Sabio Group, the global digital experience transformation services specialist, announced the successful launch of an innovative ‘Alexa-like’ virtual assistant solution for Vodafone Spain that has dramatically improved customer satisfaction.
After 13 years of enhancing Vodafone’s VoiceBot, Sabio identified an opportunity to transform the customer experience (CX) by evolving the bot into a more human-like and personalised virtual assistant.
Leveraging proprietary technology and deep CX expertise, Sabio implemented distinct voice profiles and unique personalities tailored to Vodafone’s prepaid, postpaid and enterprise customers.
“We’re thrilled to have partnered with Sabio to create a next-generation virtual assistant that delivers a remarkably human experience,” said Ruth Martín, Customer Service and Bot Manager at Vodafone Spain. “The personalities and conversational capabilities they developed have completely transformed our customers’ perception of automated interactions.”
A maternal personality was deployed for postpaid and enterprise users, while a millennial personality was implemented for prepaid customers. Sabio modified over 2,300 VoiceXML pages and added numerous open-ended questions to make interactions more natural. The solution was tested using either male or female voice actors to further enhance the humanised experience, before a female voice was chosen for both personalities.
Santiago Martinez, Country Manager for Sabio in Spain, commented: “Using our conversational-AI platform and persona-based approach, we were able to help Vodafone leapfrog their competitors with an incredibly lifelike assistant.
“The virtual personas we created deliver truly distinct experiences that resonate strongly with each customer segment.”
In addition to implementing the new virtual assistant, Sabio provided guidance to optimise Vodafone’s existing speech recognition technology, enabling improved customer satisfaction without requiring significant new investments.
The results have been outstanding, with Vodafone’s Net Promoter Score on the bot channel surging by 34 percentage points from negative to positive territory. The containment rate – keeping customers engaged with the bot rather than transferring to human agents – rose by 3 percentage points.
“We’ve seen extremely positive feedback from customers on the virtual assistant’s warm, relatable personalities and more natural conversations,” added Martín. “Sabio’s solution has transformed our VoiceBot into a strategic customer experience asset.”


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Couples that come to us for counseling often talk about a longing to get back to where they used to be, when things were easier, love was flowing freely, and they felt deeply connected. But they feel lost about how to get there. Today, we’re excited to share with you 2 easy ways to get out of your funk and back into your groove!
#1: Create a New “Relationship Home Base.”
In your relationship, have you had the experience of things going really well for awhile, you are getting along, laughing together, smiling when you look at each other, sharing quality and positive time, making love, being affectionate, feeling connected, giving freely…and then…BAM…things are suddenly back to old patterns, gridlock issues, power struggles, nitpicking, blaming, criticizing, touching less, feeling dissatisfied, or any of those other things you wish you could avoid?
This can sometimes happen so quickly that, before you know it, you’re in a downward spiral and can’t find your way back to each other. One reason this happens is because of what you each have chosen as your “Relationship Home Base.” This is the place to which you keep returning. Things may go well for some time (whether it be an hour, a day, a month, or a few months), but then you keep ending back up in this same emotional state. Your Relationship Home Base may be worry, stress, anxiety, fear, anger, disappointment, frustration, etc. Likewise, it may be joy, ease, peace, celebration, humor, fun, etc. Chances are, your Relationship Home Base is very similar to your Life Home Base (the place you eventually return to after having any kind of experience).
For example, imagine you’ve just had a great week with your beloved. You created time to be fully present with each other, you supported each other in parenting decisions, you laughed at silly things only the two of you would find funny, you slept closely in each other’s arms, you made love, and you sent sweet text messages throughout the day. Then, you wake up early Saturday morning to get caught up on things and discover your beloved still hasn’t taken the trash out and, while going over your budget, learn that he or she spent more money this month than you judge was necessary.
You suddenly snap back into your Relationship Home Base (fear, anger, worry, disappointment, despair, etc.), and react to your mate out of this emotional state. Your partner, just waking up and not expecting this kind of conversation too snaps back, in an instant, to his or her Relationship Home Base (resentment, shame, stress, pain, etc.). You can see where this is going. Now, imagine how this would be different if each partner consciously chose to create a NEW Relationship Home Base, a new place to always return back to, no matter what occurs. Imagine if the Relationship Home Base was teamwork, ease, and happiness. Things would have gone a lot differently!
We have both chosen our Relationship Home Base to be love, connection, and joy. Whenever we notice ourselves veering away, we quickly come back to our center and recommit. Most often, we do this silently, inside of ourselves. Sometimes, we’ll even say aloud something like “I recommit to love, connection, and joy!” The more often you consciously bring yourself back to your Relationship Home Base, you literally rewire your brain and train it to come back more readily each time.
Go ahead, and write down three qualities in your current Relationship Home Base:
(Do these look familiar to how you respond in other areas of life too, beyond your relationship?)
Now, write down 3 qualities you want to choose for your new Relationship Home Base:
(ideas: trust, happiness, peace, lightness, joy, love, flow, kindness, courage, strength, confidence, joy, etc.) Choose qualities that will always bring you back to a thriving relationship.
Life is truly not what happens to us but how we respond to it. In the next week, whenever something occurs throughout the day, pay attention to your frequently occurring feelings and thoughts. Then, make an instant shift by recommitting to your new Relationship Home Base (such as ease, love, and joy). Let your life, your thoughts, your choices, and your actions be born from that place!
#2: Do What You Did When Things Were Working.
This one is really simple and can make all the difference. When things are flowing in wondrous ways, notice what you are doing differently. What were you doing when the two of you first met? Remember how easy and enjoyable it was to be together?! Don’t make the mistake most couples do by letting those things stop. Repeat those same actions throughout the lifetime of your relationship, and your groove will keep growing! In other words, don’t wait until you feel in love, joyous, and at peace. Do the actions that lead to those feelings. Change your tone when speaking to your beloved, smile more often, do something thoughtful, be affectionate, say kind things, and be generous without thinking of what you will get in return.
Go ahead and write down the things you did in the beginning and during times when things were going magically, passionately, and delightfully:
Now, simply repeat, repeat, repeat.
We’d love to hear from YOU! What do you do to get out of funks and back into the groove in your relationship? How do you find your way back to your beloved when you’re feeling disconnected?
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Introduction by Croakey: So much of the political rhetoric around COVID-19 focuses on the short-term as evidenced by repetitive talking points about peaking case numbers.
What we need, however, is leadership with long-term agendas and priorities – whether around sustaining and developing the health workforce into the future or pushing through long-overdue system reforms, as have been urged by so many (including in the latest MJA Insight).
Then there is Long COVID. As the BMJ reported recently, many countries have established Long COVID clinics with more than 80 such clinics in the United Kingdom alone.
Scott Willis, National President of the Australian Physiotherapy Association, is speaking from personal experience when he argues below that there is an urgent need for integrated, multidisciplinary care for people with Long COVID.
(Croakey notes that our first article calling for attention to the long-term needs of COVID patients was published in July 2020.)
Scott Willis writes:
Managing Long COVID will be the next crisis confronting the health sector, and we are unprepared. In the two years since the novel coronavirus was first reported, the failure of domestic pandemic strategies – diagnosis, testing and treatment – has plagued most countries.
The health system is strained to breaking point with overwhelming case numbers. Healthcare workers are stricken with the virus, further depleting the health system’s capability. The transition from continuous, ongoing emergencies to robust health services working as one must be a priority for National Cabinet.
As case numbers spiral to frightening levels, the number of Australians requiring ongoing, post-COVID care will continue to place massive strain on health services. This will likely occur at a time when exhausted health workers are emerging from the latest (Omicron) variant.
The focus on hospitalisation numbers and infection rates is understandable. However, planning for the management of longer-term respiratory conditions and other debilitating effects and lingering symptoms, should be more advanced across all jurisdictions.
Last year, the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) wrote to the Federal Government and all state and territory health ministers, urging them to work with physiotherapists. Our rehabilitation treatment is, and will continue to be, essential to the recovery of thousands of Australians afflicted by COVID-19. This is a condition that involves various symptoms, including both physical and mental fatigue, requiring rehabilitative care that extends across a full, multidisciplinary team.
Governments need to move fast in advancing pathways to COVID-19 recovery. Response plans that allow rapid scaling-up of long-term care where COVID-19 control measures fail, are also necessary.
Thousands of Australians with COVID-19 are going to put additional pressures on our already stretched and exhausted health workforce, and need the rehabilitation pathways and recovery programs.
Having experienced COVID-19 first hand, I know what lies ahead for many Australians.
After contracting the virus from the North West Regional Hospital here in Tasmania, the past 18 months has been the proverbial rollercoaster. Persistent and intermittent symptoms including malaise, shortness of breath, lack of energy, emotional issues, and reduced exercise tolerance have taken their toll. These spasmodic, long-term effects are the most frustrating. Symptoms are inconsistent and I cannot predict when they will rear their head.
The severity of the virus is not an indicator for the likelihood of developing Long COVID. It impacts on multiple body systems and recovery can be variable, unpredictable and non-linear. Some early estimates suggest that at least 10 to 30 percent of people will continue to have symptoms for up to 12 weeks after their acute infection.
Recommendations that Long COVID be recognised as a distinct and separate disease entity to acute COVID-19 should be considered. Being prepared means adapting and working simultaneously on definition, prevalence and cause. Our ability to accurately capture data will be essential in managing the prolonged disease effects. The absence of specific multidisciplinary Medicare Benefit Scheme (MBS) item numbers for Long COVID means we are not only failing to capture this impact, but that we are failing patients. The ongoing outreach and support is just not there.
In the past, we have seen the medical system act too late in understanding and recognising certain health conditions, such as chronic fatigue syndrome. Too many Australians don’t know where to get assistance from.
Importantly, late last year the Commonwealth updated its advice, acknowledging that the duration of symptoms of long-COVID is unknown, citing a United Kingdom survey that showed nearly 10 percent of people with COVID, reported at least one symptom 12 weeks after their initial infection.
Looking at reports from across the world, the evidence shows that many people will require access to integrated, multidisciplinary healthcare, including physiotherapy.
Our health system has barriers around funding and delivery models that are not being resolved at a national level.
For example, beyond current and very limited MBS chronic disease items, physiotherapy remains unfunded for patients to access. Yet, physiotherapy offers Long COVID patients tailored, individualised treatments that enables them to regain function.
I know this as both a deliverer of physiotherapy treatments and a Long COVID patient.
The aim is to support patients to full mobility; to be able to do ‘normal’ activities by helping pace them through fatigue. Cardio-respiratory physiotherapists in particular, who treat patients with conditions affecting the heart and lungs, and specialise in chronic respiratory and other long-term conditions, will be central to the solution.
We need MBS and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme benefits that adequately support patients living with Long COVID, to reduce out-of-pocket costs.
Omicron isn’t necessarily the final variant in this pandemic. We don’t know what lies ahead, but we can predict with some certainty that the future demand will be from those suffering ongoing health problems post-infection.
Integrated healthcare is the best way to provide the ongoing care needed.
I live and breathe the effects of long-COVID, and professional teamwork from doctors and nurses to specialists and physiotherapists, among many other allied health practitioners, is going to be the mechanism that will see Australia transition out of the COVID-19 crisis.
Scott Willis, the first Indigenous man elected National President of the Australian Physiotherapy Association, is a skilled physiotherapist and one of more than two million Australians who have contracted COVID-19. On Twitter, follow @ScottSwillis.
See Croakey’s archive of stories on Long COVID.

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For more information about operating reactors , see the location map , list of power reactors , and NRC Project Managers . Table 1. The HTGR uses a fuel concept that is very different from that considered to this point. Helium gas fills the free space at atmospheric pressure or at a given pressure. The fuel particles are then mixed with a carbon binder to form finger-sized fuel sticks (Fig. The control elements, called control rods, are filled with pellets of subst… Domed building, built as a reinforced concrete and steel structure that houses the reactor, the steam generators and the pressuriser. Light water graphite-moderated reactor (LWGR) The main LWGR design is the RBMK, a Soviet design, developed from plutonium production reactors. A breed-and-burn reactor, uniquely, relies solely on this process for criticality in its equilibrium state. The fabrication of recycled Pu poses problems of shielding arising from gamma radiation from 241Pu and the decay daughters 237U and 241Am, as well as neutrons from the spontaneous fission of 238Pu, 240Pu, and 242Pu. An axial stack of cylindrical fuel pellets is encased in a cladding tube, both ends of which are welded shut with plugs. Recirculation of coolant that collects in the reactor building sump provides a long-term coolant supply after the initial inventories have been exhausted. The four main solid fission product isotopes from spent reactor fuel are Sr, Cs, Ce, and Pm. First of all, grain boundary sweeping provides another mechanism for the collection of gas at these internal surfaces from which release can occur. The same U enrichment is used throughout a given PWR fuel assembly, but the core usually contains several levels of enrichment arranged to give uniform power distribution. It should be pointed out that a typical core in a LWR derives about 50% of its power from the fissioning of bred-in plutonium isotopes near the end of an equilibrium cycle. 50 (1).]. The power generated in the fuel rod, highest during the two first cycles, generally decreases with time as UO2 reactivity decreases with burnup (fissile atoms consumption). 0000004028 00000 n Natural uranium, used to fuel Canadian deuterium–uranium (CANDU) pressurized heavy-water reactors (PHWRs) and a variety of early gas-cooled reactors, does not require enrichment. Fig. Was, in Comprehensive Nuclear Materials, 2012. It has also been proposed that the elements Ru, Rh, Pd, Xe, Kr, and tritium may be produced economically as by-product isotopes from fission products. Figure 7. Light water in this context means regular water. Temperature-entropy Diagrams – T-s Diagrams T-s diagram of Rankine Cycle. Emergency core cooling for the light-water reactors is primarily based on injection of (borated) water into the coolant-starved core region following a LOCA event. Fast breeder reactors (FBRs) can also operate without fuel recycling using a once-through fuel cycle. 0000002594 00000 n <<9B5C585BDB04934DB74DC01F396FC81B>]>> While these concepts may appear similar to B&B reactors (and sometimes are categorized as such Lopez-Solis and Francois, 2017), these systems do not fall in to the formal category of B&B reactors in this encyclopedia since they do not conform to the definitions as stated above. Typical CANDU fuel rod design specifications for a 28-rod bundle are presented in Table 2.30 The overall fuel rod lengths of both the reactor types are much shorter than those of LWRs in order to fit their fuel assembly design which enables on-load refueling. By the time a significant fleet of B&B reactors will be deployed the inventory of DU waste will be significantly larger than the one accounted for in composing this table. However, MOX technology is mature and available now, whereas the optimization and qualification of IMF will still require substantial time and resources (see Chapter 2.16, Burnable Poison-Doped Fuel; Chapter 3.10,Composite Fuel (cermet, cercer); Chapter 3.05, Actinide Bearing Fuels and Transmutation Targets; and Chapter 3.21, Matter Transport in Fast Reactor Fuels). It is currently developing three new reactor designs aimed at realizing this vision: the BWRX-300 small modular reactor, the RBWR light-water-cooled fast reactor, and the PRISM small modular sodium-cooled fast reactor. Thus, SCC probably initiates early in life (before significant radiation creep relaxation occurs) or later in life when reloading occurs from differential swelling in the (annealed) baffle plates relative to the (cold-worked) baffle bolts. A drop of the scan is observed at each pellet-to-pellet interface, as far as cesium axial diffusion is not activated (centerline temperatures have not exceeded 1200 °C). By nuclear fission, light water reactors produce heat and further generate energy. The reprocessing of LWR fuel assemblies would reduce the uranium needs and enrichment requirements by approximately 35%. Its impact is large, and it occurs in the same fluence range as RIS and RH. Many alternative fuel forms have, however, been researched, seeking simplified fabrication routes and other advantages. In 17 × 17 or 16 × 16 designs, these linear heat rates lead to a fuel centerline temperature not exceeding 1000–1200 °C. It would be reprocessed only for plutonium, since the residual uranium enrichment would likely be nearly that of depleted uranium. This process enables utilization (fission) of all the mined uranium minus inevitable losses in the reprocessing and fuel recycling operations. Under these conditions, fission gas release is typically high (>80%) and a very large plenum is included to limit gas pressure. The Reactor Coolant System of the small modular reactor (SMR) is modeled after a scaled-down commercial Westinghouse PWR. Thus, for example, in areas of the BWR shroud that receive a moderate neutron flux, if SCC initiation does not occur early in life (e.g., by 1 dpa), the relaxation in residual stress should diminish the likelihood of cracking later in life. Present-day light water reactors (LWR) extract less than 1% of the potential energy of the uranium mined to make their fuel. 1 below shows a simplified diagram of a small modular reactor based on light water. FBR fuel rods contain MOX pellets having high plutonium content, with the exception of Russian FBRs, BN-350, and BN-600 in which high enrichment UO2 fuel pellets have been mostly used. A light water reactor is a water-cooled reactor that uses water as a coolant, producing heat from nuclear fission. Because the effect of relaxation is significant, it tends to offset the detrimental effects of RIS and RH. The fission products in the waste solutions are stored for several years in cooled tanks to remove much of the decay heat and are then solidified. The CANDU reactors use natural uranium oxide or slightly enriched uranium oxide contained within a thin Zircaloy clad, and design burn-up is lower than that of LWRs. The collection results from the low solubility of the fission gas, and hence the sweeping grain boundary does not redeposit any gas in the newly formed crystal behind it. ^�2�}J�3�C�m"�S����K����]e. CONTAINMENT BUILDING. Heat exchanger where the primary circuit's cooling water … M.A. Thus, there are a variety of UO2 pellets with different U enrichments depending on reactor design; the enrichments are within 5% which is due to the limits of fuel fabrication facilities and fuel shipments. They were intended to provide base load power for the grid system. Steam then flows through the steam turbine and is cooled down in the condenser. . In one type of HTGR, fuel sticks are loaded into hexagonal graphite fuel assembly blocks (Fig. FIGURE 10. A 1000-MW(e) LWR generates approximately 200 kg of Pu annually. Source: Wikimedia Commons) In order to prevent nuclear meltdowns, nuclear reactors require some means of cooling as well as a neutron moderator which absorbs energy from neutrons. Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. or its licensors or contributors. Benefits accrue from relaxation of constant displacement stresses, for example, weld residual stress and in loaded bolts and springs. The fuel assembly pressure drop is around 1.5 MPa. Schematic diagram of a boiling water reactor (BWR) - German only Source: Deutsches Atomforum e. V. Like pressurised water reactors, boiling water reactors (BWR) belong to the design of light-water-reactor. 9. CONTAINMENT BUILDING STEAM GENERATORS. 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Nuclear localizing sequences promote nuclear translocation and enhance the radiotoxicity of the anti-CD33 monoclonal antibody HuM195 labeled with 111In in human myeloid leukemia cells.
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UNLABELLED: Our objective was to evaluate the toxicity of the anti-CD33 monoclonal antibody HuM195 modified with peptides (CGYGPKKKRKVGG) harboring the nuclear localizing sequence (NLS; underlined) of simian virus 40 large T antigen and labeled with (111)In against acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells. METHODS: HuM195 was derivatized with sulfosuccinimidyl-4-(N-maleimidomethyl)-cyclohexane-1-carboxylate (sulfo-SMCC) to introduce maleimide groups for reaction with NLS-peptides and then conjugated with diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid for labeling with (111)In. The immunoreactivity of NLS-HuM195 was evaluated by its ability to displace the binding of (111)In-HuM195 to HL-60 leukemia cells. Nuclear localization was measured in HL-60 cells by subcellular fractionation. The antiproliferative effects of (111)In-NLS-HuM195 and (111)In-HuM195 on HL-60, U937, or K562 cells with high, intermediate, or minimal CD33 expression, respectively, were studied. The survival of HL-60 cells or patient AML specimens treated with (111)In-NLS-HuM195 or (111)In-HuM195 was studied. Normal tissue toxicity was evaluated in BALB/c mice injected intravenously with of 3.7 MBq (22 microg) of (111)In-NLS-HuM195 or (111)In-HuM195. RESULTS: NLS-HuM195 exhibited relatively preserved CD33 binding affinity (dissociation constant [K(d)] = 4.3 +/- 1.7 x 10(-9) mol/L to 6.9 +/- 1.3 x 10(-9) mol/L). Nuclear uptake increased from 10.5% +/- 0.5% for (111)In-HuM195 to 28.5% +/- 4.1% or 65.9% +/- 1.5% for (111)In-HuM195 substituted with 4 or 8 NLS-peptides, respectively. The inhibitory concentrations of 50% (IC(50)) and 90% (IC(90)) for HL-60 cells treated with (111)In-NLS-HuM195 were 37 kBq per 10(3) cells and 77-81 kBq per 10(3) cells, respectively. The IC(50) and IC(90) values for (111)In-HuM195 were 92 kBq per 10(3) cells and 203 kBq per 10(3) cells. Growth inhibition was correlated with the level of CD33 expression. The survival of HL-60 cells was reduced from 232 +/- 22 colonies (control) to 7 +/- 1 colonies with 1.48 mBq per cell of (111)In-NLS-HuM195; no colonies were found at 3.33 mBq per cell. The surviving fraction decreased >2-fold in 7 of 9 AML specimens treated with an excess of (111)In-NLS-HuM195 and >10-fold in 2 of these specimens. There were no decreases in body weight or hematologic parameters or increases in alanine aminotransferase or creatinine in mice administered 3.7 MBq (22 microg) of (111)In-NLS-HuM195 or (111)In-HuM195. There was no morphologic damage to the liver or kidneys. CONCLUSION: We conclude that NLS-peptides routed (111)In-HuM195 to the nucleus of AML cells, where the emitted Auger electrons were lethal. (111)In-NLS-HuM195 is a promising targeted radiotherapeutic agent for AML.

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Vermont legalizes marijuana sales. Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Connie Hassett-Walker, PhD, weighs the pros and cons
NORWICH RECORD | Winter 2023
On November 1, the Capital Cannabis Company, a marijuana dispensary, opened for business in downtown Montpelier across the street from the city manager’s office, where residents can vote in state and national elections. It’s all legal.
How far we have come.
As a researcher with an enduring interest in issues connect¬ed to race, class, crime, and justice, as well as substance use, I was curious to visit Capital Cannabis on opening day. A woman exiting the dispensary held open the door as I entered, announcing, “There’s a line.” Indeed, there was, but it moved quickly. An employee asked for ID to ensure prospective customers were 21 years old and over. When I thanked him for implying that I might be underage, he smiled and explained that they were being meticulous. Then he showed me a laminated menu of items to purchase, including flower (loose cannabis that can be smoked in a pipe), edibles, tinctures (liquids that are ingested orally or under the tongue), and pre-roll singles (a.k.a. joints) and packs. Items listed on the menu had names like Strawberry, Farmers Daughter, and Red Dragon. The feel and look of the store was bright, clean and legal—not unlike the experience of buying coffee at Starbucks. It was a far cry from the stoner vibe of Eric Stoltz’s drug dealer char¬acter Lance in the movie Pulp Fiction, or The Dude played by Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski. For the record, I did not purchase anything from Capital Cannabis.
According to the Marijuana Policy Project, selling marijuana for adult recreational use became legal in Vermont in October, making the Green Mountain State the 11th to legalize the sale of recreational marijuana to adults. (In Vermont, the legal age is 21.) The Vermont Cannabis Control Board has been busy, issuing licenses to a variety of businesses. The Marijuana Policy Project reports that 30 operations have applied for retail licenses, and more are anticipated in the future. Legislatively, Gov. Phil Scott allowed bill S.54 to pass without his signature. This legislation pertains to the regulation and tax of cannabis sales. The Vermont legislature also passed, with the governor’s signature, a law that expunges cannabis possession offenses. Businesses can begin selling pot to adults over 21 once they pay a license fee and train employees to spot problematic indicators, including excessive consumption or a substance use disorder, according to a September 14, 2022 article by Fred Thys in the VTDigger.
The momentum for legal marijuana has been building for some time. As per Weedmaps.com, legalization of medical marijuana passed the state’s legislature in 2004. Subsequent bills were passed outlining, and expanding, which medical conditions and health¬care professionals qualified for medical marijuana. In 2018, Gov. Scott signed H.511, removing criminal penalties for adults over 21 who possess small amounts of cannabis. The Vermont Cannabis Control Board was established in 2020 to ensure equity in who gets to establish a legal weed business, being mindful that historically marginalized groups have been particularly harmed by past War on Drugs-era policies.
Yet marijuana remains illegal at the federal level, classified as a schedule 1 controlled substance. As such, involved companies proceed with caution. Businesses that sell marijuana in Vermont must obtain their supply from Vermont growers as it is illegal under federal law to transport cannabis across state lines, notes Carla Occaso in The Bridge (September 24, 2022). According to the Montpelier semi-monthly newspaper, marijuana growers—also known as cultivators—are active throughout the state, including 14 in Washington County. There is also a need for banking services. According to online news site VTDigger, four financial institutions, including Brattleboro Savings & Loan, have dipped a toe into the state’s marijuana banking business. Some cannabis businesses are opting to operate on a cash-only basis for now. (Montpelier’s Capital Cannabis Company, for example, accepts cash or debit cards, but not credit cards at this time.) As per VTDigger, the Vermont State Employees Credit Union opened 80 new accounts for recreational marijuana businesses in 2022, with most of the applications coming from cannabis growers.
From a public health and criminology perspective, experts across disciplines continue to debate the pros and cons of marijuana legalization. For criminologists on the “pro” side of the debate, it does not make a lot of sense to clog up jails and prisons with individuals convicted of a non-violent marijuana-related offense. According to the Vera Institute of Justice, the average cost to incarcerate an individual for a year in Vermont is around $50,000. Beginning in the mid-1970s, the U.S. War on Drugs is now largely viewed as a failure, unsuccessful in stopping Americans’ drug use and succeeding in costing billions of dollars while ballooning up correctional facilities. Rounding out the “pro” argument is the allure of new business opportunities and tax revenue to benefit states and their residents. On the “con” side of legalized marijuana, the big question is whether legalization will lead to increased drug use and addiction. If so, how best to combat that? Scholarship in this area is very new and inconclusive. Recent research by Yuyan Shi at the University of California, San Diego, found that recreational cannabis legalization did not increase usage of prescription opioids among individuals receiving Medicaid. A study, by Mallie Paschall of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, of California adolescents found that the state’s legalization of recreational marijuana was associated with increased cannabis use among teenagers from 2017 through 2019. Other research by the RAND Corporation’s Rosanna Smart on states’ cannabis policy evaluations found that recreational cannabis laws did not greatly impact adolescent marijuana use, but that college student use potentially increased.
Time will tell whether legal recreational marijuana use is a good or bad thing for Vermont and other states. Or maybe it is somewhere in between. Laws prohibiting marijuana use have done little to stop people from using and selling it, so perhaps it is time to try something new.
Connie Hassett-Walker, MPA, PhD, is an assistant professor of criminal justice in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

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Biometric boarding introduced at airports in Spain and China
Menorca Airport in Spain and Huangshan Tunxi International Airport in Anhui Province, China are the latest airports to announce biometric boarding using facial recognition instead of a boarding pass for security processing to streamline airport passenger movement.
Airport operator Aena and Air Europa are collaborating on the year-long Menorca biometric boarding trial along with GroundForce and Everis Aerospace & Defence and Dormakaba, according to Breaking Travel News.
The trial will have Air Europa passengers who voluntarily opt-in for biometric boarding to be able to pass security checkpoints and boarding gates without having to show their boarding pass or ID. Passengers who opt-out may proceed as before, by showing their boarding pass and ID.
Huangshan Tunxi International Airport located in Anhui Province, China has also deployed facial recognition technology to speed up the boarding process. The biometric boarding system was developed and designed by Anhui Airport Information Technology Co. and according to a company statement the system authenticates passengers within 3 seconds.
The airport noted that it will continue to improve the system and that it is committed to providing passengers with a more convenient travel experience and more intelligent services.
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The purchase of Sputnik V is only a catalyst for the Slovak government crisis, its main reason lies in internal political competition: According to experts interviewed by Izvestia, the situation around the Russian vaccine has simply become a pretext for a reshuffle in the republic’s cabinet. Against the background of a shortage of vaccines in the European Union, Slovakia was one of the first member states to decide to purchase this drug. And despite the fact that the first batch had already been delivered there, and by June it was planned to vaccinate a fifth of the citizens, serious disagreements arose in the Slovak government.… Sputnik V is still awaiting its approval in Brussels, but more and more EU states are talking about their intention to acquire it.
Not a reason, but a reason
On March 30, after a month of political upheavals, the Prime Minister of Slovakia, the head of the Ordinary People and Independent Individuals (ONL) party, Igor Matovic, resigned.… Instead, the Cabinet was headed by his party member – Minister of Finance Eduard Heger. This scenario did not come as a surprise: the day before, Igor Matovich announced that he would simply swap places with his colleague.
Eduard Heger has not yet announced the composition of the new Cabinet, so it is not known how much the announced reshuffle has been implemented. It is also not clear whether only reshuffles will be enough to resolve the conflict, or whether the new prime minister will have to announce the rejection of the Russian vaccine.… The fact that the manufacturer of “Sputnik V” is ready to cancel the contract with Slovakia without penalties, Igor Matovic said on March 4. However, it is not reported whether these agreements were broken. The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF – responsible for promoting Sputnik V) did not answer Izvestia’s question whether the contract with Bratislava was still in force.
– The vaccine was only a catalyst for this crisis, as the situation in Slovakia has never been easy– explained to Izvestia the head of the Central and Eastern Europe Research Department of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences Lyubov Shishelina. – Igor Matovich’s party won due to criticism of the anti-pandemic measures of the previous cabinet [Петера] Pellegrini. Now he was already criticized for inaction in the face of the worsening situation in the country since the fall.… In conditions when the EU is not able to provide all countries with a vaccine in order to save its image, Matovic found such a way out (the purchase of Sputnik V). At the same time, in Slovakia, mistrust of Russia is alive, it has spread to the Russian vaccine.
According to the expert, the crisis in the Slovak government is not over yet – however, the reason is not in the vaccine, but in the internal political competition…
The coalition cabinet of the republic includes four parties: the center-right OLNL and We are the Family, the liberal Freedom and Solidarity and the liberal-conservative For People (founded by the country’s ex-president Andrei Kiska). The first two advocate the import of all effective drugs for COVID-19, the second – for the use of only those approved by the European Union.
In mid-February, the Slovak Cabinet of Ministers could not agree on whether it would buy the Russian vaccine, so Igor Matovic and the head of the Ministry of Health Marek Krajci took the situation into their own hands – in early March they issued permission to use Sputnik V in the country without asking for an opinion coalition partners… The latter rejected this decision: Foreign Minister Ivan Korchok called the Russian drug “a tool in a hybrid war”, and Deputy Prime Minister and head of the For People party Veronika Remishova said that after such a decision, her movement could even leave the government … Slovak President Zuzana Čaputova also spoke out against Sputnik V – in her opinion, “the use of the Russian vaccine is not a manifestation of courage or proof of diplomatic success”.
This scandal cost several members of the Slovak Cabinet of Ministers: first the Minister of Economy and the leader of “Freedom and Solidarity” Richard Sulik, the Minister of Justice Maria Kolikova, the Minister of Labor Milan Krajniak and the Minister of Health Marek Krajci, then the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivan Korchok and the Minister of Education Bronislav Grüling. Most of them will get back their seats in the new cabinet.
Sputnik roams Europe
Today Slovakia is the second EU country to approve the use of Sputnik V on its territory. The first batch was delivered there on March 1; in total, by June 2021, it is planned to deliver 2 million doses to the republic – for 1 million out of 5.4 million residents. Hungary has already purchased the drug… Thus, these Eastern European members of the European Union went bypassing the EU’s unified vaccination strategy. The general approach assumes that Brussels will take over the procurement and distribution among the member countries of drugs that have been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
By the end of March, four vaccines out of six reserved have received EU authorization: BioNTech / Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Janssen (Johnson & Johnson). Sputnik V is not included in this list. One side, there are news in the media that Brussels is ready to start negotiations with Moscow on the purchase of a Russian drug, there are calls from European countries to authorize the vaccine, and the World Health Organization (WHO) argues that in the face of a shortage of “Sputnik V” the European Union needs.
On the other hand, there is no official confirmation from Brussels in this regard – As the European Commission told Izvestia earlier, “negotiations on expanding the EU vaccine portfolio with a Russian drug are not underway.” Moreover, the European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton said on March 21: the European Union “absolutely does not need Sputnik V”. He stressed that at the moment Europe has the most approved vaccines, and whoever has problems with their production is the Russians: “if they need help, we will return to this in the second half of the year, but now the priority is given to the Europeans.” … The Russian Foreign Ministry called this approach politicized – it noted that initially the EU chose “a noticeably lame line of cooperation exclusively with Western companies” and that Thierry Breton’s statements indicate that there is “complete ideological chaos among Western partners.”
The French newspaper Le Monde wrote on March 30 that due to the attitude towards Sputnik V a split occurred in the European Union.… Citing sources, the publication reported that in the near future the European Commission will nevertheless enter into negotiations with the RDIF, since several countries are actively insisting on this, primarily Germany. In the meantime, the Russian vaccine is awaiting its approval at the EMA – As the agency told Izvestia, “the authorization period will depend on the company’s ability to provide the necessary data and answer questions that arise during the assessment.”
– If the EMA delays the approval of Sputnik V, then not only Hungary and Slovakia, but also other countries will decide to apply the vaccine on their own… Certain states are rushing to Brussels. Sometimes, as happened in Slovakia, this issue becomes an object when political interests clash, ”Vladislav Belov, deputy head of the RAS Institute of Europe, told Izvestia. – Any vaccine is hundreds of billions of dollars, and any company that enters this market falls under the gun of geopolitics. Therefore, all means of unfair competition can be used here, up to provocations.…
Meanwhile, Austria announced its intention to purchase Sputnik V: according to its Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, the authorities “have been in good dialogue with the Russian side” since February and starting from April they can purchase 1 million doses of the drug.… Before that, he said that Vienna plans to wait for the approval of the EMA, therefore, it is not yet clear how vaccination will take place in the republic. The Austrian Ministry of Health did not provide a prompt comment to Izvestia’s question whether the authorities plan to authorize Sputnik V at the national level.


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Contemporary surrealist painter Saturno Buttò was born in the Portogruaro district of Venice, Italy in 1957. He first began to exhibit his work in 1993, with his first monograph titled Ritratti da Saturno: 1989-1992 (Portraits from Saturn: 1989-1992), a play on his given name. This would be followed by Opere 1993-1999 (Works 1993-1999), Martyrologium (published in 2007), Blood is my favourite color (published in 2012) and finally Breviarium humanae redemptionis, which is currently available for purchase at his website.
Buttò’s portraits often juxtapose style and iconography taken from traditional Christian art with elements of modernity, surrealism and unapologetic sexuality, and this is no less true when the images are of children. The kids—usually girls—in Buttò’s work are both confrontational and loaded with mystery and metaphor. It would be quite easy for shallow and morally sensitive observers to dismiss these works as exploitative and shocking for the sake of being shocking, but that would be a grave mistake. It is the work of artists like Buttò for which Pigtails in Paint was first conceived, those artists who might be controversial and seemingly pugnacious in their depictions of the child’s body, but who nevertheless have something important and honest to say.
These pieces are rife with contradictions and paradoxes which strike at the true core of modern childhood, and girlhood especially, the young girl’s body politicized from so many different angles. In this early piece, we see a toddler girl, Linda, dressed as both a jester and a hamadryad, two personas which couldn’t be more disparate. A tassel suspends from her “trunk” like an oddly low-hanging phallus. In fact, there’s nothing intrinsically feminine about this little toddler. The only hint we have of her femaleness comes from the title of the painting. At this young age, children are fairly androgynous.
Saturno Buttò – Frau, Simon e Linda (1994)
Are they really angels? These little toddlers are dressed as putti, complete with wings attached by an uncomfortable-looking harness. Here we begin to see Buttò’s critique of the way society restrictively frames childhood, especially girlhood, for its own convenience. I suspect the fact that one of the toddlers is indisputably female is no accident either. If we were to move away from the subject of childhood for a moment, this portrait also shows us a realistic and unflattering view of womanhood, as we see Simon shaving her armpit to appease society. On more than one level this can be viewed as a feminist piece, as can many of Buttò’s works.
Saturno Buttò – Simon e tre bimbi (1994)
Here we have a masculine figure holding two more toddlers. Are they twins? Again, note the combination of jester apparel and plants on the children, subtly suggesting that nature is playful and innocent. One can almost think of these children as elves or sprites, beings associated with both nature and trickery, often depicted as children. There’s also something both godlike and satyric about the man in this image. Could this be Dionysus? The title of this peace, Domiziana-Domiziana, is somewhat mysterious. If we were to substitute an ‘o’ for the ‘a’ at the end of these words, we would have the Italian translation for Domitian, a Roman emperor known for his harsh policies and his ruthlessness which eventually led to his assassination. Domiziana would thus be a feminized version of the name, and given that it’s doubled, we can safely assume it applies to the little twins. Surely Buttò isn’t saying that these two little girls are vicious autocrats, is he? But then, toddlers are known for being cranky and demanding.
Saturno Buttò – Domiziana-Domiziana (1997)
It’s quite interesting to see that Buttò’s work thematically ages as many of his recurring subjects mature. Red is a carnal color, and the leather-upholstered throne, which has the little girl’s name on it, is both eroticized and slightly menacing. The little nude Lola herself, brightly lit and tracking something into the otherwise pristine throne room with her bare feet, confronts the viewer with her gaze, her miniature curled pigtails mimicking the horns on the back of the chair. Lola is a force to be reckoned with, and yet she is also vulnerable and defensive, as we look down on her from above, her body turned slightly away from us. Childhood is full of contradictions.
Saturno Buttò – Lola (2004)
This little girl, Solange is again patently feminine, her subtle curves accentuated by the harsh light, and she is also unquestionably a child. She is both confrontational—her eyes meeting ours—and somewhat coy, her face turning away from us. The purple cloak she holds provides a note of nobility as well as echoing certain representations of Jesus. This little girl is both holy in her innocence and sensual in her femininity. She has weight, gravitas. Unlike Lola in the last piece, we are on Solange’s level. Is this an erotic depiction of a child? It depends on how you define erotic. If you mean by that a blatant attempt to turn on the viewer, then I would say no, this piece is not at all erotic. However, to me eroticism is much more than just titillation.
Of course, most child nudes aren’t about eroticism at all, and anyone who sees lewdness in those is certainly projecting. The conflation of simple nudity with sex is mostly an American conceit and demonstrates a simplistic and uninformed view of art. That’s not surprising. Most Americans couldn’t tell their Picasso from a hole in the ground (yes, I’m aware I’ve used that joke before, but I’m quite fond of puns), and they don’t much care. It is all too often a badge of honor for Americans to show just how ignorant and uncultured they really are. Such nuance is beyond them. So they really struggle when presented with an artist like Saturno Buttò, who does invest an element of eroticism in his work but isn’t doing it to sexually arouse. I seriously doubt that Buttò is a pedophile, nor is his work featuring children meant to appeal to them. The idea here is to challenge those simplistic conceptions of the perfectly innocent child which often do more harm than good.
Saturno Buttò – Solange II (2004)
Solange again, this time in the role of the biblical dancer Salomé, who demanded John the Baptist’s head on a platter. Salomé’s salacious dancing done in exchange for John’s head is one of the most famous stories from the Bible and has long been a subject for artists to explore, one of the earliest presentations of the femme fatale in all of literature. It might seem bizarre to depict her as a child, but the fact is we have no idea what Salomé’s actual age is. Knowing what we know about Hebrew customs of the day and interpreting the language of the Bible quite specifically, there’s good reason to believe Salomé was actually a young girl around the age of 12. This puts a completely different spin on the story, doesn’t it? The belief that Salomé was a sultry and experienced woman who used her feminine wiles with some knowing evil intent is one that has developed over time, but the Bible does not actually support that view.
Thus, the seeming contradictions of Buttò’s Lolita-esque Salomé may not be as far removed from the truth as many may think, and that’s the point here. That and the fact that, while we adults may comfort ourselves with the notion that children aren’t thinking dirty thoughts, in reality they are not always as innocent as we might think. It’s interesting to read about the fantasies of young girls with respect to their blossoming sexuality, such as the ones presented in this article. To be sure, acknowledging that children may have a sexuality and that it is often complex is not synonymous with advocating its expression, certainly not with adults. But somehow our culture has arrived at this simple perspective that any intersection of childhood and sex is automatically abuse. It becomes very difficult, then, for artists like Buttò to present a full and honest depiction of childhood, or even of adult sexuality, which is usually rooted in childhood. That picture is left incomplete.
Saturno Buttò – Solange – Salomé (2005)
Danaë is a figure from Greek mythology. Prophecy said that she would bear a son who would kill his grandfather, Danaë’s father, King Acrisius. In order to prevent this from happening, Acrisius locked his daughter in a towering structure without doors or windows, the only entrance being through an open skylight. But naturally, Zeus, being taken with the girl’s beauty, comes to her as a golden rain (no golden shower jokes here, please) and impregnates her, and eventually the prophecy is fulfilled. A frequent subject of classical artists, images of Danaë often include Eros, the love god, who of course is usually represented as a small boy. In Buttò’s piece, it is a little girl who stands in for Cupid, catching the raindrops in a chalice.
Saturno Buttò – Danaë (2005)
Solange was a frequent model for Buttò throughout 2006. In one we see her as a young saint. In the next, she wears a demonic mask. In the third, she is something between an angel and a demon, a creature which has taken on aspects of both. We can see, faintly, the outline of a uterus. This image can almost be viewed as a throwback (or perhaps a tribute) to the works of the Symbolist painters, for whom woman was both virgin and whore. Only, here the girl is too young to be a whore. The idea is that, beneath her seemingly innocent and childish facade, there lurks a creature on the precipice of sexual flowering. We can see her hips beginning to widen, to take their womanly shape. This is one of the most honest depictions of a preadolescent girl in contemporary art.
Saturno Buttò – Solange (2006)
Saturno Buttò – Solange Mask (2006)
Saturno Buttò – L’età dell’oro (2006)
Solange at the easel. We can almost picture her doing a self-portrait as she examines her own nude body in a mirror positioned somewhere to the left of the picture frame.
Saturno Buttò – Solange al Cavalletto (2007)
And here the girl is about to dig into a blood-red birthday cake. I’m not sure if it’s intentional, but I count only nine candles on the cake while the girl is clearly well past nine years—I estimate her age to be between twelve and fourteen here. Intentional or not, I think it hints at every parents’ fear that their child will blossom sexually well before their time. The black-streaked gray Elizabethan wig along with the freakishly organic chair and Buttò’s usual bright red palette gives this image a sort of Bride of Frankenstein feel.
Saturno Buttò – Birthday Party (2007)
Salomé again, even darker and more surreal than the last one. The child rubbing the bristles of the brush against her torso unconsciously echoes a similar scene in the stop-motion animated video for Prison Sex by the rock band Tool. Both the song and the video are about incestuous sexual abuse.
Saturno Buttò – Salomé (2007)
Buttò’s take on a Tarot card: The Star. It’s unfortunate he didn’t do the rest of them. I really would love to own this Tarot deck!
Saturno Buttò – La stella II (2010)
Saturno Buttò – Lola (2011)
Saturno Buttò – Lisa + Alice (drawing) (2014)
Saturno Buttò – Lisa + Alice (2015)

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a proposed rule Tuesday that would require Medicaid payments to go directly to healthcare workers, ending a 2014 Obama-era rule that let third parties, such as unions and insurance companies, skim off a share of the paycheck before the worker saw any of it. (RELATED: CMS Rule Strikes Obama-Era Regulation That Pays For Third-Party Fringe Benefits Instead Of Health Care)
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Blackberries are native to both North America and Europe, but cultivation of this fruit is largely limited to North America. In the early days of the United States, when land was cleared for pasture, blackberry bushes began to multiply. There are many hybrids of blackberries, and both man and nature have had a hand in this process. By 1850, cultivated blackberries had become very popular. Blackberries are now cultivated in almost every part of the United States. Texas and Oregon probably have the largest numbers of acres planted with blackberries. Cultivation of this berry has been slow, because wild berries grow in abundance all over the country. The summer months are the peak season for blackberries.
A quality berry is solid and plump, appears bright and fresh, and is a full black or blue color. Do not choose berries that are partly green or off-color, because the flavor will not be good.
Blackberries are high in iron, but can cause constipation. They have been used for years to control diarrhea. If blackberry juice is mixed with cherry or prune juice, the constipating effect will be taken away. If one can take blackberry juice without constipating results, it is one of the finest builders of the blood.
Much like spinach, raisins, apples, plums and grapes, blackberries are rich in bioflavonoids and Vitamin C, but other nutritional benefits include a very low sodium count and having only 62 calories to a cup. The dark blue colour ensures blackberries have one of the highest antioxidant levels of all fruits. Antioxidants, well-known for lowering the risk of a number of cancers, are a huge bonus, but be aware the berries are best consumed in their natural state to get the full benefits.
The berries are known by a variety of names, which include brambleberries, bramble, dewberry, thimbleberry and lawers. Consumption of blackberries can help to promote the healthy tightening of tissue, which is a great non-surgical procedure to make skin look younger. Prolonged consumption also helps keeps your brain alert, thereby maintaining clarity of thought and good memory. The high tannin content of blackberries provides a number of benefits to reduce intestinal inflammation, alleviate hemorrhoids and soothe the effects of diarrhea.
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Iron: 4.1 mg
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Thiamine: 0.12 mg
Riboflavin: 0.03 mg
Niacin: 1.3 mg
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