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IN RE: DOUGLAS J. GIAMBRONE AND MARCON ERECTORS
IN RE: DOUGLAS J. GIAMBRONE AND MARCON ERECTORS, INC., PETITIONERS, v. ALEXANDER B. GRANNIS, COMMISSIONER, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION, AND NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION, RESPONDENTS.
TP 11–00377
Decided: October 07, 2011
PRESENT: SMITH, J.P., FAHEY, PERADOTTO, LINDLEY, AND SCONIERS, JJ. JONATHAN D. ESTOFF, BUFFALO, MAGAVERN MAGAVERN GRIMM LLP, FOR PETITIONERS. ERIC T. SCHNEIDERMAN, ATTORNEY GENERAL, ALBANY (ADAM J. DOBSON OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENTS.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Fourth Judicial Department by order of the Supreme Court, Erie County [Kevin M. Dillon, J.], entered February 7, 2011) to review a determination of respondents. The determination imposed a civil penalty on petitioners.
It is hereby ORDERED that the determination is unanimously modified on the law and in the exercise of discretion and the petition is granted in part by reducing the penalty to $25,000, and as modified the determination is confirmed without costs.
Despite the inordinate delays that occurred in the administrative proceedings, we reject petitioners' contention that the proceedings should have been dismissed and the penalty vacated based on the failure to hold a hearing either "immediately" as provided in 6 NYCRR 622.12(f) or "within a reasonable time" as provided in State Administrative Procedure Act § 301(1). Moreover, we reject petitioners' further contention that dismissal of the proceedings is required due to the failure of the Commissioner to issue the decision and order within 60 days "after the close of the record" pursuant to 6 NYCRR 622.18(b)(1). Time limitations imposed upon administrative agencies by their own regulations are not mandatory (see Matter of Dickinson v. Daines, 15 NY3d 571, 575, affg 68 AD3d 1646), and petitioners failed to establish that they suffered substantial prejudice resulting from the delays (see id. at 577; Matter of Cortlandt Nursing Home v Axelrod, 66 N.Y.2d 169, 178–179, rearg. denied 66 N.Y.2d 1035, cert denied 476 U.S. 1115; see also Matter of Corning Glass Works v Ovsanik, 84 N.Y.2d 619, 625–626). Additionally, we note that, "[w]here ․ legislation providing for an administrative determination explicitly prescribes the time frame for making a determination and provides that the agency is required to act within the specified time frame, there is 'an unmistakable limitation on the [agency's] authority to act' beyond that time frame" (Dickinson, 68 AD3d at 1647; see Matter of City of New York v Novello, 65 AD3d 112, 116, lv denied 14 NY3d 702; see generally Cortlandt Nursing Home, 66 N.Y.2d at 177–182). Here, the Legislature provided no such time frame.
We agree with petitioners, however, that the civil penalty imposed " 'is so disproportionate to the offense as to be shocking to one's sense of fairness' " (Matter of Waldren v. Town of Islip, 6 NY3d 735, 736, quoting Matter of Pell v Board of Educ. of Union Free School Dist. No. 1 of Towns of Scarsdale & Mamaroneck, Westchester County, 34 N.Y.2d 222, 237). The record establishes that the remediation contractor retained by petitioners to perform cleanup work at the site was approved by the DEC, and the contractor mishandled materials and was partially responsible for the site conditions but was subjected to a substantially lower DEC penalty. We conclude that the maximum civil penalty warranted against petitioners in this case is $25,000, and in the exercise of our discretion we therefore modify the determination by reducing the penalty accordingly (see generally Matter of Murray v Ilion Water Commn., 9 AD3d 903; Matter of Vito v. Jorling, 197 A.D.2d 822, 824–825). We have considered petitioners' remaining contentions and conclude that they are without merit.
Patricia L. Morgan


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How Canada is helping international students
As for CIC News
Since March, Canada has sought to help international students experiencing disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
International students are extremely important to Canada's society and economy. The 640,000 international students in Canada help to create a vibrant learning environment on campuses across the country. They also contribute some $22 billion to the economy each year which supports around 200,000 Canadian jobs.
Recognizing that international students have also been impacted by COVID-19 disruptions, Canada has announced a variety of special measures to help the international students already in the country, plus international students who would like to come to Canada in the near future.
Implied status
Current and former international students (e.g., a former international student who now holds a Post-Graduation Work Permit) who need to extend their stay in Canada during the coronavirus pandemic may be eligible for implied status.
Such individuals may benefit from implied status while Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) reviews their work/study permit extension application, and hence, they may continue studying or working in Canada as per the conditions of their original permit while IRCC makes a decision on their pending application.
International students are usually restricted to working no more than 20 hours per week while class is in session. However, IRCC recently lifted this restriction. As a result, international students working in 10 priority sectors that are helping to fight COVID-19 are able to work more than 20 hours per week until August 31. These 10 sectors are:
CERB
The federal government has launched the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) to provide income support to those in Canada who have been negatively affected by COVID-19. The CERB offers $500 per week for up to 16 weeks to eligible workers. International students who meet the CERB's eligibility criteria may receive such income support.
PR pathways
In recent years, more international students have transitioned to permanent residence. International students possess the key human capital characteristics that federal and provincial governments look for when selecting immigrants. They are young, have high levels of education and English/French proficiency, and possess Canadian experience. Since the start of the coronavirus crisis, both levels of government have issued more invitations to apply for permanent residence to those with Canadian experience.
More time to submit immigration applications
IRCC has also become more lenient towards immigration applicants, given that the coronavirus may impact their ability to submit a completed application. IRCC has stated it will not refuse incomplete applications and will provide applicants affected by COVID-19 with an additional 90 days to complete the missing steps.
PGWP
The Post-Graduation Work Permit is critical to helping former international students gain the Canadian work experience that they may need to transition to permanent residence. In early April, IRCC announced that international students who were approved for a study permit to begin their program in Canada in May or June will be able to begin their program online without affecting their eligibility to eventually apply for a PGWP. In addition, the PGWP eligibility of international students already in Canada will not be affected by the online courses they are taking in the absence of in-class instruction.
More support for international students on the way?
Canada's response to the coronavirus has been impressive, as it has gone above and beyond to accommodate immigrants, international students, and temporary foreign workers. Canada's efforts to accommodate foreign nationals highlights significant differences between it and other countries, such as the United States.
One of the key takeaways since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis is that Canada has constantly sought new reforms to accommodate foreign nationals. The measures discussed above were not all rolled out at once, but rather, were gradually announced as IRCC and other Canadian government authorities considered how they can help foreign nationals in need.
As such, it is safe to say that the Canadian government will be open to introducing more help for the likes of international students if and when it is necessary.
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LEAD BULLETS, LEAD AVGAS, LEAD PAINT, LEAD PIPES, LEAD WATER
It is odd that in the 21st century we are still contaminating water, air, and hunted food animals with bullets made out of lead. (See "Gun range under fire over lead exposure", Seattle Times, 2-14-2013.) There are good alternatives. Shooters should follow the Army's lead and switch to lead-free "green bullets".
In 1977 we mostly banned lead paint (which is sweet to a toddler's taste), and most of it has been painted over and sealed in. So we hope that it is not as great a problem as it was in the 1970s. I say we mostly banned lead in paint because it is still used in some states in road paint, and lead free paint can still be up to 9 ppb lead.
There is a forgotten side to the lead story. From the 1920s into the 1970s our air was poisoned by tetraethyl added to gasoline. In the 1970s TEL was phased out. It turned out that all along ethanol had been just as good as TEL in preventing knocking. Promoters of TEL had known this and lied to sell their product.
When leaded gasoline was banned, a loophole was carved out for aviation gas, commonly known as Avgas. Many propeller driven planes still burn avgas, and they spew lead down on us as they fly overhead. Most piston driven planes can be made to run just as well on other gasoline mixtures, and those which cannot should get new engines.
The most ignored and possibly the most significant source of lead is our tap water. Simplot, the company which supplies the particular type of dental additives which Seattle injects into our water, admits that it contains lead, and NSF, the quasi-agency which regulates water additives admits it contains up to 1.1 ppb lead, which using Avagadro's math equals around6.4 trillion atoms of lead per quart of water.
It gets worse, much worse, because the dental additives are effective lead solvents, and there is a lot of lead in Seattle plumbing. There is lead in old service lines (street to house), in brass-lead pipes, in galvanized pipe (which absorbs lead from lead service lines), in the solder used on copper and brass pipe, and in virtually all water faucets (Washington considers8% lead to be "lead free").
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported in 2004 that lead had been foundin Seattle schools at up to 1,600 ppb. This is an astonishing level. The EPA action level is 15 ppb, and the EPA goal is zero. 1,600 ppb equals 1.6 ppm, which is twice the current .8 ppm level of the dental additives themselves.
The chemistry is basic. Dental additives leach lead. Once in the body, lead is hard to excrete. "Lead as metal ion irreversibly binds sulfhydryl groups on proteins, including both structural and enzymatic proteins", says Dr. Sauerheber. When Tacoma stopped adding dental additives in 1992, lead levels dropped dramatically. Lead damages the brains of fetuses and babies most of all because their cells are still dividing.
It is politically incorrect to oppose injecting dental additives to drinking water. Politicians avoid the issue out of fear of the well-funded, well-organized, but scientifically uninformed pro-additives dental lobby.
Nevertheless, it is an indisputable fact that the dental additives used right now in Seattle contain not only lead but also arsenic, mercury, cadmium, barium, and thallium (which is slightly radioactive).
If we are really serious about lowering blood lead levels, we need to focus on all sources of lead. Lead bullets, lead plumbing, lead paint, lead avgas, and lead dissolving drinking water dental additives should all be outlawed. There are better ways to shoot guns, fly airplanes, and plumb a house. And there are better ways to protect teeth, such as diet and dental cleaning education, basic dental and cleaning services, supplementing vitamin D, and not eating sugar.
See documentation for all assertions made atwww.leadoutofourwater.wordpress.com.
James Robert Deal, Attorney
WSBA Number 8103
Lead in Seattle-Everett-Tacoma Water
In 2004 it was discovered that old Seattle schools had up to 1600 ppb lead in first draw water from water fountains.
Click here to read more about lead in Seattle school drinking water.
Seattle has busily been replacing old pipes in the schools at great expense, and the lead readings are down.
But readings of over 20 ppb are still occurring:
http://district.seattleschools.org/modules/groups/homepagefiles/cms/1583136/File/Departmental%20Content/general%20counsel/Risk%20management/Drinking%20water%20quality/AnnualReport/A4.pdf?sessionid=7fe7bc515155617f7e6ace48c44cb17b
The author said:
Field sampling and laboratory studies were conducted to investigate lead release from new end-use components used in drinking water fountains in Seattle (Washington) Public Schools. Analysis of sequential small-volume samples collected at 22 sources found high lead concentrations in water that was left standing overnight. Results showed significant lead release at or near bubbler heads and at another location upstream of the bubbler head in the end-use plumbing. Laboratory testing of new end-use components were used to estimate the relative contribution of each component to the total lead release in a first-draw sample. Results of the field sampling and laboratory testing programs helped develop mitigation strategies for reducing overall exposure of Seattle's students and staff to lead in drinking water.
Note there is no reference to the causal connection between lead leaching and silicofluoride in drinking water.
In schools that have not been fixed yet, there are do-not-drink signs over the water fountains.The District appears to be saying that the problem is gone or going away.
http://www.seattleschools.org/modules/groups/homepagefiles/cms/1583136/File/Departmental%20Content/general%20counsel/Risk%20management/Drinking%20water%20quality/AnnualReport/AnnualReport_summary.pdf?sessionid=1d0fe12b422d4f58fc0cbddf8e55924c
http://apps.awwa.org/waterlibrary/scholarabstract.aspx?an=JAW_0066131
My response is
1) Lead readings after cleanup still exceed 20 ppb. This is not acceptable.
2) Readings would be lower if the water was not fluoridated.
3) The School District has only partially solved, at enormous expense, the problem in old schools.
4) The School District and the city are ignoring the lead problem in old apartment buildings, old houses, old factories, old office buildings.
The AWWA Journal posts this article:
Lead Release from New End-use Plumbing Components in Seattle Public Schools Authors: Boyd, Glen R.; Pierson, Gregory L.; Kirmeyer, Gregory J.; Britton, Michael D.; English, Ronald J. Citation: Journal AWWA, Vol. 100 Iss. 3, March 2008, Page Range 105-114, 10 Pages.
I quote from the article:
Seattle (Wash.) Public Schools (SPS), a school district of 47,000 students in 102 schools and administrative buildings, purchases water from Seattle Public Utilities. More than 60% of the school buildings are plumbed primarily with galvanized steel piping. Many buildings are more than 40 years old and moderately tuberculated. In late 2003, the district faced numerous inquiries associated with water quality in its school buildings, with much of the concern focused on exposure of school children to lead (Pb) from drinking water fountains.In 2004, a comprehensive water quality monitoring program was conducted in SPS. …
USEPA recommends that fountains be taken out of service when sampling results indicate that the lead level exceeds 20 ug/L. [That is 20 parts per billion, an unacceptable level on an ongoing basis. There is no mention of turning off the fluoride.] …
Results of the SPS sampling indicated that 600 firstdraw samples out of 3,167 (19.0%) exceeded the USEPA guideline of 20 rg/L Pb in schools. The mean lead concentration of the first-draw samples was 21 rg/L, with a maximum observed lead concentration of 1,600 rg/L. …
The new policy included a criterion that the lead concentration at every drinking water source in all school buildings be [less than] 10 ug/L [ten parts per billion], i.e., one-half of the USEPA guideline of 20 ug/L Pb for schools. [Ten ppb is still too much lead for children to be drinking.] …
Several possible sources of lead were identified in the school piping systems, including old galvanized-steel pipe, lead/tin solder, and brass components such as bubbler heads, valves, elbows, ferrules, and flexible connectors. …
Mitigation included one or more of the following options: totally or partially replacing building piping; replacing bubbler heads with low-lead « 0.3 % Pb) brass bubblers; installing new end-use plastic-lined flexible connectors, valves, and fittings; disabling the fountain if other accessible fountains were nearby; installing granular-media point-of-use (POU) filters for lead removal from incoming water (Boyd et aI, 2005); and/or providing bottled water. After implementation of the water quality monitoring program, followup sampling results indicated that some of the remediated sources exhibited lead concentrations that exceeded the school board's criterion of 10 rg/L Pb.
So even after doing remediation, lead levels were still exceeding 10 ppb. The entire article makes not one mention of the ability of silicofluoride to dissolve lead. Every article written about the lead problem in Seattle schools has omitted any mention of this connection.
Mike C said:
Changing lead service lines to plastic service lines is a half-baked solution if the water is treated with fluosilicic acid. The 8% LEADED BRASS FAUCETS will still release lead into the water being delivered at the bubbler.
Why is it so hard to convince every one that ingesting fluorosilic acid is the real problem with fluoridated water?
(1) The CDC and EPA have lied about this problem for 65 years.
(2) The most vocal anti-fluoridationists have aided and abetted by intoning the mantra "Fluoride is fluoride, is fluoride."
Gerry C from Toronto says:
The Maas, Coplan et al study (2007) may be relevant to your questions, James.
https://www.fluoride-class-action.com/wp-content/uploads/Maas-patch-christian-coplan-Effects-of-fluoridation-and-disinfection-agent-combinations-on-lead-leaching-from-leaded-brass-parts-neurotoxicology-28-2007-1023-1031.pdf
It shows that chloramine also causes lead leaching to occur and accounts for about 25% of the total amount. Also, bear in mind that there are other sources of lead than the city water pipes, including the water meters and the faucets. The brass in these units contains varying amounts of embedded lead used as a flux in from the manufacturing processes and sodder joints. So the key thing here is the amount of lead at the user's outlet tap (be it in the school water fountains, the residential outlets, etc) rather than any earlier point in the service distribution system. Also it is significant to the test results obtained whether the samples are drawn after an extended lull period (e.g., overnight, weekend) rather than after flushing the system for a prolonged period (say 5 minutes).
The water people here call for flushing before sampling in their protocol whereas the public health people advise no prior flushing be done as that best approximates the real world situation of how we consumers use drinking water. I used the latter approach when I tested our place for lead content. The before reading was 35 ppb of lead, and the after reading was 6 ppb of lead. "After" was after I and the City had the distribution and service pipes replaced. But there still is chlorine and ammonia in the drinking water and neither the faucets nor the water meter were replaced.
BTW, the F-Pb connection also figures greatly on both adverse health and water costs aspects in our case to end fluoridation here in Toronto. We go before the City's Executive Committee on Sep 19 to seek their adoption of our recommendation to cease fluoridation.
Aliss T offered this:
Peter Van Caulart may have more in depth info but from what we learned here in Toronto, estimate is that fluoridation is responsible for 75% of the lead measured in the tap water. Source water from lake Ontario is neutral to 7.2 pH with around 100 to 120 [ppm] total dissolved solids, good calcium balance, has zero ppb lead. Finished water leaving the treatment plant after sand filter, flocculation with alum, treatment to lower sulfur and phosphates, carbon filter, then chloramine and ammonia, acids or hydroxides for buffering, then fluoridation and further buffering if needed, has non-detectable lead or below 1 ppb.Our provincially enforced drinking water regulations permit up to 10 ppb lead at the tap AFTER 5 minutes of cold water flushing. God only knows what the lead content would be BEFORE flushing huh. Ten percent of tests exceed the 10 ppb regulation overall and in the urban older neighbourhoods where lead supply pipes dominate the lead is higher on average at the tap, and the percentage of tests that fail the regulatory limit is closer to 40%. [It is estimated that] 70,000 urban households affected. [There is] no data on lead in water in schools, and the province was petitioned to remove the onerous requirement for testing the water at schools built after 1968 when lead pipes were no longer allowed, but caretaking duties ordered by Toronto District School Board now include flushing all drinking fountains for a full ten minutes each morning mon-fri Sept-July at all schools regardless of when they were built. As we know, the brass fittings will leach plenty of lead regardless.My guess regarding Seattle is that due to the lack of calcium in the source water the fluoridation with HFSA (and I think you should specify this to differentiate it from NaF effect which leaches less lead) is responsible for 90% or more of the lead measured at the tap. Chloramine and chlorine disinfection alone leach a tiny amount. Water would likely meet regs for lead almost every test if fluoridation was ended. In every city where fluoridation with HFSA was interrupted for any length of time the measured lead content at the tap has fallen drastically. Didn't they end fluoridation permanently in one major city [she is referring to Tacoma] as a result of finding this out but the other city put the fluoridation back on because hey, lead poisoning of kids is justified by reduced tooth decay.The EPA has simply abdicated its responsibility for protecting citizens from lead in tap water. It's like there is this unwritten exception clause that everyone in government obeys but never mentions. Lead over 10 (or is it 15) ppb is illegal "except when caused by fluoridation". Gee maybe they should put lead back in gasoline because lead protects us against radiation.
Professor Richard Sauerheber, PhD, offered this:
Fluoridation with industrial fluorides lacking calcium obviously always decreases the ratio of calcium+magnesium to fluoride in the treated water. In the Hereford Texas prototype natural water the ratio was 324 to 2 or 162 to 1. These people had increased tooth fluorosis from the natural fluoride and fewer surface cavities [due to] the naturally high calcium level.In Seattle the naturally prevalent ratio is about 15 ppm calcium to about 0.02 ppm fluoride [if we did not fluoridate] for a minimum safe ratio of 375-750 or higher. By adding fluoride at 1 ppm, the ratio was lowered drastically to 15 to 1. Even using calcium fluoride does not help this ratio much, where it would still be about 16 to 1, but again using calcium fluoride would eliminate the need to add [a half ton of caustic soda for every ton of silicofluoride], and the material [using NaF instead of silicofluoride] would not have the significant amounts of arsenic, lead, uranium, etc. that plague the fluosilicic acid hazardous waste. Also it would not form silicic acid or as much hydrofluoric acid in the water which is also responsible for dissolving lead.The reaction that dissolves lead solid is: Pb + HF goes to Pb2+ + F- + H2 ga
Dr. Sauerheber also offered this:
Any acid, depending on concentration, can react with lead to ionize and dissolve it, but at normal or alkaline pH the effect is gone. HF though is thought to be different since it is so tiny it can burrow into metals and glass to dissolve it even though HF is a weak acid. [When silicofluorides dissolve they produce HF. When sodium fluoride dissolves, it does not produce HF.] It is a weak acid because it is not able to ionize like strong acids do. Stong acids like sulfuric in car batteries dissolve lead, but this acid would not exist in water that is alkaline before it arrives at the lead pipe. Appreciable HF exists even at somewhat alkaline pH because it is a 'weak acid' that does not ionize easily, and presumably because it is tiny it uniquely can penetrate metal, glass, leather, concrete, etc.
Golda S said:
In Wikipedia under Lead and Copper Rule:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_and_copper_rule
are some really interesting points. For example:
"Partially because of lead pipes, some states regulated the corrosivity of water put into the distribution system."
Under the sub title Unusual features of the rule is the following statement:
"Especially for the larger systems, having the water supplier change the tendency of the water to dissolve lead in the customer plumbing may be more cost effective than having thousands of customers replace plumbing."
Then on the EPA website at:
http://www.epa.gov/nrmrl/wswrd/cr/corr_res_lead.html
Regulations to reduce human exposure to lead are:
The Lead and Copper Rule of 1991 – This rule requires lead and copper levels to be minimized in drinking water, primarily by reducing water corrosivity. It establishes an action level of 0.015 milligrams per liter (mg/L) for lead and 1.3 mg/L for copper in 90 percent of the first-draw water samples taken at specifically identified sites and after six hours of stagnation. (Refer to the Lead and Copper Rule targeting and sampling requirements.) The action level is the lowest level to which water utilities can reasonably be required to control lead if it occurs in drinking water at their customers' home taps. (Note: An action level exceedance is not a violation but can trigger other requirements such as monitoring and treatment.)
To me that means eliminating fluoride from the water in order to reduce the corrosion of lead into the water from home and school pipes.
More about Lead
It has long been known that in fluoridated cities there is more lead to be found in children's bodies.
Masters and Coplan give their theory of how this works.
Citizens of El Paso have succeeded in getting Texas not to renew Asarco's permit to dump eight tons of lead into the air, soil, and water each year.
We are trying to get hunters to quit using lead. It would make sense that we should try to get all lead out of drinking water.
Washington has a get out the lead program, but it does not give any consideration to lead in fluoridation materials or the power of fluorosilicates to capture lead that might otherwise be excrete it and cause the body to retain it.
The CDC claims that silocofluorides have no effect on lead in water main but admit possible problems in old homes and schools because of leaded brass in fittings and spiggots. Virtually all brass fittings still contains some lead.
http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/fact_sheets/engineering/corrosion.htm
Chloramines, Lead, and Fluorosilicates Together are Touble
http://www2.fluoridealert.org/Alert/United-States/National/Chloramine-Lead-Pipes-Fluoride-Contaminated-tap-water
NeuroToxicology article by Masters and Rockefeller: Fluorosilicates cause higher levels of lead uptake in children.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2001/mar01/flouride.html
COMMENTS TO HHS AND EPA ON FLUORIDATION
HHS and EPA asked for comment regarding their joint proposal to reduce the amount of fluoride recommended for addition to drinking water from a range of 1.2 to .7 ppm down to a flat .7 ppm. In response Fluoride Class Action submitted this discussion of the problem that fluoride, particularly silicofluoride, causes when it is added to public drinking water:
https://www.fluoride-class-action.com/hhs/comments-re-lead
Also see the leaded gasoline directory and links.
Overview: Leaded Gasoline History and Current Situation
By Bill Kovarik
SUMMARY: Leaded gasoline should be counted among the great environmental disasters of the 20th century, given the numbers of people killed or slowly poisoned by the dull grey metal. Significantly. alternatives were well known from the beginning and preferred by the same researchers who created leaded gasoline. They originally saw it as nothing more than a bridge to other, safer fuels. Leaded gasoline was phased out in the US from 1975 – 1986 and in Europe in the 1990s. It is still being used in the developing world.
When you fill your car up at the gas pump, you may notice that you are using "unleaded" gasoline.Lead is not something that comes with gasoline that has to be taken out — it was deliberately added by the oil industry to boost "octane" or anti-knock ratings for fuel. It had to be phased out by government order, for public health reasons, starting in 1975, and concluding in 1986. It was also banned in various European nations in the 1990s. It is still having serious public health impacts in developing nations, and a complete global phase-out has long been advocated by the World Health Organization and all other international health organizations.
Most recently, the "Declaration of Dakar" of June 28, 2001, part of the World Bank's Clean Air Initiative, called for help in phasing out leaded gasoline in 25 sub-Saharan nations. Chart showing drop in blood lead levels in close correlation to drop in lead content of gasoline. (EPA).
Leaded gasoline is typically a suspension of 3 to 4 cc tetra-ethyl lead per gallon of gasoline. Although diluted at over 1,000 to 1, the lead is readily absorbed into the skin on contact with gasoline or into the lungs from automotive exhaust.
Leaded gasoline was discovered on Dec. 9, 1921, at the General Motors research labs in Dayton Ohio. GM researchers had been testing fuel blends since 1916, trying to stop engine "knock." Knock was a problem that was preventing the development of higher efficiency, higher compression engines. The problem was early, non-uniform detonation of fuels in the engine cylinder.
GM researchers tried many different additives and found quite a few that worked well. Ethyl alcohol from cellulosic materials was for many years their strong preference. "Of course" Thomas A. Midgley of GM wrote in a memo to his boss, GM research vice president Charles Kettering, alcohol was "the fuel of the future." The great thing about alcohol was that it could be made from plants, and thus it would be available indefinitely after the oil ran out — and that made Detroit happy. But the problem was that the oil industry would not sell pure alcohol as a fuel. So Detroit needed something to bridge the gap,
That something was the "pill" approach — a few drops or grams of a substance that could be added to gasoline to stop the knock and allow Detroit to make high compression engines, which would be more efficient and more powerful and — not incidentally — easier to switch to alternative fuels if or when the time came for Detroit to leave the oil industry behind.
After a frantic search for results to justify further research, the company gave Midgley a litle extra time in 1921. He started working systematically through the periodic table of elements although he continued promoting alcohol fuel blends to meetings of the Society of Automotive Engineers. Tetraethyl tin had some effect, but a solution of tetraethyl lead stopped engine knock fairly well in a research engine on December 9, 1921. The solution was difficult to produce, explosive and quite poisonous, as GM researchers found in the winter of 1922. Even as late as the summer of 1922, Midgley and his assitant T.A. Boyd were championing alcohol fuel from vegetable sources.
GM started marketing its "Ethyl" fluid in 1923. In 1924 it joined with Standard Oil (Exxon) to form a partnership called the Ethyl Corp. Since DuPont was a one-third owner of GM at the time, the three major corporations all had a hand in the development and marketing of leaded gasoline. Other companies quickly joined in, including Andrew Mellon's Gulf Oil Co.with an exclusive contract for Southeastern U.S. distribution of leaded gasoline. Mellon was Secretary of Treasury during this time and in charge of the Public Health Service, which was investigating leaded gasoline.
The public controversy started when about five workers at a grossly unsafe Standard Oil refinery went violently insane in 1924. Many others were also hospitalized. Public health experts, including Alice Hamilton of Harvard and Yendell Henderson of Yale, vehemently opposed the use of lead in gasoline as a menace to public health. Henderson called it "the single most important question in the field of public health that has ever faced the American public."
In 1925 the Public Health Service convened a conference on leaded gasoline. The structure of the conference was slanted towards industry, which may have had something to do with the influence of Andrew Mellon. At the conference, Hamilton called GM vp Charles Kettering "nothing but a murderer" for distributing leaded gasoline. Lead poisoning, as Hamilton knew, had been a familiar and dreaded "occupational disease" throughout centuries of European history.
Hamilton also insisted that there were other ways to get an anti-knock (higher octane) fuel.
Kettering and others, speaking for GM and Standard Oil (which together jad created the Ethyl Corp. early in 1924) claimed that they did not know of alternatives "in the parrafin series" that gave anti-knock results. Frank Howard of Standard went much further, saying that civilization rested on engines and fuels, and that (in his immortal words) leaded gasoline had come "like a gift from heaven."
But even a quick glance at Chemical Abstracts would have shown the Public Health Service and the news media that GM had gone to the trouble of patenting many alternatives just in case leaded gasoline didn't work out. Clearly, the public watchdogs were fast asleep.
We now know from confidential GM documents that Kettering and others were very worried about competition from alternatives to leaded gasoline. They exchanged anxious memos about the competing anti-knock techniques. These included catalytic cracking, use of benzene and use of higher parrafin- derived alcohols (eg, tertiary butyl alcohol) being used by Sun, Arco and other oil companies at the time. Ethyl alcohol from farm products was also a serious competitive threat in Europe until the late 1930s.
These worries were one reason why production schedules were pushed to the limit and unsafe plant conditions were allowed to exist. The haste to beat the competition contributed to the 17 deaths from tetraethyl lead in the 1920s.
As an historian looking to the implications of these events, several items cause particular concern:
First, that it was so easy for industry to distort and nearly bury the history of this environmental disaster under layers of tertiary materials like company reports and public relations memos. Only a chance release of 80 linear feet of raw, unclassified GM files in 1992 provided any primary historical documents to researchers. There are still many thousands of documents held in private that have not been made public, contrary to the assertions by the DuPont and the Ethyl Corp. *
Secondly, if the government found it so difficult to remove one of history's best known poisons from an item of everyday commerce, how much harder will it be to re-examine and retool technology for the more difficult environmental challenges of the 21st century? World Bank charts of lead poisoning, early 1990s, various cities around the world. Measureable effects are well documented at 10 mg/dl. All but the US are at least twice that level, with Bangkok at four times the level.


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› Politics › British Court Kills Toddler
British Court Kills Toddler
The Harmful Loss of Religious Values
Key points in this article:
A British court decided to end the life of a boy with neurodegeneration.
Newt Gingrich blames the incident on the British secular state where "God is rejected"
We must spread the religious understanding that the soul is always healthy despite physical disabilities
Alfie Evans' 23-month-long life ended in a British hospital. He had a terminal illness known as neurodegeneration, and the Liverpool High Court ordered the removal of his life support against his parents' wishes. Alfie survived for 5 days after his life support was removed.
Alfie had been in a semi-vegetative state for over a year, and the Alder Hey Children's Hospital went to court saying that further treatment was "futile". His parents disagreed, and thus the court case began.
Parents' Wishes Denied
More than 800,000 people saw Alfie's story on Facebook, and protests began outside the hospital. The Italian government gave Alfie citizenship and the Bambino Gesu Hospital, which has connections with the Vatican, offered to continue treatments.
Appeals to the British High Court and later the European Court of Human Rights were in vain. The Court ordered the termination of Alfie's life support and prohibited the parents from finding any alternative treatments overseas.
Doctors removed Alfie's life support in April, 2018 against the parents' wishes. And despite being told that he would die within minutes, Alfie continued to breathe unaided for 5 days. His father Tom says "it's not a miracle; it's a misdiagnosis".
"Our baby boy grew his wings tonight at 2:30 a.m. We are heartbroken," his mother Kate posted on Facebook after Alfie's passing. Tom also posted "My gladiator lay down his shield".
The same thing happened in 2017 in Britain. Charlie Gard had mitochondrial depletion syndrome whose treatment was force-stopped by the British Court. He was 11-months old. An American hospital would have continued treatments, and it was a possibility since Charlie's parents had raised more than GBP1.3 million.
A Tragedy That Happens When "God Is Rejected" Says Gingrich
The British government ordered what is equivalent of a death sentence to these innocent young lives. Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and Republican, Newt Gingrich, said in his article on Fox News
These tragic government-imposed death sentences for innocent infants should frighten all of us about increasing secularism in society and the steady shift towards a totalitarian willingness to control our lives – down to and including ending them – on the government's terms.
In the American Revolution, in our fight against the British crown, we asserted that rights come from God – not from government . . . However, our secular, liberal culture increasingly dismisses the concept of God and asserts that our rights come from a rational contract enforced by government.
The British government settles on these inhumane decisions because religious values and the concept of God are missing in the public sphere.
In March of this year, British cosmologist Stephen Hawking died after his long battle against ALS. A major moment in his life was when he contracted pneumonia while writing his book "A Brief History of Time" (which went on to sell over 10 million copies), and doctors offered to turn off his life support.
Tragedies Will Continue Until Religious Values Are Spread
It is mortifying to think that a free democratic country like Britain should force the stopping of medical treatments on patients with terminal illnesses. As Gingrich points out, it is because atheism is spreading and we are moving towards a God-less totalitarian form of government.
Religions teach that the soul is always healthy despite any physical ailments. Souls are honorable beings made by the Creator, and they are born on Earth to go through soul training.
Government bodies like the Court must not be allowed to deprive human souls the chance to undergo training.
Tragedies like Alfie and Charlie's cases will continue until religious values spread throughout the world. It is of utmost importance that we increase the number of people who have faith in God.
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The 1827 Vermont gubernatorial election took place in September and October, and resulted in the election of Ezra Butler to a one-year term as governor.

The Vermont General Assembly met in Montpelier on October 11. The Vermont House of Representatives appointed a committee to review the votes of the freemen of Vermont for governor, lieutenant governor, treasurer, and members of the governor's council. The committee determined that Ezra Butler had won election to a second one-year term.

In the election for lieutenant governor, the committee determined that Democratic-Republican Henry Olin had won election to a one-year term. Newspapers of the time reported the vote totals as: Olin, 9,411 (67.5%); Samuel C. Crafts, 2,667 (19.1%); Israel P. Dana, 1,865 (13.4%).

Benjamin Swan won election to a one-year term as treasurer, his twenty-eighth. Though he had nominally been a Federalist, Swan was usually endorsed by the Democratic-Republicans and even after the demise of the Federalist Party he was frequently unopposed. According to a contemporary news account, Swan was chosen nearly unanimously, with no major opposition and only 17 votes scattering.

The vote totals in the governor's race were reported as follows:

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Q: data is undefined although using async and await I am sorry, but although i searched for the solution i can not fix the problem.
I can get the res, but can not access it with res.data.
I have tried to fix it by using an asynchronous arrow function.
class QuizLoader extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
   super(props);

   this.state = {
    receivedData: []
   }
  }

  //load data
  componentDidMount() {
   this.getData();
  }

  getData = async () => {
   const dataBefore =  this.state.receivedData;
   console.log("receivedData before sending is ");
   console.log(dataBefore);

   // get Quiz data from database
   let res = await axios
   .get('https://backend-pflegonaut.firebaseio.com/.json')
   .catch(err => {
    console.log(err);
    return null;
   });

   let { data } = res.data;

Here i only get undefined
   console.log({res});

see code below
   this.setState({receivedData: data});
  }

render() {
 return (

      {this.state.receivedData.length === 0 ? (

Loading...

      ) : (

second problem here: this.state.receivedData.map is not a function
        this.state.receivedData.map((e, i) => {
          return
{e.Frage}
;
        }

Also tried: this.state.receivedData.Object.map
       )
      )}

  );
 }
}

export default QuizLoader;

data overview in the console.log:

A: Your axios request seems a bit malformed. Also when you destructure res.data by doing:
let { data } = res.data
The code is trying to make a new data variable by using a key-value pair inside res.data (which it doesn't have because this is actually the array you want). You're going one level too deep. It should just be:
let { data } = res.
Try this, it's the current convention of working with async/await:
  getData = async () => {
     const dataBefore =  this.state.receivedData;
     try {
        const res = await axios.get("https://backend-pflegonaut.firebaseio.com/.json")

        let { data } = res //turns the data key-value pair into a variable

        this.setState( {receivedData: data} );

     } catch(err){
        console.log(err)
     }
   }

As for you quiz-rendering. It looks like you want to display a list of questions with their corresponding answer-set. Try something like this:
  render() {
    return (

        {this.state.receivedData.length === 0 ? (

Loading...

        ) : (
          Object.entries(this.state.receivedData)
            .filter(([key, obj]) => key.includes("Frage"))
            .map(([question, obj]) => {
              return (

{question}

                  {Object.values(obj).map((answer, i) => {
                    return
{answer}
;
                  })}

              );
            })
        )}

    );
  }

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Q: How to pass command line argument when using source() I am using r in windows using RGui(64-bit)
I use source command to execute a .r file.
 source('do_something.r')

Have few questions:

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*How can i pass arguments on command line ( in gui)

Example: I want to print value 10
do_something.r content:only below line
arg1
Getting below error:
> source('do_something.r') 10
Error: unexpected numeric constant in "source('do_something.r') 10"

How can i fix that? what should be correct syntax of passing the arguments? I searched around and nothing really clear(only thing i understood was the need to write functions etc...ouch i am not much a programmer, i am a DBA :) ). i am new to r.

*I am finding it really boring to call "Source('do_something.r'" to call the script. Is there any better way to do that ( which doesnt involve playing to in windows control panel etc , i a command line guy :) )?

A: There really is no notion of a "command line" for the R parser. It executes a complete function call if it finds one in the "do_something.r" file before moving on to any expression that might follow the correct separator, a semi-colon. The parser will not pass the trailing expression to the evaluator until the sourced code is completed, so will not "see" any expression that follows. You have two choices:
To do this from the RGui console you need to do something like:
 val <- 10; source("do_something.r")  # set value first, then `source`

To use a "real" command line (not from the RGui), try this (assuming that the code in do_something.r will access a variable named val):
Rscript do_something.r -e 'val <- 10'

See ?Rscript for more details and examples.


Mike Hopkins took over the helm of the University of Washington men's basketball program, UW Director of Athletics Jennifer Cohen announced on March 19, 2017. Hopkins comes to Washington from Syracuse University, where he spent 22 seasons alongside Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim. In 2015 Syracuse named him head coach designate, set to take over the Orange program after Boeheim's retirement following the 2017-18 season.
He first started with the 21-and-under team in 2000 and 2001 helping with player evaluation for the club that went on to win gold. In 2006, he was with the Senior Men's team before rejoining the staff in 2010 where he travelled with the team en route to their World Championship Title in Turkey.
As a student-athlete himself, Hopkins became the Orange's starting shooting guard his junior year en route to the team winning the 1992 Big East Championship. Outside of playing 111 career games in the Carrier Dome, he was also named team captain as a senior en route to averaging 9.2 points and 3.7 rebounds.
University of Washington head coach Mike Hopkins has announced that Cameron Dollar will join his staff as an assistant coach. Dollar returns to the bench at Alaska Airlines Arena after spending the last eight seasons as the head coach at Seattle University. He will join Will Conroy and Dave Rice on Hopkins' staff.
Dollar is familiar with the Washington program as he was a member of Lorenzo Romar's staff from 2002-09 before taking the Seattle U head job. During his time in purple and gold, Dollar was a part of three NCAA Tournament Teams, two squads that advanced to the Sweet 16 and helped UW earn the first No. 1 seed in program history.
Additionally, Washington won its first outright Pac-10 regular season title since 1953 while Dollar was on staff and he was key in helping the Huskies land some of the highest ranked recruiting classes in UW history. Washington's record of 145-81 (.642) was also one of the best stretches in Seattle.
When he left the UW staff in 2008, Dollar went to take over the Redhawks program that was in its transition to Division I and was able to navigate rebuilding of a program that reached postseason play twice.
Using an up-tempo style with aggressive defense, Dollar led Seattle U to a 17-14 record in his first season (2009-10), making the Redhawks the first team to post a winning record playing a full Division I schedule in its first year as a Division I counter. The team started to gain national recognition after a 77-74 victory at Utah, and then made history later in the year with a 99-48 win at Oregon State, the worst home loss ever for the Beavers.
Seattle U made the College Basketball Invitational twice, advanced to the finals of the Western Athletic Conference Basketball Championship and had a winning record at home in all but one season as he amassed an overall mark of 70-53 when playing in Seattle.
Prior to his arrival at UW, Dollar served three years as an assistant coach on Romar's Saint Louis University staff. He helped the Billikens to a three-year record of 51-44 (.537), including a 2000 Conference USA Tournament championship that secured the league's automatic NCAA berth.
Dollar began his coaching career as an assistant on the staff of head coach Pat Douglass at UC Irvine in 1997. He became the nation's youngest head coach in 1998 when, at age 22, he took the reins of the Southern California College program in Costa Mesa, Calif. The Vanguards, who returned just six players from the previous season, posted an 11-22 record in Dollar's only season, but recorded wins over NAIA Top 25 teams Westmont and Azusa Pacific.
After a three-month stay as a part-time assistant at the University of Georgia in 1999, Dollar left to join the Saint Louis coaching staff on a full-time basis.
A four-year letterman at UCLA from 1994-97, Dollar achieved national recognition in 1995 as a pivotal player in UCLA's NCAA championship season when he took over for injured starter Tyus Edney in the title game. In Dollar's final three collegiate seasons, the Bruins won the NCAA title and reached the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. Dollar averaged 5.0 points and 3.7 assists per game during his four-year career.
Dollar is a native of Atlanta, where his father, Don, was the long-time coach at Clarkston High School. Cameron and his wife, Maureen, live in Seattle. They have three children: Jalen (born April 26, 2005), Giselle (born Feb. 12, 2007), and Jason (born Dec. 23, 2008).
University of Washington head coach Mike Hopkins has announced that Dave Rice will round out his coaching staff as he was named an Assistant Coach. Rice has coaching experience as both a head coach and assistant and will join Will Conroy and Cameron Dollar as assistants on Hopkins staff.
Rice most recently spent the last season as an assistant coach at the University of Nevada where he helped guide the Wolf Pack to its second-most wins in program history with 28 victories. Nevada went on to win the Mountain West regular season and tournament titles en route to earning the team's first trip to the NCAA Championship since the 2006-07 season. Overall, Rice has been a part of 11 staffs that have advanced to the NCAA Tournament.
Prior to joining Nevada, Rice spent four full seasons as the head coach at UNLV where he led the Runnin' Rebels to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 2012 and 2013, his first two seasons atop the program and recorded an overall record of 98-54. He is the third winningest coach in UNLV history behind Jerry Tarkanian and Lon Kruger.
UNLV went 26-9 in his first season as its head coach, as he became the winningest first year head coach, while his 51 wins over his first two seasons were also the most by a second-year head coach at UNLV.
UNLV won 20 games in three of his five seasons and he mentored four players that went on to be drafted by the NBA, including the No. 1 pick in the 2013 NBA Draft, Anthony Bennett. During his historic first season, his UNLV squad was ranked in the nation's top 25 for 13-straight weeks and 14 overall, reaching as high as No. 11. He also guided the Runnin' Rebels to 10 wins over top 25 teams during his tenure, including an upset over No. 1 North Carolina (11/26/11) and No. 3 Arizona (12/23/14).
Rice helped bring two top 10 recruiting classes to UNLV along with a No. 11 class during his five seasons. The new Husky assistant also oversaw the development of Mountain West Freshman of the Year Rashad Vaughn who went on to be drafted No. 17 overall in 2015.
Rice spent 18 years as an NCAA Division I assistant coach prior to earning the head job at UNLV. From 2005-11, he worked at BYU, first as an assistant before spending his final three seasons there as the associate head coach. While at BYU, the Cougars posted five consecutive 25-win seasons and earned five straight trips to the NCAA Tournament. BYU reached the 2011 Sweet 16 and finished that season ranked 10th after being led by National Player of the Year Jimmer Fredette.
In his one season away from the Mountain West Conference, Rice spent a year at Utah State in 2004-05 where he helped the Aggies to a 24-8 record that helped them win the Big West Conference tournament and advance to the NCAA Championships.
As a student-athlete, Rice played two seasons at UNLV (1989-91) as a reserve guard for Hall of Fame coach Jerry Tarkanian. The Runnin' Rebels reached the Final Four each season and captured the 1990 title going 35-5. UNLV went 69-6 and won 45 consecutive games during his time as a player. Rice played two seasons at Mt. San Antonio College (1987-89) before transferring to UNLV.
Following his playing days he served as a graduate assistant for one season at UNLV. He then was an assistant coach at Claremont High School under his father Lowell and later coached at Chaffey College. He returned to UNLV in 1994 and spent 10 seasons as an assistant coach for the Runnin' Rebels.
Dave and his wife, Mindy have two sons, Travis and Dylan. At UNLV he earned a bachelor's degree in political science in 1991 and master's degree in business administration in 1993. Rice was a Rhodes Scholar candidate while earning his bachelor's degree.
Rice and his wife, Mindy, established the Dave Rice Foundation in the spring of 2012. The foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the education and support of health initiatives including developmental disorders such as Autism, and other charitable causes. It has awarded over $600,000 in grants to various Autism-related organizations in Nevada.
Former Washington Men's Basketball standout Will Conroy is entering his third season as an Assistant Coach.
Conroy donned the purple and gold from 2001-05 and after initially joining the program as a walk-on, went on to finish as the all-time assists leader in program history with 515. He also still holds the senior record for assists (219) and finished third all-time in career assists per game at 4.3.
He was the first Husky to top the 200-assist mark during a season and the first to surpass 100 assists in three different seasons. Additionally, he was the 23rd player in Pac-10 history to reach the 500-assist plateau and the 18th to also score 1,000 points. He earned honorable mention All-Pac-12 accolades as a senior and was voted the team's MVP along with serving as the team captain during his junior and senior seasons.
While at UW, Conroy helped the Huskies reach the NCAA Tournament in back-to-back years and earn the program's first No. 1 seed, while also making their first Sweet 16 appearance since 1998. Additionally, Conroy led the Dawgs to consecutive Pac-12 Tournament Championship games in 2004 and 2005 and took that trophy home as a senior after UW defeated No. 8 Arizona. Washington's 29 wins that season also tied the 67-year-old school record.
Following his collegiate career, Conroy spent seven years playing for various teams in the NBA and overseas before taking a front office position for the Minnesota Timberwolves. During his pro career, Conroy was given the 2009 NBA D-League Sportsmanship Award and saw action for the Grizzlies, Clippers, Rockets and Timberwolves.
Conroy is no stranger to the Seattle basketball scene as he attended Garfield High School and led the program to four-straight league championships. The Bulldogs boasted a 100-15 record during his prep career and he picked up All-KingCo First Team honors during his senior season after averaging 14.5 points and 3.6 assists.
Conroy has two children, William Jr. (6) and Madison (2 and a half) and is engaged to Tanika Latte.
University of Washington head coach Mike Hopkins has added Jerry Hobbie as a Special Assistant to the Head Coach.
Hobbie brings a wealth of experience as he spent seven years on the Southern Methodist staff in a variety of roles. He was an Assistant Coach, Director of Operations, Director of Recruiting and Special Assistant to the head coach while in Dallas from 2010-17. The Mustangs made the NCAA Tournament in 2015 and the semifinals of the NIT in 2014 along with winning the American Athletic Conference Championship in 2015.
Prior to SMU, Hobbie was at the University of Houston where he was an Assistant Coach from 2007-10 which saw the Cougars reach a high level of success in Conference USA. Houston reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time in nearly two decades. Additionally, they led the conference in points per game and free throw percentage while he was on staff.
Hobbie also spent eight seasons at Fairfield University (1998-2006) as the Associate Head Coach for three years and an Assistant Coach for five prior, helping produce the Stags' best results since 1978.


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Little Caesars franchisee to open new locations in Fairborn, Centerville.
PIZZA WARS: Yet ANOTHER national chain reveals plans for more Dayton-area restaurants
Little Caesars Pizza to open new locations in Fairborn, Centerville, franchisee says
Any chance that the highly competitive local pizza market might be cooling a bit with the recent closings of a LaRosa's, Papa Murphy's and PizzaFire locations evaporated this week with the news that first Pizza Hut, and now Little Caesars, are adding new Dayton-area locations.
Frank Sanchez, franchisee for Little Caesars in the Dayton area, confirmed to this news outlet today that he is gearing up to open two new locations, first in the coming weeks in Fairborn, and later this summer in Centerville.
>> JUST YESTERDAY: Pizza Hut to expand Dayton-area footprint with 2 new locations
The Fairborn location is located at 1892 S. Maple Ave., adjacent to a Family Video store at Maple and Dayton-Yellow Springs Road. If all goes well, Sanchez said, the carry-out-only pizza restaurant will open in mid-May.
>> NEW RESTAURANT'S FOUNDER: 'I can't wait to start giving back to this town that my family and I have grown to love'
The Centerville Little Caesars will move into the space that previously housed Papa Murphy's Pizza at 832 S. Main St. (Ohio 48). Plans call for renovations to start by the end of May with a projected opening in mid-July, according to Sanchez, who also oversees a Little Caesars in Richmond, Ind. and three in Michigan.
>> Your guide to the best Dayton-area pizza
Other Dayton-area Little Caesars are owned by the chain that is headquartered in Detroit and which operates restaurants in all 50 states and in 20 countries and territories worldwide.
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The new Little Caesars locations — and two new Pizza Hut locations coming to Kettering and Beavercreek that this news outlet told you about yesterday — will join an already competitive Dayton-area pizza market, which has long been dominated by venerable hometown chains such as Cassano's Pizza King and Marion's Piazza; by national chains such as Domino's and Papa John's; and by the dozens of smaller chains and single-store independents that operate in the Miami Valley.
>> RELATED: Local pizza shop shuts down abruptly, lashes out at 'corporate'
In recent years, other smaller, mostly regional chains have invaded those established market players' turf, including LaRosa's, Godfather's, Dewey's and Jet's, among others.
>> RELATED: LaRosa's in Huber Heights shuts its doors (November 2016)
>> LaRosa's speaks out on restaurant closing, Dayton market
More recently, "fast-casual" pizza chains that focus on customized, fast-baked pizzas have added a new layer of competition. Kettering-based Rapid Fired Pizza has led that surge locally, and Seattle-based MOD Pizza operates two Dayton-area restaurants. A third competitor, Cleveland-based PizzaFire shut down its only Dayton-area location late last year. LaRosa's also has closed two of its Dayton-area locations since late 2016.
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A virus designed to murder Sapphires. No one from Brayleigh saw it coming.
Neither James nor Aria expected four men in a deserted city to attack. Thrown into the back of a van, James is captured by claimers - men that hunt Sapphires and bring them into quarantine, where they must settle their debt for treatment. Those that can't pay off their debt are held in the broker's quarters until they're bought by angels, often resulting in slavery, hunting humans, and a host of other horrendous atrocities.
Aria is different. She's naturally immune, or so she's told. On a mission to rescue James, she finds herself in danger and quickly learns the power of friendship, commitment, and undying love.


Jonah Berger's book Contagious explores why certain things catch on and become popular. He starts by dismissing the belief that many, including myself, thought to be true; that a small number of "influencers" cause idea or products to catch on. He opens this discussion by stating that all people hold the same importance in word of mouth, which he considers to be the strongest form of communication of products and ideas. How interesting an idea or product is does not always translate into sharing and word of mouth. Throughout the book he outlines 6 aspects that he calls STEPPS, which he believes drives things to catch on.
The first is Social Currency that explores how people share things that they believe will make them look good or interesting. The person doing the sharing does not receive any monetary gain for spreading this information, but instead will receive Social Currency among peers. He used examples of knowing about a secret bar or airlines that offer VIP titles for people that fly often. I thought this was the most interesting of all the aspects because it not only allows customers to feel good about themselves and the product, but it in turn benefits the company by word of mouth and maintaining a good relationship with that customer.
In advertising, everyone is constantly trying to figure out how to make a campaign go viral or make people remember their advertisement. Social Currency explores how to not only stick in the mind of consumers, but also encourage them to advertise for the brand simply because they want to. Because the message is brought up in a natural setting it is also trusted and valued more by consumers.
The second is Trigger, meaning that in order for people to buy a product or do what an advertisement is suggesting, they must think of it at the right time. If you can associate an idea or products with a trigger, people are more likely to remember the product or idea when they would buy it or do the activity. Emotion is also a deciding factor in why things catch on. When people are stimulated they are more likely to share. This means creating stimulating emotions like anger, awe and humor, but this could also be extended to how people who are physically stimulated and more likely to share. The book was great in detailing how these two aspects must tie into the brand and the brand personality effectively.
The next aspect, Public, outlines how the monkey see monkey do mentality helps things catch on. This explores how we can allow others to see what the people around them are doing, in the hopes that they will imitate it. Brands can do this by making reusable bags that customers will use again and again or putting their logo in a place that will be visible for others to see. Practical value explores how people will share things that they believe will be valuable in their everyday lives or for someone they know. It is human nature to try and help each other, so people like to share things they believe can help those around them. Both of these aspects demonstrate how to increase recognition of brands, products or ideas without spending money. Using these aspects are also considered more authentic to potential customers than advertisements.
Making things into Stories was the last principle of making things catch on. It explained how things can be retold easier if they are wrapped in a story because it will not only keep people engaged, but allow them to tell it again and again. From a marketing and advertising standpoint it is important that the product or idea is a pivotal part of the story so it does not get left out as one person tells another.
Though this can be used for marketing and advertising purposes, Berger uses examples that demonstrate how these rules can be used to make almost anything from YouTube videos to cultural trends catch on. This book is essential for anyone in advertising or marketing because it outline what they should think about when creating a campaign. There are many examples of how real campaigns and ideas have become contagious by incorporating an aspect of STEPPS. From a research standpoint this could be valuable in understanding why a campaign or idea did not excel, and understanding how to reach consumers. It has also become increasingly important for companies to monitor how likely customers are to recommend them to others. This can often make or break their business. Therefore I believe that everyone should read this book, as it gives a great base for understanding word of mouth and how to use it.


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Prior revisions: 1929 § 7541; 1919 § 8951; 1909 § 9803


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We've Been Serenading Further North – 25th & 3rd Ave.
Pictures On A Sunday Afternoon Posted By One Of Our Fans.
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The New York Serenaders from left to right: Ron "Ronnie D" Derin, Rodd "Hot-Rodd" Marcus, "Doo-Wop" Dan Juhn and our very own Joe "Joey Guitar" Sanders.
Much thanks for the opportunity to perform for the residents of The Peter James on 25th Street. It's not hard to be inspired with this beautiful view backing us up.
Serenading our fellow Doo-Woppers from left to right: Ron "Ronnie D" Derin, "Joey Guitar" Sanders, "Doo-Wop" Dan Juhn and Rodd "Hot-Rodd" Marcus, .
Always a lot of fun and singing at the Doo Wop Cafe Luncheons. Thanks again Nan for putting these together for all of us fans.


Are you surprised to see me posting so soon again? I know I am! This week I wanted to review the Benefit 'Precisely, My Brow' Pencil. This was another product that I receive for free #freesample from the Topbox Circle in exchange for reviews, but this blog post was not a requirement—I've just decided that if I'm going to review a product anyway, I might as well have a post up so all of you can learn more too.
I was sent the colour 4, which is described as a 'warm deep brown.' This seems to be a perfect match for me at the moment, but if your hair is super warm or cool, there are other colours available in their range. I've heard about this product for years and always assumed that the influencers raving about it were only doing so because they were sponsored. While they were sponsored, I now believe their claims because I love this as well!
The pencil is really thin, which makes it super easy to create brow-like hair strokes. The formula isn't super creamy, so it doesn't smudge, but it's also not too hard where you have to press hard. It's the perfect consistency and so far I haven't had any issues with it snapping. I only twist out the amount that I'll need to use it, and when I'm done I twist it back down and put it away.
The downsides? This is a high end product. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it does mean that you'll be spending a lot of money for this, and if you do your makeup everyday, those price tags really add up. The spooley isn't my favourite. The ABH spooleys are by far the best that I've ever used, but this Benefit one is a little bit too soft so while it brushes out the hairs, it doesn't help blend easily. I'm not a cruelty free blogger and probably never will be, but I do use a lot of products that are, however, for some reason I assumed that this brand is cruelty-free, but when doing a quick Google search, I learned that it is not the case. So unfortunately, if you are cruelty-free, you can't use anything from this brand.
All in all I do really like this brow pencil. Will I purchase? Not for daily use, but yes for very special occasions. Something like this would be amazing for my wedding day (which is a few years away) so if I run out of it before then and don't have a different product that I like more, I'll probably buy this again. That being said, I do have a lot of brow products that I love that are more affordable so I don't think this is life-changing and you can probably settle for a drugstore alternative.
I hope you've enjoyed this review and seeing me post consistently for once in my life. In case it wasn't already obvious, while I did receive this product for free I am NOT sponsored. One day when I eventually am sponsored by a company, I will make it very clear as I never want to throw out my morals, break the law or trick anyone. As usual, all opinions are 100% my own.


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Ready for sticker shock? Obamacare prices revealed
Kristen Schorsch
Prepare for sticker shock. Window shopping for the Obamacare health insurance exchange is officially open.
While the online marketplace at HealthCare.gov doesn't debut for its fourth year until Nov. 1, consumers and small businesses can now catch a glimpse of what they might pay in monthly premiums, deductibles and other components of health insurance.
In many cases, expect a hit to your wallet. Illinois is among the states where premium rate hikes are "significant," the state insurance department cautioned two months ago.
• What's not to like about Obamacare? Plenty in Illinois
• Illinois Obamacare plan to fold after 3-year run
• Editorial: Blue Cross parent execs are doing well. Customers? Not so much.
In Cook County, for example, individuals can choose from 38 plans with varying degrees of coverage. For a 40-year-old, the cheapest monthly premium is $260.07 for a health plan from Cigna, which is new to the Illinois exchange this year, according to a Crain's analysis. The most expensive? A $592.11 premium for a plan from Chicago-based giant Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois, which has dominated the exchange since its debut.
Deductibles range from $1,000 to $7,150.
In a new report released today, the federal government said 53 percent of Illinois shoppers would find plans with premiums of less than $75 a month, and 60 percent with premiums cheaper than $100.
"Thanks to financial assistance, most current Marketplace consumers in Illinois will be able to find plans with premiums between $50 and $100 per month," Sylvia Burwell, secretary of U.S. Health and Human Services, said in a statement. "Many uninsured Illinoisans could also qualify for financial assistance, as could 130,000 Illinoisans currently paying full price for off-Marketplace coverage."
Illinois consumers have fewer choices on the exchange this year, with options to buy plans from five companies compared to eight last year. Insurers nationwide have fled the exchange after losing money on consumers who were sicker and cost more than expected. In Illinois, national insurers Aetna and UnitedHealthcare have both left. So has Land of Lincoln Health, a federally funded co-op that shut down amid big financial losses.
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Mayukh Sen on Writing About Food—With Feeling
"Tie food to feeling above all else."
By Mayukh Sen
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I never set out to write about food professionally. The very phrase "food writer" suggests a skill set I don't possess: I'm not terribly knowledgeable about restaurants, nor am I much of a cook. (I am resolutely not a recipe developer.) When I fell into this line of work just over five years ago, I was a 24-year-old aspiring film critic in need of a salaried culture writing job. I figured that a staff gig at a food-focused website would provide me such stability, while also encouraging me to achieve fluency in a new register. But my primary interest was always in the people who make food, and the lives they touch through that labor.
Still, food writing initially excited me because of its unique opportunity for beauty, even sensuality. When done with skill, I knew, describing food as an object could result in the kind of breathtaking prose I so wanted to create. But that amateur's zeal soon gave way to anxiety. I began fearing that the genre would expose my inadequacies as a stylist. I could either rely on words that many in my profession had excised from their vocabularies—"delicious," "delectable," or the dreaded "toothsome"—or defy cliche so strenuously that I'd make some tortured and appetite-draining analogy, like comparing the texture of a dumpling to that of a teddy bear.
And so, terrified of failing, I shied away from engaging with food on the page at all as I began writing my first book, Taste Makers, a group biography that chronicles the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers—all of them immigrant women—in late 20th century America. At the onset of my project, I told myself that food should be a vital character in these sketches, not an afterthought. After all, these women sought to express their humanity through their creative work. But as I wrote, I struggled to keep food's presence alive in the text. I wasn't sure how to weave food into each story without it seeming dutiful, as if I were checking a box: Make the reader hungry every third paragraph.
What helped me overcome this stasis was to remind myself what it was about this genre that enticed me all those years ago. I revisited these women's cookbooks, memoirs, and interviews to find meals that captured my imagination, letting myself experience the emotions—pleasure, pain, disgust—that food inspired in them. I couldn't forget the Italian food writer Marcella Hazan's recollections of a gruel she made for piglets during World War II: She would wash bomb dust from mulberry leaves, chop them, and then boil them in water with polenta flour. The author Najmieh Batmanglij's mention of saffron ice cream sandwiches she'd had back in her home country of Iran enchanted me, because it seemed so far removed from any of my food memories. I laughed when I read about the Jamaican chef Norma Shirley's impressions of the food she had as a nursing student in Scotland, a collage of beige meats and vegetables she considered inedible.
As I worked through drafts, I seized upon those striking images of food that my research and reporting presented. I started by detailing the ingredients in these dishes. Where applicable, I would force myself to build a scene around a recipe, walking my reader through what it was like for each woman to actually cook or eat such meals; that way, the character remained present in the frame. After that foundational work, I began to focus on the sentiments these women associated with food. That was ultimately a far better use of my energy than meticulously curating adjectives related to taste, texture, or presentation.
This is now advice I impart upon my students, because I'd failed to heed it for so long: to tie food to feeling above all else. Food writing, after all, has potential to do more than stimulate a reader's appetite, though it took me years to understand this. Rather, what a person eats can reveal a great deal about the world that shaped them, what values they hold close, and who they are.
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America by Mayukh Sen is available via W. W. Norton & Company.
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Mayukh Sen is the author of Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America. He has won a James Beard Award for his food writing, and he teaches food writing at Columbia University's undergraduate creative writing program. He lives in Brooklyn.
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I am licensed by the state of Texas as a Licensed Professional Counselor. I received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri and a Master's of Science degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Texas in Tyler. I am a current member of the American Psychological Association and the American Counseling Association.
Over the years I have worked with all kinds of clients and addressed a variety issues including, trauma, eating disorders, relationship issues, gender issues, depression, anxiety, and learning disorders. I also work with families dealing with divorce and custody issues. I stay current with therapy through continuing education courses, numerous professional journals and books. You will find a list of the books I find useful in therapy, on this website. I try to update this list regularly, since I am always reading. You can usually catch up with what's on my mind, by checking out my blog.
Most people find me fun loving and easy going, but I take my job seriously. We will spend a lot of time in counseling talking about very private things. I don't take that responsibility lightly. Everything you tell me is handled confidentially and with respect. I try very hard not to burden you with my values. Counseling sessions with me are a "no judgment zone." My goal for counseling is to assist you in becoming whoever you really want to be.
On a personal note, I am married, have two children, two dogs and volunteer in my community. I was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. (Yes, I love horses.) I moved to Columbia, Missouri for college. After graduation, my best friend and I moved to Dallas, Texas, to find fame and fortune! After reality hit, she moved to Colorado and I enrolled in graduate school. Now I live in Fort Worth and love it!
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People Magazine voted Bocelli one of their 50 Most Beautiful People in 1998 and he also earned a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for Sacred Arias, his classical album that simultaneously held the top three spots on the US Classical Albums charts. In 1999, he was nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards, and his duet with Celine Dion titled "The Prayer" won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Bocelli was honored with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star on March 2, 2010 for his Live Theatre contributions.
He is well regarded by his famous icons. In 2009, Elizabeth Taylor said "My mind, my soul were transported by his beauty, his voice, his inner being" after seeing his Hollywood Bowl performance. Celine Dion has stated, "if God would have a singing voice, he must sound a lot like Andrea Bocelli." Jazz singer Al Jarrea and producer David Foster have both declared Bocelli's voice to be "the most beautiful voice in the world." Oprah Winfrey announced on her talk show "when I hear Andrea sing, I burst into tears."
Bocelli established the Andrea Bocelli Foundation in 2011 in order to "empower people and communities in situations of poverty." "I strongly believe that love does justice", he says. "And it is for this simple reason that we are all responsible for building a better world."
In addition to his foundation, he has also participated in numerous charity benefit concerts such as the Michael Jackson benefit in 1998, the Memorial Concert at Ground Zero in honor of the September 11 victims, and the Music of Asia festival in 2004 for the Indian tsunami appeal. He performed at the 52nd Grammy Awards alongside Mary J. Blige and David Foster in order to raise awareness for the victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. He also performed at the Children in Need Rocks Manchester concert in November of 2011.
Bocelli worked alongside his hometown of Lajatico in 2006 in order to build an outdoor theatre named "Teatro del Silenzio" (The Theater of Silence.) Every July, for one night only, Bocelli performs a concert there. Every other night of the year, it remains silent.
Bocelli is a dedicated Catholic and is passionately pro-life. Doctors had advised his mother to abort Bocelli in the womb due to his disabled eyesight. Thankfully, she did not, and her decision formed the foundation of his beliefs. Nevertheless, he chooses not to talk about his blindness when it can be avoided, asking interviewers to "go to the next question". In regards to religion, he states, "Religion has the first place in my life. I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God." "It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favor of life. And, of course, personally I do not share the idea of being able to interrupt life arbitrarily."