The Carbon Platform: Is this how a boiler room recruits staff?
The Carbon Platform is a Dubai-based company offering investment in the Carbon Compliance Market, as well as the opportunity to make yourself carbon neutral or your company green. The company is currently updating its website. "Too busy making everyone green…!" an announcement explains.
The Carbon Platform's phone number is listed on Smith & Ken's website as belonging to "Smith & Ken's preferred Mortgage partner, Oxygen Home Loans".
Smith & Ken claims to have "gone green" by buying carbon credits from The Carbon Platform.
According to its website, The Carbon Platform has an office in London. But the company is not (as far as I can tell) registered in the UK, and there are 1,743 companies registered at the postcode in London. It is almost certainly a mail forwarding address or a virtual office.
The successful candidates will be working closely with the Sales Manager, based in our Open Plan Dubai Office, selling the services of the company to corporate and private individuals who wish to either go green or have a green ethical investment into the compliance market to help diversify their portfolio. Day to day activities involve Telesales to the company's client base.
Employees will make sales calls, increase their knowledge of carbon market, educate people about the importance of going green and inform "prospects" about the carbon market and how and why it was created. The company provides "Guaranteed Leads and Database to contact" and offers 10% commission on all transactions (which it claims is the highest in the market) and added commission "for Brokers on Re-Sales by Sales Manager".
The Carbon Commodity Market is being talked about as the new Gold! Carbon Sales Brokers are earning between GBP 50,000 – GBP 60,000 in their 1st year!
The Carbon Platform, a Carbon Brokerage focused on helping individuals and corporates becoming green, is looking for Carbon Sales Brokers to join our dynamic and very successful sales team.
Originally from the UK, The Carbon Platform has opened an office in Dubai to cater for the growing demand from companies looking to become Green!
Are you hungry for financial rewards?
Do you want to earn GBP 100,000 per year? And all tax free?
Does your current job role offer you the above? Or do you fancy a change? Imagine a life of earning large sums of money, tax free, and in the sunshine every day!
You don't need to imagine any longer – The Carbon Platform provides this opportunity – Now it's your turn to take advantage of it.
These exciting roles offer limitless earning potential and great career aspects as we promote only from within. All our existing Compliance Brokers started as Carbon Brokers!
The Carbon Platform is a target driven, innovative and energetic company that offers its employees the right environment to achieve their full potential and personal financial goals. Ongoing training is given to ensure The Carbon Platform remains the leading carbon brokerage in the market place providing the correct information and investment opportunities to its clients.
* Monthly Incentives for Top Performers providing Tailored suits, Luxury cars for the weekend and Weekends Away!
* Quarterly Incentive for Top Performers including holidays to New York, Venice, Paris to name a few!
* Monthly Team Nights Out!
* Bi Annual Company Party!
Hard work does not go unnoticed or unrewarded in The Carbon Platform. The office is a motivational workplace in itself, with a thriving, lively atmosphere with background music and a buzzer and the applause of team mates making successful transactions! To aid the fast paced environment a masseuse visits weekly, a punch bag offers some relief and there is a "Chiller" with massage chairs, internet and X-box to play Fifa 13!
The Carbon Platform is a Carbon Brokerage with offices in London, UK and Dubai, UAE that specialize in reducing corporate and private green house gas emissions by performing emission audits and offsetting the emissions produced by that company or individual respectively through green energy projects. The Carbon Platform also provides ongoing green strategies through PAS2060 standards and green branding for our corporate clients. The Carbon Platform only recommends investing into the Carbon Marker via the Compliance Market only.
I own 1.700 Carbond Credits.
Are you interested in buying them.
If not, could you point some interested addresses ?
@Eddy Vandenberghe (#1) – Sorry, I'm not interested in buying your carbon credits. In any case, I think you need to provide more details. At the moment, you're a bit like someone selling a car, who doesn't say what make of car, how old it is, how many miles it's done, what price you want, or what condition it's in.
1. From which project where the carbon credits generated (please include the name of the project and whether it's a hydropower dam, wind farm, HFC-23 destruction project, or whatever and the country).
3. Are the credits certified, e.g. under the Verified Carbon Standard, Gold Standard, Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance etc.
4. Where are the credits registered?
5. Where did you buy the carbon credits? Did you buy the carbon credits as a result of a telephone call from a company offering them as an investment?
If you bought the carbon credits from a company based in the UK and you believe that you are the victim of fraud, please contact Action Fraud (telephone number 0300 123 2040).
Your answer was very instructive : direct and informative.
I appear to be a victim of the carbon credit scam. In August 2012 I was approached by a Mr Alan Roscoe of New Frontier Partnership Ltd advising the opportunity to make good returns and also at the same time also contribute to the green programme, He also claimed that their Broker company had been in business for four years and were regulated by the FSA.
After a number of email exchanges and a lot of information on VCS credits, in September 2012 I agreed to invest and paid £3,450.00 for 500 Carbon credits through Eco Synergies for the Sichuan Xixi river Hydro scheme Luogu Hydroelectric Project in China and was sent the certification. Everything appeared to be above board and when I was contacted again by Mr Roscoe in November with a proposal with a high potential profit with Hyundai credits I advised him that I was not able to invest further, he proposed to sell 50% of the Eco Synergies holding that would pay a good proportion of the cost of the Hyundai credits, I agreed and paid the £2,300.00 for the 500 credits, the purchase was through CNI which again appeared to be genuine with their association with a number of major companies and were again regulated by the FSA. When I received the certification in January from CNI I fond that the credits were for the 439 Yingpeng HFC23 power generation Project in China I contacted CNI who stated that the instructions for purchase from New Frontier was for the above project.
I have been constantly in touch with Mr Roscoe about the sale of 50% of the original purchase and the sale of the Eco Synergies credits I was kept being advised that he was dealing with the issue up to the point where he did not respond to calls, letters and emails up to the point now where the companies New Frontier, CNI and Eco Synergies are not contactable and appear to have disappeared back into the woodwork.
Apart from loosing my savings I feel quite an idiot for being scammed this way, I am sure that there are people out there who feel too embarrassed to publicly reveal the scams. I would certainly welcome any advise you could give in this matter.
@T C Arnott (#4) – I'm very sorry to hear about this.
27 February 2013: Is the Knifton family behind Carbon Neutral Investments?
And all the posts on REDD-Monitor about carbon credit boiler room operations are collected here.
Second, contact Action Fraud: 0300 123 2040. Give them the details of the various companies that sold you carbon credits and where the credits were registered. As well as registering a complaint about the companies involved, you can ask Action Fraud for advice.
Third, a couple of people have given their email addresses in comments on REDD-Monitor in response to questions about filing a class action law suit: here and here.
Do you think that any of the credits purchased are genuine and is there a register and if so can it be accessed.
@Tom Arnott (#6) – Thanks for your comment.
The problem you have is that you bought carbon credits that are available very cheaply (for well under £1) and you paid very much more than they are worth. The credits may be genuine, but the problem is that you will find it extremely difficult to sell them. I think you should contact the police via Action Fraud and contact other people who are in the same situation as you.
Below is a comment from HMRC and a link to their brief, I am afraid there is no secondary market at all therefore irrespective if they are genuine or not, there is no possibility to sell them. I am sorry to hear about your situation however, I can assure you that you are not alone. Boiler rooms rely on the fact that victims will keep silent and prefer not to 'feel an idiot for being scammed' as you put it.
@Chris Lang's advice is sound, I would contact Action Fraud and get in to touch with one of the many groups that are starting to form. Once you have dealt with a boiler room your personal contact details become a form of currency for fraudsters and will be sold on to other scammers. Do not be surprised if you are called or emailed regularly with other wonderful offers, such as Rare Earth Metals, Fine Wine, Teak Tree Plantations and the list goes on.


The territorial jurisdiction to institute a trade mark infringement or copyright infringement case is turning into a battleground with contrary views being taken by the Delhi High Court and the Bombay High Court. Trade Marks Act and the Copyright Act, unlike the Patent Act and Design Act, create an additional / convenient forum for the Plaintiff to sue for infringement at the Plaintiffs place of business irrespective of the situs of infringement.
It is, therefore, clear that the object and reason for the introduction of sub-section (2) of Section 62 was not to restrict the owners of the copyright to exercise their rights but to remove any impediment from their doing so. Section 62 (2) cannot be read as limiting the jurisdiction of the District Court only to cases where the person instituting the suit or other proceeding, or where there are more than one such persons, any of them actually and voluntarily resides or carries on business or presently works for gain. It prescribes an additional ground for attracting the jurisdiction of a Court over and above the 'normal' grounds as laid down in Section 20 of the Code.
20. In our opinion, in a case where the cause of action has arisen at a place where the plaintiff is residing or where there are more than one such persons, any of them actually or voluntarily resides or carries on business or personally works for gain would oust the jurisdiction of other place where the cause of action has not arisen though at such a place, by virtue of having subordinate office, the plaintiff instituting a suit or other proceedings might be carrying on business or personally works for gain.
21. At the same time, the provisions of Section 62 of the Copyright Act and Section 134 of the Trade Marks Act have removed the embargo of suing at place of accrual of cause of action wholly or in part, with regard to a place where the plaintiff or any of them ordinarily resides, carries on business or personally works for gain. We agree to the aforesaid extent that the impediment imposed under Section 20 CPC to a plaintiff to institute a suit in a court where the defendant resides or carries on business or where the cause of action wholly or in part arises, has been removed. But the right is subject to the rider in case the plaintiff resides or has its principal place of business/carries on business or personally works for gain at a place where cause of action has also arisen, suit should be filed at that place not at other places where the plaintiff is having branch offices, etc.
The third case is where the plaintiff has a principal office at one place and the cause of action has arisen at the place where its subordinate office is located. In this eventuality, the plaintiff would be deemed to carry on business at the place of his subordinate office and not at the place of the principal office. Thus, the plaintiff could sue at the place of the subordinate office and cannot sue (under the scheme of the provisions of section 134 (2) and 62 (2) at the place of the principal office.
64. In my humble view, there is nothing in the judgment of the Supreme Court in Indian Performing Rights Society Limited (supra) to suggest that the plaintiff is precluded from filing a suit where its head office/ principal office is situated, even though it has a subordinate office at a place where the cause of action arises by resort to Section 62of the Copyright Act and Section 134 of the Trade Marks Act. In such a situation, the plaintiff, in my view, could maintain a suit at either of the two places, namely, where its head office/ principal place of business is situated and where he resides or works for gain, and also at the place where the plaintiff may have subordinate office and a part of cause of action has arisen.
This decision of the Single Judge came to be struck down by the Division Bench of the Delhi High Court, RSPL vs. Mukesh Sharma & Anr, holding that the Single Judge was bound by their earlier decision in Ultra Homes.
The Bombay High Court has in Manugraph India Limited & Anr. vs. Simarq Technologies Pvt. Ltd. & Ors., interpreted the decision of the Supreme Court in the same manner as that of the Single Judge in the case or RSPL. The Single Judge of the Bombay High Court has gone to the extent of disagreeing with the Division Bench decision in Ultra Homes of the Delhi High Court.
(b) Where the plaintiff has only one office, it presents no difficulty. Where the plaintiff has multiple offices, however, he has a limited choice. He may either bring a Suit under Section 134(2) or Section 62(2), i.e., within the jurisdiction where he resides; or he may invoke Section 20 and file a suit where the Defendants reside or work for gain or where the cause of action arose wholly or in part. The fact that the Plaintiff has the choice of bringing a suit based on Section 20 of the CPC does not mean that his rights under Section 134(2) or Section 62(2) are in any way eroded, curtailed or restricted.
"In the opinion of the Committee many authors are deterred from instituting infringement proceedings because the court in which such proceedings are to be instituted is situated at a considerable distance from the place of their ordinary residence. The Committee feels that this impediment should be removed and the new sub-clause (2) accordingly provides that infringement proceedings may be instituted in the district court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the person instituting the proceedings ordinarily resides, carries on business etc."
The jurisdiction tussle does not appear to be abate any time soon unless the Division Bench of the Bombay High Court takes a different view from that of the Single Judge. Considering the divergent views, it appears the Supreme Court of India will again say what it meant to say in IPRS vs. Sanjay Dalia, albeit in an appropriate case.


Here's a few screenshots that create a poem that I found on the game Layers Of Fear.
This is interesting as it shows the charm in games, that extra bit of thought and skill that goes into the industry. There are many people with many talents in this world and often we can't match our talents to our work but this writer has in what was a slightly odd horror game.
It's great what games can throw at you. Dark games with dark poetry.


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You will need to buy felt on a bolt in the fabric section as your background.
Cut to whatever size you want. I didn't measure, just decided this was a good size and went for it.
Use the small sheets of felt for the feathers.
You will fold the felt, hamburger style, and cut the felt in the shape of a feather from one end of the felt to the other.
Since the felt is folded, you will get 2 feathers of each color you cut.
I did numerous colors for the feathers because that is what I had on hand but you could only do a few if that is what you prefer.
Once all your feathers are cut, number them all 1-27 or 28 using a fabric marker.
I chose to do 28, not sure if Thanksgiving is ever on the 28th but you will at least need 27 feathers because it does fluctuate between the 26th and 27th frequently.
Now onto the turkey's body.
I didn't have a large piece of brown felt but you could easily buy some when you buy the background felt.
If you only have small brown pieces like me this is how I cut the felt- I placed two pieces on top of each other and cut a half circle. Then cut another half circle to finish the turkey's body.
I then chose to glue his body down to the felt using Fabric Tack Glue.
Be sure not to glue right up the edge because you will slip the feathers behind the turkey's body.
I then cut a belly out of a light brown color, and a head and neck out of beige felt.
Using my fabric marker, I drew on eyes and then used orange felt for the beak and red for it's snood.
I glued both the beak and snood to the face.
Cut some feet out of orange felt and glued the feet, belly, and face onto the body.
At the beginning of the month, begin by placing a feather on to the turkey each day until his tail is full on Thanksgiving day.
Start with the higher numbers in one row then add a second row of feathers behind the first row as you go.
Gotta love that felt sticks to felt!!
Hope you make one for yourself!!


Not every swaddle is made equal!
Plenty of evidence shows that swaddling, when used correctly, can be a tremendous way to promote safe sleeping. The Safe Sleep Guidelines from the American Association of Pediatrics are clear: swaddling helps to keep babies on their backs, which is the ideal sleep position to assist in preventing SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). Since the guidelines also recommend that there be no blankets, pillows or bumper pads in the crib, it is of utmost importance that your baby be swaddled in a correct and optimal fashion. Properly done, the swaddle will firmly stay in place, keeping baby safe and comfortable.
Some of the benefits of swaddling?
Fabrics that retain too much heat will only be uncomfortable and potentially dangerous for baby. A baby's body hasn't yet developed to regulate their own temperature effectively, and their small size means that they can quickly become overheated. Look for a moisture-wicking fabric—as you would find in some sportswear—that will keep baby warm and dry without overheating. These fabrics pull perspiration away from the skin and through the fabric, so it can evaporate rather than remaining on the skin. This is important because if not wicked away, sweat that cools on the skin on cool nights can cause baby's body temperature to drop. And in the heat of summer, if sweat is simply trapped, baby can quickly overheat. A good fabric will keep baby comfortable all year around. Please remember it is also important to confer with your pediatrician to determine the ideal temperature for the room where your little one will be sleeping.
While some people worry that swaddling can interfere with proper hip and joint development, what you need to look for is a swaddle with fabric that has enough give to allow the hip joints to move freely without interfering with the comfort and safety benefits of the swaddle.
Avoid swaddles that restrict hip movement, as they can result in your baby developing hip dysplasia. Your baby needs free range of motion in their hips and legs to keep their joint development on track. The swaddle needs to be tight at the torso, but not below. It can still be perfectly safe if bands are used below baby's feet.
Banding the swaddle below the feet is absolutely necessary, even as your baby grows, to ensure a snug and secure fit. What you don't want is the fabric rising during sleep, potentially covering your baby's face and creating a suffocation risk. Banding the excess fabric below baby's feet ensures this won't happen.
BONUS! Banding the bottom of the swaddle makes midnight diaper changes a breeze! No need to unswaddle and disturb baby completely (with hands flailing!). Just take off the band and do a quick change, ninja style.
A swaddle should fit, so that your baby can have their shoulder above the top edge of the fabric when placed on the swaddle. This may seem a little counter-intuitive, as you might think that keeping the shoulder below the fabric line will keep baby more snuggly wrapped. But this actually poses the risk of suffocation if the fabric ends up in your baby's face. Keeping the swaddle below the shoulders also ensures that no constraint is put on the shoulder joints.
Ideally, you're looking for one with a flexible fit that will grow with your baby, though remember that once your baby is rolling over from back to stomach (typically around four to five months old), it's time to consider using a transition swaddle (with one or both arms out), or to stop swaddling altogether.
Loose swaddles can actually pose a danger in that they could come undone with baby's movement. The result may be that the child gets tangled up in it. And according to the Safe Sleep Guidelines, a loosened swaddle is essentially a blanket and therefore a no-no in the crib.
How tight is tight enough? You should still be able to slide your hand flat between your baby's chest and the swaddle, but not more than that.
There is no doubt that swaddling is a great way to help your baby master sleeping comfortably and safely. Finding a swaddle that works for your baby's size and movements is the key!


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A Rare 19th-Century French Satinwood and Mahogany Sewing Table by Charles-Guillaume Diehl Discovered For Sale
This 19th-Century French satinwood and mahogany sewing table by Charles-Guillaume Diehl is not only rare and unique but also a true representation of the master craftsmanship of the renowned Charles-Guillaume Diehl, making it an excellent addition to any antique furniture collection.
By: AntiquesInvest
Antique Sewing Table by Charles-Guillaume Diehl
Satinwood, mahogany and parquetry craftmanship
Maple and satinwood interior with mirror
COVENT GARDEN, U.K. - Jan. 24, 2023 - PRLog -- A rare and magnificent 19th-century French satinwood and mahogany sewing table with parquetry by the renowned Charles-Guillaume Diehl has been discovered. The piece is believed to have been created around 1851 and is a prime example of Diehl's subtle beauty and fine craftsmanship.
Charles-Guillaume Diehl was born in Germany in 1811 and moved to Paris in 1840, where he crafted his famous pieces of art until his death in 1885. He participated in all major international exhibitions during the middle of the nineteenth century, starting with the Great Exhibition in 1851, and was frequently awarded. In his prime popularity, he employed more than 600 workers to design and produce his highly sought-after pieces. The luxury furniture was often found in rare collections of noblemen and women across Europe.
The piece features a hinged lid that holds an integral mirror with a birdseye maple-lined fitted interior and a single drawer raised on faceted, slender tapering supports and classical lines. The piece is signed by Charles-Guillaume Diehl himself. The Parisian influence in this piece is apparent in the cultured lines and carefully selected superior woods—maple satinwood and mahogany.
The sewing table is in good condition and well cared for, with only some fading commensurate with ageing. Some minor restoration is perceived to the top of this piece as visualised in the images. The piece measures 62 cm wide x 75 cm high.
Provenance: From a private collection.
Similar rare pieces can be viewed at some of the most prestigious museums, such as Musée d'Orsay, The Met, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. This item is available for purchase as part of the esteemed PBS Collection and can be acquired for £3800.
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So on my quest for 100%ing Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag, I see a fair amount of unlockables are behind community challenges. Um one question, are these things just random or are they like rare online events Ubisoft issues? I went to the acinitates.com as the game suggested, but I didn't see anything helpful. Just ads to buy things and the "buy this domain" option. So, how exactly do I go about finding these?


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Nehalem Mac Pros Arrive: Unboxing and Benchmarks
Tuesday March 10, 2009 2:37 am PDT by Arnold Kim
MacRumors forum user WonderSausage received his 2009 Nehalem Mac Pro yesterday. The system was configured as a Dual 2.93GHz Quad-Core system with 6GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 4870 card. Additional high quality photos posted to Flickr with commentary in the discussion thread.
The early GeekBench benchmark for the Nehalem system gave a whopping total score of 17,665, placing it at the very top of the list of all GeekBench 2 scores. The previous #1 placeholder was a Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4450. This also eclipses the results of the previous top-of-the-line 3.2GHz 8-core Mac Pro which delivers a score as high as 11,030 but with many results in the 9,000 range. As expected, the largest gains in the new systems revolved around multi-threaded functions and memory performance. To give some more perspective on this value, see GeekBench's cumulative table of all Mac performance benchmarks as of January 2009.
Meanwhile, another reader was able to benchmark his Nehalem 2.26GHz Mac Pro which resulted in a Geekbench score of 11226-13113. Again the Nehalem processors excelled at multi-threaded tasks but the raw clock speed of the 2.26GHz processor was slower than the 3.2GHz processor at single-threaded tasks.
This same observation was also seen in Cinebench benchmarks compiled by Tesselator and charted by PowerPaw:
In this example, the new 2.26GHz 8-core Nehalem performed comparably to previous 2.8GHz 8-core processor in multi-threaded tasks, but worse at single threaded tasks. Meanwhile, the multi-core performance of the new 2.93GHz processor significantly outpaced the previous generation machines.
As a result, depending on your work flow (multi-threaded vs single-threaded), it may make more sense to buy a faster Quad-Core than a slower Octo-Core. While some are hoping that Apple's push for multi-threaded support in Snow Leopard may change this equation, developer support and the eventual impact of Grand Central remain unknown.
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DARE goes to Counterplay 17, Denmark | D.A.R.E.
Here's a Coding Pirate volunteer, Simon Milfred, All ready to go!
Bruno de Paula and Andrew Burn of DARE visited the Counterplay festival in Aarhus, Denmark, to make Viking games with Danish primary school children from March 30-31, 2017. Dr Rikke Toft-Norgard, of the University of Aarhus, had recently made Viking-themed games with English children at London Southbank – so this was a kind of return visit.
Our workshop was supported by Dr Claus Toft-Nielsen of the University of Aarhus, and by volunteers from Coding Pirates, the Danish network for code clubs and related activities in Denmark. The workshop participants were 32 Danish schoolchildren – two classes from a local primary school, with their teachers.
The workshop used the Missionmaker software developed by MAGiCAL Projects. This version was developed for DARE's Playing Beowulf project with the British Library, so its environments of mediqaeval halls and caves, and its characters of Nordic warriors, mediaeval villagers, dragons and monsters was particularly appropriate.
Here are two girls planning their game, one designing in Missionmaker, the other writing the story on her laptop.
After Bruno's demonstration of the software, the children quickly picked up the techniques of designing games, building environments, adding objects, characters and weapons, and making rules to determine events and actions. As is always the case in Scandinavia, we were amazed by the ability of the children to understand and use what seemed to be perfect English!
It was interesting to see how game structures – obstacles, rewards, missions, bosses, began to emerge and also how some children developed narrative elements, including a sense of who their first-person player-character was, who might help him/her achieve the desired ends, and what motivated the enemies. Narrative elements also included brief sections of dialogue recorded by the children, such as a warning issued by a helper character, written and performed by one girl, Josefine.
Here are two girls programming the Queen character to become aggressive when approached by the player.
We also noted how different structures of game-world emerged, from structures based on rooms in a castle or hall, to maze-like structures made of interlocking corridors. Here's a boy's game building a maze-like world.
Our intention is to look through the games, play a selection and video-capture them, and add them to this post later.
Our thanks to Rikke and Claus for inviting us, and making it possible – also to the children and their teachers.


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CARES Act/COVID 3.5: Loans & other financial assistance for physician practices
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COVID 3.5: The latest COVID-19 relief bill, the "Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act," was signed into law by President Trump on April 24. The bill provides $484 billion in additional funding to replenish and supplement key programs under the CARES Act, including the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), small business disaster loans and grants, hospitals and health care providers and testing. Learn more in the summary of the COVID-3.5 legislation.
The CARES Act established or expanded several loan programs intended to provide liquidity to businesses, including physician practices: (1) the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses; (2) the Coronavirus Economic Stabilization Act (CESA), which created the Main Street Lending Program and authorizes the Federal Reserve to make loans, loan guarantees, other investments and subsidies to provide liquidity for mid-size businesses with 15,000 or fewer employees for losses incurred as a result of coronavirus; (3) Emergency Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL); and (4) the Small Business Debt Relief Program.
In addition, physician practices may be eligible for certain tax credits. Furthermore, physician practices are eligible for economic relief under the Department of Health and Human Services Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund. Below is a summary of these with links to additional information and applications.
Loan application information
The Borrower Application Form for the new small business loan program is now available and small businesses and sole proprietors can begin applying April 3, 2020. Physicians can also contact their local SBA District Office.
Apply for an SBA loan (PDF)
Apply for forgiveness of your PPP loan (PDF)
View Interim Final Rule 1 (PDF)
View Interim Final Rule on applicable affiliation rules (PDF)
View Interim Final Rule on additional eligibility criteria and requirements for certain pledges of loans (PDF)
View Interim Final Rule on requirements for promissory notes, authorizations, affiliation and eligibility (PDF, updated April 24, 2020)
View the Treasury FAQ (PDF, updated April 23, 2020)
Contact your local SBA district office
Find a local SBA lending institution
SBA's new loan program for small businesses
Small businesses, including physician practices, with no more than 500 employees are eligible to apply for the SBA's new Payroll Protection Program. The PPP allows a small business to apply to an SBA-approved lender for a loan of up to 250 percent of the business' average monthly payroll costs to cover eight weeks of payroll as well as help with other expenses like rent, mortgage payments and utilities. The maximum loan amount is $10 million.
Sole-proprietors, independent contractors and other self-employed individuals are eligible. A loan can be forgiven based on maintaining employee and salary levels. For any portion of the loan that is not forgiven, the terms include a maximum term of 10 years and a maximum interest rate of four percent. This program is retroactive to February 15, 2020 and available through June 30, 2020. All current SBA 7(a) lenders are eligible lenders for PPP, and the Department of Treasury will also oversee authorizing new lenders.
On May 15, the SBA released the PPP loan forgiveness application, along with instructions (PDF) and worksheets to guide borrowers.
Important: Eligible small businesses and sole proprietors can apply for PPP loans from existing SBA lenders beginning April 3, 2020; independent contractors and self-employed individuals can apply for such loans beginning April 10, 2020. View the small business owner's guide to the CARES Act.
Emergency economic injury disaster loans
Physician practices with not more than 500 employees also are eligible for an "emergency" EIDL. EIDLs are lower interest loans of up to $2 million, with principal and interest deferment available for up to four years, that are available to pay for expenses that could have been met had the disaster not occurred, including payroll and other operating expenses. An eligible entity that has applied for an EIDL loan can request an advance on that loan, of not more than $10,000, which the SBA must distribute within three days.
Advance payments may be used for providing paid sick leave to employees, maintaining payroll, meeting increased costs to obtain materials, making rent or mortgage payments and repaying obligations that cannot be met due to revenue losses. If a small business receives a PPP loan that is forgiven (see above), any advance amount received under the emergency EIDL would be subtracted from the amount forgiven in the PPP loan.
Can a small business get an EIDL and a PPP loan?
Yes, small businesses can get both an EIDL and a PPP loan as long as they do not cover the same expenses. Physicians should consult with their lender before applying for both types of loans.
Main Street Lending Program for mid-size practices
Title IV of the CARES Act includes a subtitle called the Coronavirus Economic Stabilization Act (CESA), which created the Main Street Lending Program and authorizes the Federal Reserve(working with the Treasury Department) to make loans, loan guarantees, other investments and subsidies to provide liquidity for small and mid-size businesses for losses incurred as a result of coronavirus.
This program is designed to encourage lenders to make up to $600 billion in low interest loans to eligible businesses with 15,000 or fewer employees during the current period of financial strain by supporting the provision of credit to such businesses. Updates regarding this program, including the official launch date, will be made available on the Federal Reserve's Main Street page. See their Main Street Lending Program FAQ for additional details. This program will be available until September 20, 2020, unless extended.
To be eligible, businesses, including physician practices, must has 15,000 or fewer employees, must have been established prior to March 13, 2020; must have been in sound financial condition prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic; and must be legally formed entities that are organized for profit as a partnership, a limited liability company, a corporation, an association, a trust, a cooperative, a joint venture with no more than 49 percent participation by foreign business entities or a tribal business concern.
The minimum loan amount is $500,000. Loans will have an adjustable interest rate of LIBOR (1 or 3 months) plus 300 basis points (see Term Sheets for terms specific to each facility), and a four-year maturity. Prepayment is permitted at any time without penalty. Principal and interest payments can be deferred for one year (unpaid interest will be capitalized).
These loans do not have the forgiveness provisions as in the PPP loans.
To obtain a loan under this program, an eligible borrower must submit an application and any other required documentation to an eligible lender.
On April 30, the Federal Reserve released new details that define the scope and eligibility for this program and released term sheets for the three facilities (the "Facilities") that will be used to operationalize the program, namely the:
Main Street New Loan Facility (the "MSNLF")
Main Street Priority Loan Facility (MSPLF)
Main Street Expanded Loan Facility (the "MSELF")
The maximum size of the loan is calculated as follows:
For the MSNLF: maximum loan size that is the lesser of (i) $25 million or (ii) an amount that, when added to the borrower's existing outstanding and undrawn available debt, does not exceed four times the borrower's adjusted 2019 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ("EBITDA")
For the MSPLF: maximum loan size that is the lesser of (i) $25 million or (ii) an amount that, when added to the borrower's existing outstanding and undrawn available debt, does not exceed six times the borrower's adjusted 2019 EBITDA
For the MSELF: maximum loan size that is the lesser of (i) $200 million, (ii) 35% of the borrower's existing outstanding and undrawn available debt that is pari passu in priority with the loan and equivalent in secured status (i.e., secured or unsecured), or (iii) an amount that, when added to the borrower's existing outstanding and undrawn available debt, does not exceed six times the borrower's adjusted 2019 EBITDA
For more information, review the Federal Reserve FAQs on the Main Street Lending Program.
The total amount of credit extended via the Facilities in the aggregate is expected to be up to $600 billion.
Borrowers under this program must make a good-faith certification that:
The uncertainty of economic conditions as of the date of the application makes necessary the loan request to support the ongoing operations of the recipient.
The funds it receives will be used to retain at least 90 percent of the recipient's workforce, at full compensation and benefits, until September 30, 2020.
The recipient intends to restore not less than 90 percent of the workforce of the recipient that existed as of February 1, 2020, and to restore all compensation and benefits to the workers of the recipient no later than 4 months after the termination date of the public health emergency declared by the Secretary of Health and Human Services on January 31, 2020, under section 319 of the Public Health Services Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) in response to COVID–19.
The recipient is an entity or business that is domiciled in the United States with significant operations and employees located in the United States.
The recipient is not a debtor in a bankruptcy proceeding.
The recipient is created or organized in the United States or under the laws of the United States and has significant operations in and a majority of its employees based in the United States.
The recipient will not pay dividends with respect to the common stock of the eligible business, or repurchase an equity security that is listed on a national securities exchange of the recipient or any parent company of the recipient while the direct loan is outstanding, except to the extent required under a contractual obligation that is in effect as of the date of enactment of this Act.
The recipient will not outsource or offshore jobs for the term of the loan and 2 years after completing repayment of the loan.
The recipient will not abrogate existing collective bargaining agreements for the term of the loan and 2 years after completing repayment of the loan.
That the recipient will remain neutral in any union organizing effort for the term of the loan.
For recipients of Title IV funds, there are special rules on employee compensation that apply.
No officer or employee earning more than $425,000 in 2019, can receive 1) pay increases or 2) severance upon termination of employment exceeding twice the maximum compensation received in 2019 (for funds under Section 4003, this requirement is from the date the agreement is executed until one year after the loan or loan guarantee is no longer outstanding; for funds under Section 4412, this requirement is from March 24, 2020, to March 24, 2022).
No officer or employee whose 2019 total compensation exceeded $3 million may receive total compensation in excess of $3 million and 50 percent of the excess over $3 million that they received in 2019, including salary, bonuses, awards of stock and other financial benefits.
Title IV also clarifies that the Federal Reserve retains the discretion to establish a "Main Street Lending Program" or similar program that supports lending to "small and mid-sized businesses" on terms consistent with the Federal Reserve's authority under Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act. Details on this provision are not yet available.
Note: A borrower that receives a loan through the SBA's PPP is eligible for Main Street Lending program loan if it meets the eligible borrower criteria.
Small business debt relief program
This program will provide immediate debt relief to small businesses with non-disaster SBA loans, e.g., 7(a), 504 and microloans. SBA will cover all loan payments on these loans, including principal, interest and fees, for six months. New borrowers are eligible for this relief if they take out loans within six months of the President signing the law.
Small business tax provisions
The CARES Act includes changes to taxes and tax policies that could benefit physician practices. These changes include an employee retention tax credit if the practice's business operations were fully or partially suspended due to a COVID-19 shut-down order, or gross receipts declined by more than 50 percent compared to the same quarter in the prior year. Eligible businesses can get a refundable 50 percent tax credit on wages up to $10,000 per employee. The credit can be obtained on wages paid or incurred from March 13, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2020.
Another provision allows taxpayers to defer paying the employer portion of certain payroll taxes through the end of 2020, with all 2020 deferred amounts due in two equal installments, one at the end of 2021 and the other at the end of 2022. The employee retention credit and the tax deferral are not available to employers whose PPP loans are forgiven. Physicians should consult with their tax professional to determine if these benefits or others apply to their practice.
Public health and social services emergency fund
The CARES Act includes relief to physician practices who are suffering financial loss due to COVID-19 by designating funding for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund.
On April 10, 2020, HHS announced the immediate disbursement of the first $30 billion out of the $100 billion of this fund that Congress allocated to hospitals, physicians, and other health care providers. This initial $30 billion is being directed to hospitals and physician practices based on their share of Medicare fee-for-service spending.
The total amount of Medicare FFS spending in 2019 was $484 billion. Hypothetically, if a Medicare provider with a Taxpayer ID Number (TIN) accounted for 1% of total Medicare FFS spending in 2019, the TIN would receive 1% of the $30 billion. All facilities and health professionals that billed Medicare FFS in 2019 are eligible for the funds. These are grants, not loans and do not have to be repaid. Note that the funds will go to each organization's TIN which normally receives Medicare payments, not to each individual physician.
The automatic payments will come to the organizations via Optum Bank with "HHSPAYMENT" as the payment description. The funds may be used either for health care related expenses or for lost revenues that are attributable to coronavirus. Recipients will need to attest to certain terms and conditions (PDF) within 30 days of receiving their grant. The CARES Act Provider Relief Fund Payment Attestation Portal exit disclaimer icon is now open.
Additional details about the allocation are available.
The CARES Act Provider Relief Fund also issued clarifying guidance on how individual physicians can receive grant funds. By law, the funds reimburse eligible organizations, facilities and physicians for lost revenues and increased expenses attributable to COVID-19. Download the Stimulus Guidance for Physicians resource (PDF) to understand how individual physicians can receive grant funds from the CARES Act Provider Relief Fund.
Check back for updates
The information on this fact sheet will be updated as new information becomes available.
Additional CARES Act-related articles
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CARES Act: Medicare advance payments for COVID-19 emergency
CARES Act: AMA COVID-19 pandemic telehealth fact sheet
CARES Act: Medicare's COVID-19 advance payment program FAQs
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Q: How can I pass data from parent component to child component in react? I have an Player Form component that is being used for adding and updating. Player Form is inside another component that is the whole page: Update Player. Since I'm new with React, I have still problems understanding the life cycle.
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import axios from 'axios';
import PlayerForm from './PlayerForm';
//import axios from '../index';

    class UpdatePlayer extends Component {
        constructor(props) {
            super(props);
            this.state = {
                id: props.match.params.id,
                firstname: '',
                lastname: ''};
        }

        componentDidMount = async () => {
            try {
                const id = this.state.id;
                const response = await axios.get(`http://localhost:8000/players/${id}`);
                this.setState({'firstname': response.data.firstname,
                    'lastname': response.data.lastname});
            } catch (error) {
                alert(error)
            }
        }

        /*static getDerivedStateFromProps(props, state) {
            return {
                firstname: props.firstname,
                lastname: props.lastname}
        }*/

        handleSubmit = (firstname, lastname) => {
            const data = {
                firstname,
                lastname
            }
        }

        render() {
            console.log('render parent');
            return (
                <PlayerForm data={this.state} buttonLabel="Update" onSubmit={this.handleSubmit}/>
            )
        }
    }

    export default UpdatePlayer;

The code of the Form component is the following:
    import React, { Component } from 'react';
    import axios from 'axios';

    class PlayerForm extends Component {
        constructor(props) {
            super(props);
            console.log('create');
            this.state = {
                firstname: props.data.firstname,
                lastname: props.data.lastname}
        }

        handleSubmit = (event) => {
            event.preventDefault();
            const { firstname, lastname } = this.state;
            this.props.handleSubmit(firstname, lastname);
        }

        onChange = (event) => {
            console.log(event.target.name, event.target.value);
            this.setState({
                [event.target.name]: event.target.value
            });
        }

        render() {
            console.log('render form!')
            const { firstname, lastname } = this.props.data;
            return (
                <form onSubmit={this.handleSubmit} method="post">

                        Firstname
                        <input className="input" placeholder="Firstname" name="firstname" value={firstname} onChange={this.onChange}/>

                        Lastname
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                    <button className="button is-primary" type="submit="> {this.props.buttonLabel}</button>
                </form>
            )
        }
    }

    export default PlayerForm;

This code is actually working, but I have one major doubt:

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*In the render of the form component, I was using this.state, but I was getting an empty data. I tried many things to update the state in "component Did Update" or "get Derived State From Props", but nothing was working properly. Using props works perfect. Is that the right way? I think it should be neater if using state inside the component.

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Chillicothe native hopes to help kids reach reading level through first book
Years before Chris Knoblaugh became a published author, she was a CHS student, who created stories and convinced her classmates to read them.
Chillicothe native hopes to help kids reach reading level through first book Years before Chris Knoblaugh became a published author, she was a CHS student, who created stories and convinced her classmates to read them. Check out this story on chillicothegazette.com: https://ohne.ws/2u7sKfi
Michaela Sumner, Chillicothe Gazette Published 3:36 p.m. ET July 5, 2018
Chris Knoblaugh(Photo: Provided by Chris Knoblaugh)
CHILLICOTHE - Years before Chris Knoblaugh became a published author, she was a Chillicothe High School student, who created stories and convinced her classmates to read them.
Since 1973 - the year she graduated from CHS - Knoblaugh has experienced a lot of life changes. College, another graduation, marriage, and a series of jobs led the woman to California, where Knoblaugh now works as an English teacher at a middle school in San Jose.
Recently, Knoblaugh's first book "Tribute," a youth horror novel, was published. It's a book the teacher hopes her students and others can learn from.
"My book is intended to help some of my classroom students who have trouble with reading at grade level," Knoblaugh told The Gazette. "So it has a lot of drama and a lot of action and things that involve kids in the book, but the reading level is deliberately set two levels below my class."
As a CHS student, Knoblaugh would often write her classmates as characters in her stories. She remembered her English teacher at the time, who encouraged her to write.
"Because of her support and also my classmate 'victims,' who I forced to read stuff, because of them I ended up getting my English literature degree and that has basically buoyed me along the career path," Knoblaugh said.
High school classmates of Knoblaugh remember her as having a vivid imagination and remember her intelligence. After graduation, classmates and friends often venture in their own direction, losing touch in the chaos of life, but Knoblaugh has since reconnected with classmates through social media despite physical distance.
Tawna Fine Rogers, who now lives in South Carolina, remembered Knoblaugh for her involvement in Chillicothe High's marching band, student council, and National Honor Society. Knowing how intelligent she was back in high school, the news of Knoblaugh's first book came as little surprise.
"I've been in touch with her through Facebook for a while so I was aware that this was happening, this was a project she'd been working on," Rogers said. "I was really happy to learn that it had progressed as quickly for the recognition as it did ... I know she was dealing with a lot of children who didn't really have a lot of good reading skills."
Melissa Gray, a high school classmate, recalled Knoblaugh always "had something circulating in that head of hers."
"I remember one time she planned a dinner party and we all dressed up. But that's the kind of thing she came up with," Gray said. "I think it's fantastic. It makes me proud, even though we haven't been that close."
Since reconnecting on Facebook, Gray said she's been able to read some of Knoblaugh's work.
"She writes very well. I like it. It keeps you engaged through the whole book," Gray said.
Much like Gray, Janet Wallace has felt a sense of pride in her classmate.
"I think that's a big success story for our generation, our classmates, for her to be a known author," Wallace said simply.
When she started teaching about 16 years ago, Knoblaugh discovered she couldn't find many high engagement, low reading level books for her students. So she began writing for her class and teaching her students how to do it too. About three years ago, her class decided their teacher needed to publish a book, Knoblaugh said.
So she decided to start the first book of what she hopes will become a series. The first book, she set in San Jose, because that's where she teaches. Knoblaugh began going back in time, incorporating moments from history into her book, but her students wanted something "a little more engaging."
Chillicothe native Chris Knoblaugh's first book, "Tribute," was released last week. (Photo: Provided by Chris Knoblaugh)
"Essentially, they're my best-test," Knoblaugh said with a laugh. "It's really easy to tell when you're working with kids if you've got their interest. They're not shy."
So Knoblaugh began adding cryptids, which are mythic creatures, such as Mothman and Chupacabra, into her stories. She began looking at her stories as a form of historical horror and said her kids have been having a lot of fun with them.
When asked what her students' impression of her published book have been, Knoblaugh said they're thrilled.
"It's been wonderful," she said, going on to explain how her school recently had a fundraiser, where a lot of people performed skits. She decided to do an open-mic reading of the first chapter of her second book, she said, and it was well received. "They've been very supportive."
Through her own book, Knoblaugh hopes her students can learn a few lessons by her example.
"I'm hoping they will realize that you can do it and that they can do it. They just have to find something that interests them and then figure out how to create a story related to it and put it down on paper," she said.
She encouraged Chillicothe-area hopeful writers to delve into the culture and history in Ross County, specifically citing the Serpent Mound, Native American tribes, and settlers as examples.
Though she's since moved across the country, Knoblaugh has many fond memories of Chillicothe, from her days at the high school to the smell of the Mead paper mill reminding her of "home" to picking up apples at Hirsch's Fruit Farm to stock her dad's apple stand on what's now County Road 550.
For more information about Knoblaugh's book or to purchase it, visit Amazon.com.
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Temperature Sensing for Oil, Gas, and Structural Analysis
With retirement of the space shuttle imminent, and the commercial space industry burgeoning, NASA is searching for safe and innovative methods for carrying payload and passengers to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The search for new vehicles has been going on for some years now, with a variety of plans being pursued and countless technologies being developed.
One of the early quests for a shuttle replacement involved the X-33 program, initiated in 1996. The goal of the X-33 program was to reduce the business and technical risks associated with space travel so that private industry could build and operate the next-generation reusable launch vehicle (RLV) by first designing, constructing, and flying a half-scale prototype that would demonstrate (in flight) the technologies needed for the new RLV.
The X-33 was intended to pave the way for a full-scale, commercially developed RLV to be built by the Lockheed Martin Corporation after the turn of the century. The full-scale RLV would dramatically reduce the cost of putting payloads into space and, ultimately, replace the space shuttle.
The Lockheed Martin design for the X-33 was selected from three designs submitted to NASA. The concept used a wedged shape coupled with an aerospike rocket engine to propel the vehicle, and a rugged metallic thermal protection system to shield against the extreme variations in temperature the craft would endure during take off and reentry.
It was designed to take off vertically like a rocket and land horizontally like an airplane after having reached hypersonic speeds and altitudes of up to 50 miles.
The X-33 program was managed by the Marshall Space Flight Center and the craft would have been launched at a special site on Edwards Air Force Base, in California.
Due to technical problems with the vehicle's composite liquid hydrogen tanks, though, the X-33 program was cancelled in February 2001, with Lockheed Martin given the option by NASA to continue development of the craft on its own.
Science developed for the vehicle prototype proceeded in many directions, including toward advancing knowledge needed to create the next-generation RLV, and toward creating a small fiber-optic-based temperature sensor that has found uses as widespread as automating the oil and gas industry to ensuring the structural integrity of large concrete dams.
In 1996, Systems and Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC), of Austin, Texas, undertook a NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract with Langley Research Center to develop a compact and lightweight digital thermal sensing (DTS) system for monitoring the cryogenic tanks on the X-33 prototype aircraft. That technology, along with a processor developed by SPEC for Goddard Space Flight Center, was space-qualified and integrated into several NASA missions.
SPEC formed an ancillary organization, SensorTran, Inc., to continue work developing the DTS technology for a variety of commercial and industrial applications.
By the year 2000, SensorTran was employing the DTS technology around the world in the oil and gas industry, the electrical power industry, in processing plants, and to test structural integrity of large structures.
Now in its second generation, the commercially available device, billed as the SensorTran 5100, is an industry leader because of its performance, ruggedness, and cost-effectiveness. The device measures temperature along an optical fiber by monitoring the amplitude of backscatter from a laser pulse through the fiber, with temperature profiles accurate to half a degree Celsius along full kilometers of optical fiber. By measuring temperature over the entire surface of an area, the SensorTran 5100 provides thousands of measurement points to monitor actual conditions. These extensive real-time data allow operators to make better decisions about performance, to reduce operating costs, and to increase performance and return on investment.
In the oil industry, it helps companies make the right decisions for the operation of their oil wells by giving them clear depictions of downhole conditions. Often when downhole information is available, it is limited or vague, leaving oil companies with high levels of uncertainty, which could potentially cost valuable time and resources. The SensorTran 5100 instrument reduces this uncertainty by providing clearer pictures of well conditions, which allows for better decisions and maximizes overall productivity. Using the installed optical fiber, it measures temperature over the entire length of the well, detecting conditions at any location. It also permanently monitors conditions over time, capturing critical events as they occur, while helping reduce the risk and cost of well intervention.
The device enables users to better see conditions and events anywhere in their wells at any time, allowing them to make the right decisions.
Oil industry users can:
troubleshoot wellbore conditions without intervention and identify problems before they become serious;
locate tubing and equipment leaks;
detect flow behind casing;
identify cross-flow and water or gas breakthrough;
optimize multizone production over the life of a well;
monitor changes in zone contributions;
monitor steam flood and steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) efficiency;
verify effectiveness of downhole operations in real time;
confirm injection profiles;
monitor cementing jobs; and
verify cement tops and gas-lift valve operation.
In the power cable monitoring industry, the SensorTran device also offers a host of benefits. Traditional methods for calculating load ratings rely on estimates for cable heat dissipation under different loads and conditions. The downside of this method is that it produces overly conservative load ratings, leaving cables with significant unused capacity. The SensorTran instrument allows engineers to increase load ratings by directly measuring temperature over the entire length of a cable and under actual conditions. This provides a much more accurate picture of cable heat dissipation, which, in turn, produces a more accurate cable rating. Estimates suggest that utilizing DTS measurements can increase cable ratings by as much as 25 percent.
These higher ratings available with DTS can provide significant benefits for power companies, because they can defer new capital expenditures, deliver more power with existing infrastructure, and defer millions of dollars in planned new construction. The ratings also allow them to reduce load-shedding events and the number of blackouts and brownouts on their systems, which translate into internal benefits that help to greatly improve customer service and support future customer growth. The need for additional investment is reduced by extending the life of existing underground cables.
When problem areas in power cable lines, called hotspots, are not known or change over time, power cable operators may be routinely loading cables above thermal limits. With the SensorTran 5100, engineers can accurately pinpoint the location and severities of all hotspots, helping extend cable life by ensuring temperature limits are not exceeded. The device can even provide automatic alarms, giving operators greater confidence under critical load conditions.
SensorTran 5100 can ameliorate new cable design and operation. By designing new cables with an expected higher rating from DTS data, less expensive cables can be used. In addition, with the sensor installed from the very beginning, the conditions of the cable for its entire life can be tracked, helping better estimate cable life and optimize cable maintenance.
The benefits of this technology also extend into monitoring processing plants. With the SensorTran 5100, plant operators now have the ability to thoroughly monitor their processing vessels and plant pipelines in real time. Using standard optical fiber, the device can monitor the entire surface of any vessel, such as a reactor vessel or cryogenic tank, helping operators pinpoint the location and severity of impending insulation failure or catastrophic leaks—even on internal surfaces. The entire length of any plant pipeline can also be monitored for potential leaks.
By monitoring vessels and pipelines in real time, operators can respond quickly to leaks or spills, thus reducing downtime and improving plant safety. In addition, maintenance schedules can be optimized based on actual conditions instead of estimated guesses.
DTS can also be used to monitor the strength of large cement structures. With the SensorTran 5100, engineers now have the ability to monitor critical dam structures from the inside out, to ensure proper cement curing and sufficient integrity throughout the life of the structure. Using standard optical fiber installed throughout and around the dam structure during construction, the SensorTran 5100 can provide initial insight into the progress of cement curing to help locate any significant flaws for reinforcement. In addition, the sensor can be used over the life of the dam to precisely locate any emerging leaks throughout the dam structure. With an accurate location of leaks, corrective action can be taken to stop or reduce potential damaging effects.
SensorTran 5100™ is a trademark of SensorTran, Inc.
The X-33 was intended to pave the way for a full-scale, commercially developed reusable launch vehicle to be built for NASA by the Lockheed Martin Corporation after the turn of the century. Due to technical problems with the vehicle's composite liquid hydrogen tanks, the X-33 program was cancelled in February 2001. Science developed for the vehicle prototype helped toward creating a small fiber-optic-based temperature sensor that has found widespread uses. In 1996, Systems and Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC), of Austin, Texas, undertook a NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract with Langley Research Center to develop the compact and lightweight digital thermal sensing (DTS) system for monitoring the cryogenic tanks on the X-33 prototype aircraft. That technology, along with a processor developed by SPEC for Goddard Space Flight Center, was space-qualified and integrated into several NASA missions. SPEC formed an ancillary organization, SensorTran, Inc., to continue work developing the DTS technology for a variety of commercial and industrial applications. By the year 2000, SensorTran was employing the DTS technology around the world in the oil and gas industry, the electrical power industry, in processing plants, and to test structural integrity of large structures. Now in its second generation, the commercially available device, billed as the SensorTran 5100, is an industry leader because of its performance, ruggedness, and cost-effectiveness. The device measures temperature along an optical fiber by monitoring the amplitude of backscatter from a laser pulse through the fiber, with temperature profiles accurate to half a degree Celsius along full kilometers of optical fiber.
A group of engineers gathers to collect temperature data using the SensorTran 5100 on the Yu River dam construction project in the Guizhou Province of China.
This artist's rendering depicts the three designs submitted to NASA for the X-33 reusable launch vehicle, an early program addressing the eventual replacement of the space shuttle fleet. NASA considered design submissions (pictured left to right) from Rockwell Collins, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and the McDonnell Douglas Company. NASA selected Lockheed's Martin's Design.
An artist's conception of a half-scale X-33 demonstrator, one of the first visions for a space shuttle replacement, flying over a southwestern desert. The vehicle had a wedge-shaped lifting body, with two vertical fins and a pair of stub wings. At the rear was the aerospike engine, an experimental design that lacked the nozzles of conventional rockets.
The SensorTran 5100 DTS unit is rugged, cost-effective, and precise.
The SensorTran unit relies on advanced fiber optics. The device measures temperature along an optical fiber by monitoring the amplitude of backscatter from a laser pulse through the fiber, with temperature profiles accurate to half a degree Celsius along full kilometers of optical fiber. By measuring temperature over the entire surface of an area, the SensorTran 5100 provides thousands of measurement points to monitor actual conditions. This precision is useful in myriad industries.
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Industry Opens a New Door to Space


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Peter Johnson Publications	gamifying, gaming, public spaces	0
https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0163443719890528
Woods, O. (2019) 'Gamifying place, reimagining publicness: the heterotopic inscriptions of Pokémon Go' Media, Culture and Society, first published online 25 December 2019.
This article explores the transformative effects of augmented reality mobile games on society and space. By layering playfulness onto public space through a digital interface, augmented reality mobile games create a pervasive sense of play that can be accessed by players potentially anywhere, and at any time. Games like these can therefore be understood as heterotopic inscriptions on otherwise mundane environments. Since being released in 2016, Pokémon Go has become one of the most popular augmented reality games in the world. It gamifies place by embedding digital objects within public spaces; in doing so, it can bring about a reimagination of publicness by incentivising players to engage with places – and with each other – in ways that are structured by the competitive logics of play. Through an empirical examination of the playing of Pokémon Go in Singapore, I consider how the game gives rise to new modalities of emplaced meaning, new ways of navigating the city and increasingly public performances of private play. To conclude, I argue that research should continue to explore the gamifying effects of digital technologies on everyday life.
December	12	2019
Peter Johnson Art and Performance, Publications, Reflections on spaces and places	0
Heterotopia continued to inspire artists and was explored in two pavilions at the Venice Biennale.
Heterotopias of Evocation
Dr Hesperia Iliadou Suppiej (lead curator), Vince Briffa (artist), Klitsa Antoniou (artist), Trevor Borg (artist) and Perit Matthew Joseph Casha (architect/designer). Borg, Briffa and Antoniou.
https://www.aestheticamagazine.com/heterotopia-today/
Heterotopia 1: The Academy of Fine Arts of Venice and Flash Art
Peter Halley (Curated by Gea Politi)
https://flash—art.com/2019/04/peter-halley-heterotopia-i-by-gea-politi/
There was the announcement of two books for early next year
Ferdinand, S., Souch, I. and Wesselman, D. (Eds.) (2020) Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century. London and New York: Routledge.
[Some of my research into how the digital era has affected the model of heterotopia will be published in the above in a chapter entitled: 'New Communication Technologies and the Transformations of Space: Lessons from Michel Serres' Thumbelina.']
Smaranda, S. (2020) Heterotopia and Heritage Preservation: The Heterotopic Tool as a Means of Heritage Assessment, Switzerland AG: Springer Press.
A further varied range of journal articles and chapters were published:
Akkawi, A. (2019) 'Heterotopic Jerusalem: A Foucauldian Approach to Robert Stone's Damascus Gate' Journal of English Studies 14 (2) 7-20.
Almahasheer, M. B. (2019) 'Winds of Change: Heterotopias in Nimah Nawwab's The Unfurling' Journal of Language Studies 19 ( 2) 70-81.
Bertoni, F. (2019) 'Resounding heterotopias: breakdance, caporales and the re-appropriation of the city in Sounding Places: More than representational Geographies of Sound and Music, edited by K. Doughty, M. Duffy and T. Harada, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Brookfield, K. (2019) 'Studentified areas as contested heterotopias: Findings from Southampton' Area: Royal Geographical Society 51 (2) 350-359.
Caleb, A. (2019) 'Contested Spaces: The Heterotopias of the Victorian Sickroom' Humanities 8: (2) 80.
Çalışkan, O., Ribeiro, D.C. and Tümtürk, O. (2019) 'Designing the heterotopia: from social ideology to spatial morphology', Urban Design International, Online first.: 30 August 2019 .
Davis, C. S., Snider, M. J., King, L., Shukraft, A., Sonda, J. D., Hicks, L. and Irvin, L. (2019) 'A Time to Live and a Time to Die: Heterotopian Spatialities and Temporalities in a Pediatric Palliative Care Team', Health Communication 34 (9) 931-941,
Khadar, J. (2019) 'Dystopian dark tourism, fan subculture and the ongoing Nakba in Banksy's walled Off heterotopia' in R. K. Isaac, E. Çakmak and R. Butler (eds.) Tourism and Hospitality in Conflict-ridden Destinations, London: Routledge.
Klein, S. (2019) '"A Sealed Rectilinear Planet": The Skyscraper as Vertical Heterotopia in J. G. Ballard's High-Rise and Ben Wheatley's Screen Adaptation' Space and Culture, Published on line 9 January 2019
Ljungberg, E. (2019) 'Media practices in the making of an "other space": communicating inclusion, exclusion, and belonging in a controversial heterotopia'. New Media & Society, First published 25 November 2019
Milani, T. and Levon, E. (2019) 'Israel as homotopia: language, space, and vicious belonging' Language in Society 48 (4) 607-628.
Parnell, R. and Pitsikali, A. (2019) 'The Public Playground Paradox: "Child's Joy" or Heterotopia of Fear?' Children's Geographies. 17 (6): 719-73.
Patrício, C., Breser, C. and Ioannidis, K. (2019) 'Heterotopic Landscapes: From GreenParks to Hybrid Territories' in Smaniotto Costa et al (eds.) CyberParks – The Interface Between People, Places and Technology: New Approaches and Perspectives. Springer International: Open Access Book. 14-24
Powrie, P. (2019) 'From Heterotopia to Metatopia: Staging death in Carmen', in Classical French Literature on Screen, edited by H. B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Wierschem, M. (2019) 'Spaces of normality, pictures of monstrosity: socio-spatial configurations of the abnormal in David Lynch's The Elephant Man' Journal of Science and Popular Culture 2 (1) 71-88.
Very late, I started to read the work of the philosopher Michel Serres. His thought has been a breath of fresh air amongst the crowded, insular, competitive and self-promoting academic world. He has opened up very different, inspirational spaces.
Peter Johnson Conferences, Publications	bath house	0
Always fascinated by bathhouses as heterotopia and pleased to find this chapter from publication of ACSA Conference, 2017
Nerea Feliz Arrizabalaga
Bathhouses constitute an environmental construction marked by the architectural articulation of the physiological and the meteorological. Collective bathing spaces form autonomous spaces for immersion within altered physics, artificial environments that are internalized and isolated from the environment. The most intimate contact between the body and architecture takes place at the bath space. As an interior space that protects the naked body from the elements and society, collective bathing spaces produce an intensified, contained and controlled earthly Eden. The peculiarity of collective baths as new artificial Natures, both at a physical, meteorological, physiological and social level, allows these constructions to be referred to as interior microcosms.
https://www.acsa-arch.org/chapter/the-bathhouse-an-interior-microcosm/
Peter Johnson Publications	community, digital media, new media	0
Ljungberg, E. (2019) 'Media practices in the making of an "other space": Communicating inclusion, exclusion, and belonging in a controversial heterotopia'. New Media & Society (published online 25 November 2019).
Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819888399
New age practitioners and other alternative groups seek to create a heterotopia at a distance from mainstream society, and this necessitates some control over the use of media practices. To theorize the role of digital media in the making of a heterotopia, I have studied Ängsbacka, a community for alternative lifestyles, in a small mid-Swedish town. Using the concept of heterotopia as a starting point to understand how Ängsbacka functions as a space outside of mainstream society, I then use media theories about disconnection and the avoidance of context collapse in the analysis of their media practices. The analysis shows that the community has an ambivalent set of both explicit and implicit rules and norms aiming at both inclusion and exclusion of digital media. Studying the role of media use in the construction of a heterotopia adds new layers to the ongoing discussion about the use and non-use of digital media.
Peter Johnson Publications	globalisation	0
A new collection of essays will be published by Routledge in February next year. It will include an essay by Lieven de Cauter, co-editor of the excellent Heterotopia and the City (2008) and has an Afterword by Kevin Hetherington, who wrote the pioneering and influential The Badlands of Modernity: Heterotopia and Social Ordering (1997).
"Can heterotopia help us make sense of globalisation? Against simplistic visions that the world is becoming one, Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century shows how contemporary globalising processes are riven by heterotopian tension and complexities.
A heterotopia, in Michel Foucault's initial formulations, describes the spatial articulation of a discursive order, manifesting its own distinct logics and categories in ways that refract or disturb prevailing paradigms. While in the twenty-first century the concept of globalisation is frequently seen as a tumultuous undifferentiation of cultures and spaces, this volume breaks new ground by interrogating how heterotopia and globalisation in fact intersect in the cultural present. Bringing together contributors from disciplines including Geography, Literary Studies, Architecture, Sociology, Film Studies, and Philosophy, this volume sets out a new typology for heterotopian spaces in the globalising present. Together, the chapters argue that digital technologies, climate change, migration, and other globalising phenomena are giving rise to a heterotopian multiplicity of discursive spaces, which overlap and clash with one another in contemporary culture.
This volume will be of interest to scholars across disciplines who are engaged with questions of spatial difference, globalising processes, and the ways they are imagined and represented".
Garten Der Irdischen Freuden [Garden of Earthly Delights]
Peter Johnson Art and Performance	art, climate crisis, garden, utopia	0
'Garden of Earthly Delights' is a major exhibition at Gropius Bau, Berlin – running to 1 December 2019. The curator, Stephanie Rosenthal, has included Foucault's text on heterotopia and other references to the concept in the beautifully presented accompanying catalogue.
Garden of Earthly Delights sees over 20 international artists using the space of the garden as a metaphor for the state of the world, in an exploration of the complexities of our chaotic and increasingly precarious present.
"Alongside the classical reading of the garden as a secluded and circumscribed place of yearning full of meditative, spiritual, and philosophical possibilities, it is viewed in the exhibition as a place of duality and contradiction: a threshold between reality and fantasy, utopia and dystopia, harmony and chaos, between being shut out and being included.
In today's era, defined by radical climate change and migratory flows, the garden can be seen as a place of paradise and exile, reflecting within its borders themes as pressing as the anthropocene, seed politics, the legacies of colonialism and historical segregation. In addition to deliberate political positions, the Garden of Earthly Delights features works that also bring to life the sensual dimensions of gardens: immersive installations and video works show an intensive abundance of nature, but also the fragility of the paradise-like state".
Works by Maria Thereza Alves, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Hicham Berrada, John Cage, Tacita Dean, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Futurefarmers, Lungiswa Gqunta, Libby Harward, Rashid Johnson, Yayoi Kusama, Louise Lawler, Renato Leotta, Isabel Lewis and LABOUR, Jumana Manna, Uriel Orlow, Heather Phillipson, Pipilotti Rist, Maaike Schoorel, Taro Shinoda, Zheng Bo as well as a painting from the school of Hieronymus Bosch.
Detail from left panel of Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights
The Heterotopias of Food
Peter Johnson Publications	food, theatre	0
I have received this note from Diego Jesus Virgen Castro:
"Three years ago I started a research project on food and spaces. It was presented at a conference two years ago. And to share an example ….. I reflected on the food table as a heterotopia of juxtaposition. It functions as a theatrical space to me, as it suffers continuous transformations and is capable of containing different scenarios… depending on the meal ……"
See essay chapter in book (2018):
http://criticalmeals.dk/foodheterotopias.html
Red Rebel Brigade – Invisible Theatre
Peter Johnson Art and Performance	climate crisis, protest, theatre	0
I consider this movement a new form of heterotopia, a tactile, transient space that is both utterly fluid and formal, a space that deliberately but softly challenges remaining space and its order, a theatre that is invisible and visible. Supporting Extinction Rebellion (XR), the Red Rebel Brigade perform via:
Flocking as movement as a random cluster.
Tableaux formed discreetly by movement signals, low voice or touch.
Floating to distract and delay, with something beautiful.
Sharing the common blood of all species
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1518920178239149/?epa=SEARCH_BOX
Peter Johnson Publications	ideology, urban environmement	0
Çalışkan, O., Ribeiro, D.C. & Tümtürk, O. (2019) 'Designing the heterotopia: from social ideology to spatial morphology' Urban Design International Online first.
The established binary oppositions like 'modern vs. traditional' or 'urban vs. rural' fall short either to comprehend or to (re)generate cultural complexity of the contemporary societies. This problem is usually exposed by the critiques questioning the nature of design in urbanism reducing the domain to formal, functional or stylistic expressions in practice. The alternative track exposing another strategic outlook in the search for 'enforced' diversity within the neighbourhood, however, reveals some other social drawbacks in practice. Considering the fact that each community formation creates its own cultural interpretation of the living environment not only at the levels of building and street, but also at that of collective urban fabric, one could argue that the current urban design frameworks fall short to respond to the intrinsic complexity of localities in the city. An alternative approach, in this regard, requires a serious shift in the desired image of multiplicity of urban form. In that view, the paper addresses the concept of 'heterotopia' as the theoretical framework of a new design approach for the generation of an open urban fabric accommodating different socio-spatial settings in an integrated manner. To that end, the paper discusses 'heterotopology' as an alternative spatial conception of social diversity which embraces the fundamental ability of different communities to produce their own culture and to influence spatial form within the larger urban context. To elaborate the argument, the thought experiment of two design workshops is utilised as a kind of (methodological) 'research by design' from which a series of relational codes have been derived to generate heterogonous, but an integrated urban fabric. Eventually, the proposed morphology based on the autonomy of the fragments within an integrated (larger) spatial context is suggested as an alternative to the prevalent socio-spatial models of diversity in planning.
Heterokairoi – A Time to Live and a Time to Die
Peter Johnson Publications	death, Deleuze, health, Innis	0
Davis, C. S., Snider, M. J., King, L., Shukraft, A., Sonda, J. D., Hicks, L. and Irvin, L. (2019) ': Heterotopian Spatialities and Temporalities in a Pediatric Palliative Care Team', Health Communication34 (9) 931-941,
The death of a child creates especially poignant feelings and extreme stress, distress, and devastation for family members and healthcare providers. In addition, serious or long-term illness forces a reconstruction of our experiences with time and space. In this paper, we report on a long-term ethnographic study of a Pediatric Palliative Care Team (PPCT). Using the concepts of spatiality and temporality; Deleuze's concepts of smooth and striated spaces; Innis's concepts of space and time biases; Foucault's concept of heterotopian space—places with multiple layers of meaning; and a related concept of – —moments in time with multiple possibilities—we consider how the PPCT constructs and reconstructs meaning in the midst of chaos, ethical dilemmas, and heartbreaking choices.
August	27	2019
Israel as Homotopia
Peter Johnson Publications	film, Israel, sexuality	0
Milani, T. and Levon, E. (2019) 'Israel as homotopia: Language, space, and vicious belonging' Language in Society, 48 (4) 607-628.
Israel has recently succeeded in presenting itself as an attractive haven for LGBT constituencies. In this article, we investigate how this affective traction operates in practice, along with the ambiguous entanglement of normativity and antinormativity as expressed in the agency of some gay Palestinian Israelis vis-à-vis the Israeli homonationalist project. For this purpose, we analyze the documentary Oriented (2015), produced by the British director Jake Witzenfeld together with the Palestinian collective Qambuta Productions. More specifically, the aim of the article is twofold. From a theoretical perspective, we seek to demonstrate how Foucault's notion of heterotopia provides a useful framework for understanding the spatial component of Palestinian Israeli experience, and the push and pull of conflicted identity projects more generally. Empirically, we illustrate how Israel is a homotopia, an inherently ambivalent place that is simultaneously utopian and dystopian, and that generates what we call vicious belonging.
Key words: Code-switching, heterotopia, homonationalism, normativity, pinkwashing, sexuality, space.
'Studentified' Residential Areas
Peter Johnson Publications	urban environmement	0
Brookfield, K. (2019) 'Studentified areas as contested heterotopias: Findings from Southampton' Area: online: Royal Geographical Society51 (2) 350-359.
https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12458
The ongoing "massification" of higher education in the UK has generated increased demand for student housing. Some of this demand is being met by new, purpose‐built student accommodation, but much is being met through an intensification of student properties in established "student areas," and the expansion of student housing into neighbourhoods previously unaffected by high levels of student in‐migration in a process termed "studentification." Previous research indicates that the arrival of multiple student households in established residential areas creates conflict and adversely affects the non‐student population. Wishing to understand better these effects, this paper draws on focus group discussions completed with 11 diverse residents' groups based across Southampton, an English university city, which explored attitudes towards, and experiences of, studentification. Seeking a more robust theorisation of the sociospatial impacts of, and responses to, this process, the findings are considered in relation to Foucault's concept of "heterotopia." Reflecting previous findings, the residents' groups emerged as firm critics of studentification. Considered against Foucault's concept, it appeared that the "heterotopian" qualities of studentified areas formed the points of most concern. Implications for the future of studentified areas, and for the concept of heterotopia, are explored.
Heterotopic Jerusalem
Peter Johnson Publications	literature	0
How should we define Jerusalem as a space? In order to understand Jerusalem as a space, the relationship between experience and space and its embodiment of the forces that shape and articulate one's experience of Jerusalem are examined by applying an analytical frame of Michel Foucault's concept of "Heterotopia" on Robert Stone's Damascus Gate. Thus, this paper highlights how we read Stone's Jerusalem as a heterotopia. Understanding Jerusalem as a heterotopic space, then, offers a style of critical thinking that invites moral reflection on Stone's characters' versions, reactions, and experiences uniquely attached to Jerusalem as a space. The major characters in the novel are all visitors to the city; their experience of it oscillates between clarity and confusion. Thus, this paradoxical structure of feelings, which happens once Stone's characters are exposed to Jerusalem as a heterotopia, reflects their association and interaction with Jerusalem as a space, articulates the characters' experience within that space, and demonstrates how this heterotopic space provokes other experiences of the self and identity.
Sounding Places: from breakdance to dance of Caporales
Peter Johnson Publications	body, dance, music, public spaces, urban	0
Bertoni, F. (2019) 'Resounding heterotopias: breakdance, caporales and the re-appropriation of the city' in Sounding Places: More than representational Geographies of Sound and Music, edited by K. Doughty, M. Duffy and T. Harada. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781788118927/9781788118927.00011.xml
The intention of this chapter is to deepen the understanding of the role of music and sound in forms of tactical re-appropriation of public spaces in its emotional, atmospheric and symbolic strength, as well as the affective role of the sound as dispositive of boundary construction. The chapter presents ethnographic research conducted in Milan, and specifically a focus on the daily use of the underground station of Porta Venezia. Diverse groups of young people use an area in the station as a place to dance, from breakdance to 'neofolk' dance of Caporales and, daily, they re-invent the space with unplanned uses and activities. The affirmation of these practices is considered as the construction of an interstitial territory and analysed in its auditory dimension. The alteration of rhythms and aesthetics shapes an alternative and unexpected use of bodies in the space, which constitute a spatial territory, both material and imagined, that can be read as an embodied and resounding form of heterotopia.
Silence and Michel Serres – a breath of fresh air.
Peter Johnson Publications	Serres	2
I have been working on a couple of texts for publication so my blog has been rather quiet recently. One of those texts refers to the work of Michel Serres. I have been surprised how coverage of his death has been so scarce outside France. I think he is the most relevant and innovative thinker of recent decades and a much needed breath of fresh air in the turgid, insular environment of much contemporary philosophy and thought. If you have not read any of his work, I recommend two books that have been recently translated into English. Go with an open mind and be refreshed by the absence of crowded citations and references!! He doesn't repeat and compete; he invents:
Serres, M. (2018) [2003] The Incandescent. Translated by Randolph Burks. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Serres, M. (2019) [2001] Hominescence. Translated by Randolph Burks. London: Bloomsbury.


I have published few layers as Rest service and using them on Silverlight viewer. These layers may be edited or modified through some real time sources like GPS.
I don't see any changes on my silverlight viewer when these layers are updated. But when I query through REST, it shows the added OBJECTIDs.
I tried restarting the service but no Luck.
Is it a usual practice that we need to publish it again to see the changes or am I missing something?
NOTE: My layers reside in geodatabase in SQL server. Please suggest.