A sample of Recent Projects involving FamilyCook programs and curricula:
Puppet Stew @ WIC
Sixteen WIC clinics across NYC now enjoy targeted enhancements to the new fruit & vegetable package for WIC (Women, Infant and Children Federal Supplemental Nutrition Program) recipients. Thanks to a new collaboration between Public Health Solutions, FamilyCook and partner Puppet Treehouse, Puppet Stew arrived at New York City WIC clinics managed by Public Health Solutions in February ’09. The program features Willow Wabbit, our lovable bunny puppet, and she's on a mission to:
1. inspire young children at WIC clinics to eat more "wabbit food;" and
2. support WIC moms in their quest to get veggie averse kids to enjoy fruits and veggies, as parents use their new checks to buy fresh or frozen produce.
Watch Willow mesmerize the little ones in Carona, Queens! [Video Coming Soon!]
Eating Smart from the Start
Another valuable partnership begun in 2008 involved Share Our Strength, Operation Frontline, FamilyCook, and FGE Food & Nutrition Team. The target audience and mission: a professional training for child care providers. In addition to training design, FamilyCook developed delicious Child & Adult Care Feeding Program (CACFP) accredited recipes qualifying for federal reimbursement!
Learn more here.
Contact us to learn how you can get a copy of our recipes!
CT Dept. of Public Health “Food & Fitness”
The CT Dept. of Public Health, with support from the Connecticut Cancer Project, funded a project to test the efficacy of 2 selected healthy eating curricula over the 2008-09 school year: FamilyCook’s “Look Who’s Cooking” and Food Is Elementary. Four schools in the Middletown school district tested the curriculum in grades K-3 in an ‘urban’ setting. Additionally, four schools in four ‘rural’ school districts along the Connecticut shoreline also initiated the program. The project was managed by Community Health Center of Middletown, CT.
From the very successful family nights [Video Coming Soon!], to the children’s reactions to the bunny puppet that communicated nutrition, stories, and encouraged eating bunny food (fruits and veggies) --- the program was very well received indeed, and has been institutionalized into some of the schools beyond the funding period and has spurred new FamilyCook programs in new CT health districts.
Watch for updates and research results for this project in fall 2009 and for our presentation at the Annual Conference of the American Public Health Association in Philly this November.
Greater Kingsport Family YMCA, Kingsport, Tennessee Summer Camp ‘09
The Greater Kingsport Family YMCA won a Tennessee state grant to address childhood obesity using FamilyCook Productions “Look Who’s Cooking” after school curriculum during their summer 2009 camp and beyond, The YMCA grapevine travels far and wide and Kingsport Wellness Director, Kim Ruker, had heard about FamilyCook from anther large-scale implementor of the curriculum: Greater Rochester YMCA, Rochester, NY.
FamilyCook founder Lynn Fredericks conduct training for the staff in May and adapted the program to include mostly cooking of snacks in the summer due to various program constraints. Ms. Ruker reports that the program really helped connect the parents to the Kingsport Y in an important way!
Urban Assembly Schools: Jr./Teen Iron Chef, NYC
Teen Iron Chef really took off in 2007 when FamilyCook teamed up with Urban Assembly NYC schools. The intensive training of teaching staff conducted to launch in two UA schools paid off when the results of semester long program @ Urban Assembly School of Music & Art in the 9th grade yielded over 20% improvement in overall dietary quality, download our research report here. The program has mushroomed to incorporate six Urban Assembly schools in the 2009-10 school year, some of which will growi food as UAMA has in the New York Restoration Project Bridge Plaza garden across the street. The project continues to be institutionalized and take on an important and unique role in each UA school community.
HealthCorps Partnership Yields 1st Annual Teen Iron Chef Invitational
In March 2009, our partners at HealthCorps suggested that 10 of their high schools across our city would each send their top 2 Teen Iron Chefs to compete in our 1st Annual Teen Iron Chef Invitational! This was a spectacular opportunity for students to take their new skills in cooking, public speaking and knowledge about food culture and nutrition to the next level. But what made the event really special, was the fact that the Teen Iron Chefs from the host-school, Urban Assembly School of Music & Art, facilitated as Masters of Ceremonies, and Team Cooking Coaches!
You can watch this empowering event video here!
Council on the Environment of NYC: Teen Iron Chef Youthmarket Brigade
Since 2007, FamilyCook has assisted CENYC’s Youthmarket project to train youth about the food they are selling in their markets. By 2008, the Brooklyn Urban Assembly School of Music & Art (UAMA) Teen Iron Chefs proved such a talented and formidable group, that they were tapped to present over 20 cooking demos. In 2009, these teens help train the Youthmarket ‘newbies’ to be able to identify the more unusual produce and learn how to cook and eat spicy mustard greens to black radishes!
Watch the students @ the market hear from them what they learned.
Family Strengthening Birth Parent Reunification = Salvation Army, NYC
The Salvation Army of Greater New York contracts with NYC Administration for Children’s Services to provide services to families within the foster care system. One area of promising application of FamilyCook ‘family strengthening’ curriculum, Cooking Time Is Family Time, are supervised visits and the reunifcation process between birth parents and children in foster care.
The staff at 14th street Salvation Headquarters as well as the Jamaica, Queens outpost report more engaged parental visits with children when cooking is introduced as an activity.
PS 219 Brooklyn Health Fair Family Cooking Workshop
June is a month of school celebrations and PS 219 celebrated with a Health Fair and invited FamilyCook to conduct a workshop for parents about healthy snacking for summer break! FamilyCook dietician, Mercedes Sanches discussed winning strategies for family cooking by sharing our “Snacks ‘n a Snap” list, past of our Simple Secrets of Family Cooking kit for parents.
Participating parents and children enjoyed making Avocado Crunch with flax seeds, lemon and paprika, and discovered how delicious whole grains can be when, instead of tortilla chips, they enjoyed their avocado snack with Wasa Brod – in rye flavor! The workshop was such a success, the school is now considering conducting one of the Familycook programs such as The Dinner Party or the after school version of “Look Who’s Cooking” in fall 2009.
NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene (NYC DOH/MH) Farmers Market Nutrition Education
FamilyCook developed it’s popular Farm Fresh & Fabulous curriculum for the DOH/MH back in 2005 in partnership with Just Food, to bring healthy food education to new fledgling farmers markets in the food deserts of the South Bronx and Brooklyn. Initially we trained community food educators from the communities where they markets were located. More recently in these challenging times when budgets are being slashed, we have been very successful in training Teen Iron Chefs ‘graduates’ to conduct the program. The youth are an inspiration to children and adults alike.
NYC SchoolFood “Garden-to-Café”
The UAMA students in Brooklyn partners with New York Restoration Project’s Brdige Plaza garden across the street from their school. There, they grew a number of crops ideal for showcasing in October for a special Harvest Day in honor of SchoolFood’s new “Garden to Café” program. The students’ parsley and mint made delicious brown rice ‘taboulleh’ and their basil made copious quantities of pesto for a pasta salad and more. This fall, their garden project has grown thanks to support from the Citizens Committee for NYC. It now has 6 new earth boxes and a restored permaculture design with installation of new solar panels to power the pump for the large pond equipped with drip irrigation for a self-contained ecosystem! Watch the students cooking in the garden with their neighbors!
The Chocolate Show
In 2007 the Chocolate Show was looking for a more educational KidZone for their 10th Anniversary. FamilyCook provided an educational and very fun chocolate experience:
1) Chocolate thumbprint art
2) Chocolate fondu tasting with NY State apples in an array of ‘colors’ (yellow, green, pink and red)
The result was a huge hit of the show, with parents as intrigued to participate as their young children! The booth was a colloaboration with the NY State Department of Agriculture & Markets, Red Jacket Orchards and several chocolate brands.


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A Marvel Cinematic Universe character that has existed since Phase 1 finally makes her comic book debut in Scarlet Witch’s new ongoing series.
A Marvel Cinematic Universe character that first appeared back in Phase 1 finally makes her comic book debut in the new Scarlet Witch series by writer Steve Orlando and artist Sara Pichelli.
Scarlet Witch #1 introduces readers to Earth-616’s Darcy Lewis, a character that actor Kat Dennings has portrayed across the Thor film franchise and in Disney+’s WandaVision series. In the MCU, Darcy was an intern working with Doctors Jane Foster and Erik Selvig before eventually becoming a doctor herself years later. A preview of the upcoming Scarlet Witch issue reveals that comic book Darcy is a worker at Wanda Maximoff’s new bauble shop, but whether she has any shared history with Jane Foster, Thor or related characters is unknown as of the pages available.
SCARLET WITCH #1
- STEVE ORLANDO (W) • SARA PICHELLI (A) • Cover by RUSSELL DAUTERMAN
- Women of Marvel Variant Cover by ELENA CASAGRANDE
- Variant Cover by PEPE LARRAZ
- Windowshades Variant Cover by TOM REILLY
- DEMONIZED VARIANT COVER BY JESUS SAIZ
- Variant Cover by IVAN TAO • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY IVAN TAO
- Red Blank Variant Cover also available
- Classic Homage Variant Cover by ADAM HUGHES
- THE SCARLET WITCH RETURNS!
- There is a door that appears only to those who need it most, who have no one else in the world to turn to. On the other side of this door is the witchcraft shop. Friend or foe, human or otherwise – if your need is great and your hope is gone, there you will meet the SCARLET WITCH! Wanda Maximoff is familiar with hitting rock bottom – and now that she’s finally found peace, she’s pledged all her power to help others who are languishing at their lowest. But when a woman falls through Wanda’s door with a terrifying story of a town gone mad, the Scarlet Witch will have to muster her wits and chaos magic to deal with an insidious threat!
- Comic powerhouses Steve Orlando (MARAUDERS; Midnighter) and Sara Pichelli (ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN; SPIDER-MEN) join forces to open a groundbreaking new chapter in the Scarlet Witch’s history!
- 40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
Orlando previously said in an interview of Scarlet Witch‘s Darcy, “This is the 616 version of the character, who brings the same type of perceptions to the book, but also fits right into what’s going on with Scarlet Witch, with the magic side of the Marvel Universe.” She sports a similar look to the MCU’s Darcy, wearing both glasses and a beanie. The preview shows Darcy speak with Wanda about fighting a sea monster before she is introduced to Wanda’s speedster brother, Pietro Maximoff AKA Quicksilver.
How Marvel Has Brought in Elements From WandaVision
In the MCU, specifically WandaVision, Darcy’s connection to Wanda is that she is one of the scientists called in by S.W.O.R.D. to assist with the hero’s magical takeover of a small New Jersey town, Westview. Scarlet Witch is set to be an ongoing series starring Wanda, and the solicitation for the title’s first issue promises that the hero will also deal with a “town gone mad.” The previous comic title that Wanda starred in was Marvel’s Darkhold saga, involving the mystical Darkhold book that appeared in WandaVision and drove MCU Wanda mad between the events of the series and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).
What Is Next for Scarlet Witch and Darcy in the MCU?
Though 616 Wanda and Darcy are hanging out in the Scarlet Witch series, where their MCU counterparts will go in the future remains to be seen. Darcy last appeared briefly in Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), while Wanda was seemingly crushed under the Darkhold Castle after destroying the structure in Multiverse of Madness. No future MCU projects with Elizabeth Olsen reprising her role as Scarlet Witch have been announced at this time, and Wanda’s status as dead or alive is unconfirmed.
Along with Orlando and Pichelli, Scarlet Witch #1 is colored by Matt Wilson. Main cover art for the issue is by Russell Dauterman, with variant cover artwork contributed to by Adam Hughes, Jesus Saiz, Elena Casagrande, Pepe Larraz, Lucio Parrillo, David Nakayama, Tom Reilly and Ivan Tao. The issue goes on sale Jan. 4 from Marvel Comics.

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En ja hoor, dit onderzoek, dat afgelopen tijd ook de Nederlandse media bereikte, is weer een goed voorbeeld van ‘junk-science’: het aantal opnames voor hartaanvallen in de Engelse ziekenhuizen zou met 40% gedaald zijn na invoering van het rookverbod.
Nee dus, het onderzoek bewijst helemaal niets, volgens expert Dr. Michael Siegel. Het is het zoveelste onderzoek in een rij dat zich niets gelegen laat liggen aan wetenschappelijke principes maar vooral uitgebracht is om een rookverbod te verdedigen. Deze overdrijving gaat de anti-rokenlobby de kop kosten, volgens Dr. Siegel.
Het onderzoek behoort weer in de categorie propaganda en niet in de categorie wetenschap.
The media is widely reporting that there has been a drop in heart attack admissions of up to 40% in England due to the implementation of the national smoking ban last July (report 1; report 2; report 3).
According to these three articles, the smoking ban resulted in a decline of up to 40% in hospital heart attack admissions during the first nine months that the ban was in place. The articles report that overall, the number of heart attack patients being admitted has fallen in more than half of England’s hospital trusts. Specifically, there was a decline in heart attack admissions in 66 of the 114 trusts examined.
The total number of heart attack admissions during the nine-month period following implementation of the smoking ban was 1,384 less than during the same nine-month period a year earlier. One hospital trust saw a 41% decline in heart attack admissions.
Three anti-smoking or health groups – the British Heart Foundation, the British Cardiovascular Society, and Action on Smoking and Health – were quoted in these articles as concluding that the observed decline in heart attacks was attributable to the smoking ban.
According to the articles:
“The British Heart Foundation said that it showed the ban was the ‘most significant public health initiative this century'”.
“Amanda Sandford, of the pressure group Action on Smoking and Health, added: ‘This is excellent news. It seems likely that the drop in hospital admissions for heart attacks is linked to the implementation of the smoking ban. It shows just how quickly the benefits can be felt. Even if the overall percentage reduction appears small, the fact that this amounts to over a thousand people whose lives have been saved is extremely important.'”
“Dr. Nicholas Boon, president of the British Cardiovascular Society, said: ‘This is great news. It is exactly what we hoped and expected to see. When you place these figures with the research in Scotland, Ireland, France and Rome, it is consistent with the observation that the ban has been followed by significant improvements in heart attack rates. It is early days, but the benefits may be greater in the long run.'”
The Rest of the Story
This is pure junk science, and it is a shame that the anti-smoking and health groups are willing to stoop down to the level of junk science to promote their agendas.
The fact that heart attacks have declined in more than half of the hospital trusts is of no consequence at all with respect to the hypothesis that the smoking ban led to a reduction in heart attack admissions. Even if one assumes that there is no secular change occurring in heart attacks, under the null hypothesis – that the smoking ban had no effect on heart attacks – one would expect that heart attacks would decline in one-half of the hospital trusts. That is, if smoking bans have no effect on heart attacks, then one would expect that heart attacks would decline in 57 of the 114 hospital trusts. The fact that heart attacks declined in just 66 of the hospital trusts is actually pretty strong evidence that the smoking ban did not cause a decline in heart attacks.
In fact, we can quantify the probability that if smoking bans have no effect on heart attacks, one would observe a decline in heart attacks in 57 of 114 hospital trusts. It turns out that this probability is greater than 5%, the level generally considered statistically significant. Thus, the reported finding is not significantly different than one would expect by chance alone.
The actual 95% confidence interval on the reported proportion of hospital trusts that saw a decline in heart attacks is 48.8% to 67.0%. Since this confidence interval includes 50%, one cannot conclude that the proportion of hospitals that saw a decline in heart attacks is different from what would have been observed by chance alone (if there were no effect of smoking bans on heart attack admissions). Thus, these data provide no evidence of any effect of the smoking ban on heart attack admissions.
Moreover, the overall reported decline in heart attacks is only 3%. This is such a small effect that there is no way to attribute the decline to the smoking ban.
Furthermore, it is well-documented that heart attack rates in Europe have been declining over time in recent years. It is unlikely that the 3% observed decline in heart attacks is significantly higher than the decline that would have occurred anyway due to secular trends. Without any analysis of the trends in heart attack admissions over time, it is impossible to draw the conclusion that the 3% decline was due to the smoking ban, rather than merely reflective of a secular trend.
Even worse, there is no control group in the study. Even if the 3% decline in heart attacks in England were significant, without a control or comparison groups, it is impossible to know that the decline is greater than what would have been expected in the absence of the smoking ban.
It appears that the sloppy science being promulgated by anti-smoking groups and researchers in the area of the evaluation of the effects of smoking bans on heart attacks has become so pervasive that it has infiltrated into the media itself. Now the media are conducting their own shoddy analyses and representing them as having some meaning.
Let me assure my readers that this particular analysis is meaningless. If anything, the data best support the conclusion that the smoking ban had no substantial effect on heart attack admissions. A 40% decline in admissions in Helena was attributed to the smoking ban by anti-smoking researchers. as was a 27% decline in Pueblo. Even if the observed decline in smoking was due to the smoking ban rather than a secular change or random variation, the finding of just a 3% decline would wipe out the conclusion that smoking bans have a dramatic effect on heart attack admissions.
What is disturbing to me is not that the media would put forth such a shoddy scientific analysis and unsupportable conclusion. What disturbs me is that anti-smoking groups find this shoddy science to be convincing. They are so biased in their views that they apparently care only about the direction of the results, not the scientific validity of the findings.
This is a sad state of affairs for the tobacco control movement, because it means that we are continuing to lose our scientific integrity. The political cause has become more important than the science.
Unfortunately, this makes us no better than the tobacco companies that we have consistently criticized for their own shoddy science. And maybe even worse, because the tobacco companies have at least made some changes in their representation of science to the public. They are at least moving somewhat in the right direction. But we are apparently moving in the wrong direction.
We need to take the high road and to protect the scientific integrity of our movement. In the long run, it does no good to stoop to the level of junk science to support our agenda. It puts us on the road to the eventual loss of credibility and of the public’s trust.


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Max Mosley, the ex Formula One boss, has finally had a reply to a letter he sent to Rupert Murdoch about alleged News of the World bribery, more than a year after he first wrote to the News Corporation chairman.
The reply was sent on 17 April, six days before Murdoch was quizzed about his failure to respond to Mosley at the Leveson inquiry.
Tom Mockridge, the News International chief executive, responded on behalf of Murdoch, apologising for "the failure to respond" and for the "discourtesy involved", adding that he will write in due course with a "full response".
Mosley wrote to Murdoch on 10 March last year by email and by post to ask him to order an investigation into allegations that the News of the World had "set out to blackmail two of the women involved" in an orgy the former F1 boss had arranged.
He put it to Murdoch that the News Corp boss had proclaimed that the company had a "zero tolerance towards wrongdoing by employees" and in light of this he should order an internal inquiry.
Mosley sent the letter several times and said he was astonished not to get a reply, even if it was from an underling.
He added that he believed it was "no coincidence" that he finally got a reply just as Murdoch was to appear before Lord Justice Leveson. He said the letter is a kind of non-reply, signed not by Murdoch, but by Mockridge.
"If they bothered to answer, they might never have found themselves in the situation they are in. The fact they didn't answer shows they have no interest in the truth. It's all part of a pattern: 'It's nothing to do with Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch wasn't there.' They only caved the second they knew they would be asked about it at Leveson," added Mosley.
Mockridge's reply lists a series of points – that the News of the World is now closed and the editor at the time of the orgy story, Colin Myler, no longer works for News Group Newspapers, the News International subsidiary that published the Sunday tabloid.
The News of the World had offered to pixelate the face of one of the women in an undercover video of the party but said that if she refused, her privacy would not be protected. This, Justice Eady said in a high court privacy action successfully taken by Mosley in 2008, amounted to blackmail.
Murdoch was asked about the letter at the Leveson inquiry. "I think you remember this letter, don't you, Mr Murdoch," counsel for the inquiry Robert Jay QC asked.
"No, I have looked into the question of correspondence with Mr Mosley, and I did not read [it] – I was out of town or something," Murdoch replied.
He later admitted he had also not read Eady's judgment in the privacy action brought by Mosley, which cost News of the World £60,000 in damages.
Mosley, 70, sued the Sunday tabloid paper for grossly invading his privacy after it printed pictures and published video of him indulging in a five-hour sadomasochistic session with prostitutes in a Chelsea apartment.
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NAHB: Many housing markets return to normal levels
Posted on Friday, March 7, 2014 at 8:56:18 AM
Economic bumps and bruises have slowed down the housing market over the past few years, but according to data from the National Association of Home Builders, more markets across the country have been returning to normal.
The NAHB's Leading Markets Index indicated that markets in 59 of roughly 350 metropolitan areas either hit or surpassed normal levels of economic and housing activity. This is good news, because it means that more stable conditions and better options await those interested in residential financing.
"Despite the cold weather that has constrained economic and housing activity across much of the nation this winter, markets are returning to normal levels," said NAHB chairman Kevin Kelly. "As the job and housing markets continue to mend and the onset of spring releases the pent-up demand for new homes, this will bode well for the remainder of 2014."
In addition, Trulia reported that home asking prices increased 10.4 percent year-over-year in February, although recent trends illustrate a slightly slower rate of growth. For example, on a quarterly basis, asking prices only ticked up 1.9 percent in that month. At its recent peak, quarter-over-quarter gains hit 3.5 percent in April 2013. That being said, prices are still on the way up, and total increases have passed historical norms.


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Mexico’s leftwing presidential candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has called on Enrique Peña Nieto, the current favourite to win the election on 1 July, to come clean about the alleged purchase of favourable coverage on Mexico’s biggest television network. His comments came a day after the Guardian published documents implicating the Televisa network in the sale of news and entertainment content to promote Peña Nieto’s national profile when he was the governor of Mexico state and preparing his presidential bid. “They should hand over all the information, the contracts, that they haven’t wanted to show,” López Obrador told reporters. “Of course they have them, and we need to see how much they paid, for what kind of message, and if they include all the promotion of Peña Nieto on the television.” López Obrador, who represents a coalition of leftist parties called the Progressive Movement – and who in the past has also been criticised for failing to release details of his own publicity budget – said he wanted to study the documents before saying anything more. López Obrador did not mention the PowerPoint presentation mentioned in the Guardian story that detailed an apparent strategy within Televisa to destroy his first bid for the presidency in the 2006 election.
Several leading Mexican newspapers and radio shows led on the Guardian report in their Friday editions, and the story has become a trending topic on Twitter in the country. The allegations are particularly sensitive in the current electoral climate, in which student demonstrators accusing Televisa of favouring Peña Nieto have turned alleged media bias into a central issue of the campaign.
In response to a question about the documents on Friday, Peña Nieto told reporters that “they have no solid basis and are not authentic”. The candidate insisted that all publicity spending during his years as governor of the State of Mexico is publicly open to scrutiny on an official website.


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Netflix's 13-episode Daredevil series will have a "gritty 1970s New York feel," according to showrunner Steven S. DeKnight.
Speaking at the world premiere of Guardians of the Galaxy, DeKnight said that shooting has just started in the Big Apple and is going "phenomenally well" thus far.
"We're going for a gritty, 1970s' New York feel for the show. We love the idea of beauty and the decay of the city, and Hell's Kitchen being a place that's both beautiful and gritty at the same time. And that's why Matt Murdock loves it and wants to protect it."
As for a release date, DeKnight was less revealing, saying only that it will hit Netflix "some time next year."
Check out the interview in full on Marvel's YouTube channel.
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WHERE: Catalonia, Spain
WASTE MANAGEMENT HIERARCHY: Prevention and Recycling
TYPE OF INSTRUMENT: Education, awareness raising
WASTE STREAMS: used cooking oil
About: The project consisted in the collection of Used Cooking Oil (UCO) at schools to produce biodiesel, involving students and by creating jobs for people at risk of social exclusion. It also included the design, building and optimization of a pilot plant for the treatment of oils and the production of biodiesel using cavitation technology, which has environmental advantages such as reducing the consumption of raw materials and energy.
The main goal of the project was to raise awareness of waste recycling and renewable energy production among children and young people, fostering educational and social values.
CTM is a non-profit technological center that aims to efficiently contribute to improving the competitiveness and the technological development of companies by providing specialized services and carrying out R&D and Innovation projects. Its activities cover sectors such as Environmental Technology, Materials Technology and Energy. CTM’s Sustainability Department is focused on contributing to sustainable industrial and community development through the enhancement of their environmental quality.
Financial: 643.787€ EU contribution, 1.485.526 € total.
Material resources: Construction of a whole new pilot plant in order to manage the UCO, adaptation and optimization of the new plant to produce biodiesel, design and production of a specific container to take the UCO and other media support.
Human resources: Besides all the scholars that were involved, the company BETA RENOWABLE GROUP S.A. took part in the project (focused on the biodiesel production). Also, people at risk of labour exclusion had a prominent paper in the recovery and purification of oil previously to be processed.
Main outcomes of the project were:
• The project involved 61 municipalities with 118 schools in total
• Awareness of 34.000 students about many environmental issues (waste management, valorization, promote the use of biofuel).
• Life EDUCO created 5 new work places for people at risk of labour exclusion.
• Decrease of the costs in water treatment station due to the lack of oil presence in them.
• At the end of the project an amount of 66.575 liters of wasted oil was collected and 4.700-5.500 containers were cleaned up. With this collection it has been possible to make 54.870 liters of biodiesel and reduce 23,49Tn CO2.
Urban metabolism relevance
DUCO project has a high relevance related to urban metabolism. Whole approach allows to decrease pollution effects of cooked oil, the reduction of waste and allows to obtain a valuable resource to displace conventional fossil fuels. In this regard, the production of biodiesel at UE and Spain is far away from the objective values established by the European directives. EDUCO and its efficient and sustainable production proposal supposed a key opportunity to improve the level of sustainability in transport sector and over the energy efficiency in general.
Aligned to this, the availability of the raw materials at a reasonable prize is a critical aspect. The study of UCO as a raw material is considered for that reason an important factor in the reduction of the required natural resources to exploit energetic farming and even for the reduction of the problem of massive oil in urban wastewater.
EDUCO is an innovation and demonstration project according to the criteria established in the Göteborg strategy. This strategy establishes a political framework at European level to engage sustainable development, meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
EDUCO were endowed with an important component of innovation and demonstration character: the UCO collection system in educational centers, oil pre-treatment and cleaning of the containers used for the collection as well as the biodiesel production, based in an innovative cavitation technology are the most representative aspects.
Engaged participatory processes
The project was performed with the collaboration of a great number of students from 1200 Catalan schools (as is mentioned on the” Results” section above). They were aware about the issue about the cooked oil effects in the environment, among the direct involvement in the recovery of waste. Hence, the informational process was done basically by the performance of activities done by the educators in centers with the help of the design of a set of educative materials and the release of a general guidance for educators.
Sustainability and replicability
Sustainability of the project was ensured once the project ended, the capitation of new schools and municipalities is still ongoing. Hence, aim is to increase geographical scope to further zones of Catalonia even Spain or Europe.
Furthermore, it is pretended to guarantee the project continuity creating an Integrate management system for the oil wastes generated at domestic level. This project reflected how relatively easy is to implement a system of oil collect for a lot of educational establishments.
Objective was to engage people in the collection of this waste and at the same time, to raise awareness about a relative unknown environmental concern. The idea can easily be replicated in other countries. In this regard, the future introduction and the design of an Integrated Management System of UCO is under evaluation.
- Key elements through a detailed Communication Plan that included different dissemination activities were deployed along the project. Promotional videos, graphic material, a dedicated webpage, informative panels in different locations allowed to perform an effective communication and transfer of knowledge generated.
- Both general public and professionals could have accessed to information about the progress of the project and its results. With that whole approach, project was publicized along a set of dissemination activities.
- 118 educational centers were visited and companies from biodiesel manufacturers to wastewater treatment operators were contacted for this purpose. Hence, specific open-days of the project allowed to kept them informed about the project activities.
One of the most problematic issues that influences the production of biodiesel is the availability of raw materials at a reasonable cost to ensure the viability of the production of biofuels. EDUCO allowed to contribute to the resolution of this problem. UCO are residues generated from the use of vegetable oils in continuous and repeated cycles of cooking foods at temperatures comprised of between 100° and 180°. Traditionally, they were reused as raw materials for production for animal food and soap production.
However, since the prohibition of using them in the animal food production (EC/1774/2002) and its inclusion in the European Catalogue of residues (EC/532/2000), UCO’s are being managed via specific process flows. Additionally, EU directive 2008/98/CE states: ‘The separate collection of waste oils remains crucial to their proper management and the prevention of damage to the environment from their improper disposal’. The biofuel directive (2003/30/EC) of the European Commission sets targets for the European Union to gradually replace fossil fuels with biofuels. The target for 2010 was 5,75% of biofuels.
The directive (2009/28/EC) on the Promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources aims to reach up a minimum share of 10% in 2020 by using only sustainable biofuels. However, several challenges have to be addressed in future:
– There is a lack of detailed policies for the UCO collection and processing around Europe.
– Supporting measures to enhance small producers to collect and treat adequately UCO are not available in some countries.
– Any national integrated system for UCO collection has been implemented till the date in any European country
– Policy makers and the general public are not aware of the problems that avoid collection and adequate UCO treatment may produce


Auditor General Karen Hogan said on Thursday that the government failed to flag fraudulent CERB claims during the coronavirus pandemic and that it will take years for them to recoup associated losses, Global News reports.
The Canada Emergency Response Benefit, generally referred to as CERB, was implemented by the federal government during the summer of 2020 to help unemployed Canadians who lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic.
The program was costly, with many conservatives criticizing it for a lack of safeguards to prevent fraudsters from abusing the program.
She also audited the rollout of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS), the most costly of the government's coronavirus response programs. The program subsidized companies over the course of the pandemic in order to prevent them from laying off workers. Many of these companies laid off their workers after they ceased receiving the subsidy, and some of the subsidies went to firms based in foreign countries, including a number of Chinese corporations.
Hogan discussed multiple ways in which the government could have stepped in to prevent fraudsters from taking CERB money. She also noted that the government allowed multiple companies with unpaid tax bills to receive CEWS benefits, arguing that this was preventable.
Hogan also said that in general, the Canadian government and the Public Health Agency of Canada was ill prepared to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, citing the dearth of the country's emergency preparedness over the past few years.
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All this talk of same-sex marriage got me to thinking about my standard response when the issue comes up in conversation, which is that I’ve been through it already. Naturally someone thinks I mean I’m gay or some such but then I explain that when my wife and I got engaged in 1963 our marriage was still illegal in Arizona and when they took the law off the books and we married in 1964 (not because of the law being removed we could have still got a license, but then we would always have been open to arrest as happened to the Lovings of Virginia), it was still illegal in 18 other states and we could have been arrested had we traveled there. So yeah, I know all about this. Oh, and the same people, waving their Bibles, were against us getting married then as the ones doing it now and against gays getting married.
But then I got to thinking further. Why was I so all-fired anxious to get married. After all, we went together for a year and then got engaged and went another year, so two years before we actually married. Admittedly, living together wasn’t done then, at least among reputable people. And that struck a spark: I didn’t mind being disreputable, but I didn’t want to confirm bigots’ notions that no White person would actually marry a Black woman. He might sleep with her, even live with her, but not marriage; that wasn’t for Blacks.
So I married her, proudly. Forty-nine years later, we are still married and that fact provokes amazement, not the interracial composition of the marriage. Isn’t that funny? Now people still try to separate us, for instance, in the grocery line they’ll get confused as to whose stuff is whose until we explain that they are together, that we are together. But previously, they try to separate us, assuming she and I had to go separate ways. But that was still better than simply refusing to serve her at all, something I was fortunate enough not to observe. Sometimes we didn’t get served, but it was done surreptitiously. And once in a while my wife has reported discrimination not only to me but to the people in charge of the institution or business and she has found that action is usually taken and the culprit is gone the next time she visits.
Still, I was thinking, what was the underlying motivation that caused me to want to protect her reputation, her social stability, her financial security, her standing in the law, and so forth? It dawned on me that it was because I love her. That’s why, pure and simple. To me, marriage said I loved her enough to marry her and I loved her enough to marry her in the face of social disapproval remember, at that time a lot of Blacks said I would never marry her and some were against interracial marriages themselves. I wanted to wipe the stupid grin off those people’s faces and force them to recognize us as a united couple in all circumstances and under law.
Such is the force of the law. And that is why gay couples want to marry it’s the law, it’s their reputation, and it’s their love. Ay, there’s the rub: many people just cannot believe two people of the same sex can love each other. And so many young people have now sat with a friend who is broken-hearted over the break-up of a gay romance that they know the love is as real as their heterosexual love. That’s all due to people “coming out” to their friends and family so that THEIR LOVE CANNOT BE DENIED.

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Threads of Life founder Shirley Hickman inducted into OHS Canada Hall of Fame
Health & Safety OHS Canada Hall of Fame Shirley Hickman Threads of Life
“You’re just lost. You’re a lost person.”
That’s how Shirley Hickman described the weeks and months that followed the death of her son Tim, who was killed on the job in 1996 when there was an explosion at an arena in London, Ont. He was 20.
There were no immediate answers. She was “thrown” into what she called a foreign world with a confusing legal system and investigators who didn’t have any answers and people who didn’t want to speak to her.
The employer wasn’t talking. The Ministry of Labour, at that time, was not communicative with families, leaving them feeling isolated and uninformed.
“If you can’t find out what was the root cause, you don’t know what could have been done to prevent it,” said Hickman.
The’ voice of prevention’
Leveraging her experience in volunteer work, she began to identify a need for an organization that would be the “voice of prevention.”
“People started asking me to speak, and it was about, ‘Who is Tim?’ Not so much about what happened, but who is Tim?” she said.
These engagements led her to collaborate with various ministries and organizations focused on health and safety, specifically initiatives to decrease injuries to young workers.
In addition to partnering with government agencies, Hickman said she started to be contacted organically by other grieving families.
“Family members just sort of started finding me by osmosis,” she said. One particularly transformative moment came when an attorney for the Ministry of Labour asked her to speak to another widow. Despite her own unfamiliarity with the legal process, she accepted.
“I thought to myself as one human being to another, ‘How can I not reach out to this widow if she thought I had anything to offer?'” Hickman said she wanted to focus on sharing who the deceased were as individuals, rather than the incidents that led to their deaths.
“We cried together on the phone and we laughed together on the phone,” she said.
Later, a crisis worker from Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) called her about a grief-stricken mother who refused to speak to any counsellors. She insisted on talking to someone who had also lost a child. After reaching out to her almost daily, the mother eventually told Hickman: “Thank God for you. I decided that I need to go on living for the sake of my child who has died.”
And her phone kept ringing, and people started finding her. The conversations were as similar as they were heartbreaking — “They wanted people to know who their family member was, and what could be done for prevention.”
Threads of Life
It all crystallized with the foundation of Threads of Life in 2003, which today serves around 3,600 Canadians personally impacted by workplace tragedies. Hickman herself serves as the executive-director.
The organization has become a crucial resource in Canada’s landscape of workplace health and safety, connecting with ministries, labour boards, and companies across various sectors.
Hickman summed up the motivation behind her and many others who have joined Threads of Life, stating, “All family members want is for a similar tragedy to not happen to somebody else. So to create awareness.”
Volunteer Family Guides
Hickman spearheaded a program called Volunteer Family Guides. The guides are family members who have personally experienced life-altering injuries, occupational diseases, or the loss of a loved one due to workplace incidents.
These volunteers undergo rigorous training focused on listening skills and self-care, equipping them to offer empathetic support to others.
“We can’t make someone better. We can’t fix anything for anybody. But we can listen,” she said.
The strength of the program lies in its ability to pair family members who are going through similar experiences. When two fathers, for instance, are connected, or when one sibling speaks to another, they serve as sounding boards for each other, offering a sense of hope and shared understanding, she said.
Initially, families affected by workplace tragedies may receive community support, but that often wanes as legal complexities drag on.
This program bridges the gap, offering individuals a peer to talk to — whether it’s six months or five years down the road — who understands the intricacies and emotional toll of their journey, she said.
These connections validate their experiences and offer coping strategies for special anniversaries and holidays. According to Hickman, the most vital skill the program instills is the ability to listen; it may not change the circumstances, but it can change how one copes with them.
Hickman can never look at the world of workplace safety through numbers.
“I don’t deal with statistics,” she said. “I think in terms of one, and one is too many. I don’t want one family to be suffering from a workplace injury, illness or death. I can’t think in terms of statistics the way so many organizations do.”
But she is heartened at some of the progress she has seen since 1996, particularly the better communication with families and workers’ compensation boards.
“They weren’t encouraged, weren’t allowed almost, to share with families,” said Hickman.
She also pointed out that public awareness campaigns have been ramped up, and employers are increasingly reaching out to Threads of Life to arrange for speakers on workplace safety. She also cited that students now receive occupational health and safety training as part of their high school curriculum. These educational initiatives, she hopes, will empower young workers to ask questions and know their rights when entering the workforce.
Thoughts on being inducted
When news arrived that she had been inducted into the OHS Canada Hall of Fame as part of the 2023 class, she closed the email.
“It’s so humbling, and I don’t really have words for it,” she said. “I mean, it’s all built out of our family tragedy and Tim’s legacy and helping people in the world. It’s emotional, and I don’t know that I actually have words. I was surprised and humbled. I do the work because I believe it’s helping people.”


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Away from the bustle of the convention, Welch told the Free Press he was happy to hear from multiple candidates outside of their natural constituency."When you run for president you're really reaching out to try to represent the entire country," Welch said.
"Bernie showing up here along with Martin O'Malley and other candidates, they are making it clear they want to listen and reach beyond their base to ultimately succeed."Welch noted Sanders and Trump have one thing in common — neither represent traditional politicians.
The pair joined six other presidential candidates along with numerous politicians and celebrities for Monday’s forum at the Radisson in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Sanders joined the convention via satellite from Las Vegas, where he will participate in the first Democratic debate on Tuesday. The group is focused on practical solutions to issues like job creation, balancing the federal budget, securing Social Security and Medicare and energy security.
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In the UK, we’re a nation of pet lovers. In fact, a whopping 34% of us own a dog. And it’s easy to see why, with so many vibrant, quirky cities to explore, it’d be rude not to take your pooch next time you go on a city break.
If you’re wondering which city your four-legged friend will like best, we’ve rounded up our choices below.
What are the best city dogs?
City life often comes part and parcel with apartment living. Although you might think that flats don’t provide ideal dog-parent conditions, the truth is that many dogs live fulfilled, happy lives within apartment blocks.
Those dogs just tend to be smaller in size. While you might struggle to fit an Alaskan Malamute into an apartment block (as much as you may try!), smaller dogs tend to thrive in cities.
Some of the best apartment dogs are French Bulldogs, Miniature Dachshunds, Shih Tzus, and – for the spaniel lovers – Cavalier King Charles Spaniels.
The most accommodating cities in the UK for dogs
Now you know the best dog breed for city life, we’ll delve into the most dog-friendly cities.
Luxury dog bed company Lords & Labradors conducted research into the most welcoming urban areas to take your dog in the UK. Looking at 48 UK towns and cities and measuring them against the following factors.
- Number of dog-friendly restaurants and cafes
- Number of green spaces and parks in each city
- Number of vets per city that treat dogs
- Number of local pet shops
- Number of dog walkers and sitters
- Number of dog groomers
- Number of dog-friendly shops
From the findings they found the following cities to be the most dog-friendly.
London; It might be the largest city in the UK but that hasn’t stopped it from taking the top spot, with a dog-friendly score of a whopping 99%. Home to a staggering 3,000 parks and a plethora of dog-friendly cafes (our favourite being Ozone coffee), dogs are welcomed, thriving and living it up in the cap
Taking our search up north, we found that York is an excellent option if you’re looking to explore a new city with your (furry) best friend, claiming second place with a dog-friendly rating of 87%. With a smattering of twee pet shops and an impressive 45 dog-friendly cafes and restaurants, you can be confident you won’t be short of things to do in York.
York is also home to 25 parks and green spaces where your pooch can frolic until their heart’s content.
Crossing the border into Scotland and you’ll stumble across another dog-friendly spot and third on our list: Glasgow.
As well as being a vibrant city full of culture, Glasgow has plenty of green open spaces for you and Fido to explore.
And if you want to head out solo? In Glasgow, you’ll also find plenty of reputable dog sitters and walkers to keep your beloved pooch entertained while you explore the city.
A list of dog-friendly locations wouldn’t be complete without a nod to Manchester, a close 4th place on our list with 85%. Aside from being one of the UK’s largest cities, Manchester has an array of parks for you to discover.
Then once you’ve worked up an appetite strolling around, head to one of the 66 restaurants for some grub with your furry friend.
Finally, there’s Cambridge. As well as being an idyllic dog-walking backdrop, Cambridge is a superb place to own a dog.
With a high number of veterinary practices and almost 100 parks, Cambridge is a safe place to explore with your pooch – even if they do get up to mischief.
Wherever you choose to go exploring, make sure to pack all the essentials including their collar, leash and poo bags. Now all that’s left to do is grab Fido – it’s time for an adventure.

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Fleas are a common problem for cats. They can cause skin problems, and they can also spread diseases. If your cat has fleas, there are a few things you can do to get rid of them.
The first step is to get a flea comb and comb your cat’s fur. This will remove most of the fleas. You can also use a flea shampoo or a flea dip to kill the fleas.
You should also treat your cat’s environment. This means cleaning the cat’s bedding and vacuum the floors and furniture. You can also use a flea bomb or a flea spray to kill the fleas in your home.
It can take a few weeks to get rid of all the fleas, but it’s important to be patient and keep at it. If you take the necessary steps, your cat should be flea-free in no time.
Understanding the Impact of Fleas on Cats’ Health
Fleas are tiny parasites that live on the skin and hair of animals and humans. They can cause serious health problems in cats, including anemia, tapeworms, and skin infections. In addition, fleas can spread other diseases, such as typhus and plague.
If your cat has fleas, the first step is to get rid of them. There are several ways to do this, including medications, powders, and shampoos. You can also buy a flea collar or a flea trap.
Once the fleas are gone, you need to take steps to prevent them from coming back. This includes keeping your cat indoors, washing your cat’s bedding regularly, and using a flea control medication.
Identifying Signs of Flea Infestation in Cats
Fleas are tiny, brown insects that can cause a great deal of discomfort and irritation for cats. They are most commonly found in warmer climates, and can be very difficult to get rid of. If your cat has fleas, it is important to take action right away to get rid of them.
The most obvious sign of a flea infestation is the presence of fleas on your cat’s skin. You may also see flea droppings around your cat’s bedding or scratching posts. In severe cases, you may even find fleas in your cat’s fur.
If you suspect that your cat has fleas, you should take him to the veterinarian for a check-up. The veterinarian can prescribe a flea treatment that will get rid of the fleas. There are a number of different flea treatments available, so it is important to choose the one that is best for your cat.
If you are treating your cat for fleas at home, it is important to vacuum your house thoroughly. This will help to get rid of any fleas or flea droppings that may be present. You should also wash your cat’s bedding and toys in hot water to kill any fleas that may be present.
Fleas can be a serious nuisance for cats, and it is important to take action right away if your cat has them. The veterinarian can prescribe a flea treatment that will get rid of the fleas. You should also vacuum your house thoroughly and wash your cat’s bedding and toys in hot water.
Immediate Action: Steps to Take When Your Cat Has Fleas
If you have a cat and it has fleas, you need to take immediate action. Fleas can cause your cat a lot of problems, including skin irritation, hair loss, and even anaemia. In extreme cases, fleas can also transmit tapeworms to your cat.
The first step is to get rid of the fleas. You can do this by using a flea treatment such as a flea collar, a flea shampoo, or a flea powder. You should also vacuum your house thoroughly, and wash all of your cat’s bedding in hot water.
It’s also important to prevent your cat from getting fleas in the first place. You can do this by using a flea prevention treatment such as a flea spray or a flea tablet. You should also keep your cat away from other animals that may have fleas.
Treating Your Cat: Using Flea Shampoos, Topical Treatments, and Oral Medications
Fleas are tiny parasites that can cause big problems for both your cat and your home. Fortunately, there are many ways to treat both fleas and the flea-related problems they cause. This article will discuss the various treatments available for cats, including flea shampoos, topical treatments, and oral medications.
Flea shampoos are one of the most common ways to treat fleas on cats. These shampoos contain ingredients that kill fleas, and they are available over the counter at most pet stores. When using a flea shampoo, be sure to follow the instructions closely. Wash your cat thoroughly, making sure to get the shampoo into all the nooks and crannies of their coat. Leave the shampoo on for five to ten minutes, then rinse your cat thoroughly. Repeat the process if necessary.
Topical treatments are also available for fleas on cats. These treatments come in the form of a topical flea killer that you apply to your cat’s skin. The treatment is absorbed into the skin and kills the fleas on contact. It is important to read the instructions carefully before using a topical treatment, as some can be harmful if used incorrectly.
Oral medications are another option for treating fleas on cats. These medications come in the form of a pill or a liquid that is given to your cat orally. The medication works by killing the fleas inside your cat’s body. It is important to talk to your veterinarian before giving your cat an oral medication, as some can be harmful if used incorrectly.
Home and Environment: Preventing Reinfestation and Flea Spread
Fleas are small, brownish insects that live on the blood of animals, most commonly cats and dogs. Fleas can cause serious health problems for pets, and can also spread tapeworms and other parasites. Fleas can be difficult to get rid of, but there are several things you can do to prevent them from coming back and spreading to other animals.
The best way to prevent fleas is to keep your pet well-groomed and keep its environment clean. Regularly brush your pet’s coat to remove any fleas or eggs, and vacuum furniture and rugs often to get rid of any fleas or larvae. You should also keep your pet’s bedding clean and dry, and wash your pet’s bedding regularly.
If your pet does get fleas, there are several things you can do to get rid of them. The first step is to treat your pet with a flea medication. There are many different types of flea medications, so talk to your veterinarian about which one is best for your pet. You should also treat your home and environment with a flea control product. There are many different types of flea control products, so talk to your veterinarian or pest control professional about which one is best for your home.
It can be difficult to get rid of fleas, but taking these precautions can help reduce the chances of them coming back.
Seeking Professional Veterinary Advice for Severe Flea Infestations
If you have a cat and it has fleas, you’re going to want to take action to get rid of them. Severe flea infestations can not only make your cat uncomfortable, but they can also be dangerous.
If you’re unsure of how to get rid of fleas, it’s best to seek professional veterinary advice. A veterinarian will be able to not only help you get rid of the fleas, but they can also help you take steps to prevent them from coming back.
There are a few things you can do to help get rid of fleas on your own. One of the most important things is to make sure you are using the correct type of flea medication. There are a variety of different flea medications available, and not all of them are effective against all types of fleas.
It’s also important to make sure you are using the correct dosage of medication. Using too much or too little of the medication can be ineffective, and it can also be dangerous.
If you’re having a difficult time getting rid of the fleas, you may need to take other steps as well. You can try bathing your cat in a flea-killing shampoo, or you can try using a flea collar.
If you’re still having trouble getting rid of the fleas, you may need to call in a professional. A professional exterminator will be able to use more powerful medications to get rid of the fleas.
Getting rid of fleas can be a challenge, but it’s important to take action to protect your cat. By seeking professional veterinary advice, you can be sure that you’re taking the best possible steps to get rid of the fleas and keep them from coming back.
Educating Yourself on Long-Term Flea Prevention for Cats
As a cat owner, you know that cats can get fleas, but you may not be sure how to get rid of them or how to prevent them from coming back. Here is some information on long-term flea prevention for cats that can help you keep your cat healthy and happy.
Fleas are tiny, air-borne parasites that live on the blood of their hosts. Cats can get fleas from other animals, as well as from contact with the environment. Fleas can cause a variety of health problems in cats, including skin irritation, hair loss, and anaemia.
The best way to prevent your cat from getting fleas is to keep them away from environments where fleas are likely to be found, such as outdoor areas where animals may have been, and areas where there is a lot of grass or brush. You can also reduce your cat’s risk of getting fleas by using a flea collar, a flea treatment shampoo, or a flea preventative medication.
If your cat does get fleas, there are a number of steps you can take to get rid of them. The first step is to treat your cat with a flea-killing medication, such as a spot-on treatment, a flea collar, or a flea powder. You should also treat the environment where your cat lives and plays, including the carpets, furniture, and bedding. You can do this by vacuuming regularly and spraying the area with a flea-killing product.
It is also important to keep your cat’s vaccinations up-to-date, as fleas can also transmit other diseases, such as tapeworms and roundworms.
Fleas can be a nuisance for cats and their owners, but with a little bit of effort, you can keep your cat safe and flea-free.

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Gardens, Books, and Legacies
Gardening wasn’t a hobby in my mother’s family. Instead, it was essential to their lives. In the 1950s and 60s in rural Arkansas, the garden was their only source of fruits and vegetables. And when they wanted something different, they bartered their oversupply with their neighbors.
As the decades passed, my grandmother’s life changed dramatically. In the 1990s, the rural farming community had a grocery store, but my grandmother used it sparingly. She loved buying things like snack cakes and out-of-season fruits, but her heart still lived in the growing and cooking of food she grew.
Gardens and Books
Before the internet, my grandmother was an adventurous gardener, so she had all kinds of magazines, pamphlets, and books around her home. And they called to my bibliophile soul, y’all.
I remember spending hours upon hours looking through the books with her. Sometimes, she would plan a garden, so we would make charts and draw out maps on graphing paper.
She taught me how to use the index and cross-reference between 2 sources to check facts.
Even more important than these skills, she taught me that garden work was not all weeding, feeding, and harvesting.
It is a place where we can provide for ourselves. Food, creativity, beauty, and community intersect in the garden, and she knew it.
Gardens and Legacies
My grandmother took a lot of pride in her garden.
When I was in high school, my grandmother grew a peach tree from the pit of a fruit she bought at the grocery store.
I remember seeing the seedling pop up, then she kept it in a pot and brought it inside that first winter. The day she planted it, she had never seemed so happy. And I remember seeing the first flower and tasting that first peach.
It was delicious, but it was so much more than that. It was the culmination of 4 years of meticulous care. Instead of keeping it to herself, she cut it up and served as many of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandkids as she could.
It wasn’t about the peach anyway. It was about sharing in the loving family she cared for just as meticulously as that peach tree she nurtured.
My grandmother has passed away, but the things she taught me while working in the garden, like patience, diligence, and compassion, live on. I am using my garden to teach these things to my children.
I still have some old gardening books that fed my passion for reading and growing things. So I get them out and look through them now and then. I will share pictures of them below.

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DACAPO HAS DONE IT AGAIN - 12 RECORDINGS NOMINATED FOR DMA CLASSICAL AWARDS 2002
March 22, 2002
This year again the Dacapo label is behind most of the nominated recordings that can be considered for the coveted prize Danish Music Award Classical 2002, which will be presented at a gala concert on 22nd May at 7.30 p.m. in the Tivoli Concert Hall.
In the category "Danish Solo Release of the Year" all three nominations are from Dacapo. They are Thomas Trondhjem with Weyse's piano sonatas, Rolf Hind with piano works by Poul Ruders and Jorgen Ellegard Frederiksen with Leif Kayser's organ works.
"Danish Vocal Release of the Year" may go to one of Dacapo's recordings, the Danish Radio Sinfonietta conducted by Giordano Bellincampi with Weyse's Singspiel "The Sleeping Draught" or the Copenhagen Boys' Choir conducted by Ebbe Munk with Buxtehude's Vocal Music Vol. 2.
In the category "Danish Chamber Music Release of the Year" two Dacapo names are among the nominations: Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen conducted by Giordano Bellincampi with Vagn Holmboe's Preludes for Sinfonietta Vol. 2 and the Nordlys ensemble for its debut CD Nordlys.
In "Danish Orchestral Release of the Year" we find two recordings conducted by Thomas Dausgaard: the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra playing Asger Hamerik's Symphonies 5 og 6 and the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra with Rued Langgaard's Symphonies 6-8. Dausgaard is in fact also responsible for the last of the three recordings nominated in the category.
Dacapo is further behind all releases in the category "Danish Classical Release of the Year", where Thomas Dausgaard is again strongly represented. The nominations are the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thomas Dausgaard with Asger Hamerik's Symphonies 5 and 6, the Danish Radio Sinfonietta conducted by Giordano Bellincampi with "The Sleeping Draught" and the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thomas Dausgaard with Rued Langgaard's Symphonies 9-11.
Further information on the various recordings is available from Dacapo's website:
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Lakeland volleyball cruises to win after slow start
Athletics - posted on 9/29/2009
SHEBOYGAN - The Lakeland women's volleyball team overcame a slow start to defeat Northern Athletics Conference rival Edgewood 25-20, 25-14, 25-21 in front of a raucous crowd at Moose & Dona Woltzen Gymnasium on Tuesday night.
Lakeland coach Chad Schreiber took a timeout after the Muskies (11-4 overall, 3-0 NAC) fell behind 10-3 early in the first set.
Lakeland would run off eight of the next 10 points in the set to gain the momentum, which they would carry through the rest first set and into the second.
"We cranked it up a notch after that first timeout," Schreiber said. "We made too many hitting errors early. Our offensive shot selection has been a problem recently ... our shots we put in bounds are the ones we don't want to hit, while our shots that land out of bounds are the ones we wanted to kill."
After the Eagles (7-11, 2-1) took a 10-6 lead in the third set, the two teams exchanged points throughout the frame before the Muskies took the last four points of the match.
Just three days earlier, the two teams battled in a tight, five-set match at the Wheaton Invitational. Lakeland also emerged victorious in that contest, winning 20-25, 25-17, 25-14, 17-25, 15-11.
After struggling in last weekend's tournament, senior outside hitter Brittanie Paulus (Belgium, Wis.) revived herself with a team-high 18 kills and 11 digs on the night. Junior setter Kristine Raeder (Oostburg, Wis.) finished with 32 assists, while senior libero Tonia Strebelinski (Berlin, Wis.) recorded a team-high 20 digs.
"The biggest adjustments we made between the two matches were hitting our service areas and changing our tempo on setting to Brittanie," Schreiber said.
The Muskies resume NAC play this Friday at MSOE. Match time is set for 7 p.m. in Milwaukee, Wis.
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September 8, Kris Boesen works to strengthen his upper body. This document will also speak on the moral dilemma associated with the practices of stem cells. The stem cells come from the same person who will get the transplant.
Little Rory Kemp seemed so happy and healthy that his parents were stunned when tests revealed he had a rare and aggressive form of blood cancer which starts inside bone marrow — the soft tissue inside bones that helps blood cells to form.
Eliminating HIV The virus needs to use a particular part of blood cells to infect the cells. Unfortunately the alternative locations for harvesting stem cells lack the vitality needed to make progress in research. Human embryonic stem cells are amazing disease fighting agents found inside the body.
Recovering from Stroke Combining a transplant of stem cells with a drug that turns stem cells into nerve cells might someday help patients who have had a stroke. After the accident, Boesen could only move his left arm up and down, and his hands were stuck in a clenched position. USC researchers have, collectively, pulled in millions of dollars in grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
This makes it especially useful for older patients and those with other health problems. The debate derives from the fact that stem cells come from unborn or aborted fetus.
The issue remains constant so as a result researchers are forced to experiment on other species with hopes to continue the search for cures. Every effort must be made to destroy all the cancer cells before the transplant is done to help keep the cancer from coming back.
For two months, the Boesens worked with a team of physical, occupational and speech therapists, as well as physicians, nurses, case managers and social workers. It was the first message that he had sent in months. A match is best when all 6 of the known major HLA antigens are the same — a 6 out of 6 match.
After all, when Ben-Youssef and Liu were in medical school, they learned that there was no way to fix the spinal cord—once the nerves were damaged, that was supposed to be it. Also, although side effects from chemo and radiation may be less than those from a standard allogeneic transplant, the risk of graft-versus-host disease is the same.
Getting rid of cancer cells in the stem cells saved for autologous transplants A possible disadvantage of an autologous transplant is that cancer cells may be collected along with the stem cells and then later put back into your body.
Although it took him time to grasp the gravity of his situation, he says he never felt fear or self-pity, and was confident that the transplant process would work for him.
Lack of clear information on where the stem cells came from and the treatment procedure.
This may be called purging. Such infections can cause serious problems and even death. Tandem transplants double autologous Doing 2 autologous transplants in a row is known as a tandem transplant or a double autologous transplant. The autologous transplant can help decrease the amount of cancer present so that the lower doses of chemo given before the mini-transplant can work better.
His mum Jenny said: This is called in vivo purging. Curing Blindnes USC scientists are testing implants of special cells, made from stem cells, in the eyes of people with age-related macular degeneration, a condition that leads to blindness.
Upon completion, the reader should well educated on the issues surrounding the topic of stem cells. They may not work well for patients with a lot of cancer in their body or people with fast-growing cancers. When doctors found another lump at the top of his skull, he was sent to the Sick Kids Hospital where further tests revealed he had acute myeloid leukaemia in February Nearly six weeks later, he was discharged and returned to Bakersfield to continue his rehabilitation.
Because the therapies would replace damaged tissue with new, healthy tissue, treatments would provide true cures, he says. Centeno pioneered orthopedic stem cell procedures in and is responsible for a large amount of the published research on stem cell use for orthopedic applications.
Centeno regularly lectures on regenerative medicine and has spoken twice at the Vatican Stem Cell Conference, as well as the NFL Combine. Stem cells, or “blank slate” cells, have the potential to become several kinds of cells in the body.
These cells could, in theory, help replace or repair damaged tissues — and after years of lab research, doctors have started to test that theory with patients in clinical trials. This paper will demonstrate three main points: the description, implementation/research, and morality associated with stem cells.
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Fields of the Fatherless is historical fiction, based on actual events. It is an accurate presentation of the events of a brutal battle as seen through the eyes of those caught in its midst.
The study of history can be daunting for many of us. Taken as a whole, I saw the American Revolution is a mass of battles and dates, my history teacher expected me to remember. While I knew this war was of great historical importance, I tended to think of it as long ago and not of any personal interest. History books rarely stress the very personal, individual stories in the battles.
Fields of the Fatherless is about one family that was deeply affected by one battle. This battle occurred on the first day of the American Revolution, in Menotomy Village - now called Arlington, Massachusetts. It took place on the same day as the battles of Lexington and Concord. We tend to picture wars as shooting at distant, impersonal targets. This was a battle of house to house, room to room, fighting using not only pistols and muskets, but knives, clubs and tomahawks.
This story is told through the eyes of eighteen year old Betsy Russell, oldest daughter of Jason Russell, who was brutally killed while defending his home. Betsy tells of assisting in the birth of her niece, while listening to the sounds of musket fire and the agonizing cries of the wounded and the dying. She tells of the aftermath of the battle, the blood and the stench of death. She tells of the hatred and of learning forgiveness while caring for one dying enemy soldier.
Fields of the Fatherless was difficult to read at times, because of the truth revealed within its pages, but I highly recommend it for those who enjoy historical fiction and for anyone interested in American history.
Elaine Marie Cooper grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts, where she would walk past the Jason Russell house and hear stories of the blood on the floor inside. She has a passion for the history of the American Revolution and for her faith in Christ, both of which are evident in this book. She is the author of The Road of Deer Run, The Promise of Deer Run and The Legacy of Deer Run.
I received this book free of charge for a fair and honest review. No request was made for a positive evaluation.
Fields of the Fatherless


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Flagstaff is reaping the benefits after making a commitment to minimal light pollution and protecting the dark, desert sky.
The city, nestled in the mountains just south of the San Francisco Peaks, is a popular destination for nature lovers and hikers, as well as a thriving college town with a population of over 68,000 people. Recently released satellite images of the Flagstaff area show significantly less artificial light than cities of similar size and scope.
This exciting news follows a decades-long commitment to preserve a dark, star-lit sky for northern Arizona. Flagstaff is home to Lowell Observatory, one of the oldest observatories in the state, having opened in 1894, and astronomers and stargazers have long favored Flagstaff as an ideal location for observing the solar system.
As home to three of America’s largest telescopes, Arizona plays an important role in protecting the sky, and Flagstaff is leading the way by using fewer lights and dimmed LED lights. The natural darkness is critical to aiding bird migration and survival of insects that larger animals require for food. The preservation of the darkness also improves people’s abilities to view stars and see the Milky Way.
Images captured by a panoramic camera show that nighttime light emissions in Flagstaff are nearly 14 times fainter than those recorded in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The images show that only a faint halo of yellow and green around Flagstaff, while Cheyenne, Phoenix and Fort Collins, Colorado exhibit a rainbow of colors blooming from the urban areas, signifying significant artificial light.
While sources of excess artificial light including street lights and electronic signs can cause light pollution, some critics argue that decreasing these sources of light raise concerns, and many cities are hesitant of going dark. However, for Flagstaff, the benefits far outweigh the potential negatives, as the dazzling dessert sky is being protected and the city remains a safe place to live and work.


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text: Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a neurodegenerative behavioral disorder that selectively affects the salience network, including the ventral striatum and insula. Tau mutations cause FTD, but how mutant tau impairs the salience network is unknown. Here, we address this question using a mouse model expressing the entire human tau gene with an FTD-associated mutation (V337M). Mutant, but not wild-type, human tau transgenic mice had aging-dependent repetitive and disinhibited behaviors, with synaptic deficits selectively in the ventral striatum and insula. There, mutant tau depleted PSD-95, resulting in smaller postsynaptic densities and impaired synaptic localization of NMDA receptors (NMDARs). In the ventral striatum, decreased NMDAR-mediated transmission reduced striatal neuron firing. Pharmacologically enhancingNMDARfunction with theNMDARco-agonist cycloserine reversed electrophysiological and behavioral deficits. These results indicate that NMDAR hypofunction critically contributes to FTD-associated behavioral and electrophysiological alterations and that this process can be therapeutically targeted by a Food and Drug Administration-approved drug.


If the new crypto measure introduced by Arkansas Republican John Boozman and Michigan Democrat Debbi Stabenow becomes law, the CFTC will have complete regulatory authority over bitcoin and Ethereum, the two largest and most widely used digital currencies in the world.
The CFTC’s Role Would Be Predominant.
The bill explicitly classifies Ethereum and Bitcoin as commodities. Additionally, they are responsible for nearly 65% of all trades made with virtual currencies. Therefore, the CFTC would have a great deal of control over crypto regulation in the future months and years if it were given authority over these two organizations.
Although it is unclear at this moment which currencies would fall under the purview of the CFTC or the SEC, it is safe to assume that control and oversight of the remaining coins on the market today would be split evenly between the two agencies.
In recent months, crypto regulation has risen to the top of the agendas of every member of Congress. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming and Kristen Gillibrand of New York recently submitted a measure that will have far-reaching effects on the future of crypto legislation and bill wording.
A few months ago, Vice President Joe Biden signed an executive order regarding cryptocurrency that mandated all federal financial authorities in the United States investigate and report on the pros and cons of cryptocurrency. An electronic form of the US dollar may now be feasible thanks to the order.
The new law mandates that any website or exchange that facilitates the buying and selling of digital assets must be registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Stabenow claims that the current lack of openness in the crypto field is what inspired her to draft and introduce the bill. She also stresses the importance of transparency and security for cryptocurrency investors, saying that all organizations operating in this space must adhere to these standards.
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This is why we are working to fill in regulatory gaps and ensure that these markets adhere to clear guidelines designed to safeguard consumers and the stability of the financial system as a whole.
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and South Dakota Senator John Thune have signed on as co-sponsors of the legislation. Boozman has expressed confidence in the bill’s passage despite its provisions that would give the CFTC extensive new powers. As he put it:
When friends aren’t scattered, it’s much easier for the group as a whole.
Is there a chance that this might succeed?
The Center for American Progress’s director of financial regulation and corporate governance, Todd Phillips, has nothing but praise for the legislation:
It establishes rules for crypto commodities without usurping power from the Securities and Exchange Commission. Brokers are singled out for mandatory registration and oversight.


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Emanulea de Paula made a stunning appearance at the recent February 2014 Vogue Brazil event and in the process reminded both fashion and entertainment insiders why she is considered as one of the favourites to ascend to supermodel status. Whether she is in attendance at a fashion show as she recently was at the New York Zimmerman fashion show, in the front row no less, during the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week or walking the runway Emanuela de Paula's appearance creates headlines because of her great physique and striking cheekbone structure.
Emanuela de Paula's appearance at the Vogue Brazil event demonstrated her incredible appeal as the cameras could not get enough of the beautiful model even though her appearance was merely to support the event. She is a model who is able to attract the cameras even when she is not working and this is one of the major reasons why she is rumoured to be on the short list of international models that several movie and commercial producers are considering for roles in their upcoming projects.
When a model can attract the attention of observers merely by entering a room and standing with her husband without even saying a word but just by her appearance that is someone whom the film industry can imagine grabbing the attention of a movie audience and creating an indelible memory in such a manner that movie viewers will comment to their friends that this is someone whom they need to see in a film. Emanuela de Paula has consistently been creating these type of long lasting memory images with male audiences since her scintillating GQ magazine spread in 2010 and this ability is unchanged in 2014.
Emanuela de Paula is the face of the UK "Next" fashion house and with the way her career is progressing she may be the next 'Brazilian' to become a household name as a supermodel and known to the world by stating only her name: Emanuela de Paula.

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Sinea diadema preys on organism such as aphids, caterpillar eggs, leafhoppers, lady bugs, and asparagus beetle eggs and larvae. The sharp beak mouthpart on the head is used to stab into the prey, allowing Sinea diadema to pierce through the prey's outer covering and then to suck out the body fluids.
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A Transfer Line for Liquefied Gases
A transfer line is a pipeline used to convey very cold fluids from one place to another. The transfer line described in this paper was specially designed for use with liquid hydrogen but could easily be used to transfer other cold fluids such as liquid nitrogen, air or helium. It is installed in the NBS-AEC Cryogenic Engineering Laboratory’s liquid hydrogen plant to transfer liquid hydrogen from the liquefiers to the storage and transport dewars. Special emphasis is placed on features which contribute to lower heat leak, simplicity and reliability. The primary design consideration is to reduce heat transfer from the warm ambient atmosphere to the liquid. In our application, high vacuum is used as the insulation in the annulus between the two concentric tubes with the cold fluid flowing through the center tube.
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PEEKSKILL, N.Y. - Here are some of the stories that topped the news in Peekskill this week:
- Authorities are warning Peekskill residents to be mindful of scam artists looking to bilk money out of homeowners, according to CBS New York.
- Nadia Mangelli, 21 , of Peekskill competed last weekend in the New York USA Pageant last weekend.
- Bedford resident Kerry Kennedy's trial for driving under the influence will begin on Monday, Feb. 24 in White Plains.
- A 29-year-old Bronx man and former employee of the New York State Power Authority was arraigned in Westchester County Court in White Plains on Wednesday after he allegedly stole nearly $3,000 in gas using state gas cards over the course of more than a year.
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