only 20% for wastewater quality compliance eight years ago. Whether the Cape Flats sewage works has improved would be of interest to the many Capetonians who swim, fish and surf at Muizenberg and other close-by beaches. Water treated at this plant flows into False Bay.
Similarly, Cape Town's Scottsdene plant scored 20% for wastewater quality compliance in 2011. Its treated wastewater runs into a series of dams used to irrigate Stellenbosch vegetable farms and vineyards.
One of the worst provincial performers was Cape Agulhas municipality with an overall score of 34%. The municipality's sewage works at Struisbaai received zero for wastewater quality and its sewage works in Napier scored only 15%.
Oversight falls to civil society
Municipalities may assure residents all is now well, but the gap in information from a separate state body that has the mandate to do so means independent testing of inland and coastal water quality falls to civil society and academic researchers.
Senior Professor Leslie Petrik at the University of Western Cape's Chemistry Department has raised concerns over pollution on the Atlantic seaboard where marine sewage outfalls are situated.
Dr Jo Barnes, a retired University of Stellenbosch epidemiologist, is looking at the state of the Kuils River and she doesn't take the City's statements that all is well at the Zandvliet wastewater plant for granted. But such oversight is ad-hoc and has no legislative weight.
Political censorship
One reason for the failure of the DWS to produce Green Drop reports, which are currently the only way to keep track of the health of the country's water bodies, might be because the information they contain is politically embarrassing. The DA-run Western Cape has consistently achieved the highest score, despite having its own pockets of failure, and Gauteng, which is also now in DA hands, came second.
Responding to questions from the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation in September last year, the DWS deputy director-general of regulation, Anil Singh, said the 2013 Green Drop report had "huge policy implications".
The transcript of the meeting recorded by the Parliamentary Monitoring Group records Singh as going on to say: "A decision had been made that the reports needed to be submitted to the Cabinet for consideration. The reports had been considered. That was why there had been a non-release of the reports."
Singh is referring to the full 2013 reports, and there is mention in portfolio committee meetings of a 2016 Green Drop Report, which remains hidden.
Johnson did not want to be drawn on the clear political inference of Singh's statement, but said there is "a serious issue of capacity in DWS".
The lack of capacity meant that not only was no water quality audit produced, but the department was not able to hold polluters accountable, whether they be state or private institutions.
Johnson said the DWS could not plan effectively when it did not know the quality of the country's water, particularly given the status of South Africa's rivers. In Parliament, he said it was "no wonder" there was a crisis at the Vaal River.
No response was forthcoming from DWS.
This article was written for GroundUp by West Cape News.
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Cimcorp aims technology to boost efficiency at tire plants
Bruce Meyer
Bruce Meyer, Rubber & Plastics News
Don Heelis of Cimcorp Automation Ltd. shows off the design of the firm's Dream Factory during last fall's International Tire Exhibition & Conference in Akron.
GRIMSBY, Ontario—Cimcorp Automation Ltd. views itself as a pioneer in automating the material handling operations of a tire factory, and the firm believes it has the technology and track record to back that up.
The Grimsby-based firm has been in the tire business for more than 35 years, and its solutions can be implemented in new plants and also utilized to upgrade brownfield sites to make them more productive and efficient, according to Sales Manager Don Heelis.
Cimcorp Automation is part of Cimcorp Group, which employs about 300 and also includes Cimcorp Oy in Finland. Besides its focus on filling tire factory needs, it also offers logistics automation in the retail, food and beverage, postal and car manufacturing sectors.
Heelis said the company has been active globally, with the Americas, Europe and Asia each accounting for roughly a third of revenues. Cimcorp has a physical presence in each of the three regions, including facilities for engineering, equipment building and sales.
Some of the sites are Centers of Excellence, Heelis said, which concentrate on specific technologies that are then exported to wherever needed.
For new tire factories, the firm markets what it has branded the Cimcorp Dream Factory, which it touts as a fully automated handling solution for tire manufacturing and distribution.
Cimcorp's technology breaks down the material handling functions into these elements: raw material or component preparation; tire building; green tire buffering; storage and retrieval; green tire curing; final finish and palletizing; and order fulfillment.
"In each of those areas, we're bringing new technology to manage the material handling," Heelis said. "Essentially we're automating those processes but not only the handling aspect of it, but also the logistic component as well. It gives you the ability to track and trace the product, and know the status in real time within the different areas of your production environment."
Tire makers typically would engage Cimcorp during the plant design phase, he said. That enables the end user to understand the requirements clearly from an automation point of view. "We can actually help them develop a more efficient plant layout if we're involved at that point of the process," the Cimcorp official said.
The sales pitch is different from traditional deals. "It's a very unique sales process," Heelis said. "You're not making a sales pitch. You're working at a level of interaction. It's a process where the latest technologies and ideas are merged with what the customer is trying to do."
Response has been positive to the Dream Factory, with the system implemented in some shape or form in new tire factories across all regions of the globe in recent years, said Heelis. He added that not all jobs are for a complete Dream Factory; some may be for individual elements.
It essentially can be configured to match the needs of a particular project. "We've got all these building blocks, and depending on how we put these building blocks together, we can construct a tailored solution for that customer out of those standard building blocks," he said.
The intent is to use automation to increase the efficiency and throughput of the facility, with the result being a factory that is a low-cost, high-quality producer. Heelis said there is a learning curve, but that customers normally find that once the first module is implemented, the process goes quicker from there. It can be utilized in both high-volume tire factories along with plants that make a variety of products.
Upgrading older factories
While all of the new tire capacity coming on line in North America and elsewhere has been a benefit to Cimcorp, he said this also puts pressure on legacy brownfield sites to use automation to remain competitive. The company has been able to take its modules and implement them in older facilities.
The older tire plants, particularly those in North America have a lot of challenges in terms of implementing automation. And subsequent expansions were built based on available real estate rather than in terms of production flow or layout.
"When those factories were built and designed, automation was never on the radar screen," Heelis said. "No one ever had done any planning in terms of plant layouts to accommodate automation. You have to deal with what's there, which for the most part is automation unfriendly."
Cimcorp, though, has been able to develop solutions and apply its technology to get around those barriers. "The idea is to bring automation to bear to deal with those issues," he said. "We have to find a way of connecting the automation modules. If you can go in a straight line between point A and point B, it's easy to make a connection. But typically it's not a straight line. There are a lot of doglegs, U-turns and barriers you have to get around."
The company has done work at most of the legacy tire factories in North America. When working with brownfield sites, Heelis said usually the customer approaches Cimcorp and asks what can be done to improve a site. The two discuss the situation, and Cimcorp will receive input from the people at the facility.
"It can take some time to that," he said. "There's a process we'll follow, and ultimately we'll come up with a solution that will make that plant more efficient and more productive."


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We left the hostel around 10am to catch our 11:19 train to Milan. The plan was to do a day tour of the city and sample Milan's signature dish - Risotto ala Milanese. We arrived around 1pm and spent perhaps an hour to make a reservation for my trip back to Geneva that evening. Apparently, I had to pay an extra E9.20 for a mandatory reservation (on top of the E53.60 train ticket). I was already running low on Euros at that point.
We were starving and finding Brecks, a recommended Risotto place close to the station, was a relief. I can't say it's as good as what I hoped it would be, but I'm sure it's only because we didn't have the luxury of combing through the city in search of the best place for it. Nonetheless, Risotto in Milan? How can I complain?
Naomi's must-see in Milan is the Armani Emporium. We were on our way to it after lunch. The heat of the day was scorching. We had to walk through the park to get some shade...and rest. We came upon a few novelty items along the way. Not surprisingly, the only thing affordable to us was an Armani cherry chocolate liqueur, which we partook together with espresso in their outdoor caf�. I took a liking to the olive-colored sports jacket, but at E367.00, I wasn't ready to cash-in my retirement nest egg yet.
My alarm beeped signaling us to make it back to the station for my 6:10 train to Geneva. This is where Naomi and I say our goodbyes and go about our own ways. She'll be staying overnight in Milan with a friend before she heads out to Venice, then Florence, Rome, Pompeii, etc.
I never planned on traveling with anyone but hooking up with Naomi for wine in Paris and later on making plans to travel together was an unexpected, surprising and pleasant curve ball. Her quick-thinking, good instinct, pragmatism and derring-do immeasurably helped in making the trip less cryptic and enjoyable - after all, despite following the familiar conventions of traveling, every city has its own nuance of doing things. There's always the element of winging something. Naomi's quite adept at that. Our conversation was endless. In our usual 8 to 10 hour city-tour, we would walk and talk - we could have talked indefinitely about everything under the sun.
Our friendship has definitely come a long way since that moment we met at Burning Man last year. It's hard to imagine now how my travel would have gone without that chance meeting in Paris. We keep saying it's a small world. I'm sure it is and our paths will cross once more.
The train ride took a grueling 4 hours going through the mountainous villages in northern Italy, through the Alps until I finally reached Geneva...my home away from home. Unfortunately, the train offered no 110-volt outlet for my battery charger. I'll have to conserve use of the camera.
It was a joy seeing Ginny again.