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HCWH President and Founder Gary Cohen and Executive Director for Europe Will Clark reflect on two decades at the centre of the sustainable healthcare movement in Europe.
In 1996 the US Environmental Protection Agency identified medical waste incineration as the leading source of dioxins, one of the most potent carcinogens. This triggered a growing awareness about the environmental impact of modern healthcare practices and, by extension, the threat these practices pose to human health and well-being.
Health Care Without Harm was founded in direct response to this threat - 28 organisations came together in California to form a coalition that grew into an international organisation. In 2003, HCWH Europe was formed with the immediate goal to ban mercury healthcare devices following early success in the US. Mercury thermometers were successfully banned in 2007 and mercury blood pressure devices in 2012.
Over the last twenty years, we have realised that healthcare sits at the epicentre of the climate crisis, taking care of people affected by extreme weather, flooding, and increases in chronic diseases. At the same time, healthcare is itself a driver of the crisis through its reliance on fossil fuels, both to power healthcare facilities and throughout the sector’s supply chains. Over the next decade, healthcare can lead the transformation to a low carbon and toxic-free economy and build resilience into its infrastructure and the communities it serves.
HCWH Europe has now been at the centre of the sustainable healthcare movement in Europe for two decades. Though many challenges remain - the climate crisis, antimicrobial resistance, and the proliferation of single-use devices to name three - we are proud to have established an ever-expanding network of sustainable healthcare leaders in Europe. Healthcare systems, national and regional authorities, hospitals and care providers, partner organisations, and committed individuals all working together to build a healthcare sector that reduces its impact on our natural environment and improves health outcomes.
To mark our 20th anniversary, we will release an ambitious and groundbreaking report that charts the development of sustainable healthcare in Europe over the last two decades. This report will celebrate the very best in sustainable healthcare innovation and practice and create a vision of where the sector can go in the next 20 years.
If you have any memories of HCWH Europe from the last 20 years that you would like to share, please get in touch: email@example.com.

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2. Revolution is ALWAYS about taking something from someone else and giving it to someone else. Labor is worth what someone else is willing to pay for it in a mutual exchange, its not about forcing the employer to pay all they can afford or there is no point to taking risk and being an employer.
Its not a talking point, socialism always slides into autocratic rule, one way or another. Europe is the only example we have of it not happening and its failing as an economic system. Secondly: "Capitalism is plutocracy" isnt a talking point? Cmon. Last, the Kings didnt change via election. Consent of the governed and elections are what makes a monarchy different from a representative republic. You know this, you are just trying to get cutesy to maintain your failed logic.


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The long-term, exclusive global partnership with MDR Brand Management will focus on growing Revlon Consumer Products Corporation’s flagship mega brands Revlon and Elizabeth Arden. This growth would be achieved via various brand extensions – new product launches, wider retail reach, and fresh consumer engagement projects, among others – some of which would be designed to take Revlon and Elizabeth Arden beyond their core reaches.
“This is not expansion for expansion sake; it’s expansion to create significant long-term revenue,” said Daniel Avener, CEO of MDR Brand Management.
“…Brand owners look to brand extension for different reasons. Typically, top of the

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27 Intense Feelings You Had Watching This Week's Episode of Game of Thrones
It couldn't last. After a few weeks of events on Game of Thrones that actually made us smile, the show is back to the tragedy that we know and tolerate in this week's episode. But at least with the death of beloved characters (and yet another direwolf), there are an awful lot of important events moving the series forward. Though we're still unclear what the heartbreaking turn of events this week means for Bran (and the story), it's a hell of a ride. Until next week, let's go over the emotional roller coaster of this week's episode, "The Door."

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HOUMA -- It was the perfect storm.
A torrential rain fell on Houma Sunday afternoon, turning streets into rivers, lawns
into lakes and leaving residents fuming at inundated homes, businesses and
The flooding was the result of a combination of factors, officials said.
The ground was already saturated because of the nearly daily rain that has fallen
on Terrebonne and Lafourche.
Many folks spent Saturday – one of the few sunny days of late – mowing yards and
trimming hedges. Those clippings, stacked curbside, washed into drainage
ditches and culverts, clogging up the man-made pathways designed to funnel the
water to the pumps scattered throughout Terrebonne.
The debris was washed there by a line of thunderstorms that stalled over north Terrebonne Parish Sunday, resulting in a torrential rainfall that flooded neighborhoods in Bayou Cane, Bayou Blue, Oakshire and elsewhere.
In the midst of all that, three pumps failed, all in separate, unrelated occurrences, officials said.
The Concord pump station on Bayou Dularge Road failed Friday after it overheated,
said Parish Public Works Director Greg Bush.
The pumps overheated because they doesn’t have adequate ventilation for their
motors, he said. It was manned Sunday to ensure that it didn’t shut down again,
and pumps were run alternately, rather than simultaneously as usual, as a
Crews are working to correct the problem, he said.
The Bonanza pump station along La. 24 failed Sunday when the electronic controls
shorted out, Bush said, adding crews got those pumps up and running again
And multiple pumps at the Woodlawn pump station near upper Bayou Chauvin
weren’t in working condition. A contractor is in the midst of replacing fuel lines,
Parish crews went to the station Sunday and got the pumps working again, he said.
“I have two departments looking into this,” said Parish President Michel Claudet, of
Terrebonne’s Department of Public Works and the Emergency Response office.
“I don’t want people to think we have pumps that aren’t working right. We check
these things all the time.”
But with 70 pump stations and 176 pumps in the parish, Claudet said, “there are
things that happen.”
Parish officials counter that with the exception of a few malfunctions that were
quickly corrected, the pump stations came on automatically like they were
supposed to but were unable to keep up with the amount of rain given the speed at
which it fell.
But many local residents are crying foul, claiming the pumps in their
neighborhoods weren’t turned on quickly enough.
Residents of the Broadmoor and Lafayette Street neighborhoods reported between
1 and 2 feet of standing water in their streets and yards at the height of the flood.
“My house is up on blocks, but the water was up to my porch,” said Lori Bolden, a
Lafayette Street resident. “I’ve been here since 2005, and we never had a flood of
Bolden said she got on the phone with parish workers because 2 feet of water
threatened to flood her home. Those workers, she said, told her the pumps were
on and working.
“They may have turned them on after they got all those phone calls, but I don’t think
they were on the whole time,” she said.
Vincent Crawford, who lives near Dumas Auditorium on Tunnel Boulevard, said he
came home to find his house, his Porsche and even his pet Rottweiler immersed
Parish workers he quizzed told him the same thing, Crawford said, but he also
refuses to believe it.
“There’s no excuse for the pumps not being on. There’s just no excuse for it,” he
Bush said that because you don’t see all the pumps working at one time, it doesn’t
mean a station isn’t doing its job.
“People have to understand that when a station has three pumps, all three may not
come on at the same time,” Bush said. The pumps are designed to kick on in
succession as the water level rises.
“It’s the most efficient way to drain,” he said.
A single station like Bonanza, for example, can pump 2,856 acres of land dry, and
pumps about 184,000 gallons of water per minute if all pumps are running at once.
The problem is, Bonanza pumps a long corridor of property along the highway, and
many of the old cane fields that used to catch water are now developed. Water has
to work its way through the drainage system to get to the station for the pumps to do
their job, Bush said.
Sunday, the pumps were ready and waiting, but the rain’s intensity caused the
water to back up on its way to the station.
The water also encountered some obstacles, Bush said.
Branches, grass, leaves and even, in one case, cut cane were left curbside in
anticipation of the trash man, and the rain swept that debris into street catch basins
and ditches, clogging them.
Bush said he also saw children’s toys clogging the system.
Special crews check drainage regularly for debris, Bush added, something he
encourages residents to do as well, particularly in a storm similar to Sunday’s
when employees are pressed for time.
“The trick is to get the water to the pump stations as quickly as possible,” he said.
Houma Police closed about 30 streets they say were filled with 5 or more inches of
rain, including Senator Circle, Acadian Drive and parts of Prospect Boulevard.
Officers acted quickly to block off streets, but passing motorists did travel down
some water-filled roads, pushing water into some homes.
“I know (Parish Councilman) Joey Cehan physically blocked the street with his truck
himself because a truck was driving up and down the street that seemed to enjoy
watching the waves go up against people’s houses,” Bush said.
Though a number of factors played into the flooding, Claudet said there are “no
excuses,” and a swift assessment of what happened and what can be improved
will be the parish’s first priority.
“I know that having an inch of rain in your house is just as bad as a foot of water,”
Parish officials said they are still compiling damage information and advise
residents to call 850-4638 to report damage if they haven’t done so already.
“After every major event we do an after-action review,” Bush said. “We’ll take all that
information, pinpoint the locations of major flooding and then try to figure out what
caused the problem in those areas.”
But that might not be enough for some Houma residents made wary by the
realization that flooding isn’t an issue facing only in the bayou communities.
“The whole thing was scary,” Bolden said. “If we have a major
storm that hits this area, we’re going to have water. I told my husband I don’t want
that to happen again. I want to move.”

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- Sonar Sensing Range: 25-450 cm
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This ultrasonic sensor is very similar to the ultrasonic sensors which are found in cars. This Waterproof Ultrasonic Obstacle Sensor shows some important constructional advantages over the conventional sensors. It comes in two separate parts one being the transducer which is the sensing element and the other being the control board.
The module is capable of providing information of the objects between the distance range of 250 mm to 4500 mm. The great advantage of using this Waterproof Ultrasonic Obstacle Sensor is you can put the sensing element far away from all the control circuitry.
This Ultrasonic Distance Sensor is an industrial-grade sensor to measure distance. Interfacing with it is the same as another cheap ultrasonic sensor, but it offers better performance and is compatible with harsher environments and is waterproof too! It can be easily interfaced with Arduino and Sample codes and projects are available.
The basic working principle:
- Turn on TRIG Pin to 5V for at least 10uS
- The module will then automatically send 8 40KHz tones and automatically detect when the signal return after reflecting back from the object
- Upon detecting the signal, a high-level signal is outputted through the IO Pin ECHO. By keeping track of the time duration between transmitting and receiving the signal, the distance can be calculated. Distance = (Time to Receive Reflected Signal * speed of sound (340M/S)) /2
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|Operating Current (mA)||30|
|Static Current (mA)||5|
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|Detecting Angle||< 70Â°|
|Operating Temperature (â„ƒ)||-10 ~ +70|
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These simple switches are the Mechanical Bumper sensor for the SparkFun RedBot, giving you the ability to detect a collision before it really happens. This sensor works by acting as a SPST switch. When the "whisker" bumps into a foreign object it will make contact with a nut next to it, closing the connection and, by default, turning off the motor. By...
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Operating voltage: 5V Provide both digital and analog output Adjustable sensitivity Output LED indicator Compatible with Arduino TTL Compatible Bolt holes for easy installation
Compact, versatile, easy to install, easy to deploy, a flammable gas detector with 85db alarm. Detects propane, butane, LPG, natural, town, coal, common flammable gasses. 12V model with non-polarised (reversible) power terminals for easy wiring. Suitable for leisure craft, vehicles and similar 12V scenarios, eg. campervan / motorhome / RV / yacht / boat /...
Fixed focus lens on-board Improved resolution – 8-Megapixel native resolution sensor-capable of 3280 x 2464 pixel static images Supports 1080p30, 720p60 and 640x480p90 video Size 25mm x 23mm x 9mm Weight just over 3g Connects to the Raspberry Pi board via a short ribbon cable (supplied) Camera v2 is supported in the latest version of Raspbian, Raspberry...
Supply Voltage: 3.3 V/ 5V. Interface Type: I²C, SPI. Sensing Range: ±2g, ±4g, ±8g, ±16g. Sensitivity X: 28.6 LSB/g. Sensitivity Y: 31.2 LSB/g. Sensitivity Z: 34.5 LSB/g. Ultra Low Power: 40µA in measurement mode, 0.1µA in standby@ 2.5V. Free-Fall Detection. Tap/Double Tap Detection.
Model: SCT013 Frequency: 50HZ-150KHZ Retractable transformer SCT-013 Rated Input Current : 100A Model : SCT-013 Rated Input Current : 30A
Low-noise analog signal path Device bandwidth is set via the new FILTER pin 5 µs output rise time in response to step input current Small footprint, low-profile SOIC8 package 2.1 kVRMS minimum isolation voltage from pins 1-4 to pins 5-8 Supply Voltage: 4.5V~5.5V DC Measure Current Range: 30A Sensitivity: 100mV/A
The ADXL346 is a small, thin, ultralow power, 3-axis accelerometer with high resolution (13-bit) measurement at up to ±16 g. Digital output data is formatted as 16-bit twos complement and is accessible through either an SPI (3- or 4-wire) or I2 C digital interface.
The TMP36 temperature sensors generate a voltage output that is linearly proportional to that of the centigrade temperature and can easily interface with temperature control circuits and ADCs. Applications include thermal protection & management, environmental control, industrial process control, fire alarms and power system monitors. FeaturesLow...
Dimensions: 75 x 13 x 13 mm (L x W x H) Range: 5 kg Cable Length: 18 cm Fitting ScrewHole Size: M3 Rated output: 1.0 0.1mV / V Nonlinear: 0.05% F.S Hysteresis: 0.0% F.S Repeatability: 0.05% F.S
Thickness: 0.4mm Trigger Force: 20g, triggered (default resistance<200kΩ) Pressure Measuring Range: 20g~6kg Static Pressure & Dynamic Pressure Measurement (within the frequency of 10Hz) Initial Resistance: >10MΩ Activation Time: <0.01S Operating Temperature: -40°C~+85°C Lifespan: >1million times Hysteresis: +10%，(RF+ -RF-)/FR+，1000g...
Has a signal output instruction When the output valid signal is high, the light goes out The sensitivity is adjustable (fine-tuning) The wide detection range of vibration, no direction With mounting holes, firmware installation is flexible and convenient.
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Have you ever wanted to go down a mine shaft? Like miners do, on an open lift? Plunging a mile down into the bowels of the earth? With highly combustible methane gas and its deadly chemical cousin carbon monoxide a threat at every instant? Me neither. But when I picked up Martin Cruz Smith’s novel Rose, set in the Lancashire coal mining town of Wigan, I couldn’t stop reading.
The story chronicles the return to England of the mining engineer Jonathan Blair. He has earned the disapproval of his paymaster, Bishop Hannay, for taking the side of the Africans in the Ashanti wars. (For this the English call him “Nigger” Blair, and I wondered if the author really needed to include racist terms to convince us of the racism of the times.) Blair’s only wish is to return to Africa but must earn the fare, so he is obliged to carry out a mission for Bishop Hannay. Much of Hannay’s immense wealth comes from his ownership of Hannay Mines. Blair’s task is to find the missing Reverend Maypole, who was to marry the Bishop’s heiress, Charlotte Hannay. The plot wasn’t all that convincing, but the story takes you on a fascinating guided tour of a nineteenth-century mining town. The miners are a perhaps a bit stereotyped but you are left in no doubt as to who produces the Bishop’s wealth. The author’s research is impressive, and he gives us a clear picture of the appalling working conditions the miners endure. Particularly fascinating is the depiction of the pit girls, independent and sexually liberated and under attack from moralistic Parliamentarians.
The dark sky turned darker, not with clouds but with a more pungent ingredient. From the window, Blair saw what could have been the towering effluent plume of a volcano, except that there was no erupting volcanic cone, no mountain of any size, in fact, between the Pennines to the east and the sea to the west, nothing but swale and hill along the long tilt of underground carboniferous deposits. The smoke rose not from a single point but as a dark veil across the northern horizon, as if all the land thereafter was on fire. Only closer could a traveler tell that the horizon was an unbroken line of chimneys.
Chimneys congregated around cotton mills, glassworks, iron foundries, chemical works, dye works, brick works. But the most monumental chimneys were at the coal pits, as if the earth itself had been turned into one great factory. When Blake wrote of “dark Satanic mills,” he meant chimneys.
For fans of historical novels, with the added suspense of a murder mystery, Rose is guaranteed satisfaction.
— Catherine Vigier, Zeteo Contributing Writer
Martin Cruz Smith, Rose, New York, Ballantine Books, 1996.
- On homepage: from Davy Leghorn, Women in the Mining Industry (womensstudiesjmu).
- At the top of this post: “Rare footage highlights region’s coal queens“; Chronicle Live (Newcastle, UK).

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Many people working in the fields of accounting and taxation have a question. Where do I get a proper training in GST?
Your search ends here. At Super 20 Training Institute, we are a team of GST expert Chartered Accountants, filing more than 1000 GST returns every year. We will bring actual client cases to you and make you work on those assignments. Yes, you will actually file the GST returns during the lectures. It is 100% practical training. You must be good at accounting. Rest all is on us. Post this course, you can file GST returns – be it monthly returns, quarterly returns or annual returns. Not only that all provisions of GST are covered in detail.
Do not limit yourself, if you are not a chartered accountant. Or you are fresh CA. It is for sure that after the course, you will feel confident.

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Air and Sea Show, Fort Lauderdale
My husband is from the Ft. Lauderdale area but we live in Georgia. We have been coming to the Air and Sea Show for the past 3 years (excluding last year. 2008, because it was cancelled. I found out that it is cancelled for this year but that plans are being made for 2010. It is awesome. We stay in the Lauderdale-by-the sea area because it is less crowded and you get more value for the $. Also, It is the general area where the aircraft turn around..very cool. It is a blast every year. Note: The Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds alternate their yearly performances. Book a room as soon as you know the show is a go ahead!
The air show is always the first FULL weekend in May. (except this year 2008) there is no air show because the city of Ft Lauderdale wouldn't put ANY $ towards this awesome show. all of that aside. If you can make it to the Air and Sea show it is the best air show you will ever see.
I have told people about the air show for years, they always say " I went to one with my parents when I was a kid. then they come to the one here and they now come every year. There are great hotels along the beach. We live about 1 mile from the beach but we get a place and the whole family comes to town to see the Air show. I book about 40 rooms and it is a blast. Ft Lauderdale needs this show. So I am hoping that it will be back in 2009. Come on down to the Air show you won't regret it!
Actually we weren't sure whether this was a part of the Air & Sea Show or if this is just how they treat shoplifters in Florida, LOL. Those five guys had a wild ride!

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The Rules of Attractiveness
It is clear that some individualsattract others and vice-versa. However, it is not easy to find yourexact pair in this respect and many people spend their entire livesmismatching themselves with those who they perceive as perfect forthem. Therefore, we are left wondering whether attractiveness goesonly in one direction while the other person, the object ofattraction succumbs to it, or it is mutual in some cases. There aremany different theories for both of these approaches and some ofthese attitudes will be discussed through the lines below.
Stereotypes or Facts?
Quite a number of doctors andpsychologists claim that attractiveness depends on the gender, or thesex in that respect. Basically, males desire younger females in orderfor them to spread out their seeds and multiply, prolonging theexistence of humanity instinctively. Since younger women have greaterchances of giving birth successfully, males are attracted to them andare prone to cheating on their wives for this reason.
On the other hand, another claim saysthat women mostly choose older, materially secured men for the sakeof protection and security they themselves desire for their family.Thus, women are predominantly attracted to older, successful men,while the latter run around chasing younger women. The logic in thistwo statements, therefore, hardly holds water in 100% of the cases,even though, at certain points, it may be plausible.
Alternatively, it is said that we areattracted to people who resemble our parents from the very first daysof our childhood, since all the positive feelings of these times arere-evoked on a subconscious level once we meet a person meeting thesephysical standards. So, we could also spend our lives searching forour mother/father in a younger form, without family bonds.
Hormones should not be leftunmentioned. Since they control most of the things we feel andexperience in a certain way, these chemicals, especially dopamine andtestosterone, influence our attractiveness. Namely, our testosteronelevels get increased when we are attracted to someone. The same way,our elevated hormone levels attract others. This all triggers theproduction of happy hormones in our brain. Unfortunately, one canonly be happy and attractive for a certain amount of time since, aswe grow older, our hormonal levels get imbalanced or decreased,ending our influence by them and all the sensations connected withthe process.
Finally, cyber-dating, being one of themost common ways of meeting people nowadays, since all we do is stayat home in front of the computers, has its own level ofattractiveness related to the process. We are attracted to themysterious identity of the person we communicate with and are moreopen due to the lack of inhibitions. Still, we can end these“relationships” with the same ease as when we started them.


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Portugal offers arguably the lowest cost of living in Western Europe. … Including rent, a couple can live comfortably in Portugal’s interior, or in small cities, from about $1,700 a month. A couple’s budget in Lisbon starts at about $2,100 or $2,200 a month… though you can, of course, spend more.
Is it cheaper to live in Portugal or us?
Overall, Portugal is considered one of the cheapest countries to live in Western Europe, and is on average, 50% cheaper than living in the United States.
Is it safe to live in Portugal?
Portugal is consistently ranked as one of the safest countries in the world. Violent crime rates are very low; pickpockets are probably the most common problem, and they’re mainly in areas popular with tourists.
How much money do you need to retire in Portugal?
How much money do you need to retire in Portugal? Portugal offers arguably the lowest cost of living in Western Europe. a couple can live comfortably in Portugal’s interior from about $1,700 a month. The budget for larger cities such as Lisbon is about $2,100 or $2,200 a month.
Is it cheaper to live in Portugal or Spain?
Living well in Spain isn’t expensive, but Portugal can be a bargain. Porto and Lisbon are big cities with plenty of affordable options for expats looking to relocate overseas. … Porto is Portugal’s second city and prices here are lower than the capital.
What is the average house price in Portugal?
Property in Portugal is some of the best priced in Europe. Recent figures from National Statistics Institute show the average house price in Portugal at just EUR 1,187 a square metre – EUR 1,243 for flats, and EUR 1,090 for houses. That compares to EUR 2,649 in the UK, or EUR 2,300 in France, for instance.
How long can a US citizen live in Portugal?
How long can a US citizen live in Portugal? US citizens may enter Portugal for up to 90 days for business or for tourism without the need for a Portuguese visa. If you would like to move to Portugal and spend more than three months there, then you’ll need to get an appropriate visa or a residence permit.
What are the pros and cons of moving to Portugal?
Pros and Cons of Moving to Portugal
- – CON: The slow pace might take some time getting used to. …
- + PRO: Portugal has beautiful beaches. …
- – CON: The red tape of bureaucracy can be frustrating. …
- – CON: The Portuguese language can be difficult to learn. …
- – CON: Road tolls can add up.
Is it worth moving to Portugal?
A good year-round climate, fantastic beaches a short distance from the capital, great food, high quality of life and low living costs are just some of the reasons Americans move to Portugal. There are also a number of successful tax incentives that American citizens can benefit from in Portugal.
Is healthcare free in Portugal?
State healthcare in Portugal is not completely free. Healthcare costs are covered by the state, and patients pay standard user fees, known as ‘taxas moderadoras’.
Can foreigners buy property in Portugal?
The short answer is YES! One of the most encouraging qualities in Portugal is that there are no restrictions for foreigners who want to buy a home in the country. Furthermore, the Portuguese government incentivizes foreigners to invest in real estate property in Portugal through the Golden Visa program.
Can you live in Portugal tax free?
Portugal’s ‘non-habitual residents’ (NHR) scheme gives special tax benefits to new residents for their first ten years in the country. It also offers a lower income tax rate of 20% if you’re employed in Portugal in a ‘high value’ activity and allows you to receive some foreign income tax-free.

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NDP MP Peter Julian has resigned as his party’s House leader to explore a leadership run.
Julian announced the news Wednesday on the one-year anniversary of the election that saw Liberals form a majority and New Democrats fall back to third place in the House of Commons.
NDP MP Peter Julian speaks during question period in the House of Commons on May 28, 2015. (Photo: CP)
The veteran British Columbia MP told reporters in Ottawa that "a lot of Canadians are disappointed" with how things have gone.
"There was a commitment to real change and we haven't seen that real change," Julian said. "So, what I'll be doing over the next little while is talking with Canadians and getting my inspiration from them and New Democrats about the next steps to take."
B.C. MP Murray Rankin will take over for Julian in the role.
The 54-year-old Julian is fluently bilingual and has represented the riding of New Westminster-Burnaby since 2004.
He told reporters in June that the door was open to him making a bid to replace Thomas Mulcair as NDP leader, but suggested he was in no rush.
Big NDP names taking pass
Julian also attempted to dissuade the notion that the popularity of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was scaring off potential leadership candidates. Big names like Nathan Cullen, Quebec’s Alexandre Boulerice, and former MPs Megan Leslie and Paul Dewar have all said they won’t run for the job.
“It’s not scary to take on Mr. Trudeau,” he said at the time. “I think what we've seen over the last few months since the election is that it's very much business as usual in Ottawa. Not a lot has changed."
The veteran MP also said he wasn’t concerned about polls suggesting traditional NDP support was bleeding to the Liberal government.
“The Trudeau government is still in its honeymoon period,” he said.
Decision comes at a price
Julian’s decision comes at a price. Unlike other members of the NDP shadow cabinet who may abandon critic roles to pursue the leadership, the party’s House leader earns $16,800 more, annually, on top of the base MP salary of $170,400.
Julian also served as the NDP’s House leader between 2013 and 2015, when the party formed the official Opposition.
If he is making a bid, Julian would be the first MP to jump in the race. Ontario MPP Cheri DiNovo announced a bid in the summer but pulled out because of health concerns.
Another Ontario MPP — Jagmeet Singh — is increasingly being mentioned as a possible contender, as are current MPs: Manitoba’s Niki Ashton, Ontario’s Charlie Angus, and Quebec’s Ruth Ellen Brosseau and Guy Caron.
New Democrats chose their next leader next October.
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Against the broad swathe of general support for Israel, British Jews diverge often sharply over specific policies.
Those who call themselves Zionist "are not always firm supporters of Israeli government policy", the report says. "It is clear…that one cannot assume that all of those labelling themselves Zionist are hawkish."
Whereas 50 per cent of Jews currently believe that Israeli control of the West Bank is vital for its security, 40 per cent do not.
While 55 per cent agree that Israel is an "occupying power" in the West Bank, 36 per cent dissent from that view.
And whereas 52 per cent think that Israel has little or no choice about the military action it takes, 43 per cent think that it does.
Nearly half, 47 per cent, think most Palestinians want peace, compared with 38 per cent who do not.
While religious Jews tend to show Israel more unqualified support and are more hawkish on security issues, even within this group there are significant splits: 47 per cent back territorial compromise for peace, as against 46 per cent who are opposed.
In general, the more secularly educated Jews are, the more doveish their views. More than half, 56 per cent, of those who responded to the questionnaire think non-Jewish minority groups suffer discrimination in Israel.
And nearly three-quarters, 74 per cent, believe that Orthodox Judaism has too much influence in Israel.


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Understanding Critical Virus-Host Interactions During the Life Cycle of SARS Coronavirus-2
Coronavirus (CoV) carries a single-stranded RNA genome that is replicated and transcribed with the help of host factors. Whereas a complete copy of the genomic RNA is needed for replication, smaller “subgenomic” transcripts give rise to specific, virally encoded proteins. The most abundant subgenomic transcript encodes for the nucleocapsid (N-) protein, which is essential for the production of new viral particles.
Led by Anja Bielinsky, PhD, professor of biochemistry, molecular biology, and biophysics, this study will determine how the host enzyme DDX1 physically interacts with the N-protein.
“Blocking the interaction between N-protein and DDX1 will be useful for the development of therapeutic agents that disrupt the life cycle of CoV,” said Bielinsky.
This project is supported by the UMN Campus Public Health Officer's CO:VID (Collaborative Outcomes: Visionary Innovation & Discovery) grants program, which support University of Minnesota faculty to catalyze and energize small-scale research projects designed to address and mitigate the COVID-19 virus and its associated risks.

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Rochelle Park resident questions historic house buy
A resident, Linda Boniface, spoke out on renovation costs for the Captain Tyson Home at a public meeting on March 16.
Rochelle Park purchased the historical home for $600,000 out of surplus funds last March.
The 1874 Italianate home at 49 East Passaic St. has three floors and 17 rooms. The town hopes to use it as a museum and for meeting rooms.
At the past work session, March 9, residents asked about repairs to the roof and Borough Administrator Bob Davidson reported that there were still leakage problems after repairs and a liquid roof to seal it was in the works.
Boniface spoke at the public portion of the meeting.
"Something disturbed me at last week’s work session, the money spent on 49 East Passaic St. First of all, you had spent $11,000 to wrap chimneys. Three weeks later, the wrapping’s off, and you’re fixing the chimneys for $35,000 along with parts of the roof to hopefully prevent the leakage," said Boniface.
She pointed out that the roof was leaking again.
"We’re in over our heads. It needs too much work for this town to pay for it," said Boniface.
She stated that she was not against the house but against taxpayer dollars going toward renovation and repairs.
"Whoever’s recommending what to do really doesn’t know what they’re doing, because it probably needs a brand new roof, but you’re going to wrap the chimneys, we’ll do this, now we’ll rubber coat it, and it will still leak. And who knows if the stringers under the roof are good at all?" she said.
Boniface said that taxpayer dollars should not be spent on the house.
She ended her speech by recommending the town "look to get rid of it."
There was no response from the mayor and council other than thanking her for her comments.


|Publication number||US6524359 B1|
|Application number||US 09/600,908|
|Publication date||Feb 25, 2003|
|Filing date||Dec 23, 1998|
|Priority date||Jan 22, 1998|
|Also published as||DE29800969U1, EP1049527A1, EP1049527B1, WO1999037385A1|
|Publication number||09600908, 600908, PCT/1998/8422, PCT/EP/1998/008422, PCT/EP/1998/08422, PCT/EP/98/008422, PCT/EP/98/08422, PCT/EP1998/008422, PCT/EP1998/08422, PCT/EP1998008422, PCT/EP199808422, PCT/EP98/008422, PCT/EP98/08422, PCT/EP98008422, PCT/EP9808422, US 6524359 B1, US 6524359B1, US-B1-6524359, US6524359 B1, US6524359B1|
|Original Assignee||Klaus Kluge|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (15), Referenced by (8), Classifications (26), Legal Events (5)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The invention relates to a filter bag for pocket air filters (air filters having pockets), comprising two side walls whereby both lateral edges of said side walls and the edge of the base are welded to each other. Said side walls are made of an air-permeable filter material, which may be ultrasonically welded, and whereby at least part of the surface of said side walls is joined by means of interconnected welded spacer elements running substantially parallel to said side walls.
Filter bags of this type are usually arranged next to each other with a space in between to form a pocket air filter. The best possible even (air) flow in all areas of the filter layer is the goal to keep the rate of flow at a minimum and to obtain optimum utilization of the filter layer. Thus it is necessary in pocket air filters to keep the side walls of each single filter bag at an optimum distance from one another since only in this way optimum spacing between the neighboring filter bags can be maintained.
In case of filter bags that are preferably made from non-weldable filter material, this spacing is achieved by spacer seams, which have to be subsequently sealed with hot-melt adhesive. This sewing process, which can also be used for weldable filter materials, has however the disadvantage that the necessary sealing of the needle holes is performed partly incomplete. Besides, the perforation of the filter material.
To achieve dependable sealing of the filter bag and to prevent tearing, there is known from the type of filter bag mentioned in the beginning to weld the two filter side surfaces to the spacer elements, which are made of tubes consisting of flexible material and which then form the two side walls. The therefor necessary effort in labor is relatively high and costly in comparison to the sewing process, especially since the spacer elements made of tubes have double walls.
It is therefore the object of the invention to provide a filter bag of the type mentioned in the beginning that is of simple design and can be manufactured with low expenditure of labor and material. Thereby an optimum configuration of the filter bag in its operational state is to be guaranteed to maintain its optimum spacing between the two side walls.
This object is achieved according to the invention in that the spacer elements are formed by an intermediate layer made from a strip of flexible material that is alternately welded to one of the side walls.
With this alternate welding to one of the side walls, it is achieved that the intermediate layer takes on a fan-shaped (zigzag-shaped) design. Thereby the side walls are dependably maintained at the preset optimum spacing from one another whereby the respective diagonal direction of the spacer elements formed by said fan-shaped intermediate layer result in a very effective stabilization of the two side walls against relative displacement. Thus it is made possible to considerably increase the number of individual juxtaposed filter bags within the preset grid width of pocket air filters (currently a maximum of 12 filter bags at a with of 592 mm). This gives the advantage of increased dust collection capability and longer durability.
The production of the filter bag is considerably simplified since instead of single tube-shaped spacer elements, which have to be individually installed and welded, there is now only one interconnected intermediate layer installed, which is alternately joined to one or the other side wall by ultrasonic welding. The filter bag can therefore be manufactured very easily and cost-effectively; it is of simple design and has an optimum configuration of filter surfaces, which are maintained at an optimum spacing to one another so that a free (air) flow is guaranteed for a plurality of parallel aligned filter bags, which are arranged next to one another as close as possible.
The intermediate layer is preferably joined alternately with the one or the other side wall by welding seams created through ultrasonic welding whereby said welding seams run substantially parallel to the lateral edges.
According to one of the preferred embodiments of the invention it is proposed that the intermediate layer consists of a single strip of material and is welded to the two lateral edges of both side walls. Thereby the intermediate layer runs continuously from one lateral edge to the other lateral edge of the filter bag. This contributes to the stabilization of the filter bag and simplifies production.
The neighboring welding seams of the intermediate layer are preferably arranged at equal distance to one another. Thereby the same design is provided substantially across the entire width of the filter bag.
According to a preferred embodiment of the filter bag it is proposed that the intermediate layer is disposed at a distance from the base, and that the two side walls in the area between the base and the intermediate layer are joined directly with one another by welding seams that are running substantially parallel to the lateral edges. Thereby the filter bag is tapered from its in-flow opening toward the base so that a general even (air) flow is ensured through the entire length of the filter bag.
The invention relates additionally to an advantageous method for the production of filter bags of this type. Starting from a known method whereby two layers of filter material are welded together by ultrasound at both lateral edges and at the base whereby spacing elements, which are arranged in between, are also welded thereto by ultrasound; the method according to the invention is characterized in that two continuous inserted strips of filter material are welded at alternately superposed welding seams, which run transversely to the longitudinal direction of the strip, to a continuous intermediate layer strip inserted in between, whereby ultrasonic welding occurs through both strips of filter material and through the intermediate layer strip, and whereby during consecutively performed welding processes a non-weldable separating plate is inserted alternately between the intermediate layer strip and the one or the other strip of material, respectively.
A continuous manufacturing process has been made possible hereby for the first time, which may be carried out very rapidly and simply and which is therefore cost-effective. Instead of the complicated and labor-intensive insertion of separating plates by hand, there are now separating plates, which are arranged between each of the intermediate layers and each of the strip of filter material, and which are pushed into the welding area according to demand whenever the welding of superposed layers is to be prevented at a particular place. In this way it is very simple, in view of production engineering, to weld the intermediate layer strip alternately to one or the other strip material while forming a side wall.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention it is proposed that the two separating plates are designed as separating straps, which run cross-wise to the longitudinal strip direction and which are alternately moved in and out of the welding area in the direction of the moving strip. The separating straps move in very short strokes so that a relatively rapid operating process is guaranteed.
During welding of the lateral edges, the two separating plates or separating straps remain in a retracted position relative to the welding area so that the side walls may be welded to the intermediate layer at the lateral edges.
The two strips of filter material and the intermediate layer strip may be fed into a welding station by controlled forward-feed steps wherein there is at least one ultrasonic welding head, which extends across the longitudinal strip direction and which is disposed at the opposite side of a welding counter-surface. Thereby one single welding station is sufficient to perform all transverse welding on a filter bag, one after the other, in the operating area of the ultrasonic welding heads (sonotrodes).
Preferably there are a plurality of welding heads at the welding station which are arranged side by side and transverse to the strip direction, and which may be controlled individually. Thus it is possible to make welding seams of various lengths and especially perform direct welding of the two side walls in the area near the base of the filter bag.
Embodiment examples of the invention are described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 shows a schematic spatial illustration of a filter bag for a pocket air filter in a partly exploded view.
FIG. 2 shows a pocket air filter consisting of a plurality of filter bags of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 shows a top view of a filter bag of FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 shows a section along line IV—IV through the filter bag of FIG. 3 in an operating condition.
FIG. 5 shows in a simplified schematic spatial illustration a device for the production of filter bags of FIG. 1.
FIGS. 6-9 shows in a schematic illustration consecutive processing steps in the production of filter bags on a device of FIG. 5.
FIG. 10 shows a rear view of the pocket air filter of FIG. 2.
FIG. 11 shows a top view of the pocket filter of FIG. 10.
The filter bag 1 illustrated in FIGS. 1, 3 and 4 is provided with two side walls 2, 3 made of air-permeable filter material, which may be ultrasonically welded together. The two side walls 2, 3 are joined by ultrasonic welding at their two lateral edges 4, 5 and the base 6.
An intermediate layer 7 consisting of a flexible strip of material is arranged fan-shaped in the cross section of the filter bag 1 between the two side walls 2, 3 and joined with said side walls to form spacer elements. The intermediate layer 7 is alternately joined at the ultrasonic welding seams 8 and 9 with the side walls 2 or the side walls 3. The welding seams 8, 9 run. substantially parallel to the lateral edges 4, 5.
As one can see in FIG. 4, the intermediate layer 7 consists of a single strip of material, which is welded together with the two lateral edges 4 and 5 of the interconnected side walls 2 and 3. As shown in the illustrated embodiment example in FIG. 3, the neighboring welding seams 8 or 9 of the intermediate layer 7 are arranged at an equal distance t to one another.
As one can see in FIGS. 1 and 3, the intermediate layer 7 is disposed at a distance from the base 6. In the area between the base 6 and the intermediate layer 7 the two side walls 2, 3 are directly joined with one another by welding seams 10. These welding seams 10 also run substantially parallel to the lateral edges 4 and 5.
As it is shown in FIG. 2, there are several bags 1, in the illustrated embodiment example there are four filter bags 1, contained in a frame 11 to form a pocket air filter. The spacer elements formed by the intermediate layer 7 in the individual filter bag 1 keep thereby the two side walls 2, 3 in an operating condition, which means that during the flow-through of air, a preset distance from one another is maintained. Thereby a preset equal distance a is maintained between neighboring filter bags 1 in the pocket air filter, whereby an even and unobstructed air stream is guaranteed.
The method for the production of the filter bag 1 is described below with reference to the accompanying FIGS. 5-9.
A continuous strip 14 or 15 of filter material is pulled off rolls 12 and 13 (FIG. 5) and is fed into a welding station 16. At the same time, a continuous intermediate layer strip 18 is pulled off a roll 18 a and is fed between the two strips 14 and 15 and is fed also to the welding station 16.
At the welding station 16 there are a plurality of welding heads 17, designed as ultrasonic tools (sonotrodes), which are arranged in the transverse direction of the strip, side by side, and on top of the upper strip 15. Each of the welding heads 17 is controllable individually. A welding counter-surface 19 is arranged on the opposite side of the welding heads 17 and underneath the lower strip 14. During the welding process, the material to be welded is pressed against the welding counter-surface 19 and an ultrasonic force (effect) is exerted onto the material to be welded.
A first separating strap 20 is disposed between the intermediate layer 18 and the lower strip 14 directly in front of the feed element into the welding station 16. The separating strap 20 is connected at one end to a pressure-medium activated, double-action, forward-feed cylinder 21 (indicated in FIG. 5 only schematically).
In a corresponding manner, there is a second separating strap 22 disposed between the intermediate layer 18 and the upper strip 15 directly in front of the welding station 16. Said second separating strap 22 is also connected at its end to a double-action, forward-feed cylinder 23 (indicated in FIG. 5 only schematically).
Both separating straps 20, 22 may be inserted selectively via control of their feed cylinder 21 or 23 into the welding area between the welding heads 17 and the welding counter-surface 19 of the welding station and said separating straps may be again retracted in the opposite direction. The separating straps 20 and 22 consist of a material (e.g. PTFE) which prevents the welding of the strip 14 to the intermediate layer strip 18, depending on the degree of insertion. The separating strips 20, 22 are not weldable with the intermediate layer strip 18 and the strip 14, 15 and have to be sized in such a manner that the ultrasonic effect necessary for welding is transferred through the separating strips 20, 22.
Whenever the welding heads 17 are actuated in the position shown in FIG. 5, whereby both separating straps 20, 22 are disposed outside the welding station 16, then all three layers 14, 15 and 18 are welded together on the lateral edge 4 to form a (solid) weld. Subsequently, the strips 14, 15 and 18 are moved forward after opening of the welding station 16 whereby they are moved together by a distance t (FIG. 3) corresponding to the controlled forward-feed step and to the left in FIG. 5. At the same time, the upper separating strap 22 is pushed forward via the control of the forward-feed cylinder 23 into the area between the welding heads 17 and the welding counter-surface 19, as shown in FIG. 6.
In this state of the welding process, the intermediate layer strip 18 is welded only to the lower strip 14 of the filter material, while the separating strap 22 prevents welding of the intermediate strip 18 to the upper strip 15 of the filter material. At this point there is thus a welding seam 9 created, as described according to FIG. 1.
After a new forward-feed step of the strips 14, 15 and 18 by a distance t, the first separating strap 20 is pushed forward before the next welding step via control of its forward-feed cylinder 21 into the welding area, while the second separating strap 22 is simultaneously retracted in the opposite direction. In the subsequent welding step (FIG. 7), welding is performed only of the intermediate layer strip 18 to the upper strip 15; thus a welding seam 8 is created.
FIG. 8 and FIG. 9 show subsequent processing steps, whereby the position shown in FIG. 8 corresponds to the position in FIG. 6, and the position shown in FIG. 9 corresponds to the position in FIG. 7.
After several welding cycles, at which the welding seams 8 and 9 are created alternately, all three strips 14, 15 and 18 are finally welded together to form the welded, lateral edges 5. The filter bags made in this manner may be separated from each other along the welding seams of the lateral edges 4 and 5.
Any welding on the base 6 may be performed in a continuous manner only with a roller-weld station (not shown) during the forward-feed of the strips 14, 15 and 18.
However, in the example shown in FIG. 5, the welding head 17′ at the very rear lies outside the area of the intermediate layer strip 18. By controlling said welding head 17′, the welding seams 10 in the area near the base 6 may be created simultaneously with the welding seams 9. The position of the welding seams 10 may be selected basically independent from the position of the welding seams 8 and 9.
In a corresponding manner, and by the control of the preset positioning distances, the separating straps 20, 22 and the welding heads 17 or 17′, any desired configuration of a filter bag may be welded together containing a fan-shaped intermediate strip 7. Several intermediate layers arranged side by side are also weldable according to this principle, whereby spacers of varying sizes could be created between the side walls 2, 3 wherein the number of welding seams would be selected differently for each intermediate layer. The filter bag geometry can be optimized through the number and arrangement of flame washing (sweating) of corresponding welding seams 10 without inserting an intermediate layer, which leads to an optimum reduction of (air) flow resistance in its operating condition.
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Annoyed and frustrated with its perceived lack of control over future downtown art projects, the Public Art Committee held a special meeting Dec. 7 to discuss its concerns.
Longtime art committee board member George Haborak, who requested the meeting, told the committee he believes the committee should not have approved projects, such as the Season of Sculpture’s Intersections project and a future interactive sculpture art project.
“I’m against both those projects, because I believe our public art policy statement says the committee is committed to the enrichment of the community through private and public acquisition of public art,” he said.
Haborak said approving two projects that don’t involve the acquisition of public art goes against the committee’s mission statement.
“It was always our committee’s mission and goal to acquire works of art for the city and the betterment of the community,” Haborak said. “Although these other projects are great, all we’re doing is sponsoring art exhibitions, and that’s why I voted against them.”
Art Committee Chairman Leonardo Lunardi and member Andrew Maass disagreed with Haborak.
“We are also given the responsibility ‘to separate and display’ public art purchased by expenditures of the public art fund,” Maass said.
Haborak, though, said he felt the committee was starting to focus more on projects that promote businesses and tourism instead of focusing on acquisitions of public art.
Board member Trulee Jameson told Haborak she was glad he brought the issue up, and the board agreed to further discuss the issue and hold a joint workshop with the Sarasota City Commission to discuss its concerns.
Jameson also brought up what she perceives as a committee that’s diminishing its control.
Senior planner Dr. Clifford aSmith said the committee can “redefine its policy so it’s more flexible but still has an emphasis on permanent public-art acquisitions.”
“I think we should also have the ability to publicly disapprove of objects on city property labeled as art that don’t measure up aesthetically to our standards,” Jameson said.
Comments made by Jameson and Haborak represent a growing discontent that the art committee has with its control and/or the amount of approval it has over certain projects.
In November, Jameson expressed concern that her board has no control over a concept being shaped for a $55,000 interactive public-art project the committee approved in August.
At its Nov. 9 quarterly meeting, Jameson said that although the board already approved an interactive project for nine bronze sculptures to be placed along Main Street, she wants the committee to approve the concept that goes with the sculptures.
Smith, however, has said that although the committee will be updated on the future of the project, it only has control over the sculptures themselves, which the committee already approved.
Jameson, meanwhile, is frustrated that the committee approved a project when the committee doesn’t know what the sculptures are going to be.
“My concern is we are stuck no matter what fabulous concept and multiple layer is presented for this project,” Jameson said in November. “We are stuck with static bronze sculptures hidden somewhere on Main Street.”