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Michael D. West (1953- )
Michael D. West is a biomedical entrepreneur and investigator whose aim has been to extend human longevity with biomedical interventions. His focus has ranged from the development of telomerase-based therapeutics to the application of human embryonic stem cells in regenerative medicine. Throughout his eventful career, West has pursued novel and sometimes provocative ideas in a fervent, self-publicizing manner. As of 2009, West advocated using human somatic cell nuclear transfer techniques to derive human embryonic stem cells for therapeutic practice.
Paul Kammerer (1880-1926)
Paul Kammerer conducted experiments on amphibians and marine animals at the Vivarium, a research institute in Vienna, Austria, in the early twentieth century. Kammerer bred organisms in captivity, and he induced them to develop particular adaptations, which Kammerer claimed the organismss offspring would inherit. Kammerer argued that his results demonstrated the inheritance of acquired characteristics, or Lamarckian inheritance. The Lamarckian theory of inheritance posits that individuals transmit acquired traits to their offspring.
Subject: Experiments, People
The Case of Lydia Fairchild and Her Chimerism (2002)
In 2002, after applying for government assistance in the state of Washington, Lydia Fairchild was told that her two children were not a genetic match with her and that therefore, biologically, she could not be their mother. Researchers later determined that the genetic mismatch was due to chimerism, a condition in which two genetically distinct cell lines are present in one body. The state accused Fairchild of fraud and filed a lawsuit against her.
Subject: Legal, People
Gunther von Hagens (1945- )
Gunther von Hagens invented a plastination technique and created Body Worlds, a traveling exhibit that has made anatomy part of the public domain. Von Hagens invented the plastination technique in 1977 while working at Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany. Von Hagen's plastination technique preserves real bodies and tissues by the removal of the fluid and replacement with resin. Body Worlds features three-dimensional, plastinated human bodies.
Subject: People, Outreach, Reproduction
Allan Charles Wilson (1934-1991)
Allan C. Wilson studied genes, proteins, and body structures of animals and humans in the US during the second half of the twentieth century. Wilson also studied human evolution. Although morphology and behaviors of humans (Homo sapiens) and great apes differ, Wilson found that they have biochemical and genetic similarities. Wilson and his colleagues calculated the time period of humans' and African apes' common ancestor.
Ian Donald (1910–1987)
Ian Donald was an obstetrician who developed the technology and therapy of ultrasound diagnostics during the twentieth century in Europe. Ultrasound is a medical diagnostic technique that uses sound waves to produce images of the inside of the body. During the early 1900s, physicians had no way to see inside a woman's uterus during pregnancy. Donald developed the first method of scanning human internal anatomy in real time, which enabled doctors to diagnose potentially fatal tumors and cysts.
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen (1857-1927)
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen studied plants and helped found the field of genetics, contributing methods and concepts to the study of heredity around the turn of the twentieth century in Denmark. His experiments on heredity and variation in plants influenced the methods and techniques of geneticists, and his distinction between the genotype of an organism-its hereditary disposition-and its phenotype-its observable characteristics-remains at the core of contemporary biology. Johannsen criticized biological explanations that relied on concepts such as vitalism and teleology.
Adib Jatene (1929–2014)
Adib Jatene in Brazil was the first surgeon to successfully perform the arterial switch operation in 1975. The operation corrected a heart condition in infants called transposition of the great arteries (TGA). Left untreated, infants with TGA die, as their blood cannot supply oxygen to their bodies. Jatene's operation became widely used to correct the condition. Aside from medical research, Jatene worked for years in politics and education, serving as Brazil's minister of health and teaching thoracic surgery at the University of São Paulo.
Stafford Leak Warren (1896–1981)
Stafford Leak Warren studied nuclear medicine in the United States during the twentieth century. He used radiation to make images of the body for diagnosis or treatment and developed the mammogram, a breast imaging technique that uses low-energy X-rays to produce an image of breasts. Mammograms allow doctors to diagnose breast cancer in its early and most treatable stages.
Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
Emma Goldman was a traveling public speaker and writer known for her anarchist political views as well as her opinions on contraception and birth limiting in the late nineteenth century in the United States. Goldman identified as an anarchist, which she explained as being part of an ideology in which people use violence to provoke or demand social and political change. Goldman was involved in many anarchist social groups and published the anarchist magazine Mother Earth.
William Bateson (1861-1926)
At the turn of the twentieth century, William Bateson studied organismal variation and heredity of traits within the framework of evolutionary theory in England. Bateson applied Gregor Mendel's work to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and coined the term genetics for a new biological discipline. By studying variation and advocating Mendelian genetics, Bateson furthered the field of genetics, encouraged the use of experimental methodology to study heredity, and contributed to later theories of genetic inheritance.
José Pedro Balmaceda (1948- )
José Pedro Balmaceda was born 22 August 1948 in Santiago, Chile. His mother Juanita owned a women's boutique in the city and his father José was a successful owner of several timber mills. He grew up with five sisters who remained in Santiago all their lives. Balmaceda attended the college preparatory school San Ignatius where he met Sergio Stone, his future partner at the Center for Reproductive Health fertility clinic in the University of California Irvine Medical Center.
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1880-1958)
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 15 October 1880 to Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, a suffragist, and Henry Stopes, an archaeologist and anthropologist. A paleobotanist best known for her social activism in the area of sexuality, Stopes was a pioneer in the fight to gain sexual equality for women. Her activism took many forms including writing books and pamphlets, giving public appearances, serving on panels, and, most famously, co-founding the first birth control clinic in the United Kingdom.
Subject: People, Ethics, Reproduction
Boris Ephrussi (1901-1979)
Boris Ephrussi studied fruit flies, yeast, and mouse genetics and development while working in France and the US during the twentieth century. In yeast, Ephrussi studied how mutations in the cytoplasm persisted across generations. In mice he studied the genetics of hybrids and the development of cancer. Working with George Wells Beadle on the causes of different eye colors in fruit flies, Ephrussi's research helped establish the one-gene-one-enzyme hypothesis. Ephrussi helped create new embryological techniques and contributed the theories of genetics and development.
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012)
Rita Levi-Montalcini is a Nobel Laureate recognized for her work in the discovery and characterization of nerve growth factor. Nerve growth factor (NGF) promotes the growth and maintenance of the nervous system in a developing system. The majority of her career has been devoted to investigating the many aspects of NGF.
Cornelia Isabella Bargmann (1961- )
Cornelia Isabella Bargmann studied the relationship between genes, neural circuits, and behavior in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the US. Bargmann's research focused on how the sense of smell (olfaction) in the nematode word Caenorhabditis elegans. She provided a model to study how neural circuits develop and function in the human brain, as the genetic regulatory pathways are similar.
Mary Coffin Ware Dennett (1872-1947)
Mary Coffin Ware Dennett advocated for social reform in the United States in the early twentieth century, particularly regarding sex education and women's rights to access contraception. Dennett authored several publications on sex education and birth control laws. She also worked to repeal the Comstock Act, a federal law that made it illegal to distribute obscene materials through the US Postal Services.
Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943)
Karl Landsteiner studied blood types in Europe and in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Landsteiner won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1930 for detailing immunological reactions in the ABO blood group system. The ABO blood group system divides human blood into one of four types based on the antibodies that are present on each cell. Landsteiner's work with blood types led physicians to safely perform blood transfusions and organ transplants.
Pearl Mao Tang (1922– )
A licensed obstetrician and gynecologist, Pearl Tang worked to improve the health of women and children in Maricopa County, Arizona, during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her work with the Maricopa County Health Department ranged from immunizations to preventing cervical cancer. Tang obtained federal grants and community support to establish various child and maternal health clinics throughout Maricopa County as chief of the Maricopa County Bureau of Maternal and Child Health.
Subject: People, Outreach
Marshall Henry Klaus (1927–2017)
Marshall Henry Klaus was a scientist and pediatrician who studied maternal-infant bonding in the twentieth century in the United States. Maternal-infant bonding is the psychological and chemical attachment between mother and infant. Klaus cofounded DONA International, an organization that trains birthing aides, called doulas, to provide physical and emotional support to laboring mothers. He also studied the differences between the layouts and quality of care provided in nurseries and birthing centers in different countries and compared them to those found in the United States.
Dorothy Andersen (1901–1963)
Dorothy Andersen studied cystic fibrosis in the United States during the early 1900s. In 1935, Andersen discovered lesions in the pancreas of an infant during an autopsy, which led her to classify a condition she named cystic fibrosis of the pancreas. In 1938, Andersen became the first to thoroughly describe symptoms of the medical condition cystic fibrosis.
Zhang Lizhu (1921- )
Zhang Lizhu is a Chinese gynecologist and researcher. For most of her career, she worked in the Peking Medical College Third Hospital, renamed in 2000, Peking University Third Hospital. There, she led a team of researchers and physicians in the study of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo transfer (ET) technology. Zhang and her colleagues contributed to the birth of the first test-tube baby in Mainland China in 1988.
Emma Wolverton (1889–1978)
Emma Wolverton, also known as Deborah Kallikak, lived her entire life in an institution in New Jersey after psychologist Henry Goddard classified her as feeble-minded. He also wrote a book about Wolverton and her family that psychiatrists previously used to show that intellectual disability is hereditary. At the time, researchers in the psychology field, including Goddard, were working to understand differences in people's intellectual abilities. They used the term feeble-minded to refer to those they described as having lower intellectual functioning.
Subject: People, Disorders
Alfred Day Hershey (1908–1997)
During the twentieth century in the United States, Alfred Day Hershey studied phages, or viruses that infect bacteria, and experimentally verified that genes were made of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. Genes are molecular, heritable instructions for how an organism develops. When Hershey started to study phages, scientists did not know if phages contained genes, or whether genes were made of DNA or protein. In 1952, Hershey and his research assistant, Martha Chase, conducted phage experiments that convinced scientists that genes were made of DNA.


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Seven Badass Female Showrunners and Creators on Making it in TV: "I'm Fucking Tough. That's Why My Work Is Good."
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Sandra Bullock on Why "Women Need to Look Out for Each Other"
By Joshua Lyon
Updated: Jul 02, 2015 @ 11:16 am
Sandra Bullock had a secret agenda when she agreed to be on the cover of People's World's Most Beautiful Women issue this past May. She wanted to use the magazine as a platform to talk about media coverage of women. "I said if I can talk about the amazing women who I find beautiful, which are these women who rise above and take care of business and do wonderful things, and take care of each other, then I'm more than honored to be on the cover of this," she told E! News during a junket for Minions in London this week.
"I feel like it's become open hunting season in how women are attacked and it's not because of who we are as people, it's because of how we look or our age," the Oscar winner said. "I'm shocked—and maybe I was just naïve, but I'm embarrassed by it."
The mom to 5-year-old Louis has found that the environment makes it tougher on a parent who is raising a young child. "My son is getting ready to grow up in this world and I'm trying to raise a good man who values and appreciates women," the actress said.
Bullock also acknowledged that it's not just people in the spotlight who need help. "Little girls are having the hardest time with bullying and the internet—somebody with a very large hand and big voice needs to put a stop to it," she said. "But until then, women need to look out for each other. You'd be surprised at the love that you have in our crazy industry. The women have bonded together and have sort of become this tribe of trying to take care of each other and be there for each other in a way, because the minute you step out it's an onslaught."
Let's add "and Socially Conscious" to her "World's Most Beautiful" title. Watch the full interview here:
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Follow-up to the World Summit for Social Development and the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly Ministerial Forum on social protection.


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Editor's Note: Every successful project starts with a framework. A vision statement. A blueprint.
The editors of Engineered Systems are proud to introduce The Blueprint — a Q&A interview with HVACR engineering's leading voices. These one-on-one discussions will examine the trade's history, current industry trends, and the factors shaping the sector's future.
Engineered Systems: According to a recent API report, STEM careers are expected to grow nearly 9 percent from 2014-2024. Based on your experiences at Victaulic, what do you attribute this growth to?
Luftig: STEM careers will continue to grow at Victaulic and within the construction industry as we continue to turn to innovative technologies to increase productivity at all phases of a project. We anticipate double-digit growth in the next five years. Considering seven out of 10 of the largest STEM occupations are computer-related, Victaulic's Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) team utilizes STEM professionals to design and manage projects using 3-D modeling software and virtual reality technology. Victaulic is committed to collaborating with our customers and providing engineering confidence — looking to reduce installation time, reduce risk, and provide value throughout the life cycle of the project, resulting in cost savings.
Engineered Systems: Victaulic is leading the charge with a number of initiatives. In 2017, Victaulic welcomed local high school students interested in engineering careers to its facilities via a project called Exploring Post 1919. Can you share some more about this event?
Luftig: Victaulic's Exploring Post 1919 provides exciting activities and one-on-one mentorship for youth looking to discover their future. Victaulic is pleased to partner with Scouts BSA once again to offer this program throughout the school year to local male and female high school students interested in STEM careers. Students learn about topics like engineering design, mechanics, and chemistry before working in teams to complete hands-on challenges. They also tour Victaulic manufacturing facilities and connect with our HR professionals to learn about internship opportunities.
Engineered Systems: In July, Victaulic hosted a "Let's Build" session for girls of the Let's Build Camp in the Greater Lehigh Valley. What did this entail?
Luftig: In its second year, Let's Build is a week-long camp inviting high school age girls to explore the construction trades, architecture, engineering, and construction manufacturing through hands-on experiences and field trips. Victaulic hosted 20 girls for a half-day event focused on virtual design and construction (VDC), product design, and installation technologies. Many of the girls were largely unaware of the technology opportunities within construction, and their interest was piqued when competing in a pipe-building video game designed by our VDC team. They also got "job site" experience using impact drills to install Victaulic products. The event wrapped up with lunch and a panel discussion on careers featuring Victaulic leaders from across engineering, manufacturing, and VDC functions.
Engineered Systems: This year, Victaulic also helped sponsor a SeaPerch underwater robotics club at a local middle school. Start them young, right?
Luftig: Yes, and we just kicked off our second year of SeaPerch at Saucon Valley Middle School this October. SeaPerch is actually a global program created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the U.S. Office of Naval Research to address the national crisis of decreasing college enrollments and careers in science and engineering. Students engaged in this program learn critical thinking, hands-on technology, and important life skills while working with mentors and peers locally and during regional and international competitions. More than 30 students participated in Saucon's inaugural year, and the interest level has sustained for this year's club. Showcasing STEM opportunities to students at a younger age at least gets these types of careers on their radars. Plus, this early exposure may help reduce the STEM gender gap, as was evidenced by Saucon's all-female team who represented them in the recent regional SeaPerch competition held at Temple University.
Engineered Systems: Over the past five years, Victaulic has participated in the Lehigh Valley's What's So Cool About Manufacturing, helping to raise awareness of the trades. Can you share what's so cool about this project?
Luftig: Victaulic is one of about 30 Lehigh Valley manufacturers that opens its doors to middle school students to let them film, edit, and produce a two-and-a-half-minute video about career opportunities within manufacturing. It's been fulfilling to watch what started as one small local video competition launched by the Manufacturers Resource Center (MRC) in Allentown, Pennsylvania, grow into what is now 15 statewide competitions adopted by groups in 11 additional states. We've enjoyed showcasing different locations and departments as well as highlighting a wide variety of jobs and cutting-edge manufacturing technologies. Our employees have also really enjoyed starring in these videos and sharing their talents. Each year, the Lehigh Valley contest garners more than 100,000 votes, which shows our community is engaged in the contest's mission: to change students' perceptions about manufacturing careers. I think it equally raises awareness for adults too.
Engineered Systems: This is just the tip of the iceberg for Victaulic. A blog post on www.victaulic.com titled "4 Ways to Inspire STEM Careers" outlines a number of other projects as well.
Luftig: With several great colleges and universities, the Lehigh Valley offers connections to and from Victaulic. In addition to feeding our intern program (70-plus interns each summer, many of whom become full-time employees), these institutions reach out to corporations, like Victaulic, to support their summer programs through sponsorships and partnerships. Just this past summer alone, we worked with Lehigh University and Penn State University for three events. Lehigh University's Summer Engineering Institute visited us twice, bringing a fresh group of pre-engineering high school students to tour our engineering lab and learn more about career opportunities. To a small group of aspiring entrepreneurs at Penn State's Teen Entrepreneur Summer Challenge, two of Victaulic's business process team members presented on lean concepts, and through hands-on activities, showed how to improve efficiency and reduce costs and working capital, which is highly applicable for STEM professionals.
Through the personal philanthropic efforts of an employee in our VDC department, Victaulic teamed up with Community Bike Works' Youth Leadership program to help a dozen middle and high school students explore virtual reality tech careers. Members of the VDC team guided students through a virtual project model of a hospital in Australia and presented them with a scan of a project in Indiana, created by a VDC associate using a Faro® scanner.
Our summer 2019 calendar is also quickly filling up with opportunities to promote STEM opportunities in our community.
Engineered Systems: While API and others are reporting growth in STEM careers, there is still an enormous need for qualified workers in the industry. And while you're doing your part, it's going to take an army to make a difference, isn't it?
Luftig: Key to Victaulic's success is our dedicated, hardworking employees; they are our most valuable resource. A variety of skilled and professional employees have helped us dramatically grow our company. As Victaulic continues to invest in our workforce, we will need to attract and maintain an enthusiastic, productive set of employees with varied skills. We've independently partnered with other local manufacturers and neighbors at Follett Corp. and Crayola, right here in Easton, Pennsylvania, to host additional STEM events. I feel this collective impact and investment in future STEM professionals will pay off.
We also just took part in National Manufacturing Day on Oct. 5, opening our doors to students from Northampton Community College (NCC) to showcase manufacturing jobs. This is part of an ongoing relationship with NCC to support their educational programs.
One of my "nighttime" jobs is serving on the board of directors of the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corp. (LVEDC), a public/private partnership that is responsible for marketing the economic assets of the Lehigh Valley, where Victaulic's global headquarters is located, by creating partnerships to lead the recruitment, growth, and retention of local employers. This organization is equally committed to supporting the skilled and prepared workforce needs for companies like Victaulic.
Engineered Systems: In other news, I see Victaulic is opening a 3,205-square-meter branch facility in Eagle Farm, Brisbane, Australia. What facilitated this expansion down under?
Luftig: Part of Victaulic's global expansion strategy is to be close to our customers. Australia is one of 130 countries where Victaulic actively supports customers today, and adding a third branch there helps us better serve their growing markets while also providing our customers a more responsive and agile product supply.
Engineered Systems: Victaulic also brought some more jobs to Pennsylvania by adding a second shift at its Forks Township manufacturing plant and the construction of a state-of-the-art, 400,000-square-foot facility at the Hecktown Road Business Park facility. Was this facilitated by demand, and how many jobs did you add?
Luftig: Set to open in 2020, the new facility accommodates customers and increased demand as well as a need for additional employee office space. It will further Victaulic's capabilities for our pipe-joining solutions through robotic and optical technologies. In conjunction with staffing at our existing Forks manufacturing facility, this new facility should create dozens of new jobs.
Engineered Systems: Let's talk about HVACR engineering as a whole. Obviously, the explosion of technology through sensors, the advent of the IoT, etc. has really reshaped the industry. Fill me in on how Victaulic is keeping up with this metamorphosis?
Luftig: Victaulic is at the forefront of integrating with Autodesk Revit®, a BIM software program for designing building systems using 3-D smart modeling. Victaulic Tools For Revit® increases productivity through custom add-ins to automate tagging, drawing, assembly, and fabrication for projects of all sizes. It has now become commonplace to see members of our VDC team sitting in a conference room with VR goggles on, speaking to a customer from another part of the world while virtually "walking" their project with them. VR is an incredible tool that gives engineers the chance to immerse themselves in a project in the design and preconstruction phases to avoid costly re-work.
Engineered Systems: In 2016, Victaulic introduced its "Intelligent" Roll Groover RG5200i, a multi-faceted, fully automated, computerized grooving tool. Tell me more about this tool and its role in the Industrial IoT?
Luftig: Victaulic's RG5200i Roll Grooving Tool is the first product in its class to offer automated quality assurance processes for customers that remove risk, increase safety, and improve the accuracy and consistency of the pipe-end preparation process. We designed this to focus on the "ARTS" (Accuracy, Reliability, Traceability, and Safety). This tool represents the perfect union of state-of-the-art, hands-on industrial problem-solving with the integration of internet technology. Our company invented roll grooving in the 1940s, and this method was overdue for an upgrade — we added internet connectivity, superior quality, enhanced operator safety, ease of use, and time-saving capabilities to the RG5200i. With software created specifically for the tool's applications, clients can export grooving data internally or externally. The tool allows customers to store all data related to their pipe preparation, and it allows Victaulic to conduct remote troubleshooting via IoT connectivity and other types of services, such as managing software revisions and adding tool functionality. Quality and traceability of the customer's grooved pipe are high priorities. Additionally, if a customer has an issue with a groove, the problem can be reviewed and resolved remotely in real time. All of these features enable our customers to achieve higher quality in their own facilities.
Engineered Systems: Seeing that it's been two years since its release, how has the tool evolved?
Luftig: We continue to see customers around the world moving to this new technology to further improve their own in-house quality, productivity, and safety. Our sales and engineering teams continue to listen to our customers to better understand their needs and further develop new features that can be automatically downloaded to these units, leveraging internet technology.
Engineered Systems: What other exciting products is Victaulic devoting R&D time to right now?
Increasingly, designers and contractors are turning to materials like high-density polyethylene, CPVC, PVC, PP-R, and others for a variety of system applications. Victaulic continues to develop innovative, unique mechanical joining and flow control solutions for all piping materials that are designed to increase productivity while reducing risk.
Victaulic pioneered grooved pipe joining technology over the last 100 years, and it has been strongly adopted in the fire safety sprinkler piping industry. Many of the pipe joints in those systems are still threaded, which is an inefficient process susceptible to damage and leaks. Victaulic has set out on a series of product innovations with more planned in the future to eliminate threading on the job site and increase productivity, quality, and safety.
As construction industry engineers and contractors look for gains in quality and productivity through modular designs, Victaulic is right there with them, offering modular system solutions. Larger equipment components sold right from our standard catalog will streamline design, installation, and maintenance and increase profitability and performance for our customers. Performance benefits include noise and vibration attenuation.
Based on customer feedback and requests, Victaulic recently commercialized a grooved mechanical piping solution designed for use on commercial and industrial condensate, saturated steam, and chemical service piping. This revolutionary offering eliminates the need to weld steam and chemical service piping.
Victaulic's VDC team works closely with our customer base to build new features into our software platform (Victaulic Tools For Revit). As mentioned above, Victaulic is not just a hardware manufacturer but a cutting-edge publisher of software components to help owners, engineers, and contractors achieve their BIM goals. This is more than a product offering, it's a philosophy of working in a connected, coordinated construction industry of the future. This gives our customers the ability to more efficiently plan, design, and construct.
These are just a few of the many technologies and areas in which Victaulic is investing. Each of these technologies fundamentally focuses on enabling construction productivity while reducing risks such as job site hazards and financial costs from delays.
Engineered Systems: It's crazy to consider how much the industry has changed in the last 10 years. Looking forward, what aspects of the industry do you think will evolve the most 10 years from now?
Luftig: The construction industry has and will continue to look for ways to drive productivity while not compromising reliability and safety. Two notable evolutions driving productivity are front-end design analysis and the move to modular construction. The good news for our customers is Victaulic is committed to both of these areas through products, services, and solutions.
Victaulic will also support new STEM professionals entering the industry through training and development efforts and consultative engineering services to support system design.
Engineered Systems: If you could relay one message to consulting and/or specifying engineers, what would it be?
Luftig: More than 1 billion Victaulic products have been installed and relied upon throughout our history (celebrating 100 years of innovation in 2019). We are the ideal partner for consulting and specifying engineers, as we design and sell full-system solutions that reduce risks and meet their needs.
Engineered Systems: Anything else we need to know?
Luftig: Victaulic is a company that looks to the future and is excited about the next wave of technology innovations currently being developed in our research labs. We are committed to collaborating with customers in the construction industry to accelerate productivity and reduce risk.
Tomorrow's Engineer: In The Field With "Plan B"


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Telling an authentic story
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|By Scarlett Hollerin
We're proud to help businesses tell their authentic story.
While most of our clients are returning to some sort of normality, some continue to face uncertainty, including:
SLAM – an independent gym in Glasgow with no idea when it could reopen its doors to its community once again.
CCW – a Scottish outdoor lifestyle retailer operating in three tourist hotspots, suffering from the lack of certainty over when visitors would return to Scotland.
They had a choice to make. Either they stay quiet and wait for things to blow over, or they could stick their head above the parapet to challenge policy.
We worked through the plusses and negatives of each side, and ultimately, both decided they wanted to take this opportunity to stand up as leaders and show customers, teams and communities that they were not afraid to make their voice heard.
Last week, the Geddes family, owners of CCW, and Lyndsey Roberts, owner of SLAM, stood up for what mattered to them across the media.
On BBC Drivetime, Capital Radio and in Glasgow Live, Lyndsey eloquently explained how fitness helped her navigate her own mental health struggles, the measures she was taking to ensure her gym was a safe, secure, sanitised space and detailed her concerns as a business owner.
We helped Lyndsey use the media as a platform to ask why pubs should be allowed to open while small independent gyms remain closed. She said:
"It's not about the money, though of course we've been adversely affected. So much of it is about the community, about relationships. I know all of my clients by name."
"The feedback I get tells me that everyone's mental health is affected due to isolation, loneliness, being away from the things they love. People really need this. The longer gyms stay closed, the harder it will get."
Lyndsey Roberts, owner of Strong Like A Mutha
Meanwhile, on BBC Good Morning Scotland and in ten national newspapers, CCW openly voiced their concerns about the continuing concern for local Scottish businesses – which rely heavily on tourism –uncertainty of rules for English and international tourists coming to visit.
The family's shops in St Andrews, Callander, and Glasgow, alongside other businesses in those areas, would normally be packed full of tourists. Alas, COVID has prevented much of this business from happening, but with debate to be had about how to best help affected businesses, we pushed their conversations to the forefront. Taking this opportunity to stand-up not only increased brand awareness at a time when it was crucial but it also quite literally challenged the government – Nicola Sturgeon was asked about CCW's comments at the Coronavirus Briefing last Tuesday.
The Geddes family, owners of CCW.
Whether or not you agree with any government policy on either matter, what this goes to show is the true power of the media in holding a government to account. We believe in the businesses we work with and want to help them amplify their message, even when times are tough.
As a result, these stories helped to raise awareness of the businesses because they were genuine stories. People can tell when stories are authentic. These businesses will have fun, exciting tales to tell in the future, and we're very excited to tell them. But for now, trying to reverse engineer things to tell an inauthentic story would be a disservice to them, their communities and customers.
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Fed's Yellen aims to let 'healthy' U.S. economy coast along
Jonathan Spicer, Ann Saphir
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen in Washington, U.S., March 15, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
(Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's plans to raise U.S. interest rates gradually are aimed at sustaining full employment and near-2-percent inflation without letting the economy overheat, Fed Chair Janet Yellen said on Monday.
"I think we have a healthy economy now," Yellen said at an event at the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy in Ann Arbor.
Unemployment, at 4.5 percent, is now a little bit below the jobless rate that most Fed officials think signals full employment, and inflation is "reasonably close" to the Fed's 2-percent goal, she said. With the economy expected to continue to grow at a moderate pace, she said, the Fed is now shifting its focus.
"Whereas before we had our foot pressed down on the gas pedal trying to give the economy all the oomph we possibly could, now allowing the economy to kind of coast and remain on an even keel — to give it some gas but not so much that we are pressing down hard on the accelerator — that's a better stance of monetary policy," she said. "We want to be ahead of the curve and not behind it."
In the U.S. Treasury bond market, yields were little changed after Yellen's remarks.
Yellen says Fed's independence under threat from Congress
The Fed raised rates in March for only the third time since the Great Recession, and most Fed officials expect the central bank to raise rates at least two more times this year.
Yellen's comments largely echoed what she has said since then, and did not offer any new color on the timing of the rate hikes, or of the Fed's eventual reduction of its $4.5 trillion balance sheet.
"We think a gradual path of increases in short-term interest rates can get us to where we need to be, but we don't want to wait too long to have that happen," she said.
Reporting by Ann Saphir and Jonathan Spicer; Additional reporting by Richard Leong; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama


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DC DOINGS | Republican filibuster kills Jan. 6 commission; Hickenlooper hauls out his banjo
By ERNEST LUNING ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Ernest Luning, Colorado Politics
May 29, 2021 Updated Jul 2, 2021
With the House on a committee work week, most of the action was in the Senate, which fell short of approving the creation of a bipartisan commission to study the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in the face of a Republican filibuster.
Legislation authorizing the commission went down on a 54-35 vote, with all Democrats voting in favor along with six Republicans, failing to reach the 60 votes required to get past the GOP's first filibuster of the year. The House approved the measure a week earlier, mostly along party lines.
On May 27, Colorado's Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet "implore[d]" his colleagues in a floor speech to look beyond the partisan battles of the day and support the commission.
"The people around the world who watched Jan. 6 are watching us today, and they want to know if democracy is up to the challenges of the 21st century. I believe it is," Bennet said.
"I think at a moment like this it is important for us not to stand for a party or for a president, but for the truth and for common sense and for our exercise in self-government."
THE AYES HAVE IT ... A bill to name Boulder's downtown Post Office after Boulder Police Officer Eric H. Talley, who was killed responding to the March 22 mass shooting at a Boulder King Soopers, passed out of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on May 25.
H.R. 3210 is sponsored by Rep. Joe Neguse, a Lafayette Democrat, and co-sponsored by the other six members of Colorado's House delegation.
"We hope in a small way this effort may honor Officer Talley's memory, his family, and ensure future generations know of his service to our community," Neguse said in a statement as the bill heads to the House floor.
IN THE HOPPER ... Rep. Ed Perlmutter, an Arvada Democrat, introduced legislation on May 21 to study the mental health effects of active shooter drills in K-12 schools.
The School Safety Drill Research Act of 2021 would authorize $1 million for the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine to study whether the near-ubiquitous school safety drills are doing more harm than good by traumatizing school staff and students, particularly younger students and students with disabilities.
"We must ensure school safety drills don't trigger these anxieties and instead give students the knowledge to respond appropriately to threatening situations and potentially help save lives," Perlmutter said in a statement. "This research will help inform school administrators as they balance school preparedness with the mental health of students and staff."
• Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Colorado Springs Republican, introduced a pair of bills to cut off federal funding for public TV and radio, measures he's pushed nearly every year since taking office in 2007.
Lamborn argues that the federal government shouldn't be spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually to support the Public Broadcasting System and National Public Radio, entities that get the vast bulk of their support from member dues, licensing and corporate sponsors.
He also doesn't want taxpayers funding the organizations' news operations, which he maintains report the news from a liberal perspective.
Read all about Lamborn's ongoing efforts to pull the plug on the funding here and here.
• Rep. Jason Crow, an Aurora Democrat, introduced legislation with California Republican Rep. Young Kim to bolster the Small Business Administration's cybersecurity capabilities so the agency can better handle and report cyber threats that affect small businesses.
The SBA Cyber Awareness Act would require the SBA to issue a report assessing its ability to combat cyber threats within six months and also require the SBA to notify Congress about future data breaches.
• Bennet joined with three other Democratic senators to introduce a bill to help state and local governments update their technology and replace outdated digital systems that keep track of health care, housing, unemployment and other services.
The State and Local Digital Service Act would authorize $100 million to fund tech "strike teams" — modeled in part on the Colorado Digital Service — to help the entities modernize government websites.
"When Americans visited government websites over the past year to file for unemployment or schedule a vaccine shot, it was like going back in time to the first days of the internet," Bennet said in a statement. "These outdated systems waste people's time, obstruct access to vital services, and erode confidence in government."
Tech teams funded by the proposed legislation, he added, will "help bring government services into the 21st century — reducing costs, improving access to vital services, and helping government run more efficiently and transparently."
• Crow and Bennet introduced legislation on May 24 in both chambers to halt Immigration and Customs Enforcement from transferring immigrant detainees between facilities during the pandemic, citing recent outbreaks at a privately run ICE facility in Aurora. The bill would also require ICE to release detainees from facilities where social distancing can't be maintained.
The End Transfer of Detained Immigrants Act is similar to legislation both Colorado Democrats introduced last year. It's also sponsored by Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Democratic Reps. Sylvia Garcia and Veronica Escobar, both of Texas.
• Bennet introduced three amendments on May 26 to the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, an omnibus bill focused on emerging tech, critical supply chains and American competitiveness that's making its way through the Senate.
The first, introduced with fellow Senate Intelligence Committee member Sen. Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican, establishes a single federal entity responsible for driving far-reaching planning across emerging technologies. A Technology Competitiveness Council within the White House would be responsible for helming a National Technology Strategy, along with a component to steer investments in leading-edge tech.
The second and third amendments are meant to increase available tech talent in the federal government. A civilian National Reserve Digital Corps, modeled on the military's reserves, would let Americans provide critical expertise on federal projects on a part-time basis, while the other proposal would create civil service and military career tracks devoted to software development and engineering, data management and artificial intelligence.
• Sen. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, introduced a bill May 28 intended to help states prevent child abuse by clarifying how states can use existing grant money.
The Strengthening Families Act would make clear which state programs qualify for funding from Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention grants. The bill would also promote coordination between local programs, public agencies and private service providers with a goal of developing and expanding programs that prevent abuse.
SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED ... Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Silt Republican, delivered a letter on May 24 to the director of the National Weather Service calling on the agency to hurry up and integrate data from a new radar system in the San Luis Valley that has been operational for more than a year. Boebert also asked for an explanation for the delay.
Community groups and local governments came together to raise $1.8 million to build the radar system in hopes of improving weather data for the region, but what Boebert describes as bureaucratic red tape has kept its data from being incorporated into the National Weather Service system.
The new radar system fills a longstanding blind spot in weather data that has made forecasts in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico less accurate, its backers say. Bringing it into the existing system will help improve water management, assist farmers and ranchers, improve emergency response and keep things safer all around, they say.
Said Boebert: "The people in the San Luis Valley deserve to have accurate storm forecasting that will improve local economies and potentially save lives."
• All three GOP members of Colorado's congressional delegation — Lamborn, Boebert and Rep. Ken Buck of Windsor — signed on with more than 200 other Republicans to a May 28 letter written by House Republican Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana asking Speaker Nancy Pelosi to get on board with an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Despite Republicans asking over and over for congressional investigations into claims the pandemic started in a laboratory in the Wuhan Province in China, Scalise, the ranking member on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, says Pelosi and House Democrats haven't held a single hearing on the question.
Released on the heels of President Joe Biden ordering an inquiry into the theory the virus emerged from a lab, the letter rebukes Pelosi for downplaying suspicions that the Chinese Communist Party could have covered up its origins.
"These questions about the CCP's liability are not a diversion, as you falsely claimed," Scalise wrote. "To the contrary, every American family that lost someone deserves answers about the origin of this terrible virus, and House Democrats' ongoing refusal to allocate investigative resources to get those answers is an affront to them."
THE ENVELOPE PLEASE ... Neguse on May 27 announced the winners of the 2021 Congressional Art Competition from Colorado's 2nd Congressional District, which will be displayed in Washington, D.C., and Colorado.
Due to the pandemic, the competition was held virtually this year, with students submitting artwork and judges considering the pieces online. Neguse, his wife, Andrea, and a panel of local artists served as judges to select the five winners:
"Hannah," by Margaux Helson of Boulder High School
"Mom's Aspen," by Megan Hess of Nederland Middle Senior High School
"Gus the Dog," by Ashley Campbell of Mountain View High School in Loveland
"There Are So Many Holes in My Facade," by Grace Fuller of Peak to Peak Charter School in Lafayette
"Flashy Lie: Vile Truth," by Madison Moyer of Middle Park High School in Granby
View the artwork here.
"It has been a particularly rough year for students across the country, and yet they were still able to create beauty through these incredible pieces of art," Neguse said in a statment.
"In moments of crisis, we often look to the arts to bring us inspiration and hope for the future. I was thoroughly impressed by the passion and creativity displayed in each of this year's art competition entries and am grateful to the many students throughout our district who chose to share their creative talents with our community by participating in the 2021 Congressional Art Competition virtually."
Helson's striking portrait "Hannah" will be displayed in the Cannon Tunnel in the U.S. Capitol Complex, Neguse said. The second-place work will hang in the Colorado School Board of Education's board room, the third-place work will be displayed in Neguse's Washington D.C. office, and the fourth- and fifth-place artwork will be displayed in Neguse's district offices.
Since its launch in 1982, more than 650,000 high school students have participated in the Congressional Institute's annual art competition.
TWEET OF THE WEEK ... A video clip posted by Hickenlooper on May 25 starts out as a corny banjo version of "I'm Just a Bill," the iconic Schoolhouse Rock song about the congressional legislative process — and then goes sideways into a loosely melodic pitch for the Democrats' election reform bill, the For the People Act, which awaits action in the Senate.
"We've got to pass the #ForThePeopleAct," tweeted Hickenlooper, who jammed on stage with some of Colorado's most celebrated musicians when he was mayor of Denver and governor of Colorado.
We've got to pass the #ForThePeopleAct 🪕 pic.twitter.com/SNiLEw1I3x
— Senator John Hickenlooper (@SenatorHick) May 26, 2021
Playing his storied banjo on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, Hickenlooper sings some adventurous lyrics in the 53-second tune, rhyming "For the People Act" with "corporate hacks," though the subtitled version goes with the more polite "corporate PACs."
The Twitterverse was divided over the production, with plenty of responses cheering the senator's playful take on a serious subject, while others responded with calls for Hickenlooper to talk to his moderate Democratic friends in the Senate into supporting filibuster reform.
"Besides the fact that this is an embarrassing video, it's sad that politicians now want millions of your tax dollars to go to their own campaigns," tweeted Joe Jackson, executive director of the Colorado GOP, who noted that one of the bill's provisions would have delivered more than $88 million in matching federal funds to Hickenlooper's Senate campaign last cycle. "#ForThePoliticiansAct," Jackson added.
DC DOINGS | Colorado delegation splits on Jan. 6 probe; Hickenlooper debuts business bills
Colorado's House delegation on May 19 split over a proposal to establish a 9/11-style bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack o…
DC DOINGS | House GOP boots Cheney from No. 3 post; Lamborn sued over COVID-19 response
DC DOINGS | Facebook's Trump ban prompts GOP rage; Jill Biden lauds military spouses
DC DOINGS | Delegation reacts to Biden along partisan lines; Bennet trumpets poverty-buster
Rep. Jason Crow set to discuss response to Jan. 6 attack on Sunday's 'Meet the Press'
DC DOINGS | Hickenlooper touts relief funds for eateries; Buck blasts Facebook for Trump ban
DC DOINGS | VP invited to visit Colorado's space industry; Crow briefed on Afghan visas
Michael Bennet tells donors Democrats have a 'moral responsibility' to keep Senate majority
DC DOINGS | Delegation votes to make Juneteenth a holiday; CORE Act gets a Senate hearing
DC DOINGS | Ken Buck, Joe Neguse team up on antitrust bill; Michael Bennet trumpets child tax credit
DC DOINGS | Biden signs DeGette's methane bill; Crow measure to speed Afghan visas passes House
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Is the 8-Month Correction Over?
Is that a typo? It must be as we look at the S&P 500's chart and see that peak in the market only 7 weeks ago. But no, it is not a typo. You can see our point as we've been proclaiming most of this year that the market reached its peak in momentum in October to November of 2010.
Much like 2010, we've had a "soft-patch" in the economy for the second quarter. Obviously, the massive earthquake in Japan in March of this year has had an impact worldwide on economic progress. But with the mood of corporate managers still enmeshed in the memories of 2008, it didn't take much to pull the reins in. Not only that, but the banks have been putting off taking that step of biting their foreclosure bullets, but this year, that resistance seems to be coming to an end. So, that has impacted housing prices...and the economy.
But money has come to the rescue again, as we've seen very substantial progress given lower interest rates and monetary stimulus - hence our Monetary Composite has moved deeply into its most bullish position. You don't see this powerful monetary push except in those periods when economic fears are intense (and consequently when stock market bottoms are made).
So today, we remain very bullish on our intermediate to long-term view, especially based on that strong signal we received from our Asset Allocation Model last week.


Seafood is a delicious choice of meal and the favorite of many people. Besides of being everyone's favorite dish, the seafood business will also give heaps of money. Of course, this is the reason behind the booming of the seafood business. When it comes to you to get many business inspiration in the seafood sector, you can also choose some things that will be unique for your thing. Getting along with the business means you can get the profit from selling the seafood in any form. In this case, you might want to know some business opportunities that are related to seafood and other ocean products. Conducted by mud crabs exporter.
Starting a business by getting seafood as your product is nothing but easy. Especially when you live in the maritime country like Indonesia, you will have so many choices to open a new business. Fortunately, you can start choosing some business that will give you a perfect milestone towards success. In this case, you can choose some business fields that will be perfect for you. Therefore, we'll give you some information about the seafood business in Indonesia.
There are plenty of seafood exporters in Indonesia. Every company has its own benefit when choosing the business in their field. When you choose to have a seafood business, you can consider some things that will be perfect. Exporting the fish and other ocean product is a thing that has been done by many people. But, with the recent technology and a great market in the house, you will find it to be really good when you play a role in this business.
There are some things that will be good for your export business.
The first thing is about the products that will be exported. In this case, when it comes to some products, it means you need to have the best quality. Fresh fish and other ocean products will be important as your priority.
If you're interested in being a mud crab exporter, you will need to know some characteristics of mud crab which is suitable with international standards. This premise is also important to note when you want to play in some other seafood export.
Actually, there are some things you can consider as your product. Because your need is to export the fish, then you will need to make sure that you have a proper freezer that will keep the fish fresh inside the ice. Frozen fish is important for you to consider due to its sealed nutrition. It means the frozen fish is actually a very fresh fish that has been frozen right from the ocean after being caught.
The fish fillet is also demanded by some countries. It is important for you to consider selling the fillet due to its high price. Then, you can also try to sell the canned fish as your products. But, you can also sell the canned crab which will be healthy and easy to cook for your customers.
Who doesn't love a small, casual yet tidy seafood restaurant? There are so many people who love having seafood as their meal, especially for dinner. This is the reason why there are so many seafood restaurants are open in the night. Although it might be quite challenging for you who don't have any cooking background, opening a seafood restaurant will be a great thing to consider. When you choose the restaurant, you can serve the people the delicious foods you create. Try to check the best mud crab exporter for being your partner.
Actually, the concept of your seafood restaurant depends on your taste. If you want to have something casual, then you can choose them as a good thing with lower marketing target. Besides, a seafood restaurant can also be available as the luxurious one. You just have to choose which concept you want to adopt in your business is. It is recommended for you to make sure that you have a strong business plan for at least the first five years after you open the restaurant. It will strengthen your business and you can also examine if there is any problem in your business.
The most important key to opening a business is about the freshness of the fish and other ocean products you sell. Selling ocean products like clams, mud crabs and lobster will be great, but you need to take a note about how you can keep them fresh and healthy. The fresh foods will make it to be something more delicious. Of course, choosing the foods means you can get the best for your need. You will also find the fresh ingredients as a strong key in promoting your restaurant business. To make sure that you can get the best products, you can get the best ones from mud crabs exporter.
Dinner is one of the most important things you need to celebrate with your family. Preparing your dinner meal will be fun and bring you joy. Especially if you love to cook, you will get the cooking moment to be your best time in a day. But, you might not have too much time for the cooking menu. Therefore, you need to make sure that you can cook the menu only in a short time. It will be really good for you if you cook dinner right after your work time. It is also recommended for you who have so many things to do in a day. By choosing the simple recipes, you will get the best thing possible for your family.
Cooking for dinner can be quite challenging if you need to prepare it fast. But, what about the menu? You must cook something delicious for your family, otherwise, you will have a dull moment to gather with your loved ones. We recommend you to cook some delicious seafood menus that will be suitable for a casual dinner with your family. Although you might be panic when you have to cook seafood, actually there are some recipes that will save your time. Cooking mud crabs will be your choice due to its uniqueness and delicious flavor.
Chili crab recipe might be one of the most popular recipes for you and family. In this case, the recipe is easy to do and you can also cook it in no time. The red color of the dish will make your appetite increased. Besides, the spicy taste is also the favorite thing about this food. Of course, you will not feel any disappointment when you choose the food. Just boil the crab and you can cook them with the chili paste and other seasonings.
If you want something more savory, you can cook the mud crab curry. Be happy because there are plenty of curry recipes all around the world. You can choose the mud crab curry recipes in Japanese, Malaysian or even Indian style. Those will be a perfect choice that will make your dinner to be more fun. The mud crab is also a good choice when you pour the curry sauce on it. Can you imagine the combo between the soft crab meat and the savory sauce?
When it comes to you to get along with the mud crabs, black pepper sauce will also be your best choice. Consider cooking the mud crab in black pepper sauce for a spicier flavor. You can also add butter to cook them, adding more taste and creating such a fragrant aroma. Of course, it will be a perfect thing for you.
If you fancy something warm for your dinner, why don't you try to make a crab noodle for your family? You can cook the noodle, soup and put the boiled crab on top of them. It will be warm and suitable for a casual dinner with your family members. So, you can get something good as your menu.
Baking the crab with some vegetables will also make you feel more comfortable. In this case, you just have to put them on a pan, get the vegetables, potatoes, and asparagus beside the crabs. Then, drizzle them with olive oil. Don't forget to add pepper and salt to make sure it has flavor. You can bake them as you do other things at home.
See, cooking seafood, especially the mud crab is not as scary as it seems. You can choose one of that menu for tonight's dinner. Don't be afraid because those menus can be cooked under an hour. So, you can prepare them fast and easily.
Crabs are simply found in some of your favorite seafood restaurants. Indeed, when you hear about seafood, the crab will be the first thing you consider. When it comes to you to choose the crab, you might be curious about what things to consider when cooking them. Although there are so many assumptions that direct crab as one of the highest cholesterol amount, you can still get some nutrition that will be useful and beneficial to your body. Therefore, choosing the crabs as your menu will be healthy, too.
You might be curious about what thing to consider to be on your plate when you cook the crab. In some cases, crabs are available and suitable with many seasonings. From the simplest butter sauce to the spicy, savory sauces, all can be good when being combined with the crab. It will also be a great choice for everyone who is looking for a simple meal in the house. Choosing the crab means you can even just boil them to get the soft, sweet crab meat. It will be perfect for the everyday menu.
The high amount of calcium and phosphorus will make your body healthier. In this case, you can get some other unique things related to the body needs. When it comes to you to choose the crab, you can be sure that you will have enough calcium intake for your body. Therefore, you can get the benefit as it will strengthen your bones, making your figure healthier and fit.
Vitamin B12 and copper will also be beneficial for your body as it will help you in boosting your mental activity. Besides, there are also some other things like fatty acids and selenium. Those beneficial things will help you to improve the cognition and support the activity of human's nervous system. Therefore, you can get this food to cover your nutrition needs.
Due to the fatty acids, copper, and selenium, you can also get another health benefit which is fast recovery from inflammation. It will help your body to be more tolerant to the inflammation as it increases the recovery in the affected area.
Omega-3 fatty acids will also help your body to improve the heart condition. In this case, omega-3 will be a great nutrition that will protect your heart. It will help in controlling the cholesterol level on your blood and make it balanced. Besides the fatty acids will also help your body to reduce the blood pressure, prevent atherosclerosis and also, relaxing the strain of the heart.
As mentioned before, crabs contain selenium that will be helpful for you to boost your immune system. Having a good immune system is a perfect way to make sure that your body is healthy and happy for a longer time. In this case, the healthy body will have a better way of fighting the disease and pathogens.
There are plenty of things that will be unique and useful when you consume the mud crab. But, you need to also know that cooking them in a simple way is something important. When it comes to you to get the best recipe, why don't you just boil them with a pinch of salt? Then, you can prepare the dipping sauce to make it more delicious. Cooking the crab without excess oil and fat will make it healthier and fresh. Besides, you can also taste the authentic meat which is sweet and juicy. Combining them with some fresh dipping sauce in Thai style will also give you a new sensation in enjoying your crab meal. So, what are you waiting for?
When it comes to you to think about business, you will need to be sure that you can get some beneficial partners. In this case, choosing the business partner is important for you as a businessman. But, the fish is actually something good for your business. As the awareness about the healthy nutrition in the fish is increased, you can choose some things that will be perfect. You will have lots of attractive business that will be promising. The foods will also give you many profits when it comes to you to the fish business. Therefore, being careful is the only solution.
How to choose the right partner? You might not know how you can deal with the right partner in the fish business. But, you can choose the fish as your solution for the best food. Besides, the food is also healthy and will be beneficial for your life. What about making it as a business? You can open a restaurant to make sure that you can serve your customers with the best seafood creations. But, before you can really cook them for the customers, you need to also know some things about how you can get the best business partner.
Make sure you have the best solution for every product you need. For example, you might need to find the best way to improve your cooking quality. Adding more variations in your menu will be something good. Especially when you have a supplier with a complete list of the seafood, from the fish to the crustaceans. Therefore, you will never need to add more supplier.
Get their track record. Find if there any violations of any contracts with the previous You can also get some other considerations by seeing their place to examine the cleanliness and also hygienic process in freezing the fish and other ocean products. Therefore, it will be a perfect thing to have.
You can also find lots of unique things related to the service. For example is when you have a seafood business far from the ocean, you need to make sure that your fish will be delivered in fresh condition without any sign of damaged meat. You can also get some facilities like delivery service for this.
Don't be afraid to offer some deals about the price. You can choose some reliable sellers with a perfect recommendation from fellow seafood business owners. Then, you can make a deal about the price. Of course, you need to consider the price as low as it could be without sacrificing the quality of the ocean products you have for your business.
Those are the things you need to make sure that the business will run well. When it comes to you to find the best business partner, then you need to make sure that you can deal with the one with a perfect reputation. Get the best quality for all seafood and ocean products you use for your business. Besides, adding more seasonings and herbs to enhance the flavor will also be great. Therefore, you will have a satisfying result in your cooking.
You understand that fish is one of the most nutritious foods you can enjoy for a meal. There are so many people who have proven that fish is perfect to increase the health as well as getting the best way to be smart due to its nutrition. Consuming fish will be a great way to make sure that you can get the complete package of delicious yet healthy food as your meal. But, what if you don't know how to cook the fish? Actually, there are still so many people who don't have any idea about what to cook when they have to handle fish as meal ingredients.
One of the most wanted fish is trout, which will be suitable for any occasion. You can get the trout for dinner and lunch, or whatever moment you want to get them with your family or the loved ones. In this case, considering the mouthwatering recipes of trout will be good for your family. Besides of its high nutritional value, you can also get them as a simple meal which is easy to cook. So, are you curious about some things to cook with frozen trout? Keep reading the tips below!
Purchasing a frozen fish is not something you can do easily. There are some things you need to see when you purchase the fish at the market. Considering that the freshness of the fish is locked by the ice right after it gets caught, you need to also know how you can deal with the frozen trout which is easy to cook and can give you delicious taste. In this case, you can choose the fish with shiny eyes, especially if you want to purchase wholesale fish that will be quite tricky.
Make sure that the body is firm and not smelly. The fresh ocean fish smells different than the ones which have been displayed in too long time. When you need to choose the fish, you can consider getting the fish which is also firm. The firm body means there is no sign of decaying of the meat. Of course, it is important for you to consider. Don't hesitate to try some of the unique ways to make sure that the fish is fresh for you and your family need in the dining table.
The pan-fried butter trout will be more delicious when you add lemon in it. It will taste fresh and also buttery. The delicious, tender trout fish will be a perfect thing for you to consider. Pan-fried is better when you use the butter to add fragrant aroma and also the simple luxurious taste on the plate. It will be really good for you to consider due to the simple preparation of the meal.
Don't hesitate to choose some recipes for fish steak. Although it is not something you can cook fast, it will still be a good thing for you and your family. You can get some fresh ingredients to combine the tenderness of the fish meat. In some cases, you can also use the butter and herbs to improve the taste.
Baking the fish inside the aluminum foil is something easy and you can even leave them to do another thing. You can choose any recipe for cooking the aluminum foil-baked trout. Add some herbs like rosemary to make sure that you can get the best taste of the fish. You will have a juicy, fresh trout meal on the plate.
So, what about those recipes of frozen trout? You might want to try one of them as your dinner menu. You can also serve them as your menu in your important celebration like a birthday or another family dinner. Considering the fish as a very delicious one, you will never feel disappointed about the result. Besides, the fish is also something nutritious and you can choose the food that will be delicious as well as healthy for your body.


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Section 230 Needs Thoughtful Reform, Says ITIF
WASHINGTON—Ahead of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce's hearing "Disinformation Nation: Social Media's Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation," the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation released the following statement from ITIF Policy Analyst Ashley Johnson:
Section 230 has come under the regulatory microscope as Congress evaluates the impact of harmful online activity like disinformation and the role of online platforms in preventing and addressing this activity. Section 230 continues to be instrumental in enabling innovative online business models that rely on user-generated content and providing companies the liability protection necessary to allow them to moderate user content.
At the same time, users would benefit from increased accountability and transparency. ITIF has proposed a three-pronged approach to Section 230 reform that would expand federal criminal law around certain forms of harmful online activity, establish a good faith requirement to prevent bad actors from taking advantage of Section 230(c)(1)'s liability shield, and establish a voluntary safe harbor provision to limit financial liability for online services that adhere to standard industry measures for addressing illegal activity.
Congress should enact targeted changes to Section 230 to ensure companies are taking responsibility for addressing harmful content and conduct on their platforms, including disinformation, while preserving Section 230's benefits for innovation and free speech.
For more on this issue, see ITIF's Section 230 Series: "The Law's History, Its Impact, Its Problems (Real and Imagined), and the Path Forward for Reform"
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Tesla has given a rare indication of the relative proportions of the raw materials used in the new format 2170 cylindrical lithium ion battery cells for Model 3.
Tesla has long been a proponent of nickel-cobalt-aluminium (NCA) technology developed by Panasonic in Japan, which goes against the grain of a nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) focused electric vehicle (EV) industry.
Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, stated yesterday that: "The cobalt content of our Nickel-Cobalt-Aluminium cathode chemistry is already lower than next-generation cathodes that will be made by other cell producers with a Nickel-Manganese-Cobalt ratio of 8:1:1″.
The statement was to explain that Tesla's batteries were drastically reducing their dependence on cobalt.
Something which is true and been a long time in development – 6 years to be exact in a time period where from the Roadster to the Model 3, the EV producer has reduced its cobalt needs by 59% on average per vehicle.
Tesla's first Model S consumed on average 11kg of cobalt per vehicle. Today, using a fixed pack size for a more accurate comparison, Tesla's Model 3 consumes 4.5kg per vehicle.
Musk's second claim was to compare Tesla's Panasonic developed cathodes to the holy grail of NCM competition, the 811 chemistry which auto and battery producers are focusing their R&D efforts on.
It is a claim that suggest NCA technology has suddenly surged to become a low cobalt competitor to an 811 chemistry that is still to be commercially proven in EVs. The reality is that NCA has always been a low cobalt option for EV manufactures yet Tesla's close relationship with Panasonic has meant the Silicon Valley-based company has dominated this market.
The EV industry is taking two paths for choice of lithium ion battery: NCA and NCM, of which the latter is by far the dominant choice with auto makers outside of Tesla and most recently, Toyota.
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence has specialised in lithium ion battery supply chain data collection – which includes detailed cathode formulation research – since 2014 when the business was founded by industry specialists.
Benchmark forecasts that NCM batteries will make up 70% of the total global lithium ion battery market by 2026. NCA has been far less widely adopted and the main proponent remains as Tesla.
NCA has always been a low cobalt format of technology, using around a 30% of the cobalt used in the original formulation of NCM technology, known as NCM 111 containing even proportions of nickel, cobalt and manganese.
With NCA the lines are a little more blurred as the technology does not have the clearer raw material proportions that we are used to with NCM.
Nonetheless behind the scenes, Panasonic, Tesla and their cathode suppliers have been working tirelessly to reduce their cobalt dependency, not only to push the cost of the battery down but also over supply security fears as the Model 3 ramp up begins.
Tesla and Panasonic have made strong headway in reducing the cobalt reduction in its 18650 cells used in both the Model S and Model X. They have carried this momentum into the new 2170 Model 3 cell being produced at the Gigafactory 1 in Nevada.
Benchmark estimates that from early formulations which date back to the 2012 Model S, Tesla has managed to reduce the cobalt usage on a pack basis by 36% on a like for like pack size between 2012 and 2018.
It was the development of Model 3's 2170 cell which resulted in a further breakthrough in cobalt reduction, with Benchmark estimating that the new cell format a further reduction of cobalt at pack level of 29% whilst improving energy density at the same time.
To compare Tesla's cobalt consumption trend: fixing pack size across all Tesla's vehicles (which takes an average), Tesla has reduced its cobalt consumption by 59% between 2012 and 2018. This is a huge achievement.
In 2012, Tesla was consuming 11kg of cobalt per vehicle on average.
In 2018, Tesla consumes 4.5kg of cobalt per vehicle on average.
Panasonic and Tesla have made excellent improvements to their cell technology whilst being able to reduce cobalt dependency, but this is likely to pretty much be the end of the road of cobalt reductions in NCA.
There is little room left for Tesla to manoeuvre and further reduce the cobalt in its cells.
And with any new technology that could usurp NCA or NCM still on a 10-year horizon, cobalt's use in lithium ion batteries is here to stay.
Benchmark estimates that cobalt's use lithium ion batteries will triple between now and 2026 as a wave of EV demand engulfs the industry. Whilst efforts are being made to reduce cobalt dependency, the order of magnitude of growth sales will far outweigh this.
To put this into a very short term context, Tesla expects to increase its vehicle production by 150% between now and June 2018 – and the biggest Model 3 increases are yet to come. Benchmark expects output to sharply rise from September onwards.
This EV surge is far more significant than the reduction of cobalt intensity which is close to its limit.
Whilst their is political scrutiny on the cobalt supply chain, there is a huge amount of work to be done to simply increase supply to meet our EV demands.
More cobalt will be needed and the reliance on Democratic Republic of Congo as the primary supplier will increase.
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Why is a small travel firm footing the bill for Antiguan ambassador to Japan, Anthony Liverpool - the man key to the future of whales?
Japan hopes to overturn a ban on commercial whaling that has been in place for 24 years (AP) The Antiguan ambassador to Japan, Anthony Liverpool, flew to Morocco last week preparing to play a pivotal role in deciding the fate of the oceans' whales.
He had been thrust into the role of stand-in chairman for the International Whaling Commission (IWC) after the incumbent fell ill. Top of the agenda is a move backed by Japan and its supporters to resume commercial whaling after a gap of 24 years. It will require a strong and unbiased chairman to handle the commission's anti and pro-whaling factions.
However, The Sunday Times's revelation that Liverpool has accepted a fortnight's free accommodation at a luxury hotel raises serious questions about his impartiality and suitability to lead the IWC meeting, which begins tomorrow.
When he checked into the Atlas Amadil Beach hotel in Agadir last Sunday, somebody had already paid his bill of about £4,000 by credit card.
Investigations by this newspaper have established that the name on the card was "Japan Tours and Travel Inc". The firm is an unusual choice of travel company as it is based in Houston, Texas, 2,000 miles from Liverpool's home.
Reporter: [The] money comes from the Japanese government. Or the Japanese whaling association or the Japanese co-operation foundation? Which suggests that you are — as the chair of the meeting, it seems odd ... that they should be paying for your hotel?
Liverpool: Yes, but there is nothing extremely odd about that . . .
Reporter: Does he also pay for your flight?
Liverpool: At this point in time?
Reporter: Yes Liverpool: Uhuh [agrees].
Liverpool said his government had provided support for him to attend the meeting "in a significant way" and claimed he did not know Wakasa. While he did not deny being funded by the Japanese, he did say the country's "government" was not paying for him.
Yesterday Barry Gardiner MP, a former Labour biodiversity minister, called on Liverpool to step down. "To be in any way compromised by Japan, which is notorious for buying up votes, is unacceptable," Gardiner said.
The IWC will this week consider a proposal that quotas should be introduced to allow commercial whaling. Japan, Iceland and Norway would be able to kill 1,800 whales a year, including endangered species.
For Japan it is the culmination of a long campaign to win support for whaling by recruiting small impoverished nations to the IWC.
Last week The Sunday Times exposed how Japan was buying votes from small nations using aid, cash and prostitutes to gain their support on the IWC.
The story went round the world. It was also read by a whistleblower who was in touch with Greenpeace, the environmental campaign group, in Tokyo to tell it about his role in Japan's vote-buying operation. The whistleblower, "Mr A", told The Sunday Times that he had worked for years as an executive for a Japanese company which built fisheries aid projects in underdeveloped countries.
He said he held a series of "very, very unofficial" meetings with Japanese civil servants who encouraged his company to sound out IWC countries, or potential IWC countries, which would pledge voting support in return for aid.
After arranging almost 50 fisheries projects for about 20 countries, Mr A had first-hand knowledge of the secret payments and the characters involved.
He provided a list of 16 countries being paid for their votes ahead of this week's meeting on the future of whaling. In each case he claimed Japan paid for a delegation to travel to the IWC and funded the country's membership fees of £7,000-£10,000 a year.
The Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Republic of Guinea, Benin, Gabon, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Mauritania and Morocco were all named. He also included five east Caribbean nations: St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenadines, St Kitts and Nevis, Grenada, and Antigua and Barbuda.
Mr A said he had recently been talking to an official in Japan's foreign ministry who told him the embassy in Trinidad had offered to pay Liverpool's expenses during the Morocco meeting.
When a reporter made inquiries at Liverpool's hotel in Morocco, we found he was staying there from June 13 to 28 and his bill was being paid by Japan Tours and Travel.
Mr A said he had also organised trips through this small firm and that Wakasa used it frequently. He said Wakasa was the whalers' key man in the east Caribbean.
"The east Caribbean islands were on our side. Their membership fees for the IWC were paid for by Wakasa who also gave them air fares, paid for their hotels, as well as subsistence money when they attended IWC meetings," he said.
Mr A said Wakasa was an agent for Japanese whaling interests funded by his country's government. He worked on behalf of the Japan Whaling Association which is financed indirectly by the Fisheries Agency and the Overseas Fisheries Co-operation Foundation (OFCF), an agency sponsored by the agriculture ministry.
Mr A said funding between the two bodies was interchangeable but the OFCF had a £540,000-a-year slush fund to meet the expenses and fees of the countries that supported its pro-whaling position on the IWC. Delegates were given $300 to $500 spending money during meetings.
Anthony Liverpool will open the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in MoroccoThe chairman of this week's international summit on whaling is being secretly funded by a Japanese company to stay in a luxury hotel.
Anthony Liverpool will open the crucial International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Morocco tomorrow which could vote to lift a 24-year ban on commercial whaling.
He has accepted free flights and the £4,000 cost of staying at a hotel with a private beach during the meeting. The hotel bills of five other countries' delegates are also being paid.
Richard Benyon, the minister for fisheries, will raise what he called "these very serious allegations" at the IWC meeting.
On Friday Liverpool, the Antiguan IWC vice-chairman who will stand in as chairman at the meeting, said he did not know who was paying for his trip. "I am just aware of getting support through agencies," he said.
However, inquiries have shown that his bill at a hotel in Agadir is being paid by Japan Tours and Travel of Houston, a company said to be linked to Hideuki "Harry" Wakasa, who has previously been identified as the middleman who makes secret payments to the pro-whaling Caribbean countries.
You have to feel sorry for the poor Japanese taxpayer. The country is drowning in debt and what does the government spend its money on? A whaling fleet — while shrinking numbers of Japanese actually eat whale.
It also bribes officials from small countries with air tickets, aid and sexual favours to vote in support of whaling.
This newspaper's hilarious sting exposing officials in receipt of brown envelopes and offers of prostitutes proved what the conspiracy theorists have been saying for years to be absolutely correct.
Not only does Japan offer tied aid and force the officials of poor landlocked countries such as Mali to spout rhetorical nonsense — such as the extraordinary claim that whales are a threat to fish stocks — but it also offers the kinds of inducements formerly associated with corrupt arms manufacturers to countries that toe the Japanese line.
This is utterly disgraceful and, I confidently predict, will affect Japan's standing in international negotiations for years. No wonder Japan is madly denying it.
There is one, perhaps even more disgraceful, thing about the revelations over the past week: they have not been widely reported in the Japanese press.
As anyone who has watched it operate in international meetings and at home knows, the country's press is obsequious.
The way Japan conducts itself is unacceptable and its bad behaviour is likely to extend beyond whaling It is obsequious for a reason: a correspondent will not be given stories or even asked to briefings if he does not toe the line.
It is as if the cosy lobby system that operates in Britain for parliamentary reporters applied across the mainstream media and its enforcers looked a lot like the officials that push you around on the Tokyo subway.
Nor does there seem to be much public questioning of the Japanese government's £830m-a-year fisheries aid budget — which seems to promote support for whaling among small Caribbean, African and Pacific nations — or the potential multi-million-pound replacement cost of its ageing whaling fleet. So far there has been one mention in an English-language newspaper of the allegations about aid but no mention of prostitutes, which you would have thought was the clearest indication that the Japanese whaling industry was corrupt.
Some strange things go on. In 2008 two Japanese Greenpeace activists alleged that the agency officials and whalers who operate Japan's bogus "scientific" whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean were taking hundreds of kilos of whale meat for private gain when the revenue from the sale of meat is supposed to go back to support the Fisheries Agency.
The activists tracked the boxes, took one containing 23 kilos of whale meat, presented it to the authorities and reported the crew for alleged embezzlement. What happened? Investigations of the whalers were dropped, but the "Tokyo Two" were then charged with trespass and theft of the meat. They were convicted in a trial that has just ended, with the prospect of an 18-month jail sentence.
There are, of course, cultural reasons for all this. The Japan Whaling Association was incredibly successful in the 1970s and 1980s in persuading the Japanese public that the attempt to ban whaling was an exercise in cultural imperialism by the West, directed at a traditional Japanese activity. Yet whaling on an industrial scale is something Japan has done only since 1945.
Although this newspaper's revelations have not been fully reported in Japan, they are being widely discussed in the corridors of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Agadir, Morocco.
For a while, at least, former allies will be shuffling away and neutral countries wondering how a vote supporting Japan will look in the future, which can only be good. The Japanese delegation, representing the centre-left government of Naoto Kan, who took office this month pledging to tackle the debt mountain, does appear mindful of the expense of subsidised whaling.
There can be no other reason why it is discussing a deal which could stop Japan whaling in the Southern Ocean altogether. It would be a bold step for Japan to bring its "scientific" whaling fleet, which has operated for 20 years in the Southern Ocean under a loophole in the convention, back under IWC control. It would take courage for the anti-whaling nations to accept a limited return to scientifically justified commercial whaling in return for a deal that would be good for whales. Both might just happen this week.
Whether or not that 20-year-old impasse over the "scientific" whaling loophole is broken, something else has changed. We have realised that the way Japan conducts itself on the world stage is unacceptable and that its bad behaviour is likely to extend beyond whaling. You wonder what favours were involved in the successful campaign orchestrated by Japan against proposals to list the bluefin tuna and 12 other marine species under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species earlier this year. Free supplies of tuna, perhaps?
Japan used aid money to persuade developing countries to support its whaling, according to a whistleblower who has spoken to the BBC.
The man, who went first to Greenpeace, worked for a private company which implemented development projects on behalf of the Japanese government.
His allegations come on the eve of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Morocco.
For 18 years Mr A - as he wants to be known - travelled the developing world for a private Japanese company.
His job was to arrange projects such as new harbours that would be paid for by Japan's overseas aid budget.
Japan has long denied buying support for its stance on whaling.
But Mr A told the BBC that during negotiations the make-or-break question was whether the country would side with Tokyo at the IWC.
"If the answer is affirmative, saying yes, or more or less affirmative, then we start talking about the project. Helping them to build up their fisheries industries," Mr A said.
However this was not always the response.
There were "a couple of countries where I received quite explicit answer or reply, saying No. Like Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania, and other countries in African continent," Mr A said.
"In that case I said simply thank you very much and I went away."
There was then no question of a fisheries grant being given, he said.
Mr A went first to Greenpeace to make his allegations.
He said he was disgusted that many of the development projects he spent his career working on were a waste of Japanese taxpayers' money.
Mr A has chosen to speak out on the eve of the International Whaling Commission's meeting in Morocco.
At the moment Japan justifies its hunts as scientific research, while not hiding the fact that whale meat ends up on dinner plates.
The IWC will debate a proposal to end the ban on commercial whaling that has been in place since 1986 in return for whaling nations agreeing to smaller quotas.
Masayuki Komatsu, Japan's chief negotiator until 2004, says his country should "simply dump" the proposal in the rubbish bin.
Mr Komatsu, the author of several books about whaling, says there are "plenty" of whale resources and Japan should not be asked to cut its quota.
Asked whether Japan had been linking its aid to the whaling issue, he said he had advocated that Japanese aid should officially be linked to whaling issues "as a matter of sustainable principle".
However, he said that while many politicians shared his views, they were not fully addressed and "regrettably" Japan's policy was of delinking aid.
Japan it has acknowledged that it has invested heavily in the fishing industries of some smaller countries on the IWC.
Their votes will be critical in Morocco.


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Over 250 people come every year to help pack the food and distribute to families in the area, and we also help by raising several thousand dollars to assist the effort.
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