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Neurotoxin in Your Drinking Water
Without Your Informed Consent!!
Lowers your IQ
It's more poisonous than LEAD
Damages your Hormone Functionality: affecting WEIGHT control, sleep, SEXUAL health, etc
Damages the "master gland": the Pineal ("3rd eye")
Can't be removed by You, using common water filters
And you're paying for it to be done.
We figure you'll be more than a little indignant!
Fluoride is added to drinking water by many municipalities. It is also found in many toothpastes and dental hygiene products. You may also ingest it with drinks prepared with fluoridated water.
"The decline in tooth cavities has been the same in fluoridated and non fluoridated countries. Europe is only 2% fluoridated but has tooth decay similar to or less than the USA, which is 72.4% fluoridated as of 2008."
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On 4/18/17, the Fluoride Action Network (FAN), along with a coalition of environmental and public health groups filed a complaint in a U.S. District Court against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). For the first time a court will consider the neurotoxicity of fluoride and the question of whether fluoridation presents an unreasonable risk under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
1) Short Film Reveals the Lunacy of Water Fluoridation
By Dr. Mercola
Research links fluoridated water consumption to endocrine dysfunction, hypothyroidism, ADHD, and reduced IQ
Many water authorities do not use pharmaceutical grade fluoride; they use hydrofluosilicic acid — a toxic waste product of the fertilizer industry that is frequently contaminated with heavy metals and other toxins
97 percent of Western European countries do not fluoridate, and data show non-fluoridating countries have seen the exact same reduction in dental cavities as fluoridated areas
From: "Fluoridealert.org"
A team of experts from Chile--including doctors, biologists, a lawyer, a civil engineer, a toxicologist, an environmental expert, and a chemist--have published a damning review of water fluoridation in the Medical Journal of Chile, February 2017. The review was financed by the Medical College of Chile.
"A) The effects of fluoride intake pose risks of various diseases in the asthmatic-skeletal, neurological, endocrine and skin systems. Dental and skeletal fluorosis are signs of chronic and excessive ingestion of fluoride.
B) Infants, children and adolescents are at high risk of diseases due to over-intake of fluorides, through drinking water and / or fluoridated milk, as the deterioration of health is proportional to the dose and the time of exposure .
C) The fluoridation of drinking water does not significantly impact on caries prevention. For their effectiveness is rather a topical and non-systemic effect, as demonstrated by countries that do not fluoride drinking water, and do not use milk or fluoride salts, decreasing dental deterioration at the same rate as those that fluoride drinking water."
3) THE DAMAGING EFFECTS OF FLUORIDE FOR TEETH; ON THYROID AND BRAIN, AND A CURE
By Charles Weber, MS in soil science
[This article has been modified in April 2014 ]
Fluoride has been added to water in the form of hexafluorosilicic acid (an industrial waste product) in the hope that it would reduce tooth decay. However it is a poison that has some serious side effects, badly affecting almost every organ in the body and does not reduce tooth decay in permanent teeth (has graphs) nor even in first teeth.
The decline in to
oth cavities has been the same in fluoridated and non fluoridated countries. Europe is only 2% fluoridated but has tooth decay similar to or less than the USA, which is 72.4% fluoridated as of 2008. A study showed higher number of cavities in a fluoridated village than in nearby non fluoridated villages in South Africa. [Grobler] Fluoride is more poisonous than lead and only marginally less so than arsenic.
Fluoridation is absurd from a viewpoint of ethics, safety, science, control of dose, greater harm to the poor, increase of dental cost, poisoning of soil, and grave damage to almost every organ. Pushing this madness by lobbyists and dentists is a disgrace.
See this article for a history of fluoridation.
SIDE EFFECTS (the most serious is dementia disease)
The side effect that is the most obvious is a discoloration of the teeth called fluorosis (includes treatments) [Pendrys]. This is inevitable if the dose of fluoride is only a little over optimum. 40% of US citizens aged 12-15 have fluorosis according to the Center for disease control. This figure must be more than 60% for those drinking fluoridated water. This is very easy to happen to anyone who drinks a lot of water, say for kidney problems or for baby formula.
Toxicity is worse in hot climates because more water is consumed. It is also likely if someone eats or drinks food high in fluoride such as tea [Gulati], coffee, reconstituted fruit juice, grapes or raisins that have had fluoride insecticide (cryolite), dried eggs, soy beans, and carbonated drinks. See this article for a very long discussion of fluorosis of teeth and bone, Fagin gives fluoride content of some foods [Fagin].
Since 1950, it has been found that fluorides do little to prevent pit and fissure tooth decay, a fact that even the dental community has acknowledged [Gray 1987; and Pinkham 1999].
Fluoride interferes with the hydroxylation of proline to hydroxyproline [Sharma]. Therefore fluoride exposure disrupts the synthesis of collagen and leads to the breakdown of collagen in bone, tendon, muscle, skin, cartilage, lungs, kidney, trachea and arteries. [Susheela and Mukerjee]. That is the type of damage you'd expect to see in connective tissue disorders. It will also cause damage to ligaments resembling arthritis. It has been found that the elastic properties of the ascending aorta are impaired in patients with endemic fluorosis [Varol].
Fluoride inhibits the immune cells at those times when an infection activates them [Clark] [Weissman].
An even more serious effect is bone cancer in young boys, but for some strange reason, not girls. During the growth spurt during 6 to 8 years the bone cancer rate is 8 times higher in boys living in fluoridated areas than in non poisoned water areas [Bassin]. Fluoride confuses the immune system and causes it to attack the body's own tissues, and increases the tumor growth rate in cancer prone individuals [Taylor].
There is increased incidence of melanotic tumors following treatment with sodium fluoride [Herskowitz]. In view of this, adding fluoride to water is breaking the former Delaney amendment law prohibiting adding cancer causing chemicals to food. That law should be reestablished.
Fluoride depresses thyroid activity [Von Mundy] [Galleti]. Fluoride and bromide block the uptake and utilization of iodide in target cells [Abraham 2004]. Fluoride has been proposed to inhibit the thyroid and fluoride symptoms have many similarities to low thyroid. Also see this site for acute symptoms. Children in India who had fluoride in their blood had thyroid abnormality. Fluoride has been found to cause goiter in South Africa. A government-sponsored report has concluded that levels of fluoride that people are regularly exposed to in drinking water can cause serious malfunctioning of the thyroid gland, leading to even more serious health problems..
I now have to take thyroid hormone, so I have a personal reason for resenting adding this poison to my drinking water, for it is highly probable that fluoride is the reason why. As a friend if mine once said "everything is caused by something".
Fluoride depletes the energy reserves and the ability of white blood cells to properly destroy foreign agents by the process of phagocytosis. As little as 0.2 ppm fluoride stimulates superoxide production in resting white blood cells, virtually abolishing phagocytosis. Even micro-molar amounts of fluoride, below 1ppm, may seriously depress the ability of white blood cells to destroy pathogenic agents [Curnette]. Fluoride inhibits antibody formation in the blood [Jain].
The most serious effects of all are damages to the nervous system. Fluoride synergistically with aluminum, causes nerve degeneration similar to Alzheimer's disease. Dementia is a major part of he World's costs, estimated to be $604 billion. Aluminum is present in some city water, in a toothpaste tube, using aluminum pans to boil water, or drinking beverages in aluminum cans, and some baking powder. If the water contains silica, the risk of Alzheimer's disease is much reduced [Rondeau], I suspect because aluminum silicates are insoluble. It is probable that fluoride is necessary for aluminum to be absorbed into the brain, because a typical diet contains 10 – 20 milligrams of aluminum per day, while water contains only 0.01 -0.15 milligrams per liter. A very large number of chemical reactions materialize in the brain from presence of aluminum. Alzheimer's disease is very prevalent and has been rising in recent years.
It has been found that behaviors associated with lead neurotoxicity are more frequent in communities using silicofluorides than in comparable localities that do not use these chemicals [Sawana]. Violent acts were up to 2 and 1/2 times higher in fluoridated communities, particularly among African Americans. He attributes this to lead levels in these criminals, which lead has its uptake enhanced by fluoride [Masters].
Rats fed amounts of fluoride similar and also slightly higher to that found in artificially fluoridated drinking water, suffered from impaired central nervous system functioning and poorer memory. There was more malaise and fatigue and significant alteration of enzyme functioning. Some researchers have concluded that there is a mechanism by which fluoride can contribute to so many neurological problems in children. Thus, links of fluoridated water to decreased intelligence in children [Lu][Ding], increased incidence of ADD and ADHD, lower cognitive ability, poorer memory and other related problems, are almost certainly correct. Decline in intelligence of children has been found in Iran.
3) Fluoride Action Network (FAN)
http://fluoridealert.org/articles/epa_fluoride_petition/
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Underground Actions in the UK
This post will focus on underground actions in the UK where militants target infrastructure or companies responsible for destroying our world.
We in DGR UK believe this is the sort of action that is necessary to dismantle industrial civilization. Militant resistance already exists in the UK. There is a long history of resistance in Britain going back hundreds of years and examples from the past will be explored in future posts.
This post will not include any form of protesting or non-violent direct action (NVDA). These are essential resistance tactics but it is not in the scope of this post. It also will not include any underground actions related to stopping animal cruelty or against the arms industry. Again this is very important work but not in the scope of this post. You can find actions related to animal rights and against the arms trade on the www.directaction.info site. DGR supports this work and believes that any and all resistance to this culture, industrial civilisation is vital.
All the information about underground actions in the UK is gleaned from publicly available information (from 1998 onwards) so is likely to be incomplete and lacking insight is various ways. If you are aware of actions that are not included where the information is publicly available please email uk@deepgreenresistance.org It is important to remember that this analysis and perspective is not meant to be authoritative on, or instructive towards objectives, organisation and operation of how any underground individuals or groups operate. That is for them to determine.
DGR is advocating for an underground network of cells to dismantle industrial civilisation. See the DGR strategy Decisive Ecological Warfare. DGR believes the coordinated and repeated attacks against systemic weak points or bottle necks by an underground network, can cause systems disruption and cascading systems failure, resulting in the collapse of industrial activity and civilisation, which must be our goal if we profess any love for life on this planet.
It is very important that communiques about underground actions are NOT sent to the DGR UK email address as we are not equipped to receive these and ensure whoever sends them remains anonymous. See the DGR UK Security page for more information.
We will start off by looking at Scotland, followed by Wales, then Ireland and finally England.
There have been a large number of underground actions in Scotland, mainly directed against coal mines. All these actions were carried out by people that state in their communiques that they oppose coal mining taking place in Scotland because it causes climate change.
Scottish coal, the UK's largest open cast producer were given permission to mine 1.7 million tonnes of coal from the Mainshill Wood in South Lanarkshire in February 2009. This was a questionable planning decision and it was one of four coal mines in the Douglas Valley. There was no community consent for any of the coal mines. In June 2009 the Mainshill Solidarity Camp was set up and stood in the way of the open cast mine with fortified bunkers, tunnels, tree houses, a giant scaffold tripod and fort. The camp was evicted in late January 2010, which took five days and forty three people were arrested.
Through 2009 and 2010 there were a number of underground sabotage actions against the Mainshill coal mine. In early October 2009, three heavy vehicles being used to clear trees had there locks glued. In late October, in solidarity with those opposing the Mainshill coal mine a group sabotaged another three tree felling vehicles by cutting wires, breaking lights/fixtures, spray painting windows and smashing a standing flood light. In early November 2009, a group of activists sabotaged a specialist drilling rig and other machinery in the Mainshill Wood.
After the Mainshill Solidarity Camp was evicted the sabotage continued. In April 2010, a group sabotaged two Caterpillar D9T's and 170 tonne face scrapping earth mover. Both vehicles were made undrivable. In October 2010, the main gates were locked on two separate nights and a Works Traffic sign was repainted with the words 'Stop Coal Chaos!'. In November 2010, a group sabotaged twelve large machines by cutting hydraulics and electrics (http://www.indymediascotland.org/node/22468).
The Broken Cross open cast coal mine is five miles from Mainshill Wood and is the largest in Europe. On the morning of December 25th 2009, a group sabotaged four machines at Broken Cross mine. In early October 2010, a machine was sabotaged at Broken Cross mine in solidarity with The Happendon Wood Action Camp (THWAC). In mid October 2010, four earth movers, two dump trucks and an explosive handling truck were sabotaged at Broken Cross mine. In late March 2011, two huge coal graders had their hydraulics, electrics and steel cables cut. One was as large as a three story building and used to load coal onto lorries.
There were a couple of acts of sabotage at the Glentaggart opencast coal mine in South Lanarkshire. In August 2009 a group disabled the conveyor belt that moved coal from the mine to Ravenstruther rail terminal, where the coal is sent to Drax power station in Yorkshire. These conveyor are hard to restart when they are heavily laden because they are a few kilometres long. In October 2010 extensive damage was caused to a mobile borehole drilling machine at the proposed Glentaggart East open cast coal mine in South Lanarkshire. The communiqué from this action finishes off with the words 'End Civ Now!'.
In March 2013 a group sabotaged critical equipment, machinery and vehicles belonging to Scottish Coal at Powharnal open cast coal mine in East Ayrshire, Scotland.
In April 2013 Scottish Coal went into liquidation, closing all of its coal mines and cutting 600 jobs. Scottish Coal had not restored eleven old mines to their natural state plus there are the six existing mines and there is a dispute on the clean up costs.
Apart from coal mine sabotage, in the May 2011 two machines being used to construct a new ASDA near Loanhead on the outskirts of Edinburgh had their electrics and hydraulics cut. This was done in protest to ASDA's use of GM products and because of how supermarkets treat people and animals.
In August 2007 in Wales, the Brecon Beacons gas pipeline works were sabotaged by a group acting against climate change and in defence of the earth. Eleven machines were made immobile including tipper trucks and excavators.
In Ireland, over the years there have been a number of acts of sabotage against the Quinn Group. The Quinn Group makes cement and concrete products, container glass, radiators and plastics. In April 2013 saboteurs cut down power and communication lines at their power plant in the Derrylin/Ballyconnell area in Ireland.
There have been a good number of actions in the South West of England over the years. In January 2013 two separate wind turbines were found toppled in Devon and Cornwall, bolts were found to be missing from their support bases.
There appears to be a number of very active anarchist groups in the Bristol area. In late August 2013 an anarchist group calling themselves the Angry Foxes Cell has claimed responsibility for the fire that ripped through the Police Firearms Training Centre in Black Rock Quarry, being built in Somerset. In their communiqué they state that they used an accelerate to burn the major electrical cables which led to the blaze. It took two weeks for the fire service to completely put out the fire.
An Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) group claimed responsibility for sabotaging train lines in Bristol in May 2012. This was to affect the employees of the Ministry of Defence and other military industry companies near Filton Abbey Wood.
A group linked to the FAI and Earth Liberation Front (ELF) has claimed responsibility for setting fire to a TV and radio relay station near to Bathampton in the South West of England, in January 2013. Another ELF group claimed responsibility for the arson attack on the communications mast on Dundry hill in April 2012, that took out five communication services and took BBC Radio Bristol and Jack FM off air for more than 16 hours. It also disrupted Avon and Somerset Police radio communications. An ELF-FAI group destroyed a BBC transmission mast in August 2011 during the UK riots.
A group sabotaged construction machinery in Somerset in September 2009. In January 2009 a group glued the locks of RBS in the South West in resistance to the banks anthropocentric polices of investing in oil and gas.
In April 2008 a ELF and ALF group sabotaged a number of vehicles at a bridge building construction site in the South West.
In mid 2007 in Bristol, a non passenger railway line that transports cars and fossil fuels to the Midlands was sabotaged. A golf course, mobile phone mast and 4X4s were sabotaged.
In late 1998, at least 10 cement mixing lorries were sabotaged at Pioneer Aggregates concrete depots at St Philips and Avonmouth in Bristol. This was related to Pioneer Aggregates expansion of the Durnford Quarry into Ashton Court Park near Bristol.
In late 2007 saboteurs visited Barnstaple quarry aggregate industries in Devon. All electric cables in the building were cut, a truck and offices damaged and 'Earth First'! written across a white board.
Now lets look at what is going on in the rest of England.
In late 1998, a earth-mover and two diggers were badly damaged on the A1-M1 link road between York and Wakefield.
In March 2001 Lee Himlin was on remand for six weeks for criminal damage to quarrying equipment at the Nine Ladies quarry on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire. He was then sentenced between May and June 2001. According to wikipedia permission to quarry at nine ladies was revoked in 2008.
In September 2001, two lorries and a number of diggers were badly damaged at the women's prison construction site in Ashford, Surrey.
In 2003, a number of peat cutting sites in the north west that were sabotaged. This included damaging machines, slashing peat fertiliser bags and dropping of metal into piles of peat (which will set off alarms as they go into the process, stopping it until they have found all the metal).
In February 2008, an aggregates processing plant in the Yorkshire Dales National Park was sabotaged. A number of vehicles, including all bulldozers, had holes drilled in vital parts of their engines and their tyres. Both control rooms were broken into and all computers and instrument panels were smashed. Keys to all buildings and machinery were removed from the site.
In November 2008 at Kingsnorth coal power station in Kent, someone climbed two three-metre (10ft) razor-wired, electrified security fences, walked into the station and crashed a giant 500MW turbine before leaving a calling card reading "no new coal". This person walked out the same way and hopped back over the fence. Their actions halted power for four hours and illustrate the potential which direct action has to really make people sit up and notice. This action also shows the vulnerability of industrial infrastructure and what's possible if someone is motivated enough.
In May 2010 a group sabotaged a number of vehicles, an excavator, cut electrics and hydraulics at the Shotton opencast coal mine near Cramlington in resistance to environmental destruction and climate change.
In June 2010 a group entered a Cutacre coal mine near Manchester and sabotaged 7 monster-trucks used to transport coal around the site.
In mid 2010, a water pumping station at Axford near Newbury owned by Thames Water was sabotaged by environmentalists wanting to defend their local river system and the wildlife it supports.
In January 2013 members of the ALF/ELF sabotaged construction efforts in the Combe Haven Valley in solidarity with the aboveground efforts of Combe Haven Defenders and others campaigning against the Bexhill-Hastings link road.
All the above actions are very encouraging. There seems to be an active underground resistance network in the UK. It is targeting industrial civilisation's infrastructure with a lot of success and only one arrest. DGR UK applauds all those involved in this work and we wish them every success in future actions. This shows that what DGR is advocating for is possible and has been happening for years. DGR believes that we need dramatically more of it and would encourage those thinking about underground actions in the future to consider how proven strategic and target selection tools might help them.
The 'Nine Principles of War and Strategy is a great basic primer on good strategy. The list outlines nine simple strategic principles, tools for strategic analysis that can serve as a foundation for establishing strategy and devising operations. These are: Objective; Offensive; Mass; Economy of Force; Manoeuvre; Unity of Command; Security; Surprise; and Simplicity. This Time is Short column post explains more: Principles of War and Strategy.
When thinking about target selection there is another helpful tool called the CARVER Matrix. This is an analytical formula used by militarises and security corporations for the selection of targets. CARVER is an acronym for the six different criteria: criticality, accessibility, re-cuperability, vulnerability, effect, and recognizability. Again more details can be found in this Time is Short column post: Misdirection & Target Selection, Part 1 and Part 2.
This entry was posted in Mining & Drilling, Property & Material Destruction, Strategy & Analysis and tagged United Kingdom on October 11, 2013 by Deep Green Resistance UK.
Frack Off gave an excellent presentation at the Earth First! Winter Moot in Feburary and explained the horrors of Fracking. A lot of this post is taken from the Frack Off website and their fracking factsheet. I'm sure to most people this gas extraction technique shows how desperate the gas supply situation is. This culture is so insane, it is now condoning the potential destruction of all our fresh water supplies, the total industrialisation of what's left of our countryside for a fraction of the energy needed to keep industrial civilisation going just that bit longer. Humans can live without the gas ― we have done so for most of our existence ― but humans and non-humans can not live without clean water.
DGR is about trying to make people think about what is primary here? Electricity or water? Short term power supplies for capitalism and industry? or Life?
Relevant Events
Extreme Energy Gathering, April 27-28th, Manchester
Camp Frack 2, May 10-12th, Lancashire
What is Fracking
Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is a technique used to extract hydrocarbons trapped in certain types of rock. In particular the widespread use of fracking is being driven by the expansion in shale gas extraction. While the technique itself is not particularly new it has only come into widespread use during the explosion in shale gas extraction over the last few years in the US. Hydraulic fracturing uses pressurised fluid to free trapped gas. Wells are drilled and the fracking fluid injected into them under high pressure to crack the rock. The fracking fluid consists of water, sand and a lot of chemicals. Millions of gallons of water (and hundreds of tons of chemicals) are used to frack a well
Shale Gas is methane (natural gas) which is trapped in impermeable shale rock deep underground, unlike conventional natural gas which is in permeable rocks, such as sandstone. The gas cannot flow through the shale, so simply drilling a well, as you would for conventional natural gas, is not enough. The shale rock must be cracked to free the gas, hence the need for hydraulic fracturing (fracking). For the same reason it is necessary to drill large numbers of wells at regular intervals. To produce as much gas as a conventional gas field with a dozen or so wells, would require hundreds or thousands of shale gas wells.
Coal Bed Methane (CBM)
Coal Bed Methane is methane (natural gas) trapped in coal seams underground. To extract the gas, after drilling into the seam, it is necessary to pump large amounts of water out of the coal seam to lower the pressure. It is often also necessary to frack the seam to extract the gas. In common with other unconventional gas extraction, such as Shale Gas, CBM wells do not produce large amounts of gas per well and production declines very quickly. It is therefore necessary to drill large numbers of wells, covering a huge swaths of the landscape. CBM exploitation began in the US and over 55,000 CBM well have been drilled in the last decade or so, mostly in the western states (Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming in particular). In Australia, where it is know as Coal Seam Gas (CSG), over 5,000 CBM wells have been drilled in Queensland in the last few years and the industry is aggressively expanding into New South Wales. In the UK CBM is more advanced than Shale Gas and full scale production may begin soon.
For more info go here.
Underground Coal Gasification (UCG)
Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) is a process for exploiting coal that cannot be mined because the seams are too deep, thin or fractured. The process involves using the same sort of drilling technology usually used for fracking to get air/oxygen into the coal seam and then set the seam on fire. By controlling the amount of oxygen injected it is then possible to only partially burn the coal and bring the gases produced to the surface where they can be burn to produce energy. A witches brew of toxic and carcinogenic coal tars are produced in the burn cavity. The process is associated with serious groundwater contamination and massive carbon emissions. Small scale tests of UCG have been taking place on and off since the 1930′s, particularly in the Soviet Union and United States, and have usually resulted in contamination of groundwater. More recently there have been three tests in Australia, two of which have resulted in the plants being shutdown. After only a five day burn the well at the Cougar Energy plant in Kingaroy, Queensland exploded and subsequently benzene and toluene were detected in groundwater and in the fat of animal grazing on the surface. Full scale UCG would likely involve huge plants connected to multiple gasifiers, and might be similar to tar sands extraction in its scale and impact. See Underground Coal Gasification: Hellfire and Damnation for more details.
For more on UCG go to here and here.
Side effects of Fracking
There are a very large number of side effects that have been linked to fracking, many involving contamination of water in some way.
Methane contamination – The most well known side effect of fracking is methane contamination of nearby water (burning tap water syndrome). This can occur naturally in rare cases but seems to suddenly appear when fracking occurs.
Chemicals used – Fracking uses huge amounts of water mixed with toxic chemicals, a large fraction of which are never recovered. It is claimed that the chemicals used in the UK will not be toxic (unlike those used in the US) but that seems highly unlikely once the process gets underway in earnest.
Toxic contamination – While the fracking fluid is underground it is in contact with rocks at high temperatures and pressures. This can result in various material leaching out of the rocks into the fracking fluid. Of particular concern are toxic elements like arsenic that can be brought to the surface by this process.
Radioactive Contamination – In a similar way radioactive isotopes (such as radium-226) can also be leached out of rocks the fracking fluid passes through. Biological concentration of these materials up the food chain would be the largest concern.
Food supply contamination – While the most of the above might seem to be local issues the potential contamination of irrigation water means that everyones food supplies could be affected. You don't have to live anywhere near a fracking site in order to be worried about your health.
Air pollution – Fracking has also been linked with air pollution, due to the production of ozone and leaks of a variety of volatile chemicals. Increases in respiratory problems have already been reported around the first fracking site in the UK.
Earthquakes – Fracking (as well as disposal of used fracking fluids by pumping them into old wells) also appears to trigger earthquakes. A recent increase of earthquakes in Arkansas declined abruptly after water injection was suspended. The first test well in the UK appears to have caused two earth-
quakes.
UK Government Tax Breaks for Fracking
George Osborne has subsidised fracking in the UK in the budget. Apparently there will be more tax breaks for fracking companies and they will be allowed to offset their exploration costs against tax for a decade. While there seems to be a "sweetener" in the form of proposed incentives for local communities. Is this an attempt to divide and lower opposition, get locals on side against the protesters and also divide local people.
Lack of Regulation by UK Government
George Monbiot identified the UK Governments lack of regulation of fracking companies in in 2011 here. Then earlier this year the UK Government introduced conditions on fracking companies related to seismic activity following two small earthquakes in 2011 caused by Cuadrilla Resources exploratory drilling sites in north-west England. So far the UK Government have not dealt with any of the other side effects listed above.
Where is it happening
There are large areas of the UK where there are shale strata that might be able to produce gas.
Cuadrilla Resources have obtained planning permission for 5 sites in the Blackpool area. They have completed drilling and fracked the Presse Hall well (causing two earthquakes) and their drilling rig is presently being set up at the Marsh Road site.
Presse Hall, Weeton – Well drilled and fracked
Grange Road, Singleton – Well drilled, not yet fracked
Marsh Road, Banks – Drilling rig has moved to this site
Anna's Road, Westby – Construction of the pad has now started
Inskip Road, Wharles – No work has started
Coastal Oil and Gas Ltd has obtained planning permission to drill core samples at a site near Maesteg, Bridgend in South Wales. If the samples prove interesting then larger scale tests (like those in Lancashire) could follow.
Coastal Oil and Gas Ltd have put in an application to drill core samples through coal and shale strata at a site near Woodnesborough. If the sample proves interesting, then larger scale tests (like those in Lancashire) could follow. It is unclear when the planning application will be decided.
See map on Frack Off website for more details.
The are a number of companies that have shown interest in exploiting shale gas but only 2 appear to have reached the stage of actual testing.
Cuadrilla Resources is a privately owned company headquartered in Licheld, Sta ordshire. The company was set up with $34.2 million from the Australian AJ Lucas Group and has recently received extra funding ($35.4 million) from the American private equity company Riverstone LLC. The company has a petroleum exploration and development licence (PEDL 165) covering a large area of Lancashire. They are in the process of carrying out test drilling and fracking at 5 sites in the Blackpool area (for which they have planning permission).
Coastal Oil and Gas
Coastal Oil and Gas Ltd, headquartered in Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, has planning permission to conduct core sampling at sites in South Wales and Kent. They are partnered with an Australian company Eden Energy.
More details on them and other companies here.
Recent blog posts on the Frack Off website:
Fracking Desperate: The Scramble For Unconventional Gas
Fracking Nightmare: Destroying Our Countryside
Please note that this information is being provided for aboveground organising.
This entry was posted in Mining & Drilling and tagged 8: The needs of the natural world are primary on April 18, 2013 by Adam Beech.
Frack Free February
Here's some background information about Frack Free February, coming up soon…
Frack Free February, organised by Frack Free Somerset, is a Month of Action in Somerset with public meetings, talks, stalls, workshops, actions and more all raising awareness about the threats to communities and the bigger picture of extreme energy.
The Frack Free February Month of Action is an opportunity to:
Systematically raise awareness about fracking & extreme energy to communities at risk in Somerset – 50,000 leaflets will be distributing across towns & villages in the PEDL licensed areas
Create a wide variety of opportunities for participation and action to anyone moved by the literature and outreach activities & the thought of fracking taking place locally
Generate momentum for the campaign in 2013 and significantly increase planning application response capacity across the county e.g. starting more local groups, increasing the number of newsletter sign ups and so forth, so that when applications are submitted, we can best respond and support each other across the county.
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package io.fabric8.fab.osgi.itests

import javax.inject.Inject

import org.junit.Test
import org.junit.Ignore
import org.junit.Assert._
import org.osgi.framework.{Bundle, BundleContext}

import org.junit.runner.RunWith
import org.ops4j.pax.exam.junit.PaxExam
import org.apache.karaf.features.FeaturesService
import org.ops4j.pax.exam.{Configuration, Option}
import java.net.URI
;

/**
 * Integration test to ensure Camel features can get installed auto-magically
 */
@RunWith(classOf[PaxExam])
class FabSamplesWithCamelFeaturesTest extends FabIntegrationTestSupport{

  @Inject
  var context: BundleContext = null;

  @Inject
  val service: FeaturesService = null;

  @Configuration
  def config: Array[Option] = baseConfiguration

  @Test
  def testCamelBlueprintShare = {
    // configure the feature URLs
    service.addRepository(new URI(String.format("mvn:org.apache.karaf.assemblies.features/standard/%s/xml/features", KARAF_VERSION)))
    service.addRepository(new URI(String.format("mvn:org.apache.camel.karaf/apache-camel/%s/xml/features", CAMEL_VERSION)))

    // let's install the FAB
    val bundle = context.installBundle(fab("io.fabric8.fab.tests", "fab-sample-camel-velocity-share"))

    // ensure the FAB got installed
    assertNotNull(bundle)
    assertTrue("Bundle should be installed or resolved", bundle.getState >= Bundle.INSTALLED)

    // ensure the required features got installed
    assertTrue("camel-blueprint feature was installed automatically", service.isInstalled(service.getFeature("camel-blueprint")))
    assertTrue("camel-velocity feature was installed automatically", service.isInstalled(service.getFeature("camel-velocity")))
  }
}

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At the Intersection of Law and Naturopathic Medicine
Years ago, Stephanie Berg's passion for law merged with a budding passion for naturopathic and alternative medicine. By combining the two, she has become a well-respected and sought-after resource for health practitioners across California.
Press play to discover:
The limits of scope for different naturopathic and alternative medicine doctors
How the increased use of telehealth over the past couple of years has shaped naturopathic medicine
What type of issues naturopathic doctors face that MDs generally don't
As both a lawyer and naturopathic doctor, one of Berg's greatest assets is her ability to truly speak the language of her clients. She assists healthcare practitioners of all kinds with business, transactional, and regulatory work, whether that means drafting patient forms, helping form an LLC, or writing employee contract agreements.
The ultimate goal, for Berg, is to prevent future issues of liability for her clients, and more importantly, help them grow their business with confidence.
Interested in learning more? Check out https://www.stephanieberglaw.com/, and feel free to contact Berg via email at sberg@stephanieberg.com.
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1) Would you do more talking or more listening?
2) How much time would you put aside for the meeting?
I think the answers are pretty obvious. You would listen more than you would speak and you would put aside as much time as you could. Perhaps you would even make time in your day that you never thought you had!
OK, now heavenly speaking. In prayer, we are able to meet with our Heavenly Father who is infinitely wise, who infinitely loves us, who is infinitely creative and made you and me and who has a Heavenly plan for each one of our lives. So, considering the above, when we pray, should we do more talking or more listening? Again, considering the above, how much time should we put aside for the meeting?
Are you getting my point? How much time do we pull away from this world to spend time communing and listening to our Heavenly Father? Now, don't give me the answer, "I am in constant communication with my Heavenly Father 24-7". Jesus was in constant communication with His Heavenly Father 24-7 and He still very, very often pulled away, to a quite place, and prayed with His Heavenly Father. It was His source of strength!
This is a really important verse. It defines what 'eternal life' is. It is pretty clear. It's not ambiguous or complicated. Eternal life is knowing the Father and Jesus Christ His Son (and they are revealed through His Holy Spirit).
So what is our aim in our Christian life? To live a 'good' life. Trying our best to be a nice Christian or is our aim to know Him intimately (and to do what He is telling us to do)?
Looking at these verses, we can even be 'doing the stuff' that we think Jesus wants us to do but still have no relationship with Him. Hear what these verses are saying, "Lord, didn't we do 'this stuff' (in your name)". And Jesus still has honoured His Name through them in spite of their lack of relationship with Him!


More than 6 billion people worldwide consume milk and milk products, the majority of whom live in low and middle-income countries. Milk is not only one of the few agricultural products that can be produced by the landless), it is also one of the most commonly consumed commodities in the world, with cow milk being the 5th most produced food commodity by volume of production. Therefore, improvements along the dairy value chain have widespread benefits for farmers, processors and consumers alike.
The project Business Cases for Milk Cooling analysed dairy value chains in India and Kenya and identified high-potential clean energy interventions for milk cooling, with the ultimate aim to increase efficiency and provide new economic opportunities for the actors in the value chains.
The project 2017 Business Cases for Milk Cooling (GIZ-REEEP) analyses experiences from dairy value chains in South Asia and East Africa to identify high potential clean energy interventions for increased efficiency and economic opportunity in Kenya and India for milk cooling.
Dr. Blane Harvey and I travelled to Delhi on May 21st to spend a week meeting stakeholders from the dairy sector in order to confirm what we learnt from the literature, hear about specific details from those working in the field and to establish relationships for future engagement.
Climate Tagger is a suite of tools that was originally developed in 2011.
Utilizing the power of Linked Open Data and backed by REEEP's expansive Climate Smart Thesaurus, which was compiled with the help of over 50 experts in the field, Climate Tagger tags online resources with keywords automatically extracted from the text. Users can then choose to make their resources searchable by keywords, to have climate tagger recommend similar resources on their own or other websites, and even to provide definitions and translations for the keywords. The tool currently has around 200 registered users.
Most recently, an IRENA-REEEP collaboration has made possible the development of the brand-new Renewables Tagger: an extensive overhaul of thesaurus content related to renewable energy concepts and terminologies, as well as a new technical feature which allows users to pre-select only this new section of the thesaurus for tagging.
As the Open Knowledge Hub project has evolved we've seen a number of exciting new ideas and collaborations emerge from among the project partners that really push forward the Open Knowledge agenda.
A good example of this came from a subset of partners with a shared interest in climate knowledge sharing. The project partners – Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) had identified an opportunity to learn from each other to improve how the climate change information they held was being structured and described. They also recognised that working together to address this issue should not only improve their ability to share their own information effectively but could also make a wider contribution of value to other knowledge brokers in the sector.
This blog article has been written collaboratively by the project team.
Locating good quality and relevant information to help address climate change can be a challenging and time consuming task. Paradoxically, in an increasingly interconnected and information rich world, the sheer volume of information being produced globally and the multiplicity of possible sources can make identifying and accessing the right information for your own particular context and needs increasingly difficult.


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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia man convicted of filming an infant being sexually abused will likely spend life in prison.
Kanawha Circuit Judge Tera Salango sentenced Richard Smith II, 41, on Wednesday to serve between 205 and 775 years behind bars.
Smith was convicted last month of 11 counts of first-degree sexual abuse, four counts of sexual assault and five counts of sexual abuse by a parent, guardian, custodian or person in position of trust.
After handing down the sentence, Salango told Smith the videos he made that jurors had to watch "brought grown men to tears," the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported.
"I think that you are one of the most evil persons who I've ever encountered," Salango said.
Smith declined to speak before being sentenced.
Smith and his ex-girlfriend, Roseanna Thompson, were arrested in May 2018 and accused of recording Thompson's granddaughter being abused three years prior, state police said at the time. The arrests came after troopers were tipped off that Smith had child pornography at his home, news outlets reported.
Thompson is scheduled to stand trial in April.
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MAN FOUND WITH 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN HOTEL ROOM JAILED FOR STRING OF SEX OFFENCES ACROSS UK. Jordan Scarrot told police he was 15 years old when caught
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Racquel received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration in 1990 and Masters of Business Administration 1992 from the University of the Virgin Islands. Upon graduation, Raquel began her twenty-one year career at the Office of Management and Budget, first as a Management Analyst and currently as Senior Budget analyst. As a Management Analyst, Raquel participated in the early strategic efforts of the Government of the Virgin Islands, which serves as a precursor to the Performance Based Budget initiative today. As a Senior Budget analyst, she serves as a team leader for preparation and submission of the annual Executive Budget, aligning fiscal resources with performance indicators in order to ensure accountability to the Territory's citizens. Raquel performs legislative analysis to determine the fiscal and managerial impact each measure has on the Executive Branch and the community. As a member of the community, Raquel is actively involved within her church. As such, she volunteers with her church's youth education committee. She is also an avid supporter of student focused activities at her children's school.


River View High School is a public school located in Warsaw, OH. It has 574 students in grades 9-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 17 to 1. According to state test scores, 42% of students are at least proficient in math and 57% in reading.
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I couldn't be happier with RV after spending all 13 years of my school life there. The staff is excellent, always willing to help, and they care about our futures. The students are known for being kind and hard-working, even though every school has exceptions. I can't remember a time when I was ever bullied and I've been on both extremes of the popular pole. Definitely would want my kids to go here!
I like that the teachers are interested in you as a person and want to help you reach your dreams. I also like how the teachers are always looking out for you as a student and are there for you. Additionally, I like the small class sizes at RVHS and the family atmosphere.
For River View it would improve with better facilities, and food. It is a rural community so there is not much diversity. It does a good job for college readiness. The teachers are fairly good. The FFA program is good.


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Leverage: How Cheap Money Will Destroy the World
Denninger, Karl
How the wealthy and powerful abuse finance to skim immense profits
Debasement of the dollar as a result of ill-use of leverage is destroying the global economy, and in Leverage, well known market commentator Karl Denninger follows the path of money…
An Unprogrammed Life: Adventures of an Incurable Entrepreneur
Saito, William Hiroyuki
The extraordinary story of a child prodigy and his remarkable entrepreneurial accomplishments
If anyone has "been there, done that" in starting and managing businesses, it's William Saito. Saito is a truly unique personality, and his remarkable story,…
Frequently Asked Questions on Anti-Bribery and Corruption
Lawler, David
A practical guide to addressing the challenges managers face in implementing and enforcing new anti-bribery regulations
The Bribery Act became the law of the land in July 2011. It abolished all existing U.K. anti-bribery laws and replaced them with…
Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon
MacIntosh, Julie
How the King of Beers collapsed without a fight and what it means for America's place in the post-Recession world
How did InBev, a Belgian company controlled by Brazilians, take over one of America's most beloved brands with scarcely a whimper of opposition?…
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Every business sinks or swims on the quality of its relationships and alliances, whether they are between management and staff, departments, subsidiaries, partners,…
High Performance Companies: Successful Strategies from the World's Top Achievers
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The easy-to-adopt strategies that make companies from Coca-Cola to Starbucks perennial over-performers and that you can use, too
High Performance Companies complements the frameworks for strategy making detailed in many existing books, proposing a…
The Handbook to IFRS Transition and to IFRS U.S. GAAP Dual Reporting
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An indispensable guide to making the transition to dual IFRS/GAAP financial reporting
U.S. financial reporting will undergo an unprecedented level of change within the next several years. U.S. companies face a convergence between U.S. GAAP and IFRS,…
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Antibiotic resistance: Why Big Pharma can't combat our second-worst killer
Melly Alazraki, AOL.com
Oct 16th 2009 1:00PM
With swine flu giving viruses all the attention, bacteria probably felt a little jealous, because now it's trying to steal the media spotlight with a pandemic of its own. "Antibiotic resistance is an international pandemic that compromises the treatment of all infectious diseases," says a new report from the American Academy of Microbiology. "Resistance essentially is uncontrollable."
Pharmaceutical companies were quick to jump on the swine flu (H1N1) bandwagon and develop a vaccine -- attracting hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts from governments around the world in the process. But when it comes to antibiotics and fighting the growing problem of antibacterial resistance, the world doesn't seem as interested. The AAM's findings adds its voice to recent warnings on antibiotic research from the London School of Economics and Political Science, which agrees that Big Pharma needs better incentives for developing antibiotics.
The human and financial tolls
Antibiotic resistance arises mostly from random mutations in the bacteria genes. Some species or subspecies are "naturally resistant"; others develop an "acquired resistance" to antibacterial drugs. Both types can spread their resistance determinants through horizontal gene transfer or replication.
Bacterial and parasitic diseases are the second-leading cause of death worldwide. The LSE reports that 175,000 die from infections acquired in hospitals in Europe every year. ("Antibiotic resistance is never going to go away," the AAM notes.) Yet the number of available antibiotics is declining, because many can no longer combat common diseases. And there's a dire shortage of alternatives.
It gets worse. Drug-resistant superbugs like Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can't be stopped by traditional antibiotics, making penicillin and its derivatives increasingly obsolete. Childhood pneumonia, dysentery, and tuberculosis no longer respond to first-line antibiotics in some parts of the world.
These diseases create serious economic costs on lost productivity, longer hospital stays, and more expensive treatments. And increasing resistance is erasing the gains (made through massive global spending) on malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV prevention.
Big Pharma's financial motivations
Such heavy social and economic costs -- and such lucrative opportunities for pharmaceutical companies -- would make research and development on vaccines seem like a no-brainer. But pharmaceutical companies don't invest in researching or developing better antibiotics or vaccines, partly because of regulatory issues, and partly because there's little financial incentive. Only a handful of companies have small R&D operations, with few drugs in the first stages of development.
Because developing drugs takes years, the costs of antibiotic discovery and development and the need for long-term clinical trials outweigh any profits. That's why companies prefer developing drugs for chronic diseases, whose customers need the drug for longer terms. But a tougher problem for pharmas is that its product becomes obselete once a resistance is built.
Suggested incentives
Both reports suggest incentives for pharmaceutical companies to invest in antibiotic research. One is to extend the patents given for antibiotics, especially for those aimed at the developing world, which would give the company longer exclusivity on the product and would give the company incentive to manage the disease's resistance to the drug. (Once an antibiotic goes off-patent, pharmas have little financial incentive to manage resistance.)
Experts criticize the U.S. regulatory system -- the "approval process for new antibiotics is unduly time-consuming and expensive" -- and often leaves pharmas hanging. Companies who pay large fees for a speedy process often get flummoxed by the slow-acting FDA to respond (or to change regulations and requirements midstream).
The AAM report also recommends diverting resources to pursue alternative approaches including vaccines, antisense therapy, and public-health initiatives. But much-needed research bridging medical, chemical, and environmental disciplines is often blocked by scientific obstacles that no financial incentives could remove.
In addition, the experts recommend several strategies to deal with the problem, including improved diagnostics, surveillance, control and containment, communication, guidance and implementation of "judicious and prudent use" of antibiotics, and control of generic antibiotics. This way, while resistance "will always prevail," at least we will "coexist."
Given the AAM's finding that "it's virtually impossible to conceive of any solution, or combination of solutions, that will have a significant global impact," our hopes lie with Sweden, pushing for legislation on antibiotic development in Europe. Swedish officials will also meet with U.S. counterparts in December to push for U.S. legislation.
Other signs of progress are emerging. Swiss-based Basilea Pharmaceutica, one of the few pharmaceutical companies concentrating on antibiotic development, recently began selling an antibiotic against MRSA and other superbugs in a few markets, and it has submitted applications with U.S. and European authorities. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has an Antibacterial Discovery Performance Unit, and some pharmas have indeed tried to aide the developing world in different ways. With the patent cliff approaching and pharmas looking to supplement lost revenue, steering them toward the developing world could be useful to all.
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Сергій Сергійович Грецов (Греців) (21 серпня 1881 - †?) - старшина Дієвої армії УНР.

Народився у м. Ізюм Харківської губернії. Закінчив 3-тю Харківську гімназію, Єлисаветградське кавалерійське училище (1906), вийшов до 8-го гусарського Лубенського полісу (Кишинів). Закінчив Миколаївську військову академію за 1-м розрядом (1914). Учасник Першої світової війни. У 1917 р. — начальник штабу 15-ї кавалерійської дивізії. Останнє звання у російській армії — підполковник.

У 1918 р. перебував у складі Армії Української Держави на посаді начальника штабу 4-ї кінної дивізії. З 5 січня 1919 р — у розпорядженні штабу Південно-Західного району Дієвої армії УНР. З 11 січня 1919 р. — начальник штабу Південно-Західного району Дієвої армії УНР.

З 17 січня 1919 р. — начальник штабу 7-ї пішої кадрової дивізії Дієвої армії УНР. З 6 березня 1919 р. — працівник оперативного відділу штабу Дієвої армії УНР. Станом на 24 вересня 1919 р. — начальник розвідчого відділу штабу Головного Отамана.

Восени 1919 р. перейшов до Збройних Сил Півдня Росії. Подальша доля невідома.

Джерела

 ЦДАВОУ. — Ф. Ю77. — Оп. 1. — Спр. 43. — С. 73; Ф 1078 — Оп 2. — Спр. 37, загальний список старшин Генштабу, складений 21.11.1918. — С. 49-зв. — 50; Ф 2248. — Оп. 1. — Спр. 7. — С. 1-2; Список Генерального штаба на 1.06.1914. — СПб. — 1914. — С. 684;
 Капустянський М. Похід українських армій на Київ — Одесу в 1919 році;
 Маланюк Є. Уривки зі спогадів. — Київ. — 2004. — С. 211, 230, 252.

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Desertification alters the response of vegetation to changes in precipitation.
1. Desertification is of critical concern because it may affect 40% of the global land area inhabited by more than 1 billion people. During the process of desertification, defined as land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry subhumid areas, drylands shift to a state of reduced biological productivity that may lead to widespread loss of human well-being. Despite recent advances, we need a better understanding of the response of ecosystems to desertification to improve the assessment and monitoring of desertification. 2. We used a published physiognomic description, MODIS monthly NDVI data for 2000-2005 and rain gauge data to characterize the long-term effects of degradation for an area of 128 000 ha located in western Patagonia. 3. We focused on three aspects of vegetation dynamics: radiation interception, precipitation use efficiency (PUE) and the sensitivity of vegetation to interannual changes in precipitation (i.e. the slope of the relationship between the above-ground net primary productivity and precipitation, the precipitation marginal response, PMR). In particular, we analysed the response of PMR and PUE to long-term changes in vegetation structure due to grazing. 4. On average, NDVI decreased by 28%, ranging between 35% (grass or grass-shrub steppes to semi-deserts) and 22% (grass or grass-shrub steppes to low cover grass steppes) suggesting that, in Patagonia, desertification may imply a reduction in the above-ground net primary productivity. 5. Additionally, PMR and PUE captured the functional modifications associated with vegetation structure caused by desertification. In general, grass and grass-shrub steppes had the highest average PUE and PMR. Shrub steppes and semi-deserts had the lowest PMR and PUE. These results support the hypothesis that PUE is more sensitive to changes in total plant cover and PMR to changes in plant functional type composition. 6. Synthesis and applications. Our results indicate that the precipitation marginal response could complement current desertification assessments based only on precipitation use efficiency thereby improving our ability to monitor desertification. Enhanced monitoring programmes could provide an early warning signal for the onset of desertification allowing for timely management action. © 2010 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2010 British Ecological Society.


I am a risk adjustment coder and am presently auditing the chart reviews of one of our vendors. Hepatitis B is in the current diagnosis list and consistently being mentioned in the note so I have no problem with Hep B being coded as B19.10, they are stating that since Hepatitis B is also listed in the PMH that it is ok to code as Chronic Hepatitis B B18.1. I was always taught that you can not add words to the diagnosis that you can only code what is written. Any thoughts on this? B19.20 is not mapped to HCC but B18.1 is and I feel like this is up coding.
ICD-9-CM Code acute or chronic first?


Fine Gael TD in Dun Laoghaire Mary Mitchell O'Connor has highlighted Fine Gael's plans to support older people in Dun Laoghaire and ensure that older years are better years. The plan will safeguard and improve State entitlements for older people, and will provide enhanced supports for older people to live independently in their homes amongst their own communities in Dun Laoghaire.
"Fine Gael has a Long Term Economic Plan to keep the recovery going in Dun Laoghaire with three connected steps: more and better jobs; making work pay; and investment in better services.
"Today we are focusing on services to support older people. We plan to ensure that older years are better years. Our package of measures for older people is worth €870 million, and is the second largest commitment in our Long Term Economic Plan after the abolition of USC.
"Fine Gael wants Ireland to be one of the best countries in the world in which to grow old. We can achieve this if we keep the recovery going and create the resources to support better public services.
Older people can be confident that State entitlements will be safeguarded and improved as the economic recovery continues. This includes their medical card; free travel; an increase of €25 in the State Pension by 2021; an extra €5 for the Living Alone Allowance by 2021; and a cap on the prescription charge at €17.50, which represents a 30% reduction.
Enhanced supports for older people will allow them to live independently in their homes for longer. These include 2.2 million more home help hours and increases in housing adaption grants and senior alert grants.
More care will be provided in the community which will benefit older people. This includes building more primary care centres; providing additional front line staff in the health system; and ensuring that chronic conditions can be cared for closer to home.
The Fair Deal Scheme waiting list will be kept to four weeks for those who need residential care.
Finally, older people can be confident that their voice will be heard. We will establish a Citizens' Assembly to discuss and plan for the needs of our ageing population.
"In 2007, Fianna Fáil promised to increase the State pension to €300. Instead they presided over a catastrophic economic crash and decided to cut the Christmas bonus, a move that really affected vulnerable older people.


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Instead use this 9 million to fully implement existing release programs immediately and fund community-based not-for-profit reentry programs. And also: State of Texas Fines Company 625,000 and Terminates 12 Million Contract for Mismanagement of Jail; 12 Employees Charged with Sexual Assault. GEO groups record, the letter points to a few instances of abuse and human rights violations at GEO Group facilities, including the 2012 mandated closure of their youth detention center in Walnut Grove, Mississippi. Medical staff have been found to be poorly trained and under-employed, sometimes dishing out wrong or different prescriptions to inmates. At some private facilities, those women are herded like cattle and forced to give birth in chains. California IS addicted TO prisons What makes this call to action all the more important is that its coming from California, which not only has one of the highest incarceration rates in the nation, but has one of the highest incarceration rates for women. . Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) gave 100,000 to Gov. Undertrained guards and an absurdly zero-tolerance rule system also conspire to quickly land prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement, sometimes for relatively benign infractions. Lester was put in solitary for starting a letter writing campaign after she was given the wrong medication and ultimately denied medical care for her thyroid cancer. In one case at a CCA prison in Dallas, a four-day-old child died after her mother gave birth to her in a toilet because officials at the private prison refused her medical care.
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In March 2007, the company reportedly settled with the family for 200,000. The womans family sued The GEO Group and several of its guards (PDF). And are we to forget that these are indeed human beings in Californias prisons, who are forced to toil away in subhuman conditions while the governor kicks the can further down the road? Take, for example, the case for 73 year old prisoner. Older incarcerated women (who require more medical care, constitute a lower threat to public safety and cost more to imprison) are particularly vulnerable in these situations. This week, a group of ten female prisoners from the Central California Womens Facility (ccwf) and the California Institution for Women (CIW) have written an open letter calling on California state legislators to direct cdcr to cancel the contract with GEO and implement existing release programs instead of opening. Successive California governors have taken thousands from private prison corporations. This is how we get to a place where Governor Brown appears to be willing to do anything to avoid court-ordered decarceration, including increasing the states patronage of private prison corporations while taking money from the industry at the same time for his reelection. They note that ccwfs facility is currently operating at 185 capacity, and as a result, prisoners access to critical services such as food and healthcare have declined. Does the mistrust in law and order and simmering resentment promulgated by these policies not put communities at risk as well? They are concerned, however, that this move by the state will not positively impact its mass incarceration problem, and women transferred to GEO Groups new facility might not see their treatment improve. Over a period of two years, the state levied 625,000 in penalties due to chronic staffing shortages at the facility. In April, The Bakersfield Californian reported that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (cdcr) signed a contract with private prison company GEO Group to re-open and operate a womens facility in Mcfarland, California. At a private immigrant facility in Tacoma, Washington, inmates went on hunger strike to protest the grossly inadequate medical care, exorbitant commissary prices and low or NO pay for work within the center. This claim has no basis in reality, but for the sake of argument, hasnt mass incarceration put these communities through enough already?
in prison has surged 800 in the past 30 years. The personnel problems (poor training, failure to conduct background checks, etc) contribute significantly to the abusive atmosphere at these prisons. . Are we not to blame the New Jim Crow for continuing this social isolation after prisoners have been released, denying them job and housing opportunities? She also reported being sexually humiliated by a GEO guard after reporting to the warden that guards allowed male and female inmates to have sex. Their incarceration represents a perpetuation of that violence on both sides of the prison walls. Latest posts by Brian Sonenstein ( see all ) Related. A state audit showed that the jail barely kept the minimum number of guards required in the contract. The women behind the open letter know that a new private prison for women is just about the furthest thing from what the state needs to be doing right now to address its addiction to mass incarceration. But GEOs rap sheet is actually much longer than this, and provides a deeply troubling glimpses into life for female prisoners at their institutions. ...
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Like other private prison companies, as GEO fills its beds, it makes more money with which it can lobby elected officials for favorable laws and to secure more contracts. . They write, It is shameful that cdcr is about to open a for-profit boutique prison that does nothing positive to solve the disproportionate overcrowding in the womens prisons at this time. For over two decades, cdcr was found to have sterilized hundreds of female inmates without state approval. Corizon Health, Inc., a private contractor that provides medical care and pharmacy services, was the subject of a lawsuit alleging he sexually abused nearly 20 prisoners at two GEO facilities in New Mexico. In 1999, the, aP reported that the state of Texas terminated GEO Groups (then known as Wackenhut) 12 million a year contract to run a jail in Travis County due to mismanagement that eventually led to eleven guards and one case manager being charged with. A woman committed suicide at GEO Group-Operated Val Verde County jail in Texas. Their lobbying operation, however, is much bigger than giving money to a couple of Golden State governors.
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CUPE 50 ratifies first collective agreement with City of Langford
December 16, 2015 admin CUPE 2544 News
LANGFORD, BC – CUPE Local 50, representing 18 RCMP support workers, ratified a collective agreement with the City of Langford on Monday, December 14.
"This first collective agreement sets rights for our members in place," said CUPE 50 president John Burrows. "We see this as the foundation to build on over the coming years."
The two-year contract goes into effect on January 1, 2016 and continues until December 31, 2017. It includes wage increases of 1.5 per cent in the first year and 2 per cent in the second. Bargaining was completed over a two-month period.
"On behalf of CUPE members at the City of Langford, I'd like to thank the bargaining committee for their dedication and commitment in reaching this first collective agreement," said Burrows.
The City of Langford has also ratified the agreement.
CUPE 50 represents workers who provide support services to the RCMP in the City of Langford, as well as workers at the City of Victoria (inside and outside), Victoria Police Board, BCSPCA Victoria Branch, Gorge Vale Golf Club, Royal Oak Burial Park and the United Way of Greater Victoria.
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And Christmas sort of came by real fast this year… maybe its all the work but at least that's how I felt it was… Nevertheless its always a fantastic time. Although I always feel the need for a colder weather during the holidays, Christmas Eve felt very Chritsmas-ish… Maybe it was the turkeys my mom made, the décor my boo put up or the fact that everyone was well dressed, but the night was very cozy and filled with happiness and love!
As for my outfit I wore a black mini skirt, with an over skirt in its back dress from Zara, Michael Kors sandals, vintage bejewel waist belt and jewelry accessories from Venezuelan designer SEPTIMO Jewelry… The two snake rings came in different colors one in raw dark silver, the other one in a green gold which I decided to match together in order to create a more impacting effect in my hand. The Designer, Silvia Fassardi, who lives in Miami and who is recognized among high fashion personalities such as Carolina Herrera, only sells her products in Venezuela at a concept store in Valencia, which to me is a little piece of heaven on earth, named Fatua @Fatuavalencia – http://fatua.com.ve .
Y la Navidad vino y paso un poco rápido, a lo mejor es todo el trabajo que he tenido pero sentí que fue una Navidad un poco relámpago… Sin embargo siempre la Navidad es una época fantástica.
Aunque siempre necesito cierto frio para de verdad sentir las fechas decembrinas, esta Navidad se sintió muy Navideña. Puede que fue todo los pavos y la rica comida que preparo mi Mami o las decoraciones que colocamos para crear un ambiente especial… a lo mejor fue que todos estaban lindos vestidos! En realidad lo que se fue que se sintió mucha felicidad, unidad y un momento en familia agradable esta Navidad.


Decades ago, the industry used to push records until it "grew legs".
Decades ago, the industry used to push records until it "grew legs". Plies is one of the only modern recording artists, who fully extends and exhausts his singles until he is ready to release another one. With 7.2 million followers on Instagram, his audience is more than prominent record labels in North America combined. 'Drip 4 Sale', which happens to be one of my favourite hooks by Plies, received another update with verses from Louisiana it-men Kevin Gates and Young Boy Never Broken Again. Listen to the remix track below now.
If you didn't know, I am a real Kevin Gates fan. I think his voice sounds best over these sort of beats/instrumentals.


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David Williams (Person) was born on the 9th of June, 1980. He was born in 1980s, in Millennials Generation. His birth sign is Gemini and his life path number is 6. David's birth flower is Rose and birthstone is Pearl, Moonstone and Alexandrite. What does this all mean? Let's find out!
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NAME: David Williams
FULL NAME: David Williams
NICKNAME: David Williams
PROFESSION: Person
BIRTHPLACE: Arlington
NATIONALITY: English
RELIGION: Other
1. Bio
David Williams, best known for being a Person, was born in Arlington on Monday, June 9, 1980. Professional poker player who became a celebrity in the gambling world for becoming the runner-up in the 2004 World Series of Poker.
Family: He took up residence in Las Vegas. He and his wife welcomed a daughter. David Williams father's name is Peter Williams and mother Kathleen Williams. We will continue to update details on David Williams's family.
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Education: Education details are not available at this time. Please check back soon for updates.
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Net Worth: Online estimates of David Williams's net worth vary. It's easy to predict his income, but it's much harder to know how much he has spent over the years. CelebsMoney does a good job of breaking most of it down.
2. David Williams's zodiac sign is Gemini
David Williams zodiac sign is a Gemini. Dates of Gemini are May 21 - June 20. Those born under the Gemini zodiac sign enjoy socializing and love surrounding themselves with people. They enjoy chit-chat and tend to have expression and communication very high on their list of priorities. They are intelligent, adaptable, agile, communicative, informative, and connected. Although, they can be too talkative, exaggerating, deceptive, cunning, superficial, and inconsistent.
BORN IN THE YEAR OF THE: Monkey
RULING PLANET: Mercury
3. He is currently 40 years old
The English person has been alive for 14,836 days days or 356,076 hours hours. There were precisely 503 full moons after his birth to this day.
BORN: June 9, 1980
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David Williams was born on a Monday. People born on Mondays are motherly, sensitive, adaptive, and kind.
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721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
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Gender balance and term limits highlighted as areas of weakness in second AIOWF governance review
A lack of female representation and term limits were highlighted as areas of weakness in the Association of International Olympic Winter Sports Federation's (AIOWF) second governance review.
The AIOWF review assessed the governance of its seven member International Federations -biathlon, bobsleigh and skeleton, curling, ice hockey, ice skating, luge and skiing - with a questionnaire and evaluation process development by sports governance consultancy I Trust Sport.
Gender balance was cited as an area of weakness as only one Federation had more than 25 per cent female representation on their Executive Board.
The response followed a new question being added on gender balance this year.
The figure was claimed to follow a general pattern that many International Federarations have only one or two women on their Board, which is viewed as similar across both Association of Summer Olympic International Federation (ASOIF) and AIOWF members.
A major difference between the summer and winter International Federations was term limits, with 16 of the 28 summer bodies having had some form.
By contrast, only two of the winter governing bodies were found to have term limits.
Federations were not named in the report, but the majority have been led by Presidents on long and unrestricted terms.
IIHF President René Fasel is the longest serving of the Winter International Federation Presidents ©Getty Images
International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) head René Fasel is the longest serving President of a winter International Federation, having lead the organisation since 1994.
A 12-year term limit will be imposed by the IIHF in 2020, when Switzerland's Fasel reaches the age limit of 70 at the end of his sixth term in office
In June, Germany's Josef Fendt was re-elected for a seventh term at the International Luge Federation, which would see him extend his reign to 28 years in charge of the organisation.
Switzerland's Gian-Franco Kasper, AIOWF President, was elected for a sixth term as the International Ski Federation head in May which would see him remain in charge for 24 years.
It would also see the FIS have just four Presidents in 98 years, with the organisation having been founded back in 1924.
Britain's Kate Caithness is due to be elected unopposed as World Curling Federation President for a third term next month, while Italy's Ivo Ferriani comfortably won the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) election in June to take him into a third term.
The shortest serving winter International Federation President currently is The Netherlands' Jan Dijkema, who is two years into his first term as the International Skating Union head.
He replaced Italy's Ottavio Cinquanta, who relinquished his position after a 22-year spell.
The International Biathlon Union (IBU) are due to elect a new President next month, with Sweden's Olle Dahlin facing Latvia's Baiba Broka.
The election was sparked after Anders Besseberg stepped down as IBU President earlier this year after a criminal probe was opened which centred on possible doping, fraud and corruption concerning the alleged covering-up of positive drugs test involving Russian athletes.
Besseberg had led the IBU since 1992.
Anders Besseberg's spell as IBU President ended after 22-years in disgrace ©Getty Images
The AIOWF report saw Federations able to achieve maximum score of 200 based on 50 questions of equal weighting, with scores of between zero and four for each.
The Federations scores ranged from 89 to 150.
While AIOWF claim the sample size of seven for the study is too small to draw reliable conclusions on its own, the ASOIF report found a comparison of International Federations with no term limits to those with some type of limit in place suggested significant differences.
It was claimed those with some type of term limit in place achieved a mean score of about 132, while those without had around 95 points.
Mean scores for each separate section of the questionnaire - transparency, integrity, democracy, development and control mechanisms - were also found to be significantly higher among the International Federations which have a term limit in place.
The AIOWF report noted that term limits have been introduced by several world governing bodies as one component of a set of governance reforms, which they believe may may partly explain the large difference in scores between those with and without term limits.
While all seven International Federtions have rules in place for electoral processes, it was noted that only three of the winter sports have at least one athlete representative on the Executive Board, with one more Federation expected to follow shortly.
It was stated that the averages should be treated with caution due to the small sample size, but it was highlighted that only one winter International Federation was comparable to the best of the summer sports.
It was claimed the mean score achieved by International Federations increased by 16 points from last year, with the claim that there has been a notable improvements in AIOWF governance.
The lowest overall score was 89 in 2018, compared to 64 last year.
It was noted that with some amendments to the questionnaire from last year, the net outcome of the amendments was that this year's edition was a few points more lenient.
Anti-doping activity scored highly in the integrity section, but mechanisms for whistleblowers still scored lowly ©Getty Images
Significant differences between International Federations in size and scale were stated as a factor that needed to be considered with the winter governing bodies, with staff numbers ranging from fewer than 10 full-time personnel to 70 or more.
It was found that the extent to which an International Federation published information had a wider impact on scores, with the assertion publishing more could provide a substantial boost to governing bodies on the lower end of the scale without the need for constitutional amendments.
All AIOWF members were found to have published their full constitution or statutes and information about their member national associations.
Information was found to be lacking in most cases about the allowances and financial benefits of officials and senior executives, although the seven International Federations were found to have provided at least listed basic details about their members.
Three winter sport International Federations published full, audited accounts, rising from two last year.
Another provide some financial information but was found to be falling short of full accounts.
The remaining three governing bodies were deemed to have provided "virtually no financial details".
Only one International Federation scored more than 1 - the category for partially fulfilled - for establishing "confidential reporting mechanisms for 'whistle blowers' with protection scheme for individuals coming forward".
The review determined this score indicated the "implementation of confidential reporting mechanisms for whistleblowers is still in its early stages" but claimed progress had been made from last year.
Three International Federations have an Ethics Committee in place with a majority of independent representation that could propose sanctions, with one more expected to follow.
A further finding was that there was relatively little evidence of open tendering for contracts offered by governing bodies.
Transparency was the highest scoring of the five sections, although this was less marked for AIOWF members than for the summer sports.
AIOWF and FIS President Gian Franco Kasper claims governance of International Federations continue to evolve ©Getty Images
The trend for the integrity and development sections producing the lowest scores on average was considered similar across the ASOIF and AIOWF studies.
Under integrity the indicator on anti-doping activity produced the highest average score, while provision of education programmes for coaches, judges, referees and athletes was the highest in development.
Less detail was reportedly provided about the finances of any redistribution programmes and other development activity.
"Perhaps the most positive finding is that there is extensive work going on to improve different aspects of governance," the report concludes.
"Several of the IFs introduced important reforms at the Congresses in 2018 and more are look set to follow in the months ahead with the support of governance taskforces and dedicated staff.
"Governance is an ongoing process and IFs are under more scrutiny than ever.
"It will require strong commitment from leaders and their teams for IFs to aim for and reach the high standards of governance which the public and the sports community have a right to expect.
"Policies and processes are an important component of governance but other factors play a huge role, including the culture and behaviour in an organisation and among its stakeholders.
Kasper, President of AIOWF , as well as the FIS, claimed the governance of the Federations would continue to evolve.
"Our Federations have embraced the governance review process and appreciate the valuable exchange of good practices," the Swiss said.
"Even though we are seven autonomous organisations, the sharing of governance practices benefits the sports movement as a whole.
"The governance work is a key element of our role as International Federations that we will continue to evolve on an on-going basis."
The full review can be read here.
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