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Is your agency proposition fit for purpose anymore?
As marketing departments emerge from their own transformation projects in a bid to move to a more customer centric approach they are now starting to examine their agency ecosystems and operating models to determine whether they are fit for purpose.
Our research has found that there is a broad diversity in how clients are choosing to structure their agency ecosystems driven by a significant number of key factors that are shaping their thinking.
This is both a threat and an opportunity for agencies. If agencies fail to align themselves with these emerging needs, they will struggle to stay relevant and find themselves on the periphery of some of the most significant and exciting changes going on in marketing today.
Come and join us on 6th November as we share the latest insights on the evolving client agency models and guidance on how to create a strong, distinctive agency proposition that's fit for this new era.
Tony Spong joined AAR in 2007, having previously worked for over 20 years in senior marketing and agency roles at Royal Mail and Proximity, Tony has extensive insight into the needs of both parties in the client:agency relationship, helping them to navigate the increasing challenges they face today. With a particularly in-depth understanding of all things in the integrated, CRM, promotional marketing, design, strategic consultancy and anything else in communications that doesn't fit neatly into a box, he is able to put vital context around your challenges whether you are a client or agency.
John Farnell is a London born strategy professional with a 20+ year, multi – continent career within the management consulting & brand strategy consulting fields. He has worked with numerous agencies and consultancies, founded start ups and is currently the Managing Partner at Origin Corporate Consulting. John has extensive experience within a specific area of consulting; corporate positioning. He has managed corporate brand & strategy initiatives across both planned change and buy / sell contexts for organisations large & small. John has both a best – practice and academic passion for all things strategic and brings an interesting perspective to the subject of how an agency creates & manages their purpose and respective corporate brand strategy.
Anyone involved in agency new business, senior management/ agency leadership team and, in particular, those reviewing their positioning to be ready for 2019.


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A ScrumMaster is an individual who both guides and protects the Scrum Team. One of the ways that the ScrumMaster protects the Scrum Team is by shielding it from interruptions. The interruptions that the ScrumMaster cares about stopping are those that are from outside the team when they are in a Sprint. Most interruptions are not related to the team's current work and need to be blocked by the ScrumMaster so that the team will be able to focus on its current goal: the Sprint and its Product Backlog Items. All of the stakeholders of the team need to be aware that the ScrumMaster is responsible for blocking these interruptions. This awareness creates a freedom for the ScrumMaster to do this very difficult part of the job in a way that is transparent and effective. If the stakeholders are not aware of this part of the job, then they may become upset when interruptions are blocked or find ways around the ScrumMaster to get interruptions to specific team members. If the team is not aware that this is the ScrumMaster's job, they may feel trapped, may lose hope in the Scrum process, may take on the work themselves (which will be too much for them since they are responsible for the execution of the Sprint goal), feel unsafe which could lead to hiding obstacles (which causes waste and delays), and it may even cause Team Members to accept interruptions as normal which will create an environment where interruptions and unrelated requests become widespread. All of these negatives effects and many more can be solved by the organization knowing that the ScrumMaster's job is to shield the team from interruptions.
To learn more about a ScrumMasters duties, visit the Scrum team Assessment.
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Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, History of Latvia, Military history of Latvia,
Battles of World War I
Battles of the Eastern Front (World War I)
Christmas Battles
Part of the Eastern Front of the First World War
German scheme of the Riga front and Christmas battles.
December 23 (January 5) - December 29 (January 11) 1916 (1917)
Tīreļpurvs (Tirelis swamp) near Riga.
Russian Empire German Empire
Radko Dimitriev Friedrich von Scholtz
~40 000 ~25 000
13 000. Among them ~8000 Latvian Rifleman (2000 dead).
The Christmas Battles (Latvian:Ziemassvētku kaujas; German:Aa-Schlachten; Russian:Митавская операция) were offensive operations of the Russian army during World War I in the area of Jelgava, Latvia, by the 12th Army of the Northern Front. They took place from December 23 (January 5) until December 29 (January 11) 1916 (1917). The Army was commanded by Gen. Radko Dimitriev; it was opposed by the 8th German Army.
The battles took place in a swampy region, Tīreļpurvs (Tīrelis swamp), between Lake Babīte and Jelgava. The main assault force was the VI Siberian Rifle Corps which included two Latvian Rifleman brigades.
2 Battle
3 January battles-German counterattack
The German 8th army's advance was stopped near Riga in October 1915. Almost immediately German forces started to fortify their positions. A huge, 30 km. long wall (the so-called:German Wall) built out of sand and wood was constructed across Tīreļpurvs, separating both armies for more than a year.
German fortification German Wall across the Tirelis swamp.
The Russian 12th army was divided into three groups before it attacked. The main task force was Babīte group which consisted of 48 battalions and 208 cannon. On the opposite side were 19 German battalions from the 6th Landwehr-Brigade. The core of the Babīte group was the VI Siberian corps. which included both Latvian Rifleman brigades.
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After the failure of the 1916 campaigns on the Romanian territory the Russian commanders of the 12th Army received an order to attack on the Riga front. It was planned to attract the German reserve troops, thus helping their allies to resist on the Verdun battlefield. In mid-December 1916, frost started, making it possible to navigate through the frozen bog and to force the German fortifications. It was quickly decided to launch an attack at Christmas. The main objective was to take Jelgava (Mitau).
Latvian Rifleman in the trenches during Christmas Battles
The attack began early in the morning of the 23 December (5 January) and surpised the Germans, who thought that Russian troops would be celebrating Christmas. Latvian Riflemen were the advance guard of the Russian army, and their main task was to take the first German lines and clear the way for the main forces. Riflemen used their white winter outfits and cover of the heavy snowstorm to cut passages through the German barbed wire barriers. After that, the main forces of the two Latvian rifleman brigades rushed forward and in the surprise attack, without any artillery support, crossed the German wall and after brief fighting took the first German battle line. The battle continued the next two days with varying success as all Latvian units were involved in heavy fighting and German forces received their first reinforcements from Jelgava. After a bloody fight the German second defensive line at Mangali homestead was broken. However, further attacks stopped as the Russian commander-in-chief had no reinforcements and 17th Siberian regiment refused to go to battle. This decision was supported by several other units from the II and VI Siberian Army Corps.
The Germans, however, received strong reinforcements from Jelgava and soon started to counter-attack Russian and Latvian positions. Despite low temperatures (-35 °C), Latvian riflemen managed to hold back German attacks for 48 hours. On 25 December (7 January) Russian troops launched an attack on heavily fortified sand dunes on the northern side of the Tirelpurvs. A central part of those fortifications was a fortified hill, which later got the name Ložmetejkalns (Machine-gun hill). On Christmas morning 3rd. and 7th. the Latvian rifleman regiment, together with the 53rd Siberian regiment, suffering heavy losses, was able to partly surround German forces. The 2nd Latvian Rifleman brigade attacked from the back and thus finally broke the German resistance at Machine-gun hill. Many German soldiers managed to retreat but about 1000 were taken prisoners. It was the biggest Russian victory at the Riga front and the German army lost one of its strongest fortifications.
Overall, a more than 7 km. wide gap was made in the German lines. However, the command of the 12th Russian Army did not organize a follow-up attack, perhaps because it was not ready for the Latvian riflemen's success.
January battles-German counterattack[edit | edit source]
After their partial defeat in the Christmas battles, the German 8th Army organized a counterattack to conquer back their lost positions. The Germans received strong reinforcements and many fresh divisions were stationed in Jelgava. In the early morning of 23 January a massive artillery barrage started, which was soon followed by an infantry attack along the whole battle line. The main German forces consisted of the 1st. Reserve division (1. Reserve-Division) and 2nd Infantry Division (2. Infanterie-Division). They attacked across Tirelis swamp against the Latvian and Russian positions. Latvian rifleman and Siberians desperately defended their positions for three days. The Russians tried to launch three counterattacks, but all of them failed. In one of those counterattacks Latvian riflemen were forced to attack across an open field against German machine guns and thus suffered heavy losses (especially the 3rd Kurzeme regiment). The temperature dropped to -38 °C making it impossible for either side to continue active warfare. The Germans managed to conquer back 4/5 of their lost positions, although 'Machine-gun hill' stayed in Russian hands.
The Christmas battles won the Latvian riflemen a reputation as capable warriors, but also huge losses as the Latvian Riflemen suffered casualties of more than a third (Latvian riflemens lost about 9000 soldiers). Christmas Eve's battle slogan of liberation of Jelgava and all of Courland was proved to be just a slogan without serious coverage. The heavy casualties resulted in a strong resentment against the Russian generals and the Tsar among the riflemen. This resentment led to an increased support for the Bolsheviks, who were advocating an end to the war. However 12th Army Command severely punished Siberian Riflemen, who refused to go to battle - 92 of them were transferred to the war tribunal and condemned to death, and several hundred were sent to Siberia.
Reconstructed fragment of the German Wall and bunker in the Museum of the Christmas Battles. (2009)
Today Tirelis swamp and the nearby forests are part of the Museum of the Christmas Battles which in its turn is branch of Latvian museum of War. The museum was created to honour Latvian riflemen and all other soldiers who fought in the Riga front during the First World War. Many of the old trenches are still visible today, and there are also many reconstructed fortifications and bunkers.
Information of the Christmas Battles (in german).
Илья Максимов. Военно-исторический атлас России. IX - XX века. ДРОФА, Дом интеллектуальной книги, 2006 г. (in Russian)
History of Latvian Rifleman's
Chronology of the Christmas Battles (In english)
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Люк де Клап'є де Вовенарг (; 6 серпня 1715, Екс-ан-Прованс — 28 травня 1747, Париж) — французький філософ, письменник-мораліст.

Біографія
Брав участь в Італійській і Богемської кампаніях 1735 та 1742 р.; захворів віспою, яка назавжди спотворила його, і вийшов у відставку; хвороба перешкодила йому також зробити дипломатичну кар'єру, і Вовенарг цілком віддався літературним заняттям. Ще лейтенантом, під час Богемської кампанії, Вовенарг послав Вольтерові написаний ним порівняльний етюд про Корнеля і Расіна, де вихваляв другого за рахунок першого. Вольтер одразу помітив у молодого офіцера неабиякі здібності. Залишивши службу, Вовенарг оселився в Парижі, де був частим гостем у Вольтера та Мармонтеля. Молодий мораліст мав глибокий вплив на Вольтера. В 1746 р. він видав невеликий томик, до якого увійшли: «Introduction à la connaissance de l'esprit humain», «Réflexions sur divers sujets», «Conseils à un jeune homme», «Réflexions critiques sur divers poètes», «Fragments sur les orateurs et sur La Bruyère», «Méditation sur la foi "і" Paradoxes mêlés de Réflexions et de Maximes». А рік по тому він помер, за словами Мармонтеля, як «християнин-філософ».

Твори
 Vauvenargues, Oeuvres complètes, reed. Archives Kareline, 2008
 Introduction à la connaissance de l'esprit humain. 1746
 Réflexions sur divers sujets ; fragments dans le seconde édition.
 Conseil à un jeune homme. (adressés à Hippolyte de Seytres).
 Discours sur la gloire.
 Traité du libre arbitre. 1744
 Imitation de Pascal; Méditation sur la Foi.
 Réflexions critiques sur quelques poètes.
 Fragments.
 Sur quelques caractères.
 Réflexions et maximes. 1746
 Correspondance avec Voltaire (établie en 2006), Mirabeau, Saint-Vincens, etc…
 Dialogues.

Видання творів
 Vauvenargues, Œuvres, publiées avec une introduction et des notices par Pierre Varillon, 3 tomes, A la cité des livres, 1929.
 Vauvenargues, Réflexions et maximes, édition intégrale, avec introduction, notes critiques et variantes, par J-Roger Charbonnel Librairie Croville, Paris, 1934.

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Посилання

 Citations de Vauvenargues — Цитати з Вовенарга (фр.)

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Vermonters saving less than in most other states
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According to the results, 58% of those polled say that COVID-19 has completely changed how they approach savings, with 53% saying they've started saving for different things since the pandemic started.The average American polled was found to have $17,135 locked away in a savings or investment account, with people from South Dakota leading the way with an average of $24,497 in savings. The states with the least amount of savings were found to be West Virginia ($6,936) and Tennessee ($9,628).Of those surveyed, the top thing they were saving for was found to be an emergency of some kind (32%), followed closely by retirement (31%), with a new car coming in at a distant third (20%).But the results showed that Americans are now making a much greater effort to put money away. Nearly six in ten (59%) say they are officially cutting back on their spending towards this effort.Of those cutting back, taking advantage of deals and discounts instead of buying at retail price (45%) was a popular method, as well as getting less take-out (44%) and making coffee at home rather than getting their caffeine fix from a pricey cafe."Cutting back on your spending does not always require drastically altering your lifestyle," said Ryan Tronier, senior personal finance editor at Slickdeals. "Once saving money becomes a priority, you can start to make minor changes that start to add up over time."One of the more concerning stats to come from the survey was that just over one in three Americans polled (35%) actually think they will be able to retire some day.Younger Americans (Gen Z and millennial respondents) were the least likely to say they feel as if they will be able to retire in the future.Tronier added, "Making smart purchase decisions and looking for deals or coupons is a great way to accelerate your savings. At Slickdeals, we've assembled the largest community of savvy shoppers so users can score the best deals on the best products, with insight from millions of real people."Which States Save the Most?The survey, which polled 5,000 Americans (100 from each state), aimed to see who was the most savings-conscious.So, who saves the most? Drumroll, please…New Yorkers!Yup, they're officially the most savings-conscious residents, putting away 14.5% of their income towards savings goals or towards investment accounts. Georgia got second place at 12.9% with Texas, Ohio and California close behind.States saving the largest percentage of their incomesNew York: 14.5%Georgia: 12.9%Texas: 12.7%Ohio: 11.6%California: 11.5%Florida: 11.4%Hawaii: 10.8%Arizona: 10.5%Illinois: 10.5%Pennsylvania: 10.3%New Jersey: 10.3%Which States Save the Least?As for the rest of the nation, most residents from the remaining states put away less than 10% of their incomes.Sure, impulse shopping for things that you've had an eye on for a while (our May survey(link is external) found that 21% of Americans were doing exactly that) may temporarily relieve anxiety when your stress levels are through the roof. However, if you think about it, having a stash of cash in a bank account in case things don't bode well can help you sleep better at night.States saving the smallest percentage of their incomesVermont: 6.5%Idaho: 6.7%Tennessee: 7%Maine: 7.1%North Dakota: 7.5%Mississippi: 7.5%Michigan: 7.9%Missouri: 8.0%Wisconsin: 8.1%Delaware: 8.1%Percentage of Income Saved vs Total Dollars SavedNow our survey findings don't suggest that a lower savings percentage meant saving less overall. In fact, Americans surveyed tucked away an average of $17,135 into a savings or investment account.Residents of the Mount Rushmore State — aka South Dakota — report putting an average of $24,497 into savings. West Virginia, on the other hand, saved the least overall with an average of $6,936. Tennessee residents came in close at $9,628.Credit: SlickdealsAmericans Are Saving DifferentlyNo matter how much those polled saved, what matters is your attitude towards savings. Perhaps many of us didn't see the importance of saving for a rainy day or for big ticket items. If there is a silver lining during the pandemic, it's that it's opened our eyes to ensuring we're in a better financial position from now on.The good news is that our survey finds a fundamental shift in how Americans are saving differently in the wake of COVID-19. For example, 58% of survey respondents report COVID-19 has completely changed how they approach savings, with 53% saying they've started saving for different things since the pandemic began.The survey discovered that the top savings priority was for any type of emergency (32%), followed closely by retirement (31%), with a new car coming in at a distant third (20%) — no impulse shopping here!It also revealed that 58% of Americans are cutting back on their spending to reach their savings goals. That means being seen as frugal is no longer a negative trait — just look at our survey back in August,(link is external) where two out of three respondents considered being called frugal a compliment.Credit: SlickdealsSo what frugal things are survey respondents doing?f those cutting back on spending, taking advantage of deals and discounts instead of buying at retail price (45%) was a popular method, as well as getting less take-out (44%) and making coffee at home rather than getting their caffeine fix from a pricey café."Cutting back on your spending does not always require drastically altering your lifestyle," said Ryan Tronier, senior personal finance editor at Slickdeals. 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It sounds cliché, but every dollar does count.One of the best ways to start is to track your spending habits. There are a number of popular money-saving apps(link is external) that can help you understand your financial landscape. In fact, Trim(link is external) automatically negotiates lower bills and cancels unwanted subscriptions with a simple click.Once you have an idea of what you're spending, see where you can cut back — even temporarily — so you can stick some of that savings into a separate account. Consider setting up automatic savings deposits from your paycheck as well.Another way to start saving is to begin earning more money. No, we're not talking about working at all hours or starting a new side business. There are simple actions you can take like opening a new bank account(link is external). Many banks, in an attempt to get new customers, are paying out cash bonuses as long as you meet certain requirements.For example, Chase Bank is currently awarding new customer bonuses for both checking accounts(link is external) and savings accounts(link is external). If you think about it, opening an account doesn't take that much effort. Even if you can't afford to stash away 14% of your income, there are plenty of other bank bonus offers (link is external)that might be right up your alley.Just think about how much better you'll be able to sleep at night knowing that you've got money set aside in case of the unexpected.Slickdeals(link is external) is the leading social platform for shopping, where 12 million users interact to share the most up-to-date information on online shopping deals and coupons. Through the power of crowdsourcing, Slickdeals has saved its users over $6.8 billion by providing a forum for communication; as well as shopping tools such as its free Android or iOS app and its browser extension(link is external) for Chrome, Firefox and Edge. Slickdeals consistently ranks in the Top 100 most visited sites in the U.S. per Alexa. Source: LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — https://slickdeals.net(link is external) Vermont Business Magazine New Yorkers are putting away 14.5% of their income towards savings goals or investment accounts, making them the most savings-conscious Americans according to a new survey commissioned by Slickdeals(link is external), a leading social platform for shopping. Vermonters meanwhile not only put away among the least by percentage (6.5%), they're also pretty low in total amount ($13,573).Georgia came in second place at 12.9%, Texas, Ohio and California close behind, while nearly every other state reported putting less than 10% away for future goals.The survey of 5,000 Americans (100 from each state), conducted by OnePoll on behalf of Slickdeals, aimed to uncover data around how people in different states are reacting to their finances in light of the pandemic. read more
Accident at 75th and Lamar sends 6 to hospital
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A head on collision near the intersection of 75th Street and Lamar Avenue Tuesday afternoon sent six people to the hospital and damaged four vehicles.Prairie Village police report that at approximately 4:40 p.m. Tuesday a vehicle traveling westbound on 75th Street struck an eastbound vehicle. The westbound vehicle was carrying five people, all of whom were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Drivers of two of the eastbound vehicles involved in the crash did not appear to sustain any injuries, while the driver of the third eastbound car was transported to the hospital for precautionary reasons.Police are still investigating the cause of the crash.The accident closed the intersection Tuesday evening, where police remained on the scene for more than two hours.On Saturday, an accident at the intersection of 79th Street and Roe Avenue sent two people to the hospital. read more
Credit union CEO compensation grew by over 8 percent in 2013
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by. Keith LeggettAn article in the Long Island Business News (LIBN) (paid subscription) looked at the pay increases at credit unions.Citing results from Credit Union Executive Society survey, the LIBN stated "total credit union CEO compensation rose 8.18 percent in 2013, up from a 5.83 percent increase in 2012 and a 5.07 percent increase in 2011."According to the article, the average total CEO compensation for all credit unions was $256,339; but the average CEO compensation package at credit unions with more than $1 billion in assets was $552,318.However, the article noted that "[w]hile most other nonprofits are compelled to disclose their executive compensation levels, multiple credit unions declined to disclose their numbers to LIBN."The time is now for the National Credit Union Administration to adopt regulations requiring federal credit unions to disclose the salary of their highest paid employees as recommended by the agency's Outreach Task Force report on February 26, 2008. This would treat federal credit unions just like other nonprofit and not-for-profit organizations, including state chartered credit unions. continue reading » ShareShareSharePrintMailGooglePinterestDiggRedditStumbleuponDeliciousBufferTumblr read more
Marken adds cryogenic storage services
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In addition, Marken announced the integration of its cryogenic storage services which went live in June in both Frankfurt and Philadelphia. These latest additions to the Marken GMP network service portfolio further reinforces the company's dedication to serving its clients as a complete, end-to-end service provider. Future cryogenic storage locations will include the APAC region. Offering a comprehensive cryogenic transport and storage solution enables cell and gene therapy companies to simplify their supply chain by allowing them to consolidate processes with Marken, an established and trusted service provider. Fewer handoffs mean fewer variables, less risk and an unbroken chain of custody."Cell and gene therapies are a strategic focus for Marken due to their high complexity and the exacting quality standards they require, both in transport and storage," said Marken President Ariette van Strien."In addition to the growing need for cryogenic storage, Marken's expansion of the Frankfurt facility is driven by the high demand to provide up to -80C storage for future vaccines and treatments." read more
VIDEO: GDF SUEZ Looks into Marine Renewables
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Should lawyers welcome the end of the 50p tax rate?
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Eduardo Reyes is Gazette features editor Follow Eduardo on Twitter There will be plenty of Gazette readers who do not benefit from the scrapping of the 50p rate of income tax on earnings over £150,000 – though a decade spent covering the City and corporate parts of the legal market means I know very great numbers who are set to gain. At a client event I attended at a Magic Circle firm yesterday, most of the guests and hosts will benefit, many earning a multiple of £150,000. A partner on £1m a year will gain some £42,500 on the £150,000 to £1m part of their income. Should they be happy with the cut? Will it change what they can do, and will it boost their business? Should other lawyers, earning less, be happy for them, and look forward to a legal trickle-down effect? These questions are not put in sarcasm. The micro-economics of the legal market may provide some answers as to the wisdom or folly of this cut. After all, just because the public do not like something, it does not mean that it is against the public interest. But looking at the business plans of my hosts yesterday, I do not think a cut in income tax will affect the firm's key strategic plans. The firm's leadership views the UK as a still-profitable but mature market, and it is looking to international expansion plans to secure the impressive margins it has seen in the past. Many of its clients have comparable plans. The firm estimates that 20% of its work could be outsourced to legal process outsourcers, and that in the future it may even have fewer lawyers than at present, but be active in more countries. It is a vision that its competitors largely share, and when that 20% goes to LPOs in India, or wherever, that work will not have left the UK due to a 50p tax rate. This firm's strategy was set before the 50p-rate was introduced, and has remained the same through the rate rise. I would be surprised if it changed now. Perhaps the benefit will be less direct for this firm though – creating an incentive for potential clients to settle and invest in the UK. I have to say though, from time spent in the City, the income tax rate has never been mentioned as a problem. Corporation tax, yes – but not income tax. A couple of items figure higher up that list – our divorce and immigration rules. As a private client lawyer once complained to me: 'You know, this is a very friendly jurisdiction for high-net-worths. Apart from our divorce laws – people are afraid that if a spouse can divorce them here, they'll lose half their assets.' (My sympathy is not high on this last point, but I accept its significance here.) And since 2003, the UK's immigration laws have allowed the need for policies that sound hard-line to complicate life for investors and high-earners – removing, in many cases, any sense of certainty as to their immigration status and their security, and complicating the lives of family members. The firm I spent yesterday with is not entirely composed of people fixated on their tax rate. It has also engaged very seriously with initiatives intended to promote diversity and social mobility – within its own ranks, and in the communities it engages with. There is substance to what they are doing on these issues. And here, though I am sure in the short term its lawyers will enjoy a little extra pocket-money, they should be concerned about the effect of widening income gaps in the UK economy. When Alan Milburn's report on social mobility was published in 2009, this firm took its findings very seriously, and still does. Taking data on two cohorts of lawyers, one set born in 1958 and another in 1970, the point in the report was simply made. Two in five of the '58s grew up in families with above-average incomes; for those born in 1970, that figure rises to more than six in 10 (63%). It is hard to see how such income gaps do anything other than damage social mobility. In very straightforward terms there can be no trickle-down effect when rich, poor and middling are competing for exactly the same things, the supply of which is finite. Things with a finite supply include places at the leading university this firm recruits from, and the finite supply of training contracts currently on offer. An income gap too large produces an ever more deeply unfair contest for these. The firm has some enlightened self-interest here – a profession that is not a meritocracy is an inefficient one. It has poorer productivity, and lacks the competitive edge needed in a global economy. Seen like that, from the perspective of the legal economy, at best the income tax cut looks like an expensive gesture. read more
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Last day for regular registration to SC&RA symposium
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After today, fees increase by USD50 for all levels of registrations, and attendees names will no longer be included in the booklet distributed at the event.SC&RA urges you to act now to save money and make sure current and potential customers and business partners know you are at the symposium so they can seek you out. You will find details about the schedule, speakers, attendees, exhibitors and more on the SC&RA website. www.scranet.org
Solicitors still in the dark over waivers granted to rival businesses
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The Solicitors Regulation Authority says it is near to publishing details of rules waivers granted to businesses in its 'safe space' to encourage innovation. The regulator said in June it planned to take a new approach to how it grants and publishes such waivers.Part of the SRA's proposal involved fuller details on all granted waivers being published on its website. However months later that pledge has yet to come to fruition. Several waivers have been granted to unregulated businesses allowing them to employ solicitors. Among businesses to have benefited is the UK arm of US onlne legal services firm Rocket Lawyer. These agreements come ahead of the SRA attempting to change its rules to formally allow this arrangement.Oliver Price, compliance officer and partner with Wiltshire firm Wansbroughs, told the Gazette that it was 'surprising' that the SRA appeared to be ignoring its own guidance and not disclosing details. '[The SRA] has no system of publishing waivers and so neither the public nor profession is able to know whether they exist, or if they do, what they provide,' he said.The regulator has previously said it will grant exemptions to its rules only 'where there is clear evidence that they are in the public interest, and that users of legal services are protected'.But critics say the ad hoc relaxation of SRA rules creates an uneven playing field, granting waivers which cannot be properly scrutinised. The Law Society has said the granting of waivers 'allows a fundamental change to the regulatory framework by the back door'.The SRA has said the process must be fair and transparent and the regulator will compile an annual innovation report to make sure decisions are made consistently. read more
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New Zoéland/ Nýja Zoéland, er innblásin ferð í duttlungafullan hugarheim listamannsins Zoé Sauvage gegnum teikningu/ málverk, myndband, innsetningu. Landið sem er heimsótt: frændeyja Nýja Sjálands. Hvað er eðlilegra en að þetta ímyndaða land rísi úr kafinu á Íslandi, næstum nákvæmlega andstæðu megin á hnettinum í gegnum miðja jörðina?
Tilgangur listamannsins er hér að gefa, með auðmótanlegum tilraunum, innsýn í tengslin milli manns og þess náttúrulandslags sem sótt er heim, með áherslu á persónuleika ferðamannsins, ferðalanginn og draum hans, ímyndunarafl hans, flóttaþrár hans, þar sem upphafspunkturinn er persónulegt ferðalag listamannsins á gönguleiðum Nýja Sjálands.
Listamaðurinn skoðar tilhneigingu okkar til að hugsa um ferðalag sem táknræn hamskipti, með uppbyggingu persónulegrar goðsagnar, sem varð næstum lífsnauðsynlegt í nútíma veröld sem verður sífellt snauðari helgiathöfnum.
Eftir langt háskólanám og meistarapróf í vistfræði, siðfræði og þróunarvísindum, ákvað Zoé Sauvage að túlka heillun sína á hinum lifandi heimi yfir í listaheiminn. Í myndlistarheimi hennar þjóna vatnslitablettir og blek hlutverkum í frumlegri fléttu af persónulegum goðsagnalegum alheimi. Listamaðurinn skáldar þannig fram tvöfaldar merkingar, þar sem maðurinn samblandast gróðrinum og landslaginu, þar sem uppgerð mýkt afhjúpar fremur grimma og raskandi heima.
Sum verkin virka eins og súrrealískar ímyndir í núningi sem leiða af sér aðdráttarafl-fráhrinding: aðferð Zoé Sauvage til að framkalla umbreytingarnar í tengslunum milli manns og náttúru. Í öllum þessum blendingsímyndum skapar Zoé Sauvage heim jafnvægis – milli æsku og fullorðins, milli martraða og drauma.
New Zoéland, or the immersive journey in the whimsical head of the artist Zoé Sauvage via drawing, painting, video, and installation. The country visited: an island cousin of New Zealand. What could be more natural if this imaginary country emerges in Iceland, at the almost exact opposite of the planet through the center of the earth?
The intention of the artist here is to glimpse, through plastic experimentation, the links between man and the natural landscape visited, focusing on the character of the tourist, the traveler and his/her dream, fantasies, fugitive feelings, taking as a starting point here a personal journey of the artist on the hiking trails of New Zealand.
The artist explores our tendency to think of travel as a symbolic metamorphosis, with the construction of a personal mythology, which became almost vital in a current world more and more devoid of rituals.
After long university studies and a master's degree in the sciences of ecology, ethology and evolution, Zoé Sauvage decides to translate into the world of art her fascination for the living world. The spots of watercolor and ink serve, in her pictorial world, an original matrix of a personal mythological universe. The artist thus conceives fictions with double meaning, where the human hybridizes with the vegetal, the landscape, where feigned softness reveals more cruel, more disturbing worlds.
Some works behave like surrealist images, in friction and the effect of attraction-repulsion: a way for Zoé Sauvage to evoke the mutation of the links between man and Nature. In all these chimeras, Zoé Sauvage invents a world in balance - between childhood and adulthood, between nightmare and dream.


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UK's PM, Boris Johnson parties with girlfriend to celebrate victory
On December 14, 2019 10:40 pmIn Foreignby Rasheed Sobowale
UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson and Girlfriend, Carrie Symonds. PHOTO: DailyMail
The United Kingdom Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, 55, walked side by side with his 31-year-old girlfriend as he arrived at a private London residence for a Christmas party held by Russian tycoon and owner of the Evening Standard Evgeny Lebedev.
Wearing the same suit he was seen in while addressing the country from the steps of 10 Downing Street, Mr Johnson was joined by a host of other famous faces including Sir Bob Geldof, David Hasselhoff and Jemima Goldsmith.
Speaking after accepting the Queen's invitation to form a government, the PM said it was time to bring 'closure' to the three-and-a-half years of toxic argument over Britain's departure from the European Union and repeated his pledge to "get Brexit done".
Despite last night's celebrations, he appeared fresh-faced according to DailyMail as he appeared in Tony Blair's old constituency of Sedgefield today to thank former Labour voters who had backed the Tories and helped secure a landslide victory.
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Mr Johnson told the audience at a cricket club: 'I want the people of the North East to know that we in the Conservative Party and I will repay your trust – and everything that we do, everything that I do as your Prime Minister, will be devoted to repaying that trust.'
Last night's London party was packed with notable guests from the worlds of show business and politics including actress Sadie Frost, model Lily Cole and journalist Rachel Johnson, the PM's sister – who admitted to never having met Ms Symonds.
Mr Cameron, who attended the party with his wife Samantha, congratulated his Old Etonian friend and rival on an "extraordinary result".
The PM is set to embark on a whirlwind 100 days which will take in Brexit and a raft of domestic changes, plus a charm offensive in Scotland designed to counter election successes by the SNP. It came after Jeremy Corbyn handed Mr Johnson an 80-seat majority in the opposition's worst defeat since 1935.
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In the summer of 2013, I learned about the IndieWeb, ironically, via a comment, posted at Scripting.com, Dave Winer's website.
Over the past 25 years, Dave has created, collaborated on, and evangelized about multiple open web technologies, but he's a bit prickly about some IndieWeb concepts, especially h-feed. That's okay. The IndieWeb continues to move forward.
In the fall of 2013, I added the ability to receive Webmentions on one of my websites. It was more of a test to see how it worked, and I thought that it was fascinating. In 2018, I still consider the Webmention to be the best technology feature, created by the IndieWeb group.
That's all that is needed to support the IndieWeb. A website owner does not need to support any of the "advanced" IndieWeb tech ideas, such as Micropub, Microsub, Webmention, etc., for the site to be considered a part of the IndieWeb. It's mainly about NOT posting all web content on other platforms (silos).
The IndieWeb encourages "old" bloggers to revisit their old, abandoned websites, and the IndieWeb encourages people who have never bought a domain name to consider the idea of hosting most of their public web content on their own websites.
Since 2013, I've created several web publishing systems, mainly to learn new technologies and programming techniques. In the spring of 2016, I created my web-based static site generator called Wren, which I use to manage the content here at sawv.org. Initially, the only IndieWeb concepts supported by Wren consisted of some Microformats and receiving Webmentions.
In the summer of 2017, I read Chris Aldrich's post titled Feed reader revolution. After reading that excellent post, I added more IndieWeb tech support to my Wren app, including sending Webmentions, logging into my site via IndieAuth, supporting Micropub on the server, using brid.gy to interact with my test Twitter account, and more usage of Microformats.
Here's my Jul 6, 2017 post titled IndieWeb Testing where I ran my Wren web pub app through several IndieWeb-related tests. At that time, I was hosting content at boghop.com, but that content has been moved here. I should re-run the tests again.
My main reason for implementing some of the IndieWeb tech in my web apps was to learn more about how it worked. It does not mean that in the future, I will continue to accept Webmentions at sawv.org and syndicate some content to my test Twitter account.
I don't "use" social media, and I don't engage with others on the web outside of my own small message board toledotalk.com that I started in January 2003. I choose to learn how to program some IndieWeb tech in case needs arise in future projects for work and for hobby. I could see adding support for Webmentions and Micropub in other projects.
In the summer of 2017, I created a web app called Warbler that is a different take on the message board. All thread starter posts and comments are Webmentions.
kleete.com relies on Warbler. The domain name means nothing. I'm not planning to use nor promote kleete as a community site. It's simply something to play with.
Technically, toledotalk.com is a silo, I think. I wondered how a message board could function without being a silo. The best idea that I could invent was Warbler.
To reduce spam with my Warbler app at kleete.com, I could require each poster to log into kleete.com via IndieAuth, which would mean kleete.com would not accept Webmentions programmatically. Currently, I have throttling in place at kleete.com where a new thread post can only be created after at least five minutes have passed, since the previous thread starter post. And the same website or domain name can post a comment only once every 60 seconds.
The concept of accepting comments or user-contributed content is not a problem. The problem is that web site owners don't work hard enough to encourage better comments by erecting barriers. It took me a long time to find the right combination of "barriers to entry" that worked well at toledotalk.com. Plus, a community site admin must be willing to enforce posting guidelines and weed out the abusers. A site that proclaims to be wide open and "free speech" friendly is a site that will probably fall into ruin.
Over the past few years, toledotalk.com has slowly faded activity-wise, mainly by design, since I have had new user sign-ups disabled for most of the time over the past few years. toledotalk.com is over 15-years-old, and I have lost interest in the site in recent years. And because of the IndieWeb influence, I think that it's more important for people to post on their own websites.
In the aught years, the Toledo area had an active blogging scene. Maybe it still does, I don't know. Last decade, Toledo Talk referenced some of those bloggers and their content, and some of those bloggers posted at Toledo Talk. Symbiotic.
I think that social media dominates in the Toledo area, like most places. It would be nice if a small group of us began posting content on our own domain names in addition to using social media (optionally).
That doesn't mean that the people should use IndieWeb tech to interact with social media, at least not at the start. Baby steps. Step one is encouraging people to post content on their own domain names. Step two is building a network around the personal websites.
My wife uses Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and who-knows-what-else. Back in the winter, I bought her a domain name, then I built her a simple blog setup, and I posted some content on her site as an example. But I have been unable to encourage her to use her personal website on a regular basis.
If I struggle to get a close family member to use the web in a slightly more open manner, then I imagine it will be difficult to get others in the Toledo area to own their content. But it doesn't hurt to try.
A few times each week, I view the IndieWeb IRC chat logs. I enjoy their discussions and passion. With each passing year, more new people join the conversaion and experiment with IndieWeb principles and tech. The beauty is that no corporation owns the IndieWeb/Open Web.


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When I was awarded the Future Leaders Scholarship I made a commitment to better the lives of Australians. Each day I aim to improve the experience of motherhood for new mums by reflecting on the past and imagining, researching and writing for a better future.
To take something that has hurt us and endeavour to make that different for others is a privilege and one which I am committed to. There is so much work to do ensuring the lives of women postpartum are healthy ones.
The research in this area says that postpartum distress is largely inevitable - this is supported by the number of women who report it - up to 80%. It suggests that a degree of unhappiness is inevitable – normal – when we have a baby which as we can all attest is accurate.
If we were living like we used to in the villages of the past, we would simply go outside, talk to the other mums and carry on.
A big reason for the problem of PPD is the way we live today. These are modern times – the time of the NON-village. As an individualist culture we are separated not only geographically but psychologically – We have lost the village and all the good it brings, we strive for independence and on top of this, as women, we often take on two roles in breadwinner and mother.
Today we live alone, and the research tell us that we, as mothers, suffer alone.
There is still enormous shame and stigma and a sense of having to be happy and be the perfect mother, able to manage it all. We wont tell because like me, walking down that street, we feel like we have failed.
In terms of becoming a mother, its how we learn about what to do, how we share the load, how we regulate and release our emotions and its how we feel normal.
We connect for validation, for appraisal, for guidance and for empathy.
Big solution to this problem of disconnection and isolation is peer to peer support.
Social support, in particular peer to peer support, buffers the effects of the distress and provides the support necessary for the down days to be down days and not accumulate into weeks, months and even years. It says that just by sharing with others who understand, that women get much of what they're after.
The Village Foundation aims to address isolation and depression through prevention - by providing support through various means and applications.
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Meat Supplier Connected to Publix E.Coli Cases Issues Further Recall
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Cargill Meat Solutions is recalling about 132,606 pounds of ground beef due to a possible E. coli contamination. According to a news realease from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the recalled meat from the Colorado-based company was from the chuck portion of the animal and possibly contained Escherichia coli 026 (a form of E. coli). Unfortunately, the product was distributed nationwide.
Why I Refuse to Freak Out Over Food Recalls
CNN reports that the meat, produced June 21 marked with USDA inspection mark "EST. 86R," is linked to an outbreak that sickened 18 people and that one of those people has died. The illnesses were all traced to Publix supermarkets; Publix issued a recall nearly three weeks ago, but the source of the meat was not known at the time. FSIS has since traced Cargill as the source, hence the more recent recall announcement. Cargill is the largest privately held corporation in the United States with an annual revenue of over $100 billion.
Those sickened by the meat reported feeling ill between July 5 and July 25. The release from the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) indicates that people usually become ill three to four days after exposure to the product, and may develop symptoms such as diarrhea and vomiting. Severe cases can result in hospitalization and even death.
The FSIS announcement urges customers who may have purchased the meat to check their freezers and to throw it away or return it to the place of purchase. A full list of the products subject to recall can be found here.
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Snow this evening will become a mix of wintry precipitation late. Low near 25F. Winds SE at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of precip 100%. Snow and ice accumulating 3 to 5 inches..
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Cruise line: Valparaiso grandfather knew window was open before toddler fell to her death
Police officers have a lot going on while patrolling the roadways as demonstrated by Porter County Sheriff's Police officer Chris Winterhaller.
John J. Watkins, The Times
Police officers have a lot going on while patrolling the roadways as demonstrated by Porter County Sheriff's Police Officer Chris Winterhaller. [Photo Illustration]
Sometimes police wind up in crashes too
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Porter/LaPorte County Courts and Social Justice Reporter
Police officers across the Region drive millions of miles each year under high stress conditions.
They undergo specialized training behind the wheel, but sometimes find themselves not just responding to accidents, but involved in them.
Officers with the Lake County Sheriff's Department have been involved in 12 accidents this year and were at fault in seven of the crashes, according to Emiliano Perez, the department's public information officer.
The good news for the department is that this year's total was only a third of 36 accidents that occurred in 2016, he said. Officers were at fault in 20 of those crashes last year.
"That's a huge reduction," Perez said.
A wrongful death lawsuit was filed in May against five officers with the East Chicago and Hammond police departments involved in a high-speed pursuit over a case of stolen beer that cost the life of a 13-year-old Whiting girl earlier this year. A Danville, Illinois woman and a Highland man are charged with causing the high-speed police chase.
The Porter County Sheriff's Department has had 13 vehicles damaged in various types of incidents this year, and its officers were at fault in two accidents, according to Maj. Gary Gear, who maintains the department's 102-vehicle fleet.
The annual total number of accidents is standard for the department, he said.
In both of the at-fault crashes, the officers rear-ended other vehicles after taking their eyes off the road to focus on something else in their own cars, Gear said. One of the crashes that occurred in October sent an 80-year-old to a Chicago hospital with a head injury and injured two others, including the officer.
The LaPorte County Sheriff's Department had two vehicle crashes this year, both by the same officer during pursuits, said Capt. Michael Kellems, who recently announced his retirement as the public information officer.
The crashes resulted in only minimal damage and no injuries, he said. An administrative review is conducted of each accident and it was determined the officer had done nothing wrong.
"I can't recall any time in the past when we've had any serious injury crashes," Kellems said. "Typically we only see a few and some years we haven't had any crashes."
'Make sure you get there'
Police officers undergo a week of driving training while at the academy and then face annual refresher courses once they are hired on with a department, Kellems said.
The LaPorte Department typically conducts hands-on driving training each year, but opted for a refresher course this year on the policies of driving in pursuit or other emergency situations, he said. Kellems said this year's topic was not in response to the two recent pursuit-related crashes.
Lake County police also undergo annual refresher courses in driving and each crash involving an officer is reviewed by a board of their peers, Perez said. If it is determined the officer is at fault, there is potential for disciplinary action.
"I would think that having something like that heightens awareness of officers while driving," he said.
An officer recently put that training and awareness into action when another motorist, who had not properly cleared frost from the windows of the vehicle, swerved into the officer's lane, forcing him to veer into the curb and damage his tires in order to avoid a collision, Perez said.
Sometimes the best efforts do not go as planned and officers are hurt during calls.
A Porter County police officer was injured in October when his vehicle was rear-ended by an accused drunk driver and another officer was injured on a motorcycle in August, Gear said.
Kellems said his officers face the same risks.
"During a blizzard on Valentine's Day in 2015 we had three deputies that were injured when their vehicles were struck while they were investigating other crashes" he said.
Porter County Sheriff Dave Reynolds said his department tries to drive home the same message to all the officers: "Make sure you don't over-drive and make sure you get there."
Neither of Porter County's at-fault crashes occurred during a pursuit or response call.
"I think that says a lot for the officers," Reynolds said.
E911 callers expect a quick response
It's not only other vehicles that officers have to be prepared for while patrolling or responding to calls.
Four of the Porter County police cars damaged this year were the result of collisions with deer, Gear said.
"It's unbelievable," Reynolds said. "Make sure you watch for deer."
And then there are the risks you just can't plan for.
A Porter County police officer was driving along Pearson Road near the Brassie Golf Club in Chesterton in August when a tree fell on the vehicle, Gear said. The officer escaped injury, but the car was damaged, he said.
Reynolds said officers with his department drove more than 1.6 million miles so far this year, which increases the odds for problems.
"We're constantly on the road," he said.
The county is larger than many people realize, Reynolds said, with 444 square miles and more than 800 miles of roadways to patrol.
The department is trying to relieve this situation by beefing up its patrols, Reynolds said. It is set to receive a new patrolman next year after not having had a new one added to the force since 2001.
In the meantime, the county is one of the fastest growing in the state and with the growth comes more demand.
"When they dial 911, they expect a police officer to get there as quick as we can," Reynolds said.
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Cell migration and molecular mechanisms during healing of damaged vascular or muscle tissues are emerging fields of interest worldwide. The study herein focuses on evaluating the role of allogenic adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ADMSCs) in restoring damaged tissues. Using a hindlimb ischemic mouse model, ADMSC-mediated induction of cell migration and gene expression related to myocyte regeneration and angiogenesis were evaluated. ADMSCs were labeled with GFP (ADMSC-GFP). The proximal end of the femoral blood vessel of mice (over 6 months of age) are ligated at two positions then cut between the two ties. Hindlimb ischemic mice were randomly divided into two groups: Group I (n = 30) which was injected with PBS (100 μL) and Group II (n = 30) which was transplanted with ADMSC-GFP (106 cells/100 μL PBS) at the rectus femoris muscle. The migration of ADMSC-GFP in hindlimb was analyzed by UV-Vis system. The expression of genes related to angiogenesis and muscle tissue repair was quantified by real-time RT-PCR. The results showed that ADMSCs existed in the grafted hindlimb for 7 days. Grafted cells migrated to other damaged areas such as thigh and heel. In both groups the ischemic hindlimb showed an increased expression of several angiogenic genes, including Flt-1, Flk-1, and Ang-2. In particular, the expression of Ang-2 and myogenic-related gene MyoD was significantly increased in the ADMSC-treated group compared to the PBS-treated (control) group; the expression increased at day 28 compared to day 3. The other factors, such as VE-Cadherin, HGF, CD31, Myf5, and TGF-β, were also more highly expressed in the ADMSC-treated group than in the control group. Thus, grafted ADMSCs were able to migrate to other areas in the injured hindlimb, persist for approximately 7 days, and have a significantly positive impact on stimulating expression of myogenic- and angiogenesis-related genes.
This research was funded by the University of Science, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, under grant number T2016-20.
NBV and NPK were responsible for suggesting the idea for this study, creating the experiment design, analyzing the data, writing the result, discussing, and preparing the figures. HLTN was responsible for performing the RT-PCR analysis and writing the introduction and methods. LTP was responsible for performing the ADMSCs cultures. TTTD was responsible for creating GFP-ADMSC and preparing muscle cell for flow cytometry analysis. NBV and VTT were responsible for analyzing the flow cytometry and revising the manuscript. All authors read and approved the manuscript.


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Rittal celebrates 50th birthday
By Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
Rittal, inventor of the standardized enclosure, is celebrating its 50th birthday this year. In 1961, the German company began series production of four simple enclosure types. Now, a half century and 1,500 patents later, the family owned company with a global workforce of 10,000 has made a name for itself as a leading systems supplier of enclosures, power distribution, climate control, IT infrastructure, and software and services.
"I can look back over the last 50 years with pride and gratitude. We have achieved more than we ever could have imagined. I am convinced that Rittal will continue to make history in the future. As our slogan says, we have power and visions. I look forward to transforming these visions into reality with the management team and the entire workforce. We never lose sight of our customers' requirements," Rittal's owner, Friedhelm Loh, said in an anniversary speech.
The company has unveiled numerous inventions and advancements in 2011, including data centres in four dimensions, a new range of energy-saving cooling units, advancements in heat exchangers and software tools, and an intelligent base/plinth solution for enclosures. As it enters its 51st year, Rittal is still reinventing itself, as documented by the product catalogue, "Rittal Catalogue 2011/2012", a new edition of which will be published in the second half of the year, accompanied by a redesigned website.
The company founder, Rudolf Loh, came up with the idea of mass-producing enclosures rather than custom-making individual orders. Back in 1961, he decided to manufacture enclosures for electrical controllers in a range of standard, predefined sizes for off-the-shelf delivery. The concept soon took off when a leading German automotive manufacturer specified the Rittal enclosure as standard in 1971.
Industrial automation led to an expansion of Rittal's product portfolio, and the company moved into the areas of climate control, power distribution and IT infrastructure. Milestones included the invention of the PS4000 bayed system in 1985, as well as cooling units with CFC-free refrigerants. In 1999, Rittal set new standards with the TS 8 enclosure system. Now there are some 7.7 million of these enclosures in use.
Today, Rittal has 10 production sites, 63 subsidiaries and 40 agencies worldwide. Rittal Systems Ltd. was founded in Mississauga, Ont., as a direct subsidiary of Rittal GmbH on January 1, 1995. Prior to that, there was an agency that represented the product in Canada for eight years.
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Vaping as a method to quit smoking doesn't work well, Canadian doctor says
A Canadian smoking cessation doctor says vaping as a way to quit smoking doesn't seem to work, and most adults continue to smoke and vape — a concerning finding that comes amid the skyrocketing popularity of e-cigarettes among young people.
Explosion of illnesses in U.S. has doctors questioning safety of vaping
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A Canadian smoking cessation doctor says vaping as a way to quit smoking doesn't seem to work, and most adults continue to smoke and vape. (Robert F. Bukaty/The Associated Press)
"The indications are perhaps 15 to 20 per cent of people may be able to quit using vaping but about 60 to 70 per cent of people continue to smoke and vape at the same time, as opposed to converting to vaping altogether," said Dr. Robert Reid, of the Ottawa Heart Institute, who works at a large smoking cessation program.
His observations build on the findings of a randomized trial on e-cigarettes and nicotine-replacement therapy. The trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine in February looked at users in the United Kingdom, where the strength of nicotine in e-cigarettes are restricted to no more than 20 milligrams per millilitre. Currently, Health Canada's maximum limit is three times higher.
Reid said the findings on dual users — people who continue to smoke cigarettes and vape — reflected the addictive properties of e-cigarettes. After a year, only about three per cent of those assigned to the nicotine patch group were still using the patch, but about 45 per cent in the vaping group continued to vape.
At the Canadian Stroke Congress this week in Ottawa, Reid warned that many of the newer vaping products deliver as much nicotine as cigarettes. He also flagged how flavouring agents may also cause damage to blood vessels.
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"This explosion of cases in the U.S. has us questioning 'Is this a safer alternative?'" Reid said.
Hooking younger users
Newer generation e-cigarette devices with pods are engineered to deliver much higher doses of nicotine in the body more rapidly, he said.
"Once it started to be commercialized … there's evidence from the experience in the U.S. that there was a deliberate attempt to make this appeal to younger users, specifically through using state-of-the-art social media techniques to engage people and also using social influencers very dramatically to change its trajectory of adoption by young people," Reid said.
On Thursday, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission ordered several e-cigarette companies to turn over sales and advertising data, a sign of a likely probe of company marketing practices.
Many newer vaping products deliver as much nicotine as cigarettes. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press)
As of Oct. 1, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 1,080 cases of serious illness resembling inhalation injury linked to e-cigarettes and vaping, as well as 18 deaths. The cases increased 275 in a week.
No drop-off in illnesses
"We are concerned that risky product is still available, and that's one of the reasons that we have intensified our recommendations or warnings," Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC, told reporters. "We haven't seen a measurable drop-off in the occurrence of new cases and so we don't feel that either individuals have changed their behaviour or the products are gone."
So far, about 70 per cent of the U.S. patients were male, 80 per cent under 35 years old and 16 per cent younger than 18, Schuchat said.
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Most patients reported a history of using products containing tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, the cannabis ingredient that gives a high.
Last week, doctors in Illinois and Wisconsin said most of their cases so far have been in people who got their THC-containing product off the street. Whether that pattern holds across the United States is not known.
Cannabis concerns
Dr. Chris Simpson, a cardiologist and vice-dean (clinical) at Queen's University, said Friday at the Canadian Stroke Congress that knowledge of the potential benefits and harms of cannabis is still in its infancy.
Last week, health officials announced a Quebec resident who'd been vaping for a few months to quit smoking was the first confirmed case of the severe vaping-related breathing illness in Canada.
Canadian and U.S. health officials say anyone who has used e-cigarettes or vaping products, and has symptoms such as shortness of breath, cough, chest pain, with or without vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain or fever is advised to consult a health-care professional.
The exact cause or causes of the illness remains unknown.
"I think we have the feeling right now that there may be a lot of different nasty things in e-cigarettes or vaping products, and they may cause different harms in the lungs," CDC's Schuchat said.
To quit vaping, Schuchat suggested using approved cessation products, such as nicotine patches and gum together with counselling — not returning to smoking.
With legalization of cannabis in Canada, Reid said data is starting to be collected on the "high proportion" of smoking cessation patients who also use cannabis.
With files from Reuters
Health Canada warns of potential risk of pulmonary illness associated with vaping products
Outbreak of Lung Injury Associated with E-Cigarette Use, or Vaping, U.S. CDC


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The church was destroyed in a bombing raid on 1 Jun 1942. Only the tower and clock remain.
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Books about running, yea! Some funny, some educational, all inspiring. For me, anything I read about running motivates me to run. Whenever I'm in a run funk and just haven't felt like getting out the door, I can just pick up an issue of Runner's World, or read a bit from one of these books and I'm eager for my next run.
Today, I want to share with you some of my favorite running reads that you can pick up for the awesome runners in your life or add to your own wish-list.
2. Eat & Run by Scott Jurek - I devoured this book by record-breaking ultra runner Scott Jurek. Jurek's book fits nicely into the memoir category, you learn a lot about his life and a lot about running. You also follow his journey to becoming a vegan and he shares a recipe in each chapter.
3. Finding Ultra by Rich Roll - Another one that I breezed through in just a couple of days. Roll's book is similar to Jurek's in many ways, they both share how they came to be vegans, for one. Despite the title, Roll is not an ultra runner, he's an "ultra-man" triathlete. In Finding Ultra, Roll share's how he overcame addiction, and being overweight during middle age (is 40 middle age?). Roll can come off arrogant at times, but it's still a great read.
4. Train Like a Mother by Dimity McDowell and Sarah Bowen Shea - I love all of the "Mother Runner" books but this is the one I keep going back to over and over. It has training plans (I've used them, they're great), tips, and stories from other running mamas.
5. Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald - I learned so much from this book. What I like about it is not so much in the how, but the why. Fitzgerald teaches you how much weight, and specifically body fat, is affecting your race times and helps you find your optimal weight.
These are all books that I have read and recommend, there are plenty of other running books that I have not read yet and in a another post I'll share my own wish-list of running books. There are many other humorous running books out there (Onward! comes to mind) that I've read, and while I enjoyed them at the time, they just didn't stick with me, so I didn't mention them here, but if you'd like to know which of those I've read let me know.
What running books do you recommend?
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