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Business Briefs: PreparedHealth Lands $4 Million in Investments
By Tim Regan | May 2, 2017
Investors Drop $4 Million on PreparedHealth
Some well-known investors have opened their wallets for a Chicago startup focused on social media and big data.
PreparedHealth recently picked up $4 million from Chicago Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Beverly Capital and Meridian Street Capital, reports Crain's Chicago Business.
PreparedHealth's signature product is an app called enTouch, which allows care providers to share information the same way they might on another social media platform. The app helped Bayada Home Health Care cut its readmission rates by half when it was tested in a pilot, Crain's reports.
Bayada is in the process of rolling out PreparedHealth at more than 300 of its U.S. locations. PreparedHealth also works with Centegra Health System in Crystal Lake, Illinois.
Honor Partners With American Heart Association
Staffers at Honor will soon have access to heart disease and stroke research from the American Heart Association (AHA).
Home care provider Honor struck a partnership with AHA to train its caregivers, called Honor Care Pros, starting May 1, according to Forbes. The deal will arm the startup's staffers with science-based information to better treat their patients.
Honor has forged similar partnerships with the National Parkinson Foundation and Alzheimer's Association.
Bayhealth and Bayada Home Health Care Announce Joint Venture
Bayhealth hospital system and home health care provider Bayada Home Health Care are forming a new joint venture to service patients living in central and southern Delaware.
The new partnership, on track to be finalized in June, will be called Bayada Home Health Care at Bayhealth, reports local news publication Smyrna-Clayon Sun-Times. Bayhealth Home Health Care employees will have the opportunity to join the Bayada Home Health Care team. Bayhealth employees who choose to stay within the Bayhealth system may transfer to a comparable open position.
"This joint venture brings together a regionally recognized health system with a nationally renowned home health agency to ensure patients in our community have access to continued high quality in-home care services," Bayhealth President and CEO Terry Murphy told the news site. "Both organizations share a similar culture and values, as well as a mission to keep people safe and healthy at home."
Bayada also announced it is buying the home health operations of Lower Bucks Hospital in Philadelphia.
The financial terms of the deal, which will likely close May 22, were not disclosed, reports the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Bayada will continue home health care services for Lower Bucks Hospital patients without interruption, and the hospital's full-time home health employees will be able to interview for jobs at Bayada, the business site reported.
Medical Equipment Provider Buys Griffin Home Health Care
Charlotte-based Griffin Home Health Care has been purchased by national home medical equipment provider Rotech Healthcare, according to HME Business.
Rotech plans to absorb Griffin's locations in Charlotte, Concord and Gastonia, North Carolina, and add them to the 18 markets it currently serves in that state.
Griffin, a home health equipment and services provider, first opened its doors in 1983.
Ireland's RelateCare Expands U.S. Footprint
Irish-American health care consultancy and outsourcing organization RelateCare announced it opened a patient coordination center in Cleveland on April 25th.
The new center offers a range of services that include patient scheduling and a clinical support program led by nurses.
Cleveland was a "natural location" for RelateCare's first U.S. patient coordination center because the city "offers a strong healthcare infrastructure that includes world-class health care providers, research institutions and an abundant health care workforce," the company noted in a press release.
Furthermore, RelateCare can trace its roots to a joint venture with Cleveland Clinic Innovations there.
The company says its new Cleveland center is "just the first step of many" in marketing its patient access model to other hospitals and health providers throughout the country.
Homewatch CareGivers Opens Hub in West Florida
National senior-centric home care provider Homewatch CareGivers is expanding to Palm Harbor, Florida.
The provider opened a new location last week, reports local news site TBNweekly.com. Homewatch specializes in home care for seniors living with chronic illnesses, such as dementia.
Homewatch CareGivers has around 200 franchised units across 34 U.S. states as well as some operations in Canada and Central and South America.
ACHC and Home Care Association of America Partner Up
Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) has formed a new partnership with Home Care Association of America (HCAOA).
The agreement, announced last week, will allow HCAOA members to receive special pricing on some of ACHC's services, including home health, hospice and private duty accreditation. The partnership also gives those members discounts on accreditation resources.
ACHC is a nonprofit organization focused on accreditation services for home health, hospital and private duty agencies. HCAOA is a national home health care agency trade association that currently represents more than 2,500 companies that employ half a million caregivers across the country.
Written by Tim Regan
Companies featured in this article:
Bayada Home Health, Bayada Home Health Care, Cleveland Clinic Innovations, Griffin Home Health, Homewatch CareGivers, Honor, Honor Home Care, Prepared Health, RelateCare
Tim Regan
Tim is a lover of bad jokes and good beer. When he's not hunched over his work computer, Tim can usually be found hunched over his personal computer.
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GOOD DAY, SUNSHINE: It's really no surprise that reggae rockers tend to congregate around Santa Barbara. Our laidback beach culture and collective penchant for taking things as easy as possible practically demands it. And while I myself will openly admit to not being the genre's biggest supporter (sharing so many walls with so many die-hard Marley fans will do that to a girl), there are a select few reggae outfits I can definitely get behind. On the S.B. front, my enthusiastic thumbs up are wagging at Sunshine Brothers. Formed in 2004 by Jamaican-born lead singer Owen Plant, the Brothers have been gaining some serious steam since dropping their debut full length, Live By the Sun, last spring. Now firmly rooted in town, the seven-piece have been keeping busy playing shows all around town, including a couple jam-packed dates at SOhO. Most importantly, the band's infectious mix of Jack Johnson-y pop melodies, Rasta riffs, and Jimmy Buffett's sun-soaked party-loving attitude add up to something that is decidedly Santa Barbaran-without sounding forced, cliched, or ripped off. Combine that with the guys' fun-loving, dance-worthy live shows, and it's no wonder Sunshine Brothers have become synonymous with having a good time.
This weekend, the band will likely win over a few new fans when they head up to the Santa Ynez Valley to play a benefit concert at the Solvang Festival Theater (420 2nd St., Solvang). The show, slated for Saturday, May 23, at 7 p.m., will help to raise money for both Arts Outreach (a nonprofit dedicated to promoting and maintaining arts programming in and outside of the classroom) and The Family School (a private preschool through fifth grade academy that nurtures students' critical thinking skills and creativity). Opening the show will be SoCal ska dynamo Chris Murray and his band. For tickets and info, call 688-9533.
WEEKEND WAILERS: Starting this week, fans of a good vocal thrashing should have plenty to look forward to, with Killola making their big return to Muddy Waters Cafe (508 E. Haley St.) this Thursday night. For those who have yet to experience Killola live, lead singer Lisa Rieffel has made a name for herself as one of the rising stars of the modern grrrl rock movement. Mixing the high-pitched, ¼ber feminine vocal stylings of Save Ferris's Monique Powell and Tragic Kingdom-era Gwen Stefani with some truly cathartic scream sessions, Rieffel commands attention the way a frontlady should. The band's new album, I Am the Messer, currently is available for free downloading at myspace.com/killola, and for a live dose, head down to Muddy Waters at 8 p.m. this Thursday. Kristeen Young will open the show. Call 966-9328 or visit myspace.com/muddycafesb for details.
On Sunday night, one-time Velvet Revolver frontman, current Stone Temple Pilots ringleader, and former substance addiction poster boy Scott Weiland will bring his newly cleaned-up solo show to the Majestic Ventura Theater (26 S. Chestnut Ave., Ventura). Touring in support of his second effort, 2008's "Happy" in Galoshes, Weiland is still sporting his signature combo of tight jeans and gravely vocals on the new record. And while the subject matter is a bit heavier and the packaging is more Dylan than heroin chic, the rock riffs and heartfelt lyrics are still ever present. For tickets and info, call 653-0721 or visit venturatheater.net.
GO-GO-GOLETA: No matter what your music of choice may be, it seems this week it's all about heading north. On Thursday, May 21, Devastating Karate will bring their brand of Long Beach rockabilly to The Mercury Lounge (5871 Hollister Ave., Goleta) for a free show at 8 p.m. Call 967-0907 or visit myspace.com/mercurylounge for details. Also on Thursday, Twiin Productions brings reggae heavyweights SOJA to Isla Vista's frat house SAE (765 Embarcadero del Mar). For info, visit beachcitytickets.com. The I.V. party continues on Monday, May 25, when the Biko Co-Op Garage (6612 Sueno St.) hosts St. Louis indie punk outfit Bunnygrunt with former Santa Barbara dwellers and current Portland ambient rockers Church . Visit sbdiy.org for details.


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ICANN's Positive Affirmation: Good News for Africa and Emerging Markets
Oct 08, 2009 12:32 PM PDT
Sometimes you get what you are asking for. And this seems to be one of those occasions… and the US government can give itself a pat on the back for having listened to other stakeholder opinions.
For years the world of Internet governance has been seen as its own special corner of the technosphere, full of arcane acronyms and quiet power deals. Despite efforts to make ICANN and the broader Internet community more transparent and user-friendly, many observers, including many African governments, still saw the stage as too much of an insider's game — with the ultimate insider being the US Department of Commerce. However, with the announcement of new "Affirmation" between DOC and ICANN, it seems a new day is dawning, one full of what should be good news for Africa and emerging markets.
Notwithstanding its strange name (what is an "Affirmation" after all, when you're talking about new policy?), there's a lot to like in the announcement for both businesses and governments in emerging markets smile. The Affirmation talks about the need to move forward with Internationalized Domain Names, a major focus of the Arabic-speaking northern tier of the continent. It re-emphasizes the crucial private sector role in running the net, something that should give confidence to African investors and company owners anxious to do more on line and keep the net open for business. It expands the reporting from ICANN, so that now key information from the organization will be open to governments around the world, not just the US, making the governance mechanisms accountable to all governments. And in some ways most stunningly, it gives those governments that do participate in ICANN a much meatier role, complete with actions and powers to influence policy — as opposed to the simple "advisory" powers in earlier agreements.
Finally and perhaps most importantly in our minds, the Affirmation walks away from the very concept of a "report card", with short term objectives and a short term view. The Affirmation is an agreement in perpetuity, one that specifically addresses the concerns of the international community (notwithstanding the opt-out clause at the end, which seemed out of keeping with the intent and tone of the rest of the document). This is crucial because it is the long term stability and growth of the net — and both are key — that we are all after.
Now the challenge is to us. For years emerging markets members of the Internet governance community have been urging ICANN and the US government to take steps, steps just like these. ICANN has signaled a real willingness to focus to the needs and issues of the next billion users, on IDNs, on stability and on more and better governance. One can only hope that African governments and private sector representatives alike will take up this new opportunity and engage more deeply than ever before. After all the net should belong to all, even Africa.
This post was co-authored by Vika Mpisane, Chairman of AFTLD and General Manager of the .za Domain Name Authority and Andrew Mack, Principal of AMGlobal Consulting, a firm specializing in tech policy and partnerships in Emerging Markets.
Related topics: ICANN, Internet Governance
Spot on! McTim – Oct 08, 2009 11:39 PM PDT
Well said Vika and Andrew Mack!
Now, if we could focus on the IG issues that affect us in Africa (access costs in particular), and less on ICANN issues, we'd make better progress.
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Q: How to cycle through many threads in Java For our project to develop a network stress test tool, we are flooding packets to entire subnets. We have a Runnable class that takes a port and the broadcast address and in a while(!Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted) loop, it sends a specific packet. We then have a main class that iterates through every network interface and every possible port and adds the Runnable class to an ExecutorService with 1000 thread fixed pool. The issue is that if ExecutorService waits for the current 1000 threads to finish processing, they never will since they are in a while loop. However, starting every single thread (65536 * number of interfaces) would take up too much memory. We are looking for a way to cycle through the threads so they all have an opportunity to operate for some time and conserve memory while still maintaining a high network output.

A: I think you might be suffering from the misconception that more threads always gives higher throughput. This is often not the case.
Your application is likely going to be CPU bound, or bound by the network card's throughput. Forcing the OS to juggle tens of thousands of threads competing for these resources is not going to increase your throughput. High numbers of threads only helps when the threads are spending most of their lives waiting on some high-capacity, external resource (e.g. a database). Since you're just blasting packets and (presumably) not interested in any responses, there is no natural waiting point.
I would recommend you only have as many threads as you have processors and/or network cards (whichever is smaller).

A: Rather than make each thread always run to completion or 'forever', make the threads execute a small, well-defined set of work, then re-add them to the executor.  This high level management can be done by a 'controller' style object that manages re-adding tasks to the executor queue with a new range of steps to execute.
For example, if each task has 1000 steps to execute repeatedly:
- Task 1 runs steps 1-100, then finishes by adding itself back to the executor queue for steps 101-200
- Task 2 gets a chance to execute (and finish) similarly
- Task 1 is next in the queue now, so it executes 101-200, then adds back to the executor queue for 201-300.
- etc until Task 1 reaches the end - 901-1000 - then if it wants to continue executing, goes back for 1-100 again.
In your case, the different steps may be the ports, with different threads representing the different broadcast addresses - break it up as you see fit.

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Veolia and Nestlé partner to tackle plastic waste
March 20, 2019 March 20, 2019 by Waste Management Review
Veolia and Nestlé have announced a partnership to work on waste collection and sorting, and recycling plastic material with an emphasis on flexible plastic packaging.
Projects will focus on eleven priority countries across Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe.
The collaboration will explore technologies to establish viable models of recycling in different countries, including chemical recycling technologies like pyrolysis which is capable of producing virgin quality plastic.
These potential technologies will help Nestlé increase the recycled content of its bottled water packaging to 35 per cent and its overall product packaging to 15 per cent by 2025.
Nestlé Executive Vice President, Head of Operations Magdi Batato said plastic waste is a challenge that requires an ecosystem of solutions that work simultaneously.
"This partnership is another specific step to accelerate our efforts in addressing the critical issue of plastic waste.
"Leveraging on Veolia's technology and expertise, we will start with pilot projects in multiple countries with the intention of scaling these up globally," he said.
In late 2018 Nestlé committed to making 100 per cent of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025.
Veolia Senior Executive Vice-President for Development, Innovation and Markets Laurent Auguste said the company welcomed the partnership as part of Veolia's quest for a more circular economy of plastics.
"Our expertise in resource recovery and recycling has positioned us to tackle this issue with global brands and other value-chain actors across all continents.
"We believe it is time to move towards more recycling of materials, and we are happy to help our clients be ever more inventive so they can keep improving our quality of life, whilst protecting our planet and its resources," he said.
The partnership follows a series of initiative's taken by both companies to accelerate action to reduce plastic waste.
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Categories News Tags Nestlé, packaging, partnership, plastic, Veolia
Nestlé co-launches Future Food Initiative research program
February 13, 2019 February 13, 2019 by Waste Management Review
Nestlé has announced the launch of the Future Food Initiative, a joint research program to support the company in developing sustainable food and beverage products.
The Future Food Initiative brings together Swiss academic and industrial partners leading in nutritional science and food technology, including ETH Zurich, the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), as well as Swiss companies Nestlé, Bühler and Givaudan.
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The initiative encourages food and nutrition research in areas relevant to consumer trends and sustainability, and it includes a postdoctoral fellowship program to promote young scientists. The first research projects will focus on plant-based nutrition and ancient plant varieties.
"We accelerate innovation in collaboration with a variety of external partners, including world-class academia, globally leading suppliers and creative start-ups across the world," Stefan Palzer, CTO of Nestlé S.A. said.
"To address open scientific questions and challenges related to food trends and sustainable nutrition is key for us as we create tasty and nutritious food for all age groups. As one of the initiators of this important Swiss research initiative, we reaffirm our commitment to further strengthen the unique Swiss research ecosystem for food and nutrition research."
A significant part of Nestlé's global research and development organisation is located in Switzerland, including Nestlé Research.
Categories News Tags food, food research, Nestlé
Global initiative of 290 companies to end plastic waste
November 2, 2018 by Waste Management Review
UK charity Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the United Nations Environment Programme have led an initiative of more than 290 companies to end plastic waste pollution.
Companies including Veolia, Suez, H&M, Nestle, Philips, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Pepsico, L'Oreal, Mars, WWF, Walmart and Johnson & Johnson have signed an agreement to reach long-term targets, which will be reviewed every 18 months.
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The targets include eliminating unnecessary plastic packaging and moving to a reusable packaging model, ensuring 100 per cent of plastic packaging can be recycled or composted by 2025, and increasing the amount of recycled or reused plastics used in new packaging or products.
More than $200 million has been pledged by five venture capital funds to help build the circular economy for plastics.
"We know that cleaning up plastics from our beaches and oceans is vital, but this does not stop the tide of plastic entering the oceans each year. We need to move upstream to the source of the flow," Ellen MacArthur said in a statement.
"The New Plastics Economy Global Commitment draws a line in the sand, with businesses, governments and others around the world uniting behind a clear vision for what we need to create a circular economy for plastic.
"This is just one step on what will be a challenging journey, but one which can lead to huge benefits for society, the economy and the environment," she said.
Nestlé CEO Mark Schneider said the Global Commitment is an urgently needed step-change to move from a linear economy to a circular one.
"We want to act and lead by example. We will do our part to ensure that none of our packaging, including plastics, ends up in the natural environment," Mr Schneider said.
Categories News Tags Coca-Cola, Ellen MacArthur, H&M, Johnson & Johnson, L'Oreal, Mars, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Philips, plastic, recuction, Suez, UN, Unilever, United nations, Veolia, Walmart, Waste, WWF
Nestlé pledges to improve recycled content in EU packaging
October 3, 2018 October 1, 2018 by Waste Management Review
Nestlé has pledged to increase the amount of recycled plastics the company uses in some of its packaging in the European Union by 2025.
The company aims to include 25 to 50 per cent recycled materials in PET layer in laminates, caps on glass jars and tines, trays for meat products and shrink films for display trays.
It follows Nestlé's pledge in April to make all of its packaging recyclable or re-useable by 2025.
The announcement is part of the voluntary pledging exercise on recycled content by the European Commission. Nestlé CEO for Zone Europe, Middle East and North Africa Marco Settembri delivered the pledge in person to the European Commission.
Mr Settembri said the company is taking the first concrete steps to achieve its packaging ambitions.
"Nestlé supports the Plastics Strategy of the European Union. We share the vision that no plastic packaging ends up in the environment. Recyclable packaging, good recycling infrastructure and more use of recycled material will help us close the loop," he said.
Categories News Tags EU, Europe, glass, jar, material, Nestlé, packaging, PET, plastic, pledge, recycled, soft plastic, union
New national targets set within 2025 packaging plan
September 26, 2018 September 26, 2018 by Waste Management Review
New targets within the 2025 plan have been outlined alongside the launch of the Australasian Recycling Label.
The new targets aim to aim to increase the average recycled content within all packaging by 30 per cent and phase out problematic and unnecessary single-use plastic packaging through design, innovation or the introduction of alternatives.
Additionally, the targets aim to ensure 70 per cent of plastic packaging is recycled or composted.
These build on the previous announcement of a target to achieve 100 per cent of Australian packaging being recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2025.
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The targets build on commitments made by federal, state and territory environment ministers and the President for the Australian Local Government Association earlier in April this year.
Industry representatives and environmental groups support the targets including Aldi, ALGA, Amcor, Australia Post, Boomerang Alliance, Chep, Close the Loop, Coca-Cola Amatil, Coles, Detmold, Goodman Fielder, Lion, Metcash, Nestlé, Orora, Pact Group, Planet Ark, Redcycle, Simplot, Suez, Tetra Pak, Unilever, Veolia, Visy and Woolworths.
Woolworths General Manager, Quality and Sustainability Alex Holt highlighted the importance of this collaboration.
"We're really pleased to see such a wide range of industry players come together in support of such a worthy goal. Moving towards a circular economy won't be easy, but we have the right mix of organisations on board to help make it a reality," Mr Holt said.
Federal Environment Minister Melissa Price congratulated the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) and the initial working group of businesses that are supporting the targets.
Minister Price has also officially launched the Australasian recycling Label to help achieve the 2025 National Packaging Targets, developed by Planet Ark, PREP Design and APCO to help consumers better understand how to recycle packaging.
"The Australasian Recycling Label provides people with easy to understand recycling information when they need it most, in those few seconds when they are deciding what bin the package goes in. The label removes confusion and reduces waste," Ms Price said.
With more than 200 recycling labels currently being used in Australia, the new system aims to reduce confusion and contamination in the waste stream.
Nestlé Head of Corporate and External Relations Oceania Margaret Stuart said the inclusion of the label on Netslé's packaging was a demonstration of the company's commitment to sustainability.
"More and more people who buy our products want to know how to manage packing waste, so we have committed to implementing the Australasian Recycling Label across all our locally controlled products by 2020," Ms Stuart said.
Unilever ANZ CEO Clive Stiff has said the announcements are a critical step towards greater collective action on increasing the nationals recycling capability.
"Plastic packaging waste represents an $80 billion loss to the global economy every year. The benefits of the circular economy approach are clear for business and the environment – the more effective use of materials means lower costs and less waste," Mr Stiff said.
"We are proud to have recently announced that bottles of popular Unilever products like OMO, Dove, Sunsilk, Surf and TRESemmé will soon be made with at least 25% Australian recycled plastic.
"This is just the start for us and no business can create a circular economy in isolation. Heavy lifting is needed from all players involved – suppliers, packaging converters, brand owners, policy makers and retailers, collectors, sorters and recyclers. We need a complete shift in how we think about and use resources."
Categories News Tags 2025, Aldi, Alex Holt, ALGA, Amcor, APCO, Australasian Recycling Label, Australia Post, Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation, Boomerang Alliance, Chep, Clive Stiff, Close the Loop, Coca-Cola Amatil, Coles, compost, Detmold, Goodman Fielder, label, Lion, Margaret Stuart, Melissa Price, Metcash, National Packaging Targets, Nestlé, Orora, packaing, Pact Group, Planet Ark, plastic, PREP Design, recycling, REDcycle, reuse, Simplot, Suez, Tetra Pak, Unilever, Veolia, Visy, Waste, Woolworths
August 22, 2018 August 22, 2018 by Waste Management Review
Nestlé will implement the new Australasian Recycling Label and REDcycle logo across all of its locally made products by 2020 to educate consumers that soft plastic can be recycled through the in-store scheme.
The rollout will start in August and will roll out throughout 2019, starting with Allen's lollies.
APCO's packaging recycling label program
The Australasian Recycling Label shows how each piece of packaging can be disposed of in the best possible way, indicating if the packaging can be recycled via kerbside recycling, conditionally recycled through programs such as REDcycle, or if it is not recyclable.
Nestlé previously announced it aims to make its packaging 100 per cent recyclable or reusable by 2025.
To reach this goal, the company will focus on three core areas, eliminate non-recyclable plastics, encourage the use of plastics that allow better recycling rates and eliminate complex combinations of packaging material.
Nestlé Australia CEO Sandra Martinez said the company is proud to adopt the new label to help consumers correctly recycle by providing the information on how to properly dispose of it.
"Consumers have good intentions when it comes to recycling but they need clearer information. The Australasian Recycling Label will help to remove confusion, increase recycling rates and decrease contamination in recycling streams by helping consumers navigate the process," Ms Martinez said.
Planet Ark Deputy CEO Rebecca Gilling said the commitment from companies such as Nestlé was an important one.
"We need widespread commitment from industry to apply the Australasian Recycling Label if it's to become effective in helping consumers improve their recycling habits."
Categories News Tags Allen, APCO, Australasian Recycling Label, landfill, Nestlé, packaging, plastic, Rebecca Gilling, recycling, REDcycle, Sandra Martinez, Waste
Planet Ark is increasing its efforts to educate Australians about Australasia Recycling Labels, including councils and educators.
In partnership with the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO), the Australasian Recycling Label has entered into a new phase which will allow more companies to adopt it. Organisations such as Australia Post, Blackmores, Nestlé, Unilever and Woolworths have already pledged their commitment to the label.
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It has been designed to be easy to understand and show what needs to be done with each piece of packaging to dispose of it in the best way.
Because councils play an important part in the recycling process and are the source of the evidence base used by the label, Planet Ark is hosting a series of free webinars in the coming weeks.
Council and waste industry staff members that are interested can sign up by clicking here.
Webinars are planned for the following dates:
August 28 – 11am AEST
September 4 – 11am AEST
September 12 – 1pm AEST
Categories News Tags APCO, Australasian Recycling Label, Australia Post, Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation, Blackmores, council, label, Nestlé, packaging, Planet Ark, recycling, Unilever, webinar, Woolworths
July 13, 2018 July 18, 2018 by Waste Management Review
Waste Management Review speaks to Nestlé Packaging Specialist Jacky Nordsvan about the company's packaging strategy, plan for soft plastics and zero waste to landfill agenda.
Read moreNestlé's packaging plan
Categories Sustainability in Business Tags APCO, Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation, Nestlé
Nestlé aim for products to be completely recyclable by 2025
April 12, 2018 by Waste Management Review
Nestlé has announced its goal to make 100 per cent of it packaging recyclable or re-usable by 2025.
The news comes in response to the company's opinion that there is an urgent need to minimise the impact of packaging that ends up in landfill or as litter.
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To achieve this goal, the company says it will focus on eliminating non-recyclable plastics, encourage the use of plastics that allow for better recycling rates and eliminate or change complex combinations of packaging materials.
Nestlé said in a statement that it is committed to playing an active role in the development of collection, sorting and recycling schemes.
The company also said it would work with chain partners and industry associations to explore different packaging to reduce plastic usage and to facilitate recycling.
Labelling products with recycling information and promoting a market for recycled plastics were also steps mentioned to develop a circular economy.
Nestlé Chief Executive Officer Mark Schneider said, "Plastic waste is one of the biggest sustainability issues the world is facing today. Tackling it requires a collective approach. We are committed to finding improved solutions to reduce, re-use and recycle. Our ambition is to achieve 100% recyclable or reusable packaging by 2025."
Categories News Tags container, Litter, Mark Schneider, Nestlé, packaging, recycle
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This Easter & Spring Middle School Math Activities NO PREP packet that will keep your sixth, seventh, and eighth graders engaged! This packet is just plain fun. Not only is it PACKED with grade level common core math problems, it also gives students fun coloring, puzzles, and problem solving. Use this packet for bellwork, classwork, extra credit, fast finishers, or homework.
I hope these activities are a great addition to your Math classroom too! I am always amazed at how much fun students can have when you incorporate some holiday fun into your classroom. This April, create time for your students to have fun with an April themed Math activity and build rapport with your students.


The Batmobile: Gamers have demanded it, and Batman: Arkham Knight delivers. The all?new Batmobile sits at the heart of the gameplay experience and augments Batman's abilities in every respect.
Next--Gen Gotham City: Harnessing the power of the next generation of games systems, the entirety of Gotham City has been created in immense scale and with intimate detail offering players a truly legendary next--?gen game world.
The Epic Conclusion to a Legendary Trilogy: Rocksteady Studios returns to the helm of the multiaward winning franchise. Scarecrow is back to wreak his revenge against Batman joined by a completely new and original character ? the Arkham Knight.


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Q: Simple Constructor in C++ I've downloaded simple code with constructors. Could anyone explain me this part of code:
class Myclass
{
private:
    int x;
    double *y;

public:
    Myclass(int X);

};

Myclass::Myclass(int X) : x(X)
{
y = new double[x];
}

I don't understand "Myclass::Myclass(int X) :x(X)". Couldn't it be written simpler?

A: I guess from the bold face that it's just the : x(X) part you don't understand.
That's the initialiser list, used to initialise member variables. In this case, it initialises the variable x to have the same value as the constructor parameter X. y is not included in the list, so it's left uninitialised at that point, then assigned a value in the constructor body.
There's no simpler way to initialise a member variable (in a class with a non-trivial constructor).

A: You can't write it any simpler without altering the effect of the code.
You could write it this way:
Myclass::Myclass(int X)
{
    x = X;
    y = new double[x];
}

But then it wouldn't be an initialization of x, it would be an assignment to x.
Each member variable is initialized before running the constructor body (the part between { and }), in the so-called member initialization list between the : and the {.

As a side note, it would be better to initialize y in the member initialization list as well, rather than assigning to it in the constructor body:
Myclass::Myclass(int X) : x(X), y(new double[x])
{
}


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Q: turn on JavaScript in your browser to continue i'm using python3.6 on pythonanywhere, when i try to run pydrive (to upload files to google drive automatically) i get this error:-
You've reached this page because we have detected that Javascript is disabled in your browser. The page you attempted to load cannot display properly if scripts are disabled.

   Please enable scripts and retry the operation or go back in your browser.

it requires me to login to my gmail account so i think that's the problem, how can i workaround this problem?
here's my entire code
from pydrive.auth import GoogleAuth
from pydrive.drive import GoogleDrive

def uploadimg(kart, band, fraction):
    gauth = GoogleAuth()
    gauth.LoadCredentialsFile("mycreds.txt")
    if gauth.credentials is None:
        gauth.LocalWebserverAuth()
    elif gauth.access_token_expired:
        gauth.Refresh()
    else:
        gauth.Authorize()
    # Save the current credentials to a file
    gauth.SaveCredentialsFile("mycreds.txt")
    drive = GoogleDrive(gauth)
    ######################

    file1 = drive.CreateFile({'title': "lqi"+fraction+"bandi"+band+"karti"+kart})
    file1.SetContentFile("hi.jpg")
    file1.Upload()

    file3 = drive.CreateFile({'id': file1['id']})

uploadimg("h","h","e")

A: i had to use gauth.CommandLineAuth() instead of gauth.LocalWebserverAuth() to use it on remote servers


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At present he is adjunct professor at Babson College and Columbia Business School, and an affiliate of the Harvard Kennedy School, where he teaches entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development.
A global expert in fostering entrepreneurship ecosystems, Dan has led entrepreneurship-driven economic development projects in Colombia, the US, the UK, Brazil, and other locations, work which has been recognized by the World Economic Forum, EU, G20 and for this work received the Pio Manzu Award, signed by Mikhail Gorbachev.
Dan lived for 22 years in Israel where he was an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, and was an advisor to Given Imaging and a director of Given Imaging Japan. He has also served as director of Magic Software Japan, Attunity (ATTY), and AviTx.
Dan is an active early stage investor in high growth potential technology startups, including in health care and life sciences.
Dan has a Ph.D. from Harvard University (1981) and is the author of dozens of professional articles, as well as Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value (Harvard, 2013).
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Costumes are everywhere you look at New York Comic Con (NYCC). Over the course of four days in October 2013, thousands of people descend on the Javits Convention Center in Manhattan dressed as their favorite television, film, comic, video game costumes, and more.
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Welcome to the latest installment of Tuesday Top Five! From time to time I'll be coming up with a Top 5 spanning a number of geeky topics. This week I'm tackling the upcoming Nintendo Direct presentation and what I'd most like to see revealed!
Last September, Nintendo released a Direct presentation that outlined key releases for 2017, including more information regarding games like Super Mario Odyssey and Xenoblade Chronicles 2. To accompany the big event, I provided my own predictions. I was correct about some of them (minus the inclusion of media apps), but last year I focused on safe bets. This time around, I'm going to go out on a limb and predict the top five things that I would like more than anything from this month's upcoming Nintendo Direct.
Nintendo fans know that the Direct was delayed due to the unfortunate earthquake that took place in Hokkaido, Japan. Because of the delay, many announcements that were meant to be revealed in the Direct have already come to light. I'll not address any of those in my own predictions.
Check out this week's Tuesday Top 5 by clicking the link below!


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- command line arguments configurable
- multiple configurations

## v1.0.1

- fixed missing project dependency

## v1.0.0

- first release

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