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Six out of home media experts give their opinions on what’s on the radar for out of home, digital and traditional, in 2017. On bylaws and billboards. Location based data gives true value. The year of OOH. The year of the monkey – a turbulent year for OOH. OOH currency on the ROAD, while urbanisation emerges as key trend. Merging traditional OOH with innovative technologies. Compiled by Glenda Nevill.
On bylaws and billboards
In terms of challenges, the issue of inconsistency in the enforcement of bylaws within the various municipalities across South Africa remains problematic. The OOH environment remains a tough one to navigate as it is linked to rights, without which we cannot operate. The OOH industry needs clear rules and regulations that protect a company’s media assets. If enforcement does not take place, it hugely undervalues available OOH media opportunities. We have also seen a dramatic change in empowerment and BBBEE requirements from parastatals and municipalities and predict that this will increase in importance.
Adding to this state of flux is the consolidation of OOH media ownership in South Africa. The competitor landscape is changing with the consolidation that is currently taking place in the industry.
On the positive side is the significant growth in digital OOH, with the result that a greater percentage of budgets are flowing into these mediums. While television continues to dominate advertising spend, OOH maintained its share with DOOH growing quite significantly.
With the launch of OMC (Out Of Home Measurement Council) and billboard measurement data now available, we predict that OOH will attract more revenue in the near future. This is a result of the efficacy and return on investment that OOH provides that will be showcased through effective measurement research and this will benefit everyone involved in the OOH industry.
We predict the following key trends for 2017: Consolidation of OOH media ownership will continue. The value of OOH media in areas like JHB will increase as certain municipal councils are now being better administrated and managed, resulting in less clutter. We expect an aggressive roll out of more Digital OOH, which will attract more advertising revenue; Infrastructure development, which includes BRT project development, Gautrain extension and the PRASA modification programme, will naturally grow share for OOH; and we also predict a significant move towards “value exchange relationships” between OOH media owners and landlords, municipalities and parastatals.
Jacques du Preez is CEO and founder of Provantage Media Group.
Location based data gives true value
It has been a great year for Primedia Outdoor, and for OOH globally. Digitisation has served as a key driver of OOH growth, and we foresee even more in this space as digital OOH reaches maturity in media schedules.
The launch in May of the Outdoor Measurement Council’s first audience measurement for South Africa marked a milestone for the industry. For the first time, agencies and advertisers can effectively plan for OOH, and can directly compare OOH’s reach against other media channels. For all countries that have introduced effective audience measurement tools the track record of subsequent exponential OOH growth is clear – so with the OMC bringing comparable media metrics to South Africa, the future of local OOH is looking bright.
Big data sciences and advanced technology science are also finding their place in the OOH media landscape, driven by OOH’s strength as a location medium and its synergy with mobile and hyper-local marketing. Location and time are powerful tools for understanding interest and intent. As such, the true value of location based data extends to strategic planning, audience understanding and ad effectiveness – for example, Primedia Outdoor has successfully used wi-fi technology in taxi ranks to measure audiences and audience behaviour within the ranks. We expect further sophistication around beacons, geo-fencing and wi-fi to be implemented in the year to come.
On the downside, the difficulty in obtaining the necessary approvals from the various government entities has led to a proliferation of illegal billboards and is becoming an issue that the industry needs to address, as this has many negative consequences and detracts from the medium as a whole.
Peter Lindstrom is sales and marketing executive at Primedia Outdoor.
2017 – The year of OOH
The excitement for the coming year is palpable, as the last few years have been business as usual for OOH. Targets have been hit and budgets met – but the uptick to started in Q3 of 2016 looks set keep on moving up and up, so I think that 2017 will definitely be the year of OOH!
Two key reasons for this increase has been the inevitable rise of digital out of home, which allows for rapid campaign implementation and low cost creative changes. In addition to this, 2017 will see the implementation of the OMC’s ROAD measurement system which will make OOH far more quantitative, and it will ensure that all registered providers will be using the same standardised metrics to evaluate their portfolios, thereby instilling a much needed sense of accountability in our industry.
In addition to the above, I see integrated OOH innovation playing a much larger role in the media mix than it does now; a well-executed innovative OOH campaign can live on much longer nowadays through social media, so what was once a brief activation in a mall forecourt can now transport itself through the viral nature of our various Facebook/Twitter/Snapchat/Instagram networks to millions of more people and the possibilities here are simply endless.
As the opportunities to reach consumers get more and more fragmented, and while these consumers get more and more jaded.
Simon Wall is managing director of Tractor Outdoor.
The year of the monkey – a turbulent year for OOH
It was Chinese New Year of the Monkey, which claimed, “The status of events will be changing very quickly”. And how true has that been. I have been in this industry for 14 years and in my opinion, the year was a very turbulent one for the OOH sector.
A trending change has been the fact that the duration of advertising is far shorter than it was in the well-loved past. We have found that most OOH campaign bookings are for anything from a one-month booking to an “ever-grateful-for” six-month booking, and that is pushing it! Gone are the days where some clients booked five-year campaigns!
A constant challenge for us is the flighting of sites. There are limited reputable flighting companies in outer regions and other provinces and we are finding that both timeous and quality flighting is hard to come by these days.
Even though it has been a turbulent time, there has been great successes with new OOH media owners popping up all the time. In fact, never a dull moment where this is concerned. It’s great to see young, innovative and enthusiastic entrepreneurs so passionate about the OOH space.
I have truly enjoyed the fact that many clients are running audits on their campaigns. This shows their commitment to the medium and it is wonderful for the industry to know that these audits are available to our clients.
Plans for 2017 – Stay focused, passionate, service orientated, honest and keep abreast of the ever-changing industry would be my suggestion to anyone!
Michele Munro is managing director of MMAP.
OOH currency on the ROAD, while urbanisation emerges as key trend
The biggest success for the OOH industry in South Africa has been the release of the groundbreaking out of home currency, ROAD (Roadside Outdoor Audience Data) produced under the OMC JIC umbrella. It is globally recognised that access to consistent and reliable OOH measurement is key to the growth of the OOH industry, (both in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa), and is equally of strategic and planning value to media agencies and marketers to provide integrated planning metrics across all media.
JCDecaux South Africa are one of the key underwriters of the ROAD currency, delivering media metrics such as reach, frequency, GRPs and CPM, and will now position the South African out of home industry alongside that of the many other countries that have already developed currency frameworks like ROUTE in the UK, and Move in Australia.
TV advertising is expected to fragment with the move to DTT, becoming even more expensive per CPP, and resulting in heightered fragmentation that will make it more difficult to reach mass markets.
A key consideration for next year is urbanisation, which represents a key trend spurring growth in the market. Over half of the world’s population now resides in cities and urban locations. The figure is expected to explode further with urban population representing around two-thirds of the global population by the year 2050. Apart from urbanisation, the world’s population is also becoming increasingly mobile, with people spending a greater proportion of their time outside their homes, such as at airports, railway stations, streets, and malls. The combination of urbanisation and mobility trends will provide immense opportunities for the growth of outdoor advertising. Especially poised to benefit under this scenario are transit and digital OOH media.
Lyn Jones is marketing and research manager for JCDecaux Sub-Saharan Africa.
Merging traditional OOH with innovative technologies
In the out of home (OOH) sector, 2016 has seen a merging of traditional media with innovative technologies. Technological advancement in the OOH commuter landscape, targeting the upper socio-economic segments in South Africa, has gone a long way to align itself with international trends. This opportunity has extended to local mass-market commuters, opening up a plethora of opportunities for advertisers and marketers. In addition, it uplifts the mass-market segment by providing connectivity and access to educational and entrepreneurial initiatives.
There is an imperative to hasten the advancement of linking traditional OOH with new technologies, creating multiple touchpoints. This proven track record of efficacy in reaching consumers boosts opportunities for growth – enhancing delivery and return on investment for brands. Technology, paired with creative media planning and relevant content, is recognised by advertisers as a versatile and impactful medium facilitating real-time interaction and engagement from consumers and superior audience targeting.
Next year will see further advances in the integration of traditional OOH with digital, which will lead to more sophisticated data collection, insights and planning tools. This will provide brands with the flexibility to engage digitally with commuters and increase targeted content delivery.
Rochelle Josiah is chairman and founder of Talis Group.
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Becky DeAngelis was convinced she was on to a good thing last year when she founded the Waukegan Township Bicycle Club to donate used bikes to needy children.
Little did she know that this year she would have to call in the National Guard for help.
"I can only hold about a dozen bikes in my little truck, and I got tired of making zillions of trips to pick up bikes--so the National Guard lent me a truck and a couple of guys to help," said DeAngelis, Waukegan Township youth director.
The club has received about 350 bikes this year, more than twice as many as last year. Storage and repair of the bikes had to be moved from the Town Hall on Genesee Street to the Lakeshore Youth Center on Belvidere Road because the Town Hall ran out of space.
The program does not simply give bikes to kids who don't have them. Most of the bikes donated to the program have seen better days, and it usually takes more than one donated bike to create a functional bicycle. Bikes are stripped as they are received, with bent and broken parts earmarked for the scrap yard, where they produce some cash as scrap metal.
Good parts are kept, and kids who want a bike have to earn it by building it.
"We have to put the parts together to make the bikes," said Jesus Serrano, 11. "It's fun."
He is one of a group of youngsters who have become regulars, showing up each Friday afternoon to help other kids build bikes.
"I just come here to help the little kids. They're all right," said Tom Pitts, 15, another regular.
A small crowd gathered at the youth center on a recent Friday to await the arrival of DeAngelis, "the bike lady."
Most of the kids were elementary school-age or younger, some with parents in tow. Unfortunately, DeAngelis had to tell them that there were no new small bikes for people their size.
"We'll never meet the demand for bikes," she sighed. "Kids just love them. But the small bikes are a real problem. They tend to get passed down from one kid to the next, so we don't get very many donations. We have plenty of full-sized bikes. But we need all the small bikes we can get."
The program also needs adult volunteers to help kids build bikes, and the club is always happy to take donations of bearings, chains, tires and tubes to complete the bikes, DeAngelis said.
This fall, the club will debut Project Wheel, a spinoff program aimed at 12- to 19-year-olds that will combine biking with lessons in leadership, job skills, safety, nutrition and physical conditioning.
On weekends and after school, kids in the program will go on bike rides on Lake County's bike paths, take camping trips and help each other to get ahead.
"They won't know it, but they'll be learning self-sufficiency skills for the future," DeAngelis said.
For more information or to make a donation, call 847-244-4900.

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Growthpoint introduces eco-friendly e-bikes to Sandton Central
Growthpoint Properties today introduced the first electronic bike hubs to Sandton Central in a pilot project that pioneers a new, convenient and environmentally innovative alternative mode of transport for South Africa’s financial hub. The e-bike project adds an exciting new service for Growthpoint’s clients, staff and guests. Starting with staff, the project has been running for two weeks, and is already experiencing tremendous use. This leading South African company has installed the city’s first public e-bicycle hubs directly opposite the Sandton Gautrain Station at the Growthpoint-owned 138 West Street building and outside The Place at 1 Sandton Drive, which is owned by Growthpoint and also the address of its own headquarters. The launch fleet of 20 Growthpoint branded e-bicycles look just like conventional bikes, but are fitted with an electric motor.


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On this page you will find some detailed information of the S/3 model 10.System devices configuration.
An Alternate Program Load Device is in this configuration overview not mentioned.
This APLD is a cassette tape recorder and is used to load diagnotics when they are
unavailable from the normal input device (e.g. MFCU) CPU data flow.
The data flow of the model 4, 6 and 8 are identical to the model 10.
The Local Storage Register (LSR) usage might differ per model.CPU gate layout.
MLTA = Multiple Line Terminal Adaptor.
BSCA = Binary Synchronous Communications Adator.CPU channel 1, 2 and 3 configurations.
Each channel consist of four flat cables and is resistor terminated at the end.
At the right is an overview of all the power supplies in a model 10.


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These outfits are all based on authentic ensembles of the 1870s. I made them in a gorgeous floral cotton that I fell inn love with and had all the qualities I required: delicate designs in muted colors resembling faded watercolors and a fine, drapey, silk-like texture. The designs are larger than most doll makers would use but I always had the idea that large designs could work perfectly on even such small fashion dolls, as long as they were the right kind fabric designs and colors plus suitable dress designs. I combined the dresses with plain fine silks except for Dress 4 (blue/white/red) that was the sample dress I made, since the patterns were complicated. I then made the beige/gold/red one from the adjusted pattern.
The bonnets can be found in Gildebrief 3/2001.
I hope you like the lovely ladies!

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The UAE cabinet approved Friday the executive regulations of the Federal Decree Law on Regulation of Labor Relations, which comprise detailed rules, provisions and procedures aimed at facilitating the implementation of the law.
The executive regulations define the legal framework to ensure efficiency in the labor market and attract and retain the best talent and skills. They create an advanced mechanism that will ultimately enhance ease-of-doing business, competitiveness, and productivity of the labor market.
The regulations set the procedures that guarantee worker and employee welfare and wellbeing and ensure a safe and healthy business environment in the private sector.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, chaired the first Cabinet meeting of the year at Dubai Expo 2020's UAE pavilion.
"Today I chaired the first cabinet meeting in the new year and the 'New 50'. A good start on a blessed Friday. Our first decision is to fully apply the new approach for the federal government work during the coming phase to achieve more effective transformational projects and enhance our economy," he said.
"The new government approach will start shortly with several changes, including granting ministries greater powers and more financial flexibility based on the 'Principles of the 50' and national priorities approved by Sheikh Khalifa, for the next 50 years," he added.
"We also approved the executive regulations of the labor relations law to ensure rights protection, raise efficiency of the workforce and organize new forms of work, which includes part-time work, temporary work, flexible work, and golden visa holders," he continued.
The new laws offer 12 types of working permits, aiming at strengthening the business environment, he explained.
Sheikh Mohammed added: "We approved the executive regulations of the protection of industrial property rights law to ensure accelerating patenting and preserving rights. The diversity of our economy requires a flexible and comprehensive legislative infrastructure."
"We approved digital procurement policy for the federal government, a new committee for the smart learning in our schools, 13 agreements to encourage investment and avoid Double Taxation, and agreed on the UAE joining the Leaders’ Pledge for Nature, under the UN Climate Change Agreement".
Sheikh Mohammed concluded: "Our start is promising We have great confidence that 2022 will be a year of success, prosperity and achievements."
The cabinet approved the Digital Procurement Policy of the federal government, which aims to ensure a higher level of accessibility, accelerate government procurement, and reduces the time needed to fully implement the process.

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Among the smartphones with the brightest display, iPhone 14 Pro series boast this feature. But perhaps the tables are about to be turned. Recent information from a tipster indicates that another smartphone is going to be introduced with the brightest display. According to the latest information from Ice Universe, Oppo Fins X6 Pro will feature the brightest display on the market.
According to the latest information, the upcoming smartphone by OPPO will feature a brightness of 2,400 nits. On the other hand, the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max display up to 2,000 nits of brightness. Whereas the Xiaomi 13 and 13 Pro fall in third place with 1,900 nits of peak brightness. In contrast, the Vivo X90 Pro+ and HONOR Magic5 Pro can present brightness of 1,800 nits, and the Galaxy S23 Ultra can boast 1,750 nits of peak brightness.
One thing to note here is that all these smartphones display such brightness in case if automatic brightness feature is activated. It could be a similar case with the OPPO Find X6 Pro. It is anticipated that the smartphone is going to be introduced in the following month. However, this has not been confirmed by the company. Since in 2022, the company introduced OPPO Find X5 Pro in February. In this particular scenario, the company is late with its schedule.
Other specs of the OPPO Find X6 Pro
Besides this latest information, some other information about the specs of OPPO Find X6 Pro has been shared earlier. According to these pieces of information, the upcoming smartphone will feature a 1-inch camera sensor from Sony. It is the same camera sensor that has been utilized by Xiaomi 13 Pro and Vivo X90 Pro+.
Furthermore, the device will have a 50-megapixel ultrawide camera (Sony’s IMX890) sensor. We can assume that it will have a 50-megapixel telephoto camera. additionally, some sources claim that the smartphone will feature a 32-megapixel camera on the front. The smartphone will be fueled with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Some other features include Hasselblad’s expertise, LPDDR5X RAM, and UFS 4.0 flash storage.
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The Conference on Sustainable Sourcing in the Garment Sector (SSGS) organized by the embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in partnership with the IAF and the BGMEA has clearly indentified knowledge as a key factor in creating more sustainable sourcing practices. More specifically, for both management of buying firms and management of manufacturing firms more knowledge of setting up collaborative sourcing arrangements is needed.
Where improvements in labour and environmental conditions require also systemic changes, working on the foundations of the system through education is a good and proven strategy.
IAF will therefore lead the formation of a consortium involving major Bangladeshi and international partners to build and finance a training course aimed at buyers and manufacturers. The course will create a unique opportunity for buyers and manufacturers to learn about collaborative sourcing together in a joint, collaborative training in Dhaka.
This training will also serve as a pilot and a benchmark for similar training courses to be developed in other countries with an important apparel industry.


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Only 28 years old, NYU and Parsons graduate Jen Kao is my new favourite designer!
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Past Work with The Pew Charitable Trusts
APUA campaign to support FDA ban on cephalosporins
On January 4, 2012, FDA issed an order of prohibition on certain extralabel uses of cephalosporin drugs in cattle, swine, chickens, and turkeys, to become effective April 5, 2012. FDA took this action to preserve the efficacy of cephalosporin drugs for treating human disease, including pneumonia, septicemia, meningitis, and infections of the urinary tract, bones, and upper respiratory tract. Cephalosporins are used against life-threatening infections and are considered drugs of last resort for people with sever foodborne illness. They are also the only class of antibiotic that carry no warnings against use in children or immunocompromised patients. With the exception of cephapirin (an older antibiotic drug not believed to contribute significantly to antibiotic resistance), the prohibited uses of cephalosporins included:
- Use at unapproved doses, frequencies, durations, or routes of administration,
- Use in species or production classes outside the ones specifically designated on the label, and
- Use for disease prevention.
The re-issuance of the ban marked a victory for The Pew Charitable Trusts, APUA, and other stakeholder organizations that advocated for the order of prohibition when it was first announced in 2008. At the time, the order was revoked in response to criticism from the food animal industry. In 2012, APUA joined Pew's nationwide campaign to rally support for the ban to ensure that it would not be revoked again. By the close of the comment period on March 6, APUA had gathered more than 30 personal letters of support from opinion leaders, experts, and Nobel laureates, as well as joint letters to FDA from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and the National Association of Public Health Veterinarians.
APUA articles published & research done on antibiotic use in food animals
"Restricting antimicrobial access in food animals: lessons from Europe" (Microbe June 2011)
"Food animals and antimicrobials: impacts on human health" (Clinical Microbiology Reviews October 2011)
"Antibiotics in the animals we eat" (The Scientist April 2012)
FAAIR (Facts about Antibiotics in Animals and their Impact on Resistance) I (Clinical Infectious DiseasesJune 2002): With support from the Joyce Foundation, APUA published a comprehensive report on the topic of antimicrobial use in agriculture and its risk to human health through 1) direct and indirect transfer of resistance through food chains and ecosystems, and 2) the cumulative effects of the dissemination of antimicrobial resistance in the environment. The FAAIR Scientific Advisory Panel was convened from experts in various fields of research and medicine, and developed consensus conclusions and policy recommendations based on the data from over 500 published studies. The FAAIR report has been cited by the Institute of Medicine, used as evidence in the FDA ban on enrofloxacin in poultry and the FDA ban on using fluoroquinolones as growth promoters, and served as the scientific basis for the McDonald's Corporation ban on certain antibiotics as growth promoters.
- The Need to Improve Antimicrobial Use in Agriculture: Ecological and Human Health Consequences
- Informing Public Policy on Agricultural Use of Antimicrobials in the United States: Strategies Developed by an NGO (summary of the FAAIR report developed for the WHO consultation meeting in Oslo, September 2001)
FAAIR II (Preventive Veterinary Medicine, February 2006): With support from the Joyce Foundation, APUA published a comprehensive report on the need for improved antimicrobial use data collection in food animal production in the U.S., to better guide regulatory decision-making. The FAAIR II expert panel was comprised of expert representatives from academia, public interest groups, veterinary professional associations, public health agencies, food producer organizations, and the pharmaceutical industry.
ROAR (Reservoirs of Antibiotic Resistance) project (2002-2007): With funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, APUA initiated an unprecedented effort to improve scientific understanding of the role of commensal (normally harmless and enteric) bacteria in the spread of antimicrobial resistance, using statistical, risk analysis, and mathematical modeling techniques.
APUA meetings with stakeholders and policymakers
"Improving Antimicrobial Use in Food Animal Production: Alternatives, Options, and Incentives"(Washington, DC, May 6-7, 2012):
With the generous support of The Pew Charitable Trusts, APUA hosted a forum for open discussion to promote judicious use of antibiotics, in order to both preserve their efficacy to treat disease and ensure a safe, stable, and affordable food supply. The objectives of the event included:
- To evaluate feasible alternatives to current non-therapeutic/preventive antimicrobial use in food animal production, specifying barriers and opportunities;
- To propose incentives to promote improved practices and so minimize the need for use of antimicrobials;
- To propose an action plan, based on identified solutions.
The meeting agenda and presentation descriptions can be found below:
- Meeting Proceedings
- The U.S. Regulatory Framework
- Food Industry: Perspectives & Opportunities
- Q&A Discussion
- Alternative Strategies
- Reports from the Working Group
- Overall Conclusions
The full transcript notes can be found here.
"The EU Ban on Use of Antibiotics for Growth Promotion in Agriculture: Review of Scientific Evidence and Implications for Public Health" (Paris, May 29, 2010):
With the generous support of The Pew Charitable Trusts, APUA hosted a roundtable meeting in Paris to 1) discuss the EU and individual country bans on the use of antibiotics for livestock growth promotion, 2) review EU and individual country policies and processes involved in implementing the ban, and 3) consider ways to respond to and comment on arguments from U.S. industry that the European ban has been a failure.
Delegates to the roundtable from the U.S. and ten European countries
Grantmakers in Health issue dialogue on antibiotic resistance and systemic contaminants (Washington D.C., October 3, 2000):
Dr. Stuart B. Levy (APUA President) presented at a day-long issue dialogue held by Grantmakers in Health (GIH) and the Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN) addressing factors such as 1) the insufficient safeguards in manufacturing and agriculture, 2) increased waste products and lack of suitable disposal methods, 3) the dearth of rigorous research and surveillance, and 4) the overuse and misuse of antibiotics that all contribute to low levels of chronic exposure to antibiotics that adversely impact human health.
"Antibiotic Use in Food Animals: A Dialogue for a Common Purpose" (Chicago, Oct. 26-27, 2011):
Carol Cogliani (APUA Program Manager) represented APUA at the NIAA (National Institute for Animal Agriculture) symposium in Chicago. The symposium sought to promote dialogue on the subject of “One Health: healthy people, healthy animals, healthy food.” 13 animal health and human health scientists were invited to speak on four main topics: 1) human health implications relative to antibiotic use, 2) regulatory oversight and risk mitigation, 3) livestock-associated MRSA (understanding and communicating the risks), and 4) connecting with consumers.
- Antibiotic Use in Food Animals (white paper)
"Improving Antimicrobial Use in Food Animal Production" (Washington D.C., May 6-7, 2012):
With the generous support of The Pew Charitable Trusts, APUA held a national stakeholder meeting in Washington D.C. to promote open discussion among major groups in the food industry. The goals of the meeting were to evaluate feasible alternatives to the current non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in food animal production, propose incentives to promote the voluntary use of alternatives, and draw up an action plan to implement the incentives.
APUA involvement in sign-on letters and petitions
Letter from The Pew Health Group and co-signers to Congress on “Sound Science: antibiotic use in food animals leads to drug resistant infections in people” (September 6, 2011)
- Objected to recent statements that had been made on the House floor suggesting that there was not enough “hard” scientific evidence to link antibiotic overuse in animals with antibiotic resistance in humans. Cited numerous peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and testimony from federal, domestic, and international health organizations.
- Sent to: both houses of Congress, DHHS, FDA, USDA, CDC, Executive Office of the President
- Signing organizations also listed on an ad that ran in Politico, CQ Today, Roll Call, The Hill
- APUA gathered individual signatures in support of letter at 51st ICAAC (9-18-11) and 49th IDSA (10-20-11)
Letter from The Pew Health Group and co-signers to the Honorable Thomas Vilsack, Secretary of the USDA(October 18, 2011)
- Expressed concern at the USDA’s noncommittal response to the Government Accountability Office’s report and the growing body of scientific literature that agree that routinely giving important human antibiotics to food animals contributes to antibiotic resistance.
- Sent to: Secretary and Under Secretary of the USDA
“We the People” petition by The Pew Health Group and co-petitioners on WhiteHouse.gov (March 16, 2012)
- Pressured the Obama administration and the FDA to finalize draft Guidance #209 as a first step in limiting injudicious antibiotic use in food animals.
Letter from STOP Foodborne Illness and co-signers to the Honorable Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the FDA (April 30, 2012)
- Urged FDA not to appeal the court’s first decision when the NRDC filed a lawsuit against the FDA, in which the court required the FDA to enforce a ban on penicillin and tetracyclines being used as feed additives for healthy animals (a ban first proposed in 1977 but ignored until 2011).
- Sent to: Commissioner of the FDA
Letter from The Pew Health Group and co-signers to the Honorable Margaret Hamburg (June 27, 2012)
- Requested that the FDA accelerate and expand actions to stop the overuse and misuse of life-saving antibiotics on industrial farms. Urged closing of loopholes and inclusion of improvements to strengthen Guidance for Industry #209, #213, and the Veterinary Feed Directive.
- Sent to: Commissioner of the FDA
Letter from Keep Antibiotics Working and co-signers to the FDA (July 11, 2012)
- Recommended that draft Veterinary Feed Directive language should still require a valid veterinarian-client-patient relationship and retention of receipt and distribution records (for feed containing VFD drugs), and include requirements for feed distributors to report drug use data.
- Sent to: Division of Dockets Management of the FDA
Letter from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy to the Honorable Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the FDA (July 13, 2012)
- Urged FDA not to appeal the court’s second decision in the NRDC vs. FDA lawsuit, in which the court required the FDA to enforce bans on other medically important classes of drugs being used in animal feed, such as streptogramins, sulfas, aminoglycosides, and macrolides.
- Sent to: FDA, Center for Veterinary Medicine
Related press releases
“Evidence supports ban on growth promotion use of antibiotics in farming” (November 18, 2011)
“APUA praises FDA move to limit antibiotics in food animals and encourages additional action”
(January 6, 2012)
“New FDA guidances to clean up antibiotic use in food animal production” (April 11, 2012)
“National stakeholders meet to consider improvements in antimicrobial use in food animal production”
(May 2, 2012)

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Studio Mode is pleased to announce the fourth installment of the coLab workshop series: Interactive Parametrics.Interactive Parametrics is a two-day Processing workshop (with an optional third day) focusing on dynamic sketches and prototyping. The workshop will be held in New York City during the weekend of February 19 and will be co-taught by Marius Watz (evolutionzone) and Studio…Continue
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Happy New Year!
Studio Mode is pleased to announce a new series of Primers for Vb.Net scripting in Grasshopper. The first of the series has been posted at the below link. Enjoy!
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 9:49am
New primers for Firefly have been posted to modeLab. Thanks go out to Andy Payne for collaborating with us on the upcoming coLab Workshop :: Hybrid Prototypes.
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Rebecca Rolfe, a first year master’s student in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts School of Literature, Communication, and Culture Graduate Program in Digital Media, is one of six scholars to receive the Online News Association AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship. Rolfe will receive a $20,000 stipend for the 2012-2013 academic year.
The new national scholarship program organized by the world’s largest membership of digital journalists, the Online News Association, targets students whose innovative projects exemplify the new journalist in the digital media age.
“There's nothing more exciting than seeing these new journalist hybrids emerging from our colleges across the U.S.," said Jane McDonnell, ONA Executive Director. "While digital media professionals continue to evolve the game, these students will transform the playing field."
Rolfe's winning thesis proposal will examine how recipients of select Oscar awards express their gratitude. She will work from a public database of transcriptions of televised acceptance speeches from the Academy Awards and analyzing them for patterns. The final product will be an online interactive data visualization that depicts an evolution of Oscar acceptance speeches over the years.
"When I talk with others about my thesis plans to digitally visualize thanking patterns in the acceptance speeches of Oscar recipients, most are receptive to the concept. But every once in a while someone suggests the focus may be a bit ... vapid,” said Rolfe. “That's totally okay. When we think of show business in journalism we think mug shots and tabloids. But it doesn't have to be that way. I'm interested in harnessing our captivation with celebrity and channeling it - specifically for this project - into a better understanding of our culture's expression of gratitude, which is as integral to actors receiving an Oscar on one special night of the year as it is to all of us every day of lives."
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One of the most surprising things about the Democratic Socialists of America is that there are democratic socialists in America. That was perhaps under the radar until Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez started making headlines. On a recent episode of The Gist, Mike Pesca spoke with Maria Svart, the national director of the Democratic Socialists of America. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Mike Pesca: Let’s go to 2011 and 2012. Paint a picture of what a DSA national meeting looks like, how many people show up, what’s the demo, who’s involved.
Maria Svart: So let’s just say that in 2015, when we had our national convention and we had 125 people, we were thrilled. DSA meetings were much smaller than they are now. The New York City DSA now has over 4,000 members, and they have hundreds of people coming to general membership meetings. In 2011, we might get 20 people to come to a meeting. … It was mostly baby boomers.
Do you find that you’re converting mostly Democrats?
Probably a handful of Republicans, and certainly many Democrats are enraged about the Democratic Party and its leadership—the Wall Street Democrats—and their frankly complete inability to stand up to Trump and unwillingness to do what it will take to win. But frankly, we’re reaching out to people who aren’t Democrats or Republicans.
When we organize, and we go out there to canvas for our candidates, when we talk about tenants’ rights and landlords, we’re actually deliberately trying to reach poor and working people, and many of them have stepped out of the political system because they don’t feel that the Democrats are actually helping them. So it’s not so much trying to go after the elusive middle or bring over the Republicans so much as [reaching] the about 46 percent of people who didn’t vote in the last presidential election and are frustrated.
Where does DSA differ with the Greens?
DSA has one foot in the Democratic Party and one foot outside of the Democratic Party. We don’t see ballot lines as a question of political purity; we see them as a question of strategy and tactics, and we know that the political system is rigged against anybody other than the Democrats and the Republicans. So rather than spinning our wheels, we’re sort of experimenting.
We have candidates running on the Green Party line and people are running as Democrats, and they’re all members of DSA. We are organizing people, and we are giving people the tools to analyze their local community and decide what’s strategic, about which ballot line to run on, and how to build an organized base of politically aware people to just be smart about it rather than dogmatic.
I would say the primary difference between us and the Greens is that … they’re a political party, and we are not a political party, and we’re trying to build power both in the political system across different parties and also outside the political system. So we have our Abolish ICE campaign. We have tenants organizing. We have the Medicare-for-all campaign. We have all this other work that we’re doing, which will last well beyond the election cycle.
Define what democratic socialism is.
We believe that people should have the ability to live a dignified life and that it’s possible in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Democratic socialism is the idea that we make the economy run, and so we should control it. We should own and control our workplaces. We should actually have real democratic control over public investment decisions. Other aspects of our society should be run democratically. …
The employees should own workplaces. Why shouldn’t we have a voice in how we manage things? So if we had a union, we might say, “You pay us about 10 percent of what we produce. We want 20 percent.” With socialism, we would say, “Actually, we should run the bike shop. We should own the bike shop. We do the work. We know how it works. We should be actually invested in it and control it.”
When I talk about public investment, there are certain things that shouldn’t be left to the market and do need to be democratically controlled.
If you own the bake shop, if I own the bike shop—Mike’s Bikes, Maria’s Muffins—we are individuals, and we say we have this great idea, and we start it, and it goes pretty well, and we’re the only employees. Then we hire someone else, and the profits rise, and we’re good to our employees. At what point are we allowed to stop? Or are we mandated that we stop owning our business?
People often don’t know how to take democratic socialism, because we don’t actually believe we have a full blueprint. We believe that we need to make the road by walking, so we could talk about: What does it look like today? What would we like to have it tomorrow or in five years? The long-term vision is that we actually have true democratic control, but we can’t exactly articulate what that looks like, because people have to decide.
There are many economists who have thought about this. There are plenty of people who have written whole books on it who are members of DSA, but it all comes back down to this principle that we should control our labor, and we should control the fruits of our labor, because people do the work. People should own their workplaces. …
The thing about DSA is we’re what is called a big-tent organization. So we have some people who would be satisfied with Scandinavian social democracy.
Are those the moderates within your organization?
Yes. That’s the idea that nobody should be starving in the streets, but we could have a mixed economy, and that’s a way to tame capitalism.
A lot of other folks in DSA would say that if you look at the social-democratic countries of the world, and other countries that have experimented, the market continually undermines public provision and social-democratic reforms. That’s because the nature of the capitalist system is that the drive for profit is not about individual people being greedy; it’s about the fact that if you are a good employer and you are competing against an employer who is not, who doesn’t really care about his workers, you inherently must start exploiting your workers to squeeze as much out of them so that you can reinvest, because you’re competing against somebody who doesn’t have scruples. It’s the nature of the system, that there needs to be constant profit that can be then reinvested and used to push into new markets.
There are a couple critiques of the democratic-socialist idea, and one from Democrats is, “How’s that different from just what Democrats should be?” What’s your answer to that?
I think a lot of people in the Democratic Party actually have a much broader political vision than they’ve been forced into by this system, which the two parties have set up so that they can control the debate. What the capitalist class does is try to control what the discussion is, what political possibility is.
I think that there are plenty of people who have this alternative vision. In schools and in the mainstream media and everywhere, it’s not even that we’re told that there’s no alternative—it’s like this is the air that we breathe, and we are trained to believe that this is how things have to be. We have to constantly be in competition with one another. Everything is about competition and individualism, and there is no sense of collective, there’s no sense of community, there’s no sense of shared destiny, and that’s just the way the world is, and that’s human nature.
When you talk about what the so-called American dream is, we can talk about how it’s based on colonization and slavery, and it was never really intended to work for most people, but the reality is, the American dream is we all can live a dignified life. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has this really great quote: “I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.”
It seemed like a good phrase, and it got a big round of applause. Who would object to that? I bet you that if you woke up Paul Ryan in the middle of the night, he’d actually sign on to that.
I don’t think he would. The Republicans are becoming more and more clear that they actually don’t believe that people have the right to eat.
He really thinks that people should not be so poor to live, and his solutions for that are market solutions. He also would argue that he doesn’t think that people are too poor to live in America right now. You probably disagree with that. But it’s so full of ambiguous phrases that I think your definition of what democratic socialism is puts a little more meat on the bones than hers does.
If Ocasio-Cortez is articulating that version, which is a more moderate version of what you stand for, how good is that for you guys?
It’s incredibly important. It’s like Bernie Sanders running for president and getting millions of votes.
They are the most moderate versions of what you are. They’re not actually the exemplars of your philosophy. Is that a problem?
They’re the most moderate version of what we as an organization think of as democratic socialism, but compared to the American political system, they are super far-left. One of the roles of democratic socialists is to pull the political debate back to where it needs to be, because the Republicans—and they’ve been aided and abetted by the Democrats over the years—have pulled and pulled and pulled the debate to the far right, to the point where even basic social-democratic ideas were beyond the pale.
Ocasio-Cortez confronting, much like how Bernie Sanders confronted, this neoliberal capitalist consensus that the market was a solution to all problems is incredibly important. It shows that another world is possible. She speaks with a visionary language that resonates with millions of people in the same way that Bernie Sanders did. That is, in a country where we are, as I said, fed along with mother’s milk, this idea that endless competition with each other is the only way that we can live, endless isolation from each other, and loneliness. There is no alternative. That is incredibly important.
There are probably people listening to this show who are big fans of Bernie or Ocasio-Cortez. One of the things they say is that that’s what the Democratic Party should be. These people probably get quite offended when they’re painted with charges like, “Oh, Bernie wants to nationalize the means of production. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t believe in private ownership.” However, you’re telling me that DSA means a whole lot of stuff way to the left, if you will, of that.
What’s the problem with that?
That people who are backers of those two candidates either aren’t on board or it would give them pause to know there is legitimacy in the criticism of those two candidates as being adherent of a philosophy that is way to the left of where their fans are or where even those two politicians are.
We really believe in people, and we actually believe that many people in this country are much more dissatisfied with the status quo than you might think from the way the mainstream media, even liberals and progressives, talk about it. We are not concerned, because they actually believe that most people know that something is terribly wrong. They know that we’re going off the climate cliff. They know that there are a few winners and a whole lot of losers in our economy.
If they are introduced to a set of political ideas that help crystallize why this is happening, then that’s fine, and that’s actually a good thing, and that is the role of a socialist organization—to introduce ideas that have been squeezed out of the mainstream debate.
When I was a college student, I became a member of DSA because I was a feminist activist. I’m biracial. I’m a woman. My family struggled with money growing up, so I knew the world was not there. I did not have an understanding of why it was that way until I met socialists. We want more people to understand who is running our economy, more people to understand what the answer is, and that’s a mass movement of people standing up together across our differences. All of these ways that we are divided against one another is a deliberate strategy. We need people to have a political consciousness. People are smart, and they’re going to understand what’s happening.
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- Current Size: 9 Pounds
- Current Age: 4 Months 12 Days (best estimate)
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- Obedience Training Needed: Needs Training
- Exercise Needs: High
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Hi friends my name is Frizzy but my foster family calls me Mr. Frizz or Frizzo! I'm originally from Texas but I heard that Minnesota has the best forever families, so I hopped on a bus and made my way up here! While I was in Texas I developed some skin issues which caused me to lose most of my hair. As you can see from my fabulous new pictures, my hair has regrown and I'm just a healthy little guy!
I am a very social and outgoing boy that makes friends with everyone I meet! I love all other dogs, people and even kids! I'm extremely playful, I especially love fetch and toys that squeak! I'm a smart boy too and am already working on cool new tricks, I've already mastered sit and down. I have even learned to walk on the leash nicely and with great manners! Since I'm still just a young guy I haven't mastered the whole potty training thing quite yet but know I will soon! I'm also working on my mouthiness, I'm just so happy and playful that I forget my manners sometimes, typical puppy right? I'm already crate trained and do great while my family is away from home. I would love an active family that can get me lots of exercise and stimulation while I live out my young puppy years!
I can't wait to love a family of my very own! I promise to be the best friend that you've been searching for!
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Yes, no doubt Obama pwnd Romney in the Commander-in-Chief role.
But what worries me is that when Romney laid out a series of negative economic stats (economic growth, unemployment, debt, poverty, and the dog-whistle food stamps), and he says Obama promised X but delivered Y, and he grants that Obama is "trying" but that these negative numbers prove Obama just doesn't have what it takes when it comes to improving a struggling economy - I don't think Obama really deflected this.
Why the heck not?
Polls show folks think Obama cares more about them, but that Romney would be better for the economy, right? That perception about Romney is really his one chance of winning this thing, isn't it?
Why allow that perception to go unchallenged?
Why not counter Romney with negative economic stats about Romney's tenure as Governor? The stats are listed right on Obama's website. But they aren't much good on a website, compared to in a debate with zillions of people watching.
The website states:
Mitt Romney promised to bring his experience from the corporate boardroom to Massachusetts—the same promise he’s making now as a presidential candidate. But Romney economics didn't produce then—and it won’t now.Zing.
Stagnant job growth: During Governor Romney’s term, Massachusetts fell from 36th to 47th out of 50 states in job creation, while the overall U.S. economy grew.
Declining manufacturing: By the end of Governor Romney’s term, Massachusetts had lost more than 40,000 manufacturing jobs—a rate twice the national average.
Higher taxes: Gov. Romney raised taxes on the middle class, but pushed through a tax cut that overwhelmingly benefited 278 of the wealthiest individuals in MA.
Highest debt in the nation: Under Mitt Romney, Massachusetts’ debt burden grew to the highest per person in the nation.
Increased government spending: State spending increased every year while Romney was in office, and he left behind a $1 billion deficit for the next governor.
Jobs outsourced overseas: Governor Romney failed to protect good jobs in Massachusetts, and actually outsourced state jobs to India.
I suppose if done poorly the argument could come across as "I suck but so do you". But I'm sure Obama can avoid that, while demolishing his opponent's supposed greatest strength.
Debate #3 is of course billed as a foreign policy debate, so less opportunity there. But there's always the opening and closing statements....


Gaining muscular endurance (ME) means improving the amount of time a given amount of force can be sustained and/or how frequently it can be produced. As such, ME is load/force specific and is only possible if the required force can even be produced; if you can't lift 100lbs, how can you sustain/repeat its suspension?
Furthermore, the force-specific nature of ME render assertions like "competitive lifters are strong but don't have endurance" misleading. While an Olympic lifter might not hold a paint brush up as long as a distance-swimmer, she/he will hold a heavy sheet of drywall up longer!
So now that we know that ME requires at least enough strength to lift the load to be endured, would a strength surplus beyond the endurance-specific-load be even more helpful? ....
The answer is a resounding YES!. In fact, increasing muscular strength is the fastest way to improve ME. At a certain point, however, higher-rep endurance work is necessary to increase ME.
Question now is when to utilize high-force/low-rep strength work and when low-force/high-rep fuel work is warranted.
Well to answer the aforementioned, a few things need to be known; those being the endurance-load, strength relative to the endurance load, and whether more strength or more endurance is needed.
If strength capacity far exceeds the endurance load, it's certain that structural integrity is more than adequate to tolerate extended time under the endurance load. Additionally, a large strength surplus indicates that adequate fuel is possessed to move sub-maximal loads repetitively (if you can lift 350*1, you will be able to lift half of that more than once!) .
Note, however, that while the fuel sufficient for heavy lifting allows for more/longer lighter lifting, peaking endurance capacity requires training muscles to store more fuel and lift lighter loads more fuel-efficiently. Training to increase fuel-storage/efficiency entails expending a lot of fuel which means lots more reps than that typical of true strength training.
If strength surplus is modest relative to the endurance load, increasing that surplus is first priority; as any structures, muscles or otherwise, designed to support a given load repetitively/long-periods, must possess a substantial integrity surplus beyond said load (ie a latter designed for 300lb workers better have a breaking point far beyond that!).
As such, high-rep fuel work is of lesser value if strength surplus is deficient. High-rep fuel work for strength deficient muscles is akin to increasing the gas tank of a Prius in order to tow a truck!
A great example scenario to analyze is the NFL combine 225lb bench-presse test for reps. As the endurance load is known (225lbs). With the endurance load known, we'll examine 2 separate scenarios with one entailing a substantial strength surplus (350lbs) and another far less (245lbs).
In the first scenario the surplus is more than adequate indicating that there's enough tissue integrity and fuel to press 225 multiple times. To maximize the 225lb rep-max, however, fuel work will likely be required as it's likely such a high strength level indicates a low-rep/low-fuel training history.
An effective strategy in this situation would be to simply train by repping 225 as many times as possible in a 3-5 minute period. Such a strategy would allow enough reps to challenge energy storage and encourage fuel-efficient recruitment.
In the second scenario, the strength surplus is too low for the nervous system to allow many reps at 225 regardless of how much fuel happens to be in the muscles. In order for the nervous system to allow a lot of reps at 225, tissue capacity of sufficient surplus must be established. Such tissue capacity is best forged with high-force/low-rep training.
As can be seen, muscular endurance training is not straightforward. ME is force/load specific; which means strength is prerequisite to endurance. Endurance also depends on fuel/fuel-efficiency. As such, ME training should endeavor to address whichever traits that are deficient.


Penguins Dying from Heat
Most of us have very busy lives and our schedules are sometimes the reason we don’t get involved in environmental issues in the world. When we come home from work, all that we want to do is either sit on a comfortable couch and use Casumo Bonus Code to play some casino games or get a bite with our friends. But we should all try to at least once in a while inform ourselves about what issues are going on in the world at the moment and perhaps how we can help.
The rising temperature around the world has a strong effect on wildlife and nowhere is this more apparent than in the South Pole. Around 18.000 of Adélie penguin chicks have died, which is nearly half of a single colony on East Antarctica. Are penguins facing extinction?
Penguins of this species lay a single egg and the parents take turns guarding it. When the chick hatches, the parents are still taking turns in guarding and hunting for their offspring. With the climate changes, their normal habitats may soon become unfit to hold their colonies.
Some people think that climate change is the same as global warming, but the truth is that climate is much more complicated than that. Some areas are getting warner, while others are cooling down. This results in a fluctuation in sea levels, making the hunting trips less lucrative than they would normally be. This year, scientists monitoring the colonies have discovered about 18.000 dead chicks. They died of starvation.
Despite this, the Adélie penguin is not endangered. The species has encountered massive deaths in Antarctica in the past and there are millions upon millions of these flightless birds. Another fact to factor in is that it is common for a large percentage of the chicks not to survive to adulthood, as the area itself can be pretty cruel in its own right. The lifespan of these penguins can reach 20 years, which means that something like this doesn’t have to be the end of the species in the making.
The hunger and the warmer seas are affecting other species of penguins as well, including the King Penguins. Like their Adélie cousins, King Penguins have to swim farther and farther to get to the food. The largest colonies are pretty far away from a stable food source, so they are going to have to move of face extinction. Luckily, these penguins are not restricted to Antarctica, there are many colonies in Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands. At the time of writing, there are over 2 million King Penguins in existence and, reportedly, their numbers are rising.
Emperor Penguins are expected to drop in number significantly by the end of the century. Several teams of researchers are trying to get the species listed as endangered, so that proper action may be taken to prevent their disappearance. Like the previous entries on the list, it is their diet of krill that is the biggest factor in their survival. Krill depend on ice for shelter and, without it, the penguins are going to be forced to travel further and further to hunt them.
Cause for Concern
The biggest issue the penguins are facing is not the change of temperature in itself, but what it represents. Warmer seas mean that there is going to be less food for the animals, as the ice is instrumental in krill’s diet and habitat. Without it, penguins are going to have to commute farther and farther, often leaving themselves and their offspring without a reliable source of food. We can only hope that the colonies are going to start migrating or they are going to face serious problems within a century or two.


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BHOPAL: Students’ union elections in colleges and universities will be held from the next academic session. Higher education minister Jitu Patwari announced this during media interaction on Friday.
Higher education minister also announced that 500 assistant professors will be recruited every year. Despite recruitment through the PSC selected assistant professors, this year also 500 recruitments will be made. Moreover, 300 principals will also be posted through direct recruitment this year.
Declaring vision programme for the year 2020, higher education minister Jitu Patwari said that Knowledge Corporation would be set up that would facilitate online learning programmes.
Overall 200 colleges will be modified with Rs 2,000 crores across the state. College of excellence will also be developed at every division level.
Buildings of 67 colleges will be renovated. A state-of-art teachers training institute will be opened to update teachers on latest means of pedagogy.
A common career portal will be formed for facilitation of students and to help them in getting employment. This platform will be available for both job seekers and job givers.
Playgrounds are also developed properly, boundary walls have been built to stop encroachment of govt property and helpline centres for students have been setup. All colleges will be connected with Integrated College Management System.
Provisions have been made for appointment of Lokpal to resolve issues related to students, teachers and campuses, said that higher education minister.


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- Can you put bleach in a dryer?
- What is the best way to clean a dryer lint trap?
- How often should you clean your dryer lint trap?
- How do you get dryer sheet residue out of a dryer?
- How do I stop my tumble dryer from smelling?
- How do you clean the dryer screen?
- How do you clean a dryer that smells?
How do you deodorize a dryer with baking soda?
Soak a plain white towel or two in cold water and a generous amount of baking soda and run them through your dryer on its lowest setting.
This should remove the mold smell, the bleach or vinegar smell and any dried bleach on the dryer’s surface..
How do you clean a dryer without bleach?
Borax. Borax can be used in addition to your regular detergent to disinfect laundry. Start by filling the wash bin with your laundry and set the wash cycle to warm water. Then add ½ cup of borax to the washing cycle.
How do I freshen up my tumble dryer?
Spray white vinegar onto a few old towels. Put inside the tumble dryer and run a drying cycle to neutralise any remaining odour. Make sure the walls of the dryer are free of bleach before putting any load in to prevent discoloration of clothes.
Does dryer kill germs?
A dryer can potentially kill the vast majority of germs if it gets hot enough. 135°F is the minimum temperature at which a dryer can significantly reduce the number of bacteria and viruses on your clothes. However, much depends on the length of the drying cycle, the fabrics and the species of bacteria (and virus).
What does sanitize on a dryer mean?
Antibacterial or Sanitize: Dryer cycles or options that reach the specific temperature and time needed to kill 99.9% of bacteria in the load. … Doing so keeps children from accidentally changing the selections or starting the dryer.
How do you clean the inside of a dryer?
Residue from dryer sheets and fabric softener not only clog your lint trap but can add a film to the inside of your machine. Once a month, use a spray of 1/2 white vinegar and 1/2 water to mist the inside of the drum. Wipe it down with a microfiber cloth, and leave the dryer door open so it can air dry.
How do you clean a front loader dryer?
Steps to Clean Your DryerUnplug the Machine and Clean the Exterior. Dryers build up a lot of dust and lint on the outside. … Clean the Lint Trap. Pull out the lint trap screen and wash it in the sink with warm, soapy water. … Clean the Dryer Drum. … Deep Clean the Rest. … Clean the Vent on Both Sides.
Can I clean dryer vent myself?
Use the hose attachment of a vacuum cleaner or shop vac to clean in and around the hole at the back of the dryer. If you can detach the length of duct where it meets the wall, do so. It will make cleaning it easier. … Remove lint from the duct by hand and then vacuum the inside of the duct.
How do I know if my dryer vent is clogged?
How to Know if Your Dryer Vent is CloggedClue #1 – Clothes Take Too Long to Dry. … Clue #2 – Clothing and/or Outside of Dryer Are Very Hot. … Clue #3 – Burning Smell Coming from the Dryer. … Clue #4 – Lint and Debris Buildup Around the Outside Vent. … Clue #5 – Dryer Due for Service.
Why do my clothes smell weird after drying?
Your dryer may cause your clothing to stink for a few reasons. … This is usually caused by clothing left in a dryer too long while wet, which leaves behind mold spores that grow over time. You can use a vinegar rinse to clean out a dryer as well, or call an appliance specialist to clean the unit for you.
Can you put bleach in a dryer?
Fill a bucket with approximately 1 gallon cold water, and add 1/2 cup chlorine bleach. … Immerse a clean cloth in the bleach solution, and wipe down the inside of the dryer, the dryer door, the lint trap and the entire outer surface of the dryer.
What is the best way to clean a dryer lint trap?
Cleaning a Dryer Lint TrapRemove the lint screen, and use a vacuum to remove any small bits of leftover lint.Take the lint trap screen to the sink, and wash it with warm soap and water.While the lint trap dries, use your vacuum to clean the slot the lint trap slides into.More items…
How often should you clean your dryer lint trap?
First, the lint filter should be wiped clean before and after each load of laundry. The vent pipe should also be cleaned of lint every three months. Lastly, your dryer should be regularly cleaned by a professional, particularly if it takes longer than usual for clothes to dry.
How do you get dryer sheet residue out of a dryer?
Remove the excess by scraping it off with a hard rubber spatula. Tackle the remaining residue by wiping the area with a cloth dampened with a small amount of laundry detergent and hot water. Use a dry cloth to remove any excess water or suds,” she said. Believe it or not, that was the easy part of dryer maintenance.
How do I stop my tumble dryer from smelling?
Tumble DryerRemove the dryer vent and vacuum out any debris or lint that may have become trapped.Check the area where the vent attaches to the dryer as well as the vent that connects to the outdoors if not using a condenser dryer.Lint that becomes trapped in these vents can stay damp and hold the musty smell.More items…•
How do you clean the dryer screen?
To wash:Roll lint off the screen with your fingers.Wet both sides of the lint screen with hot water.Wet a nylon brush with hot water and liquid detergent. Scrub lint screen with the brush to remove residue buildup.Rinse screen with hot water.Thoroughly dry the lint screen with a clean towel.
How do you clean a dryer that smells?
Take a clean cloth and dip it in some distilled white vinegar. Clean the inside of your dryer with this damp cloth and make sure that you wipe every inch. This includes the door, and the area under the rubber gasket in the door seal.


Deep Learning – Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks Basics
Generative Adversarial Networks are a class of algorithms used in the unsupervised learning environment. As the name suggests they are called Adversarial Networks because they are made up of two competing neural networks. Both networks compete with each other to achieve a zero-sum game..
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Nestled in the beautiful and lush green valleys of the Western Ghats, Sakleshpur is located in Hassan district and comes under the Malanad region of the Karnataka state. One of the most sought weekend destinations in Karnataka, there are many
Post-August is the best time of the year, especially for the millennials with lots of festivals coming up. They save their leaves so that they can travel without anything bothering them. Slow and meaningful travel has already picked up India
The moment one thinks of the South India Tour, it’s the heritage and ancient temples that come to mind, which is true to some extent. However, Karnataka has much more to offer when it comes to visiting the state for
Karnataka is blessed with one of the finest landscapes and shores which inspires not only the mainstream tourists but also the active travellers. Cycle Tours in Karnataka are becoming insanely popular with the increasing millennial population in the state.


Mike Babcock will start different goalies in Canada's first two games
Mike Babcock says he will split starts between Canada's top two goalies in their first two games at the Olympics.
Mike Babcock’s wheels have been turning in his massive hockey brain for months about how things are going to go for Canada in Sochi. The Team Canada and Red Wings head coach’s toughest decision, however, may be who to hand the reins to in net.
Roberto Luongo and Carey Price are the top two candidates to start for Canada in Sochi, with Mike Smith seemingly a distant third. Babcock wants to get a look at two goalies in game action before he makes a final decision on who takes the job from there.
As he explained to Hockey Central on Sportsnet Radio, Babcock says he will split the goalies in Canada’s first two games at the Olympics.
Canada starts the tournament Feb. 13 against Norway and has its second game against Austria on Feb. 14. Neither team is likely to pose much of a challenge. It will be the goalie that gets that third start that will likely be the No. 1 the rest of the way.
“I know who I think I’m going to start in Game 1,” Babacock told Sportsnet, noting that he would discuss it with his assistant coaches.
Both Price and Luongo offer solid options for Babcock, but neither’s team is currently headed in the right direction in the standings. Still, Price is sporting a .922 save percentage, while Luongo carries a .920 mark. The latter has the Olympic experience to fall back on as well.
It’s going to be interesting to see how this goes. Babcock did not commit to a No. 1 goalie at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver for a while, switching off between Luongo and Martin Brodeur. It ended up working out OK, but the goaltending situation never seemed wholly settled.
With the lack of success for Canada in the last two overseas Olympics, the goaltending may loom largely for the defending gold medalists.
Babcock also dished on some potential line combinations, confirming that Sidney Crosby and Chris Kunitz will remain on a line together (obviously). Who will play with the Pittsburgh Penguins duo is a secret, though. He will try to keep a lot of teammates together.
The Canadian head coach will also meet with Steven Stamkos to discuss the winger’s status before making a final decision on whether or not he is ready to go to Sochi.
This last week leading up to the first men’s hockey game in Sochi should be rather intriguing when it comes to Team Canada.
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Doves have returned with new track "Cathedrals Of The Mind", the third single to be lifted from their first LP in 11 years The Universal Want.
Guitarist Jez Williams says of their new single, "The song stems from a single hook, which developed to evoke this expansive internal monologue, this never-ending chasm of thought. Subconsciously, through words thrown against it and made to fit, it came to be about someone always being on your mind. The listener can form their own ideas. For me, it was about the loss of Bowie."
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U2 performed a special concert in New York’s Times Square last night, with Bruce Springsteen and Chris Martin filling in for frontman Bono, who is recovering from a cycling accident.
The singers were drafted in to prevent the World Aids Day event from being cancelled in Bono’s absence – watch the full performance below.
Martin – wearing a T-shirt that read ‘SUBSITUTU2’ – joined the band to perform ‘Beautiful Day’ and ‘With Or Without You’, telling the crowd: “Dreams come true for young and old people alike.”
Springsteen joined the band on the specially constructed stage to play ‘Where The Streets Have No Name’ and ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’. He dedicated the latter to “Bono in Ireland – be well, my friend.”
The event was introduced by a speech from former US president Bill Clinton, who said: “I got this email from Bono, recuperating in Dublin, and he said I had to come here tonight to do the intro. And here’s what I want to say to you: 26 years ago we could never have had an event like this on World Aids Day because to be diagnosed with Aids was a death sentence… this year, for the first time ever, more people were put on life-saving medicine than were diagnosed with Aids. We can win this fight.”
Also appearing at the event was Kanye West, who performed a medley of ‘Jesus Walks’, ‘Black Skinhead’ and ‘Touch The Sky’ in lashing rain, and country singer Carrie Underwood.
The event was staged by Bono’s charity Red. Earlier this year, U2 gave away their song ‘Invisible’ in a deal that saw Bank Of America donate $1 (60p) per download of the track to the Global Fund To Fight Aids, Tuberculosis And Malaria.
‘With Or Without You’
‘Where The Streets Have No Name’
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The first domino has fallen in the wake of the news of John Wall's extended absence: The Wizards are breaking up what many believed to be their core for years to come, trading Otto Porter Jr. to the Chicago Bulls for Jabari Parker and Bobby Portis.
After spending most of his first two NBA seasons buried on the bench with the Portland Trail Blazers, former Maryland standout Jake Layman has found his role as a key reserve and sometimes starter for one of the Western Conference's top teams.
The Golden Eagles, named after Marquette, won all three rounds in the Northeast bracket to reach Baltimore as one of four surviving teams who have battled through a field of 72 in July to reach The Basketball Tournament (TBT) semifinals.
Diamond Stone played one season, 2015-16, at Maryland before leaving for the NBA Draft. He had some highlights for the Terps, but wasn't the dominant center he was supposed to be as a Top 10 national recruit.
Only 10 Major League Baseball teams, including the Baltimore Orioles, don't have a naming rights deal or a pending one for their ballparks. Such deals — which can produce revenue of more than $10 million a year — have become the norm in professional sports. But don't expect any changes at Camden Yards.
The Colonial Athletic Association announced Thursday afternoon that the conference's men's basketball tournament would move from Baltimore to Charleston, S.C., after this year's championship is completed at Royal Farms Arena from March 4-7.
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COVERAGE – Lifestyle Food (Lotus)
- 0:20 PREP • 0:6 COOK
- 12 Ingredients
These fuss-free pork wontons are easy to prepare and quick to cook.
1.Soak the dried black funghi in a bowl of warm water until soft.
2.Once soft, drain well and finely slice the funghi, water chestnut and spring onion.
3.In a large bowl, combine the mushrooms with all other ingredients apart from the wonton skins. Stir until well mixed.
4.Place 1 heaped teaspoon of filling onto each wonton skin. Moisten edges slightly with water and fold edges over to form a triangle shape. Press down on edges slightly to seal in filling. Set dumplings aside on a lightly floured surface until ready to cook.
5.To Cook: Boil the wontons in boiling water for 6 minutes. Makes 25 wontons.

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BANGUI (LNC) – According to the daily Newspaper “Centrafric Matin”, the UN organ in Bangui owns a drone for weeks; and following a close of them, the all process of the fatal attack against Mombeka, occurred in the PK5 district in Bangui, would have been shot from sky by this machine.
The criminal squad would be identified, as well identities of the sponsors (who are absolutely not coming from the Muslim community) but well known already by the MINUSCA team.
If so, a simple and obvious question, why such withholdings of information?
Faustin Touadera lately had mysteriously referred to a “plot”, what displeased MINUSCA a lot.
Awaiting, still no judicial inquiry into the case.
Same thing about the massacres in parallel took place in the SEGA (the slaughterhouses of Bangui) where dozen of Fulani shepherds were killed and eaten (cannibalism) by Anti-Balaka gunmen, the case is simply buried. Even no policeman making effort going to investigate on the crime scene.
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NBT (B) Sdn Bhd recently unveiled the latest 2019 Toyota Avanza which is being showcased at the five-day 23rd Consumer Fair at International Convention Centre (ICC) in Berakas.
Among the highlights of the latest generation of the Toyota Avanza are the LED reflector headlamp, new designs for the front grille, side skirting and rear as well as the new front centre console.
According to a representative of NBT, “The new Avanza focusses on new looks and better comfort at an affordable price.”
The company is also showcasing their thrill series model including Toyota Vios, Innova and Camry at the Consumer Fair.
The sales team will also showcase products such as ceramic coating and service packages as well as other promotions throughout the Consumer Fair.
NBT reminded the public that they can still participate in the ‘More to Win this Raya Month’ Campaign where customers stand a chance to win more than BND10,000 worth of prizes in the grand lucky draw.
The NBT booth is at the Blue Zone (Food Zone Hall) at the side entrance of ICC.


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My boyfriend changed from I got pregnant
I need your advice, please. My boyfriend and I have been together for seven years, from high school days. I am now 21 and we have a two-month-old baby. I really love him. He takes very good care of me, but he beats me when we argue. He is very arrogant. He tells me he loves me every day, but since the birth of our baby, I think he has not really been interested in me again. He takes care of me and the baby well, but I have started to see other females, texting him things like "I reach home" and so on.
When I was pregnant, I found out that he had another girlfriend next door to him (we don't live together). I admit that I pestered him about it for him to tell me the truth, but he always denied it. He is currently building his own house and he asked me to give him a bit more time for us to live together. My problem is we argue a lot about foolishness, but we make up quickly afterwards.
I am confused and I wonder if he loves me. He works hard to take care of us. He loves his child, and makes sure she has everything she needs. He tries to give me all I need, too, but since I started to see other females texting him, I have become insecure and have lost my trust in him. I know he was speaking with another girl, but I am not sure if they were intimate. I never had women problems like that with him before. It all started when I was pregnant. Do you think he loves me? Pastor, I really need your advice. Thanks in advance.
It is likely that this man loves you, but it is also likely that he is playing around with other girls. And you are making the situation worse by harassing him about the other girls.
You have gone into his phone, and you have read his text messages and you feel you have ammunition to taunt him and to harass him about these other girls that you believe he is being intimate with. What is more crucial is the fact that you believe that he is not paying you as much attention as he did before you became pregnant. Perhaps you have gained some weight and you have not done anything to take off the weight people generally call 'baby fat'.
Please understand that I am not defending this man. I do not know why he is not giving you as much attention as before. Perhaps it could be because of the harassment that you constantly do to him about other women. A woman could text a man and say "I reach home safely" and they do not have an intimate relationship. She could even say "You have been so good to me and I thank you". And if it is his child's mother who saw that, she might hit the roof. Why should she hit the roof? She does so because she is silly and insecure. It is not everything that a girlfriend sees in a man's phone that she should question. She may turn the man off from her. I really mean it! She may run the man away. Little things may build up into big separation.
WORK ON YOURSELF
What I am trying to say to you is to work on yourself. Don't question every little thing this man does. Keep your man by showing him that you appreciate him and that you are proud of the way he supports your baby and you. On the other hand, you should not tolerate the abuse from this man. He has no right to be beating you. You say that he is arrogant. That might be true, but he has to learn to keep his anger under control. Perhaps he needs to do a course in anger-management. Tell him that you will report him to the police if he attempts to hit you again.
Having said the above, I will end by saying that this man does not seem to be a bad man. Perhaps he has played around with other women, but I believe he loves you. And I would encourage you to ask him whether both of you can go to see a family counsellor and deal with your problems. Make sure that he does not get you pregnant again until both of you are married. After your child has grown a little older, try and get yourself a job.

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Celebrating the Humanity of Every Individual
“This music would sound wonderful even without its context. Knowing where it came from makes it infinitely more powerful. John Daversa's trumpet playing is masterful throughout, giving the element of mercurial, unceasing life to the compassionate vistas Justin Morell composes. For beauty and heart, this music is above and beyond anything else around today. It is an outstanding recording.” ― Jerome Wilson, All About Jazz
The live premiere event will be held at University of Miami, with the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra under the leadership of Maria Schneider and the direction of Scott Flavin, on October 2, 2021. For information and tickets, visit the HMI website here.
Learn the story of how Loren's vocalization became the melody that inspired all of the variations.
Meet John Daversa, Justin Morell, and the rest of the performers on the album.
See some of the brilliant visual art created by autistic artists inspired by the music.
“There have been great orchestral jazz albums in the past: Charlie Parker’s early 1950s shot across the bow, of course . . . saxophonist Art Pepper‘s Winter Moon, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond‘s Desmond Blue, and the Claus Ogerman/Michael Brecker collaboration Cityscape. All Without Words: Variations Inspired By Loren rises to that level of great artistry and beauty.” – Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
” . . . a gorgeous and impressive piece of work.” – R.A. Miriello, Notes on Jazz
“. . . a long, serious work with a complex agenda, primarily an aim to heal.” – Carlo Wolff, Downbeat Magazine
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“an awesome combination of composer magic and musicians who play life into their music” – Dee Dee McNeil, Musicalmemoirs’s Blog
“A superbly textured orchestral jazz trumpet adventure.” – Take Effect Reviews
“a MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED rating, with an ‘EQ’ (energy quotient) score of 4.99” – Dick Metcalf, Contemporary Fusion Reviews
” . . . the genius of John Daversa and Justin Morell . . . they created a piece of music that is so vivid and perhaps even loquacious that it doesn’t need words.” – Marc Phillips, The Vinyl Anachronist
“This is one of the most beautifully eloquent pieces of music this writer has heard in recent memory, certainly in this year of 2021 so far. Expect to see it in Grammy conversations both for Morell in composition and for Daversa’s amazing work as soloist.” – Jim Hynes, Making a Scene