Water and Wastewater
State and municipal water use SCADA to monitor and regulate water flow, reservoir levels, pipe pressure and other factors.
SCADA is used and is highly important in many different industries for both the public and private sector. This is a system that is used on communication channels throughout the waste water treatment facility and operates off of coded signals. Its main function is to allow for remote control over waste water facility equipment.The control segment of SCADA is responsible for the operation of the remote equipment but the system can also include a data acquisition system.
Facilities that have the responsibility for handling waste water can apply this Industrial control system for many purposes.
There are many tasks at a waste water treatment facility that without SCADA have to be physically carried out. Using a good quality SCADA system allows facilities to…
Increase overall performance and reliability. SCADA systems will reduce the manpower needed for operation which in turn reduces cost.
Data acquisition is a big responsibility for those who are in the waste water treatment industry. A SCADA system that has data collection programmed will allow for continuous reading and recording for meters, control systems and results making this no longer a manual task.
SCADA will alert the proper staff or department in the instance of system failure or malfunction with the waste water treatment facility equipment. In addition to this SCADA systems have the ability to identify the nature of the issue and to what degree the problem is which will reduce time spent troubleshooting the location of the infraction.
Go green and reduce waste by utilizing electronic daily recording sheets. The SCADA system will record the data and store it so it can be downloaded whenever required or be sent off location for review by offsite technicians.
This supervisory control and data acquisition when being operated with the right software and implemented properly can reduce the need personnel on site around the clock at the facility for the purpose of monitoring or collecting data. It can all be accessed from any computer, laptop or cell phone that has access to the internet 24/7.
Additionally SCADA Mobile Aware software can send an alarm directly to the proper contact phone no matter the location or time of day. These alarms can be sent to a designated workforce for the waste water management team, who in turn can respond according to the data that
SCADA is providing them. Assigned personnel will have complete access to the SCADA system before they are even on site.


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Varanasi is a unique city, as it is one of the world’s oldest, and one of the holiest destinations in Hinduism. Colourful and fascinating, it has surprises everywhere—unique sights and sounds, that can be an intense experience. Walk the Ghats, and the alleyways, and experience the pulse of this storied city. Situated just 20 minutes’ drive from Varanasi City, the Taj, Nadesar Palace, is an architectural wonder, replete with antique artwork, a vast outdoor pool and a spa.
The luxurious and spacious rooms at the Taj Nadesar Palace, have impressive four-poster beds, traditional furnishings and large marble bathrooms with bathtubs. There are modern amenities like a flat-screen TV, a minibar and a DVD player. Over the years, royalty and celebrities have stayed at this luxury hotel, making it their home, albeit for a short while.
The dining experiences at this majestic luxury hotel are unique, and include a daily breakfast at the sun terrace, and poolside barbecue dinners. The dining area, exclusively for resident guests, is intricately and ornately designed—reminiscent of the bygone era of the Raj. The cuisine reflects the royal past of the Palace, and the cultural heritage of Varanasi, and also includes a fascinating array of gourmet global dishes.
Varanasi is the spiritual capital of India, and an epicentre for different fabrics, beautiful ivory works, exotic perfumes, and sculptures. Buddha is believed to have founded Buddhism here, around 528 B.C when he gave his first sermon at nearby Sarnath. It is little wonder, that Varanasi is a cultural hotbed, where interesting facets of Indian history surface. Explore everything this city has to offer, and return to the Taj Nadesar Palace, for a session of pampering at the Jiva Spa, which provides aromatherapy massages, body scrubs, and other beauty treatments. Post that, indulge in a yoga class, a golf game, or a lazy river cruise, courtesy the Palace Butlers, who strive to create a memorable experience each time. Experience the holy city of Varanasi, and stay with us at our luxury palace hotel in Varanasi.

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Punjab Public Service Commission PPSC Lahore, Government of the Punjab has announced vacancies in the departments of Population Welfare Department, Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Department, Social Welfare & Bait Ul Maal Department, Communication & Works Department, Directorate General of Mines & Minerals Punjab and Mines & Minerals Department for the posts of Female Theatre Nurse, Senior Registrar Electrophysiology, Medicine Emergency, Surgery Emergency, Pediatrics Cardiology, Infection Diseases, Kidney Transplant, Oncology, Plastic Surgery, Psychiatry, Preventive Paediatrics, Preventive Neurology, MBBS Medical Officer, Assistant Engineer, Geologist and GIS Development Officers.
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In 2008, President Lansana Conte Guinea died in office aged 74 after years of battling complications from diabetes and heart-related conditions.
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Conte assumed office as Guinea’s head of state and military ruler after leading a 1984 coup that toppled the government. In 1993, Conte resigned from his military position in order run in the 1993 Guinean presidential polls. He won the election and secured a five-year term amidst complaints of foul play and electoral fraud from the opposition.
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Fall 2012 semester headcount numbers released Thursday by the Kansas Board of Regents show WATC’s 25.33% rate of enrollment growth topped all other colleges in Kansas. On average, enrollment was down at the seven public universities and 19 community colleges in Kansas. Click here for the full KBOR report.
WATC showed an increase of 541 students for the 2012 fall academic semester compared to fall 2011. The strong growth resulted from multiple factors including more high school dual/concurrent students, a new Robotics program, a high number of first-time Aviation Maintenance Technology students, and a new South Central Kansas Nursing Partnership in conjunction with Pratt Community College.
WATC’s record enrollment growth comes on the heels of last week’s news that WATC was selected to lead a consortium of community colleges slated to receive nearly $15 million to develop aviation curriculum for use nationally.
Technical education offers a compelling value both for recent high school graduates as well as older, non-traditional college students because it takes less time, costs less and results in high-demand, high-wage occupations. For example, many WATC programs boast a 100% job placement rate for graduates with a 94% average across all programs. A growing list of local employers offer guaranteed job interviews for those completing select WATC programs.
Additionally, Governor Sam Brownback’s Career and Technical Education initiative creates unique opportunities for current high school students to pursue an industry credential at WATC.
About the Kansas Board of Regents
The nine-member Kansas Board of Regents, founded in 1925 and established in the Kansas Constitution, is the governing board of the six state universities and the statewide coordinating board for the state’s 32 public higher education institutions (six state universities, one municipal university, 19 community colleges, and six technical colleges). In addition, the Board administers the state’s student financial aid, adult education, GED, career and technical education programs, and the state university retirement plans. The Board also approves private proprietary schools and out-of-state institutions to operate in Kansas, and administers the Kan-ed network, a statewide network that provides broadband Internet access and distance learning capabilities for schools, hospitals, and libraries.
WATC offers a high-tech, high-wage, high-demand career pipeline for students who choose from associate of applied science (AAS) degrees, technical certificates and certificates of completion. Additionally, general education credits in math, history, speech, art and dozens of other subjects can be earned at half the cost of a four-year university and transferred easily to other colleges. WATC offers more than 75 programs of study including aviation, healthcare, advanced manufacturing, business and design.
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An evening of World War 1 memories: music, food and games.
I have been working on providing games for our upcoming event at the Abbey Inn. We want to mark the centenary of World War 1 with ‘a bit of a do’ on the 11th of November, to raise money for the Royal British Legion and the Bramley War Memorial Fund.
Taking retro to it’s logical conclusion. No, don’t worry I haven’t gone all Mighty Boosh on you.
In fact, I didn’t even realise how retro I was going until I looked at my games shelf. Games I had thought were old were just not old enough; Kan-U Go for instance is from the 1930s not as early as I had thought.
My search was made more challenging by the fact that casein and bakelite were not developed until 1909, so with plastic still in the early stages of development, cardboard, paper and wood were used to make games and their components. This explains why many of the games of that period are no longer intact.
I started by searching through my own games menu which I diligently/ obsessively/ geekily (delete as applicable) fill in each time I add a game to my collection. I was pleased to realise I had forgotten how old Pit was.
Pit dates from 1903. An American trading game, it is fast paced and fun. The object is to be the first to collect a complete set of crops by swapping cards with others. It is always a popular game at events due to its fast pace, the fact it plays up to seven and I think, in no small part, because it allows you to shout at your friends!
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By chance I recently picked up a copy of Headache. It looked similar to frustration and looked like it was from the 70s. In fact my version is, but the game it is based on is far older. As soon as I searched Headache to find it’s exact date, this game came up: ‘Mensch ärgere dich nicht’. It literally translates as ‘don’t get angry, mate’ which is a challenge when someone keeps removing your pieces from the game! It ends when one player has ‘taken’ all their opponents. Made in 1914 it was widely played in Germany during World War 1 and is still a popular game today.
Jacks (also known as Five Stones and Knucklebones)
was originally played with the ‘knucklebones’ of sheep (actually it was part of their ankle). The bones were thrown in the air and then caught in various formations. You’ll be pleased to hear we aren’t being that strictly traditional! Instead I’ll be bringing my 70s set because I am vintage.
Hearts, made in 1914 by Parker Brothers, is a delightfully simple game. You roll the dice and win points for spelling out all or part of the word ‘Hearts’. The letters must be rolled in the order they occur in the word to gain points. If you find Shut the Box addictive, you will love this.
I was relieved to find that the suffragette movement was active during the first world war too. Mainly because I can wear part of my Morris kit as a costume. Dressing up is optional of course but I don’t need much of an excuse!
Join us on the 11th when, along with era-appropriate food and music, Tiddley Winks (1890s), Blow Football (1900s) and lots of card games will also be making an appearance.
Please get in touch and suggest any other games you know that were around in 1914- 1918.


Steel Connection Analysis
First book to discuss the analysis of structural steel connections by Finite Element Analysis—which provides fast, efficient, and flexible checking of these vital structural components
The analysis of steel structures is complex—much more so than the analysis of similar concrete structures. There are no universally accepted rules for the analysis of connections in steel structures or the analysis of the stresses transferred from one connection to another. This book presents a general approach to steel connection analysis and check, which is the result of independent research that began more than fifteen years ago. It discusses the problems of connection analysis and describes a generally applicable methodology, based on Finite Element Analysis, for analyzing the connections in steel structures. That methodology has been implemented in software successfully, providing a fast, automatic, and flexible route to the design and analysis of the connections in steel structures.
Steel Connection Analysis explains several general methods which have been researched and programmed during many years, and that can be used to tackle the problem of connection analysis in a very general way, with a limited and automated computational effort. It also covers several problems related to steel connection analysis automation.
- Uses Finite Element Analysis to discuss the analysis of structural steel connections
- Analysis is applicable to all connections in steel structures
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The Advertising Club of Toronto hosted their sold-out Magazine Day event earlier this month. By popular demand, Good Housekeeping editor-in-chief Jane Francisco returned to talk about leading a venerable brand through massive transformation in a keynote conversation with St. Joseph Media’s Jacqueline Loch.
We are proud to have co-presented Jane Francisco’s keynote with St. Joseph Media. Here are a few of our highlights from her conversation:
- Partnerships and collaboration are now essential—with advertisers, suppliers and other publishers. For example, Hearst & Condé Nast are sharing operating resources with PubWorks.
- In a successful partnership, the emphasis should be on how magazines can deliver the right audience for partners, and act as a spokesperson for brands. Advertisers want content, engagement and connection with their audience.
- Re: content, you have to know your objectives and goals and have a connection strategy. This can be a big challenge for many organizations, including advertisers.
Measurement and Trust
- Are digital cutbacks coming? There still isn’t a proven digital formula. Meanwhile, traditional magazines have measurable scale and audience. With new media reporting ROI is difficult.
- Magazine brands deliver content expertise, engagement and trackable information. A magazine brand is a whole package, and that includes integrity and reputation. Endorsements that come from magazines are much more trusted by consumers.
- Influencers: that’s what magazine brands deliver. Brand clout. Editors are brand personalities, unmatched re: skills, with huge volume of followers: Good Housekeeping has 20 million measured readers.
- Good Housekeeping is also 131 years old. Many don’t see “old” as an asset, but it represents a trusted identity. GH was named Hottest Mag of the Year by Adweek last year, and one of the hottest by AdAge.
Industry Disruption and the Future
- The challenge with agency media planners is to get them to connect personally with your magazine and your brand. Not easy when the target audience is very different.
- Magazine industry disruption: greater reach and readership, but ad dollars are still declining. There’s a lot of pressure to try new things, and digital media are cheap. But—different audiences, different levels of engagement.
- Meredith’s acquisition of Time: Meredith has Midwest efficiency and scale, but Time is larger. Hearst may buy some brands. All part of constant change. Francisco notes worries about losing magazines’ robust audience with all of this disruption.
- Future of print: a luxury item? Yes, for some magazines. Francisco doesn’t believe that all current magazine brands are sustainable. Digital formats offer volume and velocity of content. Print format is well suited to presenting selective, curated content—a “best of” collection, or targeted to enthusiasts.
- For Canadian magazines, scale is important. Multi-title publishers need to provide the greatest support to their strongest brands. The current climate is very hard when a publisher competes with itself via multiple titles.
- Magazines can provide amazing audiences. Clients and advertisers as partners is the only way to survive. Magazines must take the chance to be relevant.
Jane Francisco is the Editor-in-Chief of Good Housekeeping and Editorial Director of the Hearst Lifestyle Group, which includes Good Housekeeping, Redbook, Woman’s Day and Dr. Oz The Good Life. Under her leadership, Good Housekeeping was named to Adweek’s Hot List as the Hottest Women’s Magazine in 2016 and one of Advertising Age’s Hottest Magazines of the Year for 2016. Good Housekeeping now inspires a cross-platform audience of over 30 million women. Previously, Francisco was Editor-in-Chief of Chatelaine.
Interested in hearing more about Jane’s magazine career? In addition to her well-received talk at Magazine Day, Jane was also the MagNet Marquee speaker at our 2017 national magazine conference.
Magazine Day 2017 was produced by the Advertising Club of Toronto and held on December 1 in Toronto at the Four Seasons Hotel. It was a sold-out event with 180 people in attendance, from both agencies and magazines. Magazine Day is focused towards agency planners and buyers, as well as magazine sales reps, publishers and editorial teams.
The Ad Club of Toronto also announced this year’s Merit Award recipient at Magazine Day—Mitch Dent! Dent has been a passionate publisher and promoter of the Canadian magazine industry for more than 25 years. His career in media was built on a solid foundation in the magazine industry, which began in 1990 at Today’s Parent Group acting as Publisher and eventually President. Working with the team on Richmond St., he was a key partner in the explosive growth of Today’s Parent culminating in the sale of the brand to Rogers in the late 1990s, where Mitch eventually graduated to SVP Sales for Rogers Magazines. In his current role as Senior Vice President of Media Sales at Blue Ant Media, Mitch oversees ad sales for the company’s eight multi-platform passion brands as well as the company’s brand studio. Blue Ant Plus, which specializes in custom content creation and social media management for marketers and agencies.
The Advertising Club of Toronto is a not-for-profit organization that serves the advertising industry and all its related services, including media, creative, production, advertising and marketing. The AdClub’s mandate is to raise and distribute charitable funds by organizing events that present the newest ideas and developments in the advertising industry and create social and business networking opportunities for ad industry colleagues. Visit adclub.ca.
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Former Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper on Sunday sued the agency he once led, accusing officials at the Pentagon of improperly blocking significant portions of an upcoming memoir about his tumultuous tenure under President Donald J. Trump.
The allegations by Mr. Esper, whom Mr. Trump fired shortly after losing his re-election bid last November, are laid out in a lawsuit filed in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C.
“Significant text is being improperly withheld from publication in Secretary Esper’s manuscript under the guise of classification,” the suit said. “The withheld text is crucial to telling important stories discussed in the manuscript.”
Mr. Esper said in a statement that his goal with the book, titled “A Sacred Oath,” which is expected to be published in May, was to give the public “a full and unvarnished accounting of our nation’s history, especially the more difficult periods.”
He added: “I am more than disappointed the current administration is infringing on my First Amendment constitutional rights. And it is with regret that legal recourse is the only path now available for me to tell my full story to the American people.”
John F. Kirby, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, said the agency was aware of Mr. Esper’s concerns. “As with all such reviews, the department takes seriously its obligation to balance national security with an author’s narrative desire,” Mr. Kirby said. “Given that this matter is now under litigation, we will refrain from commenting further.”
Mr. Esper is among the most senior former government officials, if not the most senior, to sue for prior restraint related to a book. The lawsuit came a year after a presidential campaign in which President Biden promised to restore the norms that had been tossed aside by his predecessor.
Executive branch employees — ranging from senior officials like the secretary of state and the national security adviser to low-level ones like federal prosecutors and agents — have to submit their manuscripts to the prepublication review process. That process is intended to prevent materials that may damage national security from becoming public while protecting the author’s First Amendment rights.
In cases where an agency or a department has an issue with information being revealed, that section of the book is supposed to be removed or edited to obscure the problematic content. The process is not supposed to be used to smother embarrassing or politically damaging information from becoming public.
During the Trump administration, officials were accused of using prepublication review to silence John R. Bolton, the former national security adviser who was trying to publish a book on his time working for Mr. Trump that contained many anecdotes that the president wanted to keep private.
A career administration official accused some of Mr. Trump’s top aides of improperly inserting themselves in the process to silence Mr. Bolton. Despite that interference, Mr. Bolton published the book, “The Room Where It Happened,” leading Mr. Trump’s Justice Department to sue Mr. Bolton for the profits. It also opened a criminal investigation into him. In June, the current attorney general, Merrick B. Garland, dropped the suit and the investigation.
Mr. Esper is being represented by Mark S. Zaid, a lawyer whose practice includes defending government whistle-blowers.
According to the lawsuit, Mr. Esper submitted a draft of the manuscript in late May to the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review.
“As defense secretary for nearly 18 months, he led D.O.D. through an unprecedented time of civil unrest, public health crises, growing threats abroad, Pentagon transformation and a White House seemingly bent on circumventing the Constitution,” the lawsuit said. “‘A Sacred Oath’ is Secretary Esper’s unvarnished and candid memoir of those remarkable and dangerous times.”
Mr. Esper worked closely with the prepublication review office for six months, according to the suit, eventually coming to believe the process was taking an unusually long time.
On Nov. 8, Mr. Esper emailed his successor, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, about his concerns. When he submitted the manuscript for review in May, Mr. Esper wrote, he was confident it contained nothing that was classified or compromised national security, a view he still holds.
But when the office returned the manuscript to him last month, “multiple words, sentences and paragraphs from approximately 60 pages of the manuscript were redacted,” Mr. Esper wrote. “No written explanation was offered to justify the deletions.”
Mr. Esper said that in follow-up conversations, the office was not able to confirm that “the redacted items contain classified information or compromise national security.”
He said that some of the redactions “asked me to not quote former President Trump and others in meetings, to not describe conversations between the former president and me, and to not use certain verbs or nouns when describing historical events.”
“I was also asked to delete my views on the actions of other countries, on conversations I held with foreign officials, and regarding international events that have been widely reported,” Mr. Esper continued. “Many items were already in the public domain; some were even published by D.O.D.”
He said that in another redaction, defense officials sought a change to information that the department had made public in January 2020. Mr. Esper never heard back from Mr. Austin. But for a week, he asked the department to justify its redactions and edits. Instead of a justification, he received notice a week later that his amended manuscript was ready.
Mr. Esper did not identify specific aides in the prepublication office with whom he was speaking, but he described them as professional in his interactions. In his email to Mr. Austin, Mr. Esper wrote that on Nov. 5 he had discussed the review process with the defense secretary’s chief of staff, Kelly Magsamen, and the department’s director of administration and management, Michael B. Donley, to try to advance the process. They suggested that he sit with the unit proposing most of the redactions “to try to find compromise language.”
“While I appreciate their efforts, I should not be required to change my views, opinions or descriptions of events simply because they may be too candid at times for normal diplomatic protocol,” Mr. Esper said in the email, adding that the review process was “about protecting classified information and not harming national security — two important standards to which I am fully committed” and that his “constitutional rights should not be abridged because my story or choice of words may prompt uncomfortable discussions in foreign policy circles.”
Also troubling to Mr. Esper, according to the suit, was the fact that some stories in the draft manuscript suddenly began appearing in news articles. “At least one story, which was more than a year old and known to only a small handful of senior D.O.D. officials, had not previously been publicly discussed, and the timing of the appearance appears suspicious,” the suit said.
The department, the suit said, “has failed to demonstrate the existence of substantial government interests that would enable it to prohibit the publication of unclassified information within Secretary Esper’s manuscript.”


The Lynk & Co 09
Their new flagship car is a full-size seven-seat SUV. On the pictures below you can see it alongside BMW X5 and Audi Q7, which are both most likely their competition and used to benchmark the 09.
The design on the front of the car is a lot like the 01 but the grill with the distinctive vertical bars beneath the frog like headlights is not something we have seen on other Lynk & Co cars.
The car-enthusiast can see that the body is partly based on the majestic Volvo XC90 but the body panels look different.
Behind the hood there are two engine options, both taken from Volvo. You can either choose a 252 horsepower 2.0 turbo 48V or a 431 horsepowers 2.0 turbocharged and supercharged PHEV. The latter choice is 402 horsepowers in the Volvo XC90, meaning that Lynk & Co found an additional 29 horse powers somewhere.
For those of you who think “If the Volvo XC90 is a similar car why cant I buy that one instead?” you are missing a few points. The 09 has something that the Volvo doesn’t, for example a L3 autonomous driving system with automatic lane change, a low-speed traffic jam autopilot function and automatic parking.
Furthermore, the rear overhang is longer, meaning it is more spacious.
Last but not least take a look at the rear lights. They stretch far into the bender making it beautiful to look at. The 22 inch rims, the faux vents and the matte grey quad pipes also gives the car a sporty look.
Take a moment and rest your eyes on this new machine…


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Hi, Harry Hippo! Such a happy chappie with his shy smile. He's destined to brighten up your day, and with his fine red white and blue stripes he is the perfect combo of sweet and chic.
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Porsche Leipzig is not only a business, but an automotive experience with a racing circuit and off-road course. More than 47,000 people visited the Customer Centre last year – to collect a vehicle, as a participant in adventure programmes, or as part of events. The 5,200 sq. m Customer Centre is visible from far away.
The ‘diamond’, a 32 m high tower in the form of a gemstone standing on its tip with a diameter of 58 m, is the architectural signature of the Porsche factory in Leipzig.
Breathtaking view of the factory
The Customer Centre extends over five levels. The ground floor includes reception, a Porsche shop and a Motorsport Lounge with direct access to the circuit track. On the first floor, there is a glass Porsche Lounge, an exclusive area for those picking up their cars directly from the factory. One level above, meeting rooms cater for meetings and conferences for up to 80 people. The track control centre is also here. On the third floor, organisers are able to receive up to several hundred guests for meetings, conferences or gala events in the 1,360 sq. m Porsche Auditorium. The restaurant also guarantees top-notch Porsche cuisine. Panoramic windows over the entire floor provide a stunning view of the factory and the circuit track. On the fourth floor, there is a museum with historic Porsche cars.
Eleven bends on one circuit
The FIA-certified Porsche circuit track is a highlight of the unique automotive experience offered by Porsche in Leipzig. It is also the perfect place to experience the sporting characteristics of Porsche vehicles on a 3.7 km track. The track is modelled on eleven famous sections from racetracks around the world, conceived by Hermann Tilke, a leading racetrack designer. The ‘Corkscrew’, a legendary section of Laguna Seca in the USA, the famous Monza ‘Parabolica’ from Italy or the ‘Suzuka S’ from Japan – at Porsche Leipzig, they can all be experienced in one circuit! And the fun doesn’t stop there. The extension of the dynamic circuit has created a new highlight in the exact replica of the ‘Karussell’, the famous banked curve on the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring.
Dynamic circuit with handling course
Since 2014, the circuit track has included a track section similar to a county road: the dynamic circuit. Different driving situations can be simulated here, replicating challenges faced by drivers in everyday life. For example, vehicle handling under different speeds and conditions as well as full braking can be taught and practised on the 150 m dynamic surface or the wet track.
Challenges beyond the asphalt
Porsche vehicles don’t have to be restricted to the circuit to be tested to their limits. Porsche Leipzig also offers the opportunity to get to know the Cayenne or the Macan models on the obstacle course. The 6 km course covers an area of over 100 hectares and includes 15 off-road modules. These include, among other challenges, a 100 m water ditch and an extreme ramp with a gradient of 80 per cent. Just away from the off-road track, cattle and wild horses have found a new home here and keep overgrowth in the area in check in a natural way.
Both routes – on-road and off-road – are used for driving events during functions and adventure programmes. There are many possibilities here – for example, laps alongside motor sport professionals or at the wheel of a Porsche. The Porsche Sport Driving School also offers various types of training on the Leipzig tracks.
Dynamic vehicle handover for those picking up their cars directly from the factory
2,100 customers picked up their new cars in Leipzig in 2015. To round off the thrill of collecting your vehicle, Porsche offers a very special pickup experience – in addition to a factory tour and an exclusive meal in our restaurant comes a particularly dynamic kind of vehicle handover: In an almost identical vehicle, an instructor demonstrates all the functions of the new Porsche on the track, and, in the case of the Macan and Cayenne, also on the off-road obstacle course.
Porsche Leipzig event platform
The Customer Centre facilities can be hired for events of various types and sizes. 32,000 guests visited Porsche Leipzig in 2015, taking part in 530 events. The unique range of supporting programmes on our two tracks is a special highlight of meetings, conferences or gala events at the customer centre.
Programmes for every taste
Even if they are not picking up their vehicle, visitors can have memorable experiences in the Porsche factory: with our ‘Gourmet’, ‘Co-Pilot’, ‘Pilot’ and ‘Discover’ programmes. More than 10,000 visitors took the opportunity to get to know Porsche Leipzig in 2015. A factory tour always forms part of the programme. The ‘Gourmet’ programme provides guests with insights into the world of Porsche Leipzig with gastronomic highlights included. Participants experience an exhilarating ride in a Porsche at the side of a motor sport professional in the ‘Co-Pilot’ programme. The ‘Pilot’ adventure programme puts visitors behind the wheel: either on-road on the FIA-certified racing circuit, or off-road on the obstacle course. The particularly individual ‘Discover’ programme combines an extensive driving event with a factory tour as well as an exclusive meal in the Customer Centre restaurant. Experience, learn and have extreme amounts of fun – Porsche Leipzig is more than just a factory.


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A non-governmental organization, Northern Nomadic Disabled Persons Organization (NONDO), has rolled out plans to link people with disabilities (PWDs) to empowerment opportunities in government and donor agencies to improve their livelihoods.
Through sensitization and awareness creation of opportunities from government agencies such as the county revolving fund, the uwezo and youth funds, the women enterprise fund and the Inua Jamii programs, the NGO is seeking to help the PWDs with information and ease the process for them to access the services.
Speaking in Garissa today during a meeting that brought together a section of these agencies and the people living with disabilities in the county, NONDOs team leader in Garissa Fatuma Mohamed said that most PWDs were hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic and that they saw a need to help them recover by connecting them to information on funding and government tenders.
Fatuma revealed that there has been a gap in disseminating information to people with disabilities th
us locking them out from applying for opportunities that could improve their lives and called for more media sensitization to reach all of them.
‘We realized that when COVID-19 hit, the most affected people were PWDs and their livelihoods were affected. So we thought that there could be government interventions and we sought to find out how the PWDs could find these opportunities,’ Fatuma said.
‘We found out there were barriers which were keeping PWDs from these opportunities and today we have brought together the government officials of the relevant agencies to better explain to the PWDs how better to access these openings and we are glad that the information is now out and the people will be well guided,’ she added.
Fatuma further asked officials to always help the PWDs seeking services with the technicalities of the forms, especially those seeking funding or tenders to boost their income.
Garissa County CECM for Gender, Culture, Youth and Sports Hawa Abdi Sahal said that the county administration in su
pport of PWDs had created a whole directorate headed by a Chief Officer for people with disability affairs which will help in empowering them.
The CECM further revealed that the PWDs in the county have been receiving wheelchairs, and business startup tools such as tailoring machines, salon and haircut kits to help them run business and generate an income.
A section of the PWDs we spoke to during the session was satisfied with the information shared and promised to form groups to access the financing through the government affirmative action programs funding.
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The Justice Department is sweeping up suspects and possible witnesses in its anti-terror campaign. But when asked for details about those detained, officials invoke national security.
The government refuses to say who is being detained, when they will be released, or what the charges are. While this may not be illegal, lawyers for the detainees charge the secrecy is hiding serious violations of citizens' rights — and even some physical coercion.
"It's nothing more than a witch hunt and a fishing expedition. People are being denied their freedom without due process of law," said attorney Randall Hamud, who represents three detainees.
The government is making no apologies for using every legal means it has to thwart terrorists. "Let terrorists among us be warned," Attorney General John Ashcroft said in a speech to the U.S. Conference of Mayors on Thursday. "If you overstay your visas even by one day, we will arrest you. If you violate a local law, we will work to make sure that you are put in jail and kept in custody as long as possible."
But citizens' rights advocates are distressed that some of those detained don't even have lawyers.
Death at a Detention Center
At a detention center in Kearny, N.J., a 55-year-old Pakistani man died in his cell last week more than a month after being detained. Officials said the man, Muhammed Rafiq Butt, died of apparent heart failure.
The FBI decided soon after it detained Butt that he knew nothing of any attack and a spokesman said he was held for having overstayed his visa. The Pakistani embassy said it was never notified that a man by that name was in prison.
The government said Butt waived his right to representation. But since neither his embassy nor prisoners' rights advocates knew he was being held, they could not, as they normally would, advise him of his need for a lawyer.
"Did he fall through the cracks? We simply don't know," said Jeanne Butterfield, head of the Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington. "That he was unrepresented by counsel and did not seek bond in front of an immigration judge just makes the case all the more sad."
Hundreds of anonymous detainees also have been taken to a detention center in lower Manhattan.
Charges of Mistreatment
Hamud represents three men from San Diego, where a few of the suspected hijackers spent time last year. One of his clients, Yazeed Al-Salmi, had been a housemate of one of the suspects for six months. He was arrested and flown to an isolation cell in the Manhattan center, where he was held for nine days before being released.
Al-Salmi, a 23-year-old student from Saudi Arabia, said he was not allowed to take a shower or make a telephone call to his attorney. "No phone call. I can't contact my attorney. I only see him like 10 minutes before I have court, which is not enough. I had a lot of things to ask him about my family, about my case," he said.
Hamud said that another client who is still in prison, Osama Awadallah, was beaten by guards. "I saw bruises on his body, bruises on his upper arm, bruises across the back of his neck," Hamud said. The U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan said it had no comment on the beating allegation.
Other lawyers around the country said their clients are being deprived of sleep or interrogated while blindfolded. The government insisted it is respecting rights and not using illegal pressure in interrogation:
"We don't want to extort any kind of confession," Ashcroft told ABCNEWS' Nightline Oct. 10. "We don't engage in those practices."
As for the long detentions, officials argue there is an unusual complication: they are not only investigating who was behind the Sept. 11 attacks, but also trying to prevent new attacks. In essence, investigation is getting mixed up with prevention.
The government is holding people longer than usual in case something a detainee happens to know suddenly illuminates a future attack.
"Some of the people who are being detained and who are cooperating may not even understand the value of what they have," said Harry Brandon, a former FBI counterterrorism agent. "They may be saying, 'I don't really know anything,' when in fact they've given a little piece that is very, very important."
But holding people indefinitely or being rough with them can scare off others who might also provide helpful information. Officials say they're trying to prevent that by meeting with Arab-American communities. But attorney Hamud said it's happening anyway.
"There has been a chilling effect on the propensity of the Arab-American community and the Muslim communities in this country to cooperate, because they are fearful. People are calling me saying they are afraid to talk to the FBI," Hamud said.
National Security or Citizen's Rights?
The authorities face a complicated balancing act: to protect the national interest while still protecting citizen's rights, which are essential to American life.
"This almost sounds hokey, but deep down you know if you throw all that stuff away, the other side has won," Brandon said.
The government insisted it will not violate anyone's rights. "We will preserve the rule of law because that's what makes us civilized," Ashcroft said in his speech to the mayors.
Civil rights advocates insist that if the government won't even say whom it is holding, they have no way to tell.

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• Vocational and Technical Training Principal Secretary Margaret Mwakima said stern action will be taken against institutions operating illegally.
• Mwakima said non-accredited institutions were compromising the quality of education and services offered to learners.
The government has put on notice the mushrooming Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions that are operating without accreditation.
Vocational and Technical Training Principal Secretary Margaret Mwakima said stern action will be taken against institutions operating illegally.
They should follow the right procedure to get registered or face closure.
Mwakima said non-accredited institutions were compromising the quality of education and services offered to learners.
She spoke during the official opening of the Western regional TVET authority office in Kisumu on Thursday.
The PS, who was accompanied by TVETA board chairperson Prof. Florence Indede and TVETA board director-general Dr Kipkirui Langat, said unaccredited institutions were disadvantageous to learners by offering poor quality education.
Mwakima called on the institutions to work closely with the regional office to ensure quality standards within the TVET policies.
“I want to urge the public to verify the accreditation status of institutions from the relevant offices before making any applications,” she said.
The Western region office serves ten counties from Nyanza and Western regions. They include Kisumu, Siaya, Migori, Nyamira, Kisii, Homa Bay, Bungoma, Busia, Vihiga and Kakamega counties.
Kipkirui said the region is emerging as an education and training hub with 474 registered TVET institutions which comprises three national polytechnics namely Kisii, Kisumu, and Sigalagala.
He said the Western office targets to bring services closer to the people of the region. Kipkirui noted that the authority has inspected and accredited 2,159 institutions countrywide.
The authority has also registered and licensed 7,000 trainers and accredited 286 competence-based education and training (CBET) courses.
“We are seeking enhanced partnership with all stakeholders to ensure achievement of planned activities aimed at enhancing quality training in TVET institutions,” Kipkirui said.
Indede urged accredited institutions to help the board to eradicate the mushrooming of institutions that are not accredited.
She said the authority's strategic objectives revolve around promoting access and inclusivity, quality and relevance, governance and management.
The authority, Indede said, is keen on mitigating the challenges faced in quality and relevant training in TVET institutions, including issuing of internal certification and non-compliance with the trainers’ qualification framework.
The board will also tackle the use of inferior facilities and Infrastructure and hiccups of transitioning of trainees.
TVETA is committed to intensifying quality assurance to ensure all the institutions conform to the National regulatory and training standards and that the quality of TVET graduates is not compromised.
“The regional office will work with all the stakeholders within the region to ensure improved quality of training within our public and private TVET institutions and foster harmony between the institutions and the community,” Kipkirui said.
TVETA authority is a State Corporation established under the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Act No. 29 of 2013
It was established in 2103 to regulate and coordinate training in the country through the development of standards, accreditation of programs, institutions, and trainers as well as their quality assurance.
Indede said the authority has made great strides since its inception in 2014, with the current strategic plan outlining the opening of regional offices as one of the priority areas which is in line with the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 on ensuring reasonable access of services to the public.
The chairperson said the office will largely benefit people as it will bring services closer to the people of the Western region and increase efficiency in TVET accreditation.


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Reconcile: Conflict Transformation for Ordinary Christians
Herald Press, 2014
This book serves as a guidebook for church groups, families or individuals seeking a scriptural view of reconciliation and practical steps for transforming conflict.
Originally published in 1999 as The Journey Toward Reconciliation and based on Lederach’s work in war zones on five continents, this revised and updated book tells dramatic stories of what works—and what doesn’t—in entrenched conflicts between individuals and groups.
Lederach leads readers through stories of conflict and reconciliation in Scripture, using these stories as anchors for peacemaking strategies that Christians can put into practice in families and churches.
Lederach, who has written 22 books and whose work has been translated into more than 12 languages, also offers new lenses through which to view conflict, whether congregational conflicts or global terrorism.
A new section of resources, created by mediation professionals, professors, and pastors, offers tools for understanding interpersonal, church, and global conflict, worship resources, books and websites for further study, and invitations to action in everyday life.
The book also features a foreword by Bill and Lynne Hybels, co-founders of Willow Creek Community Church.
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"Extended family dispute? Read Reconcile. Neighborhood conflict? Read Reconcile. Church split? Read Reconcile. Countries at war? Honestly, if there were a way to lock up world leaders until they read Reconcile, the world would be a different place."
— Bill and Lynne Hybels, co-founders, Willow Creek Community Church
"Concise and readable, this is an essential resource by one of the church's most experienced peacemakers."
— David Gushee, distinguished professor of Christian ethics, Mercer University

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Hicuri Art Vegan is a place where you can enjoy vegan Spanish and international
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Monday-Saturday 10:00-23:00 Sunday 10:00-16:30.
The dishes on the menu: 2,90-6,90 euros.
Menu of the day: 12,50 euros.
Address: c/Santa Escolástica Esq. Plaza Girones (Realejo),
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Is it only cheating when you get caught - or is it okay to fudge, embellish, stretch, darn, or paint over mistakes? I used to think that everyone except me was able to churn out perfect, flawless art, but now I know the truth – some of them cheat! It makes me so happy to know this!
Because I make mistakes, no matter how careful I am. Most of the time they are smallish and very few but the most discerning (or critical...to-may-to, to -mah-to) would notice them, but they eat away at me and I often feel compelled to point them out to admirers. My husband always says “Just pretend they are part of the design, and if no one mentions them, you shouldn’t either!” He’s right of course, but that is difficult for me to do – I have honesty diarrhea – it runs out of me before I can stop it a lot of time. I think the problem is that when I know it is there, it’s all I can see, and I always suppose other people are noticing it, too.
Of course, in my quest to be more “zen” I have also tried acceptance, and I can certainly accept that I am going to make mistakes, even be (somewhat) calmish in the face of them, but let’s be real here –one cannot tell a potential buyer to just accept that the piece was made by a human and therefore has flaws and then expect them to pay for it. It has to at least have the attitude of perfection in order to be sellable.
Plus, it’s heartbreaking (or depending on one’s personality, crazy-making) when you have spent countless hours designing and creating something only to make or discover a glaring flaw at the very end! In the past, when I have made mistakes, I thought “That’s it – this piece is ruined!” Now I know better. For example, I’ve made the recent discovery of the many delightful uses of clear thread (Where have I been? Under a rock, I guess – I know it’s not new). I wish I had known about it a long, long time ago, because this thread is magic – it can be used to fix almost any mistake and it is basically invisible (especially with 40+ eyes! ) – LOVE IT!
For example, one time I was trying to trim threads when I finished a piece and I cut the fabric instead (Surely it’s happened to many people, not just me…right?) I About a quarter inch gap appeared right in the front, very conspicuous, and I actually cried! But after I mopped up, I was able to repair it with the magic invisibility thread and it was virtually unnoticeable – thank God! The mistake was still there, so I had to clamp my jaws together whenever anyone complimented the piece so I didn’t point it out, but the truth is, no one has ever noticed it but me. So the stuff really works and it is now my best friend. (Of course, like all relationships with best friends we have our problems. It may be able to make mistakes disappear, but being invisible it is really difficult to work with, sort of like sewing with a long blond hair – hard to see and thread through a needle - especially with 40+eyes - and even more difficult to use in a machine, so sometimes I curse at it, but deep down I truly love it.)
I have fretted and worried about this cheating until I talked to someone who said she took an entire class once from a well-known and respected artist that was entirely about fudging – she even said one idea was to use a sharpie marker to “fix” little mistakes. After I got over my shock, I was elated! Well heck, if the leaders in the industry are doing it, then why can’t I?
So naturally, now I cheat with abandon (I mean, only if I have to)! No need to cry over mistakes, there’s probably a way to fix it, hooray! Only I don’t consider it cheating anymore – I’m just making it perfect (or at least look perfect!) And if I can only keep my mouth shut about it – hopefully I can do it so well that no one will ever notice.
I’m going to the Houston Quilt Festival at the end of this month, and along with admiring the amazing works of art I will see and getting endlessly inspired, I have to admit I’m going to, just for fun, see if I can catch any flaws or mistakes and see how these incredible artists cleverly disguised, fixed or covered them up. Hey, I’m always on the lookout for new ideas, if you know what I mean!
Monday, October 3, 2011
In tenth grade world history I learned that one of the characteristics of a civilization is that they create art for enjoyment. From that I can extrapolate that I live in a civilized world because I see art everywhere in our world – there’s fine art, books, movies, television, performance art, music, fashion – in fact, there are probably as many forms of at as there are people, because in the right hands, almost anything can become art, even food - I once heard about a restaurant in Spain called E Bulli where the dinner literally takes all night to eat. The food is presented in course after course as if the patrons were at a museum looking at pieces of art – and then they get to eat the amazing (and hideously expensive) things. Naturally the place was booked years in advance, although it did apparently close this year to become a “haute cuisine” research facility - talk about artistic!
Apparently we “modern” humans create just because we can. Sometimes I wonder, though– is that enough, or does there have to be a larger purpose for it? I know that when ideas and inspiration come to me if I don’t follow through on them I become crabby and impossible to live with, but on the other hand, what do I do with them after they are created? You see, all this creativity takes a lot of time, and I am half German, which means that I sometimes feel the need for a little practicality. Traditional quilts have always had a practical purpose, yet most people who have made them have strived to make them beautiful as well, because they could, so many are both useful and works of art – that’s easy. But I don’t make traditional quilts – I make art quilts. So what does this mean? For me, it means that I am going to attempt to sell my art
First of all, I know that in order to sell your work you must believe in it, and I believe in textile art as a medium – I know from experience it can really warm up a space, add style, texture, color and people respond to it emotionally every bit as much as they do to other forms of art. So I’ve got that part down. And I feel I can stand behind my work and if it gets some exposure, it might just sell. So I’m okay there, too.
But it seems I can’t help questioning whether this is the right thing to do at this time in my life, or I need to continue to live more conventionally (i.e.a steady paycheck, etc.) Just because I feel I am opening up creatively doesn’t mean I am not still a practical, logical girl. I know I’m at a time in my life when I still have many productive years left and I want to continue to contribute to my family, my community and the world in general. I’m hoping that I can balance my need to create with a little dose of real life by getting my work out there and taking some chances - nothing ventured, nothing gained, right? If it doesn’t work out, I’ll do whatever I need to do and furthermore (in keeping with the title of the blog) I shall strive valiantly to be at peace, whatever the outcome. Because I can’t “just do it” – I apparently need a reason. (That dratted German blood!)
Having shared my personal situation - I also strongly believe that doing, making, and creating does have a great deal of inherent value just in itself. Creating art as a hobby is plenty worthwhile, even if you have no idea of or interest in sharing it with the world. What I believe is that we all have to create on our own terms. I’m just still negotiating mine, apparently.


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Thankfully, she found a trainer who understands resource guarding and this trainer is having some success with Josie. She likes other dogs, but we’re still recommending her as an only pet, preferably with no small children.
Josie is funny, playful, outgoing and knows several commands. She loves to run laps in the yard, is reliable with her house training, walks well on a leash and willingly sleeps in her kennel every night.
At 30 lbs. and just 9 months old, she’s almost fully grown. We’re calling her a Basset Hound/Shepherd Mix.
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Raina’s place was custom designed by a luxury design studio, Toronto’s Spaces by Jaclfash. But, unlike many high-end bespoke jobs, the home doesn’t adhere to a predefined style (it’s dotted with some mid-century modern pieces, but it’s not right out of Mad Men), or the aesthetic biases of the designer (it’s hard to define a Jacflash look - all of its projects are different).
TorontoLife.com | Inside YouTube Star Jus Reign’s Jungle-Themed Downtown Condo
When Jasmeet Singh, a.k.a. the Brampton-bred YouTube sensation Jus Reign, moved into a downtown rental condo earlier this year, he didn’t know quite what to do with the place. After living there for a few months with only a sectional sofa, dining room table and bedroom set, he decided to enlist his friend, designer Jaclyn Genovese, of Spaces by Jacflash, to transform the space into a cozy paradise.
DolceMag.com | Patrick Patterson – Beyond The ARC
When Patrick Patterson was traded to the Toronto Raptors in December 2013 there were only two things he knew about the city. “It’s in Canada and it’s freezing cold,” he says with a chuckle...
MyCityLife.ca | Toronto, According To Jaclyn Genovese
Everything Jaclyn Genovese touches turns to style. It’s like the 29-year-old was born with the ability to look at something or someone and instinctively conjure up a unique formula for remodelling the subject. As an entrepreneur in the fashion industry, event coordinator and interior designer, she’s performed this ritual for Toronto’s most polished elites, exclusive shindigs and sought-after spaces. She’s even laid her magic touch on the city itself...
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Gardening in the Pacific Northwest (Vancouver, Washington)
HPSO Garden Tour: Dragonfly Hollow
Fun day today. Michael, Rebecca, McKenzie and I visited two beautiful gardens on the HPSO (Hardy Plant Society Oregon) Garden Tour. There were five gardens altogether, all located in Vancouver. It was nice and cool, with temperatures in the 60s. It did come a brief shower when we got to the second garden but not enough to deter us.
First up was Dragonfly Hollow, not too far from where we live. This lovely garden was located in a heavily wooded area and chock full of interesting plants, spectacular plant combinations and artwork. It is the garden of designer Vanessa Nagel. Lots of inspiration and great ideas!
I will share photos of the second garden, Matsu Kaze (Wind in the Pines), in my next post. If you like conifers and Japanese maples, you are in for a treat!

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The scenario is simple. You play the part of Antonius, a little Chameleon who has to do his best to battle through 50 screens in an attempt to get back with his girlfriend.
You see, one day Antonius was just minding his own business, having a good time with his girlfriend, when suddenly, the evil professor took him away and placed him at the beginning of fifty different mazes. Providing Antonius can complete these fifty mazes without being killed, then he will be able to lead a normal life with his girlfriend. Again.
Because Antonius is a Chameleon, he can change colour simply by collecting special coloured blocks. These blocks all give Antonius different powers, but they can only be used once. These powers, once collected, are activated by pressing the FIRE button. His standard power/colour is YELLOW which allows him to jump when you press fire. Green goes a bit further, allowing you to kill enemies and break blocks while blue lets you move blocks around with Antonius' tongue. Finally, there is red, which makes Antonius inflate like a balloon and take off in the air!! All these powers are used to complete a level and to complete a level, you just need to collect all the objects!
There are various hindrances, as always, such as enemies, time bombs and laser beams which all do their best to stop your from making progress, but providing you keep at it, you'll eventually complete it. There are fifty levels altogether, and they get harder as you go on, I can tell you!
Colour Clash also uses a password system which means that you don't have to keep starting from level one every time you die; you just type in the password for the level you wish to start on. Even though there's not much sound and the graphics aren't the best on a game, the gameplay is there and so is the addictiveness, which is what I think a game's all about. If you like Colour Clash, then you'll also like the other games in the ANIMALSOFT series such as Pyscho Pig One & Two.
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This morning, Box co-founder and CEO, Aaron Levie, unveiled Box for Industries, at BoxWorks, the company’s annual user conference. Box for Industries is a suite of enterprise content collaboration solutions aimed at transforming how businesses across verticals work with information. As part of Box’s effort to build tailored offerings in healthcare, drchrono demonstrated how its iPad and Glass app integrates with the Box Platform.
drchrono has been a Box platform Integration partner for more than three years, enabling mobile access and care coordination of patient data. As part of the BoxWorks showcase on healthcare, Michael Nusimow, CEO of drchrono, demonstrated how drchrono’s iPad app and Glass app integrate with the Box platform, highlighting how a doctor wearing Google Glass, can record a patient examination, send that content to drchrono where it becomes part of the patient’s medical record and then is synced on Box for further patient and doctor coordination.
“Allowing doctors to find easier ways for data capture during patient consultations is the next wave of innovation in healthcare,” said Missy Krasner, managing director, healthcare and life sciences at Box. “drchrono was one of the first cloud-based mobile electronic healthcare records and now they will be one of the first wearable health records.”
Nusimow also highlighted some of the new Box API features including metadata, which allows Box users to preview the metadata associated with synced documents into Box like clinical notes or medical images (e.g. patient name, date of imaging study, etc.). Box also shows whether a document or image was shared with a patient or another provider and the document tags associated with it.
Drchrono was one of Box’s first healthcare partner integrations, enabling physician customers to sync all their EHR data in Box as a secure backup and to enable medical record handoff to patients or other doctors.
“We have worked with Box for some time now as an early platform partner, but this latest integration with our native iPad app, Glass App, and Box’s new metadata API is a real testament to how cloud-based interoperability can make patient data more liquid and easier to collect, store and move,” said Michael Nusimow.
drchrono creates the best EHR experience for physicians and their patients; the platform was built for the iPad, iPhone, Glass and cloud and has impacted over 65,000+ physicians and 3.7 million patients to date. They were the first to implement medical speech-to-text, real-time patient eligibility checks and iPad-based medical billing. This year, drchrono was added to the Inc 500 list of fastest growing companies in America. Investors include Yuri Milner, Runa Capital, Rock Health, Box, and Y Combinator amongst others.
For more information about drchrono, visit www.drchrono.com.


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With assembly elections just four months away, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has fine tuned her administrative machinery to ensure effective implementation of food security scheme which is expected to help Congress retain power in Delhi for the fourth consecutive term.
Mrs Dikshit today said the nitty gritty for implementation of the scheme, which will be launched here on 20 August, the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, has been finalised and the government is now focusing fine tuning the food grain distribution mechanism. Sources said UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi is likely to launch the scheme in Delhi, which will be the first state to roll it out. Officials said the chief minister is personally monitoring the preparation for roll out of the scheme, termed by many in the Congress as a “game changer” programme ahead of the Lok Sabha polls next year. “I am confident of an effective implementation of the scheme in Delhi. Delhi will be the first state to roll out the scheme. We are fine tuning the administrative machinery for roll out of the scheme,” Mrs Dikshit said during a Press conference along with her Cabinet colleagues.
She said initially 32 lakh people from vulnerable sections including BPL families, beneficiaries of Antyodaya Anna Yojana and those having jhuggi ration cards and resettlement colonies ration cards would be covered under the scheme. “We will ultimately cover 73.5 lakh people, which will be 44 per cent of total population, under the food security scheme. Through implementation of the scheme, we will make Delhi a hunger-free state,” she said.
“Geographically, socially and occupationally vulnerable groups, such as residents of slum, resettlement colonies and rural villages, homeless people, transgenders, single women, children living without protection, rag-pickers, un-skilled construction workers, porters, casual daily wage workers, cycle-rickshaw pullers, un-skilled workers in small household would be eligible to get benefits under the scheme,” she said.
Mrs Dikshit said the government would continue with the Annashree Yojna and its beneficiaries, who are getting a monthly cash subsidy of Rs 600, will have the option of shifting to the food security programme.
Under the food security scheme, three-fourth population of the country will have the right to get 5 kg foodgrains every month at highly subsidised rates of Rs 1 to 3 per kg. The per kg price of rice will be Rs 3 while wheat and coarse cereals will be given at Rs 2 and Rs 1 per kg, respectively, under the programme. However, about 2.43 crore of the poorest of the poor families covered under AAY scheme under PDS would continue to get 35 kg of foodgrains per family per month but with legal entitlement.


[India], December 13 (ANI): Director General (DG) Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), RR Bhatnagar on Wednesday lauded the security forces deployed at the Parliament during 2001 terror attack and said it was significant operation for the CRPF.
Speaking to ANI on the 16 anniversary of the attack, Bhatnagar said “this was an achievement of security forces deployed there. Kamlesh Kumari who sacrificed herself was honoured with Ashok Chakra and other five jawans with Shaurya Chakra.”
“It was a significant operation for CRPF,” he added.
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid rich tribute to martyrs of the 2001 Parliament terrorist attack at Parliament House complex.
Among other leaders present on the occasion were Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, former PM Manmohan Singh, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, and Union minister Sushma Swaraj.
On remembering the fateful December 13, 2001, five terrorists infiltrated the Parliament House precincts and killed six Delhi Police personnel, two Parliament Security Service personnel and a gardener in the firing with automatic weapons they subsequently opened.
Meanwhile, all five terrorists too were killed in the counter-attack by security personnel. (ANI)


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Right now, I’m not feeling it. Not because it’s so clear that for too many in our country, they don’t matter. But because there’s a sense in this that Black lives matter too. As if in addition to something. As if in addition to white people who of course matter most.
Black Lives Matter is an important narrative from and within the Black Lives Matter movement. I totally honor that.
Yet as a white woman, I say to my white sisters and brothers that these precious lives are not an adjunct, they are vitally implicit to the integrity, the wholeness, of our national culture. Beyond mattering, they are essential.
They are marginalized to the fringe of our society. But they are not fringe. Our Black sisters and brothers are essential threads in the fabric of our nation and national identity. A national fabric of hope and social justice, of love and compassion, of aspiration and inspiration. This is the fabric of the nation I choose to live in. This is the fabric of the nation I choose to co-create. With my Black sisters and brothers. My Indigenous American sisters and brothers. My Hispanic sisters and brothers. My Asian sisters and brothers. My Arab sisters and brothers. All essential threads in this tapestry.
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With you — All lives matter equally – meaning the embodied experience – being in the matter is at the heart of the matter…
The do absolutely. We are all one. Unfortunately over here ‘all lives matter’ has been adopted by/hijacked by white supremacists and is code for celebrating being white and dismissing the truth of our oneness.
Thank you, Judith.
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You’re right, we say and hear Black Lives Matter as if it’s too or by the way. It shouldn’t have to be said or heard at all except that white supremacists would probably like it that way. I don’t understand racism, and it angers me. It’s unreasonable and lacks any sense about people and nature. We should be thankful. But you know all this. Thank you for your thoughts about how humanity is intertwined.


[Via Satellite 05-12-2015] Recently, the U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center announced the successful completion of the Capability Integration (CI) phase and transition into the Capability Evaluation (CE) phase for its new Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) ground system, which is currently in development. Completion of CI phase indicates the system has reached sufficient maturity to enter the more formal CE testing phase, which indicates the process in on track for the Air Force’s planned operational acceptance of the ground system in 2016.
The existing SBIRS ground system has been operational since 2001. Currently, each of the three satellite types are controlled via three ground software systems located at separate facilities. With the new system, all operational control will be consolidated under one primary mission control station with a single backup control station. In addition, the warfighter will experience a significant increase in performance capability across SBIRS’ four mission areas: missile warning, missile defense, battlespace awareness and technical intelligence.
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company is the SBIRS prime contractor, and Northrup Grumman Electronic Systems is the payload integrator.
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There’s been no official announcement concerning a possible second season of “The Real Housewives of D.C.,” but according to one castmember, if the capital gals stick around for a sophomore run, they’ll do so without attention-grabbing Michaele Salahi.
“I don't think anybody would do a show with Michaele,” Lynda Erkiletian told E! Online. “I don't think anybody would voluntarily associate themselves ever again.”
Perhaps that has something to do with the fallout from the finale episode. Thursday night’s season-ender promises to show the “Housewives” react to Salahi’s White House hijinks, as they learn more about the infamous “gatecrashers” event.
Watch Erkiletian and others discuss the incident in a finale sneak peak:

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This week, In Focus is showcasing the outstanding talent of *Cynnalia, aka Deborah Grieves.
Deborah lives in Southern Oregon and works as a graphic designer for a helicopter company.
In her spare time she paints – but she spends a good deal of her time these days working in Photoshop creating outstanding photo manipulations and some digital art pieces.
The digital tools she uses are Photoshop CS5 and an Intuos3 tablet. She also uses Corel Painter X for her digital paintings.
Photo manipulation is a very new art form for Deborah, producing her first artwork in March 2010.
As you will see, Deborah has a deep love of fantasy and faeries. Influenced since childhood through such books as Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia. She has been greatly encouraged in her art and literature by both her artistic mother and her father who is an English teacher.
Life hasn’t been all plain sailing for Deborah, and we start this showcase with a very personal piece by Cynnalia – here is an excerpt from her write-up on the piece (click on either the quote or the following image to read more):
Can’t Take the Sky From Me
A Moment in Time
Fae Elementals: Air
Here There Be Treasure
The Calm Before the Storm
Fire and Ice
Meet Me at Twilight
Reach for the Moon
Time to Go
Dancing with the Green Fairy
Peace on Earth
Where to see more art from Deborah Grieves:
Deviantart.com – *Cynnalia
LiveJournal – Cynnalia
Follow on Twitter – Cynnalia
I would like to thank Deborah Grieves/Cynnalia for her consent to showcase her work in this feature, and hope you have enjoyed viewing her work as much as I have.
Please leave any acknowledgements you may have on the work of *Cynnalia in the comments below.
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Lab-grown fish, crustacean, and mollusk products aren’t in stores or restaurants yet, but several companies say they are getting closer to commercial sales.
At the end of January, the California start-up BlueNalu announced that it is partnering with the Japanese restaurant group Food & Life Companies to develop, market, and secure regulatory approval for cell-grown tuna. The same day, the cellular meat company Upside Foods disclosed that it acquired Cultured Decadence, a Wisconsin company growing lobster and other crustaceans from cells.
In addition, the start-up Pearlita Foods, launched last month with funding from Sustainable Food Ventures and Big Idea Ventures' New Protein Fund. It claims to be the first company to focus on growing oyster meat from cells.
Last year, the Singaporean start-up Shiok raised $17 million and opened a pilot plant that will make shrimp, lobster, and crab. And Berlin-based Bluu Biosciences raised nearly $8 million in seed funding to make cell-based fish.
BlueNalu already has an agreement to introduce cell-grown seafood in Europe. The company is also working with Mitsubishi, Pulmuone, and Thai Union, which owns the Chicken of the Sea brand, to bring cell-cultured fish to Asia. The new announcement is its first with a restaurant.
“With the uncertainty of natural marine resources in the future, it is important that we secure a stable supply of seafood,” Food & Life president Koichi Mizutome says in a press release.
Upside Foods says threats to marine resources, such as climate change’s impact on lobsters, were one motivation for buying Cultured Decadence. “For a lot of crustaceans, it’s difficult, if not impossible, to farm them,” says David Kay, Upside Foods’ director of communications. “There needs to be new ways to produce them.”
David Kaplan, who leads the Cellular Agriculture Research Group at Tufts University, points to another argument for using cells to grow lobster, oysters, and tuna. They’re all expensive, which could make it easier to introduce cellular versions at competitive prices.
However, Kate Krueger, managing partners at the cellular meat consulting firm Helikon Consulting, says producing seafood from cells may be more difficult than growing beef or pork because there’s more research on mammalian cells. Research on growing mollusks and oysters is especially scarce. “There’s not as much information out there for companies to rely on,” she says.
Cell-grown seafood products will also have to overcome regulatory hurdles. BlueNalu says it’s still exploring what the regulatory process will look like in Japan, but it is already pursuing regulatory review for cell-grown tuna by the US Food and Drug Administration, which regulates most fish products.
Kaplan says the success or failure of cell-grown seafood products, just like their terrestrial counterparts, will ultimately depend on cost and the ability to scale output. Cell-grown seafood may start out more expensive than ocean-dwelling fish, but he’s optimistic that technology will improve and prices will drop.
“It’s a question of how fast,” he says. “There’s so much interest in healthier eating, in saving the marine environment.”
This story was updated on Feb. 3, 2022, to correct the name of of an investment firm. It is Big Idea Ventures, not Big Idea Venture.


In the wake of the UK Government’s Heat Strategy and subsequent investment in heat mapping, feasibility studies and heat networks “the need for the UK’s district heating industry to be properly regulated has been emphasised by a survey from leading consumer watchdog, Which?“
“The watchdog has called on the British government to reconsider allowing the UK’s emerging district heat market to operate without regulation, after research revealed that many customers feel ripped off and confused by contracts they cannot escape from.”
In the UK, regulation has hardly kept energy companies on track but consumers are likely to seek some protection when committing to long term connections with sole suppliers of heat. My experience of networks in Sheffield suggests this to be the case. Even if the product is good, the price stable and the infrastructure sound, consumers (led, often, by their insurers interest in liabilities) will seek protection. The cost of this will be borne by the end-user without doubt and this might mean some marginally economic schemes will fall by the wayside.
The report, unveiled yesterday, said some district heat providers effectively create monopolies because properties linked into the networks cannot switch suppliers if they are unhappy with the service. This is, in most cases, fact. Many UK heat networks have heat supplied from one source, or one supplier. Only when you start to see integrated heat networks with multiple technologies and suppliers will you see genuine competition that will self-regulate. Heat networks are a long way from that position.
The news, which comes just at a time when the Association for Decentralised Energy is pushing its new code of practice, called Heat Trust. Around 210,000 homes in the UK are currently connected to the networks and this is expected to rise to eight million by 2030 as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the heat sector.