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Social-emotional skills, such as empathy, emotion management, and positive communication, are important inside and outside of classrooms. Their impact continues long after students leave school and enter society. A first-of-its-kind social-emotional learning (SEL) podcast, Grow Kinder® features conversations with thought leaders in education who explore how SEL can help us navigate society's most pressing challenges and create a kinder, more compassionate world.
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Andrea Lovanhill
As Chief Executive Officer, Andrea Lovanhill leads a global nonprofit organization that has been on a mission for over 40 years to ensure children everywhere can thrive emotionally, socially, and academically.
Andrea has played a pivotal role at Committee for Children for over a decade. She joined the organization in 2007, after she came across an opening within her first week of moving to Seattle from a small city in Kentucky. "After reviewing the research, I was struck by the massive positive impact social-emotional learning could have on children's well-being," Andrea says. "And I appreciated the practical, research-based, systemic approach CFC took in helping children reach their highest potential."
Most recently, Andrea served as Committee for Children's Vice President of Marketing and Client Relations, a role critical to our commitment to positively transform the social-emotional well-being of 100 million children annually by 2028. As VP, Andrea dedicated herself to ensuring that Committee for Children fosters deep, supportive partnerships with those working with and advocating for children each day to support their social and emotional growth.
Andrea received her master's degree in communications in digital media from the University of Washington. She has spent her career helping nonprofit social enterprises and education businesses develop and implement visionary communications strategies, plan and manage digital transformations, build unparalleled marketing and product experiences, and achieve record growth and impact.
A mission-driven leader and systems-level thinker, Andrea sees her SEL superpower as responsible decision-making. At CFC, this might involve examining input from a variety of sources both across and outside the organization to understand the effect of a decision on the people, the business, and the mission—before determining a course of action. And at home, she uses her superpower to model good decision-making for her two young children.
Tia Kim, PhD
Vice President of Education, Research, and Impact
Tia Kim decided she wanted to be a psychologist at age fourteen—though unlike many teens, she stuck to her plan.
Tia began her career in academia but later decided she wanted to see her research in action helping children and youth. Today, she leads our team of education designers and research scientists working to develop and evaluate the quality, effectiveness, and reach of Committee for Children's programs. Tia is a driving force of our organization's efforts to continually gather information about implementation fidelity, advance the evaluation process, focus on continuous improvement and learning, and promote partnerships within the field. She considers these factors essential to carrying out our mission of advancing the safety and well-being of children through social-emotional learning (SEL) and helping us increase our impact to reach our goal of positively transforming the social-emotional well-being of 100 million children annually by 2028.
Drawn toward understanding the unique needs and developmental tasks of adolescents, Tia received her doctorate in developmental psychology at the University of California, Riverside, and completed three years of post-doctoral training at the Academic Center of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention, where her research focused on the etiology and prevention of youth violence and aggression. Before joining Committee for Children, she served as an assistant professor in the department of human development and family studies at Penn State Brandywine.
Tia sees her organizational skills as her SEL superpower, whether it's meticulously planning a family trip or managing multiple projects and deadlines as she works to answer questions around what make social-emotional learning programs successful.
"We track the pulse of the education field and push the envelope wherever possible to innovate, whether it's in the form of iterative development or developing the evaluation process itself. We ask—and try to answer—the really hard questions so we can help move the field forward as a whole, not just our organization."
Shauna McBride
Vice President of Public Relations and Communications
Shauna McBride is a seasoned journalist and communications professional with more than 15 years of public relations and media experience. She has managed all aspects—from development to implementation—of strategy, public and media relations, community outreach, branding, and events.
As Committee for Children's vice president of public relations and communications, Shauna is responsible for overseeing internal and external communications efforts in support of extending the organization's brand influence and thought leadership. She also works to grow the organization's advocacy communications and lead key initiatives and campaigns, including developing diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies.
Before joining CFC, Shauna was director of communications for Seattle Reign FC, where she developed internal and external communication strategies to drive awareness and affinity for the National Women's Soccer League startup. Before that, she served as primary spokesperson for Allstate Insurance's Northwest region, with whom she earned a reputation as a steadfast, well-informed, articulate, and trusted source to key media, both locally and nationally. It was Shauna's calm, take-charge style that leadership relied on during crisis situations, where she guided highly visible executives to deliver on-point messaging. Shauna's ability to cultivate strong media relationships and execute successful creative campaigns has enabled her to secure coverage with top-tier media outlets, including Parents Magazine, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, BBC Sport, ESPN The Magazine, and USA Today, as well as local publications, such as the Seattle Times and Seattle Metropolitan Magazine. She holds a bachelor's degree in communication from the University of Washington and is a longtime member of the Public Relations Society of America (Puget Sound Chapter) and the Association for Women in Communications (Seattle Chapter).
Shauna sees her SEL superpower as her ability to make others feel seen and heard, both in her personal life and her professional life. "One of the most rewarding parts of my job is helping people across the organization not only tell their story, but own their voice. As a mother, I've tried to lead by example—to be a woman who is a force in her own life—to instill that same sense of empowerment in my daughter."
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In this episode, host Shauna McBride speaks with Nick Butler, artist and illustrator of Committee for Children's Captain Compassion® comic series. Nick explains how he used every design choice to carefully and intentionally craft a visual identity for Captain Compassion® and her sidekick Kid Kinder®. Read More
A New Season of Grow Kinder® Is Coming!
In this teaser episode, Committee for Children CEO Andrea Lovanhill gives listeners a sneak peek into the upcoming season of Grow Kinder and reveals two new hosts who've joined the podcast: Dr. Tia Kim, our VP of Education, Research, anRead More
Moments We Grew Kinder in 2020
In this episode of Grow Kinder®, we look back on some of the meaningful conversations that helped us through this tumultuous year and some of the moments we grew kinder.Read More
Bonus: Preventing Race-Based Bullying with Captain Compassion and Dr. Jasmine Williams
Senior research scientist Dr. Jasmine Williams joins us on the podcast today to talk about the 2020 Captain Compassion campaign to prevent bullying, new comic strips that empower kids to stand against racially motivated cyberbullying, and the Decoder Wheel contest to win a one-of-a-kind illustration with Captain Compassion herself.Read More
We'll Be Back Soon
The Grow Kinder podcast will be going on a short hiatus. We'll be back in the fall with brand new conversations with leaders in education, tech, business, and the arts.Read More
School Culture vs. Climate with Greg Lucas
As educators and families across the country get ready for back-to-school, we are thrilled to share this pre-pandemic conversation with Greg Lucas, from New Visions for Public Schools in New York City. Greg talks with us about the nuances between school culture and school climate, the importance of social-emotional learning for adults, and why we should never take kindness for granted.Read More
The Joys of Teaching the Youngest and Oldest Learners with Tabatha Rosproy
This back-to-school episode of Grow Kinder features 2020 National Teacher of the Year, Tabatha Rosproy. Tabatha speaks with us about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected her multigenerational classroom, the importance of social-emotional learning for all age levels, and why educators should take every possible opportunity to connect with students and their families during remote instruction this fall.Read More
Why It's So Hard to Ask for Help
On this mini-episode of Grow Kinder (at Home), Andrea and Mia discuss why it's so hard to ask for help at work, at school, and at home.Read More
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In this mini-episode of Grow Kinder (at Home), Andrea and Mia discuss the importance of leaning into discomfort in conversations about race and centering the voices of Black, Indigenous, and POC communities.Read More
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Raju Mudhar
What do Lost's mysterious numbers, The Office's Andy Bernard and Heroes' Hana Gitelman all have in common? All three are part of the TV trend involving Internet tie-ins, where watching TV is increasingly no longer enough to understand your favourite shows.
While Lost's numbers remain one of the many almost-forgotten subplots on the actual show, this past summer they were actually explained not on the show but in The Lost Experience. It was a game that hid clues in websites and if you hung in until the end, or puzzled it out, you learned what Hurley's mysterious numbers meant. (If you want to find out, simply go online.)
Meanwhile, abrasively ambitious Andy, played by Ed Helms, abruptly vanished from episodes of The Office after punching a wall in the Jan. 18 show. According to U.S. media reports, The Office is experimenting with putting deleted scenes online (another example is NBC's Friday Night Lights), as well as adding them into longer versions of the show that air on NBC's website and are available for download on iTunes. (Neither is available in Canada.) An extra scene showed Andy ordered to undergo anger management classes, which will factor into televised episodes later on.
Heroes' Hana Gitelman is the character introduced two episodes ago, whose powers allow her to read emails and intercept wireless signals.
The show's sprawling online presence includes online graphic novels that help fill out characters' back-stories, and while the Gitelman character has only appeared on TV in one episode, she's starrred in five of these online comics.
The first four explained her origins and why she's going after Mr. Bennet, a.k.a. Horn Rimmed Glasses, and a fifth shared why she didn't go with her new companions Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg) and the explosive Ted Sprague (Matthew John Armstrong) to confront him.
Without going online, viewers were left baffled by a hole in the story.
While tie-ins are nothing new for years, all kinds of shows have produced books to cash in on characters the key thing here is that most of them have been unimportant ancillary materials for the super fan, not necessarily part of the canon of the show.
Given that ACTRA's recent six-week strike was in part about compensation for "webisodes" and other new media content, it's worth asking how important should these extras be?
"You want to do something that's complementary and supplementary, and not something that you need to have watched in order to enjoy the television experience," says Stephen Stohn, the online executive producer of CTV teen soap Degrassi. For Degrassi, there is a raft of tie-ins including comics books, but Stohn says they usually focus on two types of content. It's either content meant to be occurring between episodes, or something that enters into more fanciful territory.
"For the `What ifs?' we'll have fun and do things like having two characters trade places. So what if Jay were Emma, or Emma was Jay? Or we'll do a takeoff, like the Lost episodes, and it's as if the Degrassi characters were on Lost, which of course is tremendous fun … the actors love it and so do the fans," Stohn says.
"It is a challenge, to come up with something that is compelling enough to watch that can be standalone and not pivotal to the plot," says Pary Bell, director, online media, Alliance Atlantis.
For their Canadian show Billable Hours, Bell and his team came up with a full episode that's only going to air on the Web. However, the plan is to release it in small chunks over five weeks.
"I think we've created something that works in a different medium. I think that there is going to be more and more full episodes on different media, on the computer or cell phones, and people will watch them …but it doesn't capture the medium. It's still television and what works best on the Internet is stuff that's short. So these things are going to be really important in extending the brand."
In Canada, shows like CTV's Corner Gas, Robson Arms and Degrassi and Alliance Atlantis' Rent-A-Goalie and Billable Hours are all involved or will soon be launching Web-only content.
Stohn admits there isn't any revenue in any of these online extensions, but he says it's worth it to keep a show in the minds of fans when it's not airing.
If you don't get a chance to look it up online, it's possible you could also see material created for the Web included on upcoming DVDs as extras.
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Club Shop Festive Season Opening Hours
Situated in the corner of the Joe Royle Stand, it has now announced its opening hours over the Christmas and New Year period.
Stocking specialised Latics gifts, the Club Shop will be open on the following dates and times.
Today (Friday 18 December) is also the last day for guaranteed delivery before Christmas.
Due to Tier 3 restrictions, the Club Shop will be open but are operating a strict one-way system with a reduced amount of shoppers in at any one time.
Saturday 19 December 9:30am-5:30pm
Sunday 20 December 9:30am-3:30pm
Monday 21 December 9:30am-3:30pm
Tuesday 22 December 9:30am-3:30pm
Wednesday 23 December 9:30am-3:30pm
Thursday 24 December (Christmas Eve) 9:30am-3:30pm
Friday 25 December Closed - Christmas Day
Saturday 26 December Closed - Boxing Day
Sunday 27 December Closed
Monday 28 December Closed
Thursday 31 December (New Year's Eve) 9:30am-3:30pm
Friday 1 January Closed - New Year's Day
Saturday 2 January Closed
Sunday 3 January Closed
Monday 4 January Closed
Tuesday 5 January 9:30am-3:30pm
A reminder the online store can be accessed by visiting www.oafcstore.co.uk. There is free UK delivery on orders over £70 and it stocks most of what is available in-store.
You may also contact the store directly on email info@oafcstore.com or telephone 0161 624 3538.
The address of the Club Shop is below with parking available directly outside.
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Japan is Iowa's third-largest trade partner, buying $1.5 billion of the state's $18 billion in exports last year.
"The opportunities for Iowa to increase trade with Japan is immense, especially with passage of the U.S.-Japan trade agreement," Reynolds said in a call with reporters Tuesday.
Reynolds, who led a 24-member delegation, said Japanese companies have invested $290 million in Iowa since 2010 with operations that include Ajinomoto, an amino acid manufacturer in Eddyville, and Valent Biosciences, an Osage plant that makes environmentally friendly pesticides and other products.
"Based on the meetings we've had, I feel really positive that we've laid the foundation for similar investment in the future," said Reynolds, whose delegation left for Japan on last Friday and plans to return to the state Friday.
Mike Naig, Iowa's agriculture secretary, said the first phase of a U.S.-Japan agreement benefits agriculture.
Japan, a leading buyer of Iowa pork and beef, purchased $537 million in meat products from the state last year. It also purchased $491 million of Iowa corn.
"We're looking at expanded opportunities" due to the recently agreed-upon trade deal, Naig said.
President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe signed an agreement in September. Japanese leaders are expected to approve the partial agreement this year. The countries are still working on a broader deal that includes auto trade.
Naig said farmers needed a deal with Japan after the U.S. pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Japan and 10 other remaining members renegotiated their own deal.
"This agreement was important ... as Japan moved ahead with TPP" and the U.S. faced higher tariffs than those participating in the new agreement, Naig said.
The U.S.-Japan deal "puts us back on a level playing field and gives us a slight advantage in some categories," he said, "and we're just getting started with the work on a full trade agreement."
Donnelle Eller covers agriculture, the environment and energy for the Register. Reach her at deller@registermedia.com or 515-284-8457.
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Saul coldly rejected his claim and ordered Ahimelech and the priests to be executed. His officials refused to raise their hands against the priests, and Saul turned to Doeg, who carried out the executions.
Ahimelech's death was seen as a partial fulfilment of the curse on the House of Eli – that none of Eli's male descendants would live to old age; the other part of the curse on the House of Eli – that the priesthood would pass out of his descendants – was fulfilled when Abiathar was deposed from the office of High …
As reported to King Saul by Doeg the Edomite, Ahimelech gave David five loaves of holy bread, the sword of Goliath, and, though reputed to have consulted God for David by Doeg, this was simply propaganda against the priests of Nob.
Once more war broke out, and David went out and fought the Philistines. … Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear, but David eluded him as Saul drove the spear into the wall. That night David made good his escape. Saul sent men to David's house to watch it and to kill him in the morning.
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and he hurled it, saying to himself, "I'll pin David to the wall." But David eluded him twice. Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with David but had left Saul. … In everything he did he had great success, because the LORD was with him. When Saul saw how successful he was, he was afraid of him.
Apart from the king (or kings) of Gerar, the Bible also records this name for: Abimelech, son of Gideon, proclaimed king after the death of his father. … In the parallel passage, the name is given as Ahimelech; most authorities consider this the more correct reading.
Abiathar. Abiathar (Hebrew: אֶבְיָתָר 'Evyatar, "the father is great"), in the Hebrew Bible, is a son of Ahimelech or Ahijah, High Priest at Nob, the fourth in descent from Eli (1 Samuel 23:6) and the last of Eli's House to be a High Priest.
Once after a conversation with his son Jonathan, Saul radically changed his mind, ordering his men and son to stop trying to kill David: "As the Lord lives, [David] shall not be killed." But later the evil spirit came on Saul again, and he threw his spear at David again as he played the harp for the king.
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Because the people made more of David's single victory than all of Saul's, the king went into a rage and became jealous of David. From that moment he plotted to kill him. Instead of building up Israel, King Saul wasted most of his time chasing David through the hills.
Who Was Saul? The Hebrew Bible (referred to as the Old Testament by Christians) names Saul (Hebrew Sha'ul) as the first king of Israel, who reigned circa 1020 to 1000 BCE. According to the Bible, as king, Saul marshaled military forces to fight the Ammonites, Edomites, Moabites, Amalekites and Philistines.
Later Saul had Doeg the Edomite brought to him at Gibeah from Nob (1 Samuel 22:6, 11). Saul was angry with Ahimelech for helping David, and ordered a captain in his guard to massacre Nob, though he refuses.
Zechariah ben Jehoiada is a figure in the Hebrew Bible described as a priest who was stoned to death by Jehoash of Judah and may possibly have been alluded to in the New Testament.
Abiathar, in the Old Testament, son of Ahimelech, priest of Nob. He was the sole survivor of a massacre carried out by Doeg. Fleeing to David, he remained with him throughout his wanderings and his reign. He was loyal through the rebellion of Absalom, but he supported Adonijah against Solomon.


AXA Sells Persian Gulf Business for $269 Million to Kuwaiti-Based Group
By Nicolas Parasie | November 30, 2020
AXA SA sold its Persian Gulf business for $269 million to a Kuwait-based group, as the French insurance giant shifts its focus and exits some overseas investments to shore up its finances amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Paris-based insurer said on Monday it sold its stakes in AXA Gulf, AXA Cooperative Insurance Co. and AXA Green Crescent Insurance Co. to Gulf Insurance Group, a Kuwaiti insurance group in which Canada's Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. is a major shareholder.
AXA has been seeking to raise funds by divesting peripheral operations under Chief Executive Officer Thomas Buberl, who wants to focus on property and casualty insurance following a $15.3 billion purchase of XL Group Ltd. in 2018. It's also looking to shore up its capital buffers as the global pandemic weighs on its profits.
"This transaction marks another step in AXA's continued simplification journey," Buberl said.
The insurer has been mulling the sale of its business in Singapore and a general insurance venture in Malaysia, Bloomberg News has previously reported. It's also held talks to sell its Greek business.
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As part of the AXA transaction, Gulf conglomerate Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo will sell its shareholdings in AXA Gulf and AXA Cooperative Insurance Co. The total value of the sale to Gulf Insurance Group, which is expected to close by the third quarter of next year, is $475 million, according to a separate statement from the Kuwaiti company.
Gulf Insurance Group is acquiring a business that focuses predominantly on health and property insurance, with over 1,000 employees, 1 million customers through more than 30 branches and a sales footprint in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar.
AXA's earnings and gross revenues for its Gulf business in 2019 amounted to 25 million euros ($30 million) and 851 million euros respectively.
Gulf Insurance has one of the largest insurance networks in the Middle East and North Africa with companies in Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain, Egypt, Turkey, Algeria, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates. Its consolidated assets stood at $2.8 billion as of Sept. 30.
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Home Earthquake Rare 'boomerang' earthquake observed along Atlantic Ocean fault line
Rare 'boomerang' earthquake observed along Atlantic Ocean fault line
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Scientists have tracked a 'boomerang' earthquake in the ocean for the first time, providing clues about how they could cause devastation on land.
Earthquakes occur when rocks suddenly break on a fault — a boundary between two blocks or plates. During large earthquakes, the breaking of rock can spread down the fault line. Now, an international team of researchers have recorded a 'boomerang' earthquake, where the rupture initially spreads away from initial break but then turns and runs back the other way at higher speeds.
The strength and duration of rupture along a fault influences the among of ground shaking on the surface, which can damage buildings or create tsunamis. Ultimately, knowing the mechanisms of how faults rupture and the physics involved will help researchers make better models and predictions of future earthquakes, and could inform earthquake early-warning systems.
The team, led by scientists from the University of Southampton and Imperial College London, report their results today in Nature Geoscience.
While large (magnitude 7 or higher) earthquakes occur on land and have been measured by nearby networks of monitors (seismometers), these earthquakes often trigger movement along complex networks of faults, like a series of dominoes. This makes it difficult to track the underlying mechanisms of how this 'seismic slip' occurs.
Under the ocean, many types of fault have simple shapes, so provide the possibility get under the bonnet of the 'earthquake engine'. However, they are far from large networks of seismometers on land. The team made use of a new network of underwater seismometers to monitor the Romanche fracture zone, a fault line stretching 900km under the Atlantic near the equator.
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In 2016, they recorded a magnitude 7.1 earthquake along the Romanche fracture zone and tracked the rupture along the fault. This revealed that initially the rupture travelled in one direction before turning around midway through the earthquake and breaking the 'seismic sound barrier', becoming an ultra-fast earthquake.
Only a handful of such earthquakes have been recorded globally. The team believe that the first phase of the rupture was crucial in causing the second, rapidly slipping phase.
First author of the study Dr Stephen Hicks, from the Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering at Imperial, said: "Whilst scientists have found that such a reversing rupture mechanism is possible from theoretical models, our new study provides some of the clearest evidence for this enigmatic mechanism occurring in a real fault.
"Even though the fault structure seems simple, the way the earthquake grew was not, and this was completely opposite to how we expected the earthquake to look before we started to analyse the data."
However, the team say that if similar types of reversing or boomerang earthquakes can occur on land, a seismic rupture turning around mid-way through an earthquake could dramatically affect the amount of ground shaking caused.
Given the lack of observational evidence before now, this mechanism has been unaccounted for in earthquake scenario modelling and assessments of the hazards from such earthquakes. The detailed tracking of the boomerang earthquake could allow researchers to find similar patterns in other earthquakes and to add new scenarios into their modelling and improve earthquake impact forecasts.
The ocean bottom seismometer network used was part of the PI-LAB and EUROLAB projects, a million-dollar experiment funded by the Natural Environment Research Council in the UK, the European Research Council, and the National Science Foundation in the US.
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'Decyfer Down' – 'Nothing More' Lyric Video Released
Posted by thrashboy on March 18, 2016 at 15:53	No Responses »
Here's the official lyric video for the first single from Decyfer Down's new independent album, "The Other Side Of Darkness", in stores and online April 1, 2016. The video can be watched below.
Following Grammy and Dove Award nominations, a trio of best-selling major label albums and seven chart-topping singles alongside viral videos, Decyfer Down returns with the April 1 release of "The Other Side Of Darkness" through The Fuel Music. After more than a two-year hiatus from recording and touring, the band, collectively Brandon Mills and Chris Clonts (guitars), TJ Harris (vocals/guitar), Benjamin Millhouse (drums) and Chris Furr (bass), is reveling in its newfound freedom as an independent band to write, record, release and perform new music.
Making a conscious decision to shatter comfort zones, whether they be artistically or thematically, the band held a no-holds-barred approach to "The Other Side Of Darkness."
"I know every artist says 'this is the best album we've ever done,' but there is definitely some of the best sounding stuff we've done in a long time just because there are no limits," says Clonts. "We can write about whatever we want to write, and we're not in a box."
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With Android on top of the world, Google is already working on a mysterious new OS
Android is currently the most popular mobile operating system in the world by a massive margin. At Gartner's last count, Google's Android OS held 78.8% of the global market compared to 17.9% for Apple's iOS platform. Meanwhile Net Marketshare measures usage to determine market share and it puts those figures a touch closer at 66.01% for Android and 27.84% for iOS as of July. In either case, Android's lead is huge right now — but that doesn't mean Google plans to sit still and hope that Android stays on top forever.
It has been revealed that Google is already working on a brand new operating system, though it's currently unclear what the company intends to use it for.
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The new Google platform is currently in the very early stages of development. A GitHub page for the new "Fuchsia" operating system was discovered on Friday evening by Android blog Android Police, and details are scarce at best. The only description offered on the project page is "Pink + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System)," which obviously tells us nothing.
People have begun to dig into the code on the page though, and a few worthwhile details have indeed been uncovered. The most interesting note so far is news that Fuchsia is not based on the Linux Kernel. Why is that significant? Both Android and Chrome OS are based on Linux, which means Fuchsia is an entirely new beast.
The next important notes are the developers listed on Google's Fuchsia page: Christopher Anderson and Brian Swetland. Both have historically dealt with embedded systems, as The Verge noted, which suggests that Fuchsia could end up being Google's "Internet of Things" platform built to power next-generation smart devices.
But Google is apparently leaving the door open for plenty of other applications Fuchsia might have, including smartphones. Google's documentation states that Fuchsia "targets modern phones and modern personal computers" in addition to less complex devices like smart home gadgets.
Is Fuchsia the future of Google's mobile strategy? Will it replace Android? It's far too early to say, but this is certainly a space we should all keep an eye on.
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Trump becomes 1st president in American history to be impeached twice
Biden's incoming national security adviser calls on Russia to release Navalny
Biden still expects to take oath of office on West Front of Capitol despite security concerns
Lindsey Graham: Impeachment could 'destroy' GOP
Russia detains Putin critic Navalny upon defiant return to Moscow
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President Trump has officially become the first president in American history to be impeached two times.
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed an article of impeachment charging Trump with "incitement of insurrection," one week after a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol building in a deadly riot. The resolution was passed with ten Republicans voting in favor, including Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the third highest-ranking member of the party in the House.
The vote came following several hours of debate, which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) opened by arguing Trump is a "clear and present danger" to the United States after he "incited this insurrection, this armed rebellion, against our common country." House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) argued impeaching Trump "in such a short time frame would be a mistake," but he agreed that the president "bears responsibility" for the attack on the Capitol.
Trump spoke to his supporters prior to the riot last week and urged them to "walk down to the Capitol" where Congress was meeting to certify President-elect Joe Biden's election win, telling the crowd, "you will never take back our country with weakness." The subsequent riot at the Capitol left five people dead, but Trump has denied responsibility and claimed his remarks were "totally appropriate" despite facing a bipartisan rebuke.
Trump was previously impeached in 2019 for pressuring the president of Ukraine to investigate the Bidens. That time, no Republicans voted in favor of impeaching him. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) doesn't plan to use his emergency powers to bring the Senate back for an immediate impeachment trial before Jan. 19, however. McConnell has said he has "not made a final decision" on whether he'll vote to convict Trump. Brendan Morrow
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Shortly after police detained Russian opposition leader and Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny upon his return to Moscow from Germany, where he was recovering from a poisoning allegedly carried out by Russia's FSB spy agency, President-elect Joe Biden's incoming National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan called for the anti-corruption activist's immediate release.
Sullivan said the Kremlin's actions were a "violation of human rights" and "an affront to the Russian people who want their voices heard."
The forceful statement quickly drew attention from members of the U.S. media, who compared it to the Trump administration's generally more lax approach to Moscow.
The Biden team, taking a different approach to Russia than Trump did: https://t.co/EMkPT3Ln7T
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) January 17, 2021
Sullivan also beat the current White House to the punch — there's been no word on the Navalny situation from President Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, or National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien as of yet. Tim O'Donnell
Biden's incoming national security advisor comments on @navalny's detention in Moscow today, saying the Russian opposition leader should be immediately released. The urgency of this statement tells you something about how the Biden admin will be. The Trump admin is still mum. https://t.co/tIsS3sl9yq
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) January 17, 2021
Despite security concerns, the plan is still for President-elect Joe Biden to take the oath of office on the West Front of the United States Capitol during Wednesday's inauguration ceremony, incoming White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield said Sunday during an appearance on ABC's This Week.
Bedingfield said that doing so would reflect American "resilience" following the deadly riot at the Capitol earlier this month, when a pro-Trump mob violently forced its way into the building.
Kate Bedington tells @gstephanopoulos the plan is for Pres.-elect Biden's inauguration to take place on the West Front of the Capitol: "I think that will send an incredibly important visual image to the world about the resilience of American democracy." https://t.co/cS3xUrq9BR pic.twitter.com/XZMYrMufcb
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) January 17, 2021
Bedingfield also provided a glimpse of what may be in Biden's inaugural address. She didn't get into specifics, but her expectations mirrored those of other advisers, who anticipate Biden will call for unity and "lay out a positive, optimistic vision for the country." Tim O'Donnell
.@gstephanopoulos: "What can Americans expect to hear on Wednesday?"
Incoming White House Communications Dir. Kate Bedington: "You're going to hear Pres.-elect Biden really lay out a vision to get us to a place where we really can work together." https://t.co/esCtl8nKwA pic.twitter.com/DtjH6F4unr
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) reiterated his belief that his Republican colleagues in the Senate should not embrace what he considers "an unconstitutional impeachment" of President Trump.
Speaking with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo on Sunday morning, Graham said Trump is facing a "scarlet letter" impeachment that's driven by the "radical left" and called on President-elect Joe Biden and the GOP to put a stop to it. The biggest risk of following through, Graham argued, is the destruction of the Republican Party. If the party "wants to move forward, President Trump's gonna be the most important voice ... for a long time."
.@LindseyGrahamSC: "What good comes from impeaching Donald Trump after he leaves office? ...
If we embrace an unconstitutional impeachment of Donald Trump after he's out of office, it will destroy the [GOP]." pic.twitter.com/U9fMDowjnW
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) January 17, 2021
That said, Graham did issue a warning for Trump, as well. When asked about the possibility of the president pardoning people involved in the deadly siege of the United States Capitol — the impetus for Trump's impeachment — Graham said he hopes "we don't go down that road" because it "would destroy" Trump.
Sen. Lindsey Graham says on Fox News that President Trump shouldn't pardon anyone involved in the siege on the Capitol. "I think it would destroy President Trump and I hope we don't go down that road."
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 17, 2021
Alexey Navalny, a Russian opposition leader and fierce critic of the Kremlin, flew back to Moscow following five months in Berlin, where he was recovering after he was allegedly poisoned by Russia's FSB spy agency. At airport border control, Navalny kissed his wife goodbye before Russian law enforcement promptly detained him, as expected.
#BREAKING: Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny detained at border control by policeman pic.twitter.com/P2zpnfOtNN
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) January 17, 2021
Moscow's prison service said it had orders to arrest Navalny because he violated conditions after an embezzlement conviction. Navalny, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's top rivals, has maintained the charges were politically motivated. Still, while he was always aware of his impending detainment, he told reporters who traveled with him it never crossed his mind not to return home to Moscow. "This is my home," he said. "I'm not scared of anything."
Alexei Makarin, the deputy director of the Center for Political Technologies in Moscow, told Bloomberg that Navalny could have stayed in Germany, but in that case the Russian people "would quickly lose interest in him." Now, the anti-corruption activist may be seen as a "symbol of resistance behind bars and a big risk for Putin."
Navalny's wife and lawyer, however, opted to wait behind passport control where Navalny was taken, which reportedly suggests there's a chance he'll be released "with a writ of summons."
As far as the United States is concerned, if Russia does continue to hold Navalny, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul argues it will be the first big foreign policy test for the Biden administration. Tim O'Donnell
Three days before his swearing in, @JoeBiden and his new national security team was just handed their first major foreign policy crisis from Putin- how to respond to @navalny arrest.
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) January 17, 2021
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Israel has vaccinated at least 25 percent of its population against the coronavirus so far, which leads the world and makes it "the country to watch for herd effects from" the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, says infectious disease expert David Fishman. Recently, the case rate in Israel appears to have declined sharply, and while there could be a few reasons for that, it's possible the vaccination effort is beginning to play a role.
Israel's reproduction number appears to have declined rather sharply in recent days, with around 25% of the country vaccinated, and some additional percentage having at least partial immunity via prior infection. pic.twitter.com/sVyCYYd9dj
— David Fisman (@DFisman) January 17, 2021
One study from Clalit that was published last week reports that 14 days after receiving the first Pfizer-BioNTech shot, infection rates among 200,000 Israelis older than 60 fell 33 percent among those vaccinated compared to 200,000 from the same demographic who hadn't received a jab.
At first glance, Fishman writes, that might seem disappointing since clinical trials suggested the vaccine was more than 90 percent effective. But he actually believes the 33 percent figure is "auspicious." Because vaccinated and non-vaccinated people are mingling, there could be "herd effects of immunization." In other words, when inoculated people interact with people who haven't had their shot, the latter individual may still be protected because the other person is. On a larger scale, that would drive down the number of infections among non-vaccinated people, thus shrinking the gap between the two groups' infection rates.
Estimated vaccine efficacy is a function of relative risk of infection in the vaccinated...when there is indirect protection via herd effects, we expect efficacy estimates to decrease because the risk among unvaccinated individuals declines.
More data needs to come in, and Fishman thinks "we'll know more" this week, but he's cautiously optimistic about how things are going. Tim O'Donnell
Luke Mogelson, a veteran war correspondent and contributing writer for The New Yorker, captured what appears to be the "clearest" footage yet of the deadly riot at the United States Capitol earlier this month.
Mogelson attended (in a journalistic capacity) President Trump's rally on Jan. 6, which preceded the pro-Trump mob's march to and breach of the Capitol. He followed the rioters into the building and filmed a group that entered the empty Senate chamber. They began taking photos of documents in the room as part of a self-declared "information operation." One man said he was attempting to find something that he could "use against these scumbags," while another said he thought Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) "would want us to do this."
This video from @NewYorker is incredible.
A man rifles through confidential Senate documents and says, "I think @tedcruz would want us to do this." pic.twitter.com/GowauKXpaq
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) January 17, 2021
In a later scene, Mogelson witnessed Jake Angeli, otherwise known as Q Shaman, sitting in Vice President Mike Pence's chair, as a lone Capitol Police officer tried unsuccessfully to get him to move. He also gathered footage from outside the Capitol, including a large crowd aggressively forcing its way into the building, as well as a man telling people around him to "start making a list, put all those names down" and "start hunting them down one by one."
The New Yorker notes that although the footage was "not originally intended for publication, it documents a historic event and serves as a visceral complement to Mogelson's probing, illuminating" written feature. Read the full report here and watch the complete footage here. Tim O'Donnell
biden inauguration
President-elect Joe Biden's inaugural address will outline how he plans to handle the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent economic fallout while in office, and he will also urge Americans to move on from their current political divisions and unify, advisers and allies told Bloomberg. Although those sources anticipate Biden will acknowledge the difficulties of the moment, they expect the overall tone of the speech to be optimistic in contrast to President Trump's "American carnage" speech in 2017.
"People want to know someone is in charge, help is on the way, chaos is behind us now," said Matt Teper, who served as Biden's chief speech writer at the beginning of his tenure as former President Barack Obama's vice president. "There's a recognition that things aren't great right now, but there's definitely hope that they're going to get better."
Teper added that a darker outlook is neither "the tone anyone wants" to hear nor Biden's way of "looking at the world." Rather, Teper said, he operates more along the lines of "'we're going to fix things and we're going to move forward.'"
Still, Bloomberg notes, that message of unity and healing likely won't be accepted blindly across the political spectrum, especially since House Democrats impeached Trump just a week before. Read more at Bloomberg. Tim O'Donnell


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ADS Security makes first 2018 purchase
RTC Secure accounts will be serviced from ADS' Chattanooga office
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Updated March 16 with additional information and comments from John Cerasuolo
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—ADS Security recently acquired the security accounts of RTC Secure, a division of Ringgold Telephone Company in Ringgold, Ga.—the first purchase for ADS in 2018.
RTC is a "wonderful company with fabulous relationships with their customers, really consistent in a lot of ways with our approach to business," John Cerasuolo, president and CEO of ADS security, told Security Systems News. "It made sense for them to think about monetizing the investment they had in their security division … and they were hoping to find a partner that would maintain that kind of support and customer care that they've delivered over the years."
The deal included about 1,000 accounts, 90 percent of which are residential and 10 percent are commercial, according to Cerasuolo.
The bulk of the accounts are based in Northern Georgia and the Chattanooga metropolitan area, he said. RTC Secure customers will be serviced out of ADS' Chattanooga office—the company's third largest branch.
While this is the first acquisition of 2018 for ADS, the company completed four in 2017, and six in 2016. Cerasuolo said that the company expects another good year for acquisitions. "This has the possibility of being a really strong year for us," he said.
Pending changes to tax law was a factor that could have pushed more deals into 2018, according to Cerasuolo. "There were a bunch of sellers who were holding off on doing deals last year because they were waiting to see how the tax changes worked out. … Some of those deals are now in the pipeline to close this year."
RTC Secure customers will have access to the ADS advanced suite of residential and commercial services. ADS offers a mobile app and online web portal, smart home technologies, video surveillance, and access control solutions.
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Apogee Enterprises Soars Through the Ceiling on Its Upbeat Outlook
The glass-maker's earnings were more than a dime per share better than most expected.
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Few companies have the opportunity to combine form, function, and artistry, but glassmaker Apogee Enterprises (NASDAQ:APOG) is one exception. The company uses innovative and distinctive techniques to make commercial buildings, artwork, and other applications beautiful, and coming into Wednesday's fiscal first-quarter financial report, Apogee investors wanted to see the company continue to benefit from its unusual mix of offerings. Apogee's results again impressed its core investors, and upbeat guidance for the remainder of the year led many to feel more comfortable about the company's prospects for sustained long-term growth. Let's look more closely at what Apogee Enterprises said in its most recent report and whether it can keep up the positive momentum throughout calendar 2016 and beyond.
Apogee keeps building higher
Apogee's fiscal first-quarter results demonstrated the company's ability to adapt to changing conditions successfully. Revenue climbed 3% to $247.9 million, eking just slightly above what investors had expected to see on Apogee's top line. Net income soared 46% to $17.7 million, and that produced earnings of $0.61 per share. That was far above the $0.49 per share consensus forecast among those following the stock, and a drop in share count meant that the figure jumped by nearly half from year-ago levels.
Looking more closely at Apogee's report, some headwinds that the glassmaker has faced started to ease. Currency impacts only reduced revenue by a single percentage point, down from previous quarters. Operating margin again jumped by three percentage points to 10.6%, showing the success that Apogee has had in controlling costs and maximizing profit. Backlog levels climbed 8% from year-ago levels, but the $509.7 million was less than 1% higher sequentially from what Apogee reported at the end of its fiscal fourth quarter three months ago. The backlog is split roughly 70/30 between expected completion in this fiscal year versus next year.
Apogee's segments had mixed results that were nevertheless in line with expectations. The key architectural glass division suffered an 8% drop in revenue, but Apogee had predicted the drop because of timing of its projects. Revenue in architectural services and architectural framing systems was up 13% in both segments, and Apogee even managed to produce flat sales for its large-scale optical business, which has historically lagged behind its architectural peers in growth. Operating income rose 15% in architectural glass, more than tripled in architectural services, and nearly doubled in architectural framing, while posting just a 4% decline on the optical side.
Apogee CEO Joseph Puishys reiterated how impressive the company's growth numbers were. Even though overall top-line growth of 3% doesn't look all that impressive, Puishys characterized the results as "consistent with our expectations, given the timing of project activity." The CEO also noted the positive aspects of segment performance.
A brighter future for Apogee
More importantly, Apogee sees better times ahead. Puishys was upbeat about the rest of fiscal 2017, noting that the company had "solid operational performance in the quarter and expectations that this level of execution will continue through the year."
The upbeat assessment led to an increase in its fiscal 2017 guidance. Apogee now believes it will bring in earnings of $2.70 to $2.85 per share, up a nickel from its previous projections. The company continues to expect 10% growth in sales, and the projections are based on an assessment that assumes growth in the U.S. commercial construction market in the mid-single digit percentage range.
Apogee expects the long run to be even more lucrative. Expansion with new areas, products, and markets, along with being smarter about choosing projects and improving productivity, should in Puishys' words "support our fiscal 2018 goals of at least a 12% operating margin on revenues of $1.2 billion to $1.3 billion."
Apogee investors celebrated the news, sending the stock up 8% in after-market trading following the announcement. The glassmaker now appears to be on track to benefit from solid conditions in the construction industry, and that could keep the stock moving higher for the rest of the year if things keep going well for Apogee.


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Water Facts > Reverse Osmosis
What is Reverse Osmosis?
Anyone who has been through a high school science class will likely be familiar with the term osmosis. A French scientist first described the process in 1748, who noted that water spontaneously diffused through a pig bladder membrane into alcohol. Over 200 years later, a modification of this process known as reverse osmosis allows people throughout the world to affordably convert undesirable water into water that is virtually free of any contaminants. Reverse osmosis systems can be found providing treated water from the kitchen counter in a private residence to installations used in manned spacecraft.
The reverse osmosis method of drinking water treatment has long been regarded as one of the most efficient ways to reduce impurities. It is the technology we have used to build the OSMOSIS WATER SYSTEM. So if you want to give your family healthy, deliciously crystal clear drinking water, there is no better system than REVERSE OSMOSIS.
Reverse Osmosis (RO) is a technology that is found anywhere pure water is needed. Some common uses include:
Drinking Water (coffee, tea, soup, juice,recipes, baby formula)
Ice-Making
Car wash water reclamation
Rinse Waters
Kidney Dialysis
Water used in chemical processes
Houseplants, Greenhouses
Metal Plating Applications
Battery water
How Reverse Osmosis works.
A semi-permeable membrane like the membrane of a cell wall or a bladder, is selective about what it allows to pass through, and what it prevents from passing. These membranes in general pass water very easily because of its small molecular size; but also prevent many other contaminants from passing by trapping them. Water will typically be present on both sides of the membrane, with each side having a different concentration of dissolved minerals. Since water is the less concentrated solution, it seeks to dilute the more concentrated solution, water will pass through the membrane from the lower concentration side to the greater concentration side. Eventually osmotic pressure, (seen in the diagram bellow as the pressure created by the difference in water levels) will counter the diffusion process exactly and an equilibrium will form.
The process of reverse osmosis forces water with a greater concentration of contaminants (the source water) into a tank containing water with an extremely low concentration of contaminants (the processed water). High water pressure on the source side is used to reverse the natural osmotic process, with the semi-permeable membrane still permitting the passage of water while rejecting most of the other contaminants. The specific process through which this occurs is called ion exclusion, in which a concentration of ions at the membrane surface form a barrier that allows other water molecules to pass through while excluding most substances.
What does Reverse Osmosis treat?
Reverse osmosis treats a wide variety of health and aesthetic contaminants. Effectively designed, RO equipment can treat for a wide variety of aesthetic contaminants that cause unpleasant taste, colour and odour problems like a salty or soda taste caused by chlorides or sulfates.
RO can also be effective for treating health contaminants like arsenic, asbestos, atrazine (herbicides/pesticides), fluoride, lead, mercury, nitrate and radium. When using appropriate carbon prefiltering (commonly included with most RO systems), additional treatment can also be provided for such "volatile" contaminants as benzene, trichloroethylene, trihalomethanes and radon.
Some RO equipment is also capable of treating biological contaminants like Cryptospordium. The Water Quality Association (WQA) cautions, however, that that while RO membranes typically remove virtually all known microorganisms and most other health contaminants, design consideration may prevent a unit from offering fool proof protection when incorporated into a consumer drinking water system.
When looking for a product to treat for a given health contaminant, care should be used to find products that have been tested successfully for such purposes at a quality testing laboratory.
Semipermeable membranes have come a long way from the natural pig bladders used in the earlier osmosis experiments. Before the 1960'S these membranes were too inefficient, expensive, and unreliable for practical applications outside the laboratory. Modern advances in synthetic materials have generally solved these problems, allowing membranes to become highly efficient at rejecting contaminants, and making them tough enough to withstand the greater pressures necessary for efficient operation.
Even with these advances, the "reject" water on the source side of a reverse osmosis (RO) system must be periodically flushed in order to keep it from becoming so concentrated that it forms a scale on the membrane itself. RO system also typically require a carbon prefilter for the reduction of chlorine, which can damage an RO membrane; and a sediment prefilter is always required to ensure that fine suspended materials in the source water do not permanently clog the membrane. Hardness reduction, either through the use of water softening for residential units or chemical softening for industrial use, may also be desirable in hard water areas.
LOW PRESSURE (RESIDENTIAL) SYSTEM
A low pressure RO system generally refers to the system with water pressure of less than 100 psi. These are the typical countertop or undersink residential systems that rely primarily on the natural water pressure to make the reverse osmosis process function; a typical system is shown schematically.
Countertop units typically have an unpressurized storage tank. Undersink units typically have a pressurized accumulator storage tank where the water pressure tends to increase as the tank fills.
This pressurized system provides sufficient pressure to move the water from the undersink storage tank to the faucet. Unfortunately, this also creates a backpressure against the membrane, which can decrease its efficiency. The Reverse Osmosis System connects to the cold water supply under the sink. First, water passes through at a 5/10 micron SEDIMENT FILTER, which removes large particles that float in the water like silt, sand, rust, dirt, etc. We can see down to 40 microns (A human hair is about 80 microns and most bacteria is around 1 micron). This filter should be changed as needed by visually looking at it (typically 6 months to 1 year). Second, the water passes through a BITUMINOUS GRANULATED COAL FILTER that removes chlorine, some pesticides, herbicides and toxic chemicals. This filter should be changed every 6 months religiously. Both of the first two filters main purpose is to protect the RO membrane from chlorine and particles that can prematurely ruin the membrane. The RO MEMBRANE is the heart of the system. It filters down to a molecular level (1/10,000/micron). Water is basically forced through the membrane. The water that makes it through is the purified water and the water that doesn't make it is impure water and it is dumped down the drain. The water slows down to a drop at a time and is accumulated in a 3 gallon pressurized storage tank. The water is then pushed out of the tank at about 40-60 psi through a 10 inch post coconut shell carbon filter designed to pick up anything missed by the previous filters insuring great taste on the way to the faucet. The faucet is an air gap faucet and meets all plumbing codes.
Low pressure units typically provide between 24 and 35 gallons per day of water. Water purity can be as high as 95 % of rejection. These systems can be highly affordable. These units produce water for a cost as low as five cents per gallon once maintenance and water costs are factored in. Maintenance usually requires replacing any pre-or postfilters (typically 1 to 2 times per year); and the reverse osmosis cartridge once every two to three years, depending on usage. Contact Rosmosis for further product information info@rosmosis.com. Certified sales representatives and certified installers will advise you on your water needs and equipment installation.
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Our WATER TREATMENT UNITS utilize pre-treatment together with REVERSE OSMOSIS to provide the finest water purification system available. Specific contaminants controlled during unit operation are provided below:
1. Pre-Treatment: 5 Micron Filtration (Sediment Removal)
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5. Post-Treatment: Granular Activated Carbon (Taste & Odor)
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MAGNESIUM 99% SILICATE 98%
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ELAN - Elanco Animal Health Incorporated
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Earnings Date Aug 13, 2019
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Elanco Animal Health Incorporated (ELAN) Q1 2019 Earnings Call Transcript
ELAN earnings call for the period ending March 31, 2019.
Elanco Animal Health Reports First Quarter Results
GREENFIELD, Ind.-- -- Gross margin improved 190 basis points to 53.0 percent of revenue Earnings per share was $0.09 , or $0.25 Revenue declined 1 percent to $731.1 million; Total and Core Revenue both grew 2 percent at constant currency rates Revenue from Innovation portfolio grew 59 percent, represents 13 percent of total revenue Announced agreement to acquire Aratana Therapeutics and collaboration ...
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How Protest Art Is Helping Fuel the Historic Demonstrations Erupting Across China
Students at art colleges across China are taking a strong stance in the midst of the largest wave of protests to have gripped the country since 1989. As demonstrations against the government's strict Covid-19 policies erupted across the country over the weekend, students rallied on campuses to create protest art and graffiti.
Protest art and illustrations, showing outrage at China's zero-Covid policy and calling for freedom and political change, have also been circulating among international Chinese-speaking communities on social media platforms and via digital communication channels. And events supporting these protests were staged in various cities—in a page taken from the playbook of the protests in Hong Kong in 2019.
Protest art depicting the fire that killed 10 people in China's Urumqi region, which sparked nationwide anti-Covid policy protests on November 26, 2022.
The countrywide protests were sparked following the death of 10 people, including a three-year-old child, in a fire that broke out in a residential block in Urumqi, Xinjiang, on November 24. Accounts of Covid control measures delaying residents' ability to leave the building and of fire engines arriving began to emerge on the internet.
These reports were rejected by the state media but it did not stop people in Urumqi from taking to the streets on November 25 to mourn the dead and protest against the lockdowns that have been imposed on the city since August.
Public outcry spread like wildfire across China: On November 26 and 27, tens of thousands of students and citizens took to the streets in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, and Xi'an, among others. Many were arrested and taken away, including a BBC journalist in Shanghai who was attacked by authorities while being detained but was released hours later on Sunday local time.
Protesters light candles and leave cigarettes at a memorial during a protest against China's strict zero COVID measures on November 27, 2022 in Beijing. Demonstrators took to the streets after a deadly apartment fire in Xinjiang province sparked a national outcry as many blamed Covid restrictions for the deaths. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
The crowd initially mourned the victims of the Urumqi fire, but the candle vigils quickly escalated to protests against Covid rules and the Chinese Communist Party. Many held pieces of blank paper as a sign of defiance—a gesture similar to what happened during Hong Kong protests in 2020 after the implementation of a national security law banning banners with slogans that criticize the government.
The crowds chanted anti-government slogans such as "We want freedom," "Down with Xi Jinping," and "Down with CCP." The protests, the largest seen in China since the 1989 pro-democracy movement that led to the Tiananmen massacre on June 4 that year, have been quickly dubbed as "A4Revolution" by online communities or netizens.
北京 中央美术学院 今天 pic.twitter.com/fKkvfuvykx
— 李老师不是你老师 (@whyyoutouzhele) November 28, 2022
Students at art colleges were seen staging protests on campuses, including at Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, Liaoning province, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, and Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Students at Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts covered a statue with pieces of paper emblazoned with the Chinese characters for "freedom" and images of candles (see tweet above). On Monday, November 28, the protests also spread to universities in Hong Kong.
Artists based outside of China have actively helped to spread the footage and photos that otherwise wouldn't be able to be circulated in the country because of the government's censorship of what is posted on the internet. One Twitter account @whyyoutouzhele, which has been collecting footage and updates from across the country, revealed to Artnet News that it is operated by an anonymous Chinese painter based outside of China. But the painter said that their account has been targeted by the Chinese authorities. Australia-based artist-activist Badiucao has also been posting updates collected from the country as well as his own protest art to support the movement.
Art for support #A4Revolution #A4纸革命 #A4革命 pic.twitter.com/yiFImKYS2A
— 巴丢草 Bad ї ucao (@badiucao) November 28, 2022
The Chinese government's ongoing stringent zero-Covid policy has been affecting not only people's daily lives but also the art world in China. Many museums and galleries had to close their doors in March when Shanghai and Shenzhen were under strict lockdowns. This month, the Shanghai art fairs ART021 and West Bund had to close abruptly earlier than scheduled because of Covid.
Reports of the nationwide protests could hardly be found in mainland Chinese media, however. State outlet Xinhua News Agency stated on early Monday morning, November 28, that the government was determined to uphold its zero-Covid policy, without mentioning the protests. While authorities in Beijing and Guangzhou said restrictions will be eased.
As of Monday evening local time, a number of underground stations in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou, have been closed. Police officers have been deployed to inspect people's identities, according to posts and tweets circulating on social media.
Protest art against China's stringent anti-Covid policies. The recent demonstrations were sparked by a fire that killed 10 people, on November 24, 2022, in Urumqi amid strict lockdown rules in the region.
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Gov. Tony Evers gives small businesses $75 million to help recover from losses caused by coronavirus
Patrick Marley
MADISON - Gov. Tony Evers said Monday he would hand out $75 million to small businesses that have lost money after the coronavirus pandemic shut them down.
In addition, the leaders of the Legislature's budget committee have signed off on a plan by the Evers administration to give child care providers $51 million to help them reopen and give their workers temporary raises.
Both plans rely on an influx of money Congress provided states to help them respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
Under the Democratic governor's plan, businesses would get grants of $2,500 each to help cover insurance, wages and other costs. The grants will be administered by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. as part of its "We're All In" initiative.
"Wisconsinites have done an incredible job of banding together throughout this crisis and it's more important than ever for us to continue respecting each other, supporting each other, holding each other accountable and protecting those who are vulnerable," Evers said in a statement.
Much of the money will go to restaurants and retailers that have faced challenges because of the coronavirus, said Missy Hughes, the chief executive officer of the economic development corporation.
The grants will be available to businesses with 20 or fewer employees that were affected by the pandemic and have not already received assistance from the economic development corporation. As many as 30,000 businesses could receive grants.
Full details about the grants will be released in June, according to Evers' office. His administration is urging businesses to adhere to certain safety protocols, such as keeping people apart from one another, making touchless payment options available and discouraging employees from sharing phones, computers and other devices.
To fund the effort, Evers is relying on some of the nearly $2 billion in federal coronavirus aid he controls. He has broad leeway on how to spend the money and does not need to get permission from Republicans who control the Legislature to implement his idea.
Child care providers
Evers did need approval for his plan for child care providers, and the leaders of the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee granted it Friday after the Evers' Department of Children and Families agreed to reduce administative costs by $2 million.
The administration had wanted to spend the $2 million on personal protective equipment. It will now attempt to find other ways to pay for that equipment, according to the department.
Under the plan, providers can get funds to give their employees incentive raises and cover their costs for providing child care for doctors, nurses and other essential workers. Providers that closed temporarily can get grants to help defray the costs of reopening.
"It is our goal that this funding will help ensure that child care providers are still there when this is all over and people begin to go back to work on a regular basis," said a statement from Rep. John Nygren, a Republican from Marinette and the co-chairman of the budget committee.
The amounts the providers will receive depend on how they are set up and how many children they serve.
Providers can receive $6,000 to $100,000 each for caring for the children of essential workers. Facilities that temporarily closed can receive $1,000 to $10,000 each to cover reopening plans.
The incentive pay funding would give child care workers a temporary increase of $5 an hour.
More funding to come
Evers is expected to decide soon how to spend some of the other federal funding that's available. For instance, he recently said he was considering making millions of dollars available to farmers who were struggling even before the pandemic emerged.
Contact Patrick Marley at patrick.marley@jrn.com. Follow him on Twitter at @patrickdmarley.


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References: 1. ZEJULA (niraparib) [package insert]. Waltham, MA: TESARO, Inc.; February 2019. 2. Mirza MR, Monk BJ, Herrstedt J, et al; ENGOT-OV16/NOVA investigators. Niraparib maintenance therapy in platinum-sensitive, recurrent ovarian cancer. N Engl J Med. 2016;375(22):2154-2164, and Supplementary Appendix. 3. Matulonis UA, Herrstedt J, Tinker AV, et al. Long-term benefit of niraparib treatment of recurrent ovarian cancer (OC). Poster presented at: American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting; June 2-6, 2017; Chicago, IL. Poster 5534. 4. Data on file. TESARO, Inc.
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ZEJULA is indicated for the maintenance treatment of adult patients with recurrent epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer who are in a complete or partial response to platinum-based chemotherapy.
Myelodysplastic Syndrome/Acute Myeloid Leukemia (MDS/AML), including some fatal cases, was reported in 1.4% of patients receiving ZEJULA vs 1.1% of patients receiving placebo in Trial 1 (NOVA), and 0.9% of patients treated with ZEJULA in all clinical studies. The duration of ZEJULA treatment in patients prior to developing MDS/AML varied from <1 month to 2 years. All patients had received prior chemotherapy with platinum and some had also received other DNA damaging agents and radiotherapy. Discontinue ZEJULA if MDS/AML is confirmed.
Hematologic adverse reactions (thrombocytopenia, anemia and neutropenia) have been reported in patients receiving ZEJULA. Grade ≥3 thrombocytopenia, anemia and neutropenia were reported in 29%, 25%, and 20% of patients receiving ZEJULA, respectively. Discontinuation due to thrombocytopenia, anemia, and neutropenia occurred, in 3%, 1%, and 2% of patients, respectively. Do not start ZEJULA until patients have recovered from hematological toxicity caused by prior chemotherapy (≤ Grade 1). Monitor complete blood counts weekly for the first month, monthly for the next 11 months of treatment, and periodically thereafter. If hematological toxicities do not resolve within 28 days following interruption, discontinue ZEJULA, and refer the patient to a hematologist for further investigations.
Hypertension and hypertensive crisis have been reported in patients receiving ZEJULA. Grade 3-4 hypertension occurred in 9% of patients receiving ZEJULA vs 2% of patients receiving placebo in Trial 1, with discontinuation occurring in <1% of patients. Monitor blood pressure and heart rate monthly for the first year and periodically thereafter during treatment with ZEJULA. Closely monitor patients with cardiovascular disorders, especially coronary insufficiency, cardiac arrhythmias, and hypertension. Manage hypertension with antihypertensive medications and adjustment of the ZEJULA dose, if necessary.
Based on its mechanism of action, ZEJULA can cause fetal harm. Advise females of reproductive potential of the potential risk to a fetus and to use effective contraception during treatment and for 6 months after receiving their final dose. Because of the potential for serious adverse reactions from ZEJULA in breastfed infants, advise lactating women to not breastfeed during treatment with ZEJULA and for 1 month after receiving the final dose.
In clinical studies, the most common adverse reactions (Grades 1-4) in ≥10% of patients included: thrombocytopenia (61%), anemia (50%), neutropenia (30%), leukopenia (17%), palpitations (10%), nausea (74%), constipation (40%), vomiting (34%), abdominal pain/distention (33%), mucositis/stomatitis (20%), diarrhea (20%), dyspepsia (18%), dry mouth (10%), fatigue/asthenia (57%), decreased appetite (25%), urinary tract infection (13%), aspartate aminotransferase (AST)/alanine aminotransferase (ALT) elevation (10%), myalgia (19%), back pain (18%), arthralgia (13%), headache (26%), dizziness (18%), dysgeusia (10%), insomnia (27%), anxiety (11%), nasopharyngitis (23%), dyspnea (20%), cough (16%), rash (21%) and hypertension (20%).
Common lab abnormalities (Grades 1-4) in ≥25% of patients included: decrease in hemoglobin (85%), decrease in platelet count (72%), decrease in white blood cell count (66%), decrease in absolute neutrophil count (53%), increase in AST (36%) and increase in ALT (28%).
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