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Wonderfruit 2018 to inspire sustainability through architecture
Into its fifth year of fusing sustainability with art and music, how is one of Asia's biggest festivals building for an immersive experience that leaves little impact on the earth?
Started in 2014, Wonderfruit creates a unique atmosphere that promotes sustainability each year, attracting over 13,000 participants in 2017. Image: Wonderfruit
By Zafirah Zein
Tapping into the power of art to inspire social responsibility and awareness of sustainability, Thailand's pioneering lifestyle and music festival, Wonderfruit, is bringing architectural innovation to the new grounds of the annual celebration this year.
The fifth instalment of Wonderfruit, which has incorporated a unique blend of festival and museum art into its built structures, is set to take place in a bigger location within the grounds of Siam Country Club.
Surrounded by mountains and the lush greenery of the Thai countryside, the festival continues to pave the way for sustainability by preserving the natural environment and using locally sourced bamboo as a foundation for its venues, stages, art installations and architectural structures.
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A zero single-use plastic policy will continue to be implemented throughout the four-day, carbon-neutral festival while the materials used for building and serving food are biodegradable.
"This year the line is blurred between art and architecture, and the built structures serve as both," said Pete Phornprapha, founder and chief executive of Wonderfruit. "Like always, all our art represents or has a dialogue with our ethos, which are structured along themes such as land, waste, water, food and farm. The way people interact with them is going to be exciting."
"This involves thinking about how things are built and not just how they look. What are the cultural, economic and environmental processes involved?"
Pete Phornprapha, founder and CEO, Wonderfruit
A few of the art and architecture features include the Eco-Pavilion, a sheltered structure designed by London-based studio Ab Rogers Design and made up of a hundred handcrafted cotton umbrellas produced by local brand Chiang Mai Umbrellas, and the iconic Solar Stage, a geometrical installation crafted by Los Angeles-based architect Gregg Fleishman using sustainably harvested wood. The stage, which serves as the focal point of Wonderfruit each year, is assembled and taken apart at the end of the festival to be reused and redesigned the following year.
On building as simply as possible for Wonderfruit, Phornprapha tells Eco-Business: "This involves thinking about how things are built and not just how they look. What are the cultural, economic and environmental processes involved? We like to see how simple and effective these things can be and how they can preserve and not destroy the environment."
According to Phornprapha, Wonderfruit does its best to engage with local artists and works with craftsmen and workers from Chonburi province, where the festival has annually taken place since it first began in 2014.
One of the local artists includes Bangkok-based Ruangsak Anuwatwimon, who created 'Islands', an experiential space housing monuments in the shape of icebergs. 'Islands' encourages festival-goers, dubbed Wonderers, to explore the relationship between humans and nature by contemplating the significance of water and current issues related to the world's key natural resource.
Structured according to six pillars—art and architecture, family, farm to feasts, music, talks and workshops, and wellness—Wonderfruit hopes to champion innovation and positive social impact by offering new, immersive experiences to its Wonderers. As such, the team has introduced Wonder Kitchen, which allows diners the opportunity to watch local masterchefs Phanuphon Bulsuwan and Chudaree Debhakam at work and even learn how to make cocktails out of food scraps and enjoy a zero-waste bar.
"When people see you as a festival, people automatically assume it must be a music festival," said the other half of Wonderfruit's founding duo, Montonn Jira, in a recent podcast. "With the whole concept of pillars, we've wanted to make sure the chefs were headlined as big as the music acts, along with the artists, architects and guest speakers."
The festival's other food offering, the Theatre of Feasts, designed by United Kingdom-based Ab Rogers, hosts a unique banquets for as many as 200 people each year. The concept is said to be inspired by the idea of architectural structures being defined by the experiences they create and the activities being held within them.
"As we build up our pop-up city, we have plans to involve the lands and the structures to work together. But to be sustainable for me doesn't just involve how we work with the land, but what we do on it as well," said Phornprapha.


Consumers have more than one place where they can park their money, take out a loan or obtain a credit card.
Banks and savings and loan associations have long served local communities, but so have credit unions, a type of financial institution that may meet your personal financial requirements.
Most banks are owned by investors, shareholders who have a financial stake in the institution through the stock that they have bought. Credit unions, however, are owned by its members who are automatically part owners. When credit unions are profitable, these institutions give dividends to its members.
Another significant difference between banks and credit unions is that banks are for-profit institutions, while credit unions are not-for-profit. This doesn't mean that a credit union doesn't make a profit, rather it returns those profits to its members as dividends. Banks are for profit institutions and roll its profits back into the business, distribute profits to shareholders as dividends, or both. Credit unions typically have better lending rates and terms because these institutions don't seek to maximize profits.
One big advantage banks have over credit unions are the number of locations available. Except for small, local banks which may have few branches, national banks such as Bank of America, Wells Fargo and PNC Bank, may have thousands of bank buildings and automatic teller machine locations scattered across the country. Credit unions may have one or two locations, perhaps more covering a wider region in one state, but usually not nationally. However, many credit unions belong to ATM networks, allowing members to withdraw cash from thousands of teller machines across the country without a fee, although monthly limits may apply.
Any adult can open a bank account, but not everyone can join a credit union. Credit unions are restricted to select groups of people, usually employees of a company, members of a church or civic organization or through a community charter. Qualification restrictions are set by the federal government, not by the credit unions. Nevertheless, 91 million Americans do belong to credit unions reports the Credit Union National Association.
Monies in your bank account are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Monies in your credit union are insured by the National Credit Union Administration. Both the FDIC and NCUA are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America; most accounts are protected for up to $250,000.
So, are credit unions better than banks? I'll let you be the judge of that. Likely, you had certain ideas about credit unions that weren't entirely correct. It is hoped that this summary has given you a clear and accurate picture what this alternate financial institutions has to offer consumers just like you.


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Q: Updating Column value when another Column matches value from a list in SQL I have a table called ITEMSLIST
ItemName    SourceID    Origin      Description
Item1       108         USA         Item of Importance
Item2       112         USA         Item of Importance
Item3       120         UK          Item of Importance
Item4       108         USA         Item of Importance
Item5       221         UK          Item of Importance
Item6       221         USA         Item of Importance
Item7       108         USA         Item of Importance
Item8       139         USA         Item of Importance
Item9       385         USA         Item of Importance
Item10      111         UK          Item of Importance

I'm trying to do the following:
If the SourceID matches an item from a very long list then the Origin needs to change from USA to UK. The list isn't from a table, it's just going to be a list of values
The shortened version of the list is 108, 221, 385
I've tried using a CASE WHEN EXISTS but can't quite get it to work as it should
UPDATE ITEMSLIST
SET Origin = 'UK'
WHERE
    CASE
        WHEN EXISTS (SELECT *
            FROM ITEMSLIST
                WHERE a.SourceList = SourceID)
    END
FROM (VALUES
        ('108'),
        ('221'),
        ('385')) a(SourceList)

A: You are looking for a join:
UPDATE il
    SET Origin = 'UK'
FROM ITEMSLIST il JOIN
     (VALUES
        ('108'),
        ('221'),
        ('385')
     ) a(SourceList)
     ON a.SourceList = il.SourceId;

A: Try using below:
UPDATE ITEMSLIST
    SET Origin = 'UK'
WHERE SourceID IN ('108', '221', '385')
UPDATE li
    SET Origin = 'UK'
        FROM  ITEMSLIST li
WHERE  EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM ITEMSLIST il WHERE il.SourceID IN  ('108', '221', '385')

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It's no secret that the Toyota Camry has been a force in the midsize sedan segment for decades. It's long history of popularity rode on the back of sensible design, reliability, and comfort.
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My review today is for A Winter Retreat at the Paris Cheese Shop by Victoria Brownlee, the first part of her debut novel that is being released as a series by Quercus. Part two, A Summer of Love at the Paris Cheese Shop was released today.
In addition to the gorgeous cover, what initially attracted me to this series was the challenge main character Ella sets herself when she discovers her local cheese shop in Paris. Newly arrived, lonely and in need of someone to talk to, she makes a point of returning to visit and sample a different cheese every time. This is so me and those of you who have been reading my blog for a while may see the similarities to my patisserie challenge.
A Winter Retreat at the Paris Cheese Shop is just the first part and sets the scene well. We meet Ella and find out why an Aussie who had hopes and dreams of marriage suddenly finds herself alone in Paris, looking for work and stumbling around in a cheese shop. It tickled my taste buds, but ended far too soon, with merely a hint of the cheese selection promised. However, this is to be expected as although the book will be available in full later in the year, it is currently being released in four parts and this first taste certainly left me hungry for more. While I do love the anticipation, I was also a little frustrated I couldn't carry straight on.
Part two was released today and parts three and four can be pre-ordered from Amazon, links can be found below. I can't wait to get back to Paris with Ella.
You can read how author Victoria Brownlee likes to enjoy a LazySundayinFrance here and you can follow Victoria at her website, on Twitter and Instagram.
Welcome to another #LazySundayinFrance and today it's a special Sunday here in France, as we are celebrating Mother's Day. I am delighted that author (and new Mum) Victoria Brownlee is letting us join her and her family for a Lazy Sunday in Paris.
Victoria Brownlee is a food writer and editor, originally from Melbourne and currently based in Paris. Her first novel, 'Escape to the Paris Cheese Shop' is being published in four parts, with part one already available and part two due to be released on 31st May 2018.
Sundays in Paris are blissfully quiet. Early in the morning, there's a sort of reverential silence that would feel out of place on any other day of the week. In an ideal world, the weather is sunny with a light breeze and I'll fling open the shutters and enjoy the blue skies and the ringing of the church bells.
A pot of coffee in bed with my husband, Jamie, and snuggles with our little Clementine until she gets bored of us reading books without pictures and wants to go play.
More coffee calls and we stroll over to the Canal Saint-Martin for a café crème and a scone at Ten Belles followed by a walk up the canal; or if we're feeling energetic, a filter coffee and a sablé from La Fontaine de Belleville on our way up to the enchanting Parc des Buttes Chaumont.
When stomachs growl, we head back into Le Marais towards Marché des Enfants Rouges, Paris's oldest food market, where stalls burst with cooked food, seasonal produce and fresh flowers. On weekends the market is generally packed with tourists, but we don't let that deter us.
We'll most likely head to one of three favourite stalls. If we're hungry we'll make a beeline for the Moroccan stand where tagines overflow with slow-cooked meats and vegetables. Affordable and hearty, no matter how much we eat we'll always end on a pot of mint tea and a few pieces of baklava. If we're happy to queue for a while, we'll stop by Chez Alain Miam Miam for what has to be one of Paris's best sandwiches – the mix of toasted bread, melted cheese, meat and avocado resulting in a (very filling) thing of wonder. Or if we're in the mood to sit and while away the afternoon, we'll grab a couple bar stools at Les Enfants du Marché and indulge in oysters, bubbles and a mix of their daily seafood specials.
After lunch we might go down to La Seine for an afternoon stroll and a hunt around the famed Shakespeare and Company bookshop. Or we'll stay local and shop. Produce for dinner and fresh flowers to brighten up our apartment. Cheese from Fromagerie Jouannault and maybe even a vanilla tart from Pierre Hermé.
Finally, home to drink tea, or better yet, wine, and listen to music or read. Perhaps we'll cook dinner; perhaps we'll just eat cheese – a log of Sainte-Maure, a slice of truffle Brie and some Comté – with a fresh baguette and a little green salad. Simple. Decadent. Perfect.
We tuck the baby into bed early and laze about with more wine and watch a French movie. We avoid work wherever possible and daydream about moving to the country, or perhaps to the seaside, maybe even to Corsica. But after such a glorious day in Paris, it's hard to ever imagine leaving.
You can follow Victoria on Twitter here, Instagram here and read more from her at her website here.
The first part of The Paris Cheese Shop series is available now in ebook format, the next three parts are available to pre-order and links to Amazon can be found below.


Make sure you use the right equipment when recording audio. The powerful sound system in the World Forum Theatre amplifies every flaw in your audio stream, so try to keep those flaws to a minimum. :).
I have emailed Animecon more than a week ago asking if my group and I are allowed to have a haikyuu panel for the 2019 edition of the con. No answer still... I have no clue how to use this website but the default email sent me here so im hoping to get answers to my questions from staff now.
I don't know if masks are allowed.
is deze cosplay prop toegestaan op vrijdag 15 juni in den haag ?
op schaal gemaakt niet op werkelijk formaat door redenen.
For anyone interested, I'll be bringing my luffy cosplay material from last year (hat, wig, blouse slim fit/medium). I will not be using it anymore- Send me a private message if you're interested- I'll be at the convention late on friday.
asking if this gun prop is legal.
Hallo iedereen! Ik ga in 2018 cosplayen als Wadanohara van WAGBS met het animecon, dus ik vraag me af of er meer mensen zijn die ook naar het animecon gaan als iemand uit dit spel. misschien kunnen we een groep vorrmen en samen naar het animecon gaan.
Hallo iedereen! ik ga in 2018 naar animecon en ik ga als Wadanohara van watgbs cosplayen, nu vraag ik me af of dat er andere mensen zijn die ook als characters van watgbs cosplayen zoja, mischien kunnen we in een groep samen naar het animecon gaan?
I am slowly starting to work on my cosplay, but I have a little question.
there is nothing on the site (that I found) about props.
Is this an allowed cosplay?
This will include that the camouflaged person will also be wearing army boots and dogtag(s).
The other one will be mostly black and the color OD (olive drab) and ofcourse army boots.
Will this give any problems?
We will not bear any form of gun or other weapon beside the hidden blade.
Ik vroeg me toevalig af of er ook kleedkamers waren voor om te kleden en of het aparte hokjes waren of groote kamers. Ik wil namelijk crossplayen maar ik wil liever niet thuis om kleden. Dank je wel alvast.
So I've read the rules on props, but I'm still unsure, so I decided to ask.
I did not see any limitations on set pieces we can bring in? If we bring in, set up, and tear down our own sets (leaving no mess behind) is that alright?
I hope to hear from you guys!
First compo ever, need some help.
I would love to participate in a compo coming Animecon.
I wanna cosplay Malon (The legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) that day.
In the rules it says: You must wear a self-made costume.
No problem, I love making it.
I'm cosplaying for the first time since attending Animecon for the past few years and I thought it would be fun to snap a few pictures with some fellow cosplayers. Is there anyone cosplaying as a character from the mentioned anime? I will be cosplaying Mio Akiyama and a friend of mine is doing Mugi.
My name is Karen aka EvetteCosplay, I just bought my tickets for Animecon 2015 :3 I'm really excited as it'll be my first time attending this convention and I'll be cos-playing as Queen Ashe from League of Legends aswell!
Is the jpop cosplay trailer uploaded anywhere online? Anyone know what music was used in it?
Does anyone know on what day Reika will be there? Or will she be present every day?
And at what time and place?
I couldn't find it in the program.
I participate this year animecon at the cosplay compo. But, i only know who's the winner of this compo.
does the judges have any files with some tips and does and don't for the non-winners?
For the fans, me and some others will be organising a Vocaloid Photoshoot on Saturday, June 14th.
We haven't discussed the location yet, but we have agreed to meet up at the head entrance at 12:00.
Hey, Ik ga alice uit alice madness returns cosplayen maar ik heb de ketting nog niet! Als ik hem van ebay bestel komt hij veel te laat. Weet iemand waar ik hem nog zou kunnen kopen? Of iemand die hem heeft en aan mij wilt verkopen?
I was thinking of cosplaying as Willow of the indie game Don't Starve.
I was wondering if there's anyone else who likes the game and is planning on cosplaying a DS character.
If so, we could meet up at Animecon. I'll be there on Saturday.
I am Lisette, female still 21 but will be 22 during the animecon. Ever since i bought my tickets ( maybe earlier) I have been thinking about what to do as cosplay. This is not for the competitions it is just for fun. mainly because i have stage fright.
I was wondering maybe you can help. I am open for suggestions.
Ik wil graag deelnemen aan de ''Animecon Group Cosplay Competition''.
Zou ik wat meer (technische) informatie mogen over de zaal en bijhorende apparatuur.
Welke microfoons er zijn, hoe groot het scherm is, welke belichting er is enz.
Sorry if this is the wrong place! But I wrote the cosplay manager from Animecon 13 days ago 2 messages with questions about cosplay competitions at Animecon, and the mail told me that if I would not get a reply within 5 days, I should post here...so here I am! :) Hope my email will be seen now!
do you have to come in cosplay ?
I would like to know if it's permitted to take a wooden baseball bat to the convention for my cosplay, i've read the rules but i wasn't sure if it applies to a wooden bat.
And if it is permitted: can you store them at the bag room?
Applied for a Competition, yet there's no answer?
What do I do now? I started my cosplay more than a year ago, but forgot about about it. Most parts were already separated from their pattern, and all I can find are three really small pieces. Neither have I got any pictures of me working on it either, because at the time of sewing I wasn't sure I wanted to enter a competition.
Due to some internal communication issues, and the addition of the CICAF and Yamato Cup Preliminaries, we decided to postpone the dealine for scripts for ALL cosplay competitions to May 1.
I've read the rules, but i just want to make something sure.
Seeing as this is an obvious fake shotgun and it fits perfectly on my back without hindering anyone else, i just want to make sure if this is against the rules or not.
First time being here soooo.
At the event soon in Den Hague there are not weapons ( replicas ) aloud..
But I want to take an empty water pistol ( painted in gold/ red and blue ) with me.
Looking for a cosplay material i can spray on paper.
I seem to be a bit of a pickle. I've made a giant (wearable) Alphonse armour suit, however it is currently made from a thick paper that will simply not endure the wear and tear of Animecon, nor the weather.
I sent in my entry form was I supposed to put it on that as well? or is it going to send to my email when I need to hand in the script?
Where/How do we enter the script?
Cosplay Fashion show. Untill what date can you enter? How many minutes can your 'act' be?
I can't find it on the website except for the rules for ECG, EC, WCS and the Cosplay Acts.


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I wanted to share a vacation style round up of all the things I've been eyeing.
Kate Spade Hello Beach Hat- so cute for a beach day and for keeping the sun rays to a minimum on your face!
Lilly Pulitzer Del Lago Tunic Dress- Obsessed with the bright print of this one and love how it could be worn as a dress or a beach cover up.
Bauble Bar Drop Earrings- Love the bright color of these tassel earrings and I think they are available in like 4 other super bright/neon colors. I'm sure these would do the job of brightening up any outfit.
Bauble Bar Indy Bracelets- The cutest set of tassel bracelets. Arm party!
Marc Fisher Annie Espadrille- The most popular wedge of the season. A must have. I've been trying to get my hands on these all day but Nordstrom was sold out in store. So cute with OTS tops and dresses!
Misa Los Angeles Ciao Bag- Need. This. For. The. Beach. Now. Tassels are everything to me right now if you haven't noticed. It wouldn't let me link this one below so here is the link.
Solids Flamingo Espadrille- Flamingos!! Obsessed with these espadrilles. Also obsessed with these.
OTS TopShop Swimsuit- One pieces are so cute. Also love how its OTS and ruffles.
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Solar farm proposed for part of Clark County's 78th Street Heritage Farm site
Up to 300 homes could be powered by 'virtual net metering'
By Jack Heffernan, Columbian county government and small cities reporter
The south facing slope on the backside of the 78th Street Heritage Farm is seen Friday. This 5-acre area is the site of a proposed solar farm. The unused area, behind the barbed-wire fencing that surrounds 78th Street Heritage Farm, is adjacent to 68th Street and the Hazel Dell Community Park. (Joshua Hart/The Columbian) Photo Gallery
Solar panels, the latest idea being tossed around for the 78th Street Heritage Farm, may bring a fresh utility to the historic site — but many questions remain.
The Clark County Historic Preservation Commission heard an initial proposal earlier this month from Elemental Energy, a Portland-based solar energy company. The company is proposing a 2-megawatt solar farm on 5 acres of open land at the site.
If the project materializes, it would court low- to moderate-income Clark Public Utilities customers, who would have the option to subscribe to a select number of panels and have the power generated from those panels be credited to their accounts. The concept, called "virtual net metering," could power 300 homes, according to the proposal.
Kevin Gooley, a solar consultant with Elemental Energy, explained to the preservation commission that the plan is in its infant stages. The company is applying for a grant from the state that would cover up to $1 million of the project cost; the project still requires nods from bodies such as the Clark County Council, Bonneville Power Administration and the utility district.
"This project is in very, very extreme early stages of development," Gooley said.
In March, the county council approved a master plan for the site, which was founded as a poor farm in the 1870s and includes historic buildings, wetlands and wells.
The master plan leaves space on the property for purposes yet to be determined. Since it was adopted, county staff have worked on a business plan to increase revenue from the site after councilors expressed a desire for the farm to be more financially self-sustaining.
The solar farm could bring in additional revenue in the form of leasing fees. Gooley said that he was approached roughly a year ago about Elemental Energy's interest in the farm.
The proposal specifies an area near the southern end of the farm — between a historic cemetery to the west, a hill to the north that serves as a viewpoint, Hazel Dell Park to the east and 68th Street to the south. Gooley said the panels would not disrupt views or enjoyment of the surrounding areas, including a planned expansion of the park.
"It's just, kind of, in this lonely part of this property that isn't being used at all," Gooley said.
Sean Denniston, the preservation commission's chair, warned Gooley that project coordinators would need to be careful digging near the cemetery, as poorly marked graves have been found in surrounding areas in the past. But he supported the general concept.
"I think that the fact that this area is being earmarked for low- and moderate-income households kind of creates an interesting connection to the history of this place," said Denniston, referencing the site's first life as a poor farm. "When we're thinking about compatible uses, I think that's something that could play in."
Not everyone agrees, however.
Robert Freed, a member of the Heritage Farm Advisory Board, said he has concerns about whether the project would obstruct the agricultural theme outlined in the master plan.
"While the property isn't being used now, the advisory board entertains agriculture-related projects on the property," Freed said. "I don't see how it fits on the property."
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On June 29th, 1613 a fire burned down the Globe Theater, where most of the plays of William Shakespeare premiered. The fire started when a prop cannon ignited the wooden beams and thatch roof. Although the theater was destroyed only one person was injured, a man whose breeches caught fire but were quickly dosed with a bottle of ale.
The Globe was built in 1599 using timber from an earlier theater at another location, named simply The Theatre. It would eventually be rebuilt on the same site in 1614 but with the rise of the Puritans who frowned on plays and the theater in general, the new Globe would be closed in 1642 and demolished by 1644. It was never rebuilt. In 1997 a reconstruction was opened near the original site.


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Surgical, N95 masks block most particles, study finds — ScienceDaily
Laboratory tests of surgical and N95 masks by researchers at the University of California, Davis, show that they do cut down the amount of aerosolized particles emitted during breathing, talking and coughing. Tests of homemade cloth face coverings, however, show that the fabric itself releases a large amount of fibers into the air, underscoring the importance of washing them. The work is published Sept. 24 in Scientific Reports.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the use of masks and other face coverings has emerged as an important tool alongside contact tracing and isolation, hand-washing and social distancing to reduce the spread of coronavirus. The CDC and the World Health Organization endorse the use of face coverings, and masks or face coverings are required by many state and local governments, including the state of California.
The goal of wearing face coverings is to prevent people who are infected with COVID-19 but asymptomatic from transmitting the virus to others. But while evidence shows that face coverings generally reduce the spread of airborne particles, there is limited information on how well they compare with each other.
Sima Asadi, a graduate student working with Professor William Ristenpart in the UC Davis Department of Chemical Engineering, and colleagues at UC Davis and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, set up experiments to measure the flow of particles from volunteers wearing masks while they performed "expiratory activities" including breathing, talking, coughing and moving their jaw as if chewing gum.
Asadi and Ristenpart have previously studied how people emit small particles, or aerosols, during speech. These particles are small enough to float through the air over a considerable distance, but large enough to carry viruses such as influenza or coronavirus. They have found that a fraction of people are "superemitters" who give off many more particles than average.
The 10 volunteers sat in front of a funnel in a laminar flow cabinet. The funnel drew air from in front of their faces into a device that measured the size and number of particles exhaled. They wore either no mask, a medical-grade surgical mask, two types of N95 mask (vented or not), a homemade paper mask or homemade one- or two-layer cloth mask made from a cotton T-shirt according to CDC directions.
Up to 90 percent of particles blocked
The tests only measured outward transmission — whether the masks could block an infected person from giving off particles that might carry viruses.
Without a mask, talking (reading a passage of text) gave off about 10 times more particles than simple breathing. Forced coughing produced a variable amount of particles. One of the volunteers in the study was a superemitter who consistently produced nearly 100 times as many particles as the others when coughing.
In all the test scenarios, surgical and N95 masks blocked as much as 90 percent of particles, compared to not wearing a mask. Face coverings also reduced airborne particles from the superemitter.
Homemade cotton masks actually produced more particles than not wearing a mask. These appeared to be tiny fibers released from the fabric. Because the cotton masks produced particles themselves, it's difficult to tell if they also blocked exhaled particles. They did seem to at least reduce the number of larger particles.
The results confirm that masks and face coverings are effective in reducing the spread of airborne particles, Ristenpart said, and also the importance of regularly washing cloth masks.
Additional co-authors on the study are Christopher Cappa, Santiago Barreda and Anthony Wexler at UC Davis; and Nicole Bouvier, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. It was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.
Materials provided by University of California – Davis. Original written by Andy Fell. Note: Content may be edited for style and length.
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First off, I would love to get some feedback on this topic which I'm revisiting earlier than I had expected - have you noticed that your kid(s) with Lyme perk up in the summer, only to slide back into symptoms in the fall-winter-spring? This is the second year we've seen this happen rather dramatically.
As mentioned in my last blog post, our son had an amazing almost symptom-free summer, starting as usual in mid-June, except for one terrible heat-induced breathing and hyperventilation episode and hot flashes and daily fever (down from numerous daily fevers). The best part was he had not one day or night of the chronic exhaustion! He was able to enjoy time with friends, even group sleep-overs - things that happened minimally, if at all, last school year. And he started high school cross country, despite his breathing issues which is pretty awesome.
But then school started and by the second day he spiked an afternoon fever in class and came straight home and didn't move the rest of the night. I admit it was a big blow for me. While I knew based on his history the past few years that relapses had happened in October - around his bite time, I was hopeful we would be past it this year.
The good news is that, after 10 months of treatment, he rebounded more quickly than last year. This week the day after re-starting treatment, he had a sofa day and missed school and a test. Again, he recovered and attended school the next day. Hopefully this trend of 1 day of fatigue and then well again will continue so less school will be missed. Progress, however slow it can seem, is being made with his treatment and that is so gratifying.
Thank God for LLMDs and LLNPs - forever our publicly unsung heroes with their knowledge, tenacity, open mindedness, compassion and willingness to fight for their patients' rights to heal!
I thought I'd write about something that is very common to Lyme families - new symptoms emerging throughout treatment. A month ago, our son started a new protocol which included treatment for bartonella, also known as "cat scratch fever".
While he had some symptoms of it - extreme irritation and cursing a lot which are also hallmarks of teen boy behavior - it was unclear that he was infected. He had no skin marks nor the common complaint of pain on the soles of the feet. The diagnosis had been made clinically, plus it is ranked as the number one tick co-infection and since he had number 2: babesia and number 4: mycoplasma, it would make sense that he could also have number 1: bartonella.
The day before he started his second cycle after a break, our family was watching television and I looked down and saw stretch marks in the center of his back at the midpoint of his spine. While looking at that I also noticed a pretty large patch of very small white spots up along his hairline, like a smattering of white freckles against his tanned skin.
A quick internet search showed numerous photos of bartonella stretch marks in the same exact spot. I'm not sure what the white spots are - a fungus perhaps? The stretch marks were lighter and a very pale pink compared to the more striking internet images. By the next morning they were gone, the white patches were fainter, and he started cycle two. Now on day 5 the stretch marks are back and the spots are now larger raised pink welts and are moving down toward the stretch marks - pretty sure they are both caused by bartonella which has clearly been stirred up with the new treatment.


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Do you think that this pair will open with big gab to above next week ?
very possible yes, either to the upside or the downside. I think it will gap down because like most gaps they usually get filled at some point. Then I believe it will continue to the upside for the remainder of the week.


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The tragic news of rapper Mac Miller's death on Friday afternoon shocked family, friends, and fans, many of which expressed shock and disbelief at the rapper's passing, and provided tribute to his kind spirit and short time on earth.
Celebrities flocked to social media to express their grief and prayers for the soul and family of the 26-year-old.
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The traditional approach in Sales is characterized by focusing on solving operative goals and single decisions of the customer (concrete service or product needs, performance characteristics, and price). Thus clear differentiation from competition is hard to achieve. Sales success is based on personal connections, better prices or mere chance. Market leaders, however, have realized that sales success – besides offering high quality products and services – largely depends on being able to position oneself as a strategic partner of ones customer.
Another trend that is leading to a revolution in Sales is digitalization: It not only changes the buying behavior of our customers, but also has tremendous effect on traditional sales channels toward the internet and social networks. It is essential to have that in mind from the beginning when developing a Sales strategy to avoid falling behind.
Furthermore, managing the sales team and each of its' members always has been a challenging task, but becomes even more demanding through the latest generation of people coming onto the job market (generation Y or millennials), the new pervasive internet-based technologies and the "war for talent" for highly qualified employees. So the self-concept and the role of the Sales Manager have to change as well in order to create a stable environment for both employees and customers.
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Some realizations about Digital Signal Processing
One of the realizations which I've just come across recently, about digital signal processing, is that apparently, when up-sampling a digital stream twofold, just for the purpose of playing it back, simply to perform a linear interpolation, to turn a 44.1kHz stream into an 88.2kHz, or a 48kHz stream into a 96kHz, does less damage to the sound quality, than I had previously thought. And one reason I think this is the factual realization that to do so, really achieves the same thing that applying a (low-pass) Haar Wavelet would achieve, after each original sample had been doubled. After all, I had already said, that Humans would have a hard time being able to hear that this has been done.
But then, given such an assumption, I think I've also come into more realizations, of where I was having trouble understanding what exactly Digital Signal Processors do. It might be Mathematically true to say, that a convolution can be applied to a stream after it has been up-sampled, but, depending on how many elements the convolution is supposed to have, whether or not a single DSP chip is supposed to decode both stereo channels or only one, and whether that DSP chip is also supposed to perform other steps associated with playing back the audio, such as, to decode whatever compression Bluetooth 4 or Bluetooth 5 have put on the stream, it may turn out that realistic Digital Signal Processing chips just don't have enough MIPS – Millions of Instructions Per Second – to do all that.
Now, I do know that DSP chips exist that have more MIPS, but then those chips may also measure 2cm x 2cm, and may require much of the circuit-board they are to be soldered in to. Those types of chips are unlikely to be built-in to a mid-price-range set of (Stereo) Bluetooth Headphones, that have an equalization function.
But what I can then speculate further is that some combination of alterations of these ideas should work.
For example, the convolution that is to be computed could be computed on the stream before it has been up-sampled, and it could then be up-sampled 'cheaply', using the linear interpolation. The way I had it before, the half-used virtual equalizer bands would also accomplish a kind of brick-wall filter, whereas, to perform the virtual equalizer function on the stream before up-sampling would make use of almost all the bands, and doing it that way would halve the amount of MIPS that a DSP chip needs to possess. Doing it that way would also halve the frequency linearly separating the bands, which would have created issues at the low end of the audible spectrum.
Alternatively, implementing a digital 9- or 10-band equalizer, with the
bands spaced an octave apart, could be achieved after up-sampling, instead of before up-sampling, but again, much more cheaply in terms of computational power required.
Posted on November 24, 2019 Tags Bluetooth Headphones, Convolution, Convolve, Digital Signal Processing, Digital Signal Processor, DSP, Equalizer Chip, Equalizer Function, Haar Wavelet, MIPS, Smartphone, Sound Chip, Up-SamplingLeave a comment on Some realizations about Digital Signal Processing
Wavelet Decomposition of Images
One type of wavelet which exists, and which has continued to be of some interest to computational signal processing, is the Haar Wavelet. It's thought to have a low-pass and a high-pass version complementing each other. This would be the low-pass Haar Wavelet:
[ +1 +1 ]
And this would be the high-pass version:
[ +1 -1 ]
These wavelets are intrinsically flawed, in that if they are applied to audio signals, they will produce poor frequency response each. But they do have as an important Mathematical property, that from its low-pass and its high-pass component, the original signal can be reconstructed fully.
Now, there is also something called a wavelet transform, but I seldom see it used.
If we wanted to extend the Haar Wavelet to the 2D domain, then a first approach might be, to apply it twice, once, one-dimensionally, along each axis of an image. But in reality, this would give the following low-frequency component:
And only, the following high-frequency component:
[ -1 +1 ]
This creates an issue with common sense, because in order to be able to reconstruct the original signal – in this case an image – we'd need to arrive at 4 reduced values, not 2, because the original signal had 4 distinct values.
And so closer inspection should reveal, that the wavelet reduction of images has 3 distinct high-frequency components: ( :1 )
Continue reading Wavelet Decomposition of Images
Posted on December 26, 2017 December 27, 2017 Tags Data-Reduction, GIMP, Haar Wavelet, Image Compression, JPEG-2000, Lossy Compression, Wavelet Decomposition, Wavelet ReductionLeave a comment on Wavelet Decomposition of Images
aptX and Delta-Modulation
I am an old-timer. And one of the tricks which once existed in Computing, to compress the amount of memory that would be needed, just to store digitized sound, was called "Delta Modulation". At that time, the only 'normal' way to digitize sound was what is now called PCM, which often took up too much memory.
And so a scheme was devised very early, by which only the difference between two consecutive samples would actually stored. Today, this is called 'DPCM'. And yet, this method has an obvious, severe drawback. If the signal contains substantial amplitudes, associated with frequencies that are half the Nyquist Frequency or higher, this method will clip that content, and produce dull, altered sound.
Well one welcoming fact which I have learned, is that this limitation has essentially been overcome. One commercial domain in which this has been overcome, is with the compression scheme / CODEC named "aptX". This is a proprietary scheme, owned by Qualcomm, but is frequently used, as the chips manufactured and designed by Qualcomm are installed into many devices and circuits. One important place this gets used, is with the type of Bluetooth headset, that now has high-quality sound.
What happens in aptX, requires that the band of frequencies which start out as a PCM stream, needs to get 'beaten down' into 4 sub-bands, using a type of filter known as a "Quadrature Mirror Filter". This happens in two stages. I know of a kind of Quadrature Mirror Filter which was possible in the old analog days, but have had problems until now, imagining how somebody might implement one using algorithms.
The analog approach required, a local sine-wave, a phase-shifted local sine-wave, a balanced demodulator used twice, and a phase-shifter which was capable of phase-shifting a (wide) band of frequencies, without altering their relative amplitudes. This latter feat is a little difficult to accomplish with simple algorithms, and when accomplished, typically involves high latency. aptX is a CODEC with low latency.
The main thing to understand about a Quadrature Mirror Filter, implemented using algorithms in digital signal processing today, is that the hypothetical example the WiKi article above cites, using a Haar Wavelet for H0 and its complementary series for H1, actually fails to implement a quadrature-split in a pure way, and was offered just as a hypothetical example. The idea that H1( H0(z) ) always equals zero, simply suggested that the frequencies passed by these two filters are mutually exclusive, so that in an abstract way, they pass the requirements. After the signal is passed through H0 and H1 in parallel, the output of each is reduced to half the sampling rate of the input.
What Qualcomm explicitly does, is to define a series H0 and a series H1, such that they apply "64 coefficients", so that they may achieve a frequency-split accurately. And it is not clear from the article, whether the number of coefficients for each filter is 64, or whether their sum for two filters is 64, or the sum of all six. Either way, this implies a lot of coefficients, which is why dedicated hardware is needed today, to implement aptX, and this dedicated hardware belongs to the kind, which needs to run its own microprogram.
Back in the early days of Computing, programmers would actually use the Haar Wavelet, because of its computational simplicity, even though doing so did not split the spectrum cleanly. And then this wavelet would define the 'upper sideband' in a notional way, while its complementary filter would define the notional, 'lower sideband', when splitting.
But then the result of this becomes 4 channels in the case of aptX, each of which has 1/4 the sampling rate of the original audio. And then it is possible, in effect, to delta-modulate each of these channels separately. The higher frequencies have then been beaten down to lower frequencies…
But there is a catch. In reality, aptX needs to use 'ADPCM' and not 'DPCM', because it can happen in any case, that the amplitudes of upper-frequency bands could be high. ADPCM is a scheme, by which the maximum short-term differential is computed for some time-interval, which is allowed to be a frame of samples, and where a simple division is used to compute a scale factor, by which these differentials are to be quantized.
This is a special situation, in which the sound is quantized in the time-domain, rather than being quantized in the frequency-domain. Quantizing the higher-frequency sub-bands has the effect of adding background – 'white' – noise to the decoded signal, thus making the scheme lossy. Yet, because the ADPCM stages are adaptive, the degree of quantization keeps the level of this background noise at a certain fraction, of the amplitude of the intended signal.
And so it would seem, that even old tricks which once existed in Computing, such as delta modulation, have not gone to waste, and have been transformed into something more HQ today.
I think that one observation to add would be, that this approach makes most sense, if the number of output samples of each instance of H0 is half as many, as the number of input samples, and if the same can be said for H1.
And another observation would be, that this approach does not invert the lower sideband, the way real quadrature demodulation would. Instead, it would seem that H0 inverts the upper sideband.
If the intent of down-sampling is to act as a 2:1 low-pass filter, then it remains productive to add successive pairs of samples. Yet, this could just as easily be the definition of H1.
(Edit 06/20/2016 : ) There is an observation to add about wavelets. The Haar Wavelet is the simplest kind:
H0 = [ +1, -1 ]
H1 = [ +1, +1 ]
And this one guarantees that the original signal can be reconstructed from two down-sampled sub-bands. But, if we remove one of the sub-bands completely, this one results in weird spectral results. This can also be a problem if the sub-bands are modified in ways that do not match.
It is possible to define complementary Wavelets, that are also orthogonal, but which again, result in weird spectral results.
The task of defining ones, which are both orthogonal and spectrally neutral, has been solved better by the Daubechies series of Wavelets. However, the series of coefficients used there are non-intuitive, and were also beyond my personal ability to figure out spontaneously.
The idea is that there exists a "scaling function", which also results in the low-pass filter H1. And then, if we reverse the order of coefficients and negate every second one, we get the high-pass filter H0, which is really a band-pass filter.
To my surprise, the Daubechies Wavelets achieve 'good results', even with a low number of coefficients such as maybe 4? But for very good audio results, a longer series of coefficients would still be needed.
One aspect to this which is not mentioned elsewhere, is that while a Daubechies Wavelet-set could be used for encoding, that has a high order of approximation, it could still be that simple appliances will use the Haar Wavelet for decoding. This could be disappointing, but I guess that when decoding, the damage done in this way will be less severe than when encoding.
The most correct thing to do, would be to use the Daubechies Wavelets again for decoding, and the mere time-delays that result from their use, still fall within the customary definitions today, of "low-latency solutions". If we needed a Sinc Filter, using it may no longer be considered so, and if we needed to find a Fourier Transform of granules of sound, only to invert it again later, it would certainly not be considered low-latency anymore.
And, when the subject is image decomposition or compression, it is a 2-dimensional application, and the reuse of the Haar Wavelet is more common.
Posted on June 15, 2016 June 20, 2016 Tags ADPCM, aptX, Delta-Modulation, Haar Wavelet, Mirror Filter, Quadrature, Quadrature Mirror, Quantization, Sinc Filter, Sound Compression, Time Domain, Wavelets6 Comments


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Flexible Platform Solutions Overcome Vaccine Production Challenges
September 24, 2020 • Written by The Dish
A Guest Article by Pall Biotech
The team from Pall Biotech explores the challenges of vaccine development and how they can be overcome by applying a quality by design (QbD) platform approach from early process development phases forward. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vaccine production is evaluated, with insight on how flexible, integrated, closed-system processing is advancing the future of safe and efficacious vaccine production.
Process-Based Challenges
In modern drug development, it is common to hear that "the product is the process". This is said so often because regardless of the product, there is little hope for success in drug development without a clearly defined and documented process that will scale from clinical to commercial production phases, while meeting or exceeding regulatory guidelines.
The unique situation with vaccine production is that each class of vaccine presents specific process development and manufacturing challenges, and the scale of production varies depending upon the targeted disease population. To overcome these challenges, manufacturers must rigorously characterize the manufacturing process.
The Case of COVID-19
Traditionally, vaccines can take five years or more to research and develop. However, there has been a tipping point with COVID-19, where process development and manufacturing timelines have been accelerated to be shorter than ever. The intense focus on the pandemic across the globe has led to a parallel approach to innovation with 145 vaccine candidates being introduced as of August 2020. At least 30 candidates are already in clinical trials, barely six months after the discovery of the disease[i].
However, this is not an industry that re-invents the wheel overnight. A great deal of this work has drawn on past successes and failures as a reference point or building block. And because the industry is so highly regulated, safety and efficacy will remain paramount in testing, even with reduced sample sizes and monitoring times, as clinical trials get underway.
The COVID-19 vaccine candidate mix includes traditional inactivated whole-virus, protein sub-units, and modern viral vector and genetic technologies. Prior knowledge on bioprocessing platforms is being leveraged to get each successful candidate to testing and production phases. In fact, many of the early vaccine candidates have been founded upon platform processes and defined by proven platform unit operations. These platforms are supported by a host of prior knowledge from cell culture for mAb production and relatively recent developments supporting related processes such as viral vector production for gene therapies.
Evolution in Real Time
DNA vaccines using plasmid DNA (such as Inovio's INO-4800) and recombinant viral vector processes (such as those used by Jenner Institute's ChAdOx1) are two platform processes that have previously been used for vaccine development and production[ii]. Newer processes, such as the use of mRNA and self-amplifying RNA vaccines seem to have great potential but have never been approved. Because of the novel nature of these vaccines, it can be expected that they may take longer through clinical trials than those using proven methods. However, with the COVID-19 pandemic in full swing, Moderna was able to reconfigure their platform and bring an mRNA vaccine into clinical trials in July of 2020[iii].
For each of these three examples, a vaccine candidate was designed within hours of receiving the genetic code of the target virus. However, regardless of the formulation of the vaccine, not all will be able to progress at the same speed, and scale-up to meet the billions of doses needed, at least not for this pandemic. Instead, the industry is aiming to bring potential candidates to market, while using this experience as preparation for the next urgent situation. In turn, the industry is evolving in real time when it comes to speed, efficiency and manufacturing capabilities and capacity.
Building in Quality
In drug development, a platform can take many forms to support development and manufacturing processes. Even though there is not one single answer for the process of vaccine production, there is one single approach that can benefit all vaccine manufacturers: a platform approach using QbD methodology.
The United States Food & Drug Administration says that a proper QbD approach includes the following elements[iv]:
A quality target product profile (QTPP) that identifies the critical quality attributes (CQAs) of the drug product
Product design and understanding including identification of critical material attributes (CMAs)
Process design and understanding including identification of critical process parameters (CPPs), linking CMAs and CPPs to CQAs
A control strategy that includes specifications for the drug substance(s), excipient(s), and drug product as well as controls for each step of the manufacturing process
Process capability and continual improvement
The FDA also notes that manufacturers need to leverage prior knowledge where feasible; complete risk assessment, mechanistic models, design of experiments (DoE) and data analysis; and implement process analytical technologies (PAT) throughout.
A New Standard of Innovation
For decades, the concept of a platform manufacturing process has been applied to simplify, de-risk and accelerate the development and manufacture of drug substances. Iterative improvements for development and manufacturing, such as the adoption of single-use technology and continuous manufacturing technologies, have brought a new level of flexibility and ease to the industry in the past two decades, but adoption was initially slow. In the past five years the industry has shown a greater willingness to implement platform approaches yet continues to waver on the topic of standardization. The COVID-19 vaccine development rush is helping to put the power of these platform technologies on full display and is acting as a catalyst for the standardization needed to keep innovation moving.
Across the industry, unit operations are being combined into a myriad of final manufacturing environments including traditional facilities, as well as new stick-built and modular, prefabricated formats. The introduction of prefabricated cleanroom concepts offers an end-to-end, total-process solution that looks beyond the core process unit operations and extends to supporting every operation, including buffer preparation and fluid management.
In late 2018, Pall partnered with G-CON Manufacturing to design prefabricated manufacturing suites which can be customized and deployed rapidly to expand manufacturing capacity. These suites feature customizable, pre-configured processing platforms that are scalable and can be repurposed to respond to changing requirements. Implementing this type of prefabricated modular platform means that a vaccine manufacturer can be operational in months versus years for a traditional facility format.
If platform choices are made with a knowledge of both the performance attributes and their benefits in real world processes such as usability, scalability, and economy, time and spend are both optimized. The focus can then be placed on the critical studies needed to adequately characterize performance and get the candidate ready for the next stage in the development process.
Partnering for a Better Process
At Pall Biotech, platforms are built and defined based on what the process needs to achieve and at what scale it will ultimately grow to. The Accelerator℠ Process Development Services (PDS) team works with each customer to provide upstream, downstream, and analytical support with platform solutions that scale-up and mature with the process. The process ultimately being the product makes reproducible results that scale a necessity.
For vaccine production with rapid industrialization as the goal, this might mean selecting single-use depth filtration over centrifugation for clarification, or using suspension or adherent cell culture systems instead of traditional roller bottle and flatware choices that do not easily scale for viral vector production. Having a range of options and support in building the right platform is critical.
In upstream production, the Allegro™ STR single-use stirred tank bioreactor portfolio leverages decades of bioprocess engineering expertise and has proven to deliver consistent, scalable cell culture performance. Integrated with downstream technologies like the Stax™ mAx single-use clarification platform for depth filtration that can eliminate the need for centrifugation or process additives, vaccine manufacturers can achieve more rapid, robust performance with minimal process variability. The platform scales directly with a range of formats and sizes suitable for bench-top testing up to large-scale clinical production so the manufacturer has a solution for the life of their process.
Undoubtedly, formulation and filling are a critical part of any drug manufacturing process and demands the highest levels of quality and reliability. Pall has a range of technologies and services that are quality driven and enable end users to carry out their operations with increased reliability and flexibility. The Allegro single-use portfolio features sterilizing grade filters and automated solutions that ensure manual interventions are minimized to increase sterility assurance.
And once technical transfer has been completed, the Pall Scientific and Laboratory Services (SLS) team is available to provide field-based customer and technical support to ensure process quality and reliability. Validation services can also be taken advantage of wherever needed.
A Process for the Future
The COVID-19 pandemic has undeniably been challenging, but it has also helped to highlight the importance, and endless potential, of this industry. Process development is being done in a more rapid and focused manner than ever before, truly leveraging the enabling technical platforms and manufacturing models on the market and spurring innovation. If the industry can work this fast for COVID-19, imagine what the future can look like for the next great health challenge, and how this progress can be applied to achieve the same speed with cell and gene, and other breakthrough therapies.
There is no doubt that platform processes, whether from the perspective of a high-level end-to-end process description or limited to established technology choices at the unit operation level, do accelerate, de-risk and ultimately deliver the results required. The journey may be complex, but it can be simplified and accelerated with help from the right partners who reinforce these platforms with standardized, robust and versatile products, and prior knowledge of how to integrate, implement and optimize total-process solutions.
Join Pall for: The Vaccine Production Learning Curve
The team at Pall Biotech are digging deeper into the elements of successful vaccine manufacturing with a webinar series called, "Vaccine Production: Securing Process Quality with Flexible Manufacturing Solutions". The series kicks off in September with modules focused on:
Vaccines development, regulations and manufacturing Part-1
Thursday, Sep 24 – 08:00 CEST | 11:30 IST | 14:00 SGT | 15:00 JST
Tuesday, Oct 06 – 08:00 PDT | 11:00 EDT | 16:00 BST | 17:00 CEST
Thursday, Oct 08 – 08:00 CEST | 11:30 IST | 14:00 SGT | 15:00 JST
Developing scalable upstream workflows for recombinant and viral vaccine processes
Downstream process development for vaccine manufacturing
Tuesday, Nov 03 – 08:00 PST | 11:00 EST | 16:00 GMT | 17:00 CET
Thursday, Nov 05 – 08:00 CET | 12:30 IST | 15:00 SGT | 16:00 JST
Implementing single-use technologies in formulation and filling of vaccines
Attendees will get a critical look at the vaccine industry today, its globalization and how the cost of a vaccine is assessed. Different types of vaccine production processes, equipment, and activities will be reviewed with examples from influenza and inactivated polio vaccine manufacturing. Upstream cell expansion and antigen production, and downstream chromatography, inactivation, and formulation and filling will be explored. Strategies and philosophies for process optimization, safety, and quality—including the importance of QbD and final product sterility assurance and delivery—will also be studied.
To attend any of the webinars above, please visit Vaccine Production: Securing Process Quality with Flexible Manufacturing Solutions
[i] https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2020/3/covid-19-vaccine-tracker
[ii] https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/draft-landscape-of-covid-19-candidate-vaccines
[iii] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2022483
[iv]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4070262/#:~:text=Woodcock%20(2)%20defined%20a%20high,the%20label%20to%20the%20consumer.&text=FDA's%20emphasis%20on%20QbD%20began,not%20necessarily%20improve%20product%20quality.


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À Belmont se trouve l'université Notre-Dame-de-Namur, une université privée catholique.

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La ville de Belmont est connue dans le monde pour ses restrictions sur le tabagisme : on ne peut y fumer que dans sa voiture, chez soi si l'habitation est une maison particulière et non dans un immeuble, et à l'extérieur à condition d'être à plus de  de la prochaine fenêtre ou porte de bâtiment.

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Arvin announced at the Tuesday City Council meeting that the city is moving $1.5 million in deposits ($250,000 each) to Community First Credit Union, Exchange Bank, First Community Bank, Redwood Credit Union, Sonoma County Grange Credit Union and Summit State Bank.
All of those institutions are part of Bank Local and have worked to bring excellent financial services to Sonoma County. Redwood Credit Union and Summit State Bank are top sponsors of GO LOCAL which helps to underwrite marketing programs for 338 business and non-profit organiztions countywide. Community First Credit Union has supported many efforts over the years to help locals understand the importance of choosing local first.
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Gardeners 1978–9 is a series of forty black and white photographs by the British artist Keith Arnatt. The series depicts individuals standing outdoors in the gardens they tend, which vary in character from sprawling fields in the countryside to small urban front gardens. Although the gardeners' poses, expressions and clothing differ, they are all shown full-length standing in the mid-ground of the scene and looking towards the camera.
Arnatt took the photographs that make up this series during 1978 and 1979. To do so, he visited the sitters at their homes, photographing them in their own gardens. The series title, Gardeners, focuses the viewer's attention on the gardeners rather than the gardens themselves, although the way in which Arnatt presents the individuals surrounded by the grass, foliage and sometimes concrete of their settings, with little else in view, suggests the intimate connection between the gardeners and their land. The repetitive nature of the composition and poses across each of the forty photographs also has the effect of drawing together a diverse group of people who have been photographed as a result of a shared hobby.
these pictures must really be termed portraits in landscape. Are these gardeners in harmony or at war with their patches of landscape? Often it seems as if Nature is taking the very opportunity of the photo-session to creep up from behind and reclaim the garden.
The images may therefore be considered a challenge to conventional portraiture, as here the settings seem to dominate the scenes, presenting greater variation from photograph to photograph than is seen among the humans who tend them.
Gardeners is one of three series of photographs of the public that Arnatt took during the 1970s (see also The Visitors 1974–6, British Council Collection, London, and Walking the Dog 1976–9, Tate T13047–T13086) and was first exhibited in 1979 in a solo exhibition of Arnatt's work at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery in London. It bears distinct similarities to Walking the Dog which, like Gardeners, consists of forty images that feature people in very similar poses engaging in the same activity, differentiated by their surroundings and, in the case of Walking the Dog, by the dogs at their feet.
In the series The Visitors, 1974–6, Gardeners, 1978–9 or Walking the Dog, 1976–9, the works go beyond being a descriptive or mimetic record to create their subjects through the act of taking a photograph … the gardeners become a feature of their own gardens … [the photographs] anticipate contemporary art's engagement over the past three decades of the construction of reality through the image.
Arnatt was interested at this time in the way in which language can express identity, specifically whether being labelled a 'gardener', for instance, forms an element of an individual's identity that is ontological – one that is part of their being – or performative – one that emerges only when the sitter engages in the act of tending the garden. In presenting his subjects posing in gardens but not carrying out their gardening, Arnatt could be seen to be suspending the sitters between these two linguistic forms, suggesting that, as Gresty claims, the photographic act has a role in either exposing or constructing the identities of the sitters.
Clare Grafik and David Hurn, I'm a Real Photographer: Keith Arnatt: Photographs 1974–2002, London 2009, pp.10–11, reproduced pp.26–7.
Richard Saltoun and Karsten Schubert (eds.), Keith Arnatt: Works 1968–1990, exhibition catalogue, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London 2009.
Keith Arnatt: Works 1967–1996, exhibition catalogue, Maureen Paley, London 2012, reproduced pp.36–41.


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Veuve Clicquot Champagne & Chef Joel Robuchon Announce Three-Year Partnership
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