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Educator Stress
Educator Stress pp 77-100 | Cite as
Biological Pathways to Stress-Related Disease Vulnerability in Educators
Silja Bellingrath
Brigitte M. Kudielka
First Online: 29 August 2017
Part of the Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being book series (AHSW)
Teaching has often been described as a highly demanding occupation with increased risk for effort-reward-imbalance, burnout and elevated rates of premature retirement. A growing number of studies report associations between chronic work stress and dysregulations in various stress sensitive physiological systems in educators. Teachers are confronted with a wide range of stressors, including destructive and aggressive behavior of students or conflicting demands from supervisors, colleagues, students and students' parents, which leaves many with a general perception of being rushed and chronically over worked. After presenting the methodology to measure stress markers commonly used in psychobiological studies, the present chapter summarizes findings on alterations in the endocrine stress system, the autonomic nervous system and the immune and blood coagulation system associated with chronic work stress in otherwise healthy educators. Results will be discussed in the framework of McEwen's Allostatic Load Model, which assesses the cumulative burden exacted on the body through repeated attempts of adaptation to stressful situations in multiple physiological systems.
Educator stress Effort-reward-imbalance Burnout Allostatic load
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Bastille // Bad Blood, Album Review
Yesterday Bastille's latest single "Pompeii" charted at number two in the charts, beaten only by Justin Timberlake's "Mirrors", and today marks the release of the much anticipated debut album "Bad Blood". A busy week for the London quartet who are currently on a sell out UK tour.
What started out as a solo project by Dan Smith [who was born on the French Bastille Day, hence the name] has now turned into a four-piece full live band. Want to know what we thought of Bastille's debut offering? Click below…
Bastille's Dan Smith
"Bad Blood" opens with current single "Pompeii"; echoic and grand with multi layered vocals and heavy drum beats in quintessential Bastille style; it perfectly sets the tone for the album. Est.1987 caught up with Dan last year and speaking of the album he said, "Hopefully it'll sound cohesive; but I also want it to sound a little bit all over the place. It will be nice to have an album that feels like a collection of quite sporadic songs that all work and sit alongside each other." And indeed, "Bad Blood" takes us on a musical journey; each song a beautiful vignette diversely ranging from the biblical "Daniel in the Den" with its perfectly crafted rise and fall of tempo, to the classical "Icarus", its stripped back opening leading to a percussive building chorus.
Bold and electric throughout, even slower songs possess an uplifting quality. The piano focussed "Oblivion", the perfect example; it is graceful and effortlessly shows off lead singer Dan's impressive vocal range. With Dan a self confessed control freak it is no wonder then that each song's intricacies are perfectly arranged, whether that be on the instrumentally eclectic "These Streets" or the heavier, darker title track "Bad Blood". The layering of vocals and infectious melodies ensure the band's debut is mesmerising. Their live show only backs this up further; the very fact that the entire tour is a sell out is testament to the band's musicianship and stage presence. Album tracks such as "Weight of Living Pt II" hold their own against fan favourites such as the emotive and electronic infused "Flaws", making "Bad Blood" a captivating musical statement and an ambitious first album.
The stripped back, vocally dynamic "Get Home" signs off the album, the haunting track is the perfect ending. A huge underground following has made Bastille the UK worst kept secret; word of mouth has seen their fan base grow and grow even before the album release, and quite rightly so. Bastille's "Bad Blood" is only the beginning.
The UK tour is sold out but click HERE for all future tour dates.
Click HERE to read an interview and live review on Bastille's 2012 tour
Listen to "Bad Blood" in full at one of their online 'screenings' of the album, with accompanying visuals. Book a screening and then watch and listen in the ruined old cinema - www.bastillebastille.com/albumstream
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First Generation Capital Inc. Acquires Shares of Trimel Pharmaceuticals Corporation
February 19, 2014 18:42 ET | Source: First Generation Capital Inc.;Ian Ihnatowycz
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Feb. 19, 2014) - Mr. Ian Ihnatowycz, announced today that he has entered into an agreement to acquire 9,203,797 common shares of Trimel Pharmaceuticals Corporation (the "Issuer") at $0.711 per share through his private investment holding company First Generation Capital Inc. The purchase will be made on a private placement basis from the Issuer and is expected to close next week.
Following the purchase, the Mr. Ihnatowycz will hold a total of 38,656,297 common shares of the Issuer, corresponding to a securityholding percentage, calculated in accordance with National Instrument 62-103 The Early Warning System and Related Take-Over Bid and Insider Reporting Issues of approximately 23.70%.
The securities of the Issuer were acquired for investment purposes. Depending upon the circumstances, Mr. Ihnatowycz may, from time to time, acquire additional securities or related financial instruments of the Issuer or dispose of all or a portion of the securities or related financial instruments of the Issuer previously acquired.
Additional information is provided in the early warning report filed on www.sedar.com.
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So that I don't get overwhelmed wondering what to put up because many a thing make me happy, I'm going to go with 5 picture topics that make me happy. I feel like I pulled out some randoms for this.
Of course I have to pick this perfect little family of mine. I love them so much I could just cry! This first picture is from last year but I just love it!
The mountains. Oh they make me smile. Waterton is one of most favorite places to be. I loved living in Cardston and being that much closer to them and seeing Chief Mountain out my front window. My dream home would be right beside a lake in the mountains, I would wake up and smile every day. It is just so peaceful there, and I get that peaceful feeling when I look at pictures too.
Friends. I have so many good friends. I don't like to pick favorites among all the friends I am blessed to have, but these ladies and this picture make me smile. I am always the one laughing the hardest as previously discussed on the blog, but I'm quite sure Emily was finding something to pinch in this pic.
I don't usually enjoy pictures of myself while in action, but I just love this picture. I've put it on here before. It makes me happy, so so happy doing someing that keeps me hap hap happy.
I'm thinking of a million other pictures and ideas that I want to use that make me happy, but I just don't have it in me to carry on, and I did my 5. But can I say how much I am loving everyone doing this! Isn't it fun to talk about yourself?! And I am loving and appreciating everyones comments too, thank you thank you!
I love that photo of you! Super inspiring!! But also could be a bit jealous...because you know...I sort of waddle right now and it's sorta annoying. Just sayin'.
The mountains photos are fantastic! and your little fam makes me smile too! I'm especially loving your long golden locks. Your hair seems to grow at super speed... or has it just been that long since I saw you last?!
i have to stop looking at your blog before i post. makes my posts looke LAME-O!
I love James face in the 1st one, and I think the during race pic is better than the post race pic.
I need to remember to smile when I run...I always forget that part bc I'm so involved in my audiobook. haha!


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» Can I Claim That My Temporary Condition Is A Disability Under The Americans With Disabilities Act? I Need A Lawyer!
Can I Claim That My Temporary Condition Is A Disability Under The Americans With Disabilities Act? I Need A Lawyer!
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Best Ohio Disability Discrimination Attorney Answers: Does the ADA cover temporary impairments? What constitutes a temporary disability? I am covered under the Americans With Disabilities Act after I got injured and need crutches?
Oftentimes an individual will call our employment discrimination lawyers with a fact pattern similar to the following: "I was injured at work [or in a car accident or some other type of accident] and my boss won't accommodate my injury." The injury may be a broken bone, ligament tear or some other type of injury that requires some time away from work, a need for light duty, or need for some other type of accommodation in order to keep working. The injury is not permanent. It will get better or heal over time. However, the employer does not want to wait for that to happen. Some point after the injury, but before full recovery, the employee is terminated. What claims are available? Can the employee claim that she was disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") ?
Now, if it's a work injury, and the employee files a Worker's Compensation claim and is then fired, the employee may have a direct claim under Ohio R.C. § 4123.90 for Worker's Compensation retaliation. But what if you hvae a non-work injury? The employee may be left with claiming that he or she was disabled under the ADA or be left without a claim. So the question remains, does the ADA cover "temporary" disabilities? Under the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 ("ADAAA"), the answer is "yes", as long as the temporary impairments are "severe".
Specifically, in the first Court of Appeals decision to address this issue, Summers vs. Altarum Institute Corp., the United States Court of Appeals For The Fourth Circuit held that after the ADAAA, the ADA now protect persons with temporary disabilities which are "severe." The caveat, however, is that the "temporary" disability must be an actual impairment, not a "regarded as" disability. In fact, when the ADAAA was enacted, it included specific language stating that if an impairment was temporary meaning "an actual or expected duration of six months or less," it would not be considered a "regarded as" disability. This means that the employer would not be liable for discriminating against an employee with a perceived temporary disability. But the Fourth Circuit in Summers held that "actual" temporary disability is a different story.
In Summers, the employee, Carl Summers, fell as he was getting off a commuter train with a heavy bag slung over his shoulder. Summers slammed both his knees against the train platform. Paramedics were called and took Summers to the hospital, where doctors determined that he had sustained serious injuries to both of his legs. Specifically, Summers fractured his left leg, tore the meniscus tendon in his left knee, fractured his right ankle, and ruptured a tendon in his right leg. According to medical reports of his injuries, Summers' left-leg fracture required surgery to fit a metal plate, screws, and bone into his tibia. At the same time, Summers's ruptured right quadriceps necessitated surgery to drill a hole in the patella and refasten his tendons to the knee. It sounds painful just typing it here. However, without these surgeries, bed rest, pain medication, and physical therapy, Summers "likely" would not have walked for over a year following his injureis.
As a result of having these surgeries, Summers could not walk for six weeks, and would not be able to walk normally for seven months.
During his hospital stay, Summers called his employer's human-resources representative about getting short-term disability benefits and the accommodation of working from home during his recovery. The HR representative agreed to talk about "accommodations that would allow Summers to return to work," but also said that Summers should "take short-term disability and focus on getting well again." Next, Summers emailed his supervisors and requested "a plan in which he would take short-term disability for a few weeks, then start working remotely part-time, and then increase his hours gradually until he was full-time again."
A month and a half after suffering the injuries, the employee was fired by the employer. He filed a wrongful termination claim under the ADA/ADAAA. The district court held that the employee was not protected by the ADAAA, however, on appeal the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the ADAAA did in fact cover temporary "actual" disabilities and that in this specific case, the injuries were "severe" enough to fall under that definition and coverage of the ADAAA:
The ADA makes it unlawful for covered employers to "discriminate against a qualified individual on the basis of disability." 42 U.S.C. § 12112(a) (2012). The Act prohibits covered employers from discharging qualified employees because they are disabled. Id. To establish a wrongful-discharge claim, a plaintiff must show, among other things, that he suffered from a "disability." Young v. United Parcel Serv., 707 F.3d 437, 443 (4th Cir. 2013).
Under the ADA, a "disability" may take any of the following forms: (1) "a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities" (the "actual-disability" prong); (2) "a record of such an impairment" (the "record-of" prong); or (3) "being regarded as having such an impairment" (the "regarded-as" prong). 42 U.S.C. § 12102(1). Summers alleges that he was disabled under the ADA's actual-disability prong. Specifically, he asserts that his impairment "substantially limit[ed]" his ability to walk — which the ADA recognizes as one of the "major life activities" whose substantial limitation qualifies as a disability. Id. § 12102(2)(A). Accordingly, if Summers's impairment substantially limited his ability to walk, he suffered a "disability" for purposes of the ADA. …
In September 2008, Congress broadened the definition of "disability" by enacting the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, Pub. L. No. 110-325, 122 Stat. 3553 ("ADAAA" or "amended Act"). In response to a series of Supreme Court decisions that Congress believed improperly restricted the scope of the ADA, it passed legislation with the stated purpose of "reinstating a broad scope of protection to be available under the ADA." Id. § 2(b)(1). Particularly relevant to this case, Congress sought to override Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams, 534 U.S. 184, 199 (2002), in which the Supreme Court had adopted a strict construction of the term "disability" and suggested that a temporary impairment could not qualify as a disability under the Act. Congress believed that Toyota set an "inappropriately high level of limitation necessary to obtain coverage under the ADA." Pub. L. No. 110-325, § 2(b)(5).9
Abrogating Toyota, the amended Act provides that the definition of disability "shall be construed in favor of broad coverage of individuals under this chapter, to the maximum extent permitted by [its] terms." 42 U.S.C. § 12102(4)(A). Further, Congress instructed that the term "substantially limits" be interpreted consistently with the liberalized purposes of the ADAAA. Id. § 12102(4)(B).1 And Congress directed the Equal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") to revise its regulations defining the term "substantially limits" to render them consistent with the broadened scope of the statute. Pub. L. No. 110-325, § 2(b)(6).
After notice and comment, the EEOC promulgated regulations clarifying that "[t]he term 'substantially limits' shall be construed broadly in favor of expansive coverage" and that the term is "not meant to be a demanding standard." 29 C.F.R. § 1630.2(j)(1)(i) (2013). The EEOC regulations also expressly provide that "effects of an impairment lasting or expected to last fewer than six months can be substantially limiting" for purposes of proving an actual disability. Id. § 1630.2(j)(1)(ix)…
In dismissing Summers's wrongful-discharge claim, the district court held that, even though Summers had "suffered a very serious injury," this injury did not constitute a disability because it was temporary and expected to heal within a year. That holding represented an entirely reasonable interpretation of Toyota and its progeny. But in 2008, Congress expressly abrogated Toyota by amending the ADA. We are the first appellate court to apply the amendment's expanded Fortunately, the absence of appellate precedent presents no difficulty in this case: Summers has unquestionably alleged a "disability" under the ADAAA sufficiently plausible to survive a Rule 12(b)(6) motion. …
In holding that Summers's temporary injury could not constitute a disability as a matter of law, the district court erred not only in relying on pre-ADAAA cases but also in misapplying the ADA disability analysis. … If the fact that a person could work with the help of a wheelchair meant he was not disabled under the Act, the ADA would be eviscerated
Having to live with a disability is difficult enough without worrying about the effect it may have on your job. If you are disabled or your employer perceives you as being disabled; and you have been fired, wrongfully terminated, discriminated against, demoted, wrongfully disciplined, denied wages, or even think that you might need a disability discrimination lawyer, then call the right attorney to schedule a free and confidential consultation. Call our Ohio employment law attorneys at 866-797-6040. The best option is not to wait. The Spitz Law Firm, and its attorneys are experienced and dedicated to protecting disabled employees' rights under ADA and Ohio employment law.
This employment law website is an advertisement. The materials available at the top of this page and on this employment law website are for informational purposes only and not for the purpose of providing legal advice. If you are still asking, "how do I get a work accommodation for my disability?", "am I disabled under the ADA?", "what should I do if…" or "can my boss fired me for …", it would be best for you to contact an Ohio attorney to obtain advice with respect to disability discrimination questions or any particular employment law issue. Use and access to this employment law website or any of the links contained within the site do not create an attorney-client relationship. The legal opinions expressed at or through this site are the opinions of the individual lawyer and may not reflect the opinions of The Spitz Law Firm, attorney, Brian Spitz or any individual attorney.


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Q: How to return a struct with references in rust? I'm using crossbeam-epoch to write a lock-free data structure in rust. crossbeam-epoch uses a guard to load the heap-allocated atomic pointer. One example of the data structure's interface is:
fn get(&self, index: IndexType, guard: &'guard Guard) -> Option<&'guard Value>

This method requires a guard which has the same lifetime with the returned value's reference.
Now, I want to wrap this method without providing a Guard. For example:
struct ReturnType<'guard, Value> {
    guard: Guard,
    value: Option<&'guard Value>
}

impl<'guard, Value> MyDataStructure<Value> {
    fn my_get(&self, index: IndexType) -> ReturnType<'guard, Value> {
        let guard = pin();
        let value = self.get(index, &guard);
        ReturnType {
            guard: guard,
            value: value
        }
    }
}

But the compiler won't allow me to do this.
My question is how to implement the method my_get?

A: This question needs some improvement. You should always add a minimal reproducable example and you haven't shown what the compiler error was either.
Anyways, in your code, you just forget to specify what the lifetime should be linked to. If the guard at least lives as long as self, then you should declare your method with:
fn my_get<'guard>(&'guard self, index: IndexType) -> ReturnType<'guard, Value> {

&'guard self tells the compiler to link 'guard to self.
If the guard should live longer than the struct then you have to move the Value or if you want to share the reference use Arc<Value> (Documentation)

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Xela Robotics - Why Cobot?
In the future robots should share their workspace with humans and work in unstructured environments, and for safety and to perform adaptive tasks, a rich set of sensors is needed in such scenarios. Tactile sensors on the robot's surface can provide the most detailed and direct information about the contacts with the environment, and are therefore a crucial component. Yet, the fact that they should be spread over the surface makes the implementation difficult.
When designing tactile skin sensors, we consider that they should have the following characteristics: (i) soft, (ii) distributed, (iii) sensing the 3-axis force vectors and (iv) integrated electronics.
Softness of the robot's skin adds to the safety of the robot, because it adds a level of security that cannot be achieved with other methods. Active control schemes alone are typically too slow for impacts. Compliant joints help, and are a crucial component as they can typically absorb more energy than soft skin, but they can only decouple the various links of the robot, while the inertia of the robot segments in contact with the human could still lead to harmful forces. Only soft skin can absorb impact energy directly at the collision site. Furthermore, soft skin in robot hands can enhance the grasp stability, and our group has found that soft skin also aids during manipulation.
Distributed skin sensors provide detailed information about the contacts with the environment, which can be used for example for tasks like tactile servoing or tactile object recognition. Alternatives exist, like force sensors in the robot's joints, but they provide less information, as each sensor can only measure the sum of all the forces acting on it.
While most distributed skin sensors only measure single axis force, measuring the force vector is required for tasks such as tactile servoing, and our group has used such information for example for robust in-hand manipulation. Distributed force vector measurements are useful in scenarios with more than one contact, a situation that is typically challenging for existing solutions that cannot measure distributed force vectors.
When distributing many sensors in the robot's surface, without integrated electronics, a lot of wires would be required, which would require a lot of space and which would make the integration in the robot and their maintenance challenging. Distributed electronics can help, and several sensors should share a data line. Sending digital instead of analog information also makes the sensor signals less prone to interference from the environment.


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Ashworth Hospital Authority v MGN Ltd
Reference: [2002] UKHL 29; [2002] 1 WLR 2033; [2002] EMLR 36; [2002] 4 All ER 193
Court: House of Lords
Judge: Lords Slynn, Browne-Wilkinson, Woolf CJ, Nolan and Hobhouse
Date of judgment: 27 Jun 2002
Summary: Breach of Confidence- identification of journalist's source- Norwich Pharmacal order- Section 10 Contempt of Court Act 1981- meaning of interests of justice exception - Article 10 and 10(2) of the ECHR.
Appearances: Desmond Browne QC - Leading Counsel (Defendant)
Instructing Solicitors: Kerman & Co for the Defendant/Appellant
The Defendant newspaper published an article about the Moors murderer Ian Brady, reporting the fact that he was on hunger strike in protest at having been transferred to another ward. The article disclosed details and extracts of his medical files which were held on the PACIS database of the Claimant Hospital. The newspaper had received the confidential documents from an intermediary who had received it from a source who was likely to be a member of staff of the Claimant. Ian Brady had himself put much of the information about his medical treatment in the public domain. An order was made by Rougier J ordering the disclosure of the identity of the intermediary who leaked the medical information on Ian Brady. MGN appealed against the order on the grounds that: (1) The information was not confidential in the sense that it was already in the public domain; (2) As Brady had caused the information to be in the public domain, the Defendant was not a tortfeasor in publishing the extracts.
The Defendant Newspaper appealed the Court of Appeal's decision to uphold the judge's order and challenged it on the basus of the above issues. In particular, the newspaper criticised the Master of the Rolls' judgment on the grounds that it expressed the view that the chilling effect of an order on journalists was "no bad thing". The newspaper argued that this approach was wrong and turned Starsbourg jurisprudence on its head by detecting a social value in the deterrent effect of an order on other potential sources in the future.
(1) The Norwhich Pharmacal jurisdiction applied where the person against whom the order was sought could be shown to have participated or become involved in the the wrongful act of another. In this case, the newspaper clearly was on notice that the information it received from the source was confidential and had been obtained in breach of a duty of confidence owed by the leaker of the information to the Claimant. (2) Whilst Brady could not complain about a breach of confidence after he had himself placed similar information in the public domain, this did not negate the Claimant's independent right to retain the confidentiality of the medical records contained on its database. (3) The Norwich Pharmacal jurisdiction was not limited to cases where the injured person had already began or intended to bring proceedings against the wrongdoer and extended to cases where he intended to seek some other form of lawful redress.
The House of Lords confirmed that the correct approach to section 10 of the Act was the same as art 10 of the ECHR and that the definition of "interests of justice" in section 10 was wide enough to include cases where the injured party sought some form of lawful redress other than litigation thus preferring the approach of Lord Bridge of Harwich in X Ltd v Morgan- Grampian (Publishers) Ltd [1991] 1 AC 1 to Lord Diplock in Secretary of State for Defence v Guardian Newspapers Ltd [1985] AC 339.
Mirror reveals Brady source - The Guardian


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"the fridge draws 2.6 amps (5 max on startup) would this be okay for a 1000 w inverter"
5 amps at 120 bolts is 600 watts. If that's the honest number, yes, a 1000W inverter will power it. I would suggest either buying a true sine wave the first time around, or buy a modified sine wave that you can easily return, because most AC motors want a true sine wave and "modified" just doesn't mean much unless you know the exact waveform and the exact motor type, which we won't.
Hey King c. I see a lot of inverters on ebay made by the same name. Any relation? And could anyone recommend one on ebay that I could use?
By "small DC cooler" do you mean the ice chest variety or a small refrigerator?
A small inverter is certainly an inexpensive way to go, but not very energy efficient. Keep in mind that inverters are not 100% efficient. You lose energy during the inversion process. This is more pronounced with small cheap inveters -- efficient circuitry costs more to design build. You will probably see at least a 15% energy loss.
Also, don't trust the electrical specification numbers posted on products like household refrigerators. Many of them are WAY off. Spend a little time testing actual numbers with good multimeter before you go to the trouble and expensive of installing in your boat. I had a friend once who bought a small, household grade, ice maker. The numbers on the product label looked reasonable (a little too reasonable for an ice maker). He had a nice custom wooden cabinet built to house it on his nice high-end boat...then he flipped the switch...Holy Amp Hours Batman! Fortunately, that nice wooden cabinet worked out well for storage space. If you consider a small inexpensive consumer grade AC fridge don't make the same mistake -- don't believe any of the numbers you read on the product -- verify them. Cheap comes at a cost in efficiency.
The current designs of direct DC powered refrigeration (like Danfoss) are amazingly efficient. My Danfoss BD-35 based system draws no more than 3 amps at 12VDC (36 watts) after initial cool down. And that of course is only when the compressor is running (about 25-30% of the time). Of course, efficiency comes at a cost, and they are not cheap.
I do have a dc system with these old plugs that have one two slots-one horizontal and one vertical. I'm on a 1986 44 foot Viking. I was told the inverter only works when the genny is on. I only want to run that a couple of times a day.
I"m thinking the easy way to go is just buy a good dc cooler. It's only for 2 months anyways. Then I'll install a cigarette lighter plug in place of the old dc type.
OK that makes more sense. You probably have a system with an AC-to-DC power supply (would not normally be called an inverter). If it is like the power supply used by WAECO systems then when AC is available the power supply uses it and outputs DC to the fridge. Otherwise the fridge runs directly off DC (more efficient), but whether drawing power from the AC system or the DC system the fridge compressor motor itself is still DC driven.
I'd go with a DC unit. No energy lost though an inverter.
That said, the small protable units are not well insulated, and will probably use more energy than a well insulated built in unit.
Actually my fridge is a regular full size home fridge. It's definately ac.
1. Are you going to be anchoring out alot?
2. Do you have a genset with a battery charger?
3. How big (amp hours) is your house battery bank?
I have run my 110 volt AC, 1/2 hp, refrigeration compressor using a modified sine wave inverter for over a decade now.
"While many larger motor yachts use 110 systems, these tend to be boats that run the generator pretty much around the clock. I can't see where running one off an inverter would be energy efficient."
Here's a different perspective to the quote from earlier in the thread. We are a larger sailing yacht that uses 110 volt refrigeration & watermaker systems which are typically powered by a generator. Depending on the situation (don't need to make water or the batteries don't need charged), there are days that we don't run the generator. We will run the 110 volt holding plate refrigeration using our inverter. Over the last decade or so we averaged around 1.5 hours a day genset time when living on the anchor.
The simple answer is probably yes, with the proper size inverter, you can run your fridge on it. You might want to consider the bigger issue of replacing those amp hours if you aren't going to be doing a lot of motoring. Cheers.
The best idea I can think of is to just run my jenny 3 or 4 times per day since I'm only going to be anchoring a few times a week and only going to be on the road for a month or so. Just to keep the fridge cool enough for the basic necessities. I can't see spending so much for inverters and coolers for one month since were are at a dock 90 percent of the time.
As others have posted you need to put those amps used back. From the calculation above devide your watts by you volts ie sevenhondred seventy two by 12 uses 64 amps, not very efficent. I would find another way.
Remember we are a motor boat not a sailboat. When we are under power the huge battery bank we have is topped up. When we run the genny they are also topped up.
Hopefully this should take care of our fridge which is the only thing we will need to stay active.
G'day, mate. O.K., sounds like this is just a once off trip while you are away from the dock. If you can't find a low priced inverter, I would set your fridge to it's coldest setting and then, as you suggested, run the genset 3 or 4 times a day to keep it cycled. If you were going to be at anchor more often, I would look at different alternatives, but your not. All the best, Cheers.
Ah, assumed you were referring to your system when you mentioned DC systems and inverters.


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News update from the First Congregational Church in Ripon, WI –
On Sunday, July 21st, we will welcome Reverend Jeffrey Dodson, his wife Ashley, and their three daughters: Ainslie who is almost 4 years old, and 17-month-old twins Eleanor (Ellie) and Frances (Frankie) into our congregation.
For Jeffrey and Ashley, their lives together began as camp counselors at Pilgrim Center in the summer of 2009. A native of the Colorado Springs area, Jeffrey spent two years at Colorado State University before transferring to Ripon College in August 2003. As some of you may remember, he was the Christian Education Coordinator in this church for two years. He graduated from Ripon in 2006 with a Theater major and Religious Studies minor.
Jeffrey's family has many ties to the UCC church. His twin brother Jonathan is a UCC-ordained minister who is currently a Chaplain in Hudson, Ohio, while Jeffrey's sister-in-law is also an ordained UCC pastor and is the Associate Minister at First Congregational in Hudson. Jeffrey's mother is currently moderator of her church in Hawaii. Jeffrey has two more brothers and his father liv- ing in southern California.
Ashley is from Monticello, Wisconsin, where her immediate family still lives. In addition, she has a number of extended family members in and around Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. She is a 2009 graduate of Viterbo University with a BA in Religious Studies and minors in Psychology and Servant Leadership.
After their summer at Pilgrim Center, Jeffrey and Ashley headed off for their first year at seminary, Jeffrey to Chicago Theological Seminary and Ashley to Eden Seminary in St. Louis. After a year, Ashley transferred to Chicago Theological Seminary where they graduated with their Master of Divinity degrees in May 2014. While still in seminary, Ashley and Jeffrey returned to
Pilgrim Center for a second time and were married in Ley Chapel on October 6, 2012.
Between 2014 and their 2016 move to Grand Junction, Colorado, they were co-Executive Directors at a UCC camp in Vermont. Following that, Jeffrey was a hospital Chaplain in Littleton, Colorado. They went to another UCC camp in Iowa where Ashley served as the Program and Facilities Manager before moving to Grand Junction where Jeffrey served as a short-term Pulpit Supply Minister. When the Senior Minister position opened up permanently in Grand Junction, the Search Committee gave him the opportunity to apply for the job and he was installed. Earlier in that year he was ordained through the Southwest Association of the Rocky Mountain Conference in Colorado.
Jeffrey's hobbies include theater, hiking, the outdoors, sports, micro brews, science, being a dad, Star Trek and reading science fiction and historical biographies. Ash- ley loves photography, hiking, kayaking, chasing after the girls and cooking.
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Home Morris County ICE arrests thirteen in four-day surge effort
ICE arrests thirteen in four-day surge effort
NORTH JERSEY — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested thirteen immigration violators in New Jersey during a four-day surge effort that targeted aliens who have been issued a final order of removal in the past five years, have failed to depart the United States, and have received criminal convictions or have pending criminal charges.
"As this operation clearly demonstrates, ICE continues to focus its efforts first on public safety threats," said ERO Newark Field Office Director John Tsoukaris. "The vast majority of the individuals targeted in this effort have criminal offenses in addition to their immigration violations, making them among the highest priority for enforcement."
On Monday, May 13, ICE arrested an unlawfully present citizen of El Salvador, with prior convictions for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon/bodily injury.
On Tuesday, May 14, ICE arrested an unlawfully present citizen of Ecuador, who has a pending assault / domestic violence charge.
On Wednesday, May 15, ICE arrested an unlawfully present citizen of Jamaica, who has a prior firearms-related offense.
On Thursday, May 16, ICE arrested an unlawfully present citizen of Mexico who has a pending simple assault/domestic violence charge and two DUI convictions.
All four individuals have been ordered removed by a federal immigration judge.
Some of the individuals arrested during this operation will face federal criminal prosecution for illegal reentry after removal. The arrestees who are not being federally prosecuted will be processed administratively for removal from the United States. Those who have outstanding orders of removal, or who returned to the United States illegally after being removed, are generally subject to immediate removal from the country. The remaining individuals are in ICE custody awaiting a hearing before an immigration judge or pending travel arrangements for removal.
In FY2018, ERO arrested 158,581 aliens, 90% of whom had criminal convictions (66%), pending criminal charges (21%), or previously issued final orders of removal (3%). The overall arrest figure represents an 11% increase over FY2017. In FY2018, ERO removed 256,086 illegal aliens, reflecting an increase of 13% over FY2017. The majority of removals (57%) were convicted criminals. Additionally, 5,914 of the removed illegal aliens were classified as either known or suspected gang members or terrorists, which is a 9% increase over FY2017.
Editor's Note: The arrest statistics provided represent preliminary data that has been manually reported by an ICE Field Office and may vary from official agency metrics contained in ICE's system of record. Because ICE's official metrics are reported by Area of Responsibility (AOR), they may differ in content and level of detail from data that has been manually reported by a Field Office.
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Cogora is one of the UK's leading full-service healthcare marketing agencies.
The company started life as the health division of Campden Publishing. In 2013 management sold Campden Publishing's 'Wealth Management' division to allow them to focus time, energy and resources on its healthcare division, which was rebranded 'Cogora'. They believed that by continuing to grow the business' 'community' of healthcare professionals, they could harness the unique power of that community in new ways.
Cogora moved quickly to acquire the UK's leading news brand for General Practitioners – Pulse – which had built a huge, dedicated following since its launch in 1960. In parallel, the company invested heavily in the digital and face-to-face channels of its existing brands, giving the company a receptive and engaged community of over 220,000 healthcare professionals.
Then, in January 2014, the company launched Cogora: The Agency, our first in-house healthcare communications team. In the crowded, largely homogenous healthcare agency market, the division was founded on a unique proposition: Cogora's expanded, engaged community of healthcare professionals from which it gathers high volumes of the most robust quantitative data and leverages these to create innovative education programmes and marketing campaigns.
The same year the company set up its in-house Insight team. This was later divided into Cogora: Insight and Cogora: Market Access, our specialist data analytics and strategic consulting groups. Cogora: Insight designs and delivers bespoke data analytics and market research solutions powered by proprietary data collected from our engaged community of healthcare professionals, as well as secondary data sources. The insights provided through these programs allow us to provide clients with a robust understanding of the healthcare market.
Cogora: Market Access combines our deep understanding of, and engagement with, the payer and healthcare professional community with an in-depth knowledge of reimbursement structures and requirements. The unique combination of unrivalled access to key stakeholders and in-house market access expertise allows us to create strategy and evidence generation solutions that maximise return-on-investment of clients' products.
Cogora moved to bolster its agency proposition with the acquisition of PCM Healthcare (PCM) in November 2015. PCM brought new capabilities to Cogora in the form of its specialist CME (continuing medical education) division, PCM Scientific, and a promotional communications team, Pharmacom Media, as well as expanding the geographic range of our operations from EU to global.
Most recently, Cogora again invested in its community with the acquisition of The Pharmacist. The addition of independent community pharmacists to the company's audience means that the company now has an unrivalled reach across all the main primary care groups in the UK.
The company now stands alone in the marketplace with the scale of strategy and marketing services it can offer. What started off as a big idea has now translated into a company-wide approach that is delivering consistent gains for our clients. Cogora may have started small, but our ambition to be the best remains.
PCM Healthcare: A Cogora company
PCM Healthcare was founded in 2006 by wife and husband Dr Alisa Pearlstone and Rob Miller. The company grew rapidly over the following decade, spawning the two divisions that provide the structure for today's company. PCM's growth can be attributed to its clear commitment to delivering inventive techniques and meaningful outcomes for its clients in both medical communications and CME.
PCM Scientific, its market-leading specialist CME division, has realised some of the largest and most successful practice-enhancing education programmes in Europe over the last few years. Pharmacom Media, PCM's promotional medical communications team, has produced a raft of innovative live medical communication strategies and tactical campaigns for the company's blue-chip pharmaceutical clients.


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Suffolk's T20 cricket team looking for success at Bury this weekend
Published: 10:05 AM June 23, 2017
Jack Beaumont, who took three for 17 in Copdock & OI's big win at Mildenhall. Beaumont had earlier scored 36 with the bat. - Credit: Archant
Coloured clothing and a pink ball will be the order of the day as the razzmatazz of inter-county T20 cricket comes to Suffolk on Sunday.
Bury St Edmunds Cricket Club will be hosting the Unicorns East T20 – a four-team tournament featuring Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire.
Suffolk face Cambridgeshire in the first match at the Victory Ground at 10am, with Bedfordshire meeting Hertfordshire at 1.30pm. The two winners will then face-off in the final at 5pm.
Suffolk coach Andy Northcote said: "The team are in buoyant mood after our excellent display in the Unicorns Championship victory over Northumberland earlier this week.
"We showed how much we have progressed as a team in 50-over cricket this season by qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Unicorns Trophy, where we were beaten by a very good Berkshire side.
"Now we turn our attentions to the shortest format of the game. By its very nature, T20 cricket is unpredictable, but we know we will have to perform well against Cambridgeshire if we are to progress.
"But we believe we have a team capable of being a match for anyone and we are looking forward to the challenge."
The Suffolk side will show three changes to the one that defeated Northumberland by ten wickets on Tuesday, with opening batsmen Jaik Mickleburgh and Martyn Cull plus Michael Comber all missing.
In come all-rounders Kyran Young and Jack Beaumont, who were both unavailable for the trip north, plus Sudbury batsman Darren Batch, who can't commit to the three-day format.
Sixteen-year-old Alex Oxley, who became the county's youngest debutant since World War Two last weekend, retains his place in the Suffolk squad which is packed with all-rounders.
Sudbury duo Ben Reece and James Poulson are included after making their first appearances of the season at South Northumberland CC.
Both played their part in Suffolk's success that has put them on top of the Eastern Division table after two rounds of matches.
Suffolk squad: Jake Wakelin, Ben Parker, Darren Batch, Ben Shepperson, Tom Rash, Ben Reece, Kyran Young, Jack Beaumont, Adam Mansfield (wkt & capt), James Poulson, Hugo Douglas, Alex Oxley.


We look forward to helping you celebrate your special occasion. We can help you prepare for your big day from cleaning and pressing to after the event. We can clean, press, box and preserve to your specific needs for weddings or baptisms. Give us a call at (507) 451-3430 at least two weeks before your wedding and we can help you take the stress out of looking beautiful on your special day.
If you would like a quote on our services, please bring in your dress. Since each dress varies in detail, it's difficult to quote one price for all dresses.


Our slate stakes measure approx. 18" long, the slate measures 6" x 9" and is glued and screwed onto the wooden stake. These are perfect in an oversized pot, in a small garden area or by the front door! Our Happy Valentine's Day design with the red hearts and as shown in the picture is adorable, it also comes in our pastel conversation hearts design. Be sure to enlarge photo for details!!


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 Comandante Supremo de las Fuerzas Aliadas, en Japón tras la Segunda guerra mundial.
 Compañía de Salitres y Ferrocarril de Antofagasta, compañía chilena que competía con el Monopolio peruano del salitre en 1879.

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