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WILTON – Stuck in a Farmington motel for four days with nothing to do but wait for Monday, three tractor-trailer drivers and their escorts say they find a sense of humor goes a long way.
Three rigs hauling windmill bases from Oakfield in Aroostook County to Utah have been parked in a truck weigh station on Route 2 in Wilton since Sunday while the drivers wait on permits, curfews and weather.
They will miss Christmas with their families, but the drivers hope to leave Monday, they said Wednesday.
The six drivers are getting along well on their first trip together, but a good sense of humor really helps, said Stephen Atkinson, an escort driver from New York, who goes ahead of the loaded trailers testing heights and road conditions and warning drivers of the wide load approaching.
“It you don’t have a sense of humor, you’re fired,” rig driver Milton Bond of Texas said.
The three rig drivers, Bond, John Sacrison of South Dakota and Ben Gridley of Texas, work for East River, based in South Dakota, and drive trucks owned by Kent and Helen Mauck. The escort drivers work independently.
Bond said they are used to long stints away from family, with some averaging 350 days a year on the road. He had a grandchild born this week but didn’t think he’d make it home until April, Bond said.
After finishing a job in Canada, they arrived in Oakfield on Dec. 13 when most of the state got heavy rain over snow-laden ground, they said. High water slowed their start, and they reached Bangor on Sunday.
The plan was to drive the windmill bases to Buffalo, N.Y., then cross the Great Lakes by barge to Wisconsin, then on to Utah, Sacrison said.
The Great Lakes are too frozen for barges, so plans changed: They’ll drive straight through to Utah once they have the needed permits to cross New Hampshire and when the weather improves, Sacrison said. The men also have to work around curfews imposed on trucks driven through parts of New Hampshire and New York.
One of the escort drivers drove all the way to the Maine-New Hampshire border looking for a space to store the trailers with loaded bases, but the Wilton site was the only place large enough, he said.
Each trailer is 112 feet long and loaded with a 90-foot base that weighs about 122,000 pounds. The loads are about 15 feet wide and almost 16 feet tall.
The wind turbine components, owned by General Electric, are on the move because a project set for Aroostook was canceled. The move involves 40 loads and about 150 trucks, the men said.
It takes nine truckloads to move a wind turbine, including the base, the individual blades, a top piece and a generator, Sacrison said.
“We’re the wind energy guys who specialize in moving these pieces,” he said. Once they reach Utah, they’ll drive back to Oakfield and do it all again.
Gridley is accompanied by his wife, Cathy, on this trip. “At least we’re together all the time,” she said.
Atkinson said he appreciated the way Maine drivers move over and allow the large loads through. He was also appreciative of the hospitality found locally at the Colonial Valley Motel and at area stores and restaurants, he said.
The other escort drivers are Marcus Teixira of Connecticut and Lonnie McKinney of Texas, who said he misses his 2-year-old child this holiday.
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The new MOT rules that came into force last May have seen over one million cars fail the test because they pose an ‘immediate risk to road safety and/or serious impact on the environment’.
A Freedom of Information request by the motoring website, motorway.co.uk, revealed that 1,131,376 cars were deemed unroadworthy due to dangerous defects.On average since May, MOT testers failed almost 32% of cars because of a dangerous fault.
The new MOT system has three categories of defect – dangerous, major or minor.A vehicle will fail if it has a dangerous or major fault. Previously, under the old rules, a vehicle either passed, passed with advisory faults, or failed.
The DVSA website defines a dangerous defect as one which “has a direct and immediate risk to road safety or has a serious impact on the environment, and the vehicle cannot be driven again until the defect has been repaired.”
A vehicle will be recorded as “no longer road legal” if it fails due to a dangerous fault – and could incur three penalty points, a £2,500 fine or even a driving ban if driven.Cars fails because of a major defect need to be repaired as soon as possible, although the car may be driven if it is still roadworthy and the MOT is valid.
“Looking at this data from the DVSA, we were really surprised by the high number of cars registered to drive on UK roads that are considered ‘dangerous’ – and these are just the vehicles that have been tested since the new rules came into play in May 2018”, said motorway.co.uk’s director Alex Buttle.
“New car sales are currently falling, but the number of licensed cars on the road is remaining comparatively stable at around 38 million. This suggests owners are hanging onto cars for longer – and because of that, the UK’s used car stock will get older year on year unless that trend is reversed. That means more cars requiring frequent safety checks.”


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Why is the athlete so important to us? Few public figures can dominate the public imagination with such power and authority. Drawing from art, literature, politics, and history, Something like the Gods explores the powerful grip the athlete has always held on the Western imagination. Amidon examines the archetype of the competitor as it evolved from antiquity to the present day, from athlete-warriors such as Achilles and Ulysses to global media icons like Ali, Jordan, and Tiger Woods.
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Undoubtedly the biggest congregation on earth, the Maha Kumbh Mela could also claim to be the only place where 1. 55 lakh are lost on a single occasion.
Ravei Devi ,75, who had come from a Maharashtra village to take part in the Kumbh, is just one among them. It has been over a week since some volunteers brought her from Sector 8 of the tent township to the “lost and found” camp and no one has come looking for her. The camp is overcrowded with children, women and men.
Later, many of them reunited with their dear ones. The public address system blares out the profiles of the lost ones. Nearly 200 volunteers pick up the lost ones from around the Kumbh city and bring them to the camp, which is run by Umesh Chand Tewari, who is following in the footsteps of his father, Rajaram Tewari. Rajaram, 86, still supervises the functioning of the camp. “We’ve been running this camp for over 50 years. Even the government has recognised our social work and allots space for the camp,”Umesh said.
In 2001, Umesh said, the “lost and found” figure was 1.12 lakh. However, he doesn’t blame the authorities for the rise in the number of such people.
“No, it is because of unprecedented crowds turning up for the Maha Kumbh,” he said. When asked, Umesh said a number of people donate money, foodgrain and eatables to run the camp, which is organised during all festivals at the Sangam such as Ardha Kumbh, Maha Kumbh and Maagh Mela. On many occasions, his volunteers pick up ailing persons abandoned by their relatives.
Once Umesh found a 10 year-old boy, paralysed by polio, lying near a dustbin. After nursing him for seven days, he shifted the boy to an Allahabad hospital. Sometimes he sends the deserted people home after giving them bus or rail fare. Nearly 50 per cent of these 1.55 lakh people come from eastern UP, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand.

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Productivity and Efficiency – the two most key elements, skills or you can say output of your staff, which ultimately lead to overall productivity boost for your company. If you want to increase these outputs, in this era of advanced technology and internet, you need to monitor your employees all the time. In this digital era, DeskTrack is a productivity monitoring software, which acts as an all-see eye for you. It tracks everything on your employee’s screen and gives you daily reports on their performance. Here’s How DeskTrack can Enhance Team’s Productivity and Efficiency.
What is DeskTrack and What does This Productivity Monitoring Software do?
DeskTrack is an employee productivity monitoring software for companies and organizations, which does everything related to screen monitoring such as taking timely screenshots, URL Tracking, calculating idle and work hours, and a lot more. With the help of this application, you can find out a lot of performance metrics, such as.
- Which staff member, team member, or employee is providing the maximum work hours?
- Who is punctual and who is not?
- Who takes the least leaves, is regular and everything else related to attendance with monthly attendance reports?
- It can help you give the most accurate feedback with daily performance evaluation sheets and metrics.
- This staff productivity monitoring software helps you with payroll calculation and more?
This employee productivity tracking software has a diverse pool of features, which help you manage your employees and get the best of their skills with optimal workload, project work time utilization, and less idle hours.
What does This Productivity Monitoring Software Track?
The DeskTrack screen tracks a lot of activities including URLs, files, applications, and mobile phone activities.
Some Features of DeskTrack
Like we mentioned before, this employee productivity tracker has a diverse collection of features and characteristics. Below we have listed all of them.
- Silent and Visible Working
- Working and Idle Hour
- URL Tracking
- File Tracking
- Pause and Resume
- Organizational Hierarchy Mapping
- Desktop Activity Logs
- Online and Offline Tracking
- Fixed and Flexible Hours
- Department & Team wise analytics
- Login & Logout
- Application Tracking
- Productivity Calculator
- Unified Logins
Below, we have explained the features, which you will be using a lot.
MobiTrack: Mobile phones and smartphones are the biggest cause of distractions during work. To prevent this obstacle, install MobiTrack on your employees’ phones. This application can be used to track call logs, locations, and apps used.
Pause and Resume: Your staff needs breaks, and DeskTrack understands this. That’s why they can pause tracking, take a short break, rejuvenate, and resume monitoring, when they are ready to continue work.
Working and Idle hours: Track how much your employees are actually working after they turn on their computers. DeskTrack keeps a log of the away time, working time, and activities performed.
Screenshot: This productivity tracking software takes timely screenshots of web pages your employees visit. These pictures will tell you which are useful and which are not useful pages. But what if all the pages visited are work related?
In that case, the software gives metrics on how long a page was visited for? Using these values, you can identify, if a page was visited longer than required.
URL Tracking: DeskTrack keeps a detailed log on the URLs visited.
However, please note that DeskTrack will only make increasing productivity and efficiency easier. You need to devise solutions for it using the data the software provides.
Advantages of Using DeskTrack
So far, we have found out why DeskTrack is the best productivity monitoring software. Now let’s take a look at the advantages you will get from using this productivity tracking software.
- Increase productivity up to 40%.
- Increase efficiency.
- Reduce or zero burnouts
- Complete projects before or within the timeline.
Increase Productivity up to 40%:
DeskTrack is an application, which calculates working and idle hours automatically. When you access these values, there are two cases.
- First one is where the working hours are more than idle hours. i.e. the employee is working more
- The second one is when the idle hours are more, which means your employee is working less.
In the second case, your employee needs to work more. In the first case, you need to see what she/he is working on or is it even productive. For this task this Productivity and Efficiency tracker provides timely screenshots. Overall, you can increase productivity up to 40% by evaluating these metrics and finding the best solution.
This employee productivity tracker gives you the most accurate performance metrics, based on which you can provide the following to your employees.
- Give regular feedback and make room for improvements.
- Consider your staff’s preferences. Especially, if they are lagging, when the workload is optimal.
- Ensure the right employee is doing the task at hand and the workload is optimal.
- Reschedule and reassign tasks, if needed.
DeskTrack will create a whitelist (of useful URLs), blacklist (of un-useful URLs), and also, if a specified time limit on a useful URL is exceeded, it will be marked unproductive. These metrics also assist in improving efficiency.
Reduce or Zero Burnouts:
If your employees want to be efficient and productive to contribute to your organization, then they need 2 things, which is they need to have no mental health issues, one of which is burn-outs, or stress-outs, resulting in lack of enthusiasm. With DeskTrack’s performance metrics, you can evaluate the following.
- Which of your team members are having burnouts?
- Why are your employees lagging and where?
- Is the workload more than enough?
- Are your employees getting enough breaks between work?
Based on these values, you may need to reschedule tasks in order to increase efficiency and productivity.
Complete Projects Before or Within the Deadline:
Especially for work from home or remote work environments, where people are scattered, DeskTrack makes it easy for everyone to:
- Stay on the right track.
- Communicate in synchronization.
- Receive the same updates.
- Collaborate perfectly on projects.
- And ultimately deliver within or before the deadline.
We wrap up our topic on How DeskTrack can Enhance Team’s Productivity and Efficiency. In conclusion, DeskTrack is the best productivity monitoring software in the market.


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The dog’s owners have tethered it to the backyard. If she stays outdoors, she becomes quite terrified and upset.
The 2-year-old puppy was shivering in the snow when a neighbor realized she needed to do something. She then made a call to Detroit Pit Crew Canine Rescue, an organization that saves lost, ill, or wounded dogs in Detroit, Michigan, and urged the rescuers to assist the lost canine.
We received a phone from a critic who appeared ecstatic that his neighbor had abandoned this tiny puppy outside all night in the freezing weather.
Rescuers hurried to the site after discovering the dog was in urgent danger and made an effort to extract the dog. The owner of the dog has undoubtedly violated the law since it was put into effect in late February, which makes it unlawful to leave a dog outdoors for more than three hours.
Despite being there, the owners remained silent while the mob reacted. The next-door neighbor then arrived and asked the dog’s owners to turn up custody of the animal to the Detriot Pit Crew. DOG SAVING.
It’s interesting to see that the owners also have another dog outdoors.
Theresia explained: “[The neighbor] opened the door to show me the dog that was still inside and told me that the owner had made the decision to throw the dog out since they didn’t want it any more. Then I began. “Yeah, we’ll take the dog,” she said. She is obviously disoriented, cold, and unable to go outdoors in these weather.
After all the struggles she had to through, the rescue crew handed her the renowned Blizzard. The relief and joy of Blizzard overwhelmed her.
Theresia said, “We thought it was cute the moment we picked it up. She was licking for assistance.
As they set up Blizzard in their trailer, the dog snuggled up and slept off.
The team rushed her to the clinic since her foot was bleeding, swollen, and numb.

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We all knew USA would win the team gold at the World Championships in Doha. But that doesn't make the competition any less fun. Here's 14 things I loved about that team final.
As you know, I was a photographer for The GymSpecialist at the European Championships in Glasgow. Out of more than 1000 photos, I selected 20 shots that you'll love.
Team Belgium will always be my number one team, that’s a fact. But team France has been making its way up on my personal podium as well. So, here’s why you should start rooting for l’équipe française.
The 12 best teams from all over France gathered in Valenciennes to fight for the title of national team champions. On top of that, three Belgians competed as guests and showed us their new skills. I came, I saw, I loved it.

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Firmenich has ranked on LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions' Innovation Momentum Global Top 100 2023 report for the second year in a row. The report analyzes the world's top 100 most innovative companies.
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In this year's Innovation Report, Firmenich's patent portfolio highlighted advances in various categories including biotechnology, olfactive research, formulation tools for alternative proteins and innovative applications for digital technology.
The company saw a noticeable increase in its 2022 innovation pipeline, adding around 50 patents to its IP portfolio.
Firmenich's commitment to innovation reflects the same commitment Switzerland was recognized for in the World Economic Forum's Global Innovation Index (for the twelfth year in a row).
According to a recent release, Switzerland has registered the most patents (8,442 in 2021), spending 3% of GDP on R&D ($25.5 billion in 2019), and the private sector accounting for two-thirds, on a per capita basis.


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Lucas Pope, creator of Papers, Please, gets a lot of mileage out of putting players in roles that sound miserable at first blush. In Papers, Please, players worked as a customs agent for the dystopian society of Arstotzka, shuffling through documents to match dates, country of origin, and other vital statistics. In his latest, Return of the Obra Dinn, players assume the role of an appraiser for a maritime insurance company. If assessing the damages of an ill-fated merchant ship doesn’t sound exciting (or even if it does—I see you out there), Obra Dinn doesn’t fixate on the specifics of claims adjustment for too long—the game quickly takes a turn toward the supernatural. Early on, players are given a scrapbook filled with various artifacts of the Obra Dinn‘s voyage and a mysterious pocket watch that sheds light on the fates of the ship’s unfortunate passengers.
Whenever the player stumbles upon the remains of one of the ship’s crew, the pocket watch takes them to the scene of that victim’s tragic death. The game chunks all of the sensory information you are given. Each small vignette begins with only the sounds surrounding the events leading to the passenger’s death. The game owes so much of its tone setting to sound, so it was a brilliant idea to showcase the game’s stunning foley work and voice acting in this way. It’s a move that completely justified the game’s minimalist aesthetic as more than just a nostalgia play. The game’s score, too, is pitch perfect for this type of game—surprisingly buoyant, but mercurial and unsettling.
When the often grizzly death scenes are finally rendered visually, players are given a few moments to examine a frozen three-dimensional snapshot of the events that transpired. Helpfully, players are restricted by the pocket watch to a small area surrounding the scene. Players can then take note of the other passengers who witnessed or played a part in the victim’s death. This whole Black Lodge-like angle serves as a sort of crime scene barrier, and it works because it forces players to focus on what precious little information each scene yields.
Like Paper’s, Please before it, Obra Dinn is a game driven by information in its rawest form. One can imagine the reality of a task like the one this game’s protagonist is charged with—spending endless, candlelit hours struggling with loose bits of paper containing hastily scribbled notes, cross-referencing crew sketches and ship manifests. In all of his games, Lucas Pope has made it something of a mission to make these sorts of rote tasks enjoyable by giving players just the right amount of simulated assistance. In Obra Dinn, these quality-of-life features aren’t gated behind a draconian system of power-ups, as was more appropriate for Papers, Please—they come standard. When examining any of the passengers’ remains in the game, players can immediately jump to their entry in the game’s log, reference how many scenes they’ve appeared in, and receive a detailed map of where those scenes can be relived.
The game is rendered lovingly in the Unity game engine in a 1-bit monochromatic style reminiscent of the earliest computer games. The low-fi style is a perfect match for the game’s setting and themes, which would have been right at home on the Macintosh or Apple IIs of the past—Obra Dinn revels in the mystery genre in a way few games have since the largely text-driven adventures of PC gaming’s yesteryear. Players can even change the monochromatic filter to match other early personal computer monitors, such as the Commodore 1084 or the IBM 5151. The minimalist graphical treatment also serves to bolster the game’s emphasis on the synthesis of information.
At the heart of Return of the Obra Dinn is a deep logic puzzle. To unravel the complete fate of the titular ship, players will have to puzzle out what happened to all 60-some of the ship’s passenger including their cause of death, who or what killed them, or whether or not they escaped the ship altogether. It’s a dense mystery, masterfully constructed, and it will take multiple playthroughs to puzzle everything out. Still, there is an enormous sense of satisfaction that comes with each new revelation, especially since the game’s core puzzle is so reliant on the player’s deductive reasoning—this spartan emphasis on good detective work is especially refreshing in a landscape of games offering on-rails mystery elements. By hewing close to genre’s origins, both visually and thematically (though not without some genuine innovations of his own), Lucas Pope has delivered one of the best games of the year and, certainly one of the best murder mystery games of all time.
This review is based on the PC version of the game, which was provided by 3909 LLC.
By hewing close to genre origins, both visually and thematically (though not without some genuine innovations of his own), Lucas Pope has delivered one of the best games of the year, and certainly one of the best murder mystery games of all time.

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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) on Sunday announced that he was implementing a statewide “stay at home” order that would last for two weeks beginning Monday morning, in order to help combat the growing number of COVID-19 cases across the state. During the press conference, DeWine said the order was not designed to be “punitive,” but also said it was not “a suggestion” – a notion he reinforced Tuesday when he told his constituents to notify the police of any businesses failing to abide by the order.
“If you believe a business is in violation of the rules, call your health department or local law enforcement,” DeWine tweeted Tuesday, also tagging Lt. Gov. Jon Husted (R).
The order prohibits residents from leaving the home and Ohio businesses from operating for all but essential reasons – mirroring those implemented in other states such as New York and California.
The fact that DeWine isn’t hesitating to involve local law enforcement authorities to assist in enforcing the stay-at-home order should come as no surprise. In daily press conferences, DeWine has been adamant about his administration doing everything in its power to half the spread of the pandemic.
“We would not have issued this if it was not a matter of life and death,” DeWine said of the order Monday.
He went on to explain that he hoped officers and deputies would talk to whomever was found to be in violation of the order, reason with them, and let them off with a warning before taking any further action, but reiterated that repeat offenders will be dealt with accordingly.
“We don’t want a lot of arrests or citations,” he added, explaining that the order can be enforced by both local health departments and law enforcement.
“The law is an instructor and a deterrent,” DeWine said. “You hope the law doesn’t have to be applied very often.”
Ohio has been hit particularly hard by the virus in recent days. There are now 564 people in Ohio who have tested positive for the new coronavirus, and eight people who have died from it, the Ohio Department of Health announced Tuesday afternoon. That number was at 442 cases and six deaths as of Monday.
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The Paagman family from Toby Benches in British Columbia Canada are known in the area for the rare Friesian horses they raise and train. Now nine of their horses will be featured in The Hunger Games Catching Fire! And by the looks of the horses in the picture below they look perfect for the Tribute Parade chariot scene!
“We are really proud that citizens and horses from the valley are participating in the biggest movie of 2013,” said Gerard Paagman, the father of the family. “When the phone rang, we asked the kids what the Hunger Games are? They started jumping and screaming.”
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Just in case you forgot what the horses in The 74th Hunger Games looked like here is a still:
Not only are the horses getting to be in the movie, the families children will also get roles as extras in the movie!
Caio Paagman and daughters Jambo-Ree, 8, Tomba, 10 and Ster, 12, will join their horses on set on October 9th, where the children will participate as extras.
Another of the Paagmans’ daughters, Balance, 14, is on a one-year student exchange in the Netherlands, but will fly specially to Atlanta to film a small acting role in the movie. She will also be participating in a radio interview about her highly sought-after screen credit.
The article also states that they dont know much about what they will be doing other then they will not have a full script until they are to start shooting on Oct 9th and their part in shooting will take 6 days.
On September 17th, Gerard and nine of the family’s much-loved Friesian horses departed for Atlanta, Georgia to commence filming.
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The UK is known for its eclectic, immaculate electronic scene with some of the best artists like Disclosure and Mura Masa to explode from it in the past few years. On the come up of the vibrant scene is production duo WITHOUT, who have pioneered this new R&B meets club pop genre with their latest single “Love Liike This”. The Mura Masa collaborators enlisted mysterious Scandinavian vocalist Essie to add the perfect touch the duo’s upbeat, dance-worthy single with her sultry vocals spiraling around luscious synth stabs and exotic percussion. “Love Liike This” explodes with this fun-loving, carefree vibe that is utterly infectious. Stream WITHOUT’s luxurious new single “Love Liike This” and watch the official music video below.
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[RELEASE] Legislative Democrats to Introduce Equal Pay Bill
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February 23, 2015
LEGISLATIVE DEMOCRATS TO INTRODUCE EQUAL PAY BILL
CARSON CITY - At a press conference today, Sen. Pat Spearman announced that she will introduce a bill to require equal pay for equal work in Nevada. She was joined at the announcement by Assembly Democratic Leader Marilyn Kirkpatrick, other Legislative Democrats, and hundreds of Nevadans participating in Grassroots Lobby Day at the Legislature.
Sen. Spearman’s bill will incorporate the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act into Nevada law. The bill will prevent employer retaliation against employees who share information about their pay with coworkers. It will allow victims of pay discrimination to recover a range of damages including up to two years of back pay and benefits. The bill also creates a tiered civil penalty structure that will result in increasing fines for repeat offenders.
“Equal pay for equal work will help level the playing field for Nevada women and their families. Passing a strong equal pay bill will send a message that we’re committed to fairness for all Nevadans,” said Sen. Pat Spearman. “I have invited every one of my colleagues, Republican and Democrat, to sign on as a co-sponsor to this bill.”
“I thank Senator Spearman for introducing this bill and allowing me to sign on as a sponsor. As a mother and grandmother, I’m proud to be a sponsor of this bill,” said Assembly Democratic Leader Marilyn Kirkpatrick. “If this bill passes, it means middle class families will have more money to put aside for their kids’ college or to buy their first house. Passing this equal pay bill will put Nevada’s middle class families one step closer to the American Dream.”
Equal pay is particularly important to the economic security of middle and working class families. In Nevada, women make approximately $.85 per dollar that a man makes. Women of color face an even greater pay disparity. According to statistics, African-American women in Nevada make $.64 per dollar a man makes, and Latinas make only $.52 per dollar a man makes.
So far, the bill has eight co-sponsors in the Senate and seventeen in the Assembly, including all women in the Democratic caucuses. Sen. Spearman has announced that she welcomes any member of the Legislature, regardless of party, to sign on as a co-sponsor.


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For reasons which escape me, it took us over a month to get back there but when we did, the owner greeted us "hi, long time isn't it? not since the Korea game?" yikes! how did he recognize us---is he a real person? This time we were celebrating my getting off work early by having icecream for dinner. The flavors were all different this time and the choices were really rough. In the end, we had mocha cheesecake, strawberry cheesecake and cashew anise. And after my scoop of cashew anise was gone, I headed back for a refill of strawberry lavender which was AMAZING.... We brought home a peach almond milkshake for husband [and didn't even taste it on the way home] which he enjoyed greatly.
Two days later, we were back in a flash to buy pints for a party. To my dismay, the strawberry lavender was all gone and replaced by a bevy of yummy new flavors. As before, we tried lots and then settled on single pints of peach almond, chocolate oreo, white chocolate brandy and [believe it or not] walnut raisin gorgonzola. The peach almond tasted like peach wine [that french infused stuff] smells, the chocolate oreo had hunks of oreo in it, the white chocolate brandy had brandy [and almost nudged strawberry cheesecake out the six year old's heart for Favorite] and the gorgonzola--well, as a fellow taster said, its a meal. Not really sweet, pleasant taste of gorgonzola and walnut, screamed for a water cracker and maybe a glass of sherry. Curiously enough, the ice cream choice of the 8 year old pup though a number of adults at the dinner didn't know what to make of it.
All pints were pretty much inhaled at the party but the last of the walnut gorgonzola went home with us and hid in the freezer for about a week. When we finished it off, we decided that it had gotten a little crystelly. I still think it would make steller ice cream sandwich appetizers with those pepper/poppyseed water crackers from Trader Joes.
so final flavors we have tasted run down to date:
chocolate peanut butter
walnut raisin gorgonzola
white chocolate brandy
If you have tried other flavors, do share.
I can't wait until the weekend!
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El Karama is a cozy and authentic wildlife lodge that offers a range of tailor-made safaris and activities on a private conservancy in Laikipia. You can choose from game drives, walking safaris, horse riding, fishing, bush school and more, while staying in comfortable and spacious cottages that overlook the Ewaso Nyiro river. El Karama is also a working cattle ranch and a family home, where you can experience the warm hospitality and passion of the owners and staff. El Karama is located on a 14,000-acre conservancy and ranch in the heart of Laikipia, one of Kenya’s most diverse and wildlife-rich regions. The lodge is situated on the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro river, which attracts a variety of animals and birds. The conservancy is home to over 80 mammal species, including elephants, lions, leopards, cheetahs, giraffes, zebras and antelopes. The conservancy is also part of the Ewaso Lions project, which works to protect and conserve lions and other predators in the area. The lodge’s style is inspired by the natural surroundings and the local culture. The lodge consists of several cottages that are built with local materials such as stone, wood and thatch. The cottages are spacious, cozy and colourful, with en-suite bathrooms, fireplaces and verandas. The cottages are decorated with African fabrics, artworks and sculptures made by the owner Murray Grant, who is a renowned wildlife artist. The lodge also has a main dining area, a lounge, a library, a swimming pool and a spa.
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Laikipia is a vast and diverse region that spans across central Kenya. It offers some of the most spectacular landscapes and wildlife in the country, from mountains and valleys to rivers and forests. You can explore different parts of Laikipia by car, plane or helicopter, depending on your time and budget. Some of the highlights include Mount Kenya, the second highest mountain in Africa; Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that hosts endangered species such as rhinos and Grevy’s zebras; Ol Pejeta Conservancy, the largest black rhino sanctuary in East Africa and home to the last two northern white rhinos in the world; Samburu National Reserve, where you can see unique animals such as gerenuks, oryxes and Somali ostriches; Loisaba Conservancy, where you can experience star beds and camel safaris; and Il Ngwesi Community Conservancy, where you can interact with the Maasai people and learn about their culture.
El Karama welcomes kids of all ages. The lodge provides cots upon request and has family-friendly cottages with extra beds or bunk beds. The lodge also has board games, books and toys for kids to enjoy. The lodge’s safaris and activities are suitable for kids over 6 years old, with some exceptions depending on the difficulty level. The lodge’s guides and staff are trained to work with kids and make their stay fun and memorable.
El Karama is located about 200 km from Nairobi airport and 40 km from Nanyuki airport. You can take a flight or a private transfer to the lodge, which takes about 45 minutes from Nairobi or 15 minutes from Nanyuki. If you’re driving, the lodge offers free parking on site.
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Pall’s continuous bioprocessing technologies will be incorporated into G-CON’s prefabricated ‘POD’ cleanroom units in efforts to address current capacity constraint, CAPEX deferment, and cost predictability.
G-CON’s PODs are mobile cleanroom units, which include integrated process piping and heating and air conditioning (HVAC) system. A collaboration with bioprocessing vendor Pall Biotech will bring its continuous bioprocessing and viral vector production designs, including automation and utility supplies, to the units.
The partnership sets out to solve three needs: contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) capacity constraints, CAPEX deferment, and cost predictability, according to Mario Philips, vice president & general manager at Pall Biotech.
“The recent spike in virtual biotechs and companies choosing to outsource process development and manufacturing created a significant demand surplus,” he told BioProcess Insider.
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Therefore, the G-CON collaboration aims to offer customers the freedom to defer CAPEX and better predict future investments, he continued.
“Given the autonomous nature of a Pall equipped G-CON PODs, customers have the option to either invest in small-scale upstream/downstream PODs or take a piecemeal approach by purchasing a few PODs that meet their current needs and budget.
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Speed to market, and flexibility
Pall is the latest vendor to show interest in modular and prefabricated biomanufacturing facilities. GE Healthcare’s KUBio platform is an off-the-shelf biomanufacturing facility the firms says can be assembled and fitted-out to current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) standards in half the time of traditional plants.
However, Philips told us there tends to be some market misconception around modular/prefabricated facilities.
“The two overarching customer needs are speed to market and flexibility, and current facility architecture and designs are quickly becoming obsolete. Legacy facilities designed for single products or platforms are not enough for today’s emerging therapeutics.
A traditional brick and mortal facility, he continued, has limited flexibility due to being a permanent building fixture with a centralized HVAC system, while current modular pre-fabricated facilities are built off-site and assembled at a designated location that also becomes a permanent facility with a central HVAC system.
“Customers require flexibility because, in areas such as gene therapy, demand for a commercialized therapeutic spike when it’s first released and levels out as it cures the target population. The demand decrease creates a significant problem for the company because both modular and brick & mortar facilities are inflexible given they were built to support the original demand and product. This results in the facility overhead cost turning into a liability.”
Up to this point, traditional and modular facilities have not been able to solve both dilemmas, he added. “Traditional facilities fail at both speed to market and flexibility, while prefabricated solutions with centralized HVAC system only address speed to market.”
Modular vs prefabs
Therefore, the G-CON and Pall collaboration sets out to solve both needs.
“A modular POD, unlike prefabricated facilities, is a self-contained, fault-tolerant GMP complaint system. Each POD comes pre-installed with its own HVAC system. Such a design not only compresses the project timeline but gives customers the flexibility to re-purpose and deploy each POD to a new therapeutic as the original demand fades out.
“Additionally, a G-CON POD equipped with Pall’s continuous technology makes the overall footprint of G-CON PODs smaller, faster to deploy, and drives down the cost.”


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Traveling on national highways and expressways is expected to become more expensive from April 1, 2023 as the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) implements its toll rate increase of up to 7 percent across the country.
Toll revision is an annual matter under the National Highways Fee (Rate Setting and Collection) Rules 2008. In 2022, toll rates for all types of vehicles traveling on National Highways have been increased by up to 15 percent. The average toll tax levied on the country’s expressways is currently Rs.2.19 per kilometer.
On highways with heavy 4×4 traffic, such as B. Delhi-Meerut Expressway, the toll fee will increase by 5 rupees. Other major routes such as the Eastern Peripheral Expressway and the KundliManesar-Palwal Expressway will be 5 to 7 percent more expensive. Minimum toll rates on main routes will range from Rs 35 to Rs 105. Heavy vehicle toll rates will increase by up to Rs 40 from current rates.
Latest data shows that Rs.33,881 billion in tolls were collected on National Highways in FY2022, up 21 per cent from FY2021. In addition, toll rates across the country have risen by 32 per cent since 2018-19. One of the indirect effects of such toll increases is increasing the cost of essential items being shipped across the country by freight. The rise in the already inflated prices of key commodities is affecting the lives of ordinary people.
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Twin suicide bombers blew themselves up in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad Thursday morning, killing at least 28 and leaving scores injured, some of them critically.
The bombing took place in Tayaran Square, in the center of Baghdad, not far from Tahrir Square, the epicenter for about a year and a half of anti-government protests against government corruption and the high cost of living.
A military spokesman said the bombers blew themselves up at a second-hand clothing market in the square, as they were pursued by security forces. An interior ministry spokesman said that the second bomber detonated his vest after people gathered around those dead and wounded from the first explosion.
For the moment, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, though the style of the assault mirrors that used by jihadists, and dormant Islamic State cells reportedly still operate in the country.
After years of sectarian violence, suicide attacks had become quite rare in the Iraqi capital and today’s bombing is the first since June 2019, an assault in which many people lost their lives.
Nonetheless, a wave of violence has struck Iraq as the United States withdraws its army to entrust local forces with security management. Just three days ago, seven coordinated attacks in Kirkuk, 150 miles north of Baghdad, left at least 24 people dead and 89 injured.
Some 2,500 U.S. soldiers remain in Iraq and incoming Defense Secretary General Lloyd Austin said during his confirmation hearing that he is still concerned about the threat the Islamic State poses in the region.
Earlier this week, coordinated attacks on power lines, power stations, and other infrastructure, caused millions of dollars in damage to the electricity sector, an Iraqi ministry reported.
Military sources in the Iraqi capital report that along with the 28 confirmed dead from Thursday’s blasts, at least another 73 were wounded.
On Wednesday, the Vatican released preliminary guidelines for Pope Francis’ upcoming trip to Iraq, slated to take place March 5-8.


The City of Rockingham's efforts in contributing to heritage across the community were formally recognised at the 2021 Western Australian Heritage Awards, with the City crowned as the winner in the Contribution by a Public Organisation category.
Held at the Art Gallery of WA on Friday 19 November 2021, the awards shone a light on the exemplary work being done within the heritage sector by volunteers, heritage professionals, local governments, and community groups as well as public and private organisations.
The City received the award from the Heritage Council of Western Australia for extensive heritage focused efforts in the community, which are guided by the City’s Heritage Strategy 2020 – 2025. The award was presented to the City by Heritage Minister David Templeman and Heritage Council Chair John Cowdell AM.
In winning the award, the City was commended for protecting and celebrating the unique cultural heritage and stunning environment of the region to facilitate an inclusive and contemporary community.
The judges also noted that the award winning Rockingham Beach Foreshore Revitalisation had led to a better appreciation and recognition of heritage values in the community.
City of Rockingham Mayor Deb Hamblin said the award was a testament to the collaborative efforts the City had engaged in with several community groups to deliver heritage related projects.
“The City is a community that is proud of its Aboriginal, European, natural and maritime heritage – and we are thrilled to receive this level of recognition from the Western Australian Heritage Council,” Mayor Hamblin said.
“The Heritage Strategy 2020-2025 has been integral to the City fulfilling its strategic aspiration of planning for future generations. It is particularly pleasing to see how well received the Rockingham Beach Foreshore Revitalisation has been in relation to boosting heritage values.”
Other significant projects contributing to the City’s recognition at the awards include the restoration of the historic abattoir roof and walls in Hillman, the installation of the Houtman and Dedel Commemorative Plaque at St Ives Cove in Warnbro, the Founders’ Memorial 2019, and the City’s support for the replica 155mm M1917/18 Gun at Point Peron.
“We have focused on working closely with groups including the Rockingham District Historical Society (via the City’s Heritage Reference Group) and the Batavia Coast Maritime Heritage Association. “Through the Point Peron Rehabilitation Committee we have also worked with the Rotary Club of Palm Beach, Royal Australian Artillery History Association (WA), Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions and the South West Group to help deliver these important projects. This award also recognises their outstanding efforts in celebrating the City’s heritage values and stories for existing and future generations.”
The City would also like to recognise the contribution of Stephen Carrick, from Stephen Carrick Architects for his role as the City's Heritage Advisor and for his expertise and guidance on the City's heritage projects.
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Image: Mike Ross (centre - City of Rockingham Manager Statutory Planning) collected the award on behalf of the City from Heritage Minister David Templeman (left) and Heritage Council Chair John Cowdell AM (right). Picture: Courtesy Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage.


A new, curated pop-up market is coming to Enmore
Another market is coming to the Inner West to celebrate local fashion and culture. New Form is isn’t your usual mish-mash of stalls either. The market will be a curated space for fashionistas and culture vultures.
The inaugural market on Sunday October 8 will feature local designer fashions, jewellery, art, ceramics and upcycled wares from the likes of Zuku Jewellery, Serpent and the Swan, RENCE and Gretel Corrie. There will also be plenty of food from Miss Mabel’s food truck and Turkish Gozleme (which is almost a necessity at Sydney markets these days).
The organisers have plans to run quarterly and to have each market curated by a different local influencer.


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Eastern football player Anthony Goodman is accused of resisting and obstructing a peace officer and driving while his license was suspended after a foot chase with police Wednesday afternoon.
According to a Charleston Police Department press release issued Friday, Goodman, 20, of Charleston was driving a vehicle at 12:08 p.m. Wednesday in the 200 block of Lincoln Avenue and was stopped by a police officer for an equipment violation.
Goodman, who is a junior, fled on foot once his vehicle was stopped. Officers pursued Goodman, searching through the neighborhood and business district according to the police department.
The defensive back was eventually taken into custody and taken to Coles County jail, where he later posted bond.
Eastern head football coach Kim Dameron suspended Goodman indefinitely after the arrest Wednesday. Goodman played in the Panthers’ season-opening game on Aug. 28, against Minnesota. He appeared in 25 games during his first two seasons with the Panthers, making two starts.
Top finishes for Eastern cross country
The Eastern women’s cross country team finished first at the EIU Walt Crawford Open Friday night at the Panther Trail, while the Panther men placed second.
It was the first time the women’s team won the Walt Crawford Open since 2005.
Although IPFW runner Brittany Beard won the individual 5K title with a time of 18:15.60, Eastern had a strong group of runners that finished in second, third, fourth, sixth and seventh place, respectively.
Freshman Maria Baldwin led the five Eastern runners with a time of 8:36.57 in her first collegiate appearance, finishing second.
Eastern won the event with 20 points, followed by Murray State with 55, Southern Illinois-Edwardsville with 98, Evansville with 103, IPFW with 107 and Missouri State with 157.
Sophomore Paxson Menard led the Eastern men’s team with an eight-place finish in the men’s 8K race with a time of 26:44.90. Fellow sophomore Riley McInerney finished in 11th place with a time of 27:00.90.
Red-shirt juniors Brock Ramos, Joe Calio and Bruyn Yunk were the next three Panthers that scored, finishing in 14th, 16th and 17th place, respectively. Ramos posted a time of 27:13.40. Calio’s time was 27:25.40 and Yunk finished just behind him in 27:25.40.
Edwardsville was the top men’s squad with 23 points. Easternwas second with 40 followed by Murray State with 86 points. Evansville placed fourth with 107 and IPFW scored 124.
Eastern returns to action, starting at 6:15 p.m. Friday at the Bradley Intercollegiate in Peoria.
Bogar named Rangers’ interim manager
After Ron Washington stepped down for personal reasons on Friday, former Eastern baseball player Tim Bogar became the Texas Rangers interim manager.
On Oct. 21, 2013, Bogar was hired as the Rangers’ bench coach after managing in the Texas League.
At 47, Bogar has a decade of experience managing in the minor leagues and coaching in the MLB. In 2008, he was a coaching assistant for the Tampa Bay Rays. From 2009-12 he was part of the Boston Red Sox coaching staff.
Bogar’s final season with Eastern was in 1987, when he was drafted in the eight round of the Major League Baseball amateur draft by the New York Mets.
After playing for the Mets, Houston Astros and the Los Angles Dodgers in his nine-year career (1993-2001) Bogar began his managing career in 2004 with the Greenville Astros. He was promoted to Houston’s Class-A affiliate in 2005 and was named South Atlantic manager of the year with the Lexington Legends.
Bogar has also managed in the minor leagues for the Cleveland Indians organization and the Los Angeles organization.


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Samsung has plans to launch its own mobile payments service in South Korea and the United States in September of this year, somewhat later than the company originally planned. After the initial release, the service, called Samsung Pay, will be released in Europe, China, Australia, and South Africa. These details were revealed by Samsung executive vice president of mobile commerce Dr. Injong Rhee during a recent Samsung event.
Company will compete with others in order to find success in the mobile payments space
Samsung has been working on developing a strong presence in the mobile commerce space for some time. The company believes that its Samsung Pay platform will have a significant impact on the mobile space, making it easier for consumers to make payments with their mobile devices. Samsung will be competing with Google, however, which already has a presence in the mobile commerce market and controls the Android operating system. The two companies may end up working together, however, which may help both overcome significant competition from companies that have established leading positions in the mobile commerce market.
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Samsung yet to reveal monetary model for Samsung Pay
Rhee suggests that Samsung generating revenue from the mobile payments service on a transaction-by-transaction basis is not the company’s goal. He claims that such a model will not be the main source of revenue for Samsung Pay, but was unable to comment regarding specifics about a monetary model for the mobile payments platform. Specific aspects of the service are expected to be released closer to the service’s launch date later this year.

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The Royals had a travel day as they returned home from New York for two games against Cleveland. The trip home might have just seemed like another road stop, as Kansas City was set to head to Chicago after the Cleveland series for a four-game showdown with the division-leading White Sox.
The White Sox won their game against Detroit, moving to a full five games ahead of the Royals. The two teams only had seven head-to-head matchups remaining.
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Go check this beautiful collection of emotional hardcore from these Kyoto killers. On this EP the vocalist, Juntaro, even reminds us of Geert-era Shai Hulud…easily our favorite era of the band.
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Ever want to fly a remote-controlled plane over houses, recording cell-phone conversations and text messages at random and hacking into Wi-Fi networks and computers?
Well, first, click here and report yourself. Then check out the Defcon session (August 4–7, Las Vegas) by Mike Tassey and Richard Perkins on the latest version of their WASP (Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform).
“This session has everything you want, big yellow aircraft flown by computers, pounds of highly volatile chemicals, CUDA, 50 Amp electrical circuits and the ability to attack networks, systems and cell phones interactively from a remote location anywhere in the world,” the session description reads. “We will demonstrate a fully functional open source autonomous aerial wireless hacking platform and explain how to pwn the friendly skies.”
The WASP has an HD camera, a cigarette-pack sized on-board Linux computer packed with network-hacking tools, a 340 million word dictionary for brute-force guessing of passwords, and eleven antennas, and can record conversations and text messages on 32GB of storage. A 4G T-mobile card routes the communications through voice-over-Internet or traditional phone connections to avoid dropping the call.
So how do they get away with this? Well, for starters, they don’t plan to demonstrate the phone-hacking trick at the conference, and they say they have tested it only in isolated conditions to ensure their flying contraption wasn’t illegally eavesdropping on strangers’ phones, according to Forbes. And they’re well connected. Perkins is an Air Force contractor focused on cybersecurity and Tassey is an ex-Air Force consultant. They say they want to demonstrate the vulnerability of government and corporate facilities.


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It has emerged that Engage4Life Limited - one of 10 main providers awarded regional contracts worth close to £1bn to deliver the NCS between 2015 and 2018 - went into liquidation 14 months ago.
Papers filed at the time show that Engage4Life (E4L) went into liquidation with debts of more than £500,000, including around £400,000 owed to nine local NCS providers.
A progress report by the official liquidator, filed last week, reveals that the NCS Trust, which runs the NCS on behalf of the government, is also now claiming it is owed £780,000.
The report reveals that the director of E4L, Gareth Holohan, received a total of £710,000 in dividends around three months before E4L went bust. The money was paid into his director's loan account eliminating a debt of £369,000 that he already owed to the company. Over the subsequent three months he made three payments from the account to himself totalling £329,000.
The liquidator has begun proceedings against Holohan to recover the £710,000 in dividends but adds that Holohan is "defending the claim vigorously", and a court case is due to take place later this year.
Meanwhile, the liquidator's report shows that NCS Trust is being pursued for £196,000 that it is claimed to owe E4L. The NCS Trust itself has stepped in to act as the regional provider in South West England in the wake of the collapse.
In a statement NCS Trust said it ended its contract with E4L in 2015. CYP Now has been unable to contact Holohan.
Prior to 2015, E4L was a relatively small-scale local provider of the NCS in three areas of the West Midlands region - Herefordshire, Telford & Wrekin and Worcestershire.
In October 2014, it was awarded one of the main contracts for the NCS for the period January 2015 to October 2018 in the "South West 2" region of England covering the areas of Cornwall, Devon and Dorset, Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire. In total, the 2015 to 2018 contracts across all 19 english regions are worth around £960m.
The South West 2 contract was previously held by Petroc College for 2013 and 2014. Petroc won the contract to deliver NCS in another region for 2015-18.
Until now, no details of the collapse of the firm have been made public, although youth minister Rob Wilson last month confirmed in parliament that nine, rather than the original 10, providers currently have contracts to deliver the NCS.
The revelations come at a time when the NCS Trust's governance arrangements are under the spotlight. Earlier this month, concerns were raised about the transparency of the NCS Trust by the public accounts committee,which has been conducting an inquiry into the governance and finances of the NCS.
The committee is due to publish its findings tomorrow. During the evidence sessions, committee chair Meg Hillier questioned why the NCS Trust was not more open, describing its annual report and accounts as "remarkably untransparent".
The government is currently taking action to ensure that problems with providers are properly dealt with.
Speaking during a public bill committee in January, youth minister Rob Wilson said provisions have been placed in the National Citizen Service Bill currently going through parliament, requiring that the NCS Trust inform government promptly if any NCS provider falls into serious financial difficulty, or is in breach of contract with serious consequences for the trust.
"The trust sits in the middle of a huge operation, and the government need to know of serious issues that could have either financial or reputational consequences for NCS," he said.
A statement issued by NCS Trust said: "When awarding contracts, the NCS Trust fully complies with EU procurement regulations and carries out extremely detailed and robust checks on all of its partners. NCS Trust ended our contract with E4L in 2015.
"In order to ensure continuity of NCS programmes in the South West region, the NCS Trust has acted to support existing providers in their delivery of the services in this area.
"While we cannot disclose commercial sensitive details, the NCS Trust operates as a not-for-profit social enterprise and we take our duty of financial accountability very seriously."
The NCS - seen as a flagship initiative of former Prime Minister David Cameron - was first launched in 2011. The aim is that eventually every 16- and 17-year-old in England will get the chance to take part.


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More than 80% of stroke survivors experience gait problems, often associated with loss of ankle control. Existing rehabilitation devices to combat this problem are limited to laboratory or clinical settings.
Now, according to a pilot study, a new ankle exosuit could help stroke survivors improve their walking ability. The work, led by the team of Professor Conor Walsh of the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
“We saw an opportunity to use wearable technology to rethink the approach to physical therapy and rehabilitation,” says Walsh. “If we can move some of these clinical services from the clinic to the home and community, we can improve access, reduce costs, and provide better care. Very It's exciting to see how engineering and physiotherapy come together to make this happen."
The Walsh Biodesign Lab at Harvard has previously developed assistive and rehabilitation exosuit technologies for a variety of applications. Some of these technologies have already been licensed and commercialized by ReWalk Robotics and have received breakthrough status from the US Food and Drug Administration. To develop an ankle-foot exosuit for everyday use, Walsh's team needed to simplify the exosuit's mechanical components and make it easy to control.
“In the past, our ankle exosuits had two active actuators—one assisted in dorsiflexion to hold the toes, and the other assisted in plantarflexion by pushing the foot and body off the ground,” says Richard Nuckols, a former Walsh lab postdoctoral fellow at SEAS. “Instead of active actuator dorsiflexion, the new exosuit contains a passive material that flexes and acts like a spring, helping to keep the toes up during the footswing and preventing the wearer from getting their toes caught on the ground."
"By replacing the active drive with a passive drive, the exosuit is inherently safer; in the event of an unexpected power loss or controller failure, the default state will support the user's toes and reduce the risk of trips and falls," Nakols continues.
"We also developed a mobile app so that users can easily interact with the device," says Chi-Kang Chang, Ph.D. at the Walsh Lab. "The app allows users to turn on the device themselves and tell the exosuit when they want to start walking."
In addition, the team included sensors located on the foot, lower leg and pelvis to enable remote monitoring of the user's progress over time.
“We collect data while people are walking in the exosuit and measure how their gait improves over time,” Chang says. “In the future, this information could be a really important aspect of using this exosuit for long-term rehabilitation in collaboration with a physical therapist.”
To test the exosuit, Walsh's team collaborated with the labs of Lou Awad and Terry Ellis at Boston University's Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation. They recruited four participants to use the device in their own setting for 4 weeks, walking 3-5 times a week on their own.
Due to individual variability in response (participants with lower baseline walking activity benefited more from wearing the exosuit), a therapeutic effect was not observed in the entire group. But two of the participants improved their motor activity by an average of 27%. They also walked an average of 4,000 more steps the week after the study than they did the week before.
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