Cre8pc Selected as "Usability Author"
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Kim Krause launched Cre8pc.com (http://www.cre8pc.com/) in 1996 as her "personal online database" of search engine optimization and web design resources which she needed while working as Webmaster for a technical magazine publishing company. She was in charge of web design and also getting 13 web sites ranked in search engines. As she moved forward in her career, she freelanced from home in seach engine optimization (SEO) and web site building under the Cre8pc domain.
In 1998 she started the Cre8pc Website Promotion Club in Yahoo! and co-moderated the Home and Small Business Club, where she gained a reputation for helping people and making SEO and Marketing easy to understand. Hired by such companies as Unisys and Verticalnet, Kim worked as a User Interface Engineer and eventually moved into the Quality Assurance Software Testing field, where it was her job to test and develop the methodology for in-house web site usability. During this time, she continued to freelance in SEO and help out in her Yahoo! clubs and other forums. During the dot-com crash of 2001, Kim was laid off and within 6 hours was hired by a company seeking a sub-contractor to test and project manage their proprietary Internet application for a large firm. This allowed her to expand Cre8pc services and work from a home office full-time. In August 2002 the old Cre8pc club was changed to Cre8asiteForums, where it quickly became one of the leading web design forums on the Internet and the first to begin spreading the importance of web site usability.
Today, Kim is focused solely on usability and user interface web site testing using the cognitive walkthrough and heuristic evaluation methodologies. Her background in SEO makes it easy for her to understand the connection between the two fields and how to make them work together for a united role in developing traffic, rank, and steady to increased sales. Both as a partner or supplier, Kim provides affordable usability reports for SEO Company clients as well as those that come to her via Cre8pc.
Kim expects to roll out her new UsabilityEffect.com website in May 2004.
Kim's articles have been published in HighRankings Advisor (http://www.highrankings.com/advisor.htm), SearchEngineGuide (http://www.searchengineguide.com/) and ISEDB.com (http://www.isedb.com/news/index.php?t=editor_list&user_id=15). She's a contributing author for Successful-Sites ( http://www.successful-sites.com/) and the Search Engine Roundtable (https://www.seroundtable.com/). She helped found the network of website properties called Cre8asite Network, which features a Resource Library (http://www.cre8asite.net/) and Cre8tive Flow Blog (http://blog.cre8asite.net/).
She expresses herself in a more casual environment via her own Cre8pc SEO and Usability Blog (http://www.cre8pc.com/blog/) and remains a dedicated member of The Creative Enterprises Network (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OurCEcommunity/), an online merchants' association made up of owners of small or home-based businesses.


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Home > Industry News > Southeastern to extend high-speed rail services
Southeastern to extend high-speed rail services
Southeastern has submitted plans to the Department for Transport (DfT) to create a new 'coastal loop' high-speed rail route.
The operator hopes to run additional services on a circular route between Faversham, Ramsgate and Dover Priory which will see high-speed trains stopping at Walmer, Martin Mill and Birchington-on-sea for the first time.
Southeastern has said it will add almost 700 seats from Ashford International during the morning peak and 349 seats from Ebbsfleet International.
New direct services between Maidstone East and Canterbury West will be added as well as additional services from Margate and Broadstairs, and one extra service from Margate and Canterbury West at the start of the off peak.
The plans will also see fewer trains being split in half at Ashford and Faversham, instead having full 12-car trains operating on the loop.
Southeastern said: "The plans are in response to significant growth in passenger numbers on high speed from Dover, Canterbury, Ashford and Ebbsfleet.
"We're carrying 60 to 70 per cent more passengers to and from all of those stations now compared to the year before high speed was introduced. We've also seen an increase of 25 per cent in the number of passengers visiting Kent from London and further afield."
A decision is expected within the next couple of weeks and the new services could be in place by December.

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Michael Fairley Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
ANTALYA, Turkey—The 2009 Label Industry Global Awards announced that the winner of the R. Stanton Avery Lifetime Achievement Award is label consultant, Michael Fairley. He was selected as the overall winner by the international label industry judging panel at the FINAT/ESD Congress in Antalya following a review of the online votes against the criteria. The award is sponsored by Avery Dennison.
Mike Fairley has been writing and talking about labels for more than 30 years. As both the founder of Labels & Labeling and the Cowise International Publishing Group (now part of Tarsus Group) and a successful industry consultant, he has been at the forefront of introducing the latest innovations in label materials, technology, markets and applications, as well as helping label industry supplier and converter companies to implement their education, training and marketing strategies.
He has written or contributed to many label technical and market reports, including those for Frost & Sullivan, Economist Intelligence Unit, Info Trends and PIRA, as well as for his own consultancy company, and has been a regular speaker at label industry and association conferences, summits and congresses throughout Europe, as well as in North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, India, Israel, Japan, China and Turkey.
Chairman of the judging panel, Helmut Schreiner, commented: "The entire judging panel felt honored to have the opportunity to recognize Michael's lifetime achievement. In our opinion he has been building bridges for several decades between suppliers and converters, between countries and their people, and between the present and the future to new market segments, niches, technical materials and, perhaps most importantly, a new way of thinking. There is no large and powerful company standing behind Michael. This particular award is given strictly to an individual and his personal achievement. We look forward to celebrating with Michael and the rest of the industry at the Awards evening on the first night of Labelexpo Europe 2009."
Michael Fairley


Today I wanted to share with you a "simple" footprint that will uncover a boat load of "QUALITY" websites that you can get backlinks from.
In the short video below I show you how you can use my new "Google Parser" tool to find high quality sites that are specific to your niche. These sites use a simple "discussion" product called "Disqus" hwich is a commenting platform that works on near enough ANY type of website. It's isn't limited to WordPress or Joomla… it can be used on standard HTML websites so the diversity you can get with this method is "awesome".
Watch the video below and then carry on reading to find out how you can get a copy of BOTH the software tools I use… as well as Alex Becker and Alex Cass's brand NEW SEO course. All for $9.
All disqus backlinks are no follow, but I suppose that is the same for WordPress blogs (except commentlove one's).
What else is the parser useful for please?
You can basically enter any footprint and extract the URLs. Then use the PR checker software to check the Page Rank. Not all links need to be dofollow. It's more about the overall link profile now than just the "juice" that dofollow brings.


ARC GIVEAWAY on The Midnight Garden blog! Title: ScarletAuthor: Marissa MeyerRating: 4 out of 5 starsRelease Date: February 5th, 2013 by Feiwel & FriendsAge Group: Young AdultSource: ARC provided by the publisherI read the first in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder, just last week, and was enamored with Marissa Meyer's imaginative and wholly original take on the Cinderella fairy tale (seriously, who gets sci-fi/fantasy with cyborgs and aliens and magic powers from that? SOMEONE AWESOME, obviously), and very much enjoyed the depth and humor she infused into the characters. But, there was still something missing for me. Some indefinable piece that could bump it up from, "wow, this is really great" to, "TELL ME MORE. IMMEDIATELY."I'm pleased to tell you, my friends, Scarlet is that missing piece . With its higher stakes, intense action, and one hell of a big, (so hot it might be) bad (for your heart) Wolf, I couldn't turn the pages fast enough.The sequel picks up right where Cinder left off, but from Scarlet's point of view. She, as you might have imagined, is a red-headed, red-hoodie-wearing French girl, who is desperately searching for her Grand-mére, Michelle Benoit, who disappeared without a trace two weeks before. She meets Wolf, a curiously shy street fighter, and finds he may know what happened to her grandmother. Though she suspects him, she has no other leads, and no choice but to agree to his offer of help. Meanwhile, Cinder is breaking her way out of prison in New Beijing, with a new companion in tow--the cocky "Captain" Thorne, who has a stolen ship hidden on the outskirts of the city. Narrowly escaping capture, they fly to France in search of Michelle Benoit and the answers Cinder hopes she will be able to provide about her past. What follows is a fast-paced, gritty, and surprisingly violent climax that doesn't let up until the very last page. I felt almost out of breath while reading, cringing and tensing as though I was experiencing every scene right along with the characters.The dynamics between the characters are great. Cinder and Thorne's snarking back and forth was hilarious, but the real star for me was the slow, simmering build between Scarlet and Wolf. Marissa Meyer knows how to write some swoony UST (unresolved sexual tension), and I was all a-flutter over Wolf from the very first page. He's quiet and sweet, but with an edge of just barely restrained violence that I have to say, really worked for me. (And it didn't hurt that this:is what I pictured while reading. Right? I know.)Like Cinder, the main flaw I found in Scarlet was predictability, but in this the pacing was so well done I found it didn't matter if I knew what was coming, the way in which I arrived was exciting enough to keep me on the edge of my seat. It ends with no real cliffhanger (just a seriously swoony scene), but with a sense of urgency that will keep me counting the days until Cress, the third book in the series, is out in 2014.


Cellular apps are one of the crucial current and the supreme expertise trend of our period. They have, on their own, altered the mode we commerce. Enterprises are at present gazing at a new world of electrifying stuff to their patrons by the use of cellular apps. Whether or not it's gaming, journey, commercial service, or online shopping workflow, these purposes seem like a information for roughly the whole lot. They have given great enhance to enterprise in as we speak's online world. By the identical token, it is not needed that each iphone app is a brilliant hit. Similar to functions of different platforms it wants great effort to make an iphone app widespread among shoppers.


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Designer | Serralunga
Born in Yamanashi 1956, Graduated from Tama Art University's Product Design Department. As an in-house designer, he engaged in the design of microelectronic devices including watches.
In 1989, Fukasawa moved to the United States and joined IDEO and it was a very rare case for Japanese product designer of that time. It was the time when Silicon valley was experiencing a rapidly growth with the computer technologies and Fukasawa was mainly involved in the design of computers and electronics for companies in Silicon Valley, medical equipment, furniture and sporting goods. In 1996 he returned to Japan, where he set up and headed IDEO's Tokyo office.
In 2003 he established Naoto Fukasawa Design. Fukasawa's approach for product design is very original and his "Without Thought", and "Design dissolving in behavior" are internationally supported. Fukasawa regards achieving simpleness in design as a way to achieve completeness and harmonious relationship between users, objects and environments as a purpose for design. Such a way of thinking is also described as "Outline". Outline is about defining the boundaries of relationships between objects, people and environment. Today, Fukasawa is based in Tokyo with his small team and collaborating with many international leading companies.
Being accorded the title of Honorable Royal Designer for Industry (Royal Society of Arts) in 2007 as one of the examples, Fukasawa received a number of international awards. Fukasawa is one of the directors of 21_21 Design Site, as well as acting on the design advisory board of MUJI.
He acts as the chairman for " GOOD DESIGN AWARD". He is a professor at Musashino Art University, a visiting professor at Tama Art University, and a member of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Research Group on Applications for Strategic Design.
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Project: Investigating the role of soluble immune checkpoints in HIV persistence
Lewin group
The main reason antiretroviral therapy (ART) is unable to cure HIV is the persistence of HIV in a latent form in long-lived CD4+ T-cells. Once ART is stopped, virus quickly re-emerges and leads to disease progression. Effective elimination of latently infected cells and durable control of HIV in the absence of ART, will require potent and sustained CD8+ T-cell effector function, but a key problem is that HIV infection is characterised by immune exhaustion, which persists even on suppressive ART. In both treated and untreated HIV infection, there is increased T-cell expression of immune checkpoint proteins, such as programmed death-1 (PD-1) and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated protein 4 (CTLA-4) on CD8 + T-cells, which impairs cytotoxic activity, and increased expression of these proteins on CD4+ T-cells can also promote latent infection. Collectively, this shows that immune checkpoint proteins contribute to HIV persistence through two major pathways - effects on the virus itself (enhancing latent infection) and by impairing cytotoxic function of HIV-specific T-cells.
The role of T cell expression of immune checkpoints has been thoroughly investigated in previous studies, so in this project we will examine the role of soluble immune checkpoints, i.e. proteins present in plasma originating from the cleavage off cells of immune checkpoints. By quantifying soluble immune checkpoints in plasma samples from different cohorts of people with HIV on ART, we will investigate their correlation with measures of HIV persistence and immune exhaustion. To investigate the dynamics of soluble immune checkpoints during therapeutic blockade of PD-1 and/or CTLA-4, we will also quantify levels of soluble immune checkpoints in people with HIV on ART receiving immune checkpoint blockade for cancer. Finally we will determine whether the virus can drive cleavage of immune checkpoints and whether soluble immune checkpoints alter T-cell function and HIV persistence in vitro.
Professor Sharon Lewin
Dr Thomas Rasmussen
Dr Chris Chiu
PhD/MPhil
sharon.lewin@unimelb.edu.au
Co-infections with viral or bacterial pathogens cause significant morbidity in people with HIV. In the case of HIV and hepatitis B virus (HBV) co-infection, morbidity and mortality secondary to liver disease is greatly increased compared to those infected with HBV or HIV alone. Mortality remains elevated even after treating both HIV and HBV. The HBV Immunology group investigates the mechanism of how HIV can accelerate liver disease in patients co-infected with HBV. We hypothesise that this occurs by combined effects of HIV and HBV on inflammation in the liver. These studies could potentially lead to new treatments for liver disease.
Lewin group Current Projects
Beyond integration: defining factors that control HIV latency reversal in both clonal and non-clonal populations
Investigating the role of soluble immune checkpoints in HIV persistence


Of who I can't be and where I can't go.
He loved her like her life was progress.
In the search of a split second.
Sliced – cleanly – off!
six lifetimes gathering discarded things, but never before a severed head.
none are tearful, but all spun near-mad from the fresh touch of death.
slackening in against the stony bottom wall of teeth.
this bit of dead gore, treated gingerly as a baby.
Some go electric - Philips, Braun.
of innocence, not yet mislaid.
and I don't fix it.
after a misplaced step sent her tumbling.
it was not designed to hold.
than the pane could ever hold.
and I sit with it.
for the others who could not come.
pin the impulse to fix frayed edges.
of a previous life as a tailor, mending men.
mis/spelling his name in 50 ways.
longer than the word he meant to write.
to fill the holes the careless do not see.
But hold the urge to reconstruct.
Repair for furniture, bones and cars.
Sometimes we must let the English be broken.


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Home News MSPs Fast Becoming a Primary Target for Cybercriminals
MSPs Fast Becoming a Primary Target for Cybercriminals
N-able, Inc. (NYSE: NABL), the solutions partner helping IT services providers deliver security, data protection, and remote monitoring and management services, today announced the result of research into the fast-changing security landscape for its partners, conducted by an independent research firm and commissioned by N-able.
The research found that managed services providers (MSPs) are quickly overtaking their customers as a primary target for cybercriminals. The research also revealed that while 90% of the surveyed MSPs suffered a cyberattack in the last 18 months, the number of attacks these MSPs are preventing has almost doubled, from 6 to 11.
The report, State of the Market: The New Threat Landscape, reflects the responses of 500 participants— sourced from the U.S. and Europe by an independent research team—about their security experiences before the COVID-19 pandemic and today, to discover what had changed. There has been an assumption that the increase in hybrid working has meant a shift in how threat attackers are operating. N-able's research looks at that shift and what it means for MSPs.
Also Read: Why Enterprises Must Re-evaluate Cybersecurity Now
"MSPs have worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic to ensure that the businesses they support can stay online and connected as circumstances changed," said Dave MacKinnon, chief security officer, N-able. "But the cybercriminals they're protecting against are working equally as hard to make use of these shifts against their targets. MSPs need to understand how the threat landscape continues to evolve and make the changes needed to protect both their customers and themselves, and make the most of the enormous opportunity that enhancing security provides."
The research reveals:
Almost all (90%) MSPs have suffered a successful cyberattack of some sort in the last 18 months, and the same amount have seen an increase in the number of attacks they are preventing each month. On average, the number of attacks being prevented has risen from six to 11.
82% of MSPs have also seen attacks on their customers rise, though not quite at the same rate, with an average of 14 attacks prevented per month.
While some progress is being made on important security processes, such as automating backup, many basics are still not in place. For example, while most MSPs offer two-factor authentication to their customers, only 40% have implemented it in-house.
DDoS and ransomware are among the main attacks MSPs are detecting, but the top attack remains phishing.
The effects of cyberattacks are wide ranging. Over half of MSPs say that financial loss and business disruption resulted after a cyberattack, but many said they have lost business (46%), suffered reputational effects (45%), and even saw their customers suffer a loss of trust (28%). While MSP budgets are only increasing at an average of 5%, they are focusing this extra investment on key areas, including data security, cloud security, and infrastructure protection.
There's good news. The majority of SMEs, seven in every 10, are planning to increase their security budget. For MSPs, this means a big opportunity is available.
Automating key functions is critical to making headway against cybercriminals. Automated backups are the most common form of automation used by MSPs to keep their customers' businesses secure, used by 85% of all respondents.
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At 3 Day Startup we work closely with universities and professors on a daily basis to help their students start companies. In an effort to highlight the big movers in entrepreneurship education and recognize the top 25 entrepreneurship professors in the U.S., we asked students, alumni, university administrators, entrepreneurs, and fellow colleagues to nominate university professors who play an integral role in entrepreneurship education.
All professors and educators recognized are involved in entrepreneurship education through a variety of means — some of these educators teach general entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, or various interdisciplinary studies that blend entrepreneurship with other subjects. The top 25 nominees are featured on the 3DS Blog.
Deadline: The voting process is now over.
Questions about the nomination process? Shoot us an email at inquiries@3daystartup.org.


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namespace App\AdminBundle\Controller;

use App\MainBundle\Entity\Category;
use Symfony\Component\Form\Form;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormBuilderInterface;

class CategoryController extends CoreController
{
    public function indexAction()
    {
        return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('admin_category_list'));
    }

    public function listAction()
    {
        $builder = $this->createFormBuilder(null, [
            'csrf_protection' => false,
            'method' => 'get'
        ]);
        $this->buildFilterForm($builder);
        $form = $builder->getForm();
        $request = $this->getRequest();
        $form->submit($request);

        $query = $this->createFilterQuery($form);
        $pagination = $this->paginate($query);

        return $this->render('AdminBundle:Category:list.html.twig', [
            'pagination' => $pagination,
            'filterForm' => $form->createView()
        ]);
    }

    public function editAction($id = null)
    {
        $isNew = null === $id;

        if ($isNew) {
            $entity = new Category();
        } else {
            $entity = $this->findCategory($id);
        }

        $builder = $this->createFormBuilder($entity)
            ->add('name', null, [
                'label' => 'Название'
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                'label' => $isNew ? 'Добавить' : 'Сохранить'
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        ;

        $editForm = $builder->getForm();
        $editForm->handleRequest($this->getRequest());

        if ($editForm->isValid()) {
            $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
            $em->persist($entity);
            $em->flush();

            if ($isNew) {
                $this->addFlashMessage('success', 'Категория создана');
            } else {
                $this->addFlashMessage('success', 'Категория сохранена');
            }

            return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('admin_category_edit', [
                'id' => $entity->getId()
            ]));
        }

        return $this->render('AdminBundle:Category:edit.html.twig', [
            'isNew' => $isNew,
            'entity' => $entity,
            'form'   => $editForm->createView(),
        ]);
    }

    protected function buildFilterForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder)
    {
        $builder
            ->add('name', 'text', [
                'label' => 'Название',
                'required' => false
            ])
            ->add('submit', 'submit', [
                'label' => 'Показать'
            ])
        ;
    }

    protected function createFilterQuery(Form $form)
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        $qb = $this->getCategoryRepository()->createQueryBuilder('c');

        if ($form->get('name')->getNormData()) {
            $qb->andWhere('c.name LIKE :name');
            $qb->setParameter('name', '%' . $form->get('name')->getNormData() . '%');
        }

        if ($form->has('sort_field') && $form->get('sort_field')->getNormData()) {
            $qb->orderBy('c.' . $form->get('sort_field')->getNormData(), $form->get('sort_order')->getNormData());
        }

        return $qb->getQuery();
    }

    /**
     * @param $id
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     * @throws \Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\NotFoundHttpException
     */
    protected function findCategory($id)
    {
        $entity = $this->getCategoryRepository()->find($id);

        if (!$entity) {
            throw $this->createNotFoundException('Категория не найден');
        }

        return $entity;
    }

    public function removeAction($id)
    {
        $category = $this->findCategory($id);

        $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();

        $em->remove($category);
        $em->flush();

        $this->addFlashMessage('success', 'Категория удалена');

        return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('admin_category_list'));
    }
}

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ADS Securities launches Multi-Asset Trading Platform
ADS Securities has announced the official launch of its new trading platform.
ADS Securities has announced the official launch of its new trading platform. OREX Optim is the first proprietary multi-asset online trading platform to be commissioned and developed from the Middle East. It represents a multi-million dollar investment in technology which will be accessed by investors from around the world.
Andrew Rossiter, ADS Security CTO, who heads up the OREX Optim team, said: "Advances in technology, predominately driven by the order based (equity) markets are now being adopted by the quote (OTC) market which is changing the operational structure and functionality of FX platforms. Our new generation platform provides a low latency solution with better fill, tighter spreads and low rejection rates which is what clients are looking for. Today we are launching the FIX API versions of OREX Optim which will be of great interest to institutional traders from tier 2 banks through to asset managers and hedge funds."


Rani Chali Sasural is a Bhojpuri film released on 15th March 2013. This film is directed by Fahim Khan and produced by CP Singh. Film Rani Chali Sasural is full of action and drama. Deepak Kumar Bandhu and Rani Chatterjee are leads roles.


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Defibrilators from Homeland Security @ LCC 2014-04-07
The KLVB presentation told us up to three states dump in the Pecan Row Landfill in Lowndes County, for which the county gets some unspecified amount of tipping fees, which go to fund KLVB. An appointment to KLVB was added to the agenda, although nobody deigned to reveal who was "that individual that has requested to serve on that board". The Homeland Security grant application turned out to be for defibrillators.
Here's the agenda, with a few annotations and links to the videos.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor
This entry was posted in Economy, Government, Health Care, KLVB, Lowndes County Commission, Safety, Solid Waste, Tennessee, Transparency, Transportation, Trash, Water and tagged 7 April 2014, ADS, board packets, change order, coal ash, defibrillator, Economy, Georgia, Government, Gretchen Quarterman, Health Care, homeland security, LAKE, LCC, Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange, Lowndes County, Lowndes County Commission, noncompetitive, PCB, Pecan Row Landfill, Safety, Superfund, taxes, Transparency, Val Del Road, Valdosta, wastewater, Withlacoochee River, Work Session on April 20, 2014 by John S. Quarterman.
Solar Music City Center, Nashville, Tennessee
Valdosta has a larger solar installation than Nashville, Tennessee, but Valdosta's is hidden away at the Mud Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant while Nashville's biggest is on its new Music City Center. Which do you think shows the most leadership, and will attract the most business?
In Lightwave Solar's May 2013 newsletter, LightWave Completes Music City Center Solar Project,
LightWave Solar recently completed the installation of a 211 kilo-watt (kW) solar system for the Music City Center, and it is the largest solar installation in Nashville.
Installed within the guitar shaped structure on the roof, the system consists of 845 solar panels and four inverters weighing 1,800 pounds each. The system will generate approx. 271,000 kilowatt-hours per year, enough electricity to power the electric vehicle charging stations and lighting for the building. Over 25 years, the clean electricity will offset nearly 5,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, the equivalent of taking 920 cars off the road.
"This project shows great leadership on behalf of the city," said Steve Johnson, President of LightWave Solar. "We applaud the mayor's vision in making Nashville a more sustainable city with a bright future."
And leadership can extend even beyond solar into water and habitat:
This entry was posted in Environment, Music, Renewable Energy, Solar, Tennessee, Water and tagged Environment, Georgia, green roof, LAKE, Lightwave Solar, Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange, Lowndes County, Music, Music City Center, Nashville, Renewable Energy, Solar, Tennessee, Valdosta, Water on May 14, 2013 by John S. Quarterman.
Georgia legislature still trying to suck up Tennessee River water
Because Atlanta can't get a grip on its water usage, the Georgia legislature is still trying to suck up Tennessee River water. If the legislature is willing to try that, how long before they try sucking up our Floridan Aquifer water for Atlanta?
Prefiled in December to be up early as the Georgia legisture starts meeting today, is a bill to try to move the northern border of Georgia to match an eighteenth century boundary that just happens to include a bit of the Tennessee River in Georgia. HR 4, Georgia and Tennessee; boundary dispute; propose settlement, was filed by Rep. Harry Geisinger, R – Roswell, District 48, and says in part:
WHEREAS, the State of Georgia proposes to the State of Tennessee that the dispute be resolved by the states agreeing that the current boundary between the two states reflecting the flawed 1818 survey be adopted as the legal boundary between the states except for an area described as follows which shall be made a part of the State of Georgia by which Georgia shall be able to exercise its riparian water rights to the Tennessee River at Nickajack:
Georgia is already in a three-decade-long dispute with Alabama and Florida over the Chattahoochee River. Does adding a dispute over the Tennessee River seem like a good idea to you?
And how can we best stop Atlanta from coming for our Floridan Aquifer?
This entry was posted in Activism, Environment, Florida, Georgia, Government, History, Law, Planning, Politics, Tennessee, Water and tagged Activism, Alabama, Atlanta, Chattahoochee River, Environment, Florida, Floridan Aquifer, Georgia, Government, Harry Geisinger, History, LAKE, Law, Legislature, Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange, Lowndes County, Planning, Politics, Roswell, Tennessee, Tennessee River, Valdosta, Water on January 14, 2013 by admin.
Who will let the sun shine on Georgia?
Someone asked who to vote for who will represent the people more than the electric utilities, on Elect Georgia legislators and Public Service Commissioners who will let the sun shine on Georgia! OK, here's my opinion.
Sec. State provides you with a sample ballot.
For PSC, vote for somebody who isn't an incumbent (the incumbents are marked on the ballot). The election today is a primary, so you need to select a Democratic ballot (Steve Oppenheimer District 3 is not an incumbent) or a Republican ballot (Pam Davidson District 5 and Matt Reid District 3 are not incumbents).
For the legislature, here is a list of who voted for the nuke stealth tax as a charge on Georgia Power bills for electricity nobody will get for years if ever. On your ballot, see if somebody else is running against them. Around here, somebody is: Bikram Mohanty for State Senate District 8, Teresa Lawrence for State House District 174, and JC Cunningham for State House District 175, all Democrats, since the incumbents switched parties after being elected last time.
So, if you want solar and wind energy for jobs, energy independence, and profit in the state of Georgia, instead of Georgia Power's bet-the-farm nuclear risk at Plant Vogtle and Southern Company's natural gas fracking, that's who I would vote for.
If, like me, you didn't already vote early, today is the final day to vote in this primary, and you and I'll be going down to the precinct polling place to cast a ballot. Today's the day!
This entry was posted in Activism, Coal, CWIP, Economy, Environment, GA PSC, Georgia, Georgia Power, Georgia Solar Power, Government, Law, Nuclear, Oil, Planning, Politics, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Tennessee, VLCIA, Wind and tagged Activism, boondoggle, Coal, CWIP, Economy, Environment, fracking, GA PSC, Georgia, Georgia Power, Georgia Solar Power, Government, LAKE, Law, Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange, Lowndes County, Moore's Law, natural gas, Nuclear, Oil, Planning, Plant Vogtle, Politics, Pollution, Renewable Energy, solar PV, south Georgia, Southern Company, Tennessee, Thomas A. Fanning, Valdosta, VLCIA, Wind on July 31, 2012 by admin.
Elect Georgia legislators and Public Service Commissioners who will let the sun shine on Georgia!
Solar PV prices have dropped so much they're competitive with coal, natural gas, and nuclear. The only thing that stops Georgia from leading the country and the world in solar energy is our legislature and Public Service Commission kow-towing to the electric companies instead of serving the public. How about we elect Georgia legislators and PSC members who will change that?
How about if we elect legislators who will stop approving nuclear boondoggles for Southern Company through a stealth tax on Georgia Power customers? How about we elect Georgia Public Service Commissioners who will stop giving Georgia Power a guaranteed profit through charging cost overruns (already $400 million) for the Plant Vogtle boondoggle to Georgia Power customers?
How about instead we fully fund the existing 35% state tax rebate for renewable energy? Last year Georgia legislators did double the money in that fund, but it's still only $5 million a year and the funding for 2012 has already been used up. $5 million a year for power after it's installed, while Georgia Power and Southern Company have already run $400 million over budget on nuclear energy that nobody will see for years, if ever! We need Georgia legislators who understand that Moore's Law for solar means fast growth; growth in jobs, energy independence, and profit for Georgians.
To bring Georgia to the lead in renewable energy in this country and the world, all we really need to do is to pass something like SB 401 to modify that arrogant dinosaur of a 1973 Georgia Territoriality Electric Service Act that prevents you from getting financing to install solar generation and selling it through the grid at a profit, with the electric utility taking a cut and bragging rights.
It is time to let the south Georgia sun break through the clouds of power utility disinformation and regulatory capture. It is time for us to elect Georgia legislators and Georgia Public Service Commissioners who will let the sun shine on us in Georgia!
Solar PV costs dropped 50% last year: time for south Georgia to lead in solar power
Solar energy continues to grow by leaps and bounds worldwide. Except in Georgia. Maybe we should change that. There's an election going on right now.
Frank Jordans wrote for AP 11 June 2012, $257 billion invested in renewable energy in 2011,
Global investment in renewable energy reached a record of $257 billion last year, with solar attracting more than half the total spending, according to a U.N. report released Monday.
Investment in solar energy surged to $147 billion in 2011, a year-on-year increase of 52 percent thanks to strong demand for rooftop photovoltaic installations in Germany, Italy, China and Britain.
Large-scale solar thermal installations in Spain and the United States also contributed to growth during a fiercely competitive year for the solar industry. Several large American and German manufacturers fell victim to price pressure from Chinese rivals that helped to halve the cost of photovoltaic modules in 2011.
Lower solar PV module price should mean more people can afford to install solar electricity, which should mean more jobs for people to install it. How much lower? According to the report:
This entry was posted in Activism, Coal, CWIP, Economy, Environment, GA PSC, Georgia, Georgia Power, Georgia Solar Power, Government, Law, Nuclear, Oil, Planning, Politics, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Tennessee, VLCIA, Wind and tagged Activism, boondoggle, Coal, CWIP, Economy, Environment, fracking, GA PSC, Georgia, Georgia Power, Georgia Solar Power, Government, LAKE, Law, Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange, Moore's Law, natural gas, Nuclear, Oil, Planning, Plant Vogtle, Politics, Pollution, Renewable Energy, solar PV, south Georgia, Southern Company, Tennessee, Thomas A. Fanning, VLCIA, Wind on July 29, 2012 by admin.
Unemployed need public transit to get to jobs: T-SPLOST doesn't help
If you're unemployed, you may not be able to afford a car: then how do you get to work even if you can find a job? As our own Industrial Authority's Community Assessment of last October said, we need public transportation to promote business by getting employees to jobs. T-SPLOST doesn't do that: it would widen more roads and build no public transportation.
Peter S. Goodman wrote for Huffington Post today, Unemployment Problem Includes Public Transportation That Separates Poor From Jobs
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — In the two months since he lost his job driving a delivery truck for a door company, Lebron Stinson has absorbed a bitter geography lesson about this riverfront city: The jobs are in one place, he is in another, and the bus does not bridge the divide.
Stinson lives downtown, where many of the factories that once employed willing hands have been converted into chic eateries. The majority of jobs are out in the suburbs, in the strip malls, office parks and chain restaurants that stretch eastward. Most of this sprawl lies beyond reach of the public bus system, and Stinson cannot afford a car.
The report Janus Economic did for VLCIA 11 October 2011, Community & Economic Assessment: Lowndes County says:
There is a plan for a public transportation system in Valdosta-Lowndes County but it currently lacks funding for implementation. Under current budget constraints it will be difficult to implement such a project, but businesses in the industrial parks and outlying areas may want to implement a limited transportation system if they discover that employee attendance is an issue.
That would be the plan for $7.5 million for a four line bus system that got cut first pass from the T-SPLOST project list, while widening a few miles of Old US 41 North got raised from $8 million to $12 million and is still in the final list.
T-SPLOST would promote more sprawl of exactly the kind we don't need. Let's not do that.
This entry was posted in Community, Economy, GDOT, Planning, T-SPLOST, Tennessee, Transportation, VLCIA and tagged bus, Chattanooga, Community, Economy, GDOT, Georgia, Janus Economic, LAKE, Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange, Lowndes County, North Valdosta Road, Planning, public transportation, T-SPLOST, Tennessee, transit, Transportation, Valdosta, VLCIA on July 11, 2012 by admin.
CCA is a functional equivalent of a government agency —TN court
A government agency is subject to open records laws. Alex Friedman of Prison Legal News sued CCA for not satisfying an open records request. CCA lost in local court, then lost again on first appeal. On a second appeal, CCA lost even more abruptly.
Knoxville News editorial of 14 March 2010, Chalk two up for open government
CAA[sic] maintained it wasn't the functional equivalent of a government agency, but the Appeals Court rejected that claim and the Supreme Court refused even to hear it.
"With all due respect to CAA[sic]," Appeals Court Judge D. Michael Swiney wrote in his opinion on Friedman's case, "this Court is at a loss as to how operating a state prison could be considered anything less than a governmental function."
So eventually CCA will have to surrender at least some of the records, although there is still haggling in court over which exceptions CCA can use for which records. (And there's always the old "we didn't keep them that long" trick.)
The Tennessee Supreme Court had already ruled about government contractors:
"When a private entity's relationship with the government is so extensive that the entity serves as the functional equivalent of a governmental agency, the accountability created by public oversight should be preserved."
I wonder if Georgia will accept a Tennessee precedent?
This entry was posted in Activism, CCA, Government, Incarceration, Law, Tennessee, Transparency and tagged Alex Friedman, CCA, contractor, D. Michael Swiney, Incarceration, open records, Prison Legal News, Tennessee, Transparency on January 9, 2012 by admin.


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I hope you are all feeling festive! I've been finishing off festive food hampers (check out my post on this from earlier today), wrapping some final presents, and now I've settled on the sofa to watch Miracle on 34th Street.
In my home-made hampers I made sure to include something I baked myself. I made a big batch of Christmas Tree shortbread for family (with a good few left over for Phill and I of course).
If you're in the mood for some last minute Christmas Eve baking, follow this recipe and you'll have 25 pieces of shortbread in less than an hour. The house will smell delicious and you'll have some home-made treats for Santa Claus.
1. Heat the oven to 190C. Break the butter up into small cubes and place in a mixing bowl along with all the caster sugar. Whisk these together until you have a smooth paste.
2. Add the flour to your butter/sugar mix and make sure everything is well mixed together.
3. Generously flour your worktop before placing your shortbread mix onto the surface. Flour your rolling pin and get rolling! Be careful not to make your shortbread too thin.
4. Now for the fun bit – get your shape cutter and get going! Place your single shortbreads on to a baking tray and scatter each one generously with some caster sugar.
5. Place your shortbread in the fridge for 20 minutes and then place in the oven for a further 15/20 minutes until they are a pale golden colour.
6. Leave your shortbread to cool before eating/storing/setting out for Santa.
This Ikea mixing bowl with lid is a fab invention! It reduces the amount of mess I make whilst baking!
Be generous with the caster sugar!
A lovely home-made Christmas gift.


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In 2020, There's No Doubt: We Need the Hope of Christmas
Photo by Joshua Hoehne/Unsplash
Christmas is the compass in a world of wanderers searching for hope.
One cold December day in 1863, when the country was reeling from the deep-seated divisions of the Civil War, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow received a telegram: the son of the great 19th century poet had been severely injured by a gunshot wound that nicked his spine and nearly left him paralyzed.
It was in that sorrow — a despair with which only a parent could relate — that the widowed father penned the poem we now know as "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." The composition, which has since been transformed into one of our most beloved Christmas carols, gave words to the dissonance Longfellow felt between the hallmarks of the holiday season and the desperation consuming his every moment.
Longfellow wrote:
Till ringing, singing on its way,
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
With peace on earth, good-will to men."
While Longfellow's world was much different from the one in which we find ourselves today, the dissonance between the joys of Christmas and the hopelessness of 2020 offers a fresh perspective to his poignant words of old.
The heartbroken dad's poem was penned from a place of sincere grief. As The Washington Post's Linda Wheeler once recalled, Longfellow later told a friend he wrote the words after enduring "a great deal of trouble and anxiety" — feelings all too familiar to us this year.
Many of the draconian measures Americans have faced amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic have caused dangerous spikes in depression, anxiety, and even suicide. The first round of lockdowns saw a nearly 18% increase in drug overdose deaths and one-in-four young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 said they seriously considered suicide. And some in our elderly population are actually dying of loneliness.
Despite the myriad ways we're divided right now, the world seems to be united in at least one way: we're all feeling the pangs of despair.
But Christmas is here, and it's for the wanderers.
The traditions of the Yuletide season — the music, the (perhaps virtual) get-togethers, the prayers of Advent, the gifts, the wonders of the Nativity — serve as signposts for the hope-seekers listening for "the bells on Christmas Day."
I've heard it said more than once that, much like a diamond against a black backdrop, the redemption found only in Jesus, whose birth we're celebrating this month, shines brightest in the moments it feels most needed.
While the church bells that Christmas Day some 160 years ago moved Longfellow to wrestle with his own sorrow, the holy sounds — "more loud and deep" — ultimately reminded him of the truth that remains unchanged, no matter the trials he faced: "God is not dead, nor doth He sleep. The wrong shall fail, the right prevail, with peace on earth, good-will toward men."
The compass of Christmas, just as it did for Longfellow, points the hope-seekers to Jesus. At Christmastime, the local church — the body of believers doing good in a world punctuated by pain — should light the way toward hope.
Hal Donaldson, president and co-founder of the Christian humanitarian organization Convoy of Hope, recently told me he is convinced it's local churches — thousands of faithful congregations in cities, towns, and suburbs all across the country — that will make all the difference in our world full of wanderers.
"The church," Donaldson said, "is the most powerful force in the United States. It's more powerful than the White House and the Capitol." He went on to say, "I see a united act of compassion: the church working together as never before to meet both the physical and spiritual needs and to bring healing to our nation."
Even in the trials this year has brought — and maybe especially because of them — the glory of Jesus and His radical love for us should bring us a sense of peace. No matter the difficulties we face, as believers, we should declare to a searching world: right will prevail, because "God is not dead, nor doth He sleep."
So wanderers, this Christmas, I urge you to pause — if only for a moment — and listen to the bells.


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Role of RDA Orana
How does it work? A Designated Area Migration Agreement (DAMA) is an agreement between the Australian Government and a Designated Area Representative (DAR),...
What is the role of RDA Orana? As the Designated Area Representative (DAR), RDA Orana's role is to manage a number of aspects of the DAMA on behalf of...
Role of Aus Gov
What is the role of the Australian Government? The Department of Home Affairs undertakes two major functions in relation to the DAMA. 1. It manages all...
Role of employers
What is the role of the employer? As an employer, you must submit an honest, accurate and complete application to show your business: has the capacity...
DAMA Occupation List
Occupations included in the Orana DAMA The table shows occupations that are eligible for sponsorship under the Orana Designated Area Migration Agreement...
DAMA Concessions
DAMA concessions and what they mean The Migration Act (1958) and Migration Regulations (1994) outline the eligibility criteria for the approval of employer...
Qualifications and experience concessions under the Orana region DAMA Under the current Orana DAMA, there is a range of skills and experience concessions...
TSMIT
Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold (TSMIT) concessions under the Orana DAMA The TSMIT value is set by legislation to ensure that migrant workers...
English language concessions under the Orana DAMA For all skilled migration visas, the nominee is required to meet English language requirements. Visa...
Employer Eligibility
Employer eligibility For a role to be eligible under the Orana DAMA, the employer business must have a physical presence in the Orana region and the activities...
Step-by-step guide to the DAMA application process for the Orana region Step 1: Have a good read of the information contained on this website. Step 2:...
Fees and charges There are costs involved in sponsoring an overseas worker under the Orana DAMA. The overall process involves a number of parties who...
The following FAQs relate to the Orana DAMA Why do we need DAMA for the Orana region? + In workforce. What occupations are included in the Orana DAMA?...
What is the role of RDA Orana?
As the Designated Area Representative (DAR), RDA Orana's role is to manage a number of aspects of the DAMA on behalf of the Australian Government.
The responsibilities for RDA Orana include:
Managing the employer endorsement process.
Employers interested in a Labour Agreement under the Orana region DAMA must first be endorsed by RDA Orana. As a part of this process, RDA Orana must ensure that the business has undertaken the appropriate steps to ensure the aims of the DAMA are upheld and that legislative requirements for the relevant visa pathways will be met.
If the employer is endorsed, the RDA Orana will provide a letter of endorsement to the employer and the Department of Home Affairs.
Monitor the labour market behaviour of employers and the impact of various government initiatives in the Orana region to ensure that Australians are not disadvantaged by the DAMA and that the DAMA objectives are met.
RDA Orana does this by undertaking monthly job ad surveys, an annual skills shortage survey and regular briefings with a broad range of employers within the Orana region. We also regularly consult with business organisations and RDAs from across the country to monitor labour markets and activities taking place in a broader context.
Supporting employers and visa holders through the endorsement process and subsequent employment period.
RDA Orana acts as a conduit between the employer and various government departments and service providers:
to ensure both the employer and the employee have access to information on their working rights and responsibilities
to assist employers where variations in arrangements need to be made, and
to provide settlement support information about regional relocation, health, emergency services and education is available to ensure the migrant family's settlement is as smooth as possible.
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Join NACE Executive Director Shawn VanDerziel to explore the latest updates on what is happening in higher education and recruiting. Shawn will share real-time data gathered through NACE quick polls and discuss the implications with insightful guests around a range of topics.
Bring your coffee (or your lunch) to this one-hour discussion, which will include chat functionality so you can take part in the conversation!
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As executive director of the National Association of Colleges and Employers, Shawn VanDerziel leads the association of 14,000+ professionals at more than 3,000 employing organizations and educational institutions engaged in the career development and the employment of college students and alumni. Prior to joining the NACE staff, Shawn was with the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago for 23 years, where he most recently served as chief human resources officer and as chief of staff. His earlier roles included corporate recruiting with Norrell Corporation and a position in higher education as associate director of student enrollment at National Louis University.
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from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponse, JsonResponse
from .models import traffic_data
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext

def postInfo(request, signal_no, car_no):
	str= "Received: " + signal_no + " : " + car_no + " "
	new_entry=traffic_data(
		signal_no=signal_no,
		car_no=car_no)

	new_entry.save()
	return HttpResponse(str)

def getInfo(request, signal_no):
	ans={}
	ans[signal_no]=[]

	for obj in traffic_data.objects.filter(signal_no=signal_no):
		ans[signal_no].append(obj.car_no)

	return JsonResponse(ans)

def main(request):
	return render_to_response('heatmap.html',
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Singing Talent
10 Fun Facts About Grace Davies of 'The X Factor UK'
Jason Ginsburg
By day, she works in a warehouse, packing CDs and records. By night, she sells CDs — her own. She's Grace Davies, a 20-year-old singer and songwriter from a rural village in Britain. And she has taken The X Factor UK by storm.
She got a "big" or "huge" yes from all four judges at her audition. Since then, she has brought her smoky voice to both killer covers (like David Bowie's Life On Mars?) and her own original works (like Hesitate). Grace has her hometown, and seemingly the whole country, behind her. Here are 10 fun facts about this rising star.
She started by singing in her pubs and restaurants at the age of 16. Her friends thought she would be stuck in those venues and never have a real singing career. "And I was starting to believe them," she says, until she auditioned for The X Factor.
Though Grace claims she'd prefer singing "in a pair of trainers and some baggy trousers," she has made pink highlights and sparkly eye shadow her signature look.
She writes her own songs as well. She has performed her original works, including Roots, Wolves and Too Young throughout the competition, which even the show's official YouTube account called "risky." But it has certainly paid off!
Grace has released these songs on an EP, My Kingdom, available on Spotify.
She lists Carmen McRae, Etta James, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald as her musical influences.
When she returned to her hometown of Blackburn this past week, she was mobbed by fans of all ages.
After she performed her original song Wolves, Simon said, "That was like listening to somebody who comes on the show as a returning artist with a hit record." Grace was almost speechless, but managed to respond "Thank you so f***ing much" — on live TV.
Grace's family owns a cat, who's pretty adorable.
There's a rumor that Grace had a brief fling with fellow contestant Matt Linnen at the contestants' house.
She has cleverly turned her crazy hair into her personal logo. Good branding!
It's down to Grace, Kevin Davy White, and Rak-Su to battle it out for this season of The X Factor. Can Grace rocket from working in a warehouse in a rural village to worldwide fame? No matter what happens this weekend, Grace is already a winner.
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Just wondering if you have any shows coming to Melbourne this year?
yes, a show called "the good, the bad and the Ethnic" playing at a whole heap of clubs around Melbourne during June to August.
thanks for your support champ!
I'd just like to know if you have any upcoming events scheduled for Sydney. If not, would you consider scheduling one? I'd love to come and support you!
Thanks for your support. I've got some shows in Sydney coming up.
It returns after a 70 show tour last year.


A few years ago, I wrote about an interesting phenomenon called zoopharmacognosy. The idea is that animals might select specific plants or other substances to eat that would have therapeutic effects. An example might be an herbivore with a heavy parasite load eating a plant it doesn't normally use as food but which happens to reduce the number of those parasites. It's a popular idea among proponents of herbal medicine and folks who think the word "natural" is a meaningful guide to effective medical treatment because it reinforces their existing beliefs. However, the reality is a lot more complicated than such people seem able to admit.
There is some evidence that animals in the wild sometimes select plants to eat that might have health benefits. The best evidence comes from insects and other species with short generation times that produce large numbers of young and have rather simple, predominantly genetically determined behavior. Evolution can quickly select for changes in behavior that have a selective advantage in such species because small changes can readily spread if they give even a little advantage to a few individuals, and behavior is not very flexible or complex and so can be altered by small genetic changes.
There is much less reason to think zoopharmacognosy is a common or effective behavior found in more complex species, such as mammals. Most of the claims for this are simply uncontrolled observations with lots of assumptions and bias built in. And proponents of this idea generally ignore the fact that the availability of potentially medicinal plants is unpredictable, their composition and effects vary from plant to plant, region to region, and year to year, that we don't have actual evidence for the real value of most plants considered "medicinal" by various folk medicine traditions, and finally that wild animals poison themselves or ingest non-food objects with deleterious consequences, which argues against a strong and reliable intuition about what is healthful.
Nevertheless, it should come as no surprise that not only do some alternative medicine proponents claim that zoopharmacognosy is an established and widespread phenomenon, rather than an interesting and largely unproven idea, they also use it to validate other ideas that are just as unproven and often even less plausible. Sadly, some even manage to profit from selling the idea, and a host of bogus remedies based on it, to pet owners. One such person is Caroline Ingraham, the proprietor of the grandly named Ingraham Academy of Applied Zoopharmacognosy.
The Ingraham Academy of Zoopharmacognosy, headed by the founder of Applied Zoopharmacognosy Caroline Ingraham, promotes self-medication as a necessary component of domestic animal health and trains individuals in how to enable and recognize self-medicative behaviour in animals.
Since it is not at all clear that zoopharmacognosy is a real or significant phenomenon among wild or domestic animals, claiming to teach people how to take advantage of it as a "necessary" part of their animals' care is quite a stretch.
Caroline Ingraham founded Applied Zoopharmacognosy and is the leading expert in this field of animal self-medication…. Caroline has featured in many scientific journals and articles, and has written numerous books on the subject.
At 22 years of age, Caroline studied the clinical use of essential oils for humans with one of the world's leading experts in aromatherapy, Robert Tisserand and during her studies began to develop her approach towards helping animals using essential oils and other plant and mineral remedies. She later went on to study the French approach to the scientific use of essential oils with EORC (France) and Biologist Thomas Ingraham.
Her work encompasses an understanding of pharmacokinetics and pharmacology combined with animal self-medication.
In addition to classes and books Ms. Ingraham happens to sell the remedies she suggests you let you pet choose among. These include essential oils and a range of plant-based products in various forms. Which raises the first of many problems with Ms. Ingraham's claims: What are the "medicines" are we supposed to offer our pets?
There is no evidence for any meaningful medicinal value to the vast majority of the products that she sells. There is weak evidence for beneficial effects on subjective mood states, such as anxiety, in humans, but the notion that they can influence the outcome of serious diseases is entirely unproven and highly implausible. (1, 2, 3, 4).
And as I have discussed extensively before, herbal medicine is a complex subject, but the bottom line is there is no herbal product proven to have meaningful benefits for serious disease in companion animals. Most herbal products are untested and unreliable in terms of constituents. And there are serious risks to using untested and unregulated plant-based medicines. So whether or not your pet knows what they need to get better and can tell you, how is it helpful to offer them a selection of remedies that haven't been shown to actually work?
Of course, the underlying reason for this is far more pragmatic. Not being a veterinarian, Ms. Ingraham cannot employ most medicines that have actually been proven to work. And even the "Founder of Applied Zoopharmacognosy" would likely admit that offering a selection of antibiotics, cancer drugs, pain relievers, and so on and letting your pet decide which drug it needed and how much to take would likely not result in a desirable outcome. That would demonstrate real trust in their inherent wisdom!
Undoubtedly, she would claim that this is different from what she recommends because pharmaceutical medicines are "chemicals" and are not "natural" so the inherent wisdom of animals to self-heal doesn't operate with such remedies. That's not a convincing argument, especially given that we at least we know the risks and benefits of real medicines, and feeding our pets her essential oils and ground-up leaves is just playing roulette with untested chemicals.
The method by which Ms. Ingraham suggests our pets can indicate their choice of "remedy" is another problem with her approach. Even if our pets have a preference that is meaningful and appropriate (which has not been demonstrated), it is naïve to imagine that we can read our pets body language with a level of specificity that we can tell which remedy that want without introducing our own bias or influencing their behavior. Studies of drug detection dogs have shown that dogs are very sensitive to human expectations and will often misidentify substances they are supposed to search for when their handler has a pre-existing and incorrect belief about where drugs are located. And the caregiver placebo effect is a well-known phenomenon in which owners and veterinarians see what they hope or expect to see in their dogs rather that accurately observing their behavior.
The work is all about not rushing, and closely observing your dog.
This list has all the specificity of a horoscope or a homeopathic proving. A lack of interest is a negative sign, but a vacant look is a positive sign. Lunging at the remedy indicates selection, but so does backing away from the remedy. Even blinking is supposed to be a positive sign! Clearly, this is a perfect example of the use of vagueness to allow any interpretation the person making the claim desires to be supported. It is exactly the sort of self-deluding approach to animal behavior that lets pet psychics and their clients convince themselves that bit of magical nonsense is real.
Of course, any claim that our pets know what's good for them and choose to eat the healthiest food or most appropriate medicinal plants has to consider the inevitable question of why, if they are so wise, do our animal companions try to kill themselves by eating socks, batteries, massive overdoses of medication, their own feces and vomit, and any number of other distinctly unhealthful substances?
Ms. Ingraham's response to this question also strikes me as pretty unconvincing. Basically, she claims that our animals may be too hungry to resist toxic plants, that they are fooled by "artificial" chemicals or other substances, such as sugar and flavorings, into thinking unhealthy substances are good for them, or that in nature they would eat a natural "antidote" to a toxic plant after eating that pant but that they don't always have access to such anecdotes in captivity. None of this reasoning makes much sense, and it ignores both the self-destructive ingestive behavior seen in wild animals as well as the impact of domestication on the physiology, diet, and behavior of many animals, such as dogs and livestock.
There are a number of ways in which the idea of "applied zoopharmacognosy" can be harmful to our pets. For one, the remedies Ms. Ingraham recommends are largely untested, and this means not only that they might not be helpful but that we can't assume they are safe. As I've pointed out many times, plant-based chemicals can do plenty of direct harm.
Perhaps the greater risk is the indirect harm caused by relying on nonsense instead of seeking legitimate medical treatment. This is exacerbated by suggesting that this method at be more reliable than conventional medicine, as the ever-unreliable alternative medicine advocate Dr. Karen Becker has done.
The following testimonial is a particularly chilling example of how dangerous this sort of delusion can be. A student of Ms. Ingraham describes her use of the nonsense she was taught to treat what she had good reason to believe was a potentially life-threatening illness.
The fact that the owner got away with this response to what might have been a deadly illness does not justify it. The fact that Ms. Ingraham has chosen to post this testimonial on her Facebook page as part of the process of advertising her services suggests she may recommend or approve of using her method and her products in place of proper veterinary care, even in potentially life-threatening situations. That is certainly the impression her student acquired in her class. If this is true, it is a dangerous and irresponsible practice.
There is little evidence that selection of medicinal plants or other substances by animals in their natural habitat or by domesticated animals is a common behavior with substantial health benefits. Zoopharmacognosy is an interesting phenomenon, but there is very limited evidence for it in most species. Wild animals are generally less healthy and shorter-lived than domesticated animals provided conventional healthcare, nutrition, sanitation, and other basic husbandry, so the concept Ms. Ingraham is selling is mostly a variety of the appeal to nature fallacy.
There is also virtually no evidence that the use of essential oils or many of the plant extracts Ms. Ingraham sells is safe or effective for any serious health condition. Aromatherapy has not been shown even in humans to have significant health benefits, though there may be some mild psychological effects, and in veterinary species there is no reason to think essential oils can dramatically improve health. Likewise, while herbal medicine is a bit more plausible and promising in some ways, it has largely failed to prove its worth in controlled scientific research, and most of the herbal and other plant remedies Ms. Ingraham sells and recommends have not been proven to have value or even to be reliably safe.
The process of letting our pets "select" a remedy is subjective and deeply vulnerable to bias and caregiver placebo effects.
Most importantly, Applied Zoopharmacognosy is yet another unproven and implausible practice that places pets in danger when it is used as a substitute for real veterinary care. Even if the remedies themselves are harmless, which is not certain, the example above illustrates how it can be very dangerous if people are led to believe that these methods and products can replace appropriate medical care.
There are certainly essential oils that can affect humans as there are some pregnant women are told to avoid as they can act as abortificants, so I'm sure there are essential oils that can have effects on animals, but letting them choose which one is just daft. And quite apart from the likelihood of the dog in that testimonial dying if it had really had bloat rather than (liekly) wind putting undiluted essential oils on human skin can burn it and I doubt a dogs stomach skin is any less sensitive.
I would not be surprised if it was found that particular species ate foods that say did to an extent limit their parasitic load, but that is a very different idea from an individul choosing medicne for what ails it.
Just because something is natural certainly does not make it safe.
Essential oils can be very harmful if not used properly and diluted appropriately.
If anyone has ever seen an animal suffer from bloat they would certainly not waste a minute on a "treatment" that has no proof of being effective and could actually cause more harm.
I find the ignorance and "care" of the person who used peppermint oil down right cruel. She is nothing more than lucky that the dog obviously wasn't dying from torsion. Having lost 2 dogs to that I am infuriated at her neglect. It's a painful way to die.
Having 2 dogs now with IBD, the slightest discomfort has us running to the vet out of fear that I may be complacent thinking it's only a flare up and it actually being more than that.
I'm not against using alternatives. I have had tremendous success consulting an integrative vet for many of my pets' conditions. But I wouldn't completely give up the tried & true, science-based treatments.
One other thing about Dr. Becker. I often look at her point of view on things, but I would never follow her advice to a T. There are some things that she discusses that seem spot on and make sense (like the calcium: phosphorus amts for LBPs). But she does seem to have an agenda. I don't think I have ever read an article that didn't push raw feeding and/or a product.
Dr. Becker just seems a little extreme and rigid in her philosophy of certain things. I'd prefer if she was as open to science-based medicine as she is to anecdotal cases. That's naive and, as a vet, irresponsible.
I am very saddened by your polemic, which unfairly misrepresents this work. I am a trained, academic, scientist. I do not fool with dangerous alternatives to necessary veterinary treatment for any of my animals. What I do do, and have done with both fascination and effectiveness, is offer herbs and essential oils as complementary therapies. Disagree with what Caroline Ingraham and others say, if you wish – and if you have contrary (rather than an absence) of evidence – but please do not dismiss out of hand something which, so far as I can tell from your writing, you have not actually tested. Thank you.
I'm afraid your assertion that my article "unfairly misrepresents" the claims Ms. Ingraham and her supporters make is simply inaccurate, and clearly it reflects the nature of your feelings about my conclusions more than the nature of my argument. I have honestly represented and evaluated the claims made, and they are, as I point out, not consistent with reality. My dismissal of this nonsense is not "out of hand" but follows careful consideration of the claims, the available evidence, and the extensive knowledge of physiology, pharmacology, and animal behavior I have as a function of my studies and my profession. You may dislike what I say, but it is you who are misrepresenting what you disagree with.
As for the question of evidence, you are mistaken on two major points. The first is that when someone makes a implausible and unsupported medical claim, it is their responsibility to prove it with appropriate evidence. It is not safe or wise to expect that the rest of the world will either accept the claim to be true or that the rest of the world must take the responsibility to test it and prove it untrue. It is not my job to generate the evidence for or against Ms. Ingraham's claims, it is hers. And since the only evidence she provides is intuition and anecdote, it is perfectly appropriate to reject this evidence as insufficient to support her claims. The absence of scientific evidence, any apparent interest in producing any, and the inherent inconsistency of these claims with established knowledge of how animals behave make a fair and powerful case against her claims. This could be overcome by sufficiently strong evidence, but until some is produced by those making the claims, no one else is under any obligation to take them seriously.
The second error you make is assuming that the appropriate way to test a claim like this is to follow the method and see what happens, which is what I suspect you mean by suggesting I haven't "actually tested" it for myself. That is how we used to evaluate medical claims, and it gave us thousands of years of useless practices, from bloodletting and magic rituals to homeopathy. Then we discovered the advantages of controlled scientific evaluation over anecdote and trial-and-error, and the improvement in our health and longevity has been enormous and unprecedented. Therefore, neither the argument for this method, nor the criticisms against it, should rely on personal experience and anecdotes but on scientific evidence. And, as I've already said, there is none to support the frankly nonsensical idea.
You may not substitute this bizarre practice for legitimate medical treatment, but clearly others do, and this is what should truly disturb and sadden you.
Yes, people often feel that way. It's a shame since personal experience is deeply unreliable and often leads us to false beliefs and bad choices. Accepting our own limitations and the need for science not just stories is what has allowed all the achievements in health, medicine, and technology of the last couple of centuries and the overcoming of sources of suffering and death we failed to beat in thousands of years. Yet our brains are wired to believe what we think we see whether it's true or not.
So on this occasion my personal experience is not wishful thinking nor ignorance, it worked !!
It is an interesting observation to note that certain illness, cancers and tumours are on the increase in animals and humans. Science has done much to help in some ways, and held us back from going forward in others. There are many things science has done that has caused much harm to the natural world, to the food we eat and the water we drink. Science is not all good. I live on a farm and years ago you could walk down the hedge-rows and pick all the wild fruit that grew, now there is none. The reason is the neighbouring farmer sprays his fields and the drift has killed all the native plant species. It is time for people to stop been so negative and to wake up to reality, this is not a battle and I do not want to enter the battle field that has been set here because I have witnessed and experienced the healing benefits of Caroline's products when veterinary medicine could not help. Surely to God we should be on the same side, and that is to study what IS beneficial and what DOES work. Together science and the naturist could do so much good, but when you get someone who has they own inner dislike towards something they un-do so much good work. We have one world, we should learn to use it wisely. There is no separation in nature or notion of 'me' who stands alone. Everything is inter-connected and we would be wise to remember that before we destroy everything. What I would say to Skeptvet is "why don't you put your weapons down, and walk in peace?".
Science is neither "good" nor "bad." Science is a tool, a process for understanding how the natural world works. It is more reliable than just observing and guessing, but we are responsible for the choices we make with the knowledge science provides. The idea that people have done bad things with technology doesn't change the fact that only through science do we gain a sufficiently detailed and accurate understanding to develop technology, with both its risks and benefits.
You miss the point entirely when you say "We should study what DOES work." This assumes you already know something works and science is an afterthought. Until proper methods are used, you only believe something works, and such beliefs have proven mistaken so consistently throughout history that the proper position is "We should study what we believe to find what works and what doesn't work." But working together requires agreeing on a method. If you believe trial and error or your personal judgement is accurate and I believe it is deeply flawed, then the difference in method is real and important.
As for talk of "weapons," this is silly poetic hyperbole. We are disagreeing about epistemology, about how we know what we know. Since when is disagreement=assault and arguments or evidence= weapons?
Science meaning a careful study of how things actually work? You really want to be outside of science? So you like guessing and trial and error with precious lives?
There is literally nothing in this universe outside of science! Our universe is physical and we are bound physically to its rules.
For those of us who believe in a Creator, guess what, that means he created the physical universe and physical rules and subjected his physical creation to them. In that case spirit creatures would not be subject to physical laws. But everything else is. Including us and our pets and plants.
Unless you're suggesting spirit creatures help your dog choose the right plant.
In which case the best place for you, for now, may in fact be outside of science.
I forgot to hashtag #scietificliteracy for effect.
Hi Meg Hare, have you been on one of Caroline's workshops and listened to the scientific evidence behind her teachings? Science has only been around a very short time, nature has in fact been around 100,000 + years. You are made from natural compounds, not scientific ones. This is a very 'blind' argument that is happening here and one based on a very limited world-view. I am surprised, no, not really. Just look at what these views have done to, and continue to do to the world that has evolved without the hinderance of man made rules. Is it not time to wake up? and if not now, when?
That's really quite funny. what does "you are made from natural compounds not scientific ones" even mean? Nature has surely been around a lot longer than science (13.73 billion years, if you believe in the scientific theory of the origin of the universe, though it wouldn't surprise me if you didn't). But in all the thousands of years human beings lived without science, most of us died in childhood or childbirth or nutritional deficiencies and diseases none of us today have ever even seen. Science has done more in 200 years to improve our understanding and our well-being than anything in the hundreds of thousands of years before it. It's just silly, and terribly arrogant, to imagine that what you think you know about "nature" is somehow an ancient wisdom that transcends science. Real humility and open-mindedness starts by recognizing how limited our individual experiences are and why they mislead us more often than not. Science is not as belief system, it is simply a tool to help us overcome our limitations. But first we have to accdept them, and it doesn't seem as if you have.
It is more than obvious through your attitude, and comments, that you have no intention of opening your mind. What do you eat each day? food from the natural world, or something created by science? Maybe if you pushed your scepticism aside you might learn something. I am interested to see the works you have brought into this world to bring knowledge to others, I am always interested in learning. Just last week my husband's friends mother was taken into hospital and nearly died because the drugs she had been prescribed had laid in her stomach and not dissolved, then they dissolved together nearly killing her. We are all learning all of the time, aren't we? I know this has nothing to do with this thread as such, but BSE was created by 'the mad scientist' who thought feeding sheep to cows was a good idea. There are rules in nature and I have never seen a cow chasing a sheep around and eating it. Where do some of these ideas come from? There is a natural law for a reason. Yes, nature is cruel sometimes and survival can be very hard for people and animals. As humans we can bring so much into the world regarding health and welfare for people and animals, and sometimes science has helped enormously, other times it has got it wrong. Getting back on track, what Caroline does is 'an evolving science'. Surely you can see some good in her life's work, just look at the videos and I can give you plenty of examples where her work has literally saved animals in my care when the vets could not. I work together with my vet who is open minded and helpful. If everyone were open minded the world would be in a very different state because we would be listening, opposed to throwing our own views out and expecting everyone else to adhere to them. Ego is a funny thing we have to get a handle on, all of us. With warmth and trust, because I believe you feel you are doing the right thing, but please look through two eyes, not one. I opened mine to science a long time ago and can see it's benefits too, despite what you think.
Science is not a mythical paradise like your naive vision of "nature." It is just a tool for understanding the world that exists. You have cocooned yourself in a dream world built out of the Appeal to Fallacy, and you simultaneously close your eyes to obvious facts while judging yourself more enlightened than anyone who disagrees with you. And yet you think the arrogance and closed-mindedness is in those who don't buy into your naive fantasy. Such a perfectly untouchable, self-righteous, and self-sustaining setup it might as well be a religion.
It seems you are so far away from what I am trying to convey and that is a shame, we could have learnt from each other. I respect nature, yes, because nature is Life. Without nature there would be no life. I respect people too who spend their time looking for ways to make the experience of Life better for all beings. I am interested in what it means to be human and how we can become better human beings. I do not see that as cocooning myself in at all, to the contrary, I see it as embracing all Truths. When I prepared my dinner this evening I was more aware than ever that everything on my plate came from nature, and I was aware of how science had given us the tools to get that food to my plate. These conversations have made me more aware of how the paths of science and nature cross, and if we are coming from a place of learning how beneficial that can be. The problem happens when we look at anything in isolation, whether that be science or nature. That is why I believe in integrative medicine. We have, for a very long time, underestimated the intelligence of animals, this is a fact. W have used and abused many, and still do in the name of progress. Chicks are shredded as they are hatched, or dumped in bags to suffocate and die. Is this nature or science? or is is just human nature? There are so many things out of balance which cause much harm in the world, are these not the things we should be concentrating on changing?
Hello Yvette, I too have found the Green Clay to be amazing. It saved one of our Rams last year who had fly strike really badly. He was initially sprayed with a spray from the vet and he reacted badly to it and the whole one side of his body, his skin, literally peeled away down to about half inch. He was in a terrible state and we thought he would die, but I remembered seeing a video of Caroline treat a Lioness who had been gored by a water buffalo with Green Clay. I applied the Clay and within 24 hours our Ram had started to make a recovery. He went on to make a full recovery and reclaim all his coat. I have used it many time on our farm and it is, without a doubt, incredible. It is nice to hear you have also had the same outstanding results. Thank you for sharing.
The commenters above need to spend a week in a veterinary emergency and critical care hospital and learn what gastric dilatation-volvulus (GDV aka bloat) is, the excruciating pain a dog suffers and the treatment and surgery the dog will have to endure, and to see that for every 3 dogs, 1 may die before surgery or from complications from shock and heart failure.
THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT FOR BLOAT. The so-called testimonial that Ingraham posted was a complete fabrication. Bloat is almost always a potential deadly condition that requires immediate veterinary attention.
Ingraham has pretty much fabricated everything that comes out of her delusional mind – believe in unicorns and fairy dust, that's your choice, but your pet deserves treatment from a qualified vet who understands a health condition and treats the condition with evidence-based medicine. THAT is what your pet wants and would tell you if he/she could.
It's mind-blowing that pet owners could ever believe that essential oils (toxic to pets, ask a veterinary toxicologist, not a quack on the net), untested ground up plants, homeopathy and other woo could ever treat or cure a pet's health condition. To those who cry "open your mind", I say to you, open your eyes to this fraud!
Thank you for the links SkeptVet, I will take a look at these tomorrow.
I found your article very interesting, but would point out that (as an Animal Therapist myself) I would NEVER treat an animal without first recommending that they see a vet if there is a medical condition present. I am not a vet, I can not diagnose any medical condition and it would be wrong (not to mention against the law) for me to do so. But, I do feel that any animal therapy – be it zoopharmacognosy, aromatherapy or any of the other therapies being promoted – have a place alongside main stream veterinary treatment. When you disregard "natural" remedies, you seem to forget that many of the medications that we and our animals take now are based on a natural remedy. There is a place for both a natural approach as well as a medical one.
A bit late to the party here, but I was reminded of an incident a few years ago involving a woman I know who practiced this and did her best to rope everyone on our livery yard into trying it. Most of the horses showed little interest, although just looking at the pots of herbs was evidently enough to indicate they 'needed' it.
Then came the turn of my pony, who took one look and in about a minute managed to eat a good portion of this woman's very expensive herbs. For some reason she wasn't terribly happy about this, while everyone else was in stitches laughing. Pony was also very happy with her impromptu snack. Needless to say, no one else took up this hobby.
While some plants might have benefits and could certainly do with being investigated properly, expecting animals, many of whom are extremely greedy and naturally impulsive is just asking for trouble. I'd love to know where they draw the line. Would they recommend I should let my dog eat the pigeons and rats she has found over the years? Or maybe the pony that broke into the orchard just really needed the windfall apples, nevermind that he ended up with (thankfully mild) colic.


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