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Terrorism in London: Lessons for the US This weekend’s terrorist attack in London left seven people dead and almost 50 injured. London police fatally shot the attackers, and ISIS claimed responsibility.
Industry insights and lessons learned from memorable guests We have interesting guests on The Business, and sometimes our conversations are too long to fit into one show. This week we give you stories that were too good to leave on the cutting room floor, including some sharp insights on making it in the industry from David Mandel, David Simon, Shawn Levy and Matt Reeves.
Accusations of lying fly between James Comey and White House During his testimony Thursday, former FBI Director James Comey accused President Trump and other White House officials of lying when they said the FBI was in disarray and its staff had lost confidence in him. President Trump’s lawyer said Comey was wrong -- that the president never asked for his loyalty, and never asked him to back off the investigation into former NSA director Michael Flynn.


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The Original Daily Bread Marketplace
Daily Bread is a cafeteria-style Middle Eastern restaurant with a little marketplace inside.
Glass and Vine
Glass and Vine is a Latin fusion restaurant on the edge of a park in Coconut Grove, and you should definitely sit outside.
Chug’s is a casual Cuban spot in Coconut Grove good for breakfast or lunch or anytime you want great pastelitos.
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Pinch Kitchen is a spot in the Upper East Side that feels super casual, but serves a wide range of really great food.
Dogma is an essential outdoor spot in MiMo for any time you’re even in the tiniest of hotdog moods.
Cafe Kush is a casual waterfront restaurant inside MiMo’s Gold Dust Hotel. The great menu includes burgers, steak frites, sandwiches, and more.
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Ariete is one of Coconut Grove’s best restaurants, but still casual enough for a nice weeknight dinner.
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Shore To Door in Coconut Grove serves fresh fish on the weekends. Their backyard is our favorite place in the whole city to eat seafood.
Kush serves some of Miami’s best burgers. It’s in one of the quieter corners of Wynwood, and best for small groups.
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Meet the company that’s changing the way the nation travels.
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Published: 12 August 2014
This Article was Written by: Katie Hill - My Green Pod
There are too many cars on our roads and you can get to most places by bus or train if you put a bit of effort in – but there are also times when having your own four wheels comes in very, very handy. So how can you get the best of both worlds and use a car only when you need it, without having to worry about parking or petrol? PQ talks to James Finlayson, MD of City Car Club, about why car clubs are the only logical answer for cleaner cities and healthier bank balances.
How does it work?
If you haven’t already come across it, City Car Club lets its members share the cars in its fleet, so you get the benefits of multiple car ownership without the hassle or the expense. After joining online, you’re issued with a membership card that acts as your car key; you book a car near you (they’re never far away – City Car Club has over 750 vehicles in 17 cities from Edinburgh down to Brighton and across to Cardiff) then find it, swipe your card on the dashboard and the car’s unlocked and ready to use. The car’s then yours to drive anywhere you want. City Car Club covers fuel costs (you pay for petrol using a card in the glove box) and, when you’ve finished your trip, you simply return to the City Car Club parking space you picked it up from before swiping out again. City Car Club then works out your mileage and sends you an invoice.
City Car Club covers the insurance, servicing, MOTs and even fuel; annual membership costs £60 (a pretty hefty saving on most car insurance premiums) and then you just pay for the time you use the car. There’s a real mix of vehicles in the fleet; smaller Toyota Aygos are perfect for short city trips and seven-seaters and vans are available if you’re moving house or travelling in groups. The cheapest cars cost £4.95 an hour or £39.50 per day.
According to the European Commission, car ownership only becomes more cost-effective than car sharing if your annual mileage exceeds 10,000km. The savings vary, but City Car Club’s independent regulator would say membership can save you up to £3,600 a year. ‘I’ve spoken with younger drivers who have saved almost half of this just from not having to pay huge insurance premiums’, says James. ‘It’s important to recognise the time factor, too – who really wants the hassle of servicing, cleaning and ensuring their car passes an MOT? We’re also selective about our fleet; on average, our vehicles’ carbon emissions are 33% lower than the average UK car’s. Where possible, we select hybrid vehicles which run at zero CO2/km at low speeds – and we’ve just added pure electric cars to the fleet.’
While the savings are attractive, City Car Club also draws attention to the cost of driving – and its members tend to use cars less as a result. ‘The costs of using our service are far more visible than when you own your own car,’ says James, ‘so our members tend to use public transport wherever possible. The result is a much smaller carbon footprint for each journey.’ Car club members tend to walk, cycle and use public transport more than non-members, providing wider benefits to the community, too. The cities City Car Club operate in see reductions in congestion, parking pressures and carbon emissions, resulting in cleaner air.
While a car club that encourages people to drive less might sound like a bonkers business idea, in 2012 James managed to transform the company, which was losing close to £1m a year in 2007, into a profitable business. James has always been a bit of an entrepreneur; he left school in Australia at the age of 16 and was a qualified gardener with his own small landscaping company just three years later. At 22 he set up Greenscene, a London-based B2B gardening company which turned over £3m and was sold 19 years later. His next step was to invest in early stage businesses, one of which was City Car Club. Within a year he was working there full time as its MD.
‘I was looking for a company in a sector that “ticked my green boxes”’, says James. ‘While environmental issues have always been a passion of mine, I could see real growth in the future of car clubs and I’m really happy to say I’ve been proved right. Without commercial success, the environmental benefits of car sharing could never be realised as no business can exist on subsidy alone these days.’
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As James admits, changing the travel habits of a nation in which car ownership is so deeply engrained was never going to be an easy task. But he believes we’re moving towards a more general sharing mentality, from homes and handbags to vehicles. As a result, the benefits of car sharing will become more obvious – and car clubs more popular.
‘I truly believe there will always be a place for the car within the UK’s transport mix; it’s the way the car is used that’s really changing – especially with the improvements in information accessibility’, says James. ‘The internet and smartphones provide instant access to lots of information, so people can make informed decisions about the cheapest mode of transport for their journey, where their nearest car club bay is and the delay on the train they were intending to catch.’
The future of transport doesn’t lie solely with car clubs – without a solid public transport infrastructure the benefits of car sharing couldn’t be realised. Car clubs wouldn’t work for commuters so City Car Club couldn’t operate successfully in a city without decent public transport.
Walking and cycling will always be the most environmentally sound ways to travel, but they’re not always possible. As James puts it, ‘I can’t imagine jumping on my bike with my kayak strapped to my back for a weekend away.’ Assess what you actually need and go from there – a combination can be both the greenest and the most rewarding. The idea of getting into a good book on the train before picking up a City Car Club car at your destination sounds like bliss to us.
For more information on City Car Club and how to join, visit their website.


Armstrong researchers are continuing their efforts to further develop FOSS technologies. A hybrid FOSS technique (HyFOSS) employs conventional continuous grating fibers and then overlays sections every 3-4 feet with “strong” gratings that can be sampled at higher rates. The new and stronger gratings can be sampled at rates up to 5,000 Hertz (Hz) while the continuous grating sections continue to be sampled at the lower 100 Hz rate. This technique enables higher spatial resolution at specific targets without sacrificing resolution in other areas. The ultimate goal is to achieve sampling rates up to 20 kHz.
Work to date: The team began investigating the technique in early 2013 after a request from NASA Kennedy Space Center. Many aerospace and space vehicles – fighter aircraft, UAVs, launch vehicles, and spacecraft – could benefit from FOSS integration. Some of the applications require higher sample rates to maintain high spatial resolution. NASA Kennedy’s Launch Services Group requested that the NASA Armstrong Advanced Structures and Measurements Group investigate the development effort that would be required to increase the sample rate from 100 hertz (Hz) to over 20 kHz. This increased sampling capability would allow structural features related to high frequency shock and/or vibration to be captured. To date, the OFDR technology does not have the capability to achieve these higher sample rates, though the possibility of fusing Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) is feasible yet with limited spatial resolution. To achieve this with existing instrumentation would require the installation of two technologies, one utilizing OFDR and the other using WDM, and would increase the weight and installation requirement of fiber optic instrumentation.
Combining the best of OFDR and WDM technologies into new hardware that utilizes the same optical fiber would allow for high spatial resolution with lower sample rates in addition to the ability to obtain high sample rates at strategically spaced points along the fiber. With this goal, the hybrid FOSS (hyFOSS) system was developed.
A series of weak and strong FBGs are written onto the optical fiber. Weak FBGs allow for spatial resolution of 0.25 inches. The maximum number of stronger, unique-wavelength FBGs and the minimum separation interval between the sensors are determined by the length of the fiber and the wavelength spectrum of the light source. However, there is latitude to allow for the number and placement of the sensors to be tailored to the testing application.
Looking ahead: Researchers have asked the company that currently provides the fibers to supply a 40-ft strand embedded with the new technology. Next steps involving investigating the specimen in the laboratory environment. The Armstrong team is also investigating the possibilities of pushing the overall sample rate to 20kHz.
This technology expands the capabilities and applications of Armstrong's Fiber Optic Sensing System (FOSS).
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Hello and welcome back to P-Vock's Music Box. February has tons of releases yet to come that make my heart happy and my wallet hurt. Among these, and standing the tallest next to Octopath 2, is a new Theatrhythm. Theathrythm, besides being a name with a glorious pun that makes me giddy, is a fantastic rhythm game consisting mostly of Final Fantasy music. So, to honour one of my favourite IPs, let's look at one of my favourite soundtracks of all time.
Next to Persona 3, this is the greatest opening sequence ever made. It tells you so much while giving you little information. It's actually just a cutscene from very late into the game, but I think it stands as a shining example of how powerful music can be. We don't need some glorious soliloquy. We just need To Zanarkand.
To Zanarkand is probably the single piece of music from video games most people will say make them cry. It's just so somber. It feels tired. It feels empty. It feels like it just wants to give up, but it can't. This is a flawless way to grab someone's attention as you just have to find out what could possibly create such a scenario.
So let's skip to a much happier moment, as this game does have some incredibly jovial moments.
Final Fantasy X is a very tropical game, so it would stand to reason that at least one of the tracks would be the perfect music to lounge at a beach with. It's so calm and serene. It's just relaxed. As you explore towns in this game, your given a moment of reprieve from the otherwise high octane battles and extremely intense story. I think Spira Unplugged accomplishes that very well.
Not only does it nail the current vibe (heh, water pun), it also has a wee bit of a leitmotif that is furthered by my favourite track in the game.
A Fleeting Dream is perfection. Until I played FFIX, this was my favourite track in the whole series and stands behind my favourite moment in the game. You saw the Zanarkand ruins in the opening, now you march through them with this absolute masterpiece blasting in your ears.
Sure, the leitmotif is incredible, but this track really shines for me because it encapsulates EVERYTHING you need in a moment like this. It's somber and tired as you've been on a long journey. It breaks for a moment as if you're about to give up. But it keeps on driving. It keeps going.
This is basically just a track telling you "Yeah, this has been a hard journey. You've come so far, and you're almost finished. Just a little more and you'll be done."
This kind of track shows why I love video games and music from video games so much.
I have wanted to talk about Final Fantasy X for so long. I love this damn game so much. I love this damn soundtrack so much. This OST is filled from top to bottom with iconic bops that provide every emotion possible for its players. Until I played FFIX, it was just far and away my favourite.
It is an absolute masterpiece.
Thank you so much, as always, for checking out my nonsense. I hope these tunes gave you a little something to carry you into the weekend, and I hope to catch you back here next time with another suggestion from my Music Box.

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The Negative Psychological Effect of Facebook on Children
Do you ever wonder what kind of deep permanent damage Facebook, and the internet in general, is doing to children? That would be an interesting longitudinal study.
Unfortunately I don’t have answers, but a few interesting scenarios are bouncing around in my brain. Particularly, how will the perceived notion of permanent reputation damage be viewed by children in their experimental stages of life.
As kids it was our job to make stupid mistakes as a way of experimentation, learning, and growth. At times we were mean and teased, but then we learned to be caring. We were insecure and fought, until we became brave. We were complete jackasses, until we learned to be sophisticated enough to be civil.
That’s fine, that’s what kids do, that’s how we all learned. However, what if there was a strict realistic expectation that whatever dumb thing came out of your mouth in 5th grade, would be blogged by Johnny when he got home, and thus your permanent reputation would be ingrained in internet history.
Three of several scenarios that I see:
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A child grows up in fear of making the wrong moves. This child does not learn the lessons that come with the mistakes. The one skill that they master is how to hide their thoughts and actions from their family and friends, for fear of being written up on the net. They grow through life silently nurturing their inner daemons, while putting out a front that’s not really themselves.
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The other child dismisses the notion of public relations and goes on as children always have. Has a lot of good days and bad days, plays hard, speaks what is on his mind, and doesn’t worry about being written into internet history. He says a lot of things he regrets, learns from his mistakes, becomes an excellent guy, but unfortunately is scarred by past experiences and can never get a job because everyone of his potential employers always googles his name with the word asshole beside it to see just how many people he pissed off.
The Super Generation
Perhaps it doesn’t really take stupid mistakes to know and do the right thing. Perhaps the watchful eye will induce some sort of Hawthorne effect, where children are happy doing the right thing under a watchful eye. They’re able to document their progress, make incremental improvements, and take themselves to a level that even the most fanatical journal keeper of our generation is not able to harness of themselves.
So what will become of these future generations? The ones without the luxury to make mistakes in private? What’s your opinion? What other scenarios can you think of?

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Hello Metal Heads! Are you ready for some fun tonight! Good because this one is going to be an amazing one! Tonight I have the new Judas Priest album that was released on Tuesday July 8th was a little nervous for this album. Not going to lie here I went and saw them live a couple of years ago and I left felt empty and sad. As much as there was pyros, and great support from everyone, Rob himself was looking very tired and every time there was a solo he’d go to the back and disappear, you could tell there were times he tried to get to the harder vocals and he just couldn’t fully do it through the first part of the concert but started to loosen up a bit and he did get a bit higher but it just wasn’t fully there. Being it was my first time seeing them live I was a little let down.
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Addressing Health Literacy During Care Transitions Can Increase Hospital Quality Star Ratings
In response to the first release of the Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating in July, many hospitals are looking at each of the 64 individual metrics that comprise the score to identify areas for improvement. Two of the measures that comprise the “population health” section of the rating come from HCHAPS survey questions related to the patient’s health literacy and understanding of their care when they left the hospital:
1) When I left the hospital, I had a good understanding of the things I was responsible for in managing my health.
2) When I left the hospital, I clearly understood the purpose for taking each of my medications.
Care coordination can impact the performance Hospital Quality Star Ratings by using simple steps to increase patient health literacy in the first 48 hours after hospital discharge. Using simple jargon free language, focusing on key points, and confirming understanding through read back can increase health literacy. Care coordinators can use these techniques to address 3 areas of health literacy related to these HCHAPS questions during their conversations with patients.
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Confirm that the patient understands the next steps they need to take to as they recover from their hospitalization. Address what appointments they have or need to make, and be sure that they clearly understand the next steps in recovery.
Confirm Understanding of What Their Medications Are For:
Adherence to medication regimes can be an issue for patients due to low health literacy. Question the patient to be sure they have filled their prescriptions and are taking them as prescribed. Discuss the purpose of each medication and monitor for potential common side effects. Involve the pharmacist again as necessary.
Confirm Understanding of Written Discharge Instructions:
Confirm the patient has a copy of the discharge instructions they were provided and is aware of why the instructions are important for them. Also, making the patient feel comfortable to ask questions by citing some common questions that other patients have about the discharge instructions can help to foster an atmosphere in which questions are welcomed.
Care coordinators can play a key role in increasing quality ratings by addressing the patients’ health literacy during post-discharge follow-up conversations and increasing the patients’ engagement in their healthcare.


House Republicans are setting a lofty goal for a next step in their sweeping impeachment inquiry: Interviewing President Joe Biden himself.
At the end of an hourslong hearing with two former Hunter Biden business associates, Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said that he would invite Joe Biden to testify in front of the committee.
“In the coming days I will invite President Biden to the Oversight Committee to provide his testimony and explain why his family received tens of millions of dollars. … We need to hear from the president himself,” Comer said.
An Oversight Committee aide confirmed to POLITICO that the invitation to the president will be for a public hearing.
Ian Sams, a White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, implied in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that Joe Biden would not be testifying. Sams called the forthcoming invitation a “sad stunt at the end of a dead impeachment.”
Comer made the announcement just before he wrapped up a Wednesday hearing with former Hunter Biden associates Tony Bobulinski and Jason Galanis. Both men reiterated claims they have previously made privately to the panel: That Joe Biden discussed business with Hunter Biden, an allegation both Bidens have denied, and spoke with his son’s associates.
Comer explained that he wanted to invite Joe Biden because there was a “major discrepancy” between the testimony from the two men and Hunter Biden’s private testimony last month. Hunter Biden has reiterated, both publicly and privately, that his father was not involved in his business deals. Republicans also invited Hunter Biden to testify publicly on Wednesday, but he declined the invitation.
In addition to Hunter Biden, multiple former business associates of the president’s son have told the committee privately that Joe Biden was not involved in their business deals.
One of those former associates, Devon Archer, told the committee behind closed doors that Hunter Biden would put his father on speakerphone while at dinners with business associates, but Archer said the conversations were limited to pleasantries. Rob Walker, another former Hunter Biden associate, previously told investigators that Joe Biden wasn’t involved in their business deals and also characterized his appearance at the lunch as an exchange of pleasantries.
Republicans are months into their impeachment inquiry that has largely focused on the business deals of Joe Biden’s family members, as they’ve struggled to find a clear link between actions Joe Biden took as vice president or president to those financial arrangements.


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Q1 current account surplus narrows to $477M from year-earlier $2.2B
The central bank revised downward its balance of payments (BOP) projection for 2016 to reflect recent and prospective economic developments—both domestic and global—that could have a bearing on the outlook for the country’s external payments position, following the release of Q1 data that showed a lower current account surplus than a year earlier.
“The overall BOP surplus in 2016 is expected to taper to $2 billion from $2.2 billion in the December 2015 projections exercise,” Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Deputy Governor Diwa Guinigundo announced in a press briefing on Friday.
The BSP’s revised forecast is lower than 2015’s full-year BOP surplus of $2.6 billion.
Guinigundo said the BOP assessment incorporates the latest available data, such as the four-month cash remittances inflows which grew 3.1 percent to $8.67 billion; the net foreign direct investments which rose more than 52 percent to $1.293 billion in the first quarter; and the foreign portfolio investments net inflow of $129 million for the first five months of 2016.
As for the global developments, he said the BSP included in the assessment the expected two tightening moves of the US Fed this year; new uncertainty coming from the possible exit of the Great Britain from the eurozone; other developments in the European economy; and signs of some economic stabilization in China.
“In terms of the domestic economy, we expect the macroeconomic fundamentals to continue drawing interest to the equities market, government securities, and bank deposits,” he added.
While the projected surplus in the current account balance has been revised upward, the financial account is expected to reverse to an outflow from an initially projected slight inflow in 2016, according to the BSP official.
Guinigundo said the forecast for 2016 current account surplus was revised upward to $5.8 billion, equivalent to 1.9 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), compared to $5.7 billion in the December 2015 projection exercise “due to the expected higher receipts from the services and primary income accounts.”
However, it was lower when compared to the $8.4 billion surplus in 2015 because of the expected widening of the trade deficit with the larger downward payments of services and income revision in the level of exports than that of imports.
The full year growth for goods exports in 2016 is seen to moderate to 3 percent from an expected growth rate of 5 percent in the December 2015 projection exercise.
“This considers the subdued outlook for the global economy and further decline in commodity prices,” the BSP deputy governor said.
Meanwhile, goods imports for 2016 are expected to grow by 7 percent, lower than the earlier projection of 10 percent in December 2015, on account of the decline in energy and metal prices.
“We expect the current account will continue to be challenged by the difficult trade-in-goods account . . . means that exports will continue to be soft…,” Guinigundo added.
Meanwhile, the sustained surplus in the current account is expected to be supported by overseas Filipino remittances and robust receipts from business process outsourcing (BPO) and tourism.
On the other hand, the initially projected small net inflow in the financial account in 2016 has been revised to a slight net outflow amounting to $500 million.
“This is to reflect the anticipated higher residents’ acquisition of financial assets abroad as the US Federal Reserve hiked its policy rate in end-2015 and is expected to do so in the second semester of 2016,” Guinigundo said.
While the global financial environment is expected to remain volatile, the bullish business confidence is expected to support continued entry of foreign direct investments (FDI) in the country, he added.
As a result, year-end gross international reserves (GIR) are still anticipated to be about $82.7 billion, an improvement from the actual $80.7 billion posted in 2015.
At this level, the GIR remain ample, covering about nine months’ worth of imports of goods and payments of services and income.
Q1 current account
The BSP on Friday also announced that the country’s current account for the first quarter of 2016 remained in surplus at $477 million, or 0.6 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, but was lower than the surplus in 2015.
The BSP said the country’s current account in the first three months of the year declined from the $2.2 billion surplus recorded during the same period in 2015 due “to the significant widening of the trade-in-goods deficit as merchandise exports fell while merchandise imports increased.”
Current accounts consist of transactions in goods, services, primary income and secondary income, and measure the net transfer of real resources between the domestic economy and the rest of the world.
The BSP data showed that the trade in goods account, which is composed of exports and imports of goods, posted a wider deficit of $8 billion compared with the $4.8-billion deficit seen a year earlier.
The primary income account, which shows flows for the use of labor and financial resources between resident and nonresident institutional units, recorded net receipts of $579 billion at end-March “amid lower residents’ payment of dividends to non-resident investors.”
The net receipts of secondary income account, or current transfers between residents and nonresidents, increased by 11.1 percent to $6.4 billion.


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It is greatly advisable we have at least the faintest idea of the nutritional value of the foods we eat.
A good nutrition is one which contains all the 6 classes of food in the right proportions.
Now this adage that says we are what we eat is very simple to understand. we can try out these foods.
Eggs: If are nutrition conscious then your Eggs should be boiled instead of fried. an egg yolk supplies 25% of ant-oxidant that may help prevent muscular degeneration and cataracts.
Though people who have heart diseases are advised to reduce their intake of eggs. But this does not reduce its usefulness to the human body.
Those without any health issues can take egg daily as it is capable of reducing health attack.
Apples: There are damaging substances produced in the body , as this may cause diseases which are absolutely unhealthy. Apples are very important to our health, it can successfully combat these substances which causes aging in our bodies. Through the anti oxidant which it contains.
According to an old long proverb, ” an apple a day takes the doctor away from the hospital” this is to show you how important it is.
Sweet potatoes: They are not only loved because of its tasteful nature but also because of the advantages it adds to the body.
Sweet potatoes are rich in complex carbohydrate, vitamin B6, vitamin c, dietary fiber among others.
This is number one class vegetable when it is compared to other vegetables in the world
Brazil nuts: this is recommended by doctors because of its numerous health values. Brazil nuts are good source of protein and carbohydrates.
But the greatest part is that they contain the highest amounts of selenium of any food. As this is capable of maintaining thyroid function.
They are also excellent sources of vitamin B-1 (thiamine), vitamin E, magnesium, and zinc.


Bose Quietcomfort Earbuds have several benefits over their traditional wired counterparts. The most enjoyed benefit of Bluetooth earphone is how easy they are to use and their amazing Bluetooth connectivity. Many users have a complaint about Bose Quietcomfort Earbuds that their Bluetooth disconnects while listening to music or during calls. It is no doubt that Bose offers some of the best audio devices, but such Bluetooth issues are quite common. Here’s how you can troubleshoot this problem on your Bose Quietcomfort earbuds.
As usual, there could be bugs and issues with pairing or using the headphones, especially Bluetooth earphones. One such issue that most people have faced recently is that the sound from the Bose Quietcomfort earbuds keeps disconnecting. This issue makes it very annoying. So in this article, let’s see how you can fix the Disconnecting issue on your Bose Quietcomfort earbuds.
Fix: Sound from Bose Quietcomfort Earbuds Bluetooth Disconnects
Charge your Bose Earbuds
It sounds very obvious, but sometimes in a hurry, we forget to charge our device and use them as it is. In such a case, your Bluetooth earbuds will work as long as it has the battery power remaining. If the battery dies, it will start showing symptoms of weak connectivity, or it will disconnect from time to time. So charge your earbuds and see it if helps.
Reset your Bose Earbuds
Sometimes most of the issues related to Bluetooth devices get fixed by a simple reset. Although the procedure to reset the device varies from device to device, and it also depends on the manufacturer. But since we are talking about the Bose Quietcomfort earbuds, here are the procedures to reset the device.
- First, Power off your headphones and wait 30 seconds.
- Connect your headphones to a wall outlet using a USB charger that came with the device.
- Wait five seconds and disconnect the USB cable from the headset.
- Wait for one minute and power on your headphones.
That’s it. You have successfully reset your Bose earbuds. Now reconfigure and pair the device on which you are going to use the earbuds. It should work without any issues.
Update Bluetooth drivers
If you are using your Bose earbuds on your PC or Laptop running Windows and facing frequent disconnects, you have to try updating or reinstalling the latest drivers for Bluetooth on your PC. Since some older drivers may have compatibility issues with older drivers, an updated driver should fix the issue.
So to reinstall or update Bluetooth drivers for your PC:
- Go to the official download page for your Laptop or Desktop.
- Search for Bluetooth drivers and download the latest one suitable for your Windows version.
- After downloading, install the package and let it update the required files.
- If the installation is successful, restart your computer, and it should work without any issue.
Update Bose Firmware
Sometimes the issue could be with the firmware you are using in your bose device. Usually, this issue can be fixed with a firmware update. So to perform a firmware update on your Bose Earbuds,
- Visit this link on your PC or Laptop.
- Select your region and click on download to download the Bose updater application for your PC.
- Install the application and follow the on-screen prompts to download and install the latest firmware updates.
Once the update is finished, the device should restart, and you should be able to connect to the earbuds. So now check if the issue is solved.
Other common fixes
Sometimes, there could be some other issues. For instance, you may be using far from the range of Bluetooth connectivity. Although Bluetooth can work very well within 10m, some devices may have issues communicating. This is because those devices are old and have aged hardware resulting in this poor experience. So try to avoid using over longer distances.
Even sometimes, there could be obstacles between the device and the earbuds creating interference with Bluetooth. So this interference will cause frequent disconnection on your Bluetooth device. Try to minimize the entering objects.
Although there are always good possibilities of hardware failure on your Bose Bluetooth device. But as it is not possible to come to a conclusion straight away. That’s one of the reasons we perform the troubleshooting to try and rule out all possible reasons behind the issue. So if none of the above-mentioned solutions works for you, then you should try and get it fixed either by claiming a warranty or returning the product, depending on your situation.
So these were some fixes for the Bluetooth disconnecting issue in your Bose Quietcomfort earbuds. Although for most people. the solutions were working without any issue. Only for a few, there was a hardware level problem. But when we searched deep for solutions, we found out that this issue is happening after a firmware update on older devices (purchased in 2019 or 2020). If you are one of those who got the problem after updating the firmware, then you have to wait until the next firmware update to get the issue fixes. Until then, you can try contacting Bose support team to get any temporary workaround.


For a few days I've been exploring the route of wifi enabling my DAC, and I could not find any clear solution. What I need exactly is a dongle that would take any wi-fi signal, like from my Android tablet, and output it through usb connection to the USB input of my DAC.
I've read that it is possible to use regular TV signal transmitters connected to coax input but I have some doubts regarding this method.
Generally, there are many wifi dongles that connect through USB but they all need some kind of software to be installed, so they will not really work when plugged into a DAC.
What I think would be needed is a usb powered wifi dongle running some kind of server, something along the line of this: http://liliputing.com/2012/06/pocket-tv-usb-stick-turns-a-tv-into-an-android-powered-pc.html but dedicated for audio, rather than TV.
Is anyone aware of any such product?
PS. It seems that Arcam sells wifi dongle for their rDac but I'm not sure if it would work with other DACs, and I was hoping to find something cheaper.


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How to decorate the house
The interior of a home is subjective and personal. Can like classic furniture, antique , in poor art , or modern furnishings and design. The choice is not lacking, but, whatever it is, must be done with care and dedication , to create, beyond the style chosen, a friendly and welcoming environment . Here’s how to decorate the house in a simple and functional.
The home is the place where you spend the most intimate moments, and so it is important that reflects the soul of those who live it. The first rule to follow is to follow your tastes, ignoring the mode of passage. The second is to prevent their delusions result in an uncomfortable place and unsuited to their function. In short, the practical sense is essential in the design of the space, which in everyday life should be as beautiful as livable. Here’s an example: if the premises are located in a basement, with little light, as he prefers the old style or the poor art, it would be good to avoid this type of furniture , which would tend to weigh and darkening the environment. Rather, on the contrary, opt for white or very light tones, which leave the rooms breathe.
Colour plays an important role in furnishing. Just change colors and shades to have completely different effects and atmospheres. The choice , both with respect to the walls that the furniture , should be measured according to the function of the room. To get an aura relaxing, suitable for a bedroom, it is preferable to use of soft colors like light blue, purple or blue. On the contrary, they are welcome bright colors and lively, such as red, environments day. The colors, combined with taste and size, are ideal for a decor fresh and youthful , but if you want a modern and elegant, nothing is better than white. With the total white hardly mistaken. The only care is to create movements and contrasts, albeit soft, not to intrude in aseptic and impersonal.
The option between light and dark, depends primarily on aesthetic preferences, but to furnish spaces at best, there are general principles that everyone should keep in mind. One of these is to avoid bulky furniture and dark colors if the available spaces are reduced and low light. If not, go-ahead to the imagination! A great solution if you encounter problems of space, the walls are multi-purpose, which ensure maximum functionality, offering environment everything it needs.


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Restaurant Gargiulo's Coney Island’s menu includes 74 dishes. On the average, a menu item costs 18 €.
The average rating of this restaurant is 4.6 which means it is incredibly well regarded by its guests.
The facilities have been made wheelchair accessible, or you could drive your car to Luna Parking which is a parking space 197 m away from the restaurant. Parking spaces and points of interest near Gargiulo's Coney Island.
Our website offers a reservation form to book a table online, or you can just as well give them a call, their phone number is (+1)7182664891.
Food can be ordered to take away, and you may order the food on their own website: http://www.gargiulos.com/.
You can enjoy your food and drinks at the restaurant’s counter, but you can also reserve a private room to avoid distractions. There is also a seating area, but if you plan to visit with many guests, you can also book their banquet room.
Along with your meal, you can enjoy a refreshing beer from a selection of regional as well as international breweries, and of course you can also revel in their beautiful cocktails.


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They contain organic extra-virgin olive oil; we are different from all the other brands you can find, the only added fat to improve the bars is extra-virgin olive oil. With olive oil, we add fat of the highest nutritional quality. The anti-oxidant power of Vitamin E stands out, as does the anti-inflammatory power of the oleic acid.
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130,000 Reasons Why Data Science Can Help Cleanup San Francisco
Guest post by Aleksey Bilogur
Every urbanite knows how important clean streets are to the attractiveness and viability of a neighborhood. Clean streets mean walkable streets, walkable streets mean busy streets, and busy streets mean prosperous neighborhoods.
Nobody knows this better than the founders of rubbish, Emin Israfil and Elena Guberman. Armed with trash bags and eye-catching smart litter grabbers, aka “rubbish beams”, they have picked up an impressive 130,000 individual of litter over a year of consistent street cleanings in San Francisco. All the while, the rubbishers collected data on what type of litter was picked up, where, and when.
This article is the first-ever analysis of this unique and expansive dataset. We will slice and dice the street pickups by location, type, and time - learning how our habits as pedestrians and residents of our communities affect our urban environment in the process.
Setting the scene
Rubbish runs are conducted on four blocks of Polk Street, between Filbert and Broadway, in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. During each rubbish run the volunteer rubbishers aim to clean up every piece of litter that is on the ground, including litter clogging gutters and drains.
Polk Street is most residential at its northern end but becomes more commercial as you go further south. Commercial areas are more trash-laden than residential ones, due to increased foot traffic, and Polk Street is no exception. If we plot the average number of pieces of litter on the street per block per day, we see just how strong this effect is:
In just a couple of blocks, litter pieces of litter jump from just 16 items per day to an incredible 90 items per day. Put another way, the cleanest block on Polk Street is littered on 5,800 times per year; the dirtiest, 32,000 times per year.
The block of Polk Street between Broadway and Vallejo is more than twice as dirty as the block directly across the street (90 pickups per day on the west side, just 37 per day on the east side) even though both blocks are 100% commercial.
What’s causing this increase in litter? Litter correlates to both business location and type. Anecdotally, businesses that have more to go items plus foot traffic contribute more litter overall. The west side of Polk Street has all of the street’s pizza shops and bars, plus a nightclub, whilst the east side of Polk Street has pharmacies and hardware stores and a bookstore. And while the two sides share the neighborhood’s restaurants and coffee shops, the difference between a sidewalk abutting Rouge Nightclub and one abutting Walgreens is easy to see:
In this visualization, the west side of Polk Street is on the bottom, and the east side, on the top. Filbert Avenue, the northern edge of the pilot zone, is on the left end; Broadway, the southern edge, is on the right.
The data may also be broken down on a business-by-business basis, which highlights how much litter volumes change based on business location:
“Mean litter” is 36 pieces of litter per foot frontage per year. A typical storefront, 20 to 25 feet wide, will have an average of 800 individual pieces of litter picked up per year — that’s roughly three pieces of litter per day. Areas with higher foot traffic may have three times as much litter as areas with less.
What about litter types?
Now that we understand where litter ends up, a good follow-up question is what types of litter end up there.
Rubbish separates litter into five categories. The majority of street litter consists of two types: tobacco, primarily cigarette butts, and paper, e.g. napkins and receipts. Plastic items like chips bags are also common. A small percentage of rubbish is food or glass. Finally, there’s other for things that don’t fit anywhere else.
Here’s what we see if we plot litter picked up by type over time:
Litter picked up on Polk Street is 45% tobacco, 32% paper, 14% plastic, 1% food, 1% glass, and 7% other. Rubbish’s data on litter is reasonably consistent over time, but does occasionally deviate: April 22, 2019, is a prominent example, though we don’t know for sure what happened that day to cause it.
(You may be wondering about what the team does about when it encounters certain “special cases”. Rubbish reports discarded needles and 💩 to SF311, using a reporting tool built directly into the rubbish app. The team has on occasion recovered and returned a stolen thing or two to their original owners — but that’s a story for another time!)
What about litter over time?
The rubbishers love to talk about “the good neighbor effect”. Over the course of their time cleaning up Polk Street the Rubbish team has been approached and questioned by many of the local businesses and straphangers in the neighborhood (and, in typical San Francisco fashion, netted a few venture capitalists’ business cards in the process). Their visibility and approachability on the street have made locals more conscious about how actions and business policies affect the street they serve, work on, and live on.
Another equally important effect is the “clean streets” effect. The Rubbish team talks extensively about the fact that the cleaner the street, the less likely it is to be littered on. As pedestrians, we seem to psychologically reserve our littering tendencies for those streets which are already dirty. If there’s already litter on the street, will anyone even notice one more candy wrapper or receipt stub? The cleaner the street, the more slowly it accumulates new litter.
The volume of litter picked up on Polk Street has descended precipitously over time. And while it’s impossible to know for sure what caused it, it’s easy to see how the constant street presence and cleanup work done by the Rubbish team has had an impact:
“Peak litter” occurred in late 2018, after which there was a sharp decline going into the new year. The amount of litter dropped on Polk Street has been declining slowly ever since. On a typical day in November 2018, rubbishers might pick up 1000 pieces of litter dropped onto the street; by February 2019, just a few months later, 400 was more typical.
Many of the peaks in this dataset correspond to holidays and/or events that bring more people out onto the street — Halloween, for example, shows up prominently.
Polk Street was at its cleanest immediately following a community-organized street cleanup in late May. The dip in late November happened around the time of the Camp Fires, which reduced air quality in San Francisco to dangerously low levels, freezing street activity in the process. And the dip in early June corresponded with the SF heat wave, a week that saw temperatures in the Bay Area hit a stifling 100 degrees, making it unpleasant to be outside.
It’s exciting to see how much we can learn about street litter patterns by looking at litter pick up data. And, although we have access to a year’s worth of data, important trends begin to emerge after only a few days. Perhaps data like this can one day become part of a community organizer’s toolkit.
Rubbish is working with cities and communities to create a smart approach to litter, using data to put cigarette disposals and trash cans where they will have the biggest impact. Understanding litter trends and how they vary from street to street can tell us a lot about our communities and can be a powerful tool in helping identify the source of litter to clean more effectively. We look forward to seeing how technology can help our cities become healthier, safer and more sustainable.

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UMMC officials push back against College Board
University of Mississippi Medical Center officials on Tuesday defended it from criticism by state College Board officials, who cited problems with UMMC in their decision not to renew the contract of Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones.
"I'm proud of the medical center," said Dr. James Keeton, the former vice chancellor. "We're very transparent about what we do."
UMMC informs the board as well as the legislative and executive branches, he said.
Over the past five years, UMMC has handled $7 billion, Keeton said. "There has never been any malfeasance or fraud. There has been no loss of money."
In a letter Tuesday, all 22 chairs at UMMC's medical school called on the state College Board to reverse its decision, saying the medical center is "in very strong financial shape and reinvests all of its excess revenue in improving the health of the citizens of Mississippi."
In defending the board's decision for ousting Jones, Alan Perry, vice president of the board, accused UMMC of not being "very efficient."
Dr. LouAnn Woodward, vice chancellor of UMMC and dean of the medical school, said the institution has invested $100 million since 2010 to improve business practices, including electronic bookkeeping, which now includes contracts.
Prior to 2012, UMMC kept all its records on paper, and each department operated independently at times, Keeton said. "There was some sloppiness under the paper model prior to 2012."
A board-ordered review found 32 contracts of more than $250,000 in which UMMC had failed to get board approval.
Keeton responded that some of those contracts were UMMC's internal departments doing business with each other and that UMMC didn't realize at the time that the board had to be informed. There were also federal contracts that UMMC didn't realize the board had to be informed about, he said.
He talked as well about emergency contracts that UMMC signed then and now for immediate health care needs. For instance, UMMC had to order an extra portable heart-lung machine from Nashville, he said. "I signed the contract in the truck."
Perry said UMMC had failed to produce documents related to contracts being questioned.
UMMC officials say every contract now is available electronically.
Perry singled out a gamma knife — a piece of sophisticated medical equipment used to operate on brain tumors — UMMC bought but had never installed.
"That suggests an organization is not very efficient," Perry said. "It showed problems had existed for years."
Keeton said when UMMC sought in 2009 to get state Health Department approval for a linear accelerator, which was purchased with the knife, other hospitals fought them. In 2012, the state Supreme Court ruled in UMMC's favor.
The original plan was to locate the knife at UMMC, but because of the immense weight, the knife is being moved to the Jackson Medical Mall, Keeton said.
Both Keeton and Woodward said claims that UMMC is inefficient is simply false.
In 2003, UMMC was a $500 million operation. Now it's three times that size with 9,600 employees and 3,000 students — all from Mississippi.
So far this fiscal year ending in July, UMMC has a "profit" of about $35 million, Keeton said. "We're touted nationally for what we're doing."
Sally O'Callahan, associate director of contract administration, said UMMC has paid for the state College Board reviews.
The first, by a local accounting firm, cost about $230,000, she said. UMMC has yet to get the bill for the latest review, done by a national firm out of Chicago.
Perry portrayed Jones as standing in the way of changes at UMMC, but Woodward said Jones was the one who started the transformation of UMMC as vice chancellor there.
"Dr. Jones made more changes than we had experienced in previous 20 years," she said. "He put in a new management team ... and brought about tremendous culture changes. To say no changes were made is not true."
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Coralee Wilkinson was bubbling with excitement Friday morning, ready to get the formalities out of the way and hit the open road on the first day of the annual Cops for Cancer Tour de North ride.
An RCMP officer in Prince George for two years, Wilkinson was getting ready to embark on the 850-kilometre journey for the first time, but first had to stop at Canadian Tire to give a speech as part of the sendoff events. The 20 riders and their support staff also took part in presentations at Hart Highlands elementary school and the community gardens at Victoria and Seventh Avenue.
"I'm ready to roll," Wilkinson said before taking the stage. "This Prince George portion with the stop-and-go has been a struggle, to be honest."
Like almost everyone, Wilkinson has been touched by cancer. She said family members young and old have suffered from the disease, including her father-in-law who died of leukemia. However she's been especially touched by the stories of the young people who suffer from the disease.
She hopes the money raised from the ride ride will make it easier for children and families alike who are dealing with the difficult diagnosis. Organizers have set a goal of $265,000 to support childhood cancer research and Camp Goodtimes -- a retreat in on Loon Lake near Maple Ridge for young people who are battling cancer or who have beaten it. Already more than $175,000 has been collected.
"We want to help these people and help these young kids," Wilkinson said during an emotional address to supporters and sponsors. 'It's disgusting that kids have cancer."
Wilkinson said it's important to raise money for both cancer research and also to help people living with the illness.
"Some people talk about cancer saying, 'we're never going to find a cure,' " she said. "It's not only about finding a cure, it's about the people who are here and have cancer, helping them with places like Camp Goodtimes and providing family support."
Hannah Parker attended Camp Goodtimes for the first time in July. The seven-year-old in Prince George is doing well, according to her mother Candace McNamara.
"She spent a week swimming, camping and hiking, it was an absolutely amazing experience," McNarama said.
Wilkinson described the training leading up to the ride as "awesome" and said she's looking forward to the team bonding that will occur over the next seven days as the riders make their way from Prince George to Prince Rupert.
Two other local riders are on the tour, community riders Dennis Schwab and Sherry Pattie.
The team rode to Vanderhoof on Friday and were set for the longest leg of their trek on Saturday, riding up to Fort St. James for lunch and then to Fraser Lake. Although the 170-km trip is daunting, Wilkinson said her teammates told her of an even more ominous stretch down the road.
"I'd never heard of Hungry Hill until last night, but I hear it's a real struggle of a hill near Houston," she said. "We'll see what happens at that hill."
Along the way the team will hold community and school events and Wilkinson hopes the ride will inspire people with the disease.


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This project focuses on adolescent teenagers who are homeless in America and provides a program that will help them develop life skills such as relationships and education. Adolescent teens in America try to learn new skills as part of the maturing process. Unfortunately, there are homeless adolescents in America who have learned more survival skills than most adults will ever learn. Homeless adolescents need a place to go that lets them be children, learn basic tasks, and develop healthy relationships.
The focus of this project is to address the inadequacies that homeless adolescents deal with today and to give them the life skills necessary to become productive members of society. The goal of this project is to help the homeless adolescents that join the program to find the resources necessary to prevent them from staying in their current status. The program will help them learn to build relationships and gain life skills that will help them in the future.
Recommended CitationFischer, A. (2007). Emotional and Physical Well-Being of Homeless Adolescents Until the Age of 21: A Proposed Life Skills Curriculum (Thesis, Concordia University, St. Paul). Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.csp.edu/legacy-capstones_mahs/6
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We had a chat with the budding singer and she managed to share a few things we didn’t know about her.
1. She lets her manager do his job
Yes, I have a manager. I might have been a manager of a big artiste before, but I let my own manager do his job without any interferences. It’s actually very easy managing me, since I know what it takes to do the job. All I do is sit back, relax and let him do his job.
2. Purple is not going anywhere soon
Purple is gonna be my hair color for some time! Maybe it will change in the future, I can’t tell now. Truth is, it’s my favourite colour.
3. No, chestpakquelawalanchic is not an English word.
Chestpakquelawalanchic is ‘Vinka vocabulary’! It means “polite and badass chic.
4. She choreographs a lot of the dance moves in her music videos
My first foray into the entertainment business was as a dancer. I might have switched to music, but once a dancer, always a dancer! I can’t forget the rules of that trade. In fact, I do some of the choreography of my music videos. I love to dance!
5. Cindy is her idol
I’ve loved Cindy since my high school days. I remember, I was the Cindy of the school. During school events, if a song by Cindy played, everyone knew that I had to take the stage right away and perform for the students.


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Responding to months of community meetings, the Sacramento City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to form a Community Police Commission that will analyze the Police Department’s diversity, policies and “bias-free policing” training.
Mayor Kevin Johnson organized a series of meetings last year after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., sparked riots and a national discussion over community-police relations.
Francine Tournour, the director of the city’s Office of Public Safety Accountability, said community members suggested replacing the Community Racial Profiling Commission with a commission that had broader oversight. The racial profiling commission had “experienced diminished participation due to the limited authority (given to it) beyond traffic stop data analysis,” according to a city staff report.
Last year, Johnson appointed council members Allen Warren, Angelique Ashby and Rick Jennings to a public safety council committee – and the new commission is the result of their work. The mayor said the council committee formed a commission that “has real teeth in it and that the community feels very good about.”
“This commission, made up of the community, gives us a chance to have real accountability, real community input and it gives you (the community) the chance to have real oversight,” the mayor told the audience in the City Council chambers.
Tournour said the commission will be made up of 11 members, including representatives from faith, civil rights and business communities. A former law enforcement official will sit on the commission, along with an appointee of the city police union. Johnson will appoint the members, pending City Council approval.
The commission will report to the City Council on police activity each year.
Clifton Roberts, a member of the former racial profiling commission and an Oak Park resident, said “this ordinance (to form the new commission) has the potential to close the trust gap between the police and various communities that feel targeted.”
Warren said “at the top of the list” for the commission’s priorities is analyzing the Police Department’s diversity and sensitivity training policies; the Police Department is more than 70 percent white.
“It’s going to make our city safer and our citizens happier,” Warren said.
The city and the Police Department also have launched an initiative called Officer Next Door that is creating a gang task force, engaging churches to promote cooperation between officers and residents, and focusing on recruiting a diverse police force by partnering with local high schools.


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An adaptation of three stories by A.A. Milne. Piglet (voiced by Fielder) is a very small animal and something of a fraidy pig. He's feeling too small to be of help to his friends and decides to take a little hike into the Hundred Acre Woods when he's ignored once again. However, when best bud Pooh (Cummings) thinks Piglet is missing, he organizes a search party and everyone realizes how important Piglet is to them. Best for the wee ones with its gentle lessons on friendship, even if it can't live up to the original shorts of the '60s and early '70s.
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Kerr, D., Morton, J., Whately-Smith, C., Everett, J. and Begley, J. P., 2008. Laboratory-Based Non-Clinical Comparison of Occlusion Rates Using Three Rapid-Acting Insulin Analogs in Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion Catheters Using Low Flow Rates. Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, 2 (3), pp. 450-455.
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Background: Rapid-acting analog insulin is used increasingly for continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion therapy (CSII). As the choice of insulin may be a determinant of catheter occlusion, we compared rates of early and late occlusion of a standard CSII catheter with three insulin analogs in a laboratory-based setting. Methods: Twenty-four pumps were used for the study. Each insulin analog (glulisine, lispro, and aspart) was assigned to eight pumps in a randomized order for each of nine runs of 5-day duration. Pumps were primed to receive a basal dose of 0.1 IU/h with a bolus dose of 2 IU given three times each day. Pumps were placed in an incubator to maintain temperature in the range of 32 to 36 oC. Results: Over the entire study period, there were 48 occlusions. Early occlusions (within 72 hours) occurred during five of the nine runs with no evidence of any difference between insulins (p = .27); there were no occlusions before 48 hours. Over the whole of the 5-day infusion period, the probabilities of overall occlusion for each insulin were 40.9% [28 to 55%, 95% confidence interval (CI)] for glulisine, 9.2% (4 to 19.5%, 95% CI) for aspart, and 15.7% (8.1 to 28.1%, 95% CI) for lispro. All occlusions, except for three, occurred during a bolus infusion. Conclusions: During CSII under laboratory conditions, early catheter occlusions (within 72 hours) are rare and independent of the choice of insulin analog. For patients using insulin pump therapy, the importance of catheter change within 72 hours should be emphasized irrespective of the insulin used. Beyond 72 hours, the risk of occlusion differs between insulins, being more common with glulisine.
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The Ontario Securities Commission is investigating an alleged Ponzi scheme run by a Toronto businessman that may have raised as much as $60 million, some from the Chinese Canadian community, according to court documents filed this week.
The allegations come a week after the OSC issued a cease trade order on March 17 against Weizhen Tang, who ran Weizhen Tang Corp., Weizhen Tang and Associates and Oversea Chinese Fund Ltd. Partnership. "Evidence obtained by staff demonstrates that recently Tang had been using new funds raised from investors to pay redemptions requested by previous investors," according to documents filed in Ontario Superior Court of Justice on March 24.
Described on his company's website as "the Chinese Warren Buffett," Tang could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Interviewed by the Toronto Chinese-language newspaper Sing Tao Daily last week before the OSC issued the temporary order to cease all trading of his company, Tang said he had been aware of complaints against his company.
But Tang said his business has shifted from securities to foreign exchange and the order would have little impact on his operations.
Tang and his companies have raised funds in Canada, the United States and mainland China, the OSC said in its cease trade order.
From 2006 to 2008, Weizhen Tang and Associates "distributed units of Oversea to members of the public raising approximately $60 million (U.S.)," the court filing reads.
OSC staff has recently received complaints from members of the public "who had placed funds with Oversea China and have been unable to redeem their investments," according to the court documents.