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Quote & Comment | from "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Our luck may fail; our powers forsake us; our place on the boards be taken by better and younger mimes — the chance of life roll away and leave us shattered and stranded. Then men will walk across the road when they meet you — or, worse still, hold you out a couple of fingers and patronize you in a pitying way — then you will know, as soon as your back is turned, that your friend begins with a 'Poor Devil, what imprudences he has committed, what chances that chap has thrown away!' Well, well — a carriage and three thousand a year is not the summit of the reward nor the end of God's judgment of men. If quacks prosper as often as they go to the wall — if zanies succeed and knaves arrive at fortune, and vice versa, sharing ill-luck and prosperity for all the world like the ablest and most honest amongst us — I say, brother, the gifts and pleasures of Vanity Fair cannot be held of any great account.
This quote has always seemed to me to be the heart of Vanity Fair, although it quivers with a sympathy — a sense of gentleness and mercy — that the sour Thackeray can't quite summon for the characters he creates.
They are, for the most part, zanies and knaves or men and women of substance corrupted by their vanities. There is only one character Thackeray would likely describe as "ablest and most honest" — William Dobbin — and even Dobbin Thackeray mocks for pursuing and finally marrying a woman who Dobbin knows is not equal to and does not deserve his love.
The phrase "our place on the boards … taken by better and younger mimes" nods at one of Thackeray's principal conceits in Vanity Fair: that his characters are "puppets" and he is the "Manager of the Performance". But I also think the phrase gestures at something more profound, that Thackeray thinks we are all puppets, too, hack players in a foolish play.
"Well, well," as Thackeray said. Maybe. But the vitality Thackeray invests in this nearly 800-page novel argues differently. And his opinion that "the gifts and pleasures of Vanity Fair cannot be held of any great account" perhaps suggests there are other gifts that are of "great account". What these gifts might be, however, Thackeray doesn't say.
"Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray | Review of the Novel
Posted in On Books, William M. Thackeray, tagged book reviews, books, literature on March 4, 2012| 4 Comments »
William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair is (I think) one of the best works of literature in the English language.
Lots of people will say: "Get serious."
But I am serious. I know the consensus on Thackeray. He's a "middle of the pack" novelist, better than Trollope, not as good as Dickens, whose best work still has significant problems.
Such as … Vanity Fair's plot is flabby and rambling. Thackeray's constant moralizing exhausts the patience of the reader long before the book comes to an end. And its cast of characters lack vivid life (except perhaps for the famous Becky Sharp) and are flattened by the novel's satirical tone.
On the flabby and rambling plot charge, I think Thackeray is clearly guilty. No defense.
On the moralizing, I find that the range of emotional colors Thackeray brings to his comments enriches the novel rather than making it poorer. He is often satiric, scolding, caustic, angry, even cruel. But there are times when his voice is humorous, generous, almost warm – tolerant even forgiving of human weakness.
Thackeray's approach to his characters is also complicated. They are, on first encounter, similar to Dickens' people, who were inspired by popular stage melodramas: strongly drawn, not particularly well shaded.
But as Vanity Fair progresses, many of the characters start slipping sideways out of their defined roles. For example, the book's two leading female characters, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley.
Becky Sharp is a classic "bad girl" – bohemian parents, no money, no connections – who is perfectly willing to use intelligence, wit, charm, and sex to find wealth and climb in society.
But there is something deeply persuasive about a character who simply refuses to accept the place and prospects that "respectable" people demand she take, and who has few illusions about herself even while she is manipulating everyone else's picture of her. And yet, Becky remains for all her persuasion, essential selfish and amoral.
Becky is paired in Vanity Fair with her girlhood friend, the sweet and virtuous Amelia Sedley, who possesses the money, family, and social standing (and naivety) Becky lacks.
Amelia looks all ready to play the "Victorian woman of admirable virtue" role – and she does play it – right into the ground.
Amelia, a perfectly lovely girl, marries a philandering scoundrel who gets her pregnant before dying at the battle of Waterloo.
For the next twenty years, she blights her life with a stubborn idiot celebration of his memory and her single-minded devotion to their son, until her youth and almost all chances of happiness, for both herself and the family friend who has patiently loved her, are gone.
Amelia does all this in the name of "virtue" but Thackeray doesn't make this virtue look very appealing, just as he fails to make Becky's "villainy" all that unappealing. What he succeeds at doing — and deliberately, I think — is make characters who look simple, and easy to judge, become complicated and hard to judge. Or, if you like, turn them into constructions that feel a lot like people.
The final quality that makes Vanity Fair great is Thackeray's constant reminders of the novel's artifice. Throughout the book, he continuously points out that it is a book, that he is an author controlling events, and that his characters aren't real. (The last line of Vanity Fair is "Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.")
This is particular because our emotional engagement with art is dependent on our ability to ignore the fact it is art – the famous "willing suspension of disbelief" — and success for most authors depends on this engagement.
That Thackeray refuses to make this engagement easy — building it up and tearing it down, again and again — is one last tasty, tangled, problematic gift he gives to his readers.


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The very first Jersey Royals will make an appearance, be warned… they will be reassuringly expensive.
The recent spell of cold weather across Spain has effected the supply of strawberries and raspberries. Prices have increased substantially, we are hoping they will start to ease back as we move into March.
Pineapple prices are expected to ease as more fruit becomes available.
Citrus – There are a number of options for 'easy peelers' including Mineola's, ortaniques, satsumas and nadorcotts.
Supplies of Spanish and Egyptian Lemons are more plentiful. The quality of limes are inconsistent at present..
There are very good quality Spanish and Moroccan oranges still available. Blood Oranges should be with us throughout the month, fingers crossed.
We will see the first arrivals of British asparagus from the Wye Valley later this month, supplies will be very limited and, as you would expect, prices will be high.
The first signs of spring.. early broad beans and peas from warmer climates of Southern Europe, limited supplies and still fairly dear but a good indicator of what's to come.
There's still plenty of Yorkshire forced rhubarb and the first outdoor crop starts later this month.
The first of the Jersey Royals will soon be making an appearance, be warned… they will be reassuringly expensive. As an alternative, early Spring crop Cyprus new potatoes are now in season, its distinctive oval shape, red soil stained skin and excellent flavour the Cyprus is a remarkably versatile spud that can do just about anything. It'll roast, mash, puree, chip, bake and boil.
Home-grown Cavalo Nero will be coming to an end soon, hopefully to be replaced by supplies from Italy (increase in price…).
Purple sprouting broccoli is in good supply and a nice alternative to tenderstem.
Something to look forward to; wild garlic leaves & flowers, monks beard & artichokes. Cauliflower remains in short supply and prices reflect the shortage.
New season violet and white garlic from Spain and wet garlic arriving from Egypt, superb quality.
During March when we start moving onto new season salads from growers in Holland and the UK. There are already a few early British hothouse cucumbers and the first British tomatoes should be along by the end of the month.
The Vale of Evesham is renowned as the 'Garden of England' but the recent wet weather has put a stop to the planting of summer salad crops, in particular spring onions and all types of speciality lettuce.
The quality of Spanish & Israeli peppers is excellent at the moment.


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UC CAMP offers guidance and success for minorities in STEM
Martha Delgado
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When Hannah Navarette came to UCR as a first-year, she knew that she wanted to pursue research. With the help of faculty, she was able to find out about the UC Campus Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP). "There is kind of a culture on campus, and this isn't unique to UCR, that faculty members and mentors don't know how to mentor undergraduates from a diverse population," said Navarette.
Now a fourth-year biology major, president of CAMP and finishing the process of graduate school applications, she had found mentors to turn to during the stressful application process thanks to the support she received from the organization. "By participating in CAMP and eventually serving in leadership roles, I have found within me a motivation to help other people and particularly within research within science," said Navarette.
CAMP is part of the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation grant and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). CAMP's goal is to support students from underrepresented minorities in STEM fields to participate in research and apply to postgraduate programs.
Among the resources CAMP provides are research opportunities, stipends for research, faculty mixers, professional development mentorship and opportunities to present research at the CAMP statewide symposium, among others. Currently, there are 20 students in the program.
"The grant itself provides a variety of resources to students, and those resources really are something that you just don't get in the regular classroom. (CAMP) is designed to get students to engage more in undergraduate experiences," explained Dr. Thomas Dickson, assistant vice provost of Undergraduate Education.
General meetings are open for anyone to attend. However, stipends to fund research are limited to the students that meet the criteria as listed by NSF of being in the STEM field and identifying as an underrepresented minority as listed in CAMP's UCR website. This includes students with "Black/African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Native American, or Non-Filipino-Pacific Islander ethnic backgrounds reported at UCR at the time of admission."
All nine UC campuses with the exception of UC San Francisco have a CAMP cohort.
Previously, UC Irvine had been the seat of CAMP but due to paperwork, UCR applied for the grant renewal and became the lead campus. Along with the responsibilities of being lead campus, UCR will host the CAMP statewide symposium in February 2020, where CAMP members from other UC's will come to present their research.
UCR's CAMP cohort has been successful compared to other UCs in the number of undergraduates applying to graduate school and participating in research symposiums. At the last CAMP symposium at UCI, 10 UCR students won awards out of the 12 members that presented, which was more than the second highest awards won by another campus at six students. Student Engagement Assistant Larry Rodriguez, highlighted former CAMP member Rosa McGuire, who received an NSF graduate research fellowship and an award from SACNAS among others during her time presenting research as an undergraduate.
Dr. Richard Cardullo had been the faculty mentor for UCR's CAMP for 27 years. Now the position of faculty mentor will be transitioned to UCR Medical School faculty member Dr. Brandon Brown, a former CAMP participant during his undergraduate years at UCI.
As Student Engagement Assistant, Rodriguez provides staff support to CAMP as well as reporting information on the rates of CAMP members applying to graduate school. Rodriguez has seen the resources and impact CAMP makes in students.
"When (CAMP members) become officers, they take the initiative and look for programs earlier and more than anyone else. They're seeing these opportunities early. When you put yourself in this group and when you present at a statewide symposium, the prestige of that gives you confidence that you are worthy of being able to do a graduate program," said Rodriguez.
To join or learn more about CAMP, students can attend the general meetings which take place every other Thursday from 5-6 p.m. in the Rivera Teaching and Learning Center. They can also be reached through Highlanderlink at Campus Alliance for Minority Participation.
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URDANG, Onyx Sell White Plains Office for $81M
A joint venture between URDANG and Onyx Equities L.L.C. has sold the 320,000-square-foot Parker Corporate Center in White Plains, N.Y., for $81.8 million, a gain of nearly 20 percent over the November 2006 purchase price of $68.5 million. The fully leased, multi-tenant building was part of the URDANG Value-Added
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A joint venture between URDANG and Onyx Equities L.L.C. has sold the 320,000-square-foot Parker Corporate Center in White Plains, N.Y., for $81.8 million, a gain of nearly 20 percent over the November 2006 purchase price of $68.5 million. The fully leased, multi-tenant building was part of the URDANG Value-Added Fund L.P. portfolio. During the two years that the fund owned the property, Plymouth Meeting, Pa.-based URDANG and Woodbridge, N.J.-based Onyx Equities upgraded the landscaping and signage, while overhauling the leasing strategy. Current tenants include Acadia Realty and OrthoNet. While the national office market has struggled this year, tenants in Westchester County leased more space than what came onto the market–through the first three quarters, according to a third quarter 2008 research report on the Westchester County office market by real estate services firm Grubb & Ellis Co. The White Plains CBD market, however, underperformed the rest of Westchester County as availability increased 20 basis points to 17.7 percent. Suburban availability declined by 50 basis points to 18.2 percent. Class A asking rates in the White Plains CBD fell $0.48 to $39.43 per square foot, while asking rates in suburbs moved down from $30.37 to $29.98 per square foot in Class A buildings. Set in a 25-acre park-like setting, the building, which at one time was IBM's headquarters, features a full-service cafeteria with indoor and outdoor seating, a fitness center equipped with locker rooms, an executive parking garage, on-site management and concierge service and a shuttle to the Metro-North train station in Mamaroneck, N.Y. The site is near major highways including the Hutchinson River Parkway and Interstates 95 and 287. As part of New York City-based BNY Mellon Asset Management, URDANG manages $1.2 billion in private real estate investments through URDANG Capital Management Inc. and $2.2 billion in public real estate securities through URDANG Securities Management Inc. BNY Mellon Asset Management has approximately $1.1 trillion in assets under management. Onyx Equities owns a $680 million portfolio of 3.4 million square feet of office, retail and industrial properties in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Florida.


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1 Samuel - Chapter 16
The LORD said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king." 1
But Samuel said, "How can I go? Saul will hear about it and kill me." The LORD said, "Take a heifer with you and say, 'I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.' 2
Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what to do. You are to anoint for me the one I indicate." 3
Samuel did what the LORD said. When he arrived at Bethlehem, the elders of the town trembled when they met him. They asked, "Do you come in peace?" 4
Samuel replied, "Yes, in peace; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come to the sacrifice with me." Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice. 5
When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and thought, "Surely the LORD's anointed stands here before the LORD." 6
But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." 7
Then Jesse called Abinadab and had him pass in front of Samuel. But Samuel said, "The LORD has not chosen this one either." 8
Jesse then had Shammah pass by, but Samuel said, "Nor has the LORD chosen this one." 9
Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to him, "The LORD has not chosen these." 10
So he asked Jesse, "Are these all the sons you have?" "There is still the youngest," Jesse answered, "but he is tending the sheep." Samuel said, "Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives." 11
So he sent and had him brought in. He was ruddy, with a fine appearance and handsome features. Then the LORD said, "Rise and anoint him; he is the one." 12
So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the LORD came upon David in power. Samuel then went to Ramah. David in Saul's Service 13
Now the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD tormented him. 14
Saul's attendants said to him, "See, an evil spirit from God is tormenting you. 15
Let our lord command his servants here to search for someone who can play the harp. He will play when the evil spirit from God comes upon you, and you will feel better." 16
So Saul said to his attendants, "Find someone who plays well and bring him to me." 17
One of the servants answered, "I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the harp. He is a brave man and a warrior. He speaks well and is a fine-looking man. And the LORD is with him." 18
Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me your son David, who is with the sheep." 19
So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them with his son David to Saul. 20
David came to Saul and entered his service. Saul liked him very much, and David became one of his armor-bearers. 21
Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, "Allow David to remain in my service, for I am pleased with him." 22
Whenever the spirit from God came upon Saul, David would take his harp and play. Then relief would come to Saul; he would feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him. 23
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Posted on July 9, 2013 by ei8ih
VOA and BBC World Service announce reductions to their shortwave schedules.
Voice of America press release, 26 Mar 2013: "Voice of America is reducing some of its radio transmissions this weekend and ending shortwave broadcasts to regions where audiences have alternative ways of receiving VOA news and information programs. The transmission reductions allow VOA to comply with budget cuts required by sequestration and to avoid furloughs of staff members. When the new broadcast schedule goes into effect on March 31st, cross-border shortwave and medium wave broadcasts to Albania, Georgia, Iran and Latin America will be curtailed, along with English language broadcasts to the Middle East and Afghanistan. VOA will continue to provide audiences in these regions with up-to-date news and information through a host of other platforms, including radio and TV affiliate stations, direct-to-home satellite, web streaming, mobile sites and social media. The new broadcast schedule calls for reductions in some shortwave and medium wave radio broadcasts in Cantonese, Dari/Pashto, English to Africa, Khmer, Kurdish, Mandarin, Portuguese, Urdu and Vietnamese. Direct radio broadcasts to all of these regions will continue. The transmission reductions are expected to have minimal impact on audience numbers since primary modes of delivery will remain. Shortwave and medium wave broadcasts will continue to regions where they draw substantial audiences, and to countries where other signal delivery is difficult or impossible."
See VOA transmission schedule, 31 March 2013 through 26 October 2013 (not available at voanews.com). This schedule is for transmissions through IBB-owned shortwave and medium wave transmitters and does not include broadcasts that are through partner stations in target countries.
BBC World Service press release, 25 Mar 2013: "The World Service English global schedule will be simplified with fewer regional variations from Sunday 31 March 2013 and shortwave Arabic broadcasts will cease. The reductions to shortwave services were announced in October 2012 as part of the UK government's 2010 spending review. BBC World Service on FM and online and on television will not be affected and no language services are closing. Shortwave and medium wave transmissions in English will be reduced to a minimum of 6 hours in total each day. This will generally be two periods of between 2 and 4 hours each, usually at peak listening times in the morning and evening to help minimise disruption. … The estimated loss of listeners to Global English on shortwave will be around 1.5m listeners, equivalent to 1.3% of the total Global News English audience on any platform. BBC Arabic audiences are estimated to reduce by 800,000 as a result of the closure of shortwave broadcasts. In the Arabic speaking world, the World Service broadcasts on a network of FM relays, a 24-hour television channel and the bbcarabic.com website. Shortwave services to Sudan are not affected as the shortwave service is currently the most viable method of broadcasting to this large region."
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Digital text via analog shortwave
Posted on December 15, 2012 by ei8ih
I Know that the time for this test is past but non the less makes for an interesting read.
More digital text via analog shortwave broadcast this weekend. And there is a reason for it. (Updated: success.)
Radio amateurs use several modes to transmit text via shortwave. It occurred to me that text via shortwave might be a workaround where the internet is not available because of disasters, dictators, or other causes.
I have not yet convinced any major international broadcasters to let me test this hypothesis on their (remaining) shortwave transmitters. However, the Netherlands-based Mighty KBC has kindly been allowing me two one-minute segments during their broadcast to North America at 0000 to 0200 UTC on 9450 kHz. This is via leased time on a transmitter in Bulgaria.
Reception of text via shortwave is possible on an inexpensive shortwave radio, even one without single sideband (SSB) capability. The audio is patched into a PC that does not have to be especially powerful. This involves a patch cord from the earphone jack of the radio to the microphone input of the PC. If there is no patch cord, placing the radio's speaker near the built-in microphone of a laptop might work.
Software for decoding the text should be installed in the PC. There are several available to radio amateurs, including DM780, MixW, and MultiPSK. Especially popular these days is Fldigi. This is available from www.w1hkj.com. While you are there, please also download Flmsg, because it will be needed for this weekend's test on KBC.
This weekend's test on KBC will feature the MT63 modes with long interleave. After Fldigi is installed, go to Configure > Modems > MT-63 > check 64-bit (long) interleave, 8-bit extended characters, and Allow manual tuning. Also, go to Configure > Misc > NBEMS > check Open with flmsg and Open in browser and, below that, indicate where your flmsg.exe file is located.
The first KBC text transmission will be around 0130 UTC Sunday (Saturday evening 8:30 pm EST). The MT63-1000 mode with long interleave will be centered at 1000 Hz on the waterfall visible on the software display. PSKR125 will be cenetered at 2200 Hz. Decode one while listening, and decode the other from your recording of the transmission.
The second text transmission will be just before 0200 UTC Sunday (9 pm Saturday EST). This will be MT63-2000 centered at 1500 Hz. This message will be formatted for Flmsg. If all goes well, the shortwave transmitter in Bulgaria will open a new window of Flmsg and then open a new window of your web browser with formatted content, in color no less.
One week after my first text transmissions (11 November) on KBC, Arnie Coro at Radio Havana Cuba began transmitting digital text modes on his Dxers Unlimited program (in English). He might do so again this weekend. The schedule for DXers Unlimited can be found at the World of Radio website (where all times and days are UTC, so those UT Monday transmissions are actually Sunday evening in North America).
More discussion of the concept of digital text via analog shortwave broadcast is in Kim's December 2012 column (pdf) for the North American Shortwave Association.
Update from Kim: My own reception The Mighty KBC in northern Virginia was lousy, and my decoding efforts were mostly unsuccessful. I was feeling despondent and was ready to declare failure.
Then the emails started coming in…
First, my friend in Oregon, nearly 10,000 km from the Bulgaria transmitter, was able to get 100% copy of the MT63-2000 transmission just before 0200 UTC. And, with the help of the Flmsg software, this popped up in his web browser just after the transmission:
The link, by the way, works. Then, another friend in Springfield, Virginia, not far from where I live, also had perfect copy, with this opening up in his browser…
Another perfect Flmsg image came from Manassas, Virginia. Others, in various locations, reported successful reception of the text.
So we may be on to something. In internet emergencies, shortwave might be able to come to the rescue.
Practical Wireless issues online
Posted on December 1, 2012 by ei8ih
There are six issues of Practical Wireless, earliest August 1964, latest
August 1973, available for download on the Internet Archive. The editor
W.N. Stevens was strongly against pirate radio. The April 1966 issue has
an editorial "Law of the Jungle" ending with advice to the Postmaster
General "Let him no longer tolerate the law of the jungle".
The February 1967 edition editorial is entitled Troubled Waters and
deals with the prosecutions of Radio 390 and Radio Essex. There is also
a detailed 2 page account of the court cases, particularly 390's on page
740 and 741 of the same issue. In the Sinclair Radionics advert on page
379 of the August 1964 issue there's a report that T.F.C, Windsor among
many others are picking up Caroline and Atlanta on their Micro-6 radios
headlined Brings In Pirates! Some excellent reading, in particular some
of the adverts. The magazine also had a column dealing with shortwave
broadcast band radio and in some editions medium wave DXing. The issues
can be downloaded at http://bit.ly/TmOjkX
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Posted on October 31, 2012 by ei8ih
Saturday November 3, 2000, Radio 4
The press fulminated, the enthusiasts were frustrated, and the radio manufacturers fumed. Despite the fact that Marconi had invented radio before Queen Victoria had celebrated her Diamond Jubilee in 1897, radio in Britain took another 25 years to begin an official service to listeners. But when, on November 14th 1922 the British Broadcasting Company's station at Marconi House radiated to an awaiting nation "This is 2LO calling" for the first time under the company's name, it marked the start of the first and most distinguished public-service radio station in the world.
As part of the celebrations to mark nine decades of the BBC, historian Dominic Sandbrook explores the long and involved pre-BBC history of radio in Britain, how Britain's broadcaster got going and developed into an institution dedicated to entertainment, education and information, discovers why Australian diva Dame Nellie Melba was involved, and how the improbably-named Captain Plugge made his first British commercial broadcast from the roof of Selfridges department store in London. From Marconi to Savoy Hill via an old army hut in Essex, the story of the early radio in Britain.
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Solar activity.
Posted on September 4, 2012 by ei8ih
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2197675/Here-comes-sun-Astonishing-solar-whip-half-million-miles-long-spotted-solar-surface.html
Radio 4 Sealand documentary
The August 1 In Living Memory programme on BBC Radio 4 was on Sealand,
the programme preview said:
"In 1966, a former pirate radio broadcaster, Major Paddy Roy Bates,
occupied a disused military platform in the North Sea, and moved his
family aboard. The next year he declared it to be the sovereign
Principality of Sealand, appointing himself Prince Roy, and his wife, a
former fashion model, as Princess Joan. Five decades on, the Bates
family still occupy the platform, having survived the repeated attempts
by the British government to evict them by legal means, and having
fought off attempts by rival groups to seize the platform by force. It's
a story of coups, counter-coups, guns, petrol bombs, and rival groups of
foreign businessmen. Jolyon Jenkins interviews surviving witnesses to
tell the story of this real life "Passport to Pimlico".
I found this a fascinating 30 minute documentary, it includes clips of
Roy Bates's pirate radio station Radio Essex. All In Living Memory
programmes are archived on BBC Iplayer, the Sealand documentary can be
heard at http://bbc.in/OCcpX2
Hurricane Watch
Posted on August 29, 2012 by ei8ih
Hurricane Watch Net in operation on 14.325, adds 7.268 for additional reports
The Hurricane Watch Net will continue operating today on our primary frequency of 14.325 MHZ as tropical storm Isaac moves toward the gulf. To take advantage of good propagation into the area, HWN will also be operating on 7.268 MHz this afternoon. Stations in the affected area are encouraged to report your weather conditions and monitor for updates.
As always we appreciate your courtesy, and we appreciate your reports! They have been a big help so far
Marconi Factory.
Posted on July 19, 2012 by ei8ih
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175365/Marconi-factory-Battle-save-wireless-centre.html


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Mira Loma fue un lugar designado por el censo ubicado en el condado de Riverside en el estado estadounidense de California. En el año 2000 tenía una población de 17.617 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 1,042.4 personas por km². El 1 de julio de 2011 se incorporó con otros lugares designados por el censo para formar la ciudad de Jurupa Valley. El área fue fundada como Winneville y denominada como tal hasta 1930, cuando se decidió cambiarle el nombre para alejarla de la mala publicidad propiciada por los Crímenes de Wineville producidos en dicha área.

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Mira Loma se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo, la ciudad tiene un área total de , de la cual  es tierra y  1.23% es agua.

Demografía
Los ingresos medios por hogar en la localidad eran de $49,002, y los ingresos medios por familia eran $49,925. Los hombres tenían unos ingresos medios de $33,356 frente a los $25,275 para las mujeres. La renta per cápita para la localidad era de $15,277. Alrededor del 14.00% de la población estaban por debajo del umbral de pobreza.

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She Loves Me (Amalia Balash)
Hometown: Kinnelon, New Jersey
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Big Break: At 16, she won Paper Mill Playhouse's "Rising Star Award," and when The Sound of Music Broadway revival (1998) Casting Director called Paper Mill up for Liesl recommendations, Laura was sent in. She was better suited for Maria and she ultimately made her Broadway debut as Rebecca Luker's understudy and took over the role of Maria at 19. She went on to receive Best Featured Actress in a Musical Tony Award nominations for Swing! (1999) and Into the Woods (2002) and won the award for Gypsy (2008). On TV, she is best known for her work on Nashville, Supergirl, and of course, Sound of Music Live!
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Chipping Away at Injustices
An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org
lauren Ornelas, Appetite for Justice
We must use our collective voices to speak out against all forms of injustice if we think we can ever chip away at it.
Dennis Hopper in Twilight Zone's 1960 episode, "He's Alive"
I consider myself a fan of sci-fi, but I also consider myself a Trekkie, though I don't know the name of the grain that kills the Tribbles, and I am really more of a fan of the original and Deep Space Nine. Real fan or not, I do like to watch it. Those of us who like sci-fi know that one of the beauties about it is how cleverly writers can weave in commentary about things such as racism, animal exploitation, sexism, etc. – setting these issues in another time and place while making them relevant to the here and now.
My husband and I have been watching all of the Twilight Zone episodes, and one struck me that I can't shake. The episode is called "He's Alive," and the description from IMDB is this, "Around 1960, a tiny neo-Nazi organization struggles pathetically to succeed in a big city. A mysterious figure begins to ruthlessly guide a young, insecure U.S. Nazi leader, and the group begins to draw more attention."
An old man who survived WWII is speaking to a bartender across the street.
The bartender says, "Used to be people would laugh at him, and lately he gets the crowd and not many people laugh either."
The old man says, "I've seen it before. I have seen it all before."
Bartender: "That was another time, another place, another kind of people that doesn't go here."
The old man: "That is what we said, too. They were brown scum, temporary insanity, part of the passing scene too monstrous to be real, so we ignored them or laughed at them because we couldn't believe there were enough insane people to walk along side of them. [Sigh]… and then one morning the country woke up from an uneasy sleep and there was no more laughter. … But not again. It must not happen again. I can't let it. We simply can't let it happen again. All that nightmare. Oh, no. No, not this time."
I guess it had me thinking about how people treat various forms of discrimination from racism, homophobia, cruelty to animals and the treatment of immigrants. You have those who speak hate and vitriol, those who listen and are uncomfortable with it but laugh as they do not know what to say, those who agree and those who speak against it.
I often think many of us are put into these situations, mostly with people we don't know well or work with.
I was faced with this when my husband and I chose to protest Prop 8 in California (Prop 8 made marriage equality illegal) by having our wedding in Massachusetts, which has legalized marriage equality. I was asked, and continue to be asked, why we married out of state. People want to know if it is because we had family there or if we met there.
Every time someone asked, I knew this was an opportunity. An opportunity to make a statement against hatred and discrimination. I told the truth and said it in a way that would assume that any decent person who does not believe in discrimination would agree with me and understand why we had to make this choice. Did everyone agree with us and embrace what I had to say? Certainly not. Should I worry about offending people whose point of view is different? To me, that would be no different than being silent and not speaking up about other forms of discrimination.
And that is a small way in which we all can use our voice. It doesn't mean we have to scream (although clearly there are times when this is necessary), but we must not be silent. We must not laugh or ignore the hatred that is being spouted these days. We should not listen to these shock jocks and laugh. We should not give them anything.
Why should those with the most constant and loudest voices be those who speak such absolute disgust? Even if we don't have the microphones they do, we must use our voices because collectively we can be loud.
I remember when I started Food Empowerment Project and explained to fellow animal rights activists about some of our goals. I was told that racism isn't that bad. Well, I don't think that anyone can deny now the blatant racist comments and actions that are taking place across the country. The time is up for us to ignore it; we must constantly use our voices to speak out against it.
Now most people who are reading this (if you have continued to read) are not ones who would remain silent when animal cruelty is involved. However, I start to worry that this trend is creeping into our movement in an insidious way. Every time someone talks about "humane" meat or cage-free eggs, it is as if the discussion of the reality of the actual suffering, cruelty and deaths of these animals is erased, because the conversation, for the most part, stops there.
Why is it that those who bring up these injustices are seen as not allowing others to have a good time? Why are not those who make homophobic, racist or sexist jokes seen as the killjoys?
These conversations, as uncomfortable as they might be, must see the light of day and not be overshadowed by laughter or the thought that it will all go away if we don't talk about it.
I don't want to have to worry that my group will lose support because a racist or a homophobe reads this. Enough. We must take stands against those who seek to oppress people, even if they support animal issues.
And below is the end of that episode from the wise and talented Mr. Rod Serling:
Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare (Adolph Hitler) - Chicago; Los Angeles; Miami, Florida; Vincennes, Indiana; Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, everyplace, where there's hate, where there's prejudice, where there's bigotry. He's Alive. He's alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He's alive because through these things we keep him alive.
lauren Ornelas is the founder/director of Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice nonprofit seeking to create a more just world by helping consumers recognize the power of their food choices. F.E.P. works in solidarity with farm workers, advocates for chocolate not sourced from the worst forms of child labor, and focuses on access to healthy foods in communities of color and low-income communities. While lauren was the director of Viva!USA, she investigated factory farms and ran consumer campaigns. In cooperation with activists across the country, she persuaded Trader Joe's to stop selling all duck meat and was the spark that got the founder of Whole Foods Market to become a vegan. She also helped halt the construction of an industrial dairy operation in California. She served as campaign director with the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition for six years. Watch her TEDx talk on The Power of Our Food Choices. Learn more about F.E.P.'s work at www.foodispower.org and www.veganmexicanfood.com. text
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A group that directs the regiochemistry of an electrophilic aromatic substitution reaction such that the incoming electrophile is installed at the ortho or para positions.
In electrophilic substitution the substituents that allow electrophilic attack of ortho and pera to a substituent. Ortho/pera directors are activators except for halogens which the opposite.


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Q: An exercise to understand free group I am new to the concept of free groups, reading Artin's Algebra but completely lost. So I hope I can learn from concrete examples instead of theorems corollaries. So I jumped to the exercise, and here is the fist one. I suppose this is an easy one but I am sure I can have a better understand if I can solve it. So the exercise is

Let $F$ be the free group on $\{x,y\}$. Prove that the three elements $u=x^2$, $v=y^2$, and $z=xy$ generate a subgroup isomorphic to the free group on $u$, $v$, and $z$.

Anyone can give some help? Thanks!

A: Suppose you have two elements $a,b$ of a group. You can write words in these letters and their inverses, and each such word can be multiplied out using the group law.
Consider for example the word
$$w = a b b^{-1} a b a^{-1} a b^{-1} a^{-1} a^{-1}
$$
This word $w$ represents the identity no matter what the group is, as can be seen by repeatedly applying the inverse law. Any word with this property, namely that it represents the identity by repeated application of the inverse law, is said to be a "freely reducible" word in the elements $a$ and $b$. For instance, the word $aba^{-1} b^{-1}$ is not freely reducible (even though it would represent the identity if the group were known to be abelian).
And although I have only discussed words in two letters, the concept of freely reducible obviously generalizes to words in any number of letters.
Consider now a specific group $G$ and a generating set, perhaps a finite generating set such as $a_1,a_2,...,a_n$. Obviously every freely reducible word $w$ in this generating set represents the identity element of $G$. The group $G$ is a free group (on the generating set $a_1,..,a_n$) if the only words representing the identity are the freely reducible words.
To put it another way, free groups are those groups which are "as free as is possible", meaning that they have the fewest words expressing the identity as is possible.

A: Think geometrically! Consider the following two graphs:

Now convince yourself of the following facts:

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*The free subgroup of $F(x,y)$ generated by $\{x^2,y^2,xy\}$ can be described exactly as the set of closed paths at the origin of the graph on the left (of course assuming any sequence of a letter followed by its inverse as irrelevant).

*The free group $F(u,v,z)$ can be described exactly as the set of closed paths at the origin of the graph on the right (of course assuming any sequence of a letter followed by its inverse as irrelevant).

*Those subsets are isomorphic (you can just rename the "loops" accordingly).

A: First, define the first morphism that comes to mind that looks like it might work.

 $$\varphi:\left\{\begin{array}{lll}Free(u, v, w) & \to & Free(x, y)\\u&\mapsto &x^2\\v&\mapsto&y^2\\z&\mapsto&xy\end{array}\right.$$

And then try to prove that it's an isomorphism when restricted properly:

 $Im(\varphi)=\langle x^2,y^2,xy\rangle$.

and

 $Ker(\varphi)=\{1\}$. Let $x\in Free(u, v, w)$. $x=y_1\dots y_n$ where $y_i\in\{u,v,w\}$ and $\varphi(x)=z_1\dots z_n$ where $z_i\in \{x^2,y^2,xy,x^{-2},y^{-2},y^{-1}x^{-1}\}$ and $\varphi(y_i)=z_i$. If $\varphi(x)=1$, then $z_1\dots z_n=1$. Since we're in a free group, it means that somewhere, we have $xx^{-1}$ or $x^{-1}x$ or $yy^{-1}$ or $y^{-1}y$. it can't be in a $z_i$ so you have $z_iz_{i+1}=l_1xx^{-1}l_2$ where $l_i\in\{x,x^{-1},y,y^{-1}\}$ (or some other case). Now, by checking all the cases, you can see that (I didn't check but it should be true), there is a $z'=l_1l_2\in \{x^2,y^2,xy,x^{-2},y^{-2},y^{-1}x^{-1}\}$. Take $y' \in \{u,v,w\}$ so that $\varphi(y')=z'$. Then $\varphi(x)=\varphi(y_1\dots y_{i-1}y_iy_{i+1}y_{i+2}\dots y_n)=\varphi(y_1\dots y_{i-1})\varphi(y_iy_{i+1})\varphi(y_{i+2}\dots y_n)=\varphi(y_1\dots y_{i-1})z_iz_{i+1}\varphi(y_{i+2}\dots y_n)=\varphi(y_1\dots y_{i-1})l_1l_2\varphi(y_{i+2}\dots y_n)=\varphi(y_1\dots y_{i-1})z'\varphi(y_{i+2}\dots y_n)=\varphi(y_1\dots y_{i-1})\varphi(y')\varphi(y_{i+2}\dots y_n)=\varphi(y_1\dots y_{i-1}y'y_{i+2}\dots y_n)$ and so you've reduced the number of generators used by one. You can then juste prove that $\varphi(x)=1\implies x=1$ by recurrence on the number of generators used to write $x$.


Soninke are impressive people. They are hard working, quite well organized, self-sufficient and able to pool their resources to accomplished community tasks. Many have left their Soninke homeland, but keep in touch with families back home. Education is a priority. They are comfortable with strangers. My visit among them was very meaningful.


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Jesus calls us to be salt in our world.
A cookbook and a batch of cookies to share.
"Salt is good for seasoning. But if it loses its flavor, how do you make it salty again? You must have the qualities of salt among yourselves and live in peace with each other." Mark 9:50 (NLT)
I decided to bake a batch of cookies to share with you today. The first thing I did was get out a cookbook. I looked through a lot of recipes before I decided which one to use and one thing I noticed about all of the cookie recipes was that they all used at least a cup or two of sugar, but they also used a pinch of salt. It makes sense that cookies would have a lot of sugar because cookies are a sweet treat, but why the pinch of salt? The reason is that salt makes sweet food taste sweeter by reducing bitterness. But it only takes a pinch because you don't want your cookies to be salty tasting, do you?
Some of you may be saying, "Wait a minute, I didn't come to church for a cooking class. What does this have to do with our Bible lesson today?" Well, you may remember that Jesus, in his Sermon on the Mount said, "You are the salt of the earth." In our lesson today, Jesus talked about salt again. In today's memory verse, Jesus said, "Salt is good for seasoning. But if it loses its flavor, how do you make it salty again? You must have the qualities of salt among yourselves and live in peace with each other."
You may be thinking, "I am just a child, how much good can I do in the world?" Remember, most recipes call for just a "pinch of salt." That isn't very much salt, but it changes the taste of an entire batch of cookies. If you don't have that little bit of salt, you will definitely notice that there is something missing in your cookies!
There is a lot of hatred and bitterness in our world today. If you and I will show the love of Jesus in all that we do, we can be the salt of the earth like Jesus called us to be. Just a pinch of salt can do much to reduce bitterness and bring peace to our world.
Heavenly Father, we are only children, but we ask you to help to be that "pinch of salt" that will flavor our world with your love. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.


The Medix app is an additional app on the patient's own device to allow patient engagement on his or her device. This feature is available at home, before the hospital stay. The patient can use our service inside the hospital, at rehabilitation or at home.
Medix app allows access to the content of your Medix account by using a smartphone or tablet. Stay connected with the patients even on their own devices.
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The app offer services like info-apps, service-request, feedbackform, inroom ordering, advertising, meal ordering.
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With the Medix app it's not possible to control the patients own device from the Medix portal, like you know it from other Medix enabled devices.


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Ensuring Robust Stability Testing for Product Longevity
Felicity Thomas
Pharmaceutical Technology's In the Lab eNewsletter
In the Lab eNewsletter, Pharmaceutical Technology\'s In the Lab eNewsletter-04-03-2019, Volume 14, Issue 4
Stability testing is an integral part of bio/pharmaceutical production, and harmonizing best practices and regulatory requirements is key to finding the best approach.
Within the bio/pharmaceutical industry, ascertaining drug substance/product stability is an integral part of the development process and must be performed according to specific regulatory requirements. Rigorous testing methods need to be employed to determine a product's stability, safety, integrity, and shelf-life under a variety of stipulated conditions.
Rigorous testing for stability is considered to be a pre-requisite for acceptance or approval of any bio/pharmaceutical product submission by the relevant regulatory body. "Stability assessment is potentially the most important aspect of drug product development," says Stuart Kirbyshire, stability manager, Intertek Pharmaceutical Services. "Any regulatory authority will expect you to have a full and thorough knowledge of your product, and without understanding changes to chemical and physical stability under variations of temperature, humidity, and light, obtaining approval will prove problematic."
Guidelines, provided by the International Council for Harmonization (ICH), the World Health Organization (WHO), and other agencies, specify that bio/pharmaceutical products need to have an expiration date that has been determined via the most appropriate stability test protocols (1,2). These guidelines take into consideration the climatic zone of the intended market, of which there are four separate classifications for worldwide stability testing (3).
"It is also key to assess your product across a broad range of climatic conditions to ensure global market reach," Kirbyshire confers. "Understanding the effects of transportation and temperature cycling is also desirable to prove there will be no unanticipated events during shipping and storage."
Some of the guidelines provided for stability testing, however, are only applicable to conventional small-molecule drug products/substances and, as guidelines, do not provide specific methodologies for the recommended tests. Therefore, analytical methods and bioassays need to be developed by analysts, which then must be validated. See Table I for an overview of the typical analytical methods employed.
"The analytical techniques employed can vary depending upon the type of molecule, dosage format, and intended therapeutic use," explains Kirbyshire. "As the primary purpose for conducting stability studies is to determine shelf life, characterization of degradation products, and potency for any pharmaceutical product."
"For biologics, driven by their complexity of structure, a more diverse analytical capability is required for a stability study. Therefore, it is important to design stability programmes that incorporate robust analytical approaches," notes Jordi Trafach, associate director-Biologics, Intertek Pharmaceutical Services. "These analytical approaches should be built on a good scientific understanding of degradation pathways and established stability-indicating methods, which are sensitive and specific to changes in critical quality attributes (CQAs)."
Key aspects relating to biologics
Biologics are known to be extremely sensitive to environmental factors and susceptible to aggregation and degradation (4). "To reduce the risk of degradation and maintain the biological activity of the product, suitable conditions for storage and shelf life must be established," emphasizes Trafach. "Understanding potential degradation routes in relation to the storage environment are paramount to establishing which CQAs are more susceptible to change throughout the lifetime of the pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical. Ultimately, this understanding ensures that the optimal quality control strategy is in place to monitor continued efficacy and safety of a therapeutic."
As a result of the complex nature of biologics, Trafach states that bespoke, non-compendial methods may be required to monitor all potential and known degradants throughout product development. He stresses that it is also important to consider excipients that are often required in biologic formulations, as these excipients may be susceptible to degradation or may also react with the main biologic product.
"In cases where a potential degradant is observed at a later development stage, there may be the requirement to retest, which could lead to delays to the study completion, potentially impacting product registration," Trafach continues. "Stability-indicating methods should be optimized and validated to demonstrate precision, accuracy, and robustness and that method performance is fit for its intended use."
Forced degradation studies are used to determine the degradation products that are formed during accelerated pharmaceutical studies and long-term stability studies (5). These studies are mandated by regulatory bodies for new drug substances and are integral to understanding degradation pathways, and, as such, gaining a comprehensive assessment of biologic stability, Trafach notes.
"Forced degradation studies also drive invaluable information regarding formulation development and process development," he adds. "A forced degradation study can include factors such as temperature, light, pH, oxidizing agents, mechanical stress, and freeze-thaw cycles. The knowledge from these studies, in conjunction with a detailed understanding of the product and process, help to establish CQAs."
Planning is prudent
The level of complexity and scientific expertise required to perform stability testing of sufficient quality and efficiency can take a considerable period of time and incur significant costs (6). However, appropriate procedure planning can be helpful, according to Kirbyshire. "With good planning of other activities around long-term studies, supported by bracketing and matrixing of batches, pack types, and strengths, as detailed in ICH Q1D, time pressures can be eased," he says.
"In addition to planning," Kirbyshire continues, "testing of a product stored under stress conditions can give an early indication of how the long‑term stability may turn out later down the line. So, it's key to pay particular attention to the product performance at the early stages of your study at these conditions."
In the future, Kirbyshire believes that there will be increased focus on the benefits of accelerated stability assessment programmes (ASAP) during early stage development, which have the potential to expand into later-stage assessments. "The ASAP strategy is based on the robust methods for forced degradation, where the products are submitted to high temperature and humidity conditions, and the time points reduced to 14 days," he explains. "This is sufficient enough to cause a suitable increase in degradation, which can be used to predict the potential long-term stability effects."
Despite some success being witnessed in the small-molecule arena, however, Kirbyshire stresses that suitability for physical stability testing or large-molecule assessment is not currently proven. "With increased use of the technique, further advances will be made establishing ASAP as a reliable and cost-effective method of determining product stability," he says.
Considering the finished product
Stability of a bio/pharmaceutical product will have a dependency upon the dosage form and packaging-closure system chosen for commercial deployment (7). "The anticipated shelf life and in-use storage of your product once commercially available will strongly influence the approach to stability testing during development," confirms Kirbyshire. (Figure 1)
For example, parenteral solutions can have greater susceptibility to extremes of temperature and light, which usually leads to a storage temperature range of 2–8 °C being targeted, he explains. "Therefore, 12 months storage at 2–8 °C and six months accelerated at 25 °C/60% relative humidity (RH) is sufficient to establish shelf life," he notes.
In the cases of dry powder inhalers (DPIs) and oral solid doses, humidity is the key attribute to assess, Kirbyshire emphasizes. "Long-term studies at high humidity conditions (e.g., 30 °C/75% RH and 40 °C/75% RH) are required," he says. "A critical test at all time points is the assessment of aerodynamic particle size distribution for DPIs and dissolution for oral solid doses, which will confirm continued efficacy. Any reduction in performance may be improved by the use of effective packaging and potentially the addition of desiccant materials. Stability studies are key to determining these."
Outsourcing stability testing
The decision to outsource stability studies can have a significant impact, either positive or negative, on the success of the overall drug development programme. If due diligence is not performed when choosing a partner, the sponsor's decision could turn out to be costly (8).
"When assessing any outsourcing stability partner, there are many things to consider," reveals Kirbyshire. "They must have an expert understanding of the key regulatory guidance, ICH Q1A R2 but must also show compliance with [International Organization for Standardization] ISO 9001 to give full confidence in the quality systems and data integrity."
Some other important aspects to consider when choosing an outsourcing partner for stability testing are the qualification and maintenance schedules of the storage facility and associated monitoring systems, Kirbyshire continues. "The integrity of the study is only as good as the reliability and robustness of the equipment and control strategies utilized by the provider," he adds. "Excursions from storage conditions can have an unpredictable and severely detrimental effect to any study, be it a short-term assessment of API stability, through to a full registration stability programme extending up to five years."
Of course, there are noteworthy benefits of partnering with an outsourcing service provider. "As pharmaceutical development has become an increasingly global partnering process, selecting a provider with knowledge and experience of import/export requirements is strongly recommended particularly for some of the more challenging markets," Kirbyshire adds.
Significant improvements
Over the years, there have been significant improvements in the reliability of equipment and monitoring systems, including real-time feedback of potential excursions, according to Kirbyshire. These technological improvements have given rise to accelerated and efficient decisions to be taken regarding the next stage of product development.
"Regulatory decisions are routinely changing based on currently available data and justified strategies of stability assessment," he summarizes. "Through harmonization of this information, companies developing medicines can make informed decisions on the best approach to adopt for their products."
1. ICH, Q1A–Q1F Stability, ICH Quality Guidelines.
2. WHO, "Annex 2: Stability Testing of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and Finished Pharmaceutical Products," WHO Technical Report Series, No. 953 (Geneva, Switzerland, 2009).
3. H.U. Bhuyian, et al., Eu. J. Biomed. Pharm. Sci. 2 (6) 30–40 (2015).
4. T. Morrow and L. Felcone, Biotechnol. Healthc. 1 (4) 24–26, 28–29 (2004).
5. F. Iram, et al., J. Anal. Pharm. Res. 3 (6) 00073. DOI: 10.15406/japlr.2016.03.00073.
6. S. Bajaj, D. Singla, and N. Sakhuja, J. Appl. Pharm. Sci. 2 (3) 129–138 (2012).
7. WHO, "WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations," WHO Technical Report Series, No. 863-Thirty-fourth Report (Geneva, Switzerland 1996).
8. D. Browne, Outsourcing Resources, Supplement to Pharm. Tech. Volume 33 (8) (August 2009).
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WASHINGTON — The Senate approved legislation on Thursday night that would repeal President Obama's landmark health care law, a goal of Republicans since the law was adopted in March 2010.
The measure, which would also halt federal financing for Planned Parenthood, will now be sent to the House, which adopted a different version last month. The bill is ultimately expected to pass both chambers, but faces certain veto by Mr. Obama.
Congress has held dozens of votes to gut the health care law, but this bill would be the first to reach the president's desk.
The Senate vote was 52 to 47. Two Republicans, Senators Mark S. Kirk of Illinois and Susan Collins of Maine, joined 45 Democrats in opposition. Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president, did not vote.
The Senate bill is a special form of legislation known as a budget reconciliation measure, which is not subject to a filibuster and therefore does not require 60 votes to end debate. The Democrats similarly used the reconciliation process to complete the health care law in 2010.


We love our summer intern! She has a phenomenal fashion sense and smile that never stops. Ang is super fun to work with and only makes us feel old sometimes. Like when we had to explain who Christian Slater is or when our jaw dropped to the the floor when she told us she has never seen the Breakfast Club, but saw Sixteen Candles with her MOM.
Angelina Ferrara is a Communications student at Penn State University. She came to us looking for work experience in public relations and fashion and we were more than happy to oblige.
-I love quotes. It can be anything from a book to a movie to a historical figure. My room is covered in inspirational quotes.
-My favorite book is my mom-mom's Italian cookbook. It just gets better and better with every chapter!
-My favorite color is Turquoise, at least I call it turquoise but it's basically the color of the mint chalcedony that we feature.
What did you love most about your childhood?
-My grandparents on my dad's side have a beach house in Brigantine. On certain weekends in the summer, all of our families would stay at the shore house. Together, there are 15 of us cousins, all very close in age. It was survival of the fittest in the Brigantine household and if you got a blanket and the top bunk that night then you were considered the golden grandchild. The cousins had our ups and downs at the beach house. For example, it was the saddest day of our lives when the local candy store shut down. The tears were short lived when we heard that an ice cream shop was opening in its place. I still love being at the shore house with my whole family, only now we've upgraded from Friday night candy shop visits to Friday night deck parties.
-Any type of Sushi, I eat it all… except gas station sushi. That's where I draw the line.
If you could only keep one thing in your closet, what would it be?
-I would HAVE to keep my Hunter rain boots. They're cool black boots with a riding boot fit and a burgundy top. They're definitely a staple in my wardrobe. I honestly wear them when it's not raining.
What was your favorite jam in high school?
-I absolutely LOVED the song "The Great Escape" by Boys Like Girls. It was my stress reliever song. I used to play it on repeat when I would go for a run.
-I'm known for having a much bigger wardrobe than my closet can hold.
-I want to do well in my life but I also want to be able to wake up every morning and love what I do. I believe in the saying: "If you love what you do you'll never work a day in your life." That motivates me to get where I want to be.
Something quirky that very few people know about you.


A girl of 16 was raped during a drink-fuelled awards ceremony for the Toni & Guy hairdressing chain.
She was attacked in the men's lavatories as the presentations took place.
Guests spoke of wild scenes as 3,000 hairdressers gathered for their industry's equivalent of the Oscars.
One said of the event at Alexandra Palace on Sunday: "The guys were arriving in limousines with bottles of champagne, as if it was a stag party. The girls were wearing very short dresses."
Another said: "Everyone was drinking copious amounts of alcohol and they were also sharing the toilets, with the girls using the gent's and men using the girls'."
The victim, herself a hairdresser, reported the attack when she arrived home at 3am yesterday. She could not tell police the time of the assault, saying it happened between 10pm and midnight.
Forensic teams have sealed off the men's lavatories. But their task is being hampered by the number of people who had been at the venue and the fact that staff had already cleaned the toilets following the ceremony.
The girl is working with police on a description of her attacker.
The annual event is a reward for hairdressers employed at 250 Toni & Guy salons across Britain.


One of the Affordable Care Act's most notable accomplishments is one of the reform law's principal goals: lowering the nation's uninsured rate. In the years since "Obamacare" was implemented, the percentage of Americans without health care coverage has fallen to the lowest levels on record.
In terms of the political implications of this success, however, there's a broader question to consider: does the public know that the uninsured rate is the lowest it's been in modern American history? As is too often the case, the answer depends on whom you ask.
As a factual matter, we know with certainty that the answer is "decreased," but overall, this detail is not widely known. The results found 37% of the public knows that the uninsured rate has gone down, while 31% believe it's gone up, and 32% believe it's stayed the same.
But look closer and predictable partisan divisions emerge: a plurality of Democrats believe, accurately, that more Americans have health insurance, while a plurality of Republicans believe the opposite. A clear majority (61%) of voters who backed Hillary Clinton answered the question correctly, while an even larger majority (74%) of voters who backed Donald Trump got it wrong.
The persistence of the "reality gap" continues to be a problem.
We talked a few weeks ago about a national Public Policy Polling survey that found Trump voters believing all sorts of wrong things, on issues ranging from unemployment (Trump voters believe it went up under Obama, which is the opposite of the truth), to the stock market (Trump voters believe it went down under Obama, which is the opposite of the truth), to the popular vote (Trump voters believe it went in the Republican's favor, which is the opposite of the truth).
The partisan divisions over the efficacy of the Affordable Care Act are clearly part of the same phenomenon: Democrats and Republicans don't just disagree about the direction of the country, they also seem to perceive reality in entirely different ways.
As we discussed earlier this month, some of these attitudes may be chalked up to tribal, reactionary instincts. Perhaps some Trump voters know, deep down, that the uninsured rate has improved dramatically once "Obamacare" was implemented, but they say the opposite solely because of their contempt for the president and one of his signature successes.
But I still think this explanation has limitations. It might explain some of the polling results, but not all. Indeed, as regular readers know, the "reality gap" isn't altogether new: for years, many Republicans have told pollsters they believe border security has weakened under Obama (it's actually strengthened), the deficit has gotten bigger (it's actually shrunk by a huge margin), and the nation's uninsured rate has gone up (it's actually at an all-time low).
While the debate continues as to why the "reality gap" persists, the broader national conversation about these issues isn't likely to be constructive until partisans have some shared reality upon which to build.