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NewSat offers to buy NBN Co satellites
news Pure play satellite company NewSat has made an offer to the buy the National Broadband Network Company's two satellites before they are even launched, as speculation continues to swirl around the potential privatisation of chunks of NBN Co's infrastructure under the new Coalition Federal Government.
NBN Co is currently building two major, brand new satellites with the assistance of Space Systems/Loral under a contract worth some $620 million. The company plans to launch the satellites in 2015 to provide high-speed broadband coverage to about three per cent of premises that fall outside the reach of the NBN's planned fixed-line and fixed-wireless services. The locations include outback areas and Australia's external territories such as Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, Macquarie Island and the Cocos Islands.
NBN Co's contract forms part of a total investment of approximately $2 billion required to deliver the NBN Long Term Satellite Service (LTSS). Under the terms of the contract, SS/L will also provide associated telemetry, tracking and command systems for NBN Co's LTSS. NBN Co also signed a separate contract with Optus in February this year for the company to provide tracking, telemetry and control services to the satellites.
The launch of the satellites is widely anticipated in Australia's rural communities. Currently, many residents and businesses in those communities are being served by either existing satellite services from other companies, or through NBN Co's existing satellite services, which it operates through renting capacity on existing Optus satellites. However, the interim NBN satellite service has already reached its capacity cap of 48,000-odd customers, meaning many other rural customers will need to wait until 2015 to get upgraded services.
Simultaneously, while development of its satellite services goes on, NBN Co is also conducting a review of the future of the satellite and fixed wireless portions of its planned network. Yesterday, Sydney Morning Herald journalist Malcolm Maiden reported that new NBN Co chief executive Bill Morrow would seek to sell the networks to the private sector as soon as possible.
In a submission to the Federal Government's Panel of Experts conducting a cost/benefit analysis of broadband and associated regulation (the Vertigan Review), published this week, existing satellite player NewSat made a bald offer to buy the infrastructure (PDF).
The company bills itself as Australia's largest pure-play satellite communications company. NewSat specialises in global satellite communications and provides tailored teleport, VSAT and satellite services to 75 percent of the earth's surface from its two teleports in Adelaide and Perth. The company has established a strong presence in the mining, oil and gas, telecommunications, government and military markets. The company also claims to have a strong relationship with most satellite operators offering services into Australia and our region from the 23 large antennas in the company's teleports, and is also currently planning to launch two new satellites, Jabiru-1 and Jabiru-2, in the near future.
In its submission, NewSat wrote that it agreed the NBN satellites should be privatised. "To this end, NewSat lodged a proposal with the Government prior to Christmas to purchase the NBN satellites from NBN Co and to operate them as a wholesale service provider to NBN Co," the company wrote.
"The NewSat proposal envisages the NBN Co paying a fee for the wholesale service for the life of the satellites plus one renewal. The fee must be guaranteed and must enable the purchaser to service debt and return a profit on the service in order for the business case to be sustainable."
"Because the NBN Co is constrained to offer remotely disadvantaged NBN users a service at a comparable price to urban fibre users, the business case for providing the service is not sustainable based on the expectation of 3% of the user population. Therefore, with or without privatisation, the satellite service will have to be subsidised by NBN Co."
"NewSat contends that privatisation will benefit the NBN Co by dramatically reducing debt and de-risking the provision of the service by introducing an experienced, efficient quality service provider. It is anticipated that this would also result in a significant reduction in staffing required by NBN Co.
NewSat believes that this type of agreement, subsidising specified services for a defined target population should underpin the sale and operation of the NBN satellite assets and service provision."
NewSat added in its submission that it believed there was scope for any successful purchaser of NBN Co's satellites to use the infrastructure to offer services beyond the subsidised services, provided that the provision of the subsidised services at agreed service levels was always the priority. "These should be offered by the purchaser of the satellites as commercial satellite products and should not be subsidised services," the company said.
If the satellites weren't sold, NewSat noted that it "strongly opposes" extending the range of satellite services offered by NBN Co to include enterprise users, particularly if the pricing of the services is fixed by a regulator and could benefit from subsidies. "This will run a real danger of negatively impacting the commercial satellite marketplace through artificially fixing prices and through dumping subsidised satellite capacity into an already competitive marketplace," the company wrote.
Do I think NBN Co's satellites should be sold before they are even built? No. Let the company build this infrastructure and get it fully operational. Then let NBN Co consider privatising it. Privatisation of partially built infrastructure, with no customers and the associated IT systems not completely set up, would be a recipe for disaster, particularly for end user customers caught in the flotsam of a sale, and would probably not deliver full value for NBN Co. It doesn't represent standard practice for this kind of sale.
If NBN Co were to privatise its satellites, I think it would be much more likely in any case to sell the infrastructure to Optus, and not NewSat. Optus already manages NBN Co's interim satellite service and will manage the new birds as well. Plus, there is no doubt that Optus has bigger pockets than NewSat and much more to lose, as it's currently the dominant player in Australia's satellite market (you may remember that Optus was actually formed originally from the government-owned AUSSAT group back in the 1980's).
The only problem with this is that a sale to Optus would make Optus a vertically integrated satellite operator … and NBN Co is supposed to be a wholesale-only player. Decisions, decisions. So many decisions for the new Coalition Government.
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Tubsta 20/03/2014 At 2:03 pm
There are no decisions to be made. Simply continue with the original plan, no issues at all.
LNP are just making the issues, when none really exist.
Dion 20/03/2014 At 2:13 pm
I think an important part the reason for the suggestion, that wasn't really mentioned in the opinion, is that if the NBN satellites start providing non-residential access NewSat stands to loose some very lucrative contracts with the mining groups, and even some outback government locations which require more bandwidth.
By purchasing the satellite – before it's launched – they're able to lock NBN into paying above market rates for many years to come, all while using the capacity to extend their own contracts. This would for example, allow them to repurpose an entire beam for a single contract providing a significant bandwidth to a single mine site, all while not having to contend with the situation where the mine could purchase capacity from elsewhere.
This is simply a move to prevent any competition stealing their traffic (Current generation Optus satellites are not a viable competition for their markets)
Renai LeMay 20/03/2014 At 2:14 pm
Ryan 21/03/2014 At 10:29 am
Well thought out.
Renai could learn a lot from you :P
Craig 20/03/2014 At 2:47 pm
I could never understand why NBN Co seemed to decide to buy its own satellite before thoroughly looking at viable alternatives from existing service providers. Satellite technology (in terms of speed) is evolving as quickly as terrestrial services and therefore owning a satellite with a 25 year life span seems to assume a lot about the pace of technological change. In ten years time the 3% of rural Australia on the NBN's satellite might be getting a service akin to "dial up speed" compared to what is then available from other providers.
I also have never seen any estimates of the forecast utilisation of the NBN's Satellite. What was their plan in respect of the spare capacity? Sell it off cheaply to other wholesalers, such as Newsat, who would use it to service the mining industry?
I recommend you read this article on this topic:
http://delimiter.com.au/2012/02/11/the-truth-about-nbn-cos-satellite-needs/
Abel Adamski 23/03/2014 At 8:12 pm
Spare capacity?
It will be fully utilised faster than you think.
Remember the old NBN roadmap, Satellite services would be upgraded over time, 25/5 or 10, then 50/20 with the possibility of even 100/40 down the track.
Of course NewSat and commercial operators would be concerned at the competition. After all the financial report I read back when tenders were on offer. 5 year full ROI and 70% profit margin for NewSat
"…would be a recipe for disaster, particularly for end user customers caught in the flotsam of a sale,.."
Yes, because that hasn't been the consistent pattern for the Noalition since coming to power. By offering a flotsam sale, the Noalition get the political advantage of blaming the significant loss on Labor"s NBN and guarantee themselves thousands in political donations for years to come.
They've been doing that for the entire time Labor was in power.
Frank 20/03/2014 At 3:28 pm
Does anyone really care in the end? It is only the last 3% we are talking about here.
If we were really concerned we would have been asking why so many residents that were never remote to start with were getting satellite in the first place.
At the end of the day, I think no one really cares and it is just another reason to have a partisan based stab at the current government, whom I agree they have gone full retard with the NBN… Labor only went part retard with it. ;)
Robert 20/03/2014 At 4:27 pm
They argue that the Satellites were not overkill in the first place because ample space wasn't available in the market place. I hope they considered hosted payloads/JV partnerships before committing to throwing around so much cash (for so little benefit really as Frank has said).
Also remember who the parent company of Optus is…
Francis Young 20/03/2014 At 5:10 pm
The recommendations of the (Labor-minority) NBN Senate Committtee included that any decision regarding privatisation should be left until the entire national broadband network is substantially completed.
A purpose of this recommendation was to prevent private ownership before people understood the nature and value of the public asset which the government of the day was selling.
Until the satellites are operational and have a sizeable user base, it would be imprudent to allow sale of any part of the infrastructure, including base stations, longhaul links and satellites.
Arran 20/03/2014 At 6:07 pm
Hopefully this gov only lasts 4 years, god knows, that's too long even
Mikek 20/03/2014 At 9:04 pm
Fed governments only get 3 year terms and the Coalition have used up 6 months of that already.
Still too long.
Tailgator 20/03/2014 At 6:07 pm
My my. NewSat jumping up and down saying 'Me, me, me.'
Just as they did when the contracts were announced by NBNCo as being awarded to Space Systems/Loral http://sslmda.com/
Just the latest of the circling jackels impatient for the Liberal Govt and Turnbull to kill off the NBN.
SBD 20/03/2014 At 8:21 pm
Let's hope, or perhaps contribute to, the term "impeachment" being considered alongside any "privatisation" A government is supposed to work in the national interest, any clear devaluation or outright sabotage of national assets, existing or upcoming, especially for the purpose of party politics should be thoroughly investigated. There is already a new trend to examining all the decisions of the previous Labour goverment, an eye should be kept open for reciprocal examination in future.
Penalties for outrageously bad decisions (desalination plant, made in the face of a lot of contraindications) would go a long way to improving the Australian political scene. Parliamentary priviledge, say what you like about who you like with impunity, perform badly in your portfolio… and get rewarded for life regardless.
Unfortunately the Yes Minister rule applies, what politician would vote to change the system that put them in power?
Considering how often Australia has droughts, desalination plants make a lot of sense.
Can't disagree with the rest of it though.
I believe the QLD government passed a bill to make it illegal for politicians to make statements that they knowingly knew to be false. It would be nice if they'd do the same in Canberra.
TG 21/03/2014 At 1:03 pm
Makes no sense to let Optus have the whole show. Yes they should handle the retail side of things that's what they are best at. BUT satellites not owned by an Australian company? Most have forgotten or never knew about the quotations below.
"The Singapore-owned telco has been at the heart of allegations at home that it's been used to spy on its own people and its links to the ruling oligarchy and the military in the island state are profound. So, can we secure our own telephones if SingTel takes over Optus?"
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/stories/s344102.htm
Dave 21/03/2014 At 1:15 pm
This situation seems somewhat familiar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arCITMfxvEc#t=131
Alex Martin 24/03/2014 At 2:50 pm
I think NBNCo shouldn't pay for the satellite until it is launched and operational, it's like your just paying something you wont have yet. NBNCo maybe agree with NewSat that it should pay for some percentage so they can operate but full payment will be done upon launch and operation.


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Boosie Badazz Compares Life In The Prison System To "Real-Life Slavery"
Published on: May 19, 2015, 8:30 AM
by Danielle Harling
Baton Rouge, Louisiana rapper Boosie Badazz shared some insight into the workings of the prison system, during a newly-published interview with Vlad TV.
When asked what he would change about the prison system, the Southern wordsmith revealed that he would change the three-strikes law. He went on to explain that there are prisoners in Louisiana who are locked up for life on minor drug charges.
Boosie then compared the experience at the prison where he served his time, the Louisiana State Penitentiary, to "real-life slavery."
"I'd change the three-strikes law," Boosie Badazz said. "You got over 500 prisoners in Louisiana in prison for life for the three strikes law and not violent crimes. I had dudes in there with me for three charges of marijuana, life in Louisiana. I had one dude in there, he had a minor drug charge, he had another drug charge. But his third charge was a lady was walking out the pawn shop and she dropped her necklace. He was walking in the pawn shop and picked it up. They got him on camera for stolen property and gave him life. He been in jail 21 years…I was in Angola. And these people got life sentences and still gotta go pick food, pick vegetables. It's real-life slavery. Chained to each other. Walking 20 miles, digging ditches. After you already got life."
Prior to speaking on the prison system, Boosie spoke on his children serving as his motivation while in prison. He added that during his time locked up, rap was last on his mind.
"My kids kept me motivated…The rap shit was last on my mind," he said. "My mind was [on] getting back to those kids I gotta raise. Who mama need. Who need a daddy…It's crazy. You could have all the money. I was in jail, my kids got everything for Christmas. But they was still sad cause they wanted daddy. Gifts ain't everything when you ain't got your daddy. You would think money buy everything, but it don't. It ain't buy them wanting their daddy more than $10,000 worth of gifts."
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Pakistan says India will 'disintegrate' when Kashmir is free
Pakistan's defense minister on Wednesday said India will "disintegrate" when Kashmir gains independence, in a sign of mounting tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals.
Khawaja Muhammad Asif told The Associated Press that Pakistan will continue to extend moral support to the people of the disputed Himalayan region, which is split between Pakistani and Indian control but claimed in its entirety by both.
"When the freedom movement in Kashmir succeeds, it will be beginning of the end of India," he said. Asif said the sacrifices of Kashmiri people will not be in vain and that "India will disintegrate and it will not remain united" when Kashmir gains independence.
He said Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has tried to improve ties with India, but "we did not get a positive response from them."
Sharif attended a high-level security meeting on Wednesday in which he expressed concern over human rights violations in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The meeting "condemned the brutal use of force by Indian security forces" in Kashmir, according to a government statement.
Sharif said Pakistan will continue to extend moral and diplomatic support to the Kashmiri people until their aspirations are met.
"Pakistan has shown unequalled and unprecedented restraint despite great provocation" from India, the statement said.
India blamed Pakistan-based militants for a recent attack on an army base in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir that killed 18 Indian soldiers. Since then, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he will work to isolate Pakistan internationally.
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Manchester United in pole position to sign Napoli ace Kalidou Koulibaly ahead of Chelsea and Liverpool
Metro Sport ReporterSunday 25 Nov 2018 11:40 pm
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Manchester United are in pole position to sign Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly ahead of Premier League rivals Chelsea and Liverpool, according to reports.
Jose Mourinho is desperate to sign a quality centre-back in January after missing out on the likes of Toby Alderweireld and Harry Maguire in the summer.
In 13 Premier League fixtures this season, the Red Devils have already shipped 21 goals – the most of any team in the top half of the table.
The Daily Mirror say Mourinho has informed Manchester United of his desire to bring Koulibaly to Old Trafford in January.
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Maurizio Sarri is a known admirer of Koulibaly and also reportedly wants to secure his signature, while Liverpool have kept tabs on his situation in Naples.
But the Mirror claim United are in pole position to strike a deal with Napoli as they look to bolster Mourinho's defensive options.
Koulibaly, 27, is valued at over £80million and is rated as one of the most talented defenders in Europe.
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Michigan's Cooper Marody, Tony Calderone sign NHL deals
Cooper Marody joins Oilers while linemate Tony Calderone signs with Stars
Michigan's Cooper Marody, Tony Calderone sign NHL deals Cooper Marody joins Oilers while linemate Tony Calderone signs with Stars Check out this story on detroitnews.com: https://detne.ws/2GNheeh
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Michigan forward Cooper Marody signed an entry-level contract with the Edmonton Oilers, the club announced Sunday.
Marody, the 2017-18 Big Ten scoring champion, finished with 51 points (16 goals, 35 assists). The Brighton native was sixth in the NCAA in points, while his 35 assists ranked third in the country.
The news of Marody's signing came as linemate Tony Calderone's announced he signed with the Dallas Stars. Calderone, a senior from Trenton, finished with 45 points (25 goals and 20 assists) playing with Marody and Dexter Dancs on the "DMC" line.
The trio accounted for 39 percent, or 53 of Michigan's 136 goals, and 34 percent of the team's points (134) this season.
Marody and Calderone helped lead Michigan to its 25th Frozen Four appearance. Marody registered two goals while Calderone had two assists in the Wolverines' 3-2 win over Northeastern in the NCAA Regionals.
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The Top 15 Shows That Every Aspiring Entrepreneur Should Watch
May 12, 2018 /0 Comments/in Entrepreneurship, Recommended Resources /by StrategyDriven+
Whilst starting your own business is both exciting and fulfilling, it can also be exhausting. Never ending work hours and a lack of weekends can mean at times, all you fancy doing is sitting back, relaxing and watching your favorite box set on TV. If you're interested in maximizing your downtime however, we've found the best TV shows that every entrepreneur should watch, to make sure that down time is not only guilt free, but invaluable.
1. Dragons Den
If pitching for investment isn't already nerve-wracking enough, imagine doing in front of some of the countries most successful business people and on TV. That's what the brave entrepreneurs on Dragons Den have to do. The current panel includes business greats such as Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden and Jenny Campbell. Watching Dragon's Den is great for getting tips on how to pitch, an insight into what kind of questions you may get asked and probably most importantly- what not to do. Think you can take on the dragons? The show is open to applicants- enter the den if you dare!
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Inspired by the bestselling book '#GirlBoss' by Sophia Amoruso and based on her start-up story, this Netflix original shows how Sophia went from broke to running the multi-million dollar fashion empire, Nasty Gal. Sophia starts by selling vintage clothes, but as her business starts to grown, she learns about all the ups (and downs) of running your own business.
3. Billions
If you want a lesson in power struggles, Billions is the one of you. Set in New York, it tells the story of the U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades, who boasts the title of never having lost an insider trading case. In Billions, he is taking on Axelrod, a (corrupt) hedge fun tycoon. What follows is a battle of intelligence, ambition, influence and ultimately power.
4. I Give It a Year
In this show, Baroness Karren Brady (who you may remember as one of Lord Sugar's advisers on 'The Apprentice') meets with entrepreneurs who have just taken the leap and decided to start their own business. One year later she goes back and revisits them, to see how far they may (or may not) have come. The types of businesses vary from episode to episode- one of our favorite episodes involves one entrepreneur tackling the constant battle of trying to keep your cup of tea warm. A dilemma indeed!
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8. The Profit
The Profit follows Marcus Lemonis (Camping World CEO) as he invests $2 million dollars of his money into companies that are struggling to stay afloat, with them giving him a percentage of their future profits in return. Instead of giving them the money and expecting them to go it alone, Marcus offers his experience, expertise and knowledge, to help the businesses get back onto the right track for a fruitful future. Some will thrive and some won't survive, but you can learn valuable lessons along the way by watching their journeys.
9. Mad Men
Set in New York in the 1960's, Mad Men follows Don Draper's power struggles at his Madison Avenue advertising firm and how he balances his position at work with his home life. A great insight into how the advertising industry operates combined with enough fictional drama to keep you binge watching those episodes. If you're getting stuck on finding a name for your company, you can find out more here. Investing in company branding and advertising only to find your name is already taken is a costly mistake to make!
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11. The Apprentice
This British reality TV show follows multiple hopeful entrepreneurs competing against each other for an investment in their business idea. The contestants are given weekly business challenges in which they work in teams, with one contestant being fired each week from the losing team. The final winner gets £250,000 and Lord Sugar as a 50% owner of their new venture. The weekly challenges vary and show not only the talents of the candidates, but also the importance of team-work when striving to reach goals.
12. Gordon Ramsey Kitchen Nightmares
In this reality TV series, Gordon Ramsey takes his foul mouth and flaring temper to various restaurants that are struggling to stay afloat. After uncovering what is going wrong in the business, Gordon tries to help turn it around. From awful food and stubborn management, to shabby interiors, Gordon often ruffles a few feathers in his bid to create a viable restaurant business for the owners. Not only great dramatic viewing, it shows the importance of customer experience and being open to feedback.
13. House Hunters
House Hunters is a US show that follows the journey of people looking for a new home. With the realtor working hard to make their customers dreams comes true, this show is a lesson in knowing what your customers wants, and shows how emotional reasons can overtake financial sense when it comes to consumer purchases.
14. Silicon Valley
Despite being a fictional comedy show, Silicon Valley was influenced by the experiences of it's co-creator (Mike Judge) during his time working in Silicon Valley. The show is the story of Richard- a computer programmer who works alongside his intelligent friends to try and tap into the booming tech industry with their start up Pied Piper. Living in the home of the leader of their start up incubator, this show will help you laugh and unwind whilst getting an insight into the lives of those living in Silicon Valley.
15. How I Made My Millions
When you start your own business, you trade in huge risk for potentially huge reward. This programme tells the story of individuals who took exactly this risk and for whom it has paid off, creating million dollar businesses. Instead of showing the journey as all roses, this programme shows the reality and the hard work that goes behind creating a successful business. A great one to keep you inspired during those scarier moments in your entrepreneurial journey.
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Recommended Resources – Whole Business Thinking
December 19, 2013 /0 Comments/in Budget Management, Recommended Resources /by Nathan Ives+
Whole Business Thinking – A Guide To Exceptional Business Performance
by Robert S. Block
Whole Business Thinking by Robert S. Block provides operational executives and managers with the insight needed to relate 'shop floor' decisions and activities with the organization's financial future. Robert reveals how to connect the decisions and actions of today with the financial consequences they will have on the organization and how these results will be portrayed with the company's several financial statements.
Some of the specific topics addressed within Whole Business Thinking include:
Business Metrics
Robert concludes Whole Business Thinking with a comprehensive list of business terms and performance indicators.
Benefits of Reading this Book
In order for an organization to be successful, executives and managers must understand how their decisions and employee actions affect the achievement of established mission goals. As financial returns are a key component of every for-profit company's success, leaders must be particularly aware of the relationships between long-term and day-to-day activities and the bottom line.
StrategyDriven Contributors like Whole Business Thinking because it clearly illustrates the relationship between decisions, actions, and financial outcomes. Throughout his book, Robert places the reader in common business situations and in plain language conveys how various decisions influence financial results. Robert goes a step further by translating those results into the several key financial indicators (performance metrics, balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement) used by board members, executives, and investors to measure the health of the company.
Whole Business Thinking promotes the alignment of the organization's mission and values with its decisions and actions. While acknowledging the non-financial contributors of organizational success, Robert's book focuses primarily on those activities directly impacting financial performance drivers. In our opinion, the reader would benefit from additional case studies highlighting the application of Robert's aligning principles and practices to non-financial performance contributors.
Whole Business Thinking reflects many of the organizational alignment, strategic planning, tactical execution, and decision-making principles recommended on the StrategyDriven website making it a StrategyDriven recommended read.
Robert has made a complimentary book sample available to StrategyDriven readers at www.wholebusinessthinking.com/video/.
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Recommended Resources – FixnZip Product Review
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FixnZip
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FixnZip is an easy-to-use replacement zipper slider that fits a range of zipper sizes and works with teeth and coil zippers that are either metal or plastic. The FixnZip slider comes in three sizes: small, medium and large and two colors: nickle (silver) and graphite (dark grey). It has a patented spring plate design consisting of two slider plates, a thumbscrew, and spring; all manufactured in the United States. The slider parts are made of zinc die cast and the spring and thumbscrew of stainless steel.
FixnZip can be used on open ended (such as a jacket) or closed ended zippers (such as a suitcase) and can be started anywhere on the zipper. In the event the zipper is missing some teeth, the FixnZip glides over these areas and realigns the remaining teeth; restoring the functionality of the zipper.
Why We Recommend This Product
StrategyDriven Contributors tested the FixnZip product and found it to be a very easy-to-use replacement for broken and/or missing zipper sliders. As frequent travelers, we often damage or lose zipper sliders from suitcases. FixnZip provides a durable replacement slider enabling on-the-go repair of the suitcase and alleviating the need to buy an expensive replacement case.
The FixnZip is light and compact, making it easy to take one or more of these repair kits when traveling. We found the FixnZip instructions easy to follow and the device easy-to-use. A quality product that is a must-have for business travelers, FixnZip is a StrategyDriven recommended product.
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Recommended Resources – The 4 Disciplines of Execution
May 16, 2013 /0 Comments/in Recommended Resources, Strategic Planning, Tactical Execution /by StrategyDriven+
The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
by Jerry Weissman
The 4 Disciplines of Execution provides the steps needed to repeatably translate one's business strategy into the day-to-day activities instrumental to realizing organizational goals. These disciplines include:
Focus on the Wildly Important – Give your best effort to those few goals that really matter instead of giving mediocre effort to dozens of goals.
Act on the Lead Measures – Carefully track the lead measures and let the lag measures take care of themselves.
Keep a Compelling Scoreboard – Make sure everybody knows the score at all times so they can tell if they are winning or not.
Create a Cadence of Accountability – Hold frequent accountability sessions whose only purpose is to advance the Wildly Important Goals.
StrategyDriven Contributors like The 4 Disciplines of Execution for its methodical, repeatable method of translating corporate strategy into the day-to-day actions of organization members. We appreciate the adaptation of the book's principles to both an organization and team-level implementation.
Chris, Sean, and Jim richly present their concepts with detailed illustrations and examples; making the disciplines both easy to understand and readily implementable. The 4 Disciplines of Execution is remarkably well aligned with the foundational principles upon which StrategyDriven, its products and services, is based. For its actionable principles of strategy execution while promoting organizational alignment and accountability, The 4 Disciplines of Execution is a StrategyDriven recommended read.
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Recommended Resources – Look At More
February 21, 2013 /0 Comments/in Innovation, Management & Leadership, Recommended Resources /by StrategyDriven+
Look at More: A Proven Approach to Innovation, Growth, and Change
by Andy Stefanovich
Look at More by Andy Stefanovich details a framework for unleashing an organization's creativity to develop new products, build brands and audiences, and grow market share. Andy's framework specifically targets the liberation of the '5Ms' of innovation:
Mood: attitudes, feelings, and emotions creating the context for creativity and innovation
Mindset: intellectual foundation of creativity, the baseline capacity each of us has for getting inspired, staying excited, and thinking differently
Mechanisms: tools and processes of creativity; helping individuals incorporate inspiration into the way they work and fostering innovative behaviors
Measurement: qualitative and quantitative assessments providing employees with direction and feedback
Momentum: active reinforcement of the creative behaviors supporting innovation
Benefits of Using this Book
StrategyDriven Contributors like Look At More for its immediately actionable framework that encourages and reinforces the behaviors unleashing an organization's innovative creativity. Additionally, we appreciate the detailed examples Andy provides from his experience implementing the framework at world renown corporations.
Besides driving innovation, we believe organization implementing Andy's methods will also experience an increased level of employee engagement that, in our experience, significantly enhances productivity and the bottom line.
Look At More prescribes an immediately actionable method for unleashing employee creativity to support achievement of organizational goals; making it a StrategyDriven recommended read.
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Decision-Making Warning Flag 2 – The Silent Nod
Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 27 – Performance Measures and Thresholds Aligned with Regulatory Standards
Resource Management Best Practice 4 – Ongoing Assessment of the Market Availability of Strategic Resources
Practices for Professionals – Meetings: The Purpose of Holding Meetings
Management Observation Program Warning Flag 1 – End of Period and Clustered Observations
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Faber 90 Stories
The Empress Lover by Linda Jaivin
Category: Australian
'Stories are the only thing that defy death. Stories are truth. I hereby give you mine...' Peking, 1944: Sir Edmund Backhouse is a man of many parts. A polyglot scholar. An effete homosexual. A genius of perversity, a forger, arms salesman, occasional spy and fantasist. Also, if he is to be believed, th e onetime lover of the redoubtable Empress Dowager of China, a woman many decades his senior. In his declining years, tended by his friend, Dr Hoeppli, he writes his memoir - 'a wild tale', as he calls it, 'far-fetched and fantastical'- of his affair with the Dowager Empress. Beijing, 2014: Linnie is an Australian woman of uncertain provenance struggling to make a living in Beijing. A Sinophile, a translator of film subtitles, the author of an unpublished novel about Backhouse called The Empress Lover. One day, she receives an intriguingly old-fashioned and formal invitation from a Professor H, an invitation that promises to reveal long hidden secrets of her family...And so two worlds collide. An enchantingly slippery, sinuous, playful - and ultimately very moving - novel of love, loss, identity and history from one of Australia's finest novelists. ...Show more
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The blazingly brilliant new novel from Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the international bestseller Eat Pray Love- a glittering coming-of-age epic stitched across the fabric of a lost New York It is the summer of 1940. Nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York with her suitcase and sewing machine , exiled by her despairing parents. Although her quicksilver talents with a needle and commitment to mastering the perfect hair roll have been deemed insufficient for her to pass into her sophomore year of Vassar, she soon finds gainful employment as the self-appointed seamstress at the Lily Playhouse, her unconventional Aunt Peg's charmingly disreputable Manhattan revue theatre. There, Vivian quickly becomes the toast of the showgirls, transforming the trash and tinsel only fit for the cheap seats into creations for goddesses. Exile in New York is no exile at all: here in this strange wartime city of girls, Vivian and her girlfriends mean to drink the heady highball of life itself to the last drop. And when the legendary English actress Edna Watson comes to the Lily to star in the company's most ambitious show ever, Vivian is entranced by the magic that follows in her wake. But there are hard lessons to be learned, and bitterly regrettable mistakes to be made. Vivian learns that to live the life she wants, she must live many lives, ceaselessly and ingeniously making them new.'At some point in a woman's life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is,' she confides. And so Vivian sets forth her story, and that of the women around her – women who have lived as they truly are, out of step with a century that could never quite keep up with them. ...Show more
Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Finally free from his nightmare of a marriage, Toby Fleishman is ready for a life of Tinder dating and weekend-only parental duties. But as he optimistically looks to a future of few responsibilities, his life turns upside-down as his ex-wife Rachel suddenly disappears. While Toby tries to find out what happened - juggling work, kids and his new, app-assisted sexual popularity - his tidy narrative of a spurned husband is his sole consolation. But if he ever wants to really understand where Rachel went and what really happened to his marriage, he is going to have to consider that he might not have seen it all that clearly in the first place . . . A BLISTERING SATIRICAL NOVEL ABOUT MARRIAGE, DIVORCE AND MODERN RELATIONSHIPS, BY ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING NEW VOICES IN AMERICAN FICTION 'A marvel, full of shrewd observations, barbed wit, and deep insight . . . a remarkable debut novel from one of the most distinctive writers around' TOM PERROTTA 'Firing on all circuits, from psychological insight to cultural acuity to narrative strategy to very smart humor. Quite a debut!' KIRKUS (STARRED REVIEW) ...Show more
The Electric Hotel by Dominic Smith
From the award-winning author of the acclaimed bestseller The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a luminous new novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent film director and his muse. Dominic Smith's The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jer sey--America's first movie town--and on the battlefields of Belgium during World War I. A sweeping work of historical fiction, it shimmers between past and present as it tells the story of the rise and fall of a prodigious film studio and one man's doomed obsession with all that passes in front of the viewfinder.For nearly half a century, Claude Ballard has been living at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel. A French pioneer of silent films, who started out as a concession agent for the Lumiere brothers, the inventors of cinema, Claude now spends his days foraging mushrooms in the hills of Los Angeles and taking photographs of runaways and the striplings along Sunset Boulevard. But when a film-history student comes to interview Claude about The Electric Hotel--the lost masterpiece that bankrupted him and ended the career of his muse, Sabine Montrose--the past comes surging back. In his run-down hotel suite, the ravages of the past are waiting to be excavated: celluloid fragments and reels in desperate need of restoration, and Claude's memories of the woman who inspired and beguiled him. ...Show more
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flaneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot G rrrl to leather cub, Women's Studies major to trade, Paul transforms his body at will in a series of adventures that take him from Iowa City to Boystown to Provincetown and finally to San Francisco--a journey through the deep queer archives of struggle and pleasure. Andrea Lawlor's debut novel offers a speculative history of early '90s identity politics during the heyday of ACT UP and Queer Nation. Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl is a riotous, razor-sharp bildungsroman whose hero/ine wends his way through a world gutted by loss, pulsing with music, and opening into an array of intimacy and connections. ...Show more
Lanny by Max Porter
From the award-winning author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers comes a dark, playful, propulsive novel about an ethereal young boy who attracts the attention of a mythical, menacing force. There's a village an hour from London. It's no different from many others today: one pub, one church, red -brick cottages, some public housing, and a few larger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it, to the land and to the land's past. It also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, a fabled figure local schoolchildren used to draw green and leafy, choked by tendrils growing out of his mouth, who awakens after a glorious nap. He is listening to this twenty-first-century village, to its symphony of talk: drunken confessions, gossip traded on the street corner, fretful conversations in living rooms. He is listening, intently, for a mischievous, enchanting boy whose parents have recently made the village their home. Lanny. With Lanny, Max Porter extends the potent and magical space he created in Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. This brilliant novel will enrapture readers with its anarchic energy, with its bewitching tapestry of fabulism and domestic drama. Lanny is a ringing defense of creativity, spirit, and the generative forces that often seem under assault in the contemporary world, and it solidifies Porter's reputation as one of the most daring and sensitive writers of his generation. ...Show more
Live a Little by Howard Jacobson
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children. She spends her days stitching morbid samplers and tormenting he r two long-suffering carers, Nastya and Euphoria, with tangled stories of her husbands and love affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, walks without the aid of a frame and speaks without spitting. Among the Widows of North London, he's whispered about as the last of the eligible bachelors. Unlike Beryl, he forgets nothing - especially not the shame of a childhood incident that has hung over him like an oppressive cloud ever since. There's very little life remaining for either of them, but perhaps just enough to heal some of the hurt inflicted along the way, and find new meaning in what's left. Told with Jacobson's trademark wit and style, Live a Little is in equal parts funny, irreverent and tender - a novel to make you consider all the paths not taken, and whether you could still change course. ...Show more
Big Sky (#5 Jackson Brodie) by Kate Atkinson
Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside town, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-wife Julia. It's a picturesque village filled with vacationers and well-off locals, but there's something darker behind the scenes: a qu ietly, wildly successful business in human trafficking. Jackson's current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for his suspicious wife, would seem unrelated, but a chance encounter with a desperate man on a crumbling cliff leads him into a sinister network - and back across the path of his old friend Reggie, now a police detective with her own way of doing things. Old secrets and new lies intersect in this breathtaking novel by one of the most dazzling and surprising writers at work today. ...Show more
Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls
The major new novel from David Nicholls. One life-changing summerCharlie meets Fran... In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way round, and if he th inks about the future at all, it is with a kind of dread. Then Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie begins to hope. But if Charlie wants to be with Fran, he must take on a challenge that could lose him the respect of his friends and require him to become a different person. He must join the Company. And if the Company sounds like a cult, the truth is even more appalling. The price of hope, it seems, is Shakespeare. Poignant, funny, enchanting, devastating, Sweet Sorrow is a tragicomedy about the rocky path to adulthood and the confusion of family life, a celebration of the reviving power of friendship and that brief, searing explosion of first love that can only be looked at directly after it has burned out. ...Show more
Spring by Ali Smith
Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred years of empire-making. The dawn breaks cold and still but, deep in the earth, things are growing.
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, two New York cops, live next door to each other outside the city in the 1970s. What happens behind closed doors in both houses - the loneliness of Francis's wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian's wife, Anne - sets the stage for the explosive events to come. When t heir children, Kate and Peter, form an immediate attachment, so too does a violent event divide the families and the Stanhopes are forced to move away. The children reconnect as adults and, as they fall in love, are forced to reckon with their shared past. ...Show more
Crossing Over by Daryl Joyce
The third son of a farmer, born in the small town of Kooweerup in rural Victoria during the Second World War, author Daryl Joyce was a sensitive Australian boy who realized there was life beyond his parents' farm. In Crossing Over, he narrates his story as he found his way in the world, navigating all o f the challenges that came along. Joyce tells about his formative years in post-World War II Australia with his brothers on the farm. Struggling with his own abiding sexual dilemma in this parochial environment, he finally spreads his wings in the city of Melbourne before embarking on a life-changing journey by ship to "swinging London." He and his English soul mate from the ship enter into Britain's late '60s youth revival. In "Crossing Over," Joyce shares how he ultimately had to choose between continuing his hedonistic lifestyle or starting a family with the girl he met on the ship crossing over. After nearly two decades, he returned to Sydney, a prodigal son of sorts, where he settled back into the Australian lifestyle, guiding his aging parents in their final days. Joyce tells a story not of merit or reward, but about departure, adventure, and homecoming. ...Show more


On Wednesday, March 2, 2016, Exim announced a vulnerability in all versions of the Exim software.
According to Exim development: "All installations having Exim set-uid root and using 'perl_startup' are vulnerable to a local privilege escalation. Any user who can start an instance of Exim (this is normally *any* user) can gain root privileges."
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Taylor Pyatt finds place with Phoenix Coyotes after tragedy
By James O'BrienJun 21, 2010, 5:15 PM EDT
The Phoenix Coyotes just announced that they re-signed rugged forward Taylor Pyatt to a two-year contract. The exact terms of the deal are not yet clear.
Pyatt, 28, recorded 12-11-23 with 39 penalty minutes (PIM) and a career-high +13 rating in 74 games with the Coyotes last season, his first with the team. He also collected 1-1-2 while playing in all seven of the Coyotes' postseason games last year.
The hard-hitting winger dealt with a rocky year-plus, moving to Phoenix after years as a member of the Vancouver Canucks and – most tragically – struggling with the death of his fiance and high school sweetheart.
On April 2, 2009, Pyatt, then a forward with the Vancouver Canucks, received a horrific middle-of-the-night call from the brother of his fiancee, Carly Bragnalo. There was a car accident, he was told, in Jamaica where she was vacationing with family. She didn't survive the injuries.
How do you move on? She had been in his life for 11 years, a high school sweetheart who had shared the crazy ride of his hockey career.
He left the game for three weeks, unable to justify putting hockey ahead of his mourning. He rejoined the Canucks midway through the playoffs but in the summer, when he had become an unrestricted free agent and no longer had the distraction of daily hockey, his clarity told him he needed a new environment.
"I was looking for a change of scenery and to turn the page as far as my career goes," he said Monday.
It's great to hear that Pyatt is sticking with Phoenix. One can only imagine that the 28-year-old forward could use some stability after a chaotic year-plus.
For at least one Coyote, the team's ownership troubles seemed pretty timid. Best of luck to Pyatt as he moves on with his life with a little bit of security.


It is remarkable that you are now a "psychic mind reader", presuming to know why I and others have not answered your comments. Actually, I have been waiting to see if your memory had returned and whether you were willing to admit that I had, in fact, presented evidence that clearly supports the scientific consensus. However, It appears that your memory is as selective as your remarkable ability to not answer my questions (or to only "answer" your reinterpretations of my questions).
I provided links to some of the evidence (several hundred studies and reviews) you and other fluoridation opponents have ignored, and I requested you provide specific evidence of why the studies should be ignored on 10-20-2018 01:56 PM and 10-21-2018 09:44 PM. I'll re-reference them along with some other resources I'm working on that will help readers who are attempting to make sense of this carefully staged illusion of a "fluoridation debate" understand the tactics employed by fluoridation opponents and other anti-science activists to scare and scam the public.
Unlike you and other anti-science activists, who seem to think providing your interpretation of carefully selected evidence in a public discussion forum is somehow proof that your version of reality is correct, my goal is to highlight the importance of the scientific consensus and expose the disingenuous tactics used by anti-science activists to con the public into accepting their outlier interpretation of the few studies they believe support their anti-consensus conclusions.
Thank you for your two recent comments which highlight the critical importance of evidence based health care and the scientific consensus – and not individual interpretations of evidence. I'm not sure what you are trying to demonstrate by your 11-11-2018 07:20 PM smoking comment except that in this one instance you apparently accept the scientific consensus that the risks of smoking far outweigh any benefits – Congratulations.
Q1a) Do you accept the scientific consensus that the benefits of vaccinations far outweigh any risks? YES or NO?
Q1b) Do you accept the scientific consensus that the benefits of water disinfection (the addition of poisons to the water and the formation of disinfection byproducts) outweigh the risks? YES or NO?
It is wiser to accept the scientific consensus in all areas of science and evidence based health care than to blindly believe the highly biased opinions of anti-science activists like those who support tobacco use and who deny the benefits of water disinfection, fluoridation, and vaccination outweigh the risks. All anti-science positions are completely contrary to the scientific consensus.
What you have clearly demonstrated in your 11-11-2018 02:11 PM comment (selectively and disingenuously excluding early smallpox treatments and slippin' in your out-of-context mercury and fluoride references) is that a bunch of very early "medical treatments" (narcotic syrups, heroin, lobotomies, blood letting, tape worm eggs, trepanation & tobacco) were, in fact, debunked by the evolving processes of science. These were all basically uncontrolled, unregulated experiments initiated long ago, before there existed any supporting scientific consensus; before there were uniform scientific processes in place to rigorously test the safety and effectiveness of any "medical treatment"; before there were effective monitoring and regulatory organizations. The negative consequences of those "treatments" were, in fact, revealed by the processes of science to be far more harmful to health than beneficial and they were eliminated. Similarly, the apparent effectiveness of some early non-scientific alternative health practices like homeopathy were revealed by the processes of science to be placebo effects – as are many claims made today by anti-science practitioners.
The discovery of vaccination is an excellent example of how a scientific consensus changes based on constantly evolving scientific knowledge. While Edward Jenner's experimentation at the turn of the 19th century on smallpox (a horrific killer) prevention would be considered unethical today, his discoveries and the eventual development of the smallpox vaccine has saved countless lives. Should Jenner be hailed as a savior or condemned as an unethical smear in the history of health care? By the time Dr. Jonas Salk began working on a polio vaccine in the first half of the 20th the body of scientific knowledge (scientific consensus) surrounding disease-causing organisms and possible treatment methods had evolved significantly – and the knowledge continues to evolve. Like community water fluoridation (CWF), the scientific consensus is clear that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks.
Unlike your question dodging, I will answer your questions – I believe that all of the so-called scientific evidence you and other anti-science activists have dumped into this comment section have been presented and interpreted completely out of context – of the study itself and of the entire body of evidence as has been pointed out repeatedly. When the studies are read and understood in their entirety and in context, they (like your most recent deceptive description of historic so-called "medical practices") do not provide any evidence that proves your opinions that CWF is ineffective or unsafe are true.
Q1a) If you believe your interpretation of the evidence is valid, why did you dump 14 comments of what you believe to be fluoride-related "cancer evidence" into the discussion instead of working with cancer experts to change the scientific consensus? As noted previously, cancer organizations such as the American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, Canadian Cancer Society, Ireland National Cancer Control Programme, Australian Cancer Council have not concluded CWF causes cancer?
Q1b) Do you believe you have more training and experience in the causes of cancer than members of the listed organizations? YES or NO?
Q1c) Do you really believe most members of the public ever read your version of "evidence" and/or have the training and experience necessary to understand the entire body of cancer evidence and reach well informed, accurate conclusions? YES or NO?
I have specific questions for Bill, CarryAnne, Richard, and other anti-science activists related to just one specific organization which I have asked several times (11-07-2018 11:36 AM, 11-04-2018 02:38 PM, 10-26-2018 11:13 AM) without a reply.
Q2a) Do you believe the World Health Organization, which represents 191 countries, is a reputable, trustworthy science-based health organization with the goal of improving and protecting health worldwide? YES or NO?
Q2b) Do you agree with the very clear, in context conclusions of the World Health Organization reports on the effectiveness and safety of CWF quoted below? YES or NO?
The 2014 World Health Organization document, Assessment of Renal Fluoride Excretion in Community Prevention Programs for Oral Health was referenced by RossF 10-26-2018 04:28 AM, in an apparent attempt to try and support some anti-F opinion. However, if one examines the context of his deliberately misleading comment, one will quickly (in the first 3 paragraphs of the introduction, p6) recognize the disingenuous anti-F tactic of selective extraction.
Q3a) Explain why, if there were no scientific consensus that fluoridation was safe and effective (or if there was legitimate evidence to support anti-F opinions) the World Health Organization and virtually all of the major, respected scientific and health organizations continue to publically recognize the benefits and safety of fluoridation – and their hundreds of thousands of members have not rebelled.
Q3b) Explain why there are no reputable science or health organizations that accept the anti-F opinions as legitimate.
The most disturbing thread running through your long diatribes, and the main point of my comments, is to highlight how you (like other fluoridation opponents and all anti-science activists) try to influence public opinion by your disingenuous misrepresentation of the actual science in an effort to support your strongly held beliefs – yes, that is hacking the democratic process.
Democracy depends on an accurately informed public. Democracy is sevelely compromised by all duplicitous fear-mongering tactics employed by all anti-science activists. These tactics are carefully designed to scare and scam caring members of the public, who do not have the science and/or health care training and experience to accurately evaluate thousands of complex scientific studies, into distrusting the overwhelming majority of science and health care organizations and their members and blindly accepting the illusion of their carefully constructed anti-science alternative.
And of course when people are whole body fluoridated with a toxic, calcium-free, fully soluble source for fluoride, then toxic effects occur. Why would anyone expect somehow a total lack of toxicity due to artificial community water fluoridation?
Thank you for the Canada study. It looks very well done, considering that one cannot place people in cages to control all potential confounding variables. The sampe size was large and the difference between groups were clearly between non-fluoridaed (0.2 ppm fluoride in water average) and fluoridated (0.6 ppm) and the urine fluoride measured reflected these levels accurately. The elevated TSH due to iodine deficiency plus fluoride exposure was, as stated, very likely an underestimate because those with clinical hypothyroidism (likely most vulnerable to fluoride toxicity) were excluded from the study.
Thank you Dr. Sauerhaber, Dr. Osmunson, and CarryAnne! I agree that these fluoride promoters, who apparently have never done any fluoride research themselves, take the audience as fools. They merely rely on the corrupt opinions of some authoritative bodies only, which have neither done any fluoride research themselves, nor take any responsibility for the harms caused by fluoridation, such as the ADA.
Since there has been multiple recent peer reviewed studies regarding fluoride harms, these fluoride promoters are nothing but science deniers, who think their opinion is somehow more valuable than science. Opinions, let alone lay opinions, do not stand in court, since they are worthless. Science speaks for itself and is not just an opinion, even if an opinion by some brainwashed dentist.
Consider tobacco smoking. Certainly you would agree smoking tobacco has risks.
On the other hand, smoking has benefits. One must weight the benefits vs risks. My position, smoking is very bad. Risks=cancer, death, and more.
Like fluoride has benefits/risks, lets look closer at the benefits of tobacco smoking.
Smokers may have fewer knee surgeries, perhaps due to less obesity.
Smokers may have less Parkinson's.
Smokers may have less obesity.
Smokers may react better to angioplasty.
Most reasonable people would NOT accept the risks of smoking to achieve the possible benefits. However, I've known dentists who promoted smoking to reduce bleeding gums.
and the risks of lower IQ, damaged thyroid, fractured hard tissue, damage to mitochondria, etc etc etc are serious.
An unbiased researcher looking at all streams of evidence would never accept fluoridation anymore than forcing tobacco on everyone because tobacco may have some benefit.
Fluoridation must be stopped, at least until quality research is provided on safety, efficacy and dosage.
The research you provided is once again supporting the concept that too many are ingesting too much fluoride, especially infants and children. It does not take a special scientist to understand that if over 60% of our young have dental fluorosis, a biomarker of excess fluoride exposure, that we must reduce exposure.
Fluoridation is contributing to the 700,000 children with SEVERE dental fluorosis as reported by HHS sponsored NHANES 2011-2012.
Where is the MEASURED evidence that infants and children need fluoride supplementation in their water and that it is effective or safe?
Yes, marketing has produced endorsements but the endorsements are not supported with peer reviewed measured evidence.
Vulnerable subpopulations who are more susceptible to adverse effects from low dose exposure to 'optimally' fluoridated water include pregnant women & their fetuses, bottle-fed babies & young children, the elderly and those with chronic health conditions.
The most recent U.S. 2018 report using government data documented that over half of U.S. teens have dental fluorosis. One in five American teens has moderate to severe dental fluorosis on at least two teeth, which will likely result in costly veneers or crowns. Dental fluorosis is visible evidence of cell death in developing teeth and is associatd with increased incidence of learnig disabilities, broken bones and kidney disease. As an enzyme poison that easily passes the blood brain barrier, has an affinity for bone, and is a known 'burden to kidneys,' fluoride is a biologically plausible cause for all these conditions.
A few studies relevant to bottle-fed babies.
Harriehausen CX, Dosani FZ, Chiquet BT, Barratt MS, Quock RL. Fluoride Intake of Infants from Formula. Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry. October 2018.
Zohoori, F., Omid, N., Sanderson, R., Valentine, R., & Maguire, A. (n.d.). Fluoride retention in infants living in fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas: Effects of weaning. British Journal of Nutrition. November 2018.
UK study of healthy infants 0-12 months. Pre-weaning, the only positive fluoride retention was for formula-fed babies living in fluoridated communities. Study found that although the breast milk of mothers living in fluoridated regions had five times more fluoride, fluoride concentration was still quite low and the breast-fed infants had a negative fluoride balance, i.e. they excreted more than they took in, apparently purging themselves of fluoride absorbed during pregnancy as fluoride crosses the placenta and is stored in fetal tissue.
Rácz R, Földes A, Bori E, et al. No Change in Bicarbonate Transport but Tight-Junction Formation Is Delayed by Fluoride in a Novel Am.... Frontiers in Physiology. 2017; 8: 940.
Cressey P. Dietary fluoride intake for fully formula-fed infants in New Zealand: impact of formula and water fl.... J Public Health Dent. 2010 Fall;70(4):285-91.
Siew C, Strock S, Ristic H, Kang P, et al. Assessing a Potential Risk Factor for Enamel Fluorosis: A Preliminary Evaluation of Fluoride Content.... J Am Dent Assoc 2009;140;1228-1236.
Shiboski CH, Gansky SA, Gomez FR, Pollick H. The Association of Early Childhood Caries and Race/Ethnicity among California Preschool Children. Journal of Public Health Dentistry 63(1):38-46 · February 2003.
Once again, lets look at the EPA's graph almost a decade old. Most children ingest too much fluoride during part of their life.
Remember, this graph represents the 90th percentile. 10% of the public is ignored. Infants are ignored. No margin of safety is included. The graph is based on a 33% increase in the so called safe dosage. And the so called safe dosage of fluoride is the same mean exposure which research is now showing to cause harm to the brain with lower IQ, thyroid, cancer, bone fractures and more.
The percentage of children above the black line are over exposed by the EPA's definition of too much.
The best place to reduce over exposure is a cessation of fluoridation.
The last time I posted research, my fluoridationist friends went silent for several days.
This time when I posted research, my fluoridationist friends have once again gone silent for a few days.
Something about research is hard for fluoridationists to digest. Research does not support the flawed theory of fluoridation.
What is your advice when the research and the endorsements are at odds? Yes, you have suggested to change those endorsing and recommending fluoridation, in other words, those with jurisdiction over fluoridation. Problem. No agency recommending fluoridaiton takes responsibility for reviewing the dosage being ingested, the safety along with the possible benefit. Hard to hold someone accountable when there is not that "someone" or agency. They all point to others.
Remember in history, the authorities said the world was flat. They endorsed a flat world as fact. With time the evidence became strong that the world was not flat. Who should a person trust, the facts or the authorities? Verify, verify, verify.
We have many more research studies reporting harm from very low levels of fluoride. If there were just the two I last posted, we would not have significant grounds for concer. However, there are hundreds of studies reporting harm, enough to take action and reduce exposure.
Should we blindly follow tradition or improve on tradition based on evidence?
Many are ingesting too much fluoride. Over 60% showing a biomarker of excess fluoride. It is past time to reduce so much exposure. What is the best source of exposure to reduce?????
The reason the FDA banned the sale of all fluoride compounds intended to be ingested by pregnant women in the U.S. is because of lack of effectiveness on caries in offspring.
I argued with a local dentist about this fact when she placed an ad in the public newspaper for women to bring in their newborn infants so that fluoride gel could be applied to their gums.
I explained that sodium fluoride is a poisonous substance and putting it into the mouth of an infant would cause it to be swallowed since infants cannot be told to spit it out.
She responded by saying that the fluoride treatments were to "prepare the gum tissue for the upcoming eruption of the teeth," to "get a head start on protecting teeth from caries."
I forwarded much scientific data demonstrating the LD50 for sodium fluoride orally ingested (only 65 mg/kg) and described in more detail that even fluoride treatment of teeth directly does cause incorporation of fluoride into the enamel matrix but rather forms calcium fluoride globules on teeth surfaces that are later swallowed, among other facts.
Eventually the advertisement was pulled from the paper thank God.


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Dumbo Then and Now: 100 Jay Street (Photos)
Front Street, Images, Jay Street, Then and Now
Note: We've been looking back thru the DumboNYC archive and unearthing some gems. We'll republish from time to time. Enjoy!
This post was originally published March 14, 2008.
In this series of "Dumbo Streetscapes Then and Now", a 1938 photograph by Percy Loomis Sperr of the corner of Front and Jay Street looks southwest from the west side of Jay Street. A previous Then and Now post is also on the corner but facing northeast.
Both the old and new photos have some common elements: the Manhattan Bridge approach and the 110 York Street building on the left and the small sliver of the existing building at 126 Front Street (the building where Superfine and Spring are located) on the right. The 70 year old photo shows three 2-3 story structures replaced by a 33 story residential building, J Condo (100 Jay Street), built in 2006. In both photos, the fire hydrant stays where it is. The 110 York building is the Scarano Architect headquarters, which added the Jetsons-like structure on top.
On the back of the NY Public Library photo:
"Jay Street, west side, south from Front Street, showing in the background the approach to the Manhattan Bridge", April 4, 1938
{New York Public Library photo of Front and Jay Street, 1938}
{Google Street View, corner of Jay and Front St.}
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anon March 14, 2008 at 4:38 pm
"The 70 year old photo shows three 2-3 story structures replaced by a 33 story residential building, J Condo (100 Jay Street), built in 2006."
to be (picky picky) fair, i think the J condo didn't really replace these buildings as they were already gone. which in and of itself is a little disappointing, the old character of dumbo is quite nice.
sg March 14, 2008 at 6:55 pm
I wish they would scrape off the asphalt to bring out the cobblestone again
BrooklynLove March 15, 2008 at 6:30 am
pretty cool.
rascal March 17, 2008 at 11:27 am
On the empty lot seen in the 1938 photograph once stood one of Brooklyn's earliest Roman Catholic churches, which served (circa 1850) the area's predominantly Irish population. At that time a road bisected the block (along where the stretch of widows can be seen in the low brick structure), called Franklin Place. The brick buildings seen here on the South end of the block are later additions–perhaps 1880s.
Andrew Porter March 22, 2008 at 1:49 pm
There are hundreds of photos of this area in the New York Public Library's "Digital Library", from about 1870 through the 1930s. Go there and browse to your heart's delight.
loose stool September 23, 2009 at 11:57 pm
I wish they would scrape off the J Condo so we could smell the horse shit again.


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Business & Economy Property Property auction sales muted in Quarter 3 of 2018
Property auction sales muted in Quarter 3 of 2018
Business & EconomyProperty
The property auction sales is comparable to introduction of Total Debt Servicing Ratio in 2013 says a report from Edmund Tie & Co (ET&Co). Q3 2018 saw a total units' sales value of $10.44m in the auction market. This reflects a year-on-year (y-o-y) drop of approximately 77.1 per cent, from $45.59m in Q3 2017, which may have been a result of the new cooling measures effective on 6 July, and the Hungry Ghost Month.
The units sold via property auction sales in Q3 2018, excluding private treaty sales and units transacted before or after the auction, are as follows.
Property Auctioned amount Property type
Eleven @ Holland, #01-11, 11 Holland Link (D10) $3,250,000 Residential
The Arte, #17-12, 23 Jalan Raja Udang (D12) $1,480,000 Residential
ECO, #02-52, 283 Bedok South Avenue 3 (D16) $760,000 Residential
Southaven 1, #06-05, 41 Hindhede Walk (D21) $835,000 Residential
Meadow Lodge, #03-14, 31 Chun Tin Road (D21) $1,450,000 Residential
The Commerze @ Irving, #07-13, 1 Irving Place (D13) $990,000 Industrial
Ubi Techpark, #07-30, 10 Ubi Crescent (D14) $660,000 Industrial
Tuas Lot, #02-13, 50 Tuas Avenue (D22) $483,500 Industrial
Jurong Foodhub, #06-19, 15 Jalan Tepong (D22) $535,000 Industrial
Q3 2018 property auction sales saw only nine units that were successfully knocked down, with five residential properties and four industrial properties totalling $7.78m and $2.668m respectively.
While all eight of the nine units sold under the hammer were mortgagee sales, several owner's sale listings were sold before or after the auction via private treaty.
This quarter also saw a lack of high quantum properties sold via property auction sales.
Despite the sale of 10 units with a total value of $19.64m in Q2 2018, there was still a 46.8 per cent decrease q-o-q. Q2 2018 saw several high-quantum landed properties, such as 25 Pasir Ris Way (D18), sold at ET&Co's auction at $5m, 42 Hoot Kiam Road (D10) and 26 Burghley Drive (D19), sold at $3.2m and $3.12m respectively. The highest quantum sold this quarter was a strata-titled semi-detached at Eleven @ Holland, knocked down under owner's sale at $3.25m during Edmund Tie & Company's auction on 26 September 2018.
Head of Auction & Sales, Joy Tan, commented, "Industrial and commercial properties sold are on the rise since the latest adjustment of the Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty and other new cooling measures introduced in July 2018.
"The cooling measures, coupled with the Hungry Ghost Month, has not only affected market sentiments among new and resale private homes, but also on the auction front. Quarterly sales have not been this low since the introduction of Total Debt Servicing Ratio on 29 June 2013, where auction sales in Q3 dipped to $4.6m from $7.6m in Q2, and sentiments stayed low into Q4 at $3.9m.
"Residential buyers, especially those who are seeking to buy their second or more properties for investment purposes, have adopted a wait-and-see attitude, while sellers have yet to adjust their price expectations. With this, as well as the current economic outlook and Trade War negotiations, we expect the property market to be generally muted until after the Lunar New Year in February 2019."
Unlike other property auction sales markets, successful sales in Singapore may not result in significant savings for the successful bidders. The bidding wars of the past which saw properties being sold for higher prices than their valuation price are also almost non-existent.
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Most "star buys" and "exceptional deals" may refer to a mere 5 to 7 per cent savings from the valuation price. Past auctions suggests that most auction properties sell at close to valuation prices. This is because most property auctions here are not comprised mainly of distressed sales. The fact that most real estate in the property auction market do not have a 'sell-by-date', or reserve prices are other reasons why the prices in the Singapore market are much higher than elsewhere.
The reserve price for real estate in the property auction market here is set by the sellers and is based loosely on the valuation. This is another reason why it's hard to find a good buy at property auctions here.
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The successful bidders of auction properties here also have to pay only between only 5 to 10 per cent in cash (the rest is paid with a bank loan, or an in-principle approval from a bank). This is unlike property auctions in other markets were successful bids would have to be paid for with all cash. This is another reason why property auctions here is not so exciting.
Parliament surprised the property market in Singapore in the first quarter of 2018 by announcing an increase in the Buyer's Stamp Duty (BSD. It was expected that this move would spur both local and foreign buyers are returning to seek out good deals from the property sales auction market. It remains unclear if this has happened.
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Q: If $V$ does not depend on $t$, how to show $V_{t} = V_{t+s}$, for $s\in \mathbb{R}$ I am reading a paper, and it says the following:
Let $V = V(x(t))$, i.e., a function of state $x(t)$ but not depend explicitly on $t$.
Now consider a mapping $$\tilde{t} = t+s, $$for any $s\in \mathbb{R}$. So a time shift. The paper says that "under this change of variables, $V_{\tilde{t}}=V_t$." So my question is

How to show $$\frac{\partial V}{\partial t} = \frac{\partial V}{\partial \tilde{t}}$$

What I am thinking is $$\frac{\partial V}{\partial \tilde{t}} = \lim_{\Delta t \rightarrow0} \frac{ V\big(x(t+\Delta t)\big)- V\big(x(t)\big)}{\Delta t+s}$$ However, I cannot see how it can become $\frac{\partial V}{\partial t}$.

A: By the chain rule, \begin{align*}V_{\tilde{t}} &= V_{x}x_{\tilde{t}} \\ &= V_{x}x_{t}t_{\tilde{t}} \\ &= V_{x}x_{t}(1) \qquad \text{(since $t = \tilde{t}-s$ and $s$ is constant)} \\ &= V_{x}x_t \\ &= V_t\end{align*} as claimed.

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The monument consists of the remains of the palace of the bishops of Moray at Spynie. The bishopric was established c.1107, but little is known of its history until a century later, when the church of the Holy Trinity at Spynie was chosen as the cathedral. In 1224, the bishop's cathedra was transferred to Elgin, but Spynie continued to be the principal residence of the bishops until 1686, just before the final abolition of episcopacy in the Church of Scotland.
The earliest surviving parts of the palace date to the 14th century, and include a first-floor chapel and entrance gateway on the S and what may have been a hall range with tall traceried windows on the W. These would have enclosed two sides of a roughly rectangular area, protected apparently by a rounded tower on the SW and defined on the N and E by the natural fall of the land down to the edge of Spynie Loch.
In the 15th century, a large rectangular tower replaced the earlier corner-tower. This was begun by Bishop David Stewart (1461-77), and completed by his successor William Tulloch (1477-82). It is one of the largest tower-houses in Scotland, and contained a first-floor hall below three floors of chambers and an additional attic storey. Other smaller chambers and latrine closets were built into the thickness of the E wall.
To the N of the tower, the earlier hall range was demolished and replaced by a service range. Around 1500, a great hall was built on the N side of the site, with bakehouse and kitchens to the W of it. At about the same time, the old S entry was replaced by a new gate on the E, and rectangular towers were added to the NW and SE corners. During the time of Bishop Patrick Hepburn (1539-73) these and the principal tower were provided with wide-mouthed openings for cannon.
In the middle ages, the palace would have been associated with the buildings of the toun of Spynie, which was made a free burgh of barony by James II in 1451. Most of the buildings probably lay S of the palace, but their remains have now been largely destroyed by ploughing; but remains of other structures, shell middens and a well survive along the foot of the sand cliff to the W of the palace.
The area to be scheduled includes the remains of the palace, the well, and the middens and structures to the west, and represents an area extending some 425m E-W by 175m N-S, as shown in red on the accompanying map.
The monument is of national importance because, along with St Andrew's Castle, Fife, it represents one of the largest and best preserved medieval bishop's palaces surviving in Scotland. Its importance is enhanced by the surviving unexplored below-ground archaeology of the palace area itself, and of the zone extending W from it.
RCAHMS records the monument as NJ 26 NW 10.
Lewis, J. (1986) Excavations Reports in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland.
MacGibbon, D. and Ross, T. (1887-92) The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland, 5 vols. Edinburgh, I, 439-445.
Pringle, D. Spynie Palace (Historic Scotland: forthcoming).
Shaw, L. (1882) The History of the Province of Moray, new edition by J. F. S. Gordon, 3 vols., Glasgow.
Simpson, D. W. (1927) The Palace of the Bishops of Moray at Spynie (Elgin).


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