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In her article Fran Baum is correct in pointing out that the political complexities of our globalised world must be taken into account by public health professionals.1 Global health futures are directly or indirectly associated with the transnational economic, social, and technological changes taking place in the world. Issues such as poverty, equity, and justice must be firmly rooted in any discussions aimed at improving global public health. However, globalisation is a “janus faced” creature: the double face of globalisation, one promising and the other threatening, is a fact of life as humanity is being catapulted into a more interdependent future.2 While Baum maps out a strong argument concerning the threats of globalisation, especially some of the economic threats, she does not pay much attention to important aspects of globalisation that can, potentially, be harnessed by the public health community to reverse negative trends and to forward public health goals. Therefore, rather than expanding the list of “global bads” associated with global interconnectedness, many of which have been enumerated in Baum's analysis, we shall try to tip the balance somewhat by mentioning some of the under-utilised opportunities associated with global change. In this vein, we will briefly mention three perceived opportunities.
Firstly, it is important to emphasise that globalisation is in fact a multifaceted phenomenon. It should not be assumed that the implications of globalisation for public health are all negative. Globalisation is not just “unfettered market liberalism”; but it is the process of increasing economic, political, and social interdependence and global integration that takes place as capital, traded goods, persons, concepts, images, ideas, and values diffuse across state boundaries.3 While it is imperative that public health professionals work to minimise the risks and threats associated with globalisation, public health must also take advantage of the opportunities afforded by global change. For instance, the ease and rapidity of communications have facilitated the diffusion of ideas and policy concerns relating to health care and public health (including the spread of diseases across borders) to areas of the world previously beyond the reach of the public health community.2 Making these modern information technologies accessible and affordable in the poorest communities in the world will require special initiatives and should be conceived as a globalisation mission statement for the public health community. Furthermore, besides simply dividing states, globalisation is also bringing states together and forcing them to collaborate in ways they never have in history. Shared problems such as climate change, environmental health issues, the spread of infectious diseases, trafficking of illicit drugs, and ethical issues surrounding technological developments such as cloning cannot be tackled through unilateral efforts.4 In addition, interdependence leading to “mutual vulnerability”—where ill health, poverty, and the poorest disenfranchised communities in the world pose direct threats to communities in highly developed countries—is forcing developed countries to reconsider their own interests and needs in reducing poverty and inequity in ways they never had to before.5What is clear is that global markets cannot survive and prosper in the midst of social chaos; it is in the self interest of rich countries to ensure that disenfranchised communities and nations of the world do not become political vacuums of chaos in a globalising world.
Secondly, public health professionals must have realistic and effective instruments at hand to ensure that globalisation leads to a more “healthy” development throughout the world. Civil unrest, while important at times, is not an effective avenue towards the development of global public health, nor is the abolishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). While countries such as China, as Baum points out, have achieved redistribution in the face of relative poverty, it is also avidly embracing the opportunities of globalisation and the potential benefits of entry to the global trading club, the WTO. The policy environment in which the public health community is working in the 21st century is one in which the trend towards globalisation of markets has gained an unprecedented momentum in world history. With 135 members and approximately 31 countries in the accession process, the single package of the WTO trade agreements are among the most binding international legal agreements ever implemented. Only by working within the political structures and norms that govern the international system can the public health community make major steps towards reducing the global burden of disease.6 We should be striving towards the attainment of a more sustainable form of globalisation; in this regard, it is crucial that public health issues are given a higher profile in international trade deliberations.7 It is up to the public health community to gather the solid evidence capable of convincing WTO member states, which also happen to be member states of WHO, that it is in their political interests to implement equitable and healthy trade policies. Moreover, public health professionals must be creative and offer specific policy options, based upon sound scientific evidence, which will have a positive effect on health and will still fit within the structure of existing international society.
Finally, much of the public health community is increasingly seeing itself as a political actor capable of influencing world affairs and is carving out a role for itself in combating poverty, inequity, and unsustainable development. Not only must politics be on the health agenda, but health must also be on the political agenda. In contrast with Baum's assertion, the WHO has shown progressive new leadership in this direction. For example, the WHO member states are currently involved, for the first time in the history of the WHO, in formal negotiations of a binding international law to assist in regulating the devastating health impact of tobacco companies whose actions and products deliberately harm global public health.8 The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control process is spreading the health message to numerous government ministries, including foreign affairs, finance, and trade. In addition, the convention process has led to new governance initiatives that the public health community has not used before, including public hearings to represent the voice of civil society, inquiries aimed at increasing the transparency and accountability of global transnational actors, and innovative advocacy initiatives linking local to global spheres of political action. It is hoped that the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control can act as a pathfinder for international health cooperation and action in the future.9 Questions of how to create a socially regulated global capitalism, rather than an anarchic unregulated system, are becoming part of the mainstream global social policy debate. In the evolution of social policies to tackle the negative externalities of globalisation, public health problems need to be considered as an integral part of the globalisation paradigm debate.10 The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control represents a global social policy tool to combat the ill effects of globalisation.
In addition, it is important to note that the importance of equity in health has not lost its political credence or platform since the days when Health for All for year 2000 was promulgated in 1978 in Alma Ata. In May 1995, the member states of WHO recognised that the goals agreed to in Alma Ata would not be attained by year 2000. Accordingly, the World Health Assembly, the governing organ of WHO, adopted a resolution stipulating that a new global health policy for Health for All in the 21st century be developed. This led to a three year consultative process and the adoption of a World Health Declaration giving effect to the new Health for All Policy in the 21st century.11 The Alma Ata declaration and Health For All for year 2000 focused on the national domain of health policy and action, and did not include transnational dimensions or the need for implementation of global public goods for health. The Health for All Policy for the 21st century notes that, although the 21st century brings with it new threats and opportunities, new approaches to overcome them are also becoming available. The policy recognises that the globalisation of trade, travel, technology, and communication could yield substantial benefits, provided that serious adverse effects are resolved. The foundational role of certain values is emphasised in the updated Health for All policy. These core values are: recognition that the enjoyment of the highest standard of health is a fundamental human right (the right to health); continued and strengthened application of ethics to health policy, research, and service provision; implementation of equity oriented policies and strategies that emphasise solidarity; and incorporation of a gender perspective into health policies and strategies. Moreover, a major strand of the policy document addresses the issue of the role of the state in public health. A principal recommendation is that governments need to ensure equitable access to essential public health functions (EPHFs) and that the delivery of EPHFs should be tailored to different national and local circumstances.12
Furthermore, the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH) was established in January 2000 by Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, director general of the WHO, in response to the need to place health at the centre of the development agenda. The rationale for this commission's work is that the world economy is at a crossroads: globalisation moves apace and generates real benefits; but actions are required to ensure that these benefits do not exclude the world's one and a half billion poor. Ensuring that people, particularly the poor, enjoy better health is an important factor in improving the economic wellbeing of populations in general and in reducing poverty in particular.
In summary, it is our belief that important challenges face the public health community and, indeed, humanity in an increasingly globalised world. Some of these challenges, it is true, threaten the very stability and social cohesion of societies from local to global levels. However, tackling the inequities and contradictions of globalisation does not mean that it must be dismantled plank by plank. Obliterating global interconnectedness in preference for autarchic, disconnected economic nations and units would surely lead to a Hobbesian state of nature and global chaos. We have seen from the 1970s that experiments of de-linking from the global economy proved to be both unworkable and harmful. Therefore, we contend that the global public health community should strive towards the realisation of a more sustainable form of globalisation in the 21st century. The evolution of global business ethics will be an integral part of a more sustainable global future. Such ethics will be predicated on the recognition that ethical climates are a prerequisite for lasting global competitiveness and should focus on environmental and socially responsible activities.13
With regard to the economic aspects of globalisation, we have emphasised that markets cannot thrive in a political vacuum. As Amartya Sen has recently noted there is indeed a close connection between economic progress and health achievement, and it would be foolish to take health to be independent of economic means . . ..There is much merit in economic progress, but there is also an overwhelming role for intelligent and equitable social policies.14
We in the public health community should be integrally involved in shaping these more intelligent and equitable social policies. In so doing, our strategies must confront the threats of globalisation, while not losing sight of the opportunities.


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- Observation Status Deprives Medicare Beneficiaries of their Skilled Nursing Facility Benefit. Period.
- Nursing Home Requirements of Participation: Will the Administration Overturn 2016 Rules for Infection Control?
- New Fact Sheet Available – Medicare Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital/Facility Coverage In Light of Jimmo v. Sebelius
6th Annual National Voices of Medicare Summit &
Rep. John Lewis will deliver this year’s Sen. Jay Rockefeller Lecture
Also joining us: Sen. Jay Rockefeller; Rep. Joe Courtney; Rep. Rosa DeLauro; Judy Feder of Georgetown University; Tricia Neuman, Senior VP, Kaiser Family Foundation; Henry Claypool, Technology Policy Consultant at AAPD and Former Director of the HHS Office on Disability; Cathy Hurwit, Former Chief of Staff for Rep. Jan Schakowsky; film writer Anna Reid-Jhirad, Ben Belton, AARP Global Partner Engagement Director; and a direct-care worker from SEIU._______________
May 9, 2019
Kaiser Family Foundation
The facts are in: The ever-increasing use of observation status deprives many Medicare beneficiaries of care and coverage in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).
In 2018, research by Avalere Health confirmed that the use of SNFs by beneficiaries in the traditional Medicare program declined each year between 2009 and 2016. Avalere identified the cause as “fewer hospital inpatient admissions and more frequent observation stays.” In 2009, there were, per capita, 1,808 SNF days per 1,000 beneficiaries; in 2016, per capita SNF days declined to 1,539 days per 1,000 beneficiaries. Avalere data showed that the 17% decline in per capita hospital discharges occurred while observation stays dramatically increased.
Last month, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) confirmed these findings. Its March 2019 Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy documents, “From 2012 through 2017, the volume of observation care increased spending by 19.7 percent.” Between 2007 and 2017, inpatient discharges declined by 20.4% while outpatient visits per beneficiary increased by 43.5%.
These reports document that large and increasing numbers of beneficiaries in traditional Medicare are classified as outpatients in observation when they are receiving medically necessary care in the hospital. However, Medicare Part A does not cover beneficiaries’ stays in SNFs unless the beneficiaries have had a three-day qualifying inpatient hospital stay. These reports by Avalere and MedPAC document that fewer beneficiaries are receiving post-hospital care in SNFs.
For many years, the Center for Medicare Advocacy has heard from beneficiaries across the country who were in the hospital for three or more midnights, but who did not qualify for Part A coverage of their SNF stays because some or all of their midnights in the hospital were classified as outpatient observation.
The Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act, H.R. 1682/S. 735, which counts all the time in the hospital for purposes of satisfying the three-day inpatient requirement, would help many Medicare beneficiaries get Medicare Part A coverage for their SNF stays.
 Avalere Health, “Medicare Patients Are Using Fewer Skilled Nursing Services,” p.1 (Mar. 15, 2018), https://avalere.com/press-releases/medicare-patients-are-using-fewer-skilled-nursing-services.
 Id., Figure 1, “Per Capita SNF Days Have Decreased Every Year Since 2009.”
 Id. 2, Figure 2, “Frequency of Hospital Admissions Has Fallen, in Part Due to Increases in Observation Stays.”
 Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy, 74-75 (Mar. 2019). During the six-year period, total spending for observation care under OPPS [outpatient prospective payment system] rose 263 percent, largely attributable to the inclusion, in 2016, of certain ancillary services in the payment rate for observation status. Id. 74.
 Id. 73, 72, Figure 3-2.
 42 C.F.R. §409.30(a)(1).
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The Trump Administration solicited ideas for cutting nursing home standards of care and has announced plans to publish new Requirements of Participation in order to reduce the burden on nursing facilities. In October 2016, the Obama Administration revised these Requirements, which establish the standards of care for nursing facilities that receive public reimbursement from the Medicare program, the Medicaid program, or both programs. What’s up for cuts?
Many of the Obama Administration’s 2016 final rules restated verbatim standards of care that had been in effect for more than 25 years. As a result of their continuation of long-standing standards, most of the Requirements went into effect in November 2016. Some of the rules incorporated new statutory requirements, such as compliance and ethics committees, or updated and modernized federal standards of care, for example, using the term “behavioral health services.” But some of the requirements were new, reflecting efforts to address serious care problems that the prior rules had not effectively prevented.
A key example is infection control. The preamble to the final 2016 rules reports that each year, 1.6 to 3.8 million health care associated infections occur in nursing facilities. These infections lead, each year, to an estimated 150,000 hospitalizations and 388,000 deaths, at a cost of $673 million to $2 billion. Kaiser Health News reported in 2017 that its analysis of four years of federal survey data found that 74% of facilities nationwide received an infection control deficiency, but that most of these deficiencies were cited at a low level of severity, making enforcement unlikely.
Clearly, infections have been causing great harm to residents and costing a lot of money. Long-standing federal Requirements addressing infection control (and, as found by Kaiser Health News, the limited enforcement of these Requirements) have not prevented these poor outcomes.
Among other changes, the 2016 rules took a strong stand on infections. Citing the poor resident outcomes and high costs of infections described above, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) defended the need for detailed standards in the preamble to the Requirements and explicitly rejected public comment to allow facilities greater flexibility. CMS created a new position called infection preventionist (IP), a staff person who is assigned responsibility for a facility’s implementation of a broadly defined “infection prevention and control program” (IPCP). The 2016 rules require that the staff person be qualified by education, training, experience, or certification to implement IPCP and also have completed specialized training in infection prevention and control. CMS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently made available a “Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Program,” which they jointly developed, to enable IPs to get the specialized training they need to oversee their facilities’ IPCP.
Despite the history of serious infections in nursing homes, representatives of the nursing home industry continue to call for greater flexibility in the rules to address infections.
Will the Administration listen to the nursing home industry and dilute or eliminate new standards of care that, if effectively implemented and enforced, could reduce residents’ infections and hospitalizations, save residents’ lives, and save Medicare billions of dollars? We’ll find out the answer when the Administration publishes the proposed rules.
- For more information on the nursing home regulations and their impact on patient advocacy, see the recent Consumer Voice webinar Making it Real: Using the Revised Federal Nursing Home Regulations in Your Advocacy featuring the Center for Medicare Advocacy’s Senior Policy Attorney Toby Edelman and experts from Consumer Voice and Justice in Aging discussing how to address common problems and promote quality person-centered care and residents' rights by using the revised federal nursing home regulations. Topics covered include: admission; care planning, including baseline care plans; visitation; rehab services; transfer/discharge; return to the facility; and facility assessment.
 CMS, “Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities for FY 2018, SNF Value-Based Purchasing Program, SNF Quality Reporting Program, Survey Team Composition, and Proposal to Correct the Performance Period for the NHSN HCP Influenza Vaccination Immunization Reporting Measure in the ESRD QIP for FY 2020,” 82 Fed. Reg. 21014, 21089 (May 4, 2017) (CMS wrote that it is “currently reviewing the LTC requirements to balance the need to maintain quality of care while reducing procedural burdens on facilities” and identified the grievance procedure, Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement, and discharge notices).
 Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, “Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities: Regulatory Provisions to Promote Program Efficiency, Transparency, and Burden Reduction (CMS-3347-P), https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201710&RIN=0938-AT36 (anticipated date of publication of proposed rules was June 2018).
 81 Fed. Reg. 68688 (Oct. 4, 2016).
 56 Fed. Reg. 48825 (Sep. 26, 1991).
 Affordable Care Act, §6102; 42 C.F.R. §483.85.
 42 C.F.R. §483.40.
 81 Fed. Reg. 68688, 68808 (Oct. 4, 2016).
 Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News, ‘Infection lapses are rampant in nursing homes but punishment is rare,” Los Angeles Times (Dec. 21, 2017), https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nursing-home-infections-20171221-story.html.
 The earlier requirement was for facilities to have an “infection control program,” formerly at 42 C.F.R. §483.65.
 81 Fed. Reg. 68688, 68808-68809 (Oct. 4, 2016).
 42 C.F.R. §483.80(b).
 42 C.F.R. §483.80(b)(2).
 42 C.F.R. §483.80(b)(4).
 CMS, “Specialized Infection Prevention and Control Training for Nursing Home Staff in the Long-Term Care Setting is Now Available,” QSO-19-10-NH (Mar. 11, 2019), https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Provider-Enrollment-and-Certification/SurveyCertificationGenInfo/Downloads/QSO19-10-NH.pdf.
 See comment letter from LeadingAge, pp. 25-27 (Jun. 26, 2017) to the proposed rules cited in footnote 1, supra, http://www.leadingagewi.org/media/46354/la-rops-cms.pdf.
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With support from the John A. Hartford Foundation, the Center for Medicare Advocacy has produced a new Fact Sheet to help Medicare beneficiaries and their families respond to unfair Medicare denials for care at inpatient rehabilitation hospitals/facilities (IRH/F). The Fact Sheet outlines the coverage criteria for IRH/Fs and emphasizes language from the Jimmo Settlement Agreement. Per the Settlement, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revised the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual to clearly state that Medicare does not require an individual receiving IRH/F services to achieve complete independence in self-care or return to a prior level of functioning. Medicare is available to achieve improvement of practical value to the individual or to adapt to one's disability.
- Download the Fact Sheet at https://www.medicareadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/IRF-JIMMO-Factsheet.pdf.
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RUGBY SEVENS: Women’s Sevens coach Chris Lane has welcomed back two players from injury, while introducing two high school students to the national team, with the naming of his squad for tournaments in Hong Kong and China.
BLOG: Since Innsbruck it has been a long haul of training schedules, travelling the world, competing and doing schoolwork.
FIGURE SKATING: As the 2013 World Figure Skating Championships get underway in London, Ontario in Canada, Australian Ice Dance champions, Danielle O’Brien and Greg Merriman can only watch on from their training base in Detroit, just a 90-minute drive away.
SKI CROSS: Australians Anton Grimus and Katya Crema reaffirmed that they are closing the gap between themselves and the top echelon of ski cross athletes when they both delivered their best ever results in a World Championships in Voss, Norway, today.
ATHLETICS: Dani Samuels (NSW), Kim Mickle (WA) and Melissa Breen (ACT) were the stars in Sydney on Saturday night with all three London 2012 Olympians recording IAAF World Championships A-Qualifiers at the 2013 Sydney Track Classic.
FREESTYLE SKIING: Australian teenager Matt Graham has narrowly missed a place on the podium at the 2013 FIS Freestyle World Championships in Voss, Norway, finishing fourth.
DOPING: National Olympic boss John Coates says publicity surrounding the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) report into doping and potential crime links has clouded the worldwide reputation of Australia sport.
AOC: With the start of the new Olympic cycle underway, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has today officially opened its new office in Sydney’s Circular Quay.
AOC: His Excellency Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, President of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), has been awarded an Olympic Merit from the Australian Olympic Committee.
CANOE/KAYAK-SPRINT: Australia's golden men's kayak crew restarted where they left off on Friday in Sydney with victory in their first race since the London Olympics.

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On my testicular cancer and men’s health awareness website, A Ballsy Sense of Tumor, I write all about my personal cancer journey and men’s health in general. Today, I’m giving you bite-sized summaries of what appeared on the blog in October.
Testicular cancer survivor memoirs (or would they be men-oirs) are one of my favorite niche genres. In November, I reviewed Rotten Fruit: My Testicular Cancer Adventure, in which testicular cancer survivor Jay Elwell shares his story in a hilarious and frank manner.
Each month, I profile one fellow Uniballer who has committed to raising awareness about testicular cancer. November’s feature was Brett Hoffland. He works as a reporter for KSTP Eyewitness News, and shared his experience with testicular cancer live on air!
November marks four years since I started writing A Ballsy Sense of Tumor. Each year, I look back at my favorite posts over the past twelve months and what I’ve learned.
See what I reflected on in “Four Years of ABSOT.”
While some men may not want to talk about it, erectile dysfunction is a topic we need to discuss. It is a symptom, not a disease, Many conditions have the ability to contribute to ED, and why should COVID-19 be any different?
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Linn, Ellen, Rikard, Elin and Alice are all in their second year of the Cognitive Science Educational program and have chosen to enter the Company Mentorship Program. When I meet up with them on a cold and sunny January day in Linköping, they explain that Visma was the first hand choice for all of them during the matchmaking event. Their hope is to be able to deliver real value to Visma by applying their knowledge and creativity to existing challenges within the UX field.
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THOSE WHO FOLLOW the Italian competition results (which include more speed events than held in, any other European country) cannot fail to be aware of the famous Rossi brothers, Ugo and Cesare, who conduct their model business in Brescia, During the week they make 'Vulcan' glow plugs which are fitted to the majority of Italian competition engines, and they also cast their special speed pans and turn spinners for speed models all to a very high standard of engineering. In addition to this they run a formidable stable of speed models and offer re-worked Super Tigre G 20V 2.5 cc glow-plug engines for sale to fellow-enthusiasts.
In the past two seasons they have eclipsed the opposition in practically every speed contest and these include well-supported events with large entries, notably the Shell, Super Tigre, Celeste Patrona, Giornate Ambrosiane Trophies, and also the Italian speed championships both in 1958 and 1959.
In this year's national championships the Rossis won 2.5 cc, 5 cc, 10 cc, and jet speed! It was no surprise, therefore, when Ugo Rossi collected first place at the Criterium of Aces in Brussels during September with a magnificent highest speed of 138 mph. Cesare Rossi placed third with 130.5 mph. Both models employed the new version of the Super Tigre with its flat top piston.
Devil is quite a simple model to construct, and although based on the Super Tigre with the Rossi speed pan there is no reason why the main airframe cannot be adapted to take any other equipment, motor and mounting unit. The construction is typical of that used by all the leading Italian speed experts with a ply sandwich wing, balsa fuselage, ply cowl sides and separate intake for the front rotary valve on the Super Tigre. A pressure feed tank is employed, taking air feed from the positive pressure side of the crankshaft valve for which the Super Tigre has a special tapping plug under the crankshaft bearing. One of the most impressive features of the Rossi brothers' flying in Belgium was the way in which they soon work their engines up to peak speed after take-off by 'yo-yoing' the model, pulling it back rather than attempting to whip it up to speed. Needle valve setting for pressure tank systems has been said to be critical and certainly this demands a considerable amount of practice to obtain the optimum setting.
The Rossi brothers took every opportunity to check their models during practice periods at the Brussels competition and no attempt was made to preserve the motor for any particular maximum effort.
For anyone aspiring to a world championship team place for the international contest at Budaors, Hungary, next September we recommend the Devil as a fine airframe in which to mount the best of motors."
Devil, Aeromodeller, January 1960.
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Son of Sardar is an action comedy, directed by Ashwni Dhir, who has directed films like Athiti Tum Kab Jaoge and One Two Three. The film stars Ajay Devgan, Sanjay Dutt, Sonakshi Sinha and Juhi Chawla in the lead roles. The music of Son Of Sardar has been composed by Himesh Reshammiya and Sajid-Wajid.
Son of Sardar is a remake of the Telugu blockbuster Maryada Ramanna directed by S. S. Rajamouli. For those who do not know Rajamouli, he is the director of the original Rowdy Rathore and the recently released commercially successful and critically acclaimed Eega.
Pic – Son Of Sardar Official Poster
Here is the first look official trailer of the Ajay Devgan and Sanjay Dutt starrer Son of Sardar. The trailer has Ajay Devgan delivering in his unique style the importance of Sardar’s in this world.
By the looks of the trailer, we seem to have another blockbuster on its way. The movie releases in Diwali this year.
Video – Son Of Sardar Theatrical Video Promo
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North Country Family Health Center (NCFHC) is now providing preventative dental services to students at Lyme Central School. A ribbon cutting ceremony will be held in the Health Room, #213, at Lyme Central School, 11868 Academy Street, Chaumont, at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, February 4th. Students, administrators, staff of NCFHC, and local political representatives will […]
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North Country Family Health Center (NCFHC) joins school-based health center providers and advocates from across the nation in recognizing the month of February as National School-Based Health Care Awareness Month. National School-Based Health Care Awareness Month is sponsored by the School-Based Health Alliance, a national organization that promotes and supports school-based health centers to assure […]
North Country Family Health Center was the recipient of The Greatest Fundraiser – sponsored by The Reading Room, Salmon Run Mall and presented by the Northern New York Youth Philanthropy Council. On Saturday, December 15, 2018, at The Reading Room at Salmon Run Mall, Felicia Parker, NoCo’s Community Health Coordinator and April Fallon, Marketing […]
On Friday, December 14, 2018, North Country Family Health Center (NCFHC) staff and local political and school representatives will celebrate the NCFHC’s 25th year of providing healthcare to students at their School-Based Health Center at North Elementary, 171 East Hoard Street, Watertown. A celebration will be held for all staff from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 […]
North Country Family Health Center (NCFHC) and Northern Radiology Imaging, Watertown, have collaborated to provide mammography screening appointments to qualifying NCFHC patients on National Mammography Day, Friday, October 19, 2018 at Northern Radiology Imaging. October is recognized as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and many organizations use the month of October to help raise awareness, […]
North Country Family Health Center (NCFHC) is proud to have been awarded Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) recognition. As a PCMH facility North Country Family Health Center is recognized for a focus on delivering the right care, in the right place, at the right time with a team that works together to coordinate all the […]
North Country Family Health Center (NCFHC) has been awarded the Advancing Health Information Technology (HIT) from. The award is presented to health centers who demonstrate leadership in providing telehealth and health information technology services that include electronic prescribing, health information exchange and telehealth services.
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North Country Family Health Center (NCFHC) will join over 1,400 other Community Health Centers across the United States in celebrating National Health Center Week, August 12-18, 2018. The theme of this year’s celebration is, “Celebrating Health Centers: Home of America’s Healthcare Heroes.” The first Community Health Centers, also known as Federally Qualified Health Centers, were […]
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Groupon Inc Chief Executive Andrew Mason said on Thursday that the company’s location-based service Groupon NOW will likely not be a material contributor to results in the next one or two quarters.
Groupon NOW is a relatively new service that differs from Groupon’s main daily deal business. Groupon subscribers can check on nearby deals that are happening in the next one or two hours, based on their location.
Mason said customers of the company’s daily deals are using Groupon NOW too. However, the CEO stressed that the new service will likely take time to grow.
“All the metrics are moving up and to the right,” Mason said during a conference in San Francisco. “But I wouldn’t expect it to become material in the next quarter or two. It’s a longer-term investment.”
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They will, however, continue to sell the actual violent video games. They will also continue to sell guns.
“We’ve taken this action out of respect for the incidents of the past week,” said spokeswoman Tara House in an email to The Associated Press on Friday.
Gunman Patrick Crusius, 21, has been charged with capital murder for opening fire in the El Paso Walmart. He allegedly published a hate-filled anti-immigration manifesto shortly before driving 10 hours from his home in Allen, Texas to the largely Latino border city to carry out the massacre.
In response to the shooting, employees at Walmart's e-commerce offices walked out in protest of the retailers' gun policies. The Washington Post reports that Walmart "sells guns in about half of its 4,750 U.S. stores, making it one of the nation’s largest retailers of firearms and ammunition."
Organizers also started a Change.org petition demanding that company executives "cease the sale of all firearms and ammunition, ban the public open and concealed carry of weapons on company property and in all stores, and cease WALPAC donations to NRA backed -A/A+ politicians." The petition currently has over 50,000 signatures.
On Friday, presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren called on Walmart to stop selling guns. She cited the example of CVS, who stopped selling tobacco products in 2014 out of concern for public health.
Companies that sell guns have a responsibility to the safety of their communities. @Walmart is one of the largest gun retailers in the world. The weapons they sell are killing their own customers and employees. No profit is worth those lives. Do the right thing—stop selling guns.— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 9, 2019
Earlier this week, Walmart CEO Doug McMillion promised in an Instagram post that the company would "work to understand the many important issues arising from El Paso and Southaven as well as those raised in the broader national discussion around gun violence.”
Walmart's policy on gun sales has changed in the past: In 2015, following the Sandy Hook shooting, the company stopped selling assault rifles and in response to the Parkland, Florida shooting last year they ended the sale of all weapons to anyone under the age of 21.

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Leftovers is our look at a few of the product ideas popping up everywhere. Some are intriguing, some sound amazing and some are the kinds of ideas we would never dream of. We can’t write about everything that we get pitched, so here are some leftovers pulled from our inboxes.
Nestlé wakes up to waffles and cereal in a bottle
Nestlé is teaming up with Kellogg to bring breakfast staples commonly associated with the bowl and plate to the convenience of a bottle.
The food and beverage giant is debuting Nestlé Sensations Frosted Flakes Cereal Flavored Milk and Nestlé Sensations Eggo Maple Waffle Flavored Milk. The liquids are designed to help adult consumers “rediscover the joys of their favorite childhood breakfasts in a whole new (and deliciously drinkable) way.”
The products are expected to reach store shelves as early as November.
“Breakfast is synonymous with cereal and waffles, and fans will be able to shake up their morning routine with a drinkable way to enjoy the taste of both,” Meaghan Sparkman, Nestlé USA’s general manager and marketing director for its Ready-to-Drink Business Unit, said in a statement. The newest Sensations combine “the magic of childhood meals with the delicious flavor of our iconic milk beverages.”
Consumers used to have time to pour a bowl of cereal or toast their favorite waffle at home, but increasingly today’s on-the-go society has made the convenience of a bottle attractive to many people.
The new Sensations make a point of trying to attract the purchasing dollars of shoppers who grew up with Eggo or Frosted Flakes before going to school or while sitting down on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons.
Now that they are older, a flavored milk not only conjures up wistful memories of their childhood, but it could make the Eggo or Frosted Flakes brands top-of-mind for their own kids. Busy parents, inundated with an already crowded breakfast category, could be more likely to add these offerings to their shopping carts for their kids along with a bottle or two of Sensations.
Nestlé launched the Sensations brand in 2021 to specialize in ready-to-drink beverages, primarily flavored milk. The brand released its first product, Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cinnamilk, in 2021 and followed with the release of a Froot Loops cereal flavored milk a year later.
Stella Rosa gets in on the “swicy” action
Summer may be fading into the distance, but Stella Rosa wants to bring heat and tropical flavors into a new season.
The wine company is adding two new varieties to its line of sweet and spicy wines that add a bit of heat to a fruity beverage. The line initially launched earlier this year with Pineapple & Chili, and is now debuting two new flavors, Lime & Chili and Mango & Chili.
Stella Rosa claimed its Pineapple & Chili offering is the fastest-selling flavored wine to debut in 2023. In a statement, Steve Riboli, Stella Rosa’s president, said the product delivers on its consumers’ desire for flavorful wine that is lower in alcohol content.
“Maybe you’re looking for a Taco Tuesday drink but don’t necessarily want to break out the Tequila – that’s what the Stella Rosa Spicy Series is bringing to the table; an easy and refreshing glass of wine that offers the spice and fizz consumers crave,” Riboli said.
Thanks to the popularity of condiments like Mike’s Hot Honey and viral recipes, the “swicy” trend of combining sweet and spicy flavors — popularized in recent months on TikTok — is having a ripple effect across the food and beverage landscape. According to Mintel data cited by flavorings company Fona, two in three Americans are interested in foods that combine sweet and spicy flavors. Last year, Kraft Heinz debuted Hot Chili Infused Honey as part of its premium Heinz 57 ingredients line.
Stella Rosa is aiming to grow its presence even further with new drinkers that are Gen Z, citing that 27% of the company’s new consumers are new to the wine category altogether.
Tindle taps into the all American breakfast
There are few things more American than a big breakfast plate filled with fluffy eggs, crispy bacon, and of course, savory sausage.
It may be no coincidence then that Tindle Foods marked the expansion of its operations into North America with its latest innovation — the plant-based breakfast sausage.
The product features the “traditional and nostalgic flavor profile of a classic American breakfast sausage,” according to the company, and will be featured in two plant-based restaurants — Mr. Charlie’s in Los Angeles and Neat Burger in New York.
Tindle Foods recently underwent a rebrand when it changed its name from NextGen Foods and expanded beyond its namesake plant-based chicken product.
Now, the company has plans of rolling out products like its breakfast sausage, along with vegan dairy products, to appeal to a wider consumer base.
At Mr. Charlie’s, the new Tindle product will debut under the name of “Frowny Meal” — featuring the plant-based sausage, Just Egg’s plant-based egg product, and vegan cheese all wrapped up in a breakfast sandwich.
Neat Burger, which has celebrity endorsements from Leonardo DiCaprio and Lewis Hamilton, is taking a similar approach to its West Coast counterpart. The restaurant chain will also launch a breakfast sandwich featuring Tindle’s sausage and Just Egg’s egg product on Sept. 30.
Vegan On The Fly, a quick eats spot in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York, is also offering the plant-based breakfast sausage.
The breakfast sausage launch is both Tindle’s first product wholly developed and manufactured in North America and its first collaboration with Just Egg.
The product includes “high-quality ingredients grown and sourced from crops in the United States, including its primary soy protein,” the company said in a statement.
“We are thrilled to introduce TiNDLE Breakfast Sausage as our first American-designed innovation,” said JJ Kass, VP of Business Development and Strategy at TiNDLE Foods. “This launch not only showcases our dedication to developing delicious and sustainable foods, but also signifies a major achievement for our company.”

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text: I will be going to Brittany in France with the choir in a few weeks time to a small town called Plerin Sur Mer. Our local town here in Northern Ireland is twinned with Plerin, and we will be hosted by a choir from there called Plena Voce. We’ve had this cross exchange for around twenty- five years, since our towns were first twinned, and we visit each other to perform together on alternate years. With this pending visit in mind I have chosen La Mer. - Charles Trenet....this was an international hit for him in 1946 and went on to be recorded in many languages, including English, and was a hit for Bobby Darin as “Beyond the Sea” in the 1960s.


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The #QantasLuxury Fail – Part 2
You often hear the term: Social Media Backlash
Yesterday we reported on the bigtime #QantasLuxury fail. It seems Qantas is still trending on social media (particularly Twitter) with plenty of innovative and smart alec mocking from users, further rubbing salt into the wounds on how bad this social media disaster has become for Qantas.
Have a look at this video put together to better explain yesterdays #QantasLuxury fail.
I eagerly await the next social media move from Qantas.


So when you get your wireless access point and you want to install it, the first thing you need to do is really set it up with a computer.
Even if eventually you're not going to use it with a computer or it's just going to be extending your network or connecting a printer to your network, you always want to set it up with your computer first. Because you have to give it all the information that it needs to know in order to work properly.
So for example, if you're trying to setup a printer that doesn't have wireless access and connect it to your network, you will have to setup the name and password of your network in the access point before you connect it to the printer. That way, when you connect it to the printer it'll automatically connect to your network and everything will just work, and the printer will not even be aware that it's connected to a wireless network. It'll just think somebody hardwired it right to the router.
To do that, you will usually just plug in your ethernet cable to the access point and the other side will go to your computer. Sometimes the access point will come with a CD that tells you how to do everything and take you through a wizard to set everything up. But other times all you have to do is just open your web browser and the access point should automatically take you to a setup page. Just remember, you want to turn off your wireless on your computer before you start doing all this so that your computer knows that the only device it's talking to on the network is the access point and not your actual network.
So once you do that and you're connected to the access point, you should see the setup page on your browser and you should be able to setup all the configuration you need to connect it to your network.
This form of setup works whether you have a mac or a pc or even Linux, it doesn't really matter, because all that we're using is the web browser to access the access point. Once you're done, simply disconnect it, after you save the settings of course, and hook it up to the device you want to use it with and you should be all done.


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2015 Summer Fancy Food Show: Highlights and Trends
July 8, 2015
The Daily Meal scouted the show in New York City looking for trends and exciting new products for the year
Apinya Thai Food Co.
It is hard to resist a good Thai sauce, and Adam and Apinya Ross have created a tasty line to try. Uninspired by what she found in most stores, Apinya would make her own sauce based on what she learned from her native Thai roots. This eventually turned into a business. These original sauces are delicious and come in seven flavors including pumpkin panang, banana curry, ghost vindaloo, and andaman. The brand has fun, whimsical packing: the octopus mascot holds the ingredients featured in the sauce in his tentacles on the front of each flavor. What’s new for 2015? Three new Thai Chili Sauces coming up next month: Andaman, Banana Curry, and Naga.
Bonnie Shershow is as cute as they come, not only with her petite stature, but with her line of jams, Bonnie’s Jams, that she has been making and selling for several years. Her inspiration for the line, was her childhood growing up in a house surrounded by acres of citrus trees. She helped her mom gather the fruit and make jams as a hobby. The business idea grew from there and became an instant hit with buyers and the national media, including Oprah magazine, The New York Times, and Food + Wine. New for 2015, two new versions of pepper jelly, peach pepper jelly and blackberry pepper jelly that join the existing red pepper jelly.
Inside their Brooklyn-based retail lab and production kitchen, you find some of the tastiest small-batch mayonnaise around. Offering 10 flavors, Empire Mayonnaise is the first gourmet mayo that uses non-GMO oils and cage-free eggs, and each one is jarred by hand. New for 2015, is the Ghost Pepper mayo that can be used as a hot sauce substitute and perfect when making deviled eggs. They are also selling a four pack of some of their best sellers in the Empire Pack which is a perfect gift for any serious mayo lover.
The world’s first jerky made without honey, maple, juice, sugar, or syrups, Epic Bars feature some of the most interesting flavors on the market. These meat, fruit, and nut bars include flavors like bison bacon, lamb currant mint, turkey almond cranberry, chicken sesame barbecue, and more. They source their meats from ranchers that are deemed “EPIC”—animals living in live pasture-centered locations that receive the utmost humane treatment.
Hemp seeds seem to be the next big trend food snack to hit the market, and Just Hemp Foods provides a variety of products that use the highest quality of seed. They have an oil and protein powder, but the Hulled Hemp Seeds were our favorite at the show. Fresh, wholesome and delicious, they offer a great balance of fatty acids and protein.
Kitchens of Africa
It is exciting when you see people from other countries bring their foodways and make it available to others around the world. That is the exact premise behind the Kitchens of Africa. Based in Raleigh, NC, owner Jainaba Jeng, a native of Gambia, West Africa, wanted to introduce the diverse and exotic cuisine of Africa to the rest of the world. Her line features a variety of sauces and marinades that when added to dishes create the essence of her country.
A Hawaiian style chip line, the name Koele means land that is believed to product the most succulent, bountiful harvest. Koele Chips fit the name. The company’s line of veggie and fruit chips, coconut chips, and soon to hit the market risotto chips were some of the best chips we tasted the entire show.
What started out as a pickle company with a mom, dad and two son team making pickles using their great grandmother’s recipe, is now a multi-facet brand that features potato chips, relishes, tapenade, bloody mary mix, pickle brine, and a variety of pickles. New for 2015, is a Michelada brewed by Detroit based brewery Atwater. This is the world’s first craft Michelada, part lager, part Mcclure’s bloody mary mix.
Mercer’s Wine Ice Cream
Calling all wine lovers! We found the perfect way to end the night: eating a scoop or two of wine ice cream. The first of its kind, Mercer’s Wine Ice Cream offers eight flavors of ice cream, each featuring a different varietal of wine—port, chardonnay, cabernet, merlot—with up 5 percent alcohol by volume. New for 2015, Strawberry Sparking, an ice cream infused with champagne and strawberries.
Mike’s Hot Honey
During a trip to Brazil, owner Michael Kurtz was introduced to the idea of chili-infused honey and had an “ah ha” moment. He came back to the U.S. motivated to create something similar and worked hard on his recipe for several years. He started sharing his honey with friends mostly while topping it on his favorite food: pizza. During a pizza apprenticeship at Brooklyn-based Paulie Gee’s, he started sharing the practice with the owner, who was quickly sold and became the first customer for Mike’s Hot Honey. The business exploded from there and the rest is history. It can now be found is some of NYC’s hottest restaurants including Blue Hill and Birds & Bubbles.
Pickled Pink Foods
We had to stop at a booth filled with men in pink aprons serving some delicious pickled cucumbers, jalapenos, and watermelon. And we are glad we did! Pickled Pink Food Gourmet Products are some of the best jarred by hand pickled items on the market. Best of all, the company supports Hunter’s Hotline, a non-profit organization that provides confidential hotlines to schools and raises awareness of issues affecting our youth. New for 2015, is the Gourmet Jalapeno Pickle, a jalapeno infused cucumber pickle.
Radicle Farm Company and Back to the Roots
Two separate companies, but both doing similar and interesting things by bringing produce to consumers in unique and enviro-friendly ways. The Radicle Farm Company has launched the Radicle Salad — a living baby salad that comes in a fully recyclable container. It comes ready to cut, rinse, and serve or you can grow the lettuce for longer term use. A similar concept, Back to the Roots offers two products — the Mushroom Farm and Garden-in-a-Can. For Garden-in-a-Can, you put seeds in a can, add water and watch it grow….and then eat them.
Valine’s Famous Cocktail Sauce
Valine’s Famous Cocktail Sauce is some of the best cocktail sauce we have ever tasted. A treasured family recipe, owner Valarie Davis Lee, started bottling and selling it after everyone who tasted it, wanted to buy it. Perfect for traditional shrimp cocktail sauce, or to have along crab cakes, seafood platters, and condiments for burgers, fries, and tater tots, the sauce can be used for a variety of seafood dishes. Available in stores mostly around the south, it can also be purchased via the website in two 9.6-ounce jars.
We Rub You
Sisters Ann and Janet Chung loved sharing a good Korean meal with friends and family, and they turned that love into a sauce they now bottle and sell. We Rub You is a delicious sauce that makes cooking a Korean inspired meal easy to do. Made in the USA, the Korean cooking sauces are all-natural, non-GMO, and made without MSG, high fructose and artificial ingredients. They sell three flavors: the Gochujang Korean Hot Sauce (new for 2015), the Original barbecue sauce and a Spicy Korean barbecue sauce.


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This month magic mingle kalyani's two Ingredients are Cucumber and Walnut.
1.Cucumber Walnut Chutney with Mint
I always prepared this mint chutney in varies method
Cucumber – 2 nos
Walnut – 10
Green chilly – 2 nos
Mint leaves – 1 punch
Salt – ¼ tspn
Sugar – ¼ tspn
Lemon - Juice of 1 lemon
Roasted Cumim seeds – ½ tspn
Wash the mint leaves and peel the cucumber and chop.
Add rest of the ingredients and grind in a mixie/blender to a fine paste.
It is very well goes with KuSka, ( குஸ்கா) => My recipe in samaiyalarai.com and all snack verities .This chutney is little bit watery in consistency,so if u want it little more thick,u can add either flax seed or coconut.
2. Cucumber walnut Chutney Sandwich
Butter Fried Bread Slices – 4 nos
Cucumber walnut Chutney – 4 tspn
Chopped walnut – 2 nos
Chopped cucumber – 2 tbspn
Ketchup – 2 tspn
Spread the chutney & ketch into butter fried bread slices
Place the chopped cucumber and walnut between the two bread slices prepare like a sandwith.
Cucumber Chutney (Dip) Omani's Special Dip
3. Cucumber Mint Chutney
Cucumber - 1 no
Mint Leaves - 1/2 cup
Green chilli - 4 (adjust to your taste)
Onion - 1
coriender pwd - 1/4 tspn
cumin - 1/4 tspn
ginger - small piece
salt -to taste
jaggery - 1/4 tspn
lemon juice - 1 tbspn
mixie /blender to a fine paste except lemon juice.finally add lemon juice and serve with bread Slices.


Fox Thermal Instruments announced recently the launch of their new product: the Fox Model FT4X Thermal Mass Flow Meter ideal for serving the Oil & Gas and Industrial Process applications.
Fox Thermal Instruments has expanded its product line with the addition of the FT4X Thermal Mass Flow Meter. The FT4X is a high-end flow meter, and it features a robust design.
The notable new feature of the Model FT4X is the Data Logger. The FT4X Data Logger records flow rate, totals, and other events and alarms. The advanced features of the Model FT4X Data Logger include:
- 40 daily totals
- Settable Contract Time defines the Contract Day
- Time/date stamped alarm & event logs; 7 year history
- Power off totalizer; power failure creates event log entry
- Display of Density and Gross Heating Value based on selected gas composition
The logs in the Model FT4X Data Logger also give information about the meter’s settings and functionality:
- View the meter’s gas or gas mix composition
- View the meter’s configuration and other meter settings
- View Calibration Validation historical test data
- View and print logs of events and alarms
The FT4X has a long list of other advanced features:
- 2nd generation non- cantilevered DDC-Sensor™ - Advanced Direct Digitally Controlled sensor technology
- Expanded Gas-SelectX® Menus – 3 onboard gas selection menus
- CAL-V™ - In Situ Calibration Validation Test
- RS485 Modbus RTU or HART - Optional Communication Protocols
- Standard USB Port – Gain Direct Meter-to-PC Connections
- FT4X View® - Software for configuring, graphing, and viewing logs
The FT4X was designed to be used in Oil & Gas and Industrial applications. It is ideal for applications monitoring pure gases, mixed gases, and even complex flare gas compositions. Gas-SelectX provides an expanded selection of gases from 3 menus:
- Pure Gas Menu: 11 common gases available
- Mixed Gas Menu: 11 common gases available to mix in 0.1% increments
- O&G Gas Menu: C1 – C9+, Nitrogen, and CO2 gases available to mix in 0.1% increments
The FT4X is equipped with the 2nd generation of DDC-Sensor that eliminates the sensor element vibration which can lead to metal fatigue and failure. Its unique design provides a technology platform for calculating accurate gas correlations for the Gas-SelectX feature.
The FT4X’s CAL-V feature allows users to confirm that the meter is functioning properly and accurately -- with just a simple push of a button.
Other FT4X features:
- Standard isolated 4-20mA output configured for flow – HART communication option
- Standard isolated 4-20mA output configured to indicate for flow or temperature
- Isolated open collector pulse/alarm output
- Remote switch input
FT4X View software allows easy adjustments to the meter configuration, evaluation of alarm conditions, collection of process data, and measurement viewing from your PC or control station. Moreover, this software can be used to initiate CAL-V -- and it automatically logs the results of each CAL-V test. If any regulatory submission is required, the software will generate a certificate for easy recordkeeping.
A USB connection port comes standard on the new Model FT4X which allows quick and easy access with a laptop.
About Fox Thermal Instruments, Inc.
Founded in 1994, Fox Thermal Instruments provides a broad range of reliable, accurate and full-featured flow meters to industrial OEMs and end-user customers. The Fox management group has decades of experience in thermal flow design, application and manufacturing techniques. Our outstanding team of mechanical, electronic and software designers have helped shape the thermal mass flow measurement industry and continue to leverage new materials and technologies to improve instrument functionality, accuracy and reliability. For More information, visit https://foxthermalinstruments.com/


December 9, 2018
Fifteen year old Callum Hedge took his first round win in the Toyota 86 Championship season with an outstanding victory in one of the best races ever seen in the category at Pukekohe Park. For much of the final fifteen lap race on the iconic, original Pukekohe layout a leading pack consisting of Hedge, CareVets team mate Arran Crighton, Saturday..
October 14, 2017
The announcement that Kiwi racing driver Brendon Hartley will race for Formula 1 team Scuderia Toro Rosso in America next weekend is a yet another major milestone in Hartley’s stellar career and for New Zealand motorsport as a whole. Hartley’s debut F1 race, the United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Texas on 22 October,..
July 9, 2017
Nineteen-year-old race driver Jordan Baldwin has topped the points-table following the intensive week-long camp in Dunedin which commences the New Zealand Elite Motorsport Academy programme for 2017. Baldwin, from Howick, Auckland, is one of eight young motorsport competitors selected to participate in the year-long training and coaching programme designed to provide the competitors with an array of skills and knowledge..
June 19, 2017
Kiwis Earl Bamber and Brendon Hartley, with German team-mate Timo Bernhard, staged an incredible comeback to win the 2017 Le Mans 24 Hours. The drivers and Porsche crew never gave up even though the number two Porsche 919 LMP1 Hybrid was, at one point, 19 laps off the lead and second to last in the standings, and then won the..


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Mercury Surface Spectroscopy (MeSS)
The Mercury Surface Spectroscopy research group, or the MeSS, is searching the surface of Mercury using remote sensing instruments and laboratory measurements.
The closest planet to the Sun is full of mysteries, and the latest observations from the MESSENGER mission have revealed quite a number of surprises. The planet is "rich" in volatiles, volcanism is an important contribution to Mercury's history, water-ice is present in the northern hemisphere, and hollows might be the morphological expression of recent degassing on the surface of Mercury.
Through various on-going, and growing collaborations, we are open to explore all scientific interests related to the surface of the planet. All of our activities have important implication in the preparation of the BepiColombo observations, and we particularly ensure that our research benefit the planing of targeted observations on the surface.
As for now, we are very much focused on spectroscopy. We are using observations done by the MASCS instrument onboard the MESSENGER mission. From 300 to 1400nm, reflectance spectra from the surface are very useful to explore physical and chemical properties of the planet. The camera MDIS is also used, and is of good help to provide context to the point spectrometer.
So to speak, an instrument is not a science obejctive. This is entirely true, and we make use of the MASCS observations to understand various aspects of Mercury's surface
- Volcanism. This is the historical research being done by the group. What are the properties of volcanic landscape on Mercury, and how does it help us to understand Mercury's history. We focus a lot on explosive volcanism, a volcanism very much linked to volatile.
- Hollows. This is the latest analysis being done with the MASCS data. The spectral resolution of the MASCS instrument help us to go further in the analysis of the hollows, and constain the possible mineralogical assemblage of those landscape
- Reflectance Spectroscopy. With the novel approach that we are developping, we are looking at the overall characteristics of reflectance spectroscopy at a planet scale. What are the end-members, how is that related to the global morphology of the planet?
- Crustal magnetism. We have been recently looking into the impact of crustal magnetism on the spectral properties of the surface. Combining data from the magnetometer, can spectroscopy help to better understand the effect of crustal magnetism on the planet?
and much more that we are starting, or we have ideas about. Maybe you have suggestions, we will be happy to discuss them!
What is the core of our approach in the analysis of the data is to combine the scientific expertise with the technical expertise and infrastructure of ESAC. The MASCS data are imported in a relational database that allow scientists to rapidly search for relevant reflectance spectra. Shall your criteria be the location on the surface, the viewing geometry, the spectral parameters, the spatial resolution, the MeSS database will ease your search and provide to you the spectra you need.
We are currently data mining through more than 4.7 million spectra of MASCS. With such a high number of spectra, statistic is not longer an issue.
Example: Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer footprints in the Eminescu hollows (ob4_14327_010045, ob4_14326_164731). The spatial resolution is from 0.3 to 1.7 km/footprint, so the length of the footprint is approximately four times larger than the dot. The color code shows increasing values of UV-downturn (a), curvature (b), and VISNIR-slope (c) from blue to yellow. The three parameters gradually increase between hollow floor and bright halo (Barraud et al., 2021).
The project is activelly supported and done in cooperation with the Paris Science Lettres (PSL) university with Alain Doressoundiram and Oceane Barraud.
Our collegues from the DLR-Berlin are also very much involved in this initiative, in particular Jorn Helbert, Alessandro Maturilli, and Mario D'amore.
We also have an on-going collaboration with the Open University in the UK, Professor David Rothery and Jack Wright.
A local collaboration is progressing well with the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA) near madrid with Joana S. Oliveira.
We are currently initiating a collaboration with the University of Helsinki, Professor Karri Muinonen and Antti Penttilla.
We are also initiating a collaboration with the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratoy and Noam Izenberg.
(2021) Spectral investigation of Mercury's pits' surroundings: Constraints on the planet's explosive activity
The understanding of volcanic explosive episodes on the surface of Mercury has important implications for the origin, history and inventory of Mercury’s volatiles and for the thermal evolution of the planet. The hermean explosive features are pits, interpreted as endogenic pyroclastic vents often surrounded by bright and diffuse deposits, named faculae, and interpreted as pyroclastic material. We present a global spectroscopic survey of the surroundings of the listed endogenous pits, derived from spectra obtained by the Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer (MASCS/MESSENGER). The spectral properties of 26 faculae around endogenous pits were characterized. The diameter of 80% of them has been reassessed upwards by 17 km on average, implying volatile contents needed to emplace these deposits consequently higher than estimated in previous studies. These observations suggest a higher bulk volatile content or subsurface volatile enhancement. Spectral similarities between faculae located in the same crater indicate either a similar magmatic source or a large fraction of country rocks. The size, volatile content, location, and spectral properties of Nathair Facula seem to indicate an anomaly with respect to the other faculae that may be explained by a phreatomagmatic-like event by interaction between hot-magma and local carbon-rich layer.
(2021) Near-Ultraviolet to Near-Infrared Spectral Properties of Hollows on Mercury: Implications for Origin and Formation Process
Among the geological features revealed by the MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) mission on the surface of Mercury, hollows are the most surprising and least understood. Possibly related to volatile components, hollows are small depressions, surrounded by bright halos and are not observed on any other surfaces in our solar system. Previous analysis of multispectral data obtained by Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) has shown that some hollows have weak spectral absorption features centered at around 600 nm. In this work, we analyzed four hollows with observations acquired by the Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer (MASCS) on board MESSENGER with more than 230 spectral channels from the near-ultraviolet to the near-infrared. Unlike previous MDIS multispectral data, the MASCS reflectance spectra exhibit no absorption features in the MDIS wavelength range. However, we found that hollows have unique spectral properties in the near-ultraviolet, with a spectral curvature between 300 and 600 nm that is distinctly different from other geological units. Moreover, we used MASCS observations with the best available spatial resolution (<0.5 km/pixel) to analyze both parts of a hollow: the flat floor and the surrounding halo. Our results support the hypothesis that hollows form by a sublimation process and scarp retreat.
(2021) On the asymmetry of Nathair Facula, Mercury
Nathair Facula is the largest and most spectrally distinct of nearly 200 ‘bright red’ spots (faculae) on Mercury's surface, most of which are accepted to be deposits from explosive volcanic eruptions. Like most of Mercury's faculae, it hosts a non-circular central pit (in this case nearly 40 km wide and 3 km deep). However, the center of this facula does not coincide with its central pit's midpoint. Quantitative analysis of two sets of spectral data shows that the facula's midpoint is offset by 10–30 km northwards or northeastwards, and probably lies outside the pit. The pit area is almost certainly a ‘compound vent’, within which the locus of eruption has migrated between eruptive episodes. The asymmetry of the facula and the texture of the vent floor are consistent with the most energetic and/or the most recent eruptions having occurred from the northeastern part of the compound vent, but evidence that the center point of the facula lies outside the vent indicates that it may be necessary to invoke an additional factor such as asymmetric eruption fountains.
(2020) Spectral Properties and Physical Extent of Pyroclastic Deposits on Mercury: Variability Within Selected Deposits and Implications for Explosive Volcanism
Explosive volcanism on the surface of planet Mercury is visible through the pyroclastic deposits that surround morphologic features often identified as the vent. Those deposits are known as faculae. The understanding of explosive volcanism provides important information on Mercury's geological, thermal, and volcanic history. Observations by the MESSENGER spacecraft are used to analyze in detail the spectral properties of 14 selected faculae with the aim of understanding their chemical and physical properties. Scientific observations obtained by the MASCS instrument are particularly suitable for this task, although their observational and geometrical constraints limit definitive conclusions. Nonetheless, spectral properties in the visible, ultraviolet and near-infrared indicate that the selected faculae are probably larger than visible in images solely. Spectral parameters provide a means to isolate Mercury's pyroclastic deposits with respect to Mercury's average spectral behavior. The similar spectral behavior of the visible, ultraviolet and near-infrared domains suggests that the amount of mixing of pyroclastic materials with the underlying material, the differences in grain sizes between and inside the faculae, and the presence of opaque/mineral phases, could play significant roles in the spectral properties observed. Observations by the BepiColombo mission in nadir configuration covering a large range of phase angles will be highly complementary to the MESSENGER observations.
(2015) Spectroscopic properties of explosive volcanism within the Caloris basin with MESSENGER observations
Volcanism on Mercury has been indisputably identified at various locations on the surface, by means of both effusive and explosive volcanism. Its characterization is crucial to understand the evolution of the planet, in particular the thermal evolution of the mantle, and the volatile content of the planet. This analysis presents a detailed view of the pyroclastic deposits of the Caloris basin. Observations from the Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer (MASCS) are used to understand the spectral characteristics of the pyroclastic deposits, both in the visible and near-infrared. Additional calibration steps are proposed to reconcile the difference of absolute reflectance between the visible (VIS) and near-infrared (NIR) detectors. These calibration steps allow the use of the full spectral range of the MASCS instrument. Pyroclastic deposits exhibit a redder spectral slope in the VIS and NIR. This spectral slope diminishes toward the edge of the deposits to match that of Mercury's average surface. Spectral properties in the ultraviolet (UV) also change as a function of distance to the vent. Only the UV properties unambiguously separate the pyroclastic deposits from Mercury's average spectra. The spectral variations are consistent with a lower iron content of the pyroclastic deposits with respect to the average surface of Mercury, similar to what has been proposed for pyrolcastic deposits on the lunar surface. Nonetheless, given the limited illumination conditions diversity of the MASCS instrument, other causes such as grain size, space weathering, and bulk composition could also be accounted for the spectral variations. Variability of the pyroclastic deposits' properties within the entire basin are potentially identified between the three main clusters, and could be related to space weathering of deposits of different ages.

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For nine years, an enormous mansion in San Francisco has sat idly on the market.
Despite the lack of interest, its owners have added millions to the asking price.
2820 Scott Street is a seven-bedroom, 11-bathroom villa located in San Francisco's ritzy Cow Hollow neighborhood — within a stone's throw of "Billionaire's Row." A listing first popped up in 2008 for $27.5 million. As time went by and real estate prices in San Francisco soared, the owners of 2820 Scott Street raised the asking price in order to keep up with the market.
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They did not find any takers. The longer 2820 Scott Street sits on the market, the more the owners want for it — a strategy that has been unsuccessful thus far.
Olivia Decker at Sotheby's International Realty has the listing.


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BRISTOL, Conn. — Luckily, the temperature warmed up by mid-morning. But the rain followed by a flash freeze in the early Wednesday morning hours caused black ice and a chaotic commute.
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The sound he heard Wednesday morning was very familiar, he said.
“Last time they hit the garage was about 5 years ago,” Boisvert said. “This time they ran into the house.”
The SUV smashed into his sunroom, knocking down the heat and electricity. Thankfully no one inside the house was hurt, but the driver was taken to a local hospital.
“Makes me think about it. Not living here. It’s the worst spot. Right down the middle of the road and they come here,” he told FOX61
The Connecticut State Police said they got slammed with a tsunami of 911 calls.
“Statewide, 726 calls for service - 285 accidents, 30 of which were with injury. And we had 101 motorist assists,” said Sgt. Dawn Pagan of the Connecticut State Police. “Any accidents involving injuries will always take precedence over something of that nature. You have to manage it the best you can.”
State Police said there was one fatality after a crash on I-395 in Plainville, where a vehicle went off the road, down an embankment and into some trees, killing a 57-year-old man from Sterling.
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