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Should you be concerned about formaldehyde in your flooring?
Our homes, aside from being our physical shelter, should be a safe place away from any harm and health issues. Recently, reports about formaldehyde in the flooring in Singapore worried a lot of homeowners since it concerns health risks. In this article, we will provide information for you to know if you should or should be concerned about formaldehyde in your flooring at home.
What is formaldehyde?
Formaldehyde is a colourless gas used as a preservative in various products which include plywood, particleboard, adhesives, paint, fabric, vinyl flooring, wallpaper, and many others. It is the strong-smelling, pickle-like smell used in manufacturing those products which are commonly used in our households daily.
Why is it important to know about formaldehyde in your flooring?
While having waterproof flooring is one of the main concerns in choosing your flooring material, it is also important to know if the chemicals present in it can harm you. In this case, although formaldehyde is a natural chemical, it does not represent safety. On the other hand, it does also mean it is dangerous. There are more factors that to consider, especially if we are talking about the laminate floor in Singapore. Formaldehyde exposure can cause a negative effect on our body depending on the levels of exposure and the chemical content used in a certain product. There are formaldehyde emission standards set by the authority to regulate the chemical content in the products where formaldehyde is present. Make sure that your vinyl flooring in Singapore complies with these standards.
What should I do to lower the formaldehyde levels at home?
Health experts say that luxury vinyl flooring can make our home look stylish, it is important to know what is in it as well as the exposure hazards present with it. We all aim for a resilient floor but before buying, check first if it passed the quality standards set for laminate floorings, especially its formaldehyde content. Also, always remember that homes with smokers have higher levels of formaldehyde. Since it is a type of chemical that can “gas-off” over time, laminate floors installed years back is no longer a threat. Make sure that your home is always well-ventilated to lessen the harm that it may cause to your health.
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‘On the Western Circuit’ and ‘The Withered Arm’
What we need to understand is that all is not perfect, however perfect it may seem in appearance. There is always a larger picture to what a person perceives, however well hidden the secrets lie; and the fact that in a married relationship, appearance means nothing at all. In a Victorian society, a lady betrothed to a wealthy land owner is to be indeed just that: a lady, perfect by appearance and with the correct qualities that a lady must possess.
She would respect and obey her husband to a point of prosiness, she would bring him many children to inherit his money and land, and despite the fact that she is well educated, would be bound to care for her children as a women in that society would. In other words, a wealthy land owners wife would be regarded as a lady, and a lady is all. Two of Hardy’s short stories ‘On the Western Circuit’ and ‘A Withered Arm’ show in great detail the role and character of a married woman in the Victorian era. However, both stories also possess, as Hardy would have put it, detail within detail.
The point of my essay is to get across Hardy’s message on a woman’s role in marriage, as Hardy would have done to his reading audience. Throughout the essay it will become plain why Hardy felt so strongly about a woman’s role in marriage, and why he chose to write with women as the main characters. Channeling his opinion through the narrative voice is Hardy’s main technique used to investigate the thorny issue of marriage. Also, both stories show how love occurs between a couple, but society’s expectations prevent the couple from marrying.
In my conclusion, I will give a personal opinion on Victorian marriage, with an understanding of Hardy’s. In Hardy’s era, if you were married there would be a strong presence of high social status, class and wealth of the man and woman. In many ways, a woman’s last name would act as a title, it seems ridiculous that in our society people aspire for love, and a marriage represents love. However, controversially, in the Victorian era, marriage would represent a person’s status. In most cases marriage would have nothing to do with love. In both ‘The Withered Arm’ and ‘On the Western Circuit” we can see clear evidence of this.
When we are first introduced to Rhoda Brook in ‘the Withered Arm’ she is summarized to us as “a thin fading woman of thirty”, immediately the Victorian readers would have presumed that Rhoda is of a very low class and very poor. Her given age would also indicate that she is not a young woman of sixteen already married to a wealthy man, and that her chance of doing so has passed. Throughout the passage about the “milkmaid” Rhoda, the narrative voice also describes her as “thin, worn milkmaid”, “the Lorne milkmaid” and “the thin woman”; not exactly the majestically beautiful woman we would expect to have once been married to Farmer Lodge…
Who we (Hardy’s Victorian audience) would expect to marry this wealthy Farmer Lodge however quickly comes onto the scene. To the milkmaids of Egdon Heath, Farmer Lodge’s new wife arriving in the afternoon was the perfect opportunity for gossip. However none of these milkmaids had seen nor heard of Lodges new wife so gossiped about how they assumed she would be. In their thick southern accents the milkmaids predicted the new Mrs. Lodge to be “a rosy cheeked, titsy totsy, little body enough”, “Years younger than he they say” and “His young wife”.
Once the new Mrs Lodge did arrive, it turned out that these women had predicted correctly, Gertrude Lodge was indeed a young, beautiful woman, well educated and, supposedly, a virgin; the direct opposite of Rhoda. However, after spending a while as Mrs Gertrude Lodge, Gertrude discovers that her arm is withered (supposedly inflicted by Rhoda after a supernatural dream), distorting her physical beauty. However, has it really? Or is it just that their perception of beauty is distorted by the bindings of a proper Victorian marriage.
Gertrude then is no longer Lodge’s perfect wife and their marriage is lost for love, if there ever was any to begin with, and has, as poor Gertrude puts it, “sank into prosiness”. A similar situation occurs in ‘ On the Western Circuit’ where a young lawyer, Charles, described as being “not a great man”, falls in love with a young maidservant called Anna. Howevr the course of true love never runs smooth and Anna’s illiteracy is figuratively a large pot hole along the path of their relationship. The narrative voice hints that the relationship between the two progresses too rapidly as Anna is soon pregnant.
In order for both characters to avoid social embarrassment and rejection they must marry. However Charles’ love for Anna was to do with the beauty of her letter writing which in fact was not hers, it was Edith’s. Edith: the woman already bound unhappily in marriage that with Charles is experiencing love for the first time. So from this we gather that both marriages occurred due to the influence of the Victorian society. Like Lodge, Charles is attracted by a young, pretty woman, both woman are of an inferior social class so see an opportunity to “marry up”. In the end happily married couples?
No. However if both couples had married because they loved each other, instead of what society insisted, would the outcomes have been different? Hardy’s tales of these unfortunate couples indicate to the Victorian audience that all is not perfect when considering marriage. Hardy is telling us that behind these storylines, there is a larger picture. It is in fact quite a sad as this larger picture represents a large majority of Victorian couples, all who believed they were making the right choice by marrying for money and status instead of following their heart and marrying for love.
It was due to this decision that most couples ended up unhappily married, and deeply regretting their decision to carry out marriage in the first place. It is this that spurred Hardy to write from the perception of four women, as opposed to the men. Up until now I have not mentioned the other side to the story, or in other words, the larger picture. Even with Anna’s pregnancy and Gertrude’s withered arm veering marriage off its fairytale track, Hardy presents to his readers yet another complication in their marriages.
The other two women in the stories, Edith and Rhoda, first appear to have nothing to do with the men, Charles or Mr. Lodge. However, we have known from the start that this is no fairytale, instead a tragedy. And more importantly, a tragedy to affect not one, but all of these unfortunate Victorian citizens. The secret behind these two names remains untold to some characters, and in the case of The Withered Arm, Rhoda’s secret is not revealed to the reader until we are in depth of the plot.
In both situations a love triangle occurs; as Edith’s letter writing progresses, so does her love for Charles, and at the same time, Charles love for Anna as he receives her ‘charming’ letters. In ‘The Withered Arm’ it turns out that Rhoda had had a previous relationship with Farmer Lodge that had resulted in a child. This may sound like the beginning of a happy family, but Lodge would not marry Rhoda, simply because of who she was to society; so she was left pregnant and very much alone on the outskirts of a community, abandoned by a man who loved her. I f had had swallowed his pride then e would have ended up happily married with a son.
The on of Rhoda and Lodge is perhaps the greatest victim of all the characters. As a young boy he was lonely and craving love and attention: ‘his mother not observing that he was cutting a notch into the beech backed chair’. Had he not grown up on the fringe of society then maybe his life would not have come to such a tragic end.
When looking at which of the pair had control over their marriage, it became obvious from the start that it was the husband. In the modern day marriage is another word for joined where responsibility’s and respect is shared between the husband and wife. When Anna falls pregnant it is Mr Harnham who sends her away so she does not bring embarrassment to him, and when Charles finds out it is he who decides that they shall marry. Also when Rhoda falls pregnant, it seems obvious that it is Lodge who abandons her so she does not ruin his status.
In many of Hardy’s novels he writes as the narrator, using pathetic fallacy to put the characters emotions across; sometimes these translate as their secrets. When Rhoda is escorting her new friend, Gertrude, across Egdon Heath to find a conjuror whom Gertrude believes will cure her arm and therefore her marriage, Hardy describes the scene as “the dark atmosphere”, “the wind howled dismally over the Heath” and “this solemn country”. All of these illustrate the scene as dismal, an emotion similar to what Rhoda was feeling as she awaits what the conjuror will unearth about the cause of Gertrude’s withered arm. Also at the opening of part two in ‘The Withered Arm’ the ‘darkened room’ reflects Edith’s solemn mood.
It seems absurd that such a religious era should ignore the wishes of the bible when considering marriage. God was an icon to whom people obeyed, but when marrying a companion they did not obey the bible by finding a partner to love. The passage below is taken from ‘On the Western Circuit’ in the narrators voice:
‘Edith Harnham led a lonely life. Influenced by the belief of the British parent that a bad marriage with its aversions is better that free womanhood with its interests, dignity and leisure, she had consented to marry the elderly wine merchant as a last resort, at the age of seven and twenty- some three years before this date – to find afterwards that she had made a mistake. That contract had left her still a woman who’s deeper nature had never been stirred.’ In other words she has never experienced romantic love.
From this, I can conclude that Hardy did not only know, but believed that women were exploited by men to use as items in marriage; these women, represented by Edith Harnham, were bound by “contract” not love to their marriages which left them regretfully as women with a “deeper nature that had never been stirred”. But there was nothing they could do as in the Victorian Society their lives would follow one of two paths: one in marriage or one alone on the edge of society, but neither with love.
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Last year, Iowa won
25 games, the Big Ten conference tournament, and made the NCAA
Tournament. Yet after losing four impressive senior
contributors, things wont come so easily this time around.
Still, Steve Alford has to be feeling good about his future
after bringing in some solid newcomers and getting a hefty pay
raise this summer.
Shawn Siegel (CHN): You lose as much senior talent as any
team out there.. guys like Greg Brunner and Jeff Horner were
stars. How will you deal with the losses?
Alford (SA): Replacing the senior class will be a great
challenge. Doug Thomas was the Big Ten’s Sixth Man of the Year
and Erek Hansen was the Defensive Player of the Year. Greg
Brunner is Iowa’s career rebounding leader and Jeff Horner is
the career assist leader. We wont 79 games over the last four
years, due mainly to the play of Brunner and Horner and the
other seniors. Over the last four years, with Jeff at the
point, we didn’t have many questions as to who would have the
ball in crucial situations.
Adam Haluska and Mike Henderson have had
two good seasons playing with those seniors. Now they have to
step up their leadership roles, while continuing to improve
their game on the court. Both are outstanding student-athletes
who will do what is necessary, which goes back to learning how
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will the strengths and weaknesses of
this year’s team to be?
I hope a strength of this team will be the confidence that has
been built from past success, especially the last two years.
The leadership provided by the 2006 seniors has established
something in our locker room that is special, that is winning.
We have enough returning players that know what it takes. They
know now what is expected of them at a very high level and what
is necessary to be successful.
I think our backcourt will be as athletic
as we have had here. We have experience in Adam Haluska, Mike
Henderson and Tony Freeman, and the new guys add depth. Tyler
Smith and Justin Johnson are two big guards who are athletic and
long. They can score on their own, they are good defenders and
they both have experience, Justin in two years of junior college
and Tyler in one season at prep school.
Weaknesses: Replacing the senior class
will be a great challenge. The front court is interesting in
that we have three players that don’t have a lot of experience.
Seth Gorney and Kurt Looby know our system. Cyrus Tate is a
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Sydney Roosters part ways with chief executive Stephen Noyce, replace him with predecessor Canavan
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- October 15, 2012
Sydney Roosters have parted ways with CEO Stephen Noyce, in a shock move that the club says is part of a restructure, with Brian Canavan handed the top job.
Noyce is understood to have informed staff of the decision and the Roosters have released a statement, describing the parting of ways as "mutual".
Chairman Nick Politis said former CEO Brian Canavan would return to the club after four years away and would take a redefined role of Chief Operations Officer of Football.
"Brian is the most experienced football administrator in the country and his return to the club he loves is a major coup," Politis said.
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DSA-member WordProof has gotten quite the media attention lately. Not only for the service they are providing and how fast their company is growing, but they have also received 1 million euros from the European Commission for being first place in the competition Blockchains for social good. With founder Sebastiaan van der Lans, we talked about trust in the internet, future partnerships, and COVID-19.
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Why is WordProof important?
29% of European citizens are suspicious of the content on the internet. 86% are aware they have been misled by disinformation on the web, so you can only imagine the percentage of the ones who have been misled, but are unaware of it. We believe that the internet needs a layer of trust, so the reader knows the information they read is factual and knows where it came from, and on the flipside, if you are a content creator, you can prove that the content you created is yours. We provide that layer of trust through WordProof. We provide a service, providing a blockchain timestamp of your content. The internet has been developed with the aim of making life easier by providing handy to use apps and platforms, but there also needs to be a sense of trust in what the internet provides. Trust can be broken down in two: transparency and accountability. Transparency relates to when the content was updated and what has changed since previous versions of the content. Accountability relates to where the information comes from; thus, answering the question of “Does this really come from that company, journalist, politician, my government?”. These two factors are important, as the information we receive influences our life from which politicians we vote for, to how the current COVID-19 crisis is developing.
Why did you start working on WordProof?
WordProof started off with WordPress, but is not WordPress exclusive. I have been working with WordPress for 15 years now. 38% of the internet is based on WordPress. What makes WordPress so interesting, is that it is an open source software, meaning that everyone can access the software for free. 15 years ago, open source software was not a common service. In 2018, the GDPR legislation came about. It was clear that citizens couldn’t protect their own privacy, so the responsibility was put on companies. That intention of GDPR is great, but its execution wasn’t too beautiful. Companies had to invest a lot of money to comply with the GDPR legislation. At my agency Van Ons, we decided to build a free and open source GDPR plugin for WordPress. Within 2 weeks we had already reached 10.000 downloads. At this moment we are counting over 1.3 million downloads and over 100.000 active users, all from free software. It doesn’t generate any income right away, but it contributes to building a movement towards what we call The Trusted Web. By combining our knowledge with the successful GDPR plugin and blockchain technology, WordProof was born.
You’ve mentioned that you have a good relationship with WordPress. Are there any other other partnerships in the making?
Now that we are getting more attention and recognition, our credibility is also growing. Compliance to GDPR has become mandatory, so we expect that for organisations such as banks, news outlets, and government websites, using timestamps will become mandatory to ensure transparency. We would like to partner with these government institutions, but also with search engines, web hosting parties and social media giants. In this way, how a piece of information changed over time isn’t transparent or if you can’t track back by whom and when it was written, it would get ranked lower in search results and social media, and in turn prevents the spread of disinformation.
Disinformation consists on one hand of trolling, and on the other hand opinions of real people. The danger of fake news is that ‘just an opinion’ can go viral. You can still post content online anonymously, but it should not be able to go viral if we want to combat disinformation.
“Many accept fraud or disinformation as parts of the internet. But with an added layer of trust through transparency and accountability, we can make a shift to a version of the internet where you can trust everything you read” – Sebastiaan van der Lans
Recently WordProof won first place in the competition ‘Blockchains for social good’, where the European Commission awarded you with 1 million euros. What are you planning to do with the money?
We established our presence through WordPress, but we are planning to use the money to develop on other platforms as well. Another big investment we are going to make is education. We aim to educate people on the harm of disinformation on the internet and how timestamping helps in our WordProof Academy. Right now, we notice that a lot of the issues on the internet are being taken for granted. Many accept fraud or disinformation as parts of the internet, “that’s just how things are”. This should not be the case. We aim to educate citizens, governments and search engines that there are possibilities to combat these issues and create a layer of trust. We want to start that movement through free education, awareness and establishing our presence on the big platforms. WordProof is a platform that provides a solution to some of these problems, but primarily we want to start the movement of regaining trust in the internet. We don’t see this money as an award for “just a startup in Amsterdam”, but as a recognition of the movement.
WordProof has been gaining a lot of recognition, despite there still being a pandemic present, which is affecting many startups. Has COVID-19 affected WordProof in any way?
When we entered the ‘Blockchains for social good’ competition, WordProof had been existing for three months, so we don’t have a lot of pre-COVID experience. I worked from home a lot even before lockdown, so that was nothing new for me. However, COVID-19 did bring us some opportunities. The people who we needed to connect and talk to were thought leaders on a global level, and since a lot of conferences had been cancelled due to lockdown, we were able to get a hold of them. So in our experience, the past few months have mostly brought opportunities. Furthermore, before COVID-19 we had to often explain that disinformation can cost lives, now everyone is aware of that due to the vast amount of information out there around COVID-19.
Sebastiaan van der Lans has a big heart for open source. In 2006 he co-founded Amsterdam’s first WordPress agency ‘Van Ons’, which is a leading digital agency now, serving over 100M page views a year. In 2019, Sebastiaan founded WordProof, the winner of Europe’s ‘Blockchains for Social Good’ contest in 2020. Sebastiaan has a strong passion for improving the playing fields of publishing, SEO, and e-commerce. Solutions by his teams are actively being used by over 100.000 organizations.


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In 2003 Pistoletto was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale. At that Biennale he presented Love Difference - Artistic Movement for an Inter-Mediterranean Policy [Love Difference - Movimento artistico per una politica intermediterranea], a project begun in April 2002 and coordinated by Cittadellarte’s Political Office. A large table with a mirror top shaped like the Mediterranean basin, surrounded by chairs from each of the different countries that border on the sea, was Pistoletto’s symbol of Love Difference. Around this table, in Venice and later on in other places around the world, he presented and developed many of the activities of Love Difference.
In the exhibition “Pistoletto & Cittadellarte, The Table of Cultures”, staged in Modena in 2005, he showed six large panels, called Mediterranean Seas, each reproducing the shape of a particular sea (the Baltic Sea, Black Sea, Caribbean Sea/Gulf of Mexico, South China Sea, Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea) that joins different cultures, becoming a mediator between lands, languages, political visions and religions.
In 2010, on the occasion of the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, he created another table, called Mirror Sea, representing the one onto which face several nations (South Korea, North Korea, China, Russia and Japan) and that is the subject of bitter disputes. In 2018, on the occasion of the first “Rebirth Forum” held at Ubud on Bali and entitled “Sustainability through Differences”, another table was created, called The Great Archipelago and dedicated to the sea of Indonesia.
“Love Difference is a name, a slogan, a programmatic announcement. The movement unites the universality of art with the idea of political transnationality and focuses its activity in the Mediterranean area because it mirrors the problems of global society. On one hand the difference between ethnic groups, religions and cultures is the cause of terrible conflicts today; on the other a dramatic situation has been created by the supremacy of powers that produce uniformity and the leveling of defenses [...]. Uniformity and difference are the two antagonistic terms that represent the greatest cause of conflict in the present situation of the planet. A policy that leads people to ‘love differences’ is vital to the development of new prospects in the entire social realm.”
(M. Pistoletto, Love Difference Manifesto, 2002, in Journal, no. 7 [Cittadellarte, Biella 2002], 47)

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Published: 17th May 2021
India increases the production capacity of Remdesivir to nearly 119 lakh vials per month
The department has, ever since, intensified the monitor on the availability, production and supply of Remdesivir. This has resulted in a substantial increase in the number of manufacturing sites
With the sudden increase of cases during the second wave of the pandemic, the government has taken swift actions to enhance the availability of an anti-viral drug Remdesivir across the country. Presently, nearly 119 lakh vials of Remdesivir are being produced per month, the Department of Pharmaceuticals informed on Monday.
The department has, ever since, intensified the monitor on the availability, production and supply of Remdesivir. This has resulted in a substantial increase in the number of manufacturing sites of Remdesivir.
Seven Indian pharmaceutical companies, namely Cipla, Dr Reddy's Lab., Hetero, Jubilant Pharma, Mylan, Syngene and Zydus Cadila, were granted voluntary licenses by the patent holder of Remdesivir, Gilead Life Sciences USA.
In order to boost production, the approval of 38 additional manufacturing sites were accelerated by the Government. This increased the number of approved manufacturing sites of Remdesivir in the country from 22 to 60 sites, the Department of Pharmaceuticals stated in an official statement.
The manufacturers of Remdesivir are also being facilitated for getting supplies of requisite raw materials and equipment from foreign countries, with the help of the Ministry of External Affairs.
The export of Remdesiver has been prohibited since April 11, and the customs duty on Remdesivir injection, Remdesivir API, and Beta Cyclodextrin (SBEBCD) used in the manufacture of Remdesivir has also been exempted since April 20.
The Central government has been making allocations to States and UTs, in order to ensure equitable distribution of Remdesivir. The first allocation of 11 lakh vials was made for 19 states and UTs with high demand on April 21 for a period up to April 30. The latest allocation of 76 lakh vials was issued on May 16 for the period up to May 23.
The Department of Pharmaceuticals has asked the state governments and UTs to monitor proper distribution within their jurisdiction, covering both government as well as private hospitals, and in line with judicious use as advised in the "National Clinical Guidance for management of adult Covid-19 patients" issued jointly by AIIMS/ICMR Covid-19 National Task Force and Joint Monitoring Group of MoHFW.
State Governments and UTs have also been advised to place adequate purchase orders with the marketing companies immediately for the quantity that they want to purchase out of allocation for the State/ UT as per supply plan in close coordination with liaison officers of the companies. The states are also asked to coordinate with private distribution channels in the state.
States are also to oversee the mechanism for issuance of Remdesivir drug to the needy patients and to advertise it among the public well.
The Department of Pharmaceuticals, through National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority (NPPA), is in constant touch with all the States through their Nodal officers and manufacturing companies through their Liaison Officers to keep the complaints regarding supply in check.
"India has also received 5.26 lakh vials of Remdesivir donation from other countries and organisations and 40,000 vials were imported. These have also been allocated to the States and UTs", the department said.

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Unique Exhibition Fuses Past and Future Through Science and Art to Shed light on Scholarly Contributions of Israeli Fulbright Alumni
From July 1-11, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute hosted ‘Beautiful Knowledge,’ an exhibition that marked the Fulbright program’s sixtieth anniversary in Israel. By examining the relationship between knowledge and beauty, the exhibition both celebrated the last six decades of scientific research and creativity of Israeli Fulbright scholars and predicted major trends in human knowledge over the next forty years.
‘Beautiful Knowledge’ featured numerous expertly curated exhibits that fused the past and the future through science and art. For example, one installation displayed a brief history of the cultivation of wheat in Israel and the classification of different wheat species that dovetailed into striking graphic representations of the classifications of information. It also included a futuristic prediction in the form of several vials of DNA molecules encoding the lyrics of the poem ‘Wheat’ by Israeli author and poet Ronny Someck.
“Molecular biology allows us to read and synthesize DNA strands at accuracy and cost levels that make the process affordable to everyone,” said Avi Muller, the curator of ‘Beautiful Knowledge.’ “In a future world, the DNA version of Ronny Someck’s poem will be read just as easily as we look up text-based data on our smartphones today.”
The centerpiece of the exhibition was a larger-than-life digital art installation entitled ‘Bright’ that used heavenly spheres to represent connections between the scientific data produced by Israel’s Fulbright scholars, with each article serving as a star around which its citations gravitate. The tens of thousands of article and citation data from Scopus were provided by Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services.
“There’s nothing more magical than seeing people get caught up in a moment of awe. One of the best examples is the wonderment we experience when looking up at the stars on a clear night,” said Muller. “And if you think about it, it is no less appropriate to be awed by scientific data than the heavenly bodies.”
Drawing on Muller’s concept for the display, a group of multidisciplinary Israeli artists and designers from the Holon Institute of Technology, including Ronen Wolfson, David Kantor, Maxim Bassin, and Gil Zablodovsky, put the idea behind the sprawling connections into motion.
The eye-popping display visualized the disciplinary evolution of research work and the contributions made by Fulbright alumni to the creation and dissemination of knowledge. With each discipline represented by a different color, viewers were able to gain a better understanding of which disciplines utilized each article as well as its level of influence. The metaphor of ‘spreading light’ was chosen to describe the global, academic process in which researchers cite articles published in journals. The movement of light from the center to the perimeter represents the genealogy of the citations: from a Fulbright researcher’s article, to articles that cite that article, and so on.
“The ‘Beautiful Knowledge’ exhibition is an ingenious way to use data creatively to tell the story of the importance of scientific research with incredible impact,” said Michiel Kolman, Elsevier’s Senior Vice President, Global Academic Relations. “Elsevier is pleased to be part of this cleverly curated display that inspired and excited all who experienced it.”
The truly unique installation was made possible by the support of Dr. Michiel Kolman, Elsevier’s Senior Vice President, Global Academic Relations; Alberto Zigoni, Elsevier’s Senior Consultant; Dr. Anat Lapidot-Firilla, Executive Director of the United States-Israel Educational Foundation; and Dr. Dror K. Levi of the Holon Institute of Technology.
Since its inception in 1956, Fulbright Israel has been administered by the United States-Israel Educational Foundation. This organization endeavors to promote mutual understanding between the people of the United States and Israel. By means of student and faculty exchanges, the Foundation has cultivated innovative, forward thinking leaders in both the academia and other areas of public life.
During the ‘Beautiful Knowledge’ exhibition, predictions from a diverse group of affiliated scholars and intellectuals about major trends in human knowledge over the coming forty years were placed into a specially made time capsule. The time capsule will be opened at an event to celebrate Fulbright’s 100th year of activity in 2056.


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12 March 2016
DIY Instax Picture Frame from Empty Cartridge
Ever since I was little, I always love polaroid! I still remember how cool it was to take picture and the picture was instantly slide out from the camera. Now when I've grown up, I become a fan of Instax pictures. It's cute, fun and just so lovely. But, there's one thing that i found it annoying about Instax... it's the empty cartridge!
I hate throwing away empty Instax cartridges because I always feel that they can be useful. I know that some people like to use it as Instax picture frame, but for me the empty cartridge looks too plain and boring to hold Instax pictures.
I've been keeping my empty Instax cartridges for quite some time already with a thought of using them someday when I have enough time and creativity. And now that day has come, I'm ready to give them a new life by decorating it so they can look better as Instax photo holder.
I'm experimenting with some different materials to create three different looks: Rustic Gold, Sparkling Pink, and Cracky White. When I'm done with these cartridges, I then realized that only the sky is the limit! I can always decorate it in so many ways, there are so many limitless options and materials to use. Too bad I only have three empty cartridges now.
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The UK Government’s commitment to raise funds for social care through NI contributions has been seen as a victory for the social care sector. And it is. More people on the breadline will no longer have to cover care costs. More people will have access to some
Government support for their care. And the pressure of spiralling care costs has been eased.
But the reforms only address one aspect of a growing issue, and only partially at that. Making more funding available for care does not address accommodation or sustenance. People will still need to sell their homes to cover the cost of aging. And it does not go to the root of the problem – how can we minimise reliance on care in general?
Other countries like Sweden, New Zealand, and even the US have taken a much more holistic approach which facilitates a different lifestyle. It’s about acknowledging the issues caused by the current system and choosing to live differently.
Housing-with-care is an essential piece of the puzzle. ARCO estimates that providing care in this setting costs £1,222 and £4,556 less per person per year for those with low-level and high-level care needs, respectively. The physical and mental benefits for residents lead to a 38% reduction in hospital visits. And a £5.6bn saving will be made for health and social care if 250,000 people aged 65+ live in housing-with-care by 2030. Those are the stats.
For individuals, it means an easily accessible community which you can engage with as much or as little as you want to. Having the option of building relationships keeps you connected to the world, whether they be acquaintances that you wave to when you’re walking through your front door or deeper connections with people who share your interests. It means less time spent ‘dwelling’ on times gone by and what the future holds and more time living. It means assistive technology enabling you to live independently for longer and receiving the right level of personal care only when you need it.
So what’s the problem? Provision isn’t where it needs to be, with only 0.6% of over 65s in the UK living in a retirement community/assisted living, and with that comes a lack of options for the level of care required, location, features and affordability. Luckily, investors are turning their heads to this area over sectors like retail – in fact, we’ve never seen this level of demand in the 35+ years we’ve specialised in this area. But the recent ruling to classify housing-with-care under Use Class C2 will mean that provision for affordable housing will need to be accounted for in planning applications, providing a further barrier to a critically undersupplied market.
The challenges associated with under provision must be overcome and matched with a change in how we perceive housing-with-care and, with that, aging. A stiff upper lip is a common ailment in the UK. We like to think that we can cope until we really can’t. As a result, we hold onto homes which, once our pride and joy, are no longer manageable. We become wistful over the fact that our lives aren’t as busy as they used to be. We resent the fact that our children don’t see us as often anymore. Added to that is our distaste for renting, a yearning to ‘possess’ our homes and a fear of being ghettoised.
Culturally, it may seem like a hard sell but, as our population ages, generational perspectives will change. Younger generations are much more open about needing help and aware of the need to look after their mental health. Renting is a reality for many, with estimates that there will be more than a million renters aged 65+ by 2035. And as provision grows, so too will options that are integrated into our locality of choice. Choose to live in a repurposed and lively city centre, at a boutique communal suite just around the corner from your family, or in a cosy, quiet neighbourhood by the sea.
In keeping with the holistic approach, the necessity for moving to a housing-with-care model goes beyond addressing immediate care needs. Space. More than 500,000 bedrooms will be freed up if 2030 housing-with-care targets are met and the apartment-style approach will use six times less space than family homes. Not to mention the operational carbon-saving benefits that could be achieved through optimised, smaller dwellings.
The latest social care reforms, while noble, have been rushed. Perhaps this is by design to tackle the immediate crisis. But further measures need to be approached more holistically if we’re to solve the problem long-term. We need planning barriers for housing-with-care to be removed. And we need incentives and education to help people see the advantages and appeal of a different approach to life as they get older.

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Colorectal cancer, which starts in the colon or rectum, is the third-most commonly diagnosed cancer. It also is the second-leading cause of cancer death in U.S. men and women.
Fortunately, if discovered early, it is highly treatable. And you can take steps to lower your risk.
Let’s use #SaludTues on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, to discuss colorectal cancer risk, screening, treatment, and survivorship in honor of National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month in March. Altogether, we can show how everyone can get involved to prevent colorectal cancer!
- WHAT: #SaludTues Tweetchat: What You Should Know about Colorectal Cancer
- TIME/DATE: 1-2 p.m. ET (Noon-1 p.m. CT), Tuesday, March 3, 2020
- WHERE: On Twitter with hashtag #SaludTues
- HOST: @SaludAmerica
- CO-HOSTS: Fight Colorectal Cancer (@FightCRC), Colorectal Cancer Alliance (@ccalliance), Prevent Cancer Foundation (@PreventCancer)
- HASHTAG: #SaludTues
- OPTIONAL HASHTAGS: #ColorectalCancer, #TomorrowCantWait
We’ll open the floor to your comments, tips, and stories as we explore:
- The state of colorectal cancer among men, women, Latinos, and other groups
- Screening and detection for colorectal cancer
- Treatment and survivorship for colorectal cancer
- Ways to lower risk for colorectal cancer
Use the hashtag #SaludTues to follow the conversation on Twitter. Share your strategies, stories, and resources to help people lower their risk of colorectal cancer!
#SaludTues is a health equity tweetchat especially focused on the Latino population at 12p CT/1p ET every Tuesday. #SaludTues is hosted by the @SaludAmerica program at the Institute for Health Promotion Research at UT Health San Antonio.
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What you need to know
- In 2015, Sony quietly announced North West Studio (later named Manchester Studio).
- This team was being built to focus on the development of PlayStation VR titles.
- Sony confirmed today that Manchester Studio was being closed.
- Media Molecule and London Studio are the only remaining UK studios in Sony Worldwide Studios.
In 2015, Sony opened a new studio in the UK. First titled North West before being changed to Manchester Studio, the team was to focus on building PlayStation VR titles. We'll never get to see a game from this studio as today, Sony announced that Manchester Studio is being closed. Sony told GamesIndustry.biz that the plan is 'to close it as part of our efforts to improve efficiency and operational effectiveness.'
Our thoughts are with all of the developers and staff affected by the studio closure. We hope they all manage to find new jobs soon.
This leaves Media Molecule and London Studio as the remaining UK teams in Sony Worldwide Studios. Sony has something of a history of shutting down UK-based first-party developers. Over the course of the PlayStation 4's lifecycle alone, Guerrilla Cambridge and Evolution Studios were both closed, while Studio Liverpool and BigBig Entertainment were both closed in 2012.
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July 13 2017
BTG plc: Annual General Meeting
London, UK, 13 July 2017
BTG plc (LSE: BTG), the global specialist healthcare company, provides the following update ahead of its Annual General Meeting, which is being held today at 10.30am at the offices of Stephenson Harwood LLP, 1 Finsbury Circus, London, EC2M 7SH.
At the meeting, the Board will comment on the performance of the Group in the year ended 31 March 2017, as detailed in the results announcement on 16 May 2017, and describe progress made in the current financial year to date.
Louise Makin, Chief Executive Officer, commented: "Our strong performance in 2016/17 has continued into the new financial year. We are on track to achieve double-digit product sales growth over the full financial year, driven by growth in our Interventional Medicine business. We reported positive outcomes from two EKOS clinical studies in the first quarter and we anticipate further progress across the portfolio over the full year, including reaching important milestones for Varithena® and the PneumRx® Coils. We will continue to implement our growth strategy, to deliver double-digit annual product sales growth and margin expansion over time whilst investing selectively in innovation and development, commercial and geographic expansion and acquisitions to ensure sustainable long-term value creation."
Trading since 1 April 2017 has been in line with the Board's expectations and guidance for the full year is unchanged. There were strong performances from TheraSphere®, the liver cancer treatment, and EKOS®, the blood clot treatment device. Varithena continues to make progress ahead of the publication of new reimbursement codes expected towards the end of the year. The antivenin CroFab® made a good start to the new snakebite season and there was a good performance from Voraxaze®, used to treat methotrexate toxicity in patients with impaired renal function.
There was also good operating progress. Positive data were reported from two clinical studies using EKOS®. The OPTALYSE study demonstrated the safety and efficacy of shorter, lower-dose EKOS® therapy for pulmonary embolism, and the ACCESS PTS study demonstrated the safety and efficacy of an EKOS® therapy treatment regimen for post-thrombotic syndrome.
A pilot study showed sustained quality of life at regular intervals throughout three months in patients treated with TheraSphere® using IO Loop™, a novel data collection tool that helps patients better engage in their own healthcare and measures quality of life and satisfaction rates across the course of their treatment.
In June 2017, the Society of Interventional Oncology and BTG announced their 2017 interventional oncology/immuno-oncology grant recipients. This research grant programme funds initiatives that evaluate how interventional oncology therapies stimulate the immune system and how they might combine with immunotherapy approaches to improve clinical outcomes.
Work continues to progress the Premarket Approval application in the US for the PneumRx®Coils, and in Europe coverage/reimbursement determinations continue in Germany and France.
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BTG is a global specialist healthcare company bringing to market innovative products in specialist areas of medicine to better serve doctors and their patients. We have a portfolio of Interventional Medicine products to advance the treatment of cancer, severe emphysema, severe blood clots and varicose veins, and Specialty Pharmaceuticals that help patients overexposed to certain medications or toxins. Inspired by patient and physician needs, BTG is investing to expand its portfolio to address some of today's most complex healthcare challenges. To learn more about BTG, please visit: btgplc.com.

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By SEBASTIAN WHITAKER
Despite plastic straw bans becoming increasingly popular, plastic straws do serve a purpose for disabled people.
Environmental activist Emma Tkalčević said banning plastic straws without providing alternatives further marginalised disabled people.
“What a lot of people don’t realise is that disabled people need flexible straws to drink,” she said.
“If we just ban plastic straws completely, and [companies] don’t know this, then they might replace all of their straws with [inadequate alternatives].”
Last month, Virgin Australia announced they would replace plastic straws with paper straws in all lounges and inflight services.
But paper straws aren’t a good alternative, Ms Tkalčević said.
“Because they get soggy when you drink out of them, a lot of [paper] straws are lined with plastic, which is not helping the issue,” she said.
Considering plastic straws were the seventh most collected item found along the world’s beaches and waterways according to the International Coastal Cleanup 2017 report, it’s easy to see why alternatives are needed.
Disability activist Rif’aa Mohamed said when it came to finding alternatives to plastic straws, the situation was nuanced, as many alternatives posed risks for disabled people.
“Most of these [alternatives] have similar amounts of issues: choking hazard, injury hazard, not position-able [and] can’t use [them] for a long time,” she said.
“For example, metal straws, which are quite popular, might not be safe for people with allergies or even people who experience seizures as it may injure their mouth.”
Ms Tkalčević is the co-founder of Strawstainable, a company aiming to provide bamboo straw alternatives specifically to businesses.
Bamboo straws are one of the most environmentally friendly alternatives out there, Ms Tkalčević said.
“It comes straight from nature without any chemical processing [and] it doesn’t use incredible amounts of power, water or resources to make,” she said.
Even though bamboo straws aren’t flexible, she said the solution was to provide straw alternatives (such as bamboo straws) for those who could use them while also accommodating disabled people.
“[We recommend] every restaurant still has flexible straws in case a person needs it, and they can just be asked,” she said.
Ms Mohamed said the solution was to still have plastic straws on offer if needed.
“Having a few straws available upon request at an establishment would aid disabled people,” she said.
“That way there’s less plastic straws being bought and also being thrown away, while also making sure disabled people have access to plastic straws.”
While individual approaches to environmental activism were helpful, businesses needed to be held accountable, Ms Tkalčević said.
“[Businesses are] producing an enormous amount of plastic waste, and that completely overrides all the effort a lot of people are trying to do,” she said.
Ms Mohamed said the solution lay in targeting corporations.
“These corporations should be held accountable for their actions, and I think that once people start targeting them, they’ll have to change their ways,” she said.


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We always like concerts with French music. At the weekend we heard the Festival Orchestra play a selection of delightful French pieces from the turn and the first third of the 20th century in the Palace of Arts, conducted by Marc Minkowski. He has established his reputation as the founder and conductor of Les Musiciens du Louvre, known primarily as the apostle of Baroque composers and secondly as a conductor with a flair for rarities, special pieces by composers even from the 20th century.
The first piece was Gabriel Fauré’s suite, Pelléas and Mélisande, which was also the first of the three compositions on the programme in terms of chronology.
The suite, a magnificent musical expression of all the naivity of the art nouveau, impressionism and the turn of the century is an excellent start, the four movements all depict something – Sicilienne, the third movement was integrated into the composition later and has a life of its own – and though Fauré’s music is pleasant to listen to, we were all squirming a little with impatience, waiting for the next piece to come.
This was Francis Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, born thirty years after Fauré’s suite and showing a completely different face of French music. It is expressive, vehement, then suddenly contemplative and slow, then restless, capricious, but most of all: ingenious. The two pianos placed adjacently on the stage are entangled in a conversation with each other, and occasionally the orchestra also comes in and has a say: who else than a French composer could have the idea of pianos, brass and woodwinds and pizzicato-strings playing unisono? Towards the end of the first movement the aerial gamelan imitation gives us the shivers: the piano plays its own echo with the sweet string melody sneaking in slowly over it – in the second, the flageolet of the cello is slightly out of tune but we don't mind - and the shivers mean one thing: good music, good musicians. The slow movement reminiscent of Mozart takes us back to some centuries ago, however, the sometimes nervous twists and changes in the final movement forecast many things yet to come in music in the future. But it is mainly the naivity and innocence already lost that the music conveys. The two young French pianists, David Kadouch and Guillaume Vincent – regular guests in famous concert halls – roll their sleeves up and overcome the finger-killer runs. Their expressive though sometimes overly artistic playing is accurate and enjoyable, with the orchestra being their equal partner.
The delight after the interval is the third symphony of the ex-seaman Albert Roussell. The composition of the seaman, known as the composer of several dance-suites and symphonic pieces, could best be described as undisciplined. The orchestra, extended with all kinds of percussions and celesta, sometimes plays powerfully, other times with lyrical contemplation, but these seem to have nothing to do with one another. Marc Minkowski, the Maitre, does not keep a tight rein on the orchestra – not that they need it – but he "plays music" with his body, nicely and expressively. All in all, we are looking forward to the Budapest Spring Festival, when we can see and hear him again conducting his own orchestra.


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Friday, August 23, 2019
Interesting that this little tracked vehicle was designed for a commando raid against German atomic weapons development in Norway during WW II that never happened. It was to carry four Special Forces soldiers through heavy Norwegian snow. The Special Forces unit found it worked wonderfully over rough, muddy ground as well as over snow. The Studebaker car company built thousands of these. They had many uses such as evacuating wounded soldiers, laying communications cable, and carrying nearly two tons of supplies where trucks could not go.


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Ghost Wolf by Michele Hauf
The Lone Wolf's Salvation…
When Daisy-Blu Saint-Pierre starts investigating the mysterious ghost wolf that's been menacing hunters in Tangle Lake, she encounters a juicier sort of discovery in sexy lone wolf Beck. Beck, with his rugged, raw energy and virility to burn…
A tragic accident has left Beckett Severo hungry for revenge. Now faery magick has turned him from a werewolf into something more powerful. The lovely Daisy is a great distraction. Time spent in her arms almost makes Beck forget the danger they're in. Almost.
Daisy and Beck must risk losing who they are to become what they are meant to be…together.
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Demons hunt shifters in Cynthia Cooke‘s new paranormal romance, Lying with Wolves. With the threat closing in on their loved ones, can Celia Lawson and Malcolm Daniels protect everyone — and find their way back to one another? Keep reading … Read More »
Vampires have overtaken London in Linda Thomas-Sundstrom’s newest paranormal romance from Harlequin Nocturne, Immortal Obsession. But the key to stopping them may be newscaster Madison Chase and her immortal Protector. Read on for an excerpt from Immortal Obsession… About the … Read More »
by Amy Loosemore, Harlequin.com Team Are you a gamer? Do you love the excitement of entering another world when you play? But what if you weren’t just enjoying the vicarious thrill of playing as your favorite character in a game … Read More »
In a world of shadows, anything is possible. Except escaping your fate. Harlequin HQN is thrilled to launch New York Times bestselling paranormal romance author Jeaniene Frost’s new trilogy, Broken Destiny. Book one, The Beautiful Ashes, is on sale now … Read More »
If you like paranormal and reunion romances, then you’ll want to take a look at Dark Wolf Returning Rhyannon Byrd’s new book in her Bloodrunners series from Harlequin Nocturne! Here’s an excerpt to get you started, and you can also discuss … Read More »
Fantasy author Michelle Sagara returns the city of Elantra in the tenth novel in her Chronicles of Elantra series, Cast in Flame. In this latest installment, Kaylin must deal with a dragon roommate, awakening magic and much, much more. Keep … Read More »
Heather Graham’s bestselling series Krewe of Hunters continues next week with a new suspenseful paranormal tale, The Hexed. This time, the Krewe tackles witchcraft and ghosts in an infamous location — Salem. Keep reading for an excerpt from The Hexed … Read More »
Shaman Rises, the final book in C.E. Murphy‘s Walker Papers series, is on sale now. In this epic conclusion, Joanne Walker has two choices: Defeat the enemy…or lose her soul trying. So how will it all end for Joanne? You’ll … Read More »
“There was a most villainous killer on the loose.” So begins Kady Cross‘s fourth novel in The Steampunk Chronicles series, The Girl with the Windup Heart. This thrilling new installment hits shelves on May 27 from Harlequin TEEN and follows … Read More »
New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham returns to New Orleans in a new suspense novel with a paranormal twist, Waking the Dead. Read on for an excerpt from this gripping tale, available now wherever books and ebooks are sold … Read More »


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