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No Deals, Mr. Bond
James Bond Series 6
By: John Gardner
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Series: James Bond: The Collection, Book 18, John Gardner's James Bond, Book 6
Categories: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure
James Bond Series
When the body of a mysterious woman is found to be carrying the phone number of James Bond, Bond is called in by M to help the investigation. But before he can even reach headquarters he is nearly run off the road in a high-speed motorway chase. Someone wants Bond dead.
Definitely not the most exciting story featuring James bond I have listened too
By Barrett Francescatti on 07-02-17
Nobody Lives Forever
James Bond Series, Book 5
Bond was supposed to be on leave. But SPECTRE leader Tamil Rahani, dying from injuries suffered at Bond's hand, is determined to make it the holiday to die for. With a price on his head, Bond must evade the world's greatest assassins in a ruthless game of cat-and-mouse across Europe, while trying to save the lives of the two women who matter to him most, his housekeeper May and Miss Moneypenny. But Bond has been a target before. And when it comes to staying alive, nobody does it better than 007.
A road trip Mr Bond?
By Jeff Lacy on 12-27-20
When M receives word that a known terrorist organization is planning to infiltrate and destroy a top-secret British Royal Navy aircraft carrier-based summit of world leaders, James Bond is returned to active duty in the Royal Navy. Promoted from Commander to Captain, Bond is expected to infiltrate the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible and identify potential sleeper agents.
Bit boring
By Marcus on 05-03-20
Brokenclaw
James Bond Series 10
On holiday in Victoria, British Columbia, Bond becomes by intrigued Lee Fu-Chu, a half-Blackfoot, half-Chinese philanthropist who is known as "Brokenclaw" because of a deformed hand. On his return to the UK Bond is tasked to investigate the kidnapping of several scientists who have been working on a new submarine detection system. It becomes clear that Brokenclaw is behind the kidnapping.
Very scant action for an action novel
By Amazonian by default on 06-25-19
Role of Honour
Following scandal and his shock resignation from Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, James Bond becomes a gun for hire; able, and willing, to sell his lethal skills to the highest bidder. And SPECTRE, it seems, are eager to have the disgraced British super spy on their payroll.
Very Good and relevant 007
By Par5 on 05-25-18
Death Is Forever
The Cold War is over. After two British agents die under mysterious and strangely old-fashioned circumstances in Germany, Bond is paired up with beautiful CIA agent "Easy" St. John. He's been assigned to track down the surviving members of "Cabal," a Cold War-era intelligence network that received a mysterious and unauthorized signal to disband.
The Man from Barbarossa
James Bond Series, Book 11
James Bond has been partnered with an Israeli Mossad agent, Pete Natkowitz, and assigned to work with the KGB to infiltrate a terrorist group. The group, The Scales of Justice, are demanding the trial of a suspected Nazi war criminal and each day of delay brings another death. Posing as a TV crew, Bond and the other agents attempt to discover the group's real motive.
Simon rocks as always, Gardner's worse Bond book
By S. H. Moore on 05-23-19
SeaFire
James Bond is back in action, with the stunning Flicka von Grusse at his side and his license to kill renewed once more. His target is Sir Maxwell Tarn: a businessman whose legitimate empire spans the globe, whose wealth is uncountable, who also deals in illegal weapons on a breathtaking scale. But even Bond is unprepared for the speed of events, as a sting operation in a Cambridge hotel leads rapidly to an assassination in Spain, a fugitive in Israel, and neo-Nazi plotters in Germany.
Enjoyed the book. The reader is one of my favorite
By D Lester on 11-06-20
Bond reluctantly finds himself recruited into a dangerous mission involving an equally dangerous and treacherous alliance of agents from the CIA, the KGB, and Israel's Mossad. The team dubbed "Icebreaker" waste no time double crossing each other, as they try to root out the leader of the murderous National Socialist Action Army, Count Konrad von Gloda, a one time SS officer, who now perceives himself as the New Adolf Hitler.
Recommend without reservation
By Darren Harrison on 10-27-15
Never Send Flowers
In different corners of the world four high-profile figures are assassinated in less than a week. Nobody links the deaths but one thing is certain: each of them has been stalked, sought out, and killed with care and preparation. Then a sinister connection is established: a single, blood-tipped rose is sent to each funeral and an unremarkable female agent is murdered in Switzerland.
Interesting Change of Pace
By John Galt on 06-25-21
James Bond is on a mission that will become an obsession. It starts the night Flight 229 is torn apart at Washington airport, killing 435 passengers. But the victim who matters to Bond is the Principessa Sukie Tempesta: once his lover, still his friend. The search for Sukie's killers will turn out to be the most complex and demanding assignment of Bond's career. Across continents and through ever-changing labyrinths of evil, he follows the traces of clues into the center of a fanatical society more deadly than any terrorist army.
Goodbye Gardner
Colonel Sun
James Bond, Book 15
By: Kingsley Amis
The life of secret agent James Bond has begun to fall into a pattern that threatens complacency…until the sunny afternoon when M is kidnapped. The action ricochets across the globe to a volcanic Greek island, where Colonel Sun Liang-tan of the People's Liberation Army of China collaborates with an ex-Nazi atrocity expert in a world-menacing conspiracy. Stripped of all professional aids, Bond faces, unarmed, the monstrous devices of Colonel Sun....
Poor Production
By Rebecca on 02-25-17
The Facts of Death
By: Raymond Benson
Someone is poisoning British soldiers in Cyprus; the same killer has murdered a British intelligence agent in Athens. James Bond himself barely escapes with his life.... But the secrets behind these and other deaths first start to come to light in Texas, where Bond goes in search of the assassin of M's friend and lover. Fearful of an international scandal that could engulf both his service and his country, he learns instead of the existence of the Decada.
Math, Semen, Biological Terror, and M's Lover.
By Austin C. Beeman on 04-07-16
High Time to Kill
When information vital to Britain's national security is stolen, both M and Bond suspect that the Union is behind it. The trail leads Bond from one of England's most exclusive golf clubs to the cosmopolitan city of Brussels and finally to an expedition up the icy heights of the legendary mountain Kangchenjunga, the third tallest peak in the world.
Bond is heavy on the filler
By Lint on 07-01-16
Zero Minus Ten
In the Australian desert, a nuclear bomb explodes. There are no survivors and no clues about who has made it or detonated it. In England, two police officers are shot dead when they apprehend a cargo vessel in Portsmouth dock. Vast quantities of heroin are later found on board.
Wow, surprised. Really good bond story.
Doubleshot
The intricately organized criminal conspiracy called the Union has vowed its revenge on the man who thwarted its last coup. Now, the Union's mysterious leader sets out to destroy James Bond's reputation and sanity by luring the agent into a dangerous alliance of deceit and treason with a Spanish militant intent on reclaiming Gibraltar.
Vance has trouble capturing all dialect
The Man with the Red Tattoo
When a British businessman and his family are killed in Japan by a virulent form of West Nile disease, James Bond suspects a mass assassination. Investigating with the help of beautiful Japanese agent Reiko Tamura and his old friend, Tiger Tanaka, Bond searches for the killers and the one surviving daughter, Mayumi.
License to Bore...
By Ty Bredel on 12-22-21
From North Korea to Iceland, Bond circles the world in his quest to unmask a traitor and prevent a war of catastrophic proportions. Crossing paths with beautiful allies and deadly assassins in a high-octane, action adventure of intrigue, revenge and betrayal. Never has Bond been so vulnerable, nor so dangerous....
Two female agents of Operation Cream Cake - double agents and honey traps against the KGB - are murdered. Bond must find the others and conduct them to safety before they meet a similar fate.
In a race against time, Bond travels to Ireland and the KGB is soon on the scene. But all is not as it seems and soon Bond finds he needs all his wits to negotiate a labyrinth of double-crossing that is to lead him to a bewildering showdown in a remote corner of the Kowloon province of Hong Kong, where, weaponless, he is hunted by four assassins.
No Deals, Mr Bond is the sixth in the best-selling series created by John Gardner, and one of the most original and unpredictable.
©1987 Ian Fleming Publications Ltd. (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. James Bond and 007 are registered trademarks of Danjaq LLC, used under license by Ian Fleming Publications Ltd.
Thriller & Suspense Satire Espionage
The Fallen Goddess
A Game of Fear
What listeners say about No Deals, Mr. Bond
Jeff Lacy
Good performance as usual by Simon Vance
If one is seeking to read the kindle version while listening to the Audible, they do not correspond.
Love all James Bond books and Simon Vance is the absolute best narrator ever. Please keep them coming !
loved it from cover to cover! Gardner does a masterful job! A must read for any Bond fan.
SoMrHarris
Cracking!
Another cracking story. Some excellent Bond moments in this story, great characters, and a really interesting plot. And as always, Simon Vance is superb!
Karl K
solid Bond story
One of the better Gardiner Bond books, the narration is set at a quick pace.
Mr Robert J Kemp
still not quite there
the Irish scenes were interesting and well acted, but the rest didn't really work
avidreader
A solid adventure
Narrator good. Plot good. Only problem was Bond's love interest was a bit underwhelming as a character and the whole thing kind of looks like M is incompetent
Nathan Carr
really enjoyable homage to the Bond Legacy
Well narrated and interesting story that builds to a decent climax. It hits the mark does a solid job.

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What's essential? In France, pastry and wine – in the US, guns and golf
Some activities reflect a national identity.
The coronavirus pandemic is defining for the world what is "essential" and what things we really cannot do without, even though we might not need them for survival.
Authorities in many places are determining what shops and services can remain open, in a bid to slow the spread of the virus.
They are also restricting citizens from leaving their homes. Stay-at-home orders or guidance are affecting more than one-fifth of the world's population.
This has left many contemplating an existential question: What, really, is essential?
What is essential?
Whether it is in Asia, Europe, Africa or the United States, there is general agreement – health care workers, law enforcement, utility workers, food production and communications are generally exempt from lockdowns.
But some lists of exempted activities reflect a national identity, or the efforts of lobbyists.
In some US states, golf, guns and marijuana have been ruled essential, raising eyebrows and, in the case of guns, a good deal of ire.
Reactions as quote about travel comes back to haunt Truss
Watch: Video slams Minister's claims NI rise must go ahead to save NHS
Brexit: Tourist traffic could 'grind to a halt' despite knowing about problem for 2 years
No winners? Brexit pushed exports down from Germany to UK
"Recent events clearly demonstrate that the process of designating 'essential services' is as much about culture as any legal-political reality about what is necessary to keep society functioning," said Christopher McKnight Nichols, associate professor of history at Oregon State University, in the US.
Pot shops
Countries including India and US states are listing the information technology sector as essential.
The world's dependency on the internet has become even more apparent as countless people confined to their homes communicate, stream movies and play games online to stave off cabin fever.
Several states where marijuana is legal, such as California and Washington, deemed pot shops and workers in the market's supply chain essential.
"Cannabis is a safe and effective treatment that millions of Americans rely on to maintain productive daily lives while suffering from diseases and ailments," Erik Altieri, executive director of the National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, said.
"It is the very definition of essential that these individuals can still access their medicine at this time."
Connecticut governor Ned Lamont added gun shops to his list of essential businesses, generating shock and dismay among families of gun violence victims
Texas attorney general Ken Paxton issued a legal opinion saying emergency orders in his state cannot restrict gun sales.
"If you have a breakdown in society, well then our first line to defend ourselves is ourselves, so I think having a weapon is very important for your personal safety," Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick told a radio interviewer.
In Arizona, governor Doug Ducey included golf courses on his list. Officials in Phoenix encouraged the city's 1.7 million residents to "get outside, get exercise and practice responsible social distancing" in golf courses, parks and trails.
In New Hampshire, governor Chris Sununu said flower shops are among the essentials. His spokesman Ben Vihstadt said they provide essential services for funeral homes.
Pastry, wine and cheese
In Europe, the current epicentre of the pandemic, Italy has the most stringent rules, with only essential businesses such as food shops and pharmacies remaining open.
The manufacturing sector was ordered shut down on Thursday, though factories that make needed products like medical supplies will continue to operate after making conditions safer for employees.
In France, shops specialising in pastry, wine and cheese have been declared essential businesses.
Outdoor prayers
In a nod to Israel's vibrant religious life, people can gather for outdoor prayers, with a maximum of 10 worshippers standing two metres apart.
Aimee Huff, marketing professor at Oregon State University, specialising in consumer culture, said: "In times of uncertainty, institutions and practices that are central to the cultural identities can become really important touchstones, material markers of certainty, comfort, and mechanisms to persist."
In China, authorities closed most businesses and public facilities beginning in late January but kept open hospitals, supermarkets and pharmacies.
Drivers delivering food, disinfectant and medical supplies to locked-down cities were hailed as heroes.
Related: Government doing everything we can to observe coronavirus rules
Fury as Liverpool stripped of World Heritage status in secret ballot
July set to bring some heated battles in the horse racing calendar
Stoke snap up defender from Huddersfield
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'It will disappear': Trump's most controversial coronavirus quotes
We British are generous when it comes to giving to charity; something that we should rightly celebrate
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East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS) coach trips magazine.
Homepage. This page: A nicely illustrated East Yorkshire Motor Services staff magazine from the 1940's.
EYMS Staff News Magazine for April 1948.
This isn't the first time that East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS) has appeared in this section of the site, as a pre-war EYMS sports & social club membership card was added in some time ago. This item though dates to the early post-war years of coach operation in the UK. This magazine, dated April 1948, was for the employees of EYMS. With motor fuel rationing still restricting the use of private cars, coach trips were a popular option for people who wanted a day trip out. In addition to operating scheduled coach services around the area, in 1948 EYMS resumed their pre-war "Land Cruise" service, albeit not with as many trips as were offered in 1939.
The magazine, which runs to sixteen pages, contains staff news (births, marriages etc), raffle prize winners, and other items of interest to EYMS employees and their families. Updates to services are also included, to ensure that drivers and their conductors were fully up-to-speed with the latest routes and fares.
"We have recently received complaints from the Keyingham Parish Council that children travelling on the buses from Withersnea are in the habit of hanging out of the bus, when approaching the main street in Keyingham. As conductors are aware, passengers, whether children or otherwise, are not permitted to travel on the platform of buses, and it is requested that this practice should be stopped forthwith."
At a recent concert, a number of raffle prizes had been given out, and thanks were extended to all the donations that had made the raffle possible. These prizes included a hankerchief case, a 10/- note, five bottles of beer (hmmmmm), a propelling pencil, a fancy jam dish, and one pair of rabbits.
Several of the older employees of the Company will remember the occasion when a certain driver went into a bus and said to the passengers in a loud voice, "Give me plenty of warning when you want me to stop, there are no brakes on this bus."
More items of paperwork relating to motoring in the pre- and post-war years can be found in the Motoring Collectables section of this website.


Script remembers up to 30 last altitude readings and uses the oldest and newest altitude to calculate ascend or descend rate in meters per minute. The result is an output value of the script. The value can also be played at any time.
The script if for OpenTX 2.0.x series. The only change needed for OpenTX 2.1.x is to change the line where the Altitude is read to the name of the actual altitude sensor (which defaults to "Alt").
Put the script in SCRPTS/MIXES directory and use it in CUSTOM SCRIPTS screen on the radio.
Dur: how many altitude samples are stored/used. Use biger number for more smooth/precise but at the same time more slow changing rate.
Ascend/descend rate in meters per minute. Positive rate means ascent, negative rate means descent.
dinamich, you will have to apologize me, but this is my first try on Lua code and on top of that I only wrote some small C++ code lately, and certainly, I do not quite know anything about the interface between the code and the taranis. With that said, here is my first question: It seems that your Lua is based in a Vario Sensor. I am using a GPS sensor, therefore, I guess I have to change the lines where appears alt to GPS Alt?
What about the term 'pushing alt' in line 65?
Some additional questions I have, are: Do I have to create a MIXES subdirectory under SCRIPTS?. Which is the CUSTOM SCRIPTS screen? Is this screen created by the Lua? Can I run the Lua from companion? How this Lua is initiated, or it starts running as soon as the model is selected?
Thank you for your help and sorry for so many questions.


Mela Lyman (drawing) has had work in more than 40 exhibitions in museums and galleries nationally and has been reviewed in ARTFORUM, Art New England, and New Art Examiner, among other magazines and newspapers. She received a Diploma from the Museum School ('78) and a BFA from the Museum School/Tufts University ('79). She has won numerous awards from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts and the Artists Foundation, Massachusetts. Public arts commissions include: Simpkin Swim Center, County of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Calif. ('02); Paine Park Mural, Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, Mass. ('02), completed with the artwork of 20 neighborhood children; and a painted interior frieze, Water Shuttle Terminal, Logan International Airport, Boston ('94). Recently she revisited the Paine Park Mural for a three-month project called "Anxiety of Beauty: Revisiting the Fountain of Youth."


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Q: How do you pass a javascript array to php through GET? I have to pass amount and name arrays from javascript to a php script via http GET.
var amount=new Array();
amount = document.form_perk.elements["amount[]"];
var name = document.form_perk.elements["name[]"];
http.open('get', 'perks.php?+obj2url("amount", amount)&obj2url("name", name)');
http.onreadystatechange = insertReply;
http.send(null);

How is this done?

A: EDIT: It appears the problem is this:
http.open('get', 'perks.php?+obj2url("amount", amount)&obj2url("name", name)');

Should be:
http.open('get', 'perks.php?' + obj2url("amount", amount) + '&' + obj2url("name", name)');

ORIGINAL POST:
Use this function (modified from here):
function EncodeQueryData(arr_data, str_prepend) {
   str_prepend = str_prepend || "";
   var ret = [];
   for (var d in arr_data)
       ret.push(encodeURIComponent(str_prepend + d) + "=" + encodeURIComponent(arr_data[d]));
   return ret.join("&");
}

var base_url = "perks.php";
var query_string = EncodeQueryData(amount, "amount") + '&' + EncodeQueryData(name, "name");
window.location = base_url + '?' + query_string;

This should give you for example something like this:
perks.php?amount0=10&amount1=27&name0=john&name1=sally.

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Editor's Note: This story was originally intended for publication by The Miami Herald but any tale by T. Casey Brennan (a prolific writer of classic Vampirella) is one worth reading.
This is the story of a coming comic book convention in Michigan, and why people who read the Miami Herald should attend. No – This is the story of Nisa Ozbay and Trisha Posner, girl detectives, and how they almost solved an old mystery.
On Sept. 15, 2018, Monroe, Michigan will hold the Monroe Comic Con, the last because the far larger San Diego convention has been awarded the name, and the greatest because it solves so many mysteries and Miami Beachers risked their lives and careers to put me there, back where I belong, a celebrity writer, where I could – THIS time – tell. Maybe it began when former Miami Beach mayor Alex Daoud signed a Proclamation declaring January 1989 "T. Casey Brennan Month in Miami Beach", or maybe it began in December, 1962 when I first toured Miami Beach, at the age of fourteen, with my late parents. Ominously, as I feigned sleep, I could hear the twelve chimes of a clock, somewhere nearby, announcing 1963. Where there should have been vacation joy, there was sadness, and where there should have been hope, there was fear: this was 1963, and I was already caught in something, along with my parents, both Michigan school board officials. But comic cons are about fun, and in July of 1969, I suppose, the fun began when the now famous comic book publisher, Warren, presented "Family Curse", written by me, in the July 1969 comic book title, EERIE.
Soon I was a celeb comic book writer guest at comic book conventions in New York, Detroit, and Toronto, much like this one which is to come. And before that was a fanzine published by a now dead collector named Bob Butts, later to become famous for restoring one of the Batmobiles — in 1964, while we were both still in high school, he gave us the first T. Casey Brennan comic, published in blue on a mimeograph: "Captain Democracy". So he had been thrown unknowingly into the maelstrom of my early comic book collecting days. My late parents had been Michigan school board officials caught in the web of an osteopath and hypnotist in Port Hope, Michigan, who claimed to be a part of the CIA's Project MKULTRA. He had demanded a weekly presentation of all my mail from the other comic book collectors, all early teens like myself. In 1953, my kindergarten teacher had promoted me immediately into the first grade so when I entered the ninth grade in Peck High School in 1961, I was thirteen years old. The next decade, the seventies, would introduce me into the world of comics in a far different way — as a writer of sad romantic tales for a number of titles, CREEPY, EERIE, VAMPIRELLA, HOUSE OF MYSTERY, etc. I signed autographs at conventions and published comic book stories, articles and books all over the world.
I'd almost forgotten about my dad's awful hypnotist who wanted all my letters then, and i had thoroughly forgotten the other part, where they flew me to Dallas and made me shoot. When I was hit by a car and lived a double life in Ann Arbor (street person, comics/JFK celebrity), Nisa Ozbay, a long-time Miami Beach resident and Turkish heiress, found me, helped me get renewed ID and social security, and paid for my rent after I had been homeless for YEARS. That was 2010, and she said she wanted to draw my stories – not the usual comics I'd written, but my JFK memoirs. So when, in July, she met the famous JFK authors, Gerald and Trisha Posner, she immediately called me about it, then had a near deadly accident just after. Ironically, the Posners were my Facebook friends, and had even helped promote a Detroit appearance by my band a few years back. Three more near deadly car crashes followed for Nisa, who had saved me from the streets in 2010, the same year Bugliosi's JFK book RECLAIMING HISTORY listed me as #8 on page 1496, on a list of possible JFK shooters. Just before the meeting, and subsequent car crash, I had proposed that the Posners initiate something I called Truthergate. Trisha Posner and I had discussed it through emails. Well, at least they didn't crash Nisa's car with Trisha Posner in it, since I really like her. But this was the story of a comic book convention, coming soon, and not of the dangers they all faced, the Posners (riding in the car just before), the mayor who made the Proclamation — or even of my still-born plan of Nisa Ozbay and Trisha Posner, girl detectives, who would, at last, through me, solve the JFK assassination. Just an announcement of my coming appearance at the Monroe Comic Con September 15th, in Monroe, Michigan.
The Creeps #5 with original story by T. Casey Brennan available for pre-order!


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San Francisco poised to become first U.S. city to ban e-cigs
by: MEGAN CERULLO
Posted: Jun 25, 2019 / 12:16 AM EDT / Updated: Jun 25, 2019 / 12:16 AM EDT
The city of San Francisco is expected to impose a blanket ban on e-cigarettes this week — that would make it the first American city to outlaw the sale, distribution and manufacturing of vaping products.
The sweeping restriction would also put San Francisco at odds with one of its most prominent hometown startups, Juul Labs, which last Tuesday said it bought an office building in San Francisco — the same day the city board unanimously backed the e-cigarette ordinance in a preliminary vote.
"We have always been a proud San Francisco-based company, and remain committed to serving the community as we focus on helping adult smokers switch from combustible cigarettes — the leading cause of preventable death — and combating underage use," Juul Labs said in a statement last week.
The San Francisco board of supervisors will vote on the ordinance Tuesday, after which it will await mayor London Breed's signature. It would take effect seven months later, and subject offending retailers to a $1,000 fine and other penalties.
The ordinance doesn't affect the local sale of cigarettes.
"San Francisco has never been afraid to lead," City Attorney Dennis Herrera said in a statement after the city board voted to pass the e-cigarette legislation, adding the city was stepping in where the federal government had failed to protect its youth.
"E-cigarettes are a product that, by law, are not allowed on the market without FDA review. For some reason, the FDA has so far refused to follow the law. Now, youth vaping is an epidemic. If the federal government is not going to act to protect our kids, San Francisco will," Herrera said.
He encouraged Juul and other e-cigarette companies to take immediate action to prove that its products are a benefit to public health, "rather than a lure to addict another generation."
Juul, which is 35% owned by tobacco company Altria, was spun off as a separate company from vaporizer maker Pax Labs in 2017. Juul had revenue of about $2 billion last year and its share of the fast-growing e-cig market is estimated at 72%.
The company said in a statement to CBS MoneyWatch it has taken "the most aggressive actions in the industry" to prevent youths from using its tobacco and vapor products. Juul also called the vaping sales ban impractical: "The prohibition of vapor products for all adults in San Francisco will not effectively address underage use and will leave cigarettes on the shelves as the only choice for adult smokers, even though they kill 40,000 Californians every year."
The company added that it supports stronger regulation and enforcement, but not "complete prohibition."
Tonawanda Coke doesn't want to pay $1.49 M state labor claim: Company asks bankruptcy court to expunge the state Department of Labor's claim for failing to notify workers of plant closure in 2018


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Our attorneys help the families of those who have lost their lives in serious accidents. We will help you obtain compensation for your losses.
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Paint is located in southwest Pennsylvania. Paint has 0.35 square miles of land area and has no water area. As of 2010-2014, the total Paint population is 854, which has shrunk 22.57% since 2000. The population growth rate is much lower than the state average rate of 3.89% and is much lower than the national average rate of 11.61%. Paint median household income is $31,667 in 2010-2014 and has grown by 10.84% since 2000. The income growth rate is much lower than the state average rate of 32.44% and is much lower than the national average rate of 27.36%. Paint median house value is $75,300 in 2010-2014 and has grown by 33.75% since 2000. The house value growth rate is much lower than the state average rate of 70.00% and is lower than the national average rate of 46.91%. As a reference, the national Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate for the same period is 26.63%. On average, the public school district that covers Paint is better than the state average in quality.
Population 854 (2010-2014), rank #1038
Population Growth -22.57% since 2000, rank #1237
Median Household Income: $31,667 at 2010-2014—10.84% increase since 2000, rank #1606
Median House Price: $75,300 at 2010-2014—33.75% increase since 2000, rank #1397
Land Area: 0.35 sq mi, rank #1503
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Q: How To Get The Value Of Header In CSV In PowerShell I want to pass the name of a header in a CSV file into another function in the PowerShell script.
How can I retrieve the value-text of a header name into a variable in CSV?
e.g. if I have the following CSV data:
ID Name     Country
-- ----     -------
1  John     United States
2  Beatrice Germany
3  Jouni    Finland
4  Marcel   France

In the above example how can I retrieve the Country column value text as "Country" text into a variable in my script?
(Note: I am familiar with the notation $_.Country to retrieve the value of, for example, "Germany" from a row by importing the CSV in Powershell)
My specific issue is that currently I have the following function in my script:
function GetItemIdFromTitle([string]$LookupTitle, [ref]$LookupId)
{
    $LookupField = $LookupList.Fields["DEPTCATEGORY"]
    $LookupItem = $LookupList.Items | where {$_['DEPTCATEGORY'] -like "*$LookupTitle*"}
    $LookupId.Value = $LookupItem.ID
}

This currently takes a string value -> $LookupTitle and uses that to find an item in a SharePoint list.  As you can see in the script I am hard-coding in the column name as "DEPTCATEGORY".  This is the column name that will be looked up to in the SharePoint list.
Instead of hard-coding the column name I want to pass in the name of the column for the corresponding $LookupTitle value and replace the hard-coded "DEPTCATEGORY".
I am calling the above function as follows:
#GET THE LOOKUP COLUMN ID
GetItemIdFromTitle $_.DEPTCAT ([ref]$LookupIdValue)

( $_.DEPTCAT is the value from the row in the CSV column. )
Can I do something like
$myCountryColumnName = $_.Country.Property.Title

or
$myCategoryColumnName = $_.DEPTCAT.Property.Name

to get the column name from the CSV?

A: To get the column name from the csv, first, put the names of the column headers into an array (this will also allow you to loop through each column, if needed) ...
$inFilePath = "C:\path\to\file.csv"
$csvColumnNames = (Get-Content $inFilePath | Select-Object -First 1).Split(",")

... , secondly, index into the array by column position (index starts at 0). Given your original example it would be;
$myCountryColumnName = $csvColumnNames[2]

A: This is more of a general comment than an answer.
I needed to pull the first column header name from CSVs and I started with selecting the NoteProperty fields from Get-Member.  This doesn't work because the order of the NoteProperty column header names might not match the order of the column headers in the CSV file.
futureSPQR's method will work every time because the text won't get reordered on you.  Below is my one-liner version of his method to get the first column header name.
((Get-Content filename.csv)[0] -split(','))[0]

A: If you have an object in $obj, you could list all the property headers like this:
$obj | Get-member -MemberType 'NoteProperty' | Select-Object -ExpandProperty 'Name'

This is an array, so you can reference them individually like this:
($obj | Get-member -MemberType 'NoteProperty' | Select-Object -ExpandProperty 'Name')[0]

This would just give you the name of the first property for instance.

A: Assuming that you have already read in the CSV using Import-CSV you can examine the property of the resulting object. Similar to this answer but maintains column order in the resulting array
Examining the first row / element
$data = import-csv $path
$data[0].psobject.properties.name

So the second line will return a string array of the properties.

A: $f = Import-Csv "...csv"

Get-Member -InputObject $f[0] |
  Where-Object {$_.MemberType -eq "NoteProperty"} |
  select-object Name

A: If you're looking to check if a header name exists in the array, use below code
$Array | Get-member -MemberType 'NoteProperty'| where {$_.Name -eq "ColumnName"}


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Airbus validates the Galileo satellite navigation system's resistance to data attacks
Europe's Galileo satellite-based navigation system will become the first to offer increased robustness in face of "spoofing" threats – providing enhanced security against malicious data forging attacks through an authentication mechanism developed and validated with Airbus expertise.
United Arab Emirates orders two additional Airbus A330 MRTT
The United Arab Emirates Air Force & Air Defence has formally ordered two additional Airbus A330 Multirole Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft increasing the country's MRTT fleet up to five aircraft.
Spanish Ministry of Defence signs order for three Airbus A330 MRTT
The Spanish Ministry of Defence has signed the formal order for the acquisition of three Airbus A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport aircraft (MRTT).
French force projection "goes the distance" with Airbus A400Ms and A330 MRTTs
Airbus-built A400M and A330 MRTT aircraft provided vital support for the French armed forces' 17,000-km deployment to Polynesia, performed in June/July 2021.
New Airbus satellites will navigate Galileo into the future
The future of the world's most accurate positioning system, Europe's Galileo, is being secured with the award of contracts for next generation satellites by the European Space Agency (ESA). Airbus has been selected to design and manufacture six Galileo second generation spacecraft at its new satellite integration centre in Friedrichshafen (Germany).
Tanking goes automatic
In-flight refuelling operations are among the most demanding missions. Both the tanker and receiver pilots need to operate in close formation, flying aircraft with different flight envelopes and ranging speeds, in day-and-night and all weather conditions, and above the battlefield…. There are many factors that are unpredictable and could put the missions at risk.
Airbus to showcase world-class helicopters, defence and space capabilities at IDEX 2021
Airbus will showcase a wide range of cutting-edge technologies, capabilities and solutions from Airbus Defence and Space and Airbus Helicopters at the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) 2021.
A330 MRTT and A400M
The Spanish National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA) has granted the Voyager Air-to-Air Refuelling (AAR) clearance for the A400M using the centreline hose and drogue system, known as the Fuselage Refuelling Unit (FRU). The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the only MRTT customer to make use of this system, which is used to refuel large probe-equipped aircraft such as the A400M or C295.
Airbus selected for Communications and Mission System upgrade on the Royal Australian Air Force MRTT fleet
Airbus has been selected by the Commonwealth of Australia (CoA) to develop a Communications and Mission System modernization upgrade for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) fleet.
NATO Support & Procurement Agency orders an additional Airbus A330 MRTT
Airbus has received a firm order for an Airbus A330 MRTT Multi-Role Tanker Transport from OCCAR, Europe's organisation for the management of cooperative armament programmes.
Quick News-August 2020
Airbus Quick News - issued August 2020
Airbus delivers first A330 MRTT to NATO Multinational Multi Role Tanker Transport Fleet
Airbus has formally delivered the first of eight Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft ordered by the NATO Multinational MRTT Fleet (MMF) after a ceremony held at the Airbus Getafe site in Spain. The official acceptance of this first aircraft marks a decisive milestone towards the entry into service of this multinational unit formed by the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Germany, Belgium and the Czech Republic.


SLFP Ministers Dilan Perera, C.B. Ratnayaka, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena and Pavithra Wanniarachchi today resigned from their portfolios. This was revealed at the media briefing held at the opposition leader's office in Colombo this morning.


The liberalization of stock markets over the last few years has seen the entry of many global investors in many markets. The integration of financial markets can now allow traders in one country to buy stocks in a different market. However, with these globalization a number of challenges have arisen. One of the key issues is money laundering. There have been reported cases where stock markets have been used to launder money. In order to prevent this, regulators in various countries have created a set of rules and regulations that brokers and other traders in financial markets should abide by. The rules are designed to reduce exposure to financial crime in stock market trading while enhancing transparency and integrity in the entire sector. Financial firms are putting in place a wide range of creative solutions to meet these rules but the use of trade monitors over the last few years has been very successful.
A trade monitor is a system or software that is designed to provide automatic surveillance and monitoring of trades in the stock market. The software is developed normally by third party companies and sold as an enterprise solution to financial service companies. The trade monitors are integrated within the financial organization and they will monitor trading across various assets to ensure there are no violations of set rules. Even though there are cases where a flagged transaction may still be good, quality trade monitors will have very few such cases.
The trade monitors are better placed to offer effective transaction monitoring without really affecting the efficiency and performance of your company. The systems are designed to work in the background and will track trading in the real time. But you won't even notice anything until of course something is flagged. This is a very huge plus especially in the stock market where split second decisions can make all the difference.
Tracking trades in the stock market is not as easy without quality software. Even though trade monitors offer an automatic and simple option to monitor trades, without them things would be so complicated. All you need as a broker is to invest in such systems and sit back and wait for them to deliver for you.
Compliance monitoring can often cost a lot of money but it doesn't have to. The initial investment you'll need to put in place trade monitors is high but after that, the overall costs will be quite low.
The use of trade monitors is an essential strategy for stock brokers keen on adhering to all regulations in the market.
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Sleep. It's one of the few things in life that is abundant when you don't want it and elusive when you need it most.
It's ironic when you think about it. At bedtime, my toddler kicks and screams, begging to stay up longer, while I fight to keep my eyes open.
My kindergartener counted the days until he was "old" enough to not take daily naps; I love the guilty pleasure of sneaking in a nap on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
My college-aged nephew is too busy with friends to sleep much at night, but good luck trying to drag him out of bed in the middle of a sunny afternoon.
My 72-year-old uncle worked hard all of his life so he could retire and relax, but now even medical assistance can't guarantee him a good night's sleep.
Some say it's the circle of life, that poor sleep is simply a normal part of aging. But seniors don't have to trade in sound slumber with age.
Although the ideal number of hours of sleep we need per night varies from person to person, senior adults generally require about the same amount of sleep as younger adults. However, according to WebMD, more than half of men and women over the age of 65 complain of at least one sleep problem, and many suffer from multiple disorders. The result is that most seniors get much less sleep than their bodies need.
Light sleep: Seniors who suffer from light sleep report experiencing less deep sleep and less restful sleep, often feeling tired when they wake up.
Sleep apnea: Various medical conditions can make breathing difficult.
Sleep onset insomnia: This condition makes it difficult to fall asleep.
Sleep maintenance insomnia: Many seniors can fall asleep but are unable to sleep through the night, often because of other medical conditions or psychological factors.
Poor sleep habits: The body of a senior adult has a difficult time adjusting to irregular sleep schedules. Erratic bed times negatively impact the body's circadian rhythm and make falling and staying asleep a challenge. Daytime napping and spending long periods of time in bed while still awake can also affect the body's ability to fall asleep regularly.
Sleep disorders: Many seniors suffer from sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome and insomnia. Often, it is difficult to determine if these disorders are initially caused by age or by other mitigating factors.
Medications: Certain medications make falling – and staying asleep – difficult. Some medications even act as stimulants, making sleep almost impossible. Even sleeping pills are not viable long-term solutions. They can produce undesirable side effects, including impaired memory, imbalance, incontinence and daytime sleepiness.
Psychological distress: Many elderly people deal with major losses, challenges and life changes – like the death of a loved one, the frustration of physical limitations or the move from a family home. These emotional barriers can affect the quantity and quality of one's sleep.
Lifestyle changes: For many seniors, retirement brings major changes, including excess down time which can mean less daytime activity, boredom and even malaise. This lack of activity can lead to an irregular sleeping schedule and, ultimately, chronic sleep problems.
Although all sleep problems cannot be eliminated, many of them can be avoided or minimized by identifying their causes and countering them with healthier sleep habits.
Set a daily sleep routine: No matter how old you are it is important to get on a sleep schedule that works for you and stick to it. Try to go to bed at night and wake up each morning at around the same times. Your body will be under less stress because it is not constantly adjusting itself to new sleep patterns.
Stay active: Regular activity at all ages prepares your body for deeper sleep at night. Not only do exercise and activity help you fall asleep quicker, they help you sleep more soundly. Also, when you are awake, try to stay out of bed as much as possible. Train your body to associate your bed with sleep, not wakeful activities.
Enjoy the sun: Sunshine helps regulate your sleep/wake cycle. Get as much of it as possible, either going outdoors during the daytime or sitting indoors in a sunlit room.
Minimize naps: Avoid taking long naps during the daytime. If you do want – or need – a nap, keep it at 90 minutes or less and avoid napping late in the afternoon.
Avoid nighttime snacks: Late-night snacks energize your body and can make falling asleep difficult. If you are hungry late in the evening, keep it light – and healthy – and milk is the best beverage choice. It contains the amino acid L-tryptophan, which research has shown can actually help people go to sleep. Avoid drinking caffeine within six hours of bedtime.
Don't worry: When it is time for bed, try to avoid worries or dwelling on upsetting topics. Avoid discussing emotional issues in bed. Instead, focus on something restful, like reading or relaxation techniques.
The reality is that getting older doesn't have to mean getting less sleep. If you get less sleep than when you were younger but still feel rested when you wake up, then it is possible that you simple need less sleep now.
However, if you are often fatigued and think you suffer from sleep problems, take the initiative to seek a better night's sleep. Many sleep disorders are preventable. Consult your doctor to see what might be causing your sleep problems and to identify ways to improve the quantity and quality of your sleep. You'll be amazed at how a few simple steps can turn never-ending nights into sweet slumber.


Almost every household has its share. The state-of-the art television that has suddenly become yesterday's model. Keyboards and cords gathering dust in the back of a cupboard. A broken iPhone here; an old computer screen there.
But with figures showing electronic junk is now the fastest growing type of waste in the country, the Andrews government has made an ambitious pledge: to ban so-called "e-waste" from landfill, forcing consumers to take greater responsibility for its disposal.
"Victoria's e-waste is rising, due to rapid advances in technologies and shorter life span of products," said environment parliamentary secretary Anthony Carbines.
"To tackle the growing waste stream entering landfill, the Andrews Labor government will boost recycling and recovery of e-waste, by imposing a ban. This ban will support jobs in the recycling industry and grow economic opportunities throughout the state as well as protecting environmental health."
Under the policy, Victorians will be increasingly encouraged to take their old TVs, mobile phones and computers to transfer stations or collection points, rather than dumping it on the nature strip or at the local tip. Recycling businesses will also be asked to play a greater role in recovering and dismantling electronic components for future use, avoiding materials ended up in landfill where toxics metals such as lead and mercury can seep into the environment.
Although much of the detail is yet to be worked out – the government has only started consultation – experts admit that much more needs to be done to tackle e-waste, some of which ends up being exported offshore, contributing to health and environmental hazards in some of the world's poorest countries. Last year, for instance, 21 illegal shipping containers filled with electronic junk had been intercepted by the Department of Environment on the way to developing countries, mostly in Asia and Africa.
"When you think about these products you need to think about the high levels of toxicity," said Grant Musgrove, chief executive of the Australian Council of Recycling. "These are very complex products with heavy metals, but they're also very valuable products with rare metals, and the alternative of not recovering them domestically is that they're inappropriately exported and inappropriately dealt with in low-environmental-performance countries – and often by children."
Victoria's push to ban e-waste from landfill comes as the federal government conducts a review of the National Television and Recycling Scheme, which requires industry to fund a growing proportion of disposed e-waste.
In the first few years of the scheme, recycling rates increased from about 17 per cent in 2010, to 33 per cent in 2013. About 137,756 tonnes of televisions and computers reached end of life in Australia in 2012-13, of which around 41,000 tonnes were recycled. The national goal, however, is for 80 per cent of televisions and computers to be recycled by 2021-22.
The Andrews' government's submission to the review, seen by The Sunday Age, urges the Commonwealth to adopt more ambitious targets, in the hope fast-tracking the 80 per cent goal. It also calls for several improvements to the scheme, including greater public awareness and more support for collection and sorting operators.
Environment Victoria spokesman Mark Wakeham agreed that collection needed to be addressed if a blanket ban in Victoria was to work. "If there was a very clear pathway for recycling – for example, if you could take a product back to Harvey Norman, and Harvey Norman was responsible for taking it to the recycler – then more people would," he said.


A division of the Development Services Department, the City Planning Division is responsible for managing growth and development within the City of Fayetteville and the planning area surrounding the corporate city limits to achieve a higher quality of life for our citizens.
One of the primary responsibilities of the City Planning Division is current planning - the review of zoning and development applications inside the Fayetteville city limits and planning area for compliance with the Fayetteville Unified Development Code. These applications include rezoning, large scale development, subdivision of land, and conditional use permits. Planning also reviews building permit requests, signage, outdoor lighting, and architectural design for compliance with the regulations established by the City Council.
The City of Fayetteville has adopted an ordinance to enact §110.03 Small Cell Facilities and Networks into Chapter 110: Telecommunication Franchise, Billposting, and Small Cell Facilities and Networks.
Please click this link to open a copy of the application and checklist.
Please click this link to see a copy of the Ordinance.
Once your submittal is complete please send all items in PDF format to planning@fayetteville-ar.gov You must also mail the application fee with a copy of the application to the Planning Division at the address found at the top of this page.
Please click on the Applications link in the left column of this page. Planning applications are also on the Development Services Department web page. To view all Development Services applications click here. All applications.
Click the following link to our Dropbox Site to review projects that are pending public hearing and view comments generated for current projects that are under review in the Planning Division.
The City Planning Division serves as support staff for the Fayetteville Planning Commission and Subdivision Committee. A copy of the full agenda packet for Planning Commission meetings will be posted on the website typically on the day before the meeting. Please view a copy of these agendas at your own convenience.
City Planning staff is responsible for long range planning in Fayetteville, including changes to the City's zoning code, drafting new ordinances that work toward achieving the goals of City Plan 2030, and coordinating with the citizens and stakeholders of Fayetteville.
Current zoning and development code changes are announced on the Development Services page.
Many of the city's interactive maps are maintained by the Geographic Information System (GIS) Division, including Future Land Use, the Master Street Plan, and Zoning maps; however, the official Zoning Map, signed by the Mayor, is located in the Planning Office.
Where and how is my property zoned?
What does the zoning of my property allow?
Why is there a red public notice sign in my neighborhood?
Do I need a sign permit?
Can I put a shed in my backyard?
Does the City of Fayetteville require a business license?


Every day we are all exposed to some level of chemical fumes. Spray paints and household cleaners give off fumes. Different plastics and wood products in your home give off odors from adhesives and finishes, especially when new. But normally these fumes are at such a low level that they cause no problems. However, a number of people become sensitized or allergic to the fumes given off. Their bodies get overexposed to the vapors and become sensitized. From that point on, any exposure to even a minute amount of the chemical causes a reaction. The process of sensitization can make a home unlivable, or a job no longer viable, for people who become sensitized. If you work with chemicals, your risk is much greater.
For anyone who has been in this industry for a while, most would know at least one person with severe allergenic reactions from even the slightest contact with fumes. I personally know of people who can't be in the same BUILDING as fresh resins or epoxies. So that says that the warning labels on the products we use have to be taken seriously.
Two of the most common reactions from exposure to industrial chemicals are occupational asthma and contact dermatitis.
Asthma can occur when the body develops an allergy from continued exposure to a substance. Your body starts to identify the substance as a threat and activates your immune system to react. This is called sensitization. You don't have symptoms at first because the sensitization process can take months or even years to occur. Symptoms start when your immune system begins to produce specific antibodies against the irritating substance. This, in turn, triggers the release of chemicals, such as histamine, which inflame the lungs and cause asthma symptoms.
When fumes are heavy– for example in a room filled with paint fumes- sensitization can occur in hours. And then, once you are sensitized, even mild exposure causes a reaction.
There is no universal definition of occupational asthma, but most experts would call it a new state of bronchial hyperreactivity secondary to some agent at work or reversible obstruction of the airways caused by inhalation of a substance or material used by a worker or present at his work.
Asthma can be a pre-existing disease that is exacerbated by exposures at work, rather than having these exposures as the primary cause; this is not defined as occupational asthma but rather as exacerbation of pre-existing disease. *The most recent data states that around 10% of the general population have been diagnosed with asthma at some point in their lives. About 60% of asthma is classified "allergic" and it is estimated that up to 15% of all asthma is caused by occupational hazards. Sobering thought: globally, 250,000 people die from asthma every year.
Asthma may develop as a specific sensitivity to one agent (or a family of related agents), or as a response to exposure to non-specific irritants.
There is certainly a major role of the immune system in the development of occupational asthma specific to one agent. Occupational asthma has many causative agents, and more than one mechanism that results in the same clinical presentation. In asthma, there is dearly a role for both the immune system and direct inflammation.
You can also develop emphysema over a long period of exposure, which will kill you, slowly, painfully, and debilitatingly, over years and years.
Some products cause a reaction only when the skin is also exposed to sunlight (photosensitivity). These include shaving lotions, sunscreens, sulfa ointments, some perfumes, coal tar products, and oil from the skin of a lime. A few airborne allergens, such as ragweed or insecticide spray, can cause contact dermatitis.
The hands are a common site for contact dermatitis.
Itching of the skin in exposed areas is a common symptom. In the case of an allergic dermatitis, itching can be severe. Dermatitis caused by an irritant may also cause burning or pain.
Irritant dermatitis often shows as dry, red, and rough skin. Cuts (fissures) may form on the hands. Skin may become inflamed with long-term exposure.
What can you take away from this? Clearly, you do not want to become sensitized. When any outgassing chemical is being applied or is drying/curing – paints, foams, fiberglass, whatever – a high-quality, appropriately rated respirator is mandatory. These respirators are not that expensive… Protect yourself at all times. Try and work with dust extraction at all times, and wear masks. If you do not like masks, buy a full face mask with air supply. This keeps a fresh breeze over your face, so transpiration is less problematic as well. There are units for compressors, or with battery powered air pump with filters, which can be carried on your belt. You might look stupid, but in the end you are a winner.
For people that are not affected it can be quite astonishing. Allergic reactions can do strange things to people.Sensitization does not apply to everyone, but it does apply to many.
Polyurethane foam (SPF) insulation is a highly effective weatherization product. However, SPF foam contains di-isocyanates, and dermal or inhalation exposure to these chemicals can cause significant health risks, such as asthma and lung damage, if specific workplace precautions are not followed during product application and clean-up.
Sensitization, in this case, is the state of being allergic to epoxy. Sensitization can occur at any point, regardless of how many times or for how long you've been exposed to epoxy. Your chances of being sensitized will increase if you're exposed to a greater amount of fumes in an unventilated area, but even one episode of exposure can lead to an allergic reaction. This is why preventative safety is so important in regard to epoxy. Once sensitized, even small amounts of the substance can trigger allergic reactions and it will be increasingly difficult to work with the material. There is also no definite cure for sensitization, only methods to relieve the symptoms. Most people are not sensitive to epoxy. Many will develop a sensitivity with time, for some it may be 20 years, some only a couple of exposures and the unlucky few will get hospitalised after a single exposure.
As for polyesters: These are known to cause contact dermatitis and respiratory problems. Although results of research programs is not completely clear, and some results are contradicting each other, styrene still is a product that cannot be totally cleared. It might only affect some people that somehow are more prone to this, but still, protection is your best option.
What can be done by the users:-protect yourself.
What can be done by employers:-protect your workers. Educate them in using Personal Protection Equipment, and make it available. Ask your supplier to do a presentation on personal protection. I still have to come across a supplier that is NOT willing to do this.
-invest in the working space. Get good ventilation, install styrene suppresant spray units (a spray that bonds to styrene, making it harmless), invest in low styrene emitting materials (DCPD resins, LSE additives, AAP peroxides instead of MEKP), equipment (HVLP guns) or change to lower styrene emitting techniques (RTM, RTM Light, resin infusion).
What can be done by the industry:The industry is not doing nothing. In contrary. Styrene content in polyester resins has gone down a lot the last decade. There are even some zero-styrene resins in the market (though at a cost).Epoxy producers are slowly abandoning some harmful ingredients, like nonylphenol.
Sensitization to chemicals can be defined as changes in the organism, usually the immunochemical system, by exposure to a chemical such that further chemical exposure leads to recognition by the organism. Such recognition will lead to a response that is marked by a greater reaction at lower doses than what would be observed in non-sensitized individuals. This is usually called hypersensitivity. Inhulation of the antigen/allergen in an individual previously sensitized leads to an allergic reaction, such as rhinitis or conjunctivitis. If the skin is sensitized, as in allergic contact dermatitis, then contact will cause an oedematous response and/or a rash. Pulmonary (airway) sensitization manifests itself through bronchial constriction or obstruction. Some chemicals can produce different types of "allergy'. There are various known and hypothesized mechanism for sensitization. There are also host susceptibility factors, including genetic predisposition. There must be some differentiation also between irritation and sensitization. Irritants do not have the immunochemical recognition signal. Irritation in a non-sensitized individual usually leads to a slower, less serious response, at higher doses. This does not prevent irritants from producing or enhancing inflammation, which can be prolonged, and which can produce hypersensitivity reactions (e.g., bronchial hyperreactivity) when stimulated. There are about 10-20% of almost any population which show greater "sensitivity" to irritants, which is usually organ (e.g., eye) specific, by responding at lower doses.
Chemicals have different potencies as sensitizers, not entirely dependent on the mechanism of sensitization.
Platinum salts have a very high potency (i.e., up to 95% properly exposed become sensitized) while formaldehyde has a low potency (i.e., 1-5% properly exposed become sensitized).
Basically, the B cell IgE forms antibodies to certain antigens/allergens that are inhaled, absorbed, and/or ingested. This is the recognition (and sensitization) phenomena. Specific IgE then persists in the sensitized. This usually leads to subsequent release of histamine, chemotactic factors for platelets and other active cells. This starts a chain reaction which leads to the hypersensitivity response, and can lead to inflammation.
Sensitization can occur in the lower respiratory tract, usually called hypersensitivity pneumonitis (or extrinsic allergic alveolitis), such as isocyanate disease. Some of the other known IgE-mediated chemical hypersensitivities are platinum and nickel salts, cobalt, other isocyanates (in addition to TDI), other anhydrides (in addition to TMA, such as phthalic acid anhydride), organic acids, various metals/metal salts. Certain antigens can sensitize non-atopics as well (e.g., platinum salts, castor bean dust), as can certain common chemicals (e.g., ozone) or mixes (e.g., diesel exhaust, including with HCHO).
One has to consider the triggering mechanism in predisposed individuals, such as specific triggers of inflammation (Asthmatics and those with BHR, or those with such predispositions may be such susceptibles. It is claimed that those with autoimmune disorders (e.g., Lupus/SLE, rheumatoid arthritis-RA) may be predisposed also.
Whatever the mechanism, inflammation (in airways, skin, possibly other organs) appears to be a key trait in many sensitization conditions The release of oxidants, such as hydrogen peroxide (H202), as with exposure to formaldehyde, and superoxide union from these cells is a key contributor to damage and responses, occurs more in sensitized organisms, and can occur with immune complexes. The lack of sufficient, effective antioxidants could be a mechanism of sensitivity (as in those with genetic defects, such as those who have little or no ceruloplasmin). It is interesting to note that only scarce airway inflammatory cell activity has been reported in at least some asthmatics between attacks. Airway inflammation is probably the main cause of bronchial hyperreactivity by itself or by contributing to bronchial obstruction (although obstruction can occur by other mechanisms). The increase of airway or skin permeability, permitting processes that lead to mast cell or basophil degranulation, leads to mediator release. Mucosal edema, an aspect of inflammation, call increase epithelial permeability, alter smooth muscle dynamics, and stimulate neural pathways. Macrophages are major cells in acute and chronic inflammation, immune responses including the complement system and immune deficiencies, are involved in hematopoesis and coagulation, and promote proliferation of many other cells. They present antigen to T cells. They release plasminogen activator and classes of toxins such as neutral proteases. Exposure to lymphokines is part of macrophage activation.
The hypersensitive also may use a different pathway that essentially does not exist in the general population (as stated also by Burrell, and partly discussed above), which may be genetically determined. This may relate to inflammation directly, or to BHR (which appears to be, at least as far as entrainment, an independent genetic trait).
Formaldehyde is ubiquitous, especially in the indoor environment (Table 1). Formaldehyde is regarded as a upper respiratory irritant because it has a high solubility in water and is therefore captured by the wet mucus membrane. Retention of inhaled formaldehyde is shown to be almost 100% at the inhaled site in dogs. Exposure of a half hour to an hour is all that is needed to produce primary irritation; there is a dose response. The lowest concentration causing pharyingitis is said to be 0.5 ppm. Exposure to concentrations of formaldehyde gas of 0.1 ppm causes general irritation of the upper respiratory tract and other symptoms in children. Concentrations from 1-5 ppm provoke coughing, constriction in the chest, and other symptoms (Loomis, 1979; NRC, 1981; Bardana, 1980; and Walker, 1964). Tolerance to eye and upper airway irritation may occur after I to 2 hours of exposure. However, even if tolerance develops, the irritation symptoms can return after I to 2 hour interruptions of exposure. Ingestion usually leads injury to the larynx and trachea, gross effects on the GI tract, pneumonia, hardening of the lungs, hyperemia and edema of the lungs, and systemic damage. Increased mucolytic (decreased ciliary) activity has been shown related to formaldehyde exposure in animals ill various studies.
Adaptation is known in other contexts as "acclimation" or "acclimatization", "habituation", "developing tolerance" and even "addiction". Randolph used the terms "adaptation" and "addiction" most often. However, reference to one of the other words may make it easier to grasp the concept. "Acclimatization" is a widely used term in occupational health that refers to workers gradually becoming accustomed to exposures on the job, for example, heat stress. Understanding adaptation is important for two reasons: (1) adaptation may interfere with the discovery of the effects of a particular exposure on the body and (2) chemical exposures may adversely impact adaptation mechanisms and thus lead to illness.
That human beings respond to chronic exposure to environmental challenges by adapting, acclimating, acclimatizing, or even becoming addicted is widely recognized for a variety of substances. Most would agree that the use of narcotics, alcohol, nicotine, and even caffeine can be addicting. For example, the first cigarette ever smoked might be associated with eye and throat irritation, but over time, with more cigarettes, most individuals adapt, and primarily the pleasurable effects of nicotine on the brain are experienced. After months or years, more cigarettes (or alcohol or caffeine or drugs) may be required for the same amount of lift. The individuals may exhibit addictive behavior, seeking cigarettes more frequently. Subsequently, quitting cigarettes (or alcohol, caffeine, or drugs) may lead to withdrawal symptoms including irritability, drowsiness, fatigue, moodiness, and headache. The reformed smoker may become extremely intolerant of the smoke of others, even in tiny amounts. Suddenly recalled are the irritation and unpleasant feelings associated with the first cigarette ever smoked. Over time the individual had "adapted" to those effects. Adaptation, which on the surface would seem good for the organism, may in fact be a two-edged sword. Developing tolerance for the noxious properties of the exposure may allow the individual to remain in the exposure more comfortably while other harmful consequences of the exposure continue. Thus the heavy smoker who is "adapted" to tobacco smoke is at increased risk for developing emphysema, lung cancer or vascular disease. While often occurring at much lower levels of exposure than the above examples, food and chemical adaptation and addiction have been observed by some physicians in their patients. ha the case of MCS patients, multiple incitants, not only tobacco smoke, may be involved and all may need be avoided simultaneously for improvement to occur. Thus, frequent exposure to a substance results in adaptation (irritation and other warning signals may disappear). Continued exposure may lead to addiction. Reduction or cessation of exposure generally results in withdrawal symptoms.
What may confuse patients and practitioners is that the symptoms for which the individual is most likely to seek a physician's help are those that occur during withdrawal when the person is no longer exposed (or is less exposed) to the offending agent. Thus headaches may occur when the individual smokes fewer cigarettes than usual or drinks less caffeine. Indeed, these unpleasant withdrawal symptoms may be forestalled by smoking another cigarette or taking another drink of coffee, thus perpetuating addiction. Patients may report that smoking a cigarette or drinking a cup of coffee in the morning (after 8 or so hours without) relieves their headache (a withdrawal symptom) and they feel better, not suspecting that the cigarette or coffee might also be the cause of their headache.
Occupational health presents many examples in which acclimatization, inurement, or tolerance to a substance is known to develop, for example, exposure to ozone, nitroglycerin, and solvents. Note that the incitants mentioned thus far are all quite different from one another: some are ingestants, others inhalants; some are solid, others liquid or gaseous in form; some are simple molecules, whereas others are complex mixtures. The point is that the human body appears able to adapt to an endless array of substances.
In real life, stimulatory and withdrawal reactions are observed but often not understood. For example, an asthmatic might feel well after spending a week on a Carribean island, breathing relatively uncontaminated air and eating a diet devoid of usual foods, only to have a severe, life-threatening asthmatic response to exhaust from the engine of a boat taking the individual home. Once back home in a metropolis, the asthmatic readapts, acclimatizes to auto exhaust, combustion products and other air pollutants in the area, and experiences only chronic wheezing. Thus, following deadaptation (removal from incitants), the individual exhibits a more acute and convincing reaction upon reexposure. So acute and convincing are some of these reactions that patients themselves erroneously (at least in the eyes of some) surmise they must have an "allergy" to a particular substance. However, if the patient is not de-adapted (unmasked) when tested, a reaction may not occur, convincing the physician that the "allergy" was all in the patient's mind.
Occupational health has several widely recognized examples of adaptation. Industrial hygienists and occupation health physicians know that one of the most valuable clues to work-related illness is a history of intense symptoms following return to work after a vacation or weekend (leading to withdrawal and deadaptation).
Those who have painted or used solvents to any major extent are well aware of the olfactory fatigue (nasal adaptation) that occurs and may have experienced the stimulatory and depressive properties of solvents. Alcoholic beverages contain the solvent ethanol, which has related and familiar stimulatory and withdrawal effects.
Individuals with or without multiple chemical sensitivities undergo adaptation to a wide variety of substances in their environment. What is not dear is the specific role adaptation plays in the dramatic responses patients with chemical sensitivities have to low-level exposures that do not overtly affect others. These concepts are familiar to occupational health practitioners and industrial hygienists because they observe such effects firsthand among workers exposed to chemicals. Randolph states that most physicians see patients long after adaptation has occurred and at the time when end organ damage is setting in: "It is much as if the physician arrived at the theatre sometime during the last scene of the second act of a three act play-puzzled by what may have happened previously to the principal actor, his patient".
Symptoms of exposure to many chemicals, whether inhaled or ingested, appear to follow a biphasic pattern. Adaptation is characterized by acclimatization (habituation, tolerance) with repeated exposures that result in a masking of symptoms. Withdrawal occurs when exposure is discontinued. Once a person has adapted, then the experimental consequences are that further exposures have very little additional effect and therefore may not be observed. The observer may not be able to witness the stimulatory or reactive event because a kind of "saturation" effect has set in.
Adaptation and withdrawal occur for a wide variety of organic and inorganic substances in many physical forms, including various dusts and fumes, solvents, nitroglycerin, ozone, drugs and foods.
An individual is exposed to a variety of substances at different times with varying frequency, duration, and intensity of exposure for each of these substances and with varying frequency and duration of reduction in or cessation of exposure for each substance. The individual may be in different stages (stimulatory or withdrawal) simultaneously for different substances. These stages may overlap and interfere with attempts to observe cause-and-effect relationships.
Adaptation may mask some symptoms or effects while other physiological alterations may continue.
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Exercise your stock options to buy shares of your company stock, then sell just enough of the company shares (at the same time) to cover the stock option cost, taxes, and brokerage commissions and fees. The proceeds you receive from an exercise-and-sell-to-cover transaction will be shares of stock. You may receive a residual amount in cash.
6 Strategies to Exercise Your Employee Stock Options. May 16, Imagine you have $5,000,000 in one company stock in addition to $10,000,000 on the side. A good time to exercise your stock options may be when this after-tax value is "enough." What "enough" actually is will be a personal decision.
Under each of these options exercise methods, the holder receives a benefit if the market price of the stock exceeds the cost o f exercising the stock options. (Indeed, a holder typically is unlikely to exercise if the market price is below the cost of exer cise, unless the time to exercise is soon expiring).
But if the company has stalled out, and/or the exercise price + immediate taxes are high — be very cautious. The taxes and exercise price you are paying are real, and any liquidity is likely far off, at best. Stock options have changed over time.
1. Exercise employee stock options early, if possible. Anyone who is exercising stock options is trying to achieve the lowest possible tax rate on the stock that they purchase. As I described above, this generally means that it's best to exercise as early as possible.
The best time to exercise the options is when they are 'in the money' or when the strike price is below the market price. You will always have taxes in an brisk market so pay them and take your profit.
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If I wish to read a blog which is *only* about the narrow, limited topics of my own interests, I'll write it myself. If I wish to read a well written, extremely well researched blog on a wide variety of suspected, imagined, claimed, portrayed creatures from the mundane to the monstrous, from the Byzantine and the bizarre to the modern and the miraculous – I'll read ShukerNature.
It's been a long time coming – over eight years, in fact, since I first mooted the idea of preserving my ShukerNature blog posts in permanent, hard-copy book format – but it's finally here. In what is planned to be a regular series, today, 8 April 2019, sees the official publication of ShukerNature Book 1: Antlered Elephants, Locust Dragons, and Other Cryptic Blog Beasts.
Although I first became yoked to the internet via an email account back in 1997, followed by my own official website a year later (created by the late, much-mourned American cryptozoologist Scott T. Norman), I steadfastly remained immune to the world of online blogging until as relatively recently as 2009 – 20 January 2009, to be precise, when I finally gave in to temptation.
For after the Centre of Fortean Zoology (CFZ) kindly established it for me in tandem with their own 'umbrella' of CFZ-affiliated blogs called the CFZ Bloggo, that was the fateful date upon which a short item entitled 'Wolves of the Weird' (click here to read it) became the first of what currently stands at over 600 illustrated articles of varying lengths and exceedingly varied subjects that have been researched, written, and uploaded by me onto my very own, unique blog. As its many loyal readers will confirm, ShukerNature is devoted to cryptozoology, zoomythology, anomalous animals, animal anomalies, and unnatural history of every kind, as well as some investigations and reviews of certain ostensibly zooform entities that may be of paranormal, supernatural identity rather than corporeal creatures of zoology. It has also enabled me to preview various in-progress and forthcoming books of mine from 2009 onwards, and, via its Comments section at the end of each of my articles, allows readers to post their own thoughts, opinions, and information, thereby becoming a valuable source of original ideas, news, and data.
Knowing that my blog's contents would cover such a vast diversity of subjects, and that they would all be written in my own particular style (unencumbered by the necessities to conform to any one specific style convention as is so often the case when writing for specific publishers or publications), posed an especial problem for me with regard to what my blog's name would be. How could I possibly come up with a title that would encompass all of those subjects in a succinct yet definitive manner, and also emphasise that these were my writings, penned in my style? In fact, as it turned out, I didn't come up with such a title – someone else did.
That person was fellow cryptozoologist and CFZ colleague Oll Lewis. After hearing that I was having trouble coining a suitable title for my blog, he achieved what to me seemed the impossible – suggesting a title that fulfilled every requirement, covered every subject, incorporated a direct reference to me in it, and much more besides, yet, incredibly, did all of this by way of just a single word! And that word, which did indeed become my blog's title? ShukerNature. Oll has never disclosed his inspirations for what was indeed a truly inspired suggestion; but because he and I are of similar generations, I think it likely that a certain book and also quite possibly a certain song that both achieved considerable fame during our youth may have played their part, consciously or otherwise.
The song, entitled 'SuperNature' and released in 1977, was a disco classic by Cerrone (aka the Italio-French disco drummer/composer/record producer Marc Cerrone). In its original format, more than 10 minutes long, this song was the title (and opening) track of Cerrone's third album; but in a shorter format, just under 4 minutes long, it hit the singles charts all around the world in 1978. Its verses' lyrics (written by an uncredited Lene Lovich) took as their unusual theme for a dance song the dangers of tampering with the environment, turning ordinary creatures into dangerous monsters, with its infuriatingly-catchy chorus simply the repeatedly-sung word 'SuperNature'.
Within just a couple of years from my blog's creation, I was already receiving enquiries from readers as to whether I would be producing a ShukerNature companion book, or books, at some stage, containing selections of its most popular and intriguing blog articles. And when I enquired both on the blog itself and also via my various cryptozoology-linked Facebook pages and groups (including one devoted specifically to ShukerNature) whether there was indeed an interest out there for such a project, I swiftly received a very emphatic affirmative.
An additional reason for doing so was that by converting selections of my ShukerNature articles into a hard-copy published format, they would be rendered permanently accessible in a manner that online data, so often ephemeral in status, can rarely emulate. For whereas a book, once in print, has a guaranteed existence, a website can exist online one moment and vanish the next, thereby expunging a fund of unique, irreplaceable information.
And so I began planning what at that stage I was referring to as ShukerNature: The Book, alongside various additional writings. However, as sometimes happens, life – and death – had other plans for the direction in which my future would take. Or, as my wise little Mom used to remind me gently if I railed against my dreams and ambitions faltering or falling into disarray: "Man proposes, but God disposes" (which is a translation of the Latin phrase 'Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit', from Book I, chapter 19, of The Imitation of Christ by the German cleric Thomas à Kempis).
Thus it came to pass that my blog book was set to one side, and other projects that for one reason or another needed to take precedence were duly completed and published in its stead. Notable among these were my second, long-planned, and extremely comprehensive dragons book – Dragons in Zoology, Cryptozoology, and Culture; a wide-ranging compilation of my most notable Loch Ness monster writings – Here's Nessie!; and of course my fully-updated, massively-enlarged, biggest-ever cryptozoology volume – Still In Search Of Prehistoric Survivors.
These are all now published, and in the meantime the very many additional blog articles that I have continued to research, write, and post each year have provided me with an immensely expanded list of possible examples to include in my eventual ShukerNature compendium.
Formulating how such a book could be prepared, however, was not an easy task, and took a long time to accomplish to my own satisfaction. Indeed, the eventual volume that resulted proved to be so sizeable that the decision was finally taken to divide it into two separate ones, of equal length, to be published sequentially. Consequently, and after much deliberation in the choosing of its specific subjects, I now have great pleasure in publicising herewith on its official date of publication, 8 April 2019, the first of those two volumes, in what I hope will be an ongoing series of ShukerNature books.
Its contents – now saved forever from the vicissitudes of the internet, available for you to read and re-read whenever and wherever you choose to do, updated and expanded when new information has come my way since the original articles were uploaded online, and unequivocally unlike any other collection of writings, whether in print or out of it – document some of the most remarkable, spellbinding entities from my blog's furthest frontiers and most shadowy hinterlands.
After all, where else, within the covers of a single 418-page book (and sumptuously illustrated throughout via spectacular full-colour and rare vintage b/w pictures), are you likely to find such exotic zoological esoterica as locust dragons, antlered elephants, North America's alligator men and Egypt's crocodile children, reptilian seals and seal dragons, king hares and giant rabbits, fan-tailed mermen and scaly bishops, flying cats and even flying elephants, green tigers and blue lions, giant oil-drinking spiders and bemusing sea-monkeys, demonic dragonflies and fury worms, marginalia snail-cats and elephant rats, pukwudgies and Pigasus, ape-man Oliver, lightbulb lizards, mini-mummies, my very own mystery animal, and how ShukerNature famously hit the cryptozoological headlines globally with a series of astonishing world-exclusives exposing the long-awaited truth about Trunko?
And if you're wondering how can I possibly follow all of that, the answer is simple – ShukerNature Book 2: Living Gorgons, Bottled Homunculi, and Other Monstrous Blog Beasts – due out later this year. And don't forget – you read about it here first!
Last – but certainly not least – of all: I wish to offer a massive, sincere vote of thanks to all of you for reading and supporting my ShukerNature blog since its launch in 2009 – without your enthusiasm and interest, it could not have survived – and I look forward to sharing with you many more exotic, entertaining, esoteric, educational, and always thoroughly extraordinary wildlife secrets, controversies, mysteries, surprises, and curiosities, as well celebrating many more ShukerNature anniversaries, both online and in book form, through the years to come!
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You know what would probably turn this around? Whining about the official scorer's decisions.
UPDATE: Alex knows not to disappoint his fans, and on Friday night he delivers the big swinging K in a tie game with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth. To be fair, he did have an infield single in the third.