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When the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. v. Siracusano, 131 S. Ct. 1309 (2011), a colleague, David Venderbush from Alston & Bird LLP, and I wrote a Washington Legal Foundation Legal Backgrounder, in which we predicted that plaintiffs' counsel would distort the holding, and inflate the dicta of the opinion. Schachtman & Venderbush, "Matrixx Unbounded: High Court's Ruling Needlessly Complicates Scientific Evidence Principles," 26 (14) Legal Backgrounder (June 17, 2011)[1]. Our prediction was sadly all-too accurate. Not only was the context of the Matrixx distorted, but several district courts appeared to adopt the dicta on statistical significance as though it represented the holding of the case[2].
The Matrixx decision, along with the few district court opinions that had embraced its dicta[3], was urged as the basis for denying a defense challenge to the proffered testimony of Dr. Anick Bérard, a Canadian perinatal epidemiologist, in the Zoloft MDL. The trial court, however, correctly discerned several methodological shortcomings and failures, including Dr. Bérard's reliance upon claims of statistical significance from studies that conducted dozens and hundreds of multiple comparisons. See In re Zoloft (Sertraline Hydrochloride) Prods. Liab. Litig., MDL No. 2342; 12-md-2342, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 87592; 2014 WL 2921648 (E.D. Pa. June 27, 2014) (Rufe, J.).
Plaintiffs (through their Plaintiffs' Steering Committee (PSC) in the Zoloft MDL) were undaunted and moved for reconsideration, asserting that the MDL trial court had failed to give appropriate weight to the Supreme Court's decision in Matrixx, and a Third Circuit decision in DeLuca v. Merrell Dow Pharms., Inc., 911 F.2d 941 (3d Cir. 1990). The MDL trial judge, however, deftly rebuffed the plaintiffs' use of Matrixx, and their attempt to banish consideration of random error in the interpretation of epidemiologic studies. In re Zoloft (Sertraline Hydrochloride) Prods. Liab. Litig., MDL No. 2342; 12-md-2342, 2015 WL 314149 (E.D. Pa. Jan. 23, 2015) (Rufe, J.) (denying PSC's motion for reconsideration).
In rejecting the motion for reconsideration, the Zoloft MDL trial judge noted that the PSC had previously cited Matrixx, and that the Court had addressed the case in its earlier ruling. 2015 WL 314149, at *2-3. The MDL Court then proceeded to expand upon its earlier ruling, and to explain how Matrixx was largely irrelevant to the Rule 702 context of Pfizer's challenge to Dr. Bérard. There were, to be sure, some studies with nominal statistically significant results, for some birth defects, among children of mothers who took Zoloft in their first trimester of pregnancy. As Judge Rufe explained, statistical significance, or the lack thereof, was only one item in a fairly long list of methodological deficiencies in Dr. Bérard's causation opinions:
"The [original] opinion set forth a detailed and multi-faceted rationale for finding Dr. Bérard's testimony unreliable, including her inattention to the principles of replication and statistical significance, her use of certain principles and methods without demonstrating either that they are recognized by her scientific community or that they should otherwise be considered scientifically valid, the unreliability of conclusions drawn without adequate hypothesis testing, the unreliability of opinions supported by a 'cherry-picked' sub-set of research selected because it was supportive of her opinions (without adequately addressing non-supportive findings), and Dr. Bérard's failure to reconcile her currently expressed opinions with her prior opinions and her published, peer-reviewed research. Taking into account all these factors, as well as others discussed in the Opinion, the Court found that Dr. Bérard departed from well-established epidemiological principles and methods, and that her opinion on human causation must be excluded."
Id. at *1.
In citing the multiple deficiencies of the proffered expert witness, the Zoloft MDL Court thus put its decision well within the scope of the Third Circuit's recent precedent of affirming the exclusion of Dr. Bennet Omalu, in Pritchard v. Dow Agro Sciences, 430 F. App'x 102, 104 (3d Cir.2011). The Zoloft MDL Court further defended its ruling by pointing out that it had not created a legal standard requiring statistical significance, but rather had made a factual finding that epidemiologist, such as the challenged witness, Dr. Anick Bérard, would use some measure of statistical significance in reaching conclusions in her discipline of epidemiology. 2015 WL 314149, at *2[4].
On the plaintiffs' motion for reconsideration, the Zoloft Court revisited the Matrixx case, properly distinguishing the case as a securities fraud case about materiality of non-disclosed information, not about causation. 2015 WL 314149, at *4. Although the MDL Court could and should have identified the Matrixx language as clearly obiter dicta, it did confidently distinguish the Supreme Court holding about pleading materiality from its own task of gatekeeping expert witness testimony on causation in a products liability case:
"Because the facts and procedural posture of the Zoloft MDL are so dissimilar from those presented in Matrixx, this Court reviewed but did not rely upon Matrixx in reaching its decision regarding Dr. Bérard. However, even accepting the PSC's interpretation of Matrixx, the Court's Opinion is consistent with that ruling, as the Court reviewed Dr. Bérard's methodology as a whole, and did not apply a bright-line rule requiring statistically significant findings."
Id. at *4.
In mounting their challenge to the MDL Court's earlier ruling, the Zoloft plaintiffs asserted that the Court had failed to credit Dr. Bérard's reliance upon what Dr. Bérard called the "Rothman approach." This approach, attribution to Professor Kenneth Rothman had received some attention in the Bendectin litigation in the Third Circuit, where plaintiffs sought to be excused from their failure to show statistically significant associations when claiming causation between maternal use of Bendectin and infant birth defects. DeLuca v. Merrell Dow Pharms., Inc., 911 F.2d 941 (3d Cir. 1990). The Zoloft MDL Court pointed out that the Circuit, in DeLuca, had never affirmatively endorsed Professor Rothman's "approach," but had reversed and remanded the Bendectin case to the district court for a hearing under Rule 702:
"by directing such an overall evaluation, however, we do not mean to reject at this point Merrell Dow's contention that a showing of a .05 level of statistical significance should be a threshold requirement for any statistical analysis concluding that Bendectin is a teratogen regardless of the presence of other indicial of reliability. That contention will need to be addressed on remand. The root issue it poses is what risk of what type of error the judicial system is willing to tolerate. This is not an easy issue to resolve and one possible resolution is a conclusion that the system should not tolerate any expert opinion rooted in statistical analysis where the results of the underlying studies are not significant at a .05 level."
2015 WL 314149, at *4 (quoting from DeLuca, 911 F.2d at 955). After remand, the district court excluded the DeLuca plaintiffs' expert witnesses, and granted summary judgment, based upon the dubious methods employed by plaintiffs' expert witnesses in cherry picking data, recalculating risk ratios in published studies, and ignoring bias and confounding in studies. The Third Circuit affirmed the judgment for Merrell Dow. DeLuca v. Merrell Dow Pharma., Inc., 791 F. Supp. 1042 (3d Cir. 1992), aff'd, 6 F.3d 778 (3d Cir. 1993).
In the Zoloft MDL, the plaintiffs not only offered an erroneous interpretation of the Third Circuit's precedents in DeLuca, they also failed to show that the "Rothman" approach had become generally accepted in over two decades since DeLuca. 2015 WL 314149, at *4. Indeed, the hearing record was quite muddled about what the "Rothman" approach involved, other than glib, vague suggestions that the approach would have countenanced Dr. Bérard's selective, over-reaching analysis of the extant epidemiologic studies. The plaintiffs did not call Rothman as an expert witness; nor did they offer any of Rothman's publications as exhibits at the Zoloft hearing. Although Professor Rothman has criticized the overemphasis upon p-values and significance testing, he has never suggested that researchers and scientists should ignore random error in interpreting research data. Nevertheless, plaintiffs attempted to invoke some vague notion of a Rothman approach that would ignore confidence intervals, attained significance probability, multiplicity, bias, and confounding. Ultimately, the MDL Court would have none of it. The Court held that the Rothman Approach (whatever that is), as applied by Dr. Bérard, did not satisfy Rule 702.
The testimony at the Rule 702 hearing on the so-called "Rothman approach" had been sketchy at best. Dr. Bérard protested, perhaps too much, when asked about her having ignored p-values:
"I'm not the only one saying that. It's really the evolution of the thinking of the importance of statistical significance. One of my professors and also a friend of mine at Harvard, Ken Rothman, actually wrote on it – wrote on the topic. And in his book at the end he says obviously what I just said, validity should not be confused with precision, but the third bullet point, it's saying that the lack of statistical significance does not invalidate results because sometimes you are in the context of rare events, few cases, few exposed cases, small sample size, exactly – you know even if you start with hundreds of thousands of pregnancies because you are looking at rare events and if you want to stratify by exposure category, well your stratum becomes smaller and smaller and your precision decreases. I'm not the only one saying that. Ken Rothman says it as well, so I'm not different from the others. And if you look at many of the studies published nowadays, they also discuss that as well."
Notes of Testimony of Dr. Anick Bérard, at 76:21- 77:14 (April 9, 2014). See also Notes of Testimony of Dr. Anick Bérard, at 211 (April 11, 2014) (discussing non-statistically significant findings as a "trend," and asserting that the lack of a significant finding does not mean that there is "no effect"). Bérard's invocation of Rothman here is accurate but unhelpful. Rothman and Bérard are not alone in insisting that confidence intervals provide a measure of precision of an estimate, and that we should be careful not to interpret the lack of significance to mean no effect. But the lack of significance cannot be used to interpret data to show an effect.
At the Rule 702 hearing, the PSC tried to bolster Dr. Bérard's supposed reliance upon the "Rothman approach" in cross-examining Pfizer's expert witness, Dr. Stephen Kimmel:
"Q. You know who Dr. Rothman is, the epidemiologist?
A. Yes.
Q. You actually took a course from Dr. Rothman, didn't you?
A. I did when I was a student way back.
Q. He is a well-known epidemiologist, isn't he?
A. Yes, he is.
Q. He has published this book, Modern Epidemiology. Do you have a copy of this?
A. I do.
Q. Do you – Have you ever read it?
A. I read his earlier edition. I have not read the most recent edition.
Q. There's two other authors, Sander Greenland and Tim Lash. Do you know either one of them?
A. I know Sander. I don't know Tim.
Q. Dr. Rothman has some – he has written about confidence intervals and statistical significance for some time, hasn't he?
A. He has.
Q. Do you agree with him that statistical significance is a not matter of validity. It's a matter of precision?
A. It's a matter of – well, confidence intervals are matters of precision. P-values are not.
Q. Okay. I want to put up a table and see if you are in agreement with Dr. Rothman. This is the third edition of Modern Epidemiology. And he has – and ignore my brother's handwriting. But there is an hypothesized rate ratio under 10-3. It says: p-value function from which one can find all confidence limits for a hypothetical study with a rate ratio estimate of 3.1 Do you see that there?
A. Yes. I don't see the top of the figure, not that it matters.
Q. I want to make sure. The way I understand this, he is giving us a hypothesis that we have a relative risk of 3.1 and it [presumably a 95% confidence interval] crosses 1, meaning it's not statistically significant. Is that fair?
A. Well, if you are using a value of .05, yes. And again, if this is a single test and there's a lot of things that go behind it. But, yes, so this is a total hypothetical.
Q. Yes.
A. I' sorry. He's saying here is a hypothetical based on math. And so here is – this is what we would propose.
Q. Yes, I want to highlight what he says about this figure and get your thoughts on it. He says:
The message of figure 10-3 is that the example data are more compatible with a moderate to strong association than with no association, assuming the statistical model used to construct the function is correct.
A. Yes.
Q. Would you agree with that statement?
A. Assuming the statistical model is correct. And the problem is, this is a hypothetical.
Q. Sure. So let's just assume. So what this means to sort of put some meat on the bone, this means that although we cross 1 and therefore are statistically
significant [sic, non-significant], he says the more likely truth here is that there is a moderate to strong effect rather than no effect?
A. Well, you know he has hypothesized this. This is not used in common methods practice in pharmacoepi. Dr. Rothman has lots of ideas but it's not part of our standard scientific method.
Notes of Testimony of Dr. Stephen Kimmel, at 126:2 to 128:20.
Nothing very concrete about the "Rothman approach" is put before the MDL Court, either through Dr. Bérard or Dr. Kimmel. There are, however, other instructive aspects to the plaintiff's counsel's examination. First, the referenced portion of the text, Modern Epidemiology, is a discussion of p-value functions, not of p-values or of confidence intervals per se. Modern Epidemiology at 158-59 (3d ed. 2008). Dr. Bérard never discussed p-value functions in her report or in her testimony, and Dr. Kimmel testified, without contradiction, that such p-value functions are "not used in common methods practice." Second, the plaintiff's counsel never marked and offered the Rothman text as an exhibit for the MDL Court to consider. Third, the cross-examiner first asked about the implication for a hypothetical association, and then, when he wanted to "put some meat on the bone" changed the word used in Rothman's text, "association," to "effect." The word "effect" does not appear in Rothman's text at the referenced discussion about p-value functions. Fortunately, the MDL Court was not poisoned by the "meat on the bone."
The Pit and the Pendulum
Another document glibly referenced but not provided to the MDL Court was the publication of Sir Austin Bradford Hill's presidential address to the Royal Society of Medicine on causation. The MDL Court acknowledged that the PSC had argued that the emphasis upon statistical significance was contrary to Hill's work and teaching. 2015 WL 314149, at *5. In the Court's words:
"the PSC argues that the Court's finding regarding the importance of statistical significance in the field of epidemiology is inconsistent with the work of Bradford Hill. The PSC points to a 1965 address by Sir Austin Bradford Hill, which it has not previously presented to the Court, except in opening statements of the Daubert hearings.20 The PSC failed to put forth evidence establishing that Bradford Hill's statement that 'I wonder whether the pendulum has not swung too far [in requiring statistical significance before drawing conclusions]' has, in the decades since that 1965 address, altered the importance of statistical significance to scientists in the field of epidemiology."
Id. This failure, identified by the Court, is hardly surprising. The snippet of a quotation from Hill would not sustain the plaintiffs' sweeping generalization. The quoted language in context may help to explain why Hill's paper was not provided:
"I wonder whether the pendulum has not swung too far – not only with the attentive pupils but even with the statisticians themselves. To decline to draw conclusions without standard errors can surely be just as silly? Fortunately I believe we have not yet gone so far as our friends in the USA where, I am told, some editors of journals will return an article because tests of significance have not been applied. Yet there are innumerable situations in which they are totally unnecessary – because the difference is grotesquely obvious, because it is negligible, or because, whether it be formally significant or not, it is too small to be of any practical importance. What is worse the glitter of the t table diverts attention from the inadequacies of the fare. Only a tithe, and an unknown tithe, of the factory personnel volunteer for some procedure or interview, 20% of patients treated in some particular way are lost to sight, 30% of a randomly-drawn sample are never contracted. The sample may, indeed, be akin to that of the man who, according to Swift, 'had a mind to sell his house and carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he showed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.' The writer, the editor and the reader are unmoved. The magic formulae are there."
Austin Bradford Hill, "The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation?" 58 Proc. Royal Soc'y Med. 295, 299 (1965).
In the Zoloft cases, no expert witness was prepared to state that the disparity was "grotesquely obvious," or "negligible." And Bradford Hill's larger point was that bias and confounding often dwarf considerations of random error, and that there are many instances in which significance testing is unavailing or unhelpful. And in some studies, with large "effect sizes," statistical significance testing may be beside the point.
Hill's presidential address to the Royal Society of Medicine commemorated his successes in epidemiology, and we need only turn to Hill's own work to see how prevalent was his use of measurements of significance probability. See, e.g., Richard Doll & Austin Bradford Hill, "Smoking and Carcinoma of the Lung: Preliminary Report," Brit. Med. J. 740 (Sept. 30, 1950); Medical Research Council, "Streptomycin Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis," Brit. Med. J. 769 (Oct. 30, 1948).
Considering the misdirection on Rothman and on Hill, the Zoloft MDL Court did an admirable job in unraveling the Matrixx trap set by counsel. The Court insisted upon parsing the Bradford Hill factors[5], over Pfizer's objection, despite the plaintiffs' failure to show "an association between two variables, perfectly clear-cut and beyond what we would care to attribute to the play of chance," which Bradford Hill insisted was the prerequisite for the exploration of the nine factors he set out in his classic paper. Austin Bradford Hill, "The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation?" 58 Proc. Royal Soc'y Med. 295, 295 (1965). Given the outcome, the Court's questionable indulgence of plaintiffs' position was ultimately harmless.
[1] See also "The Matrixx – A Comedy of Errors," and "Matrixx Unloaded," (Mar. 29, 2011), "The Matrixx Oversold," and "De-Zincing the Matrixx."
[2] See "Siracusano Dicta Infects Daubert Decisions" (Sept. 22, 2012).
[3] See, e.g., In re Chantix (Varenicline) Prods. Liab. Litig., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 130144, at *22 (N.D. Ala. 2012); Cheek v. Wyeth Pharm. Inc., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 123485 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 30, 2012); In re Celexa & Lexapro Prods. Liab. Litig., ___ F.3d ___, 2013 WL 791780 (E.D. Mo. 2013).
[4] The Court's reasoning on this point begged the question whether an ordinary clinician, ignorant of the standards, requirements, and niceties of statistical reasoning and inference, would be allowed to testify, unconstrained by any principled epidemiologic reasoning about random or systematic error. It is hard to imagine that Rule 702 would countenance such an end-run around the requirements of sound science.
[5] Adhering to Bradford Hill's own admonition might have saved the Court the confusion of describing statistical significance as a measure of strength of association. 2015 WL 314149, at *2.


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The five grains comprise a grouping of cereals that were regarded as sacred in ancient China. Not a lot of people know that. The Five Grains is also a great cafe in Bristol and thanks to a great cafe sign by Voodoo, that's something a lot of people do know.
Voodoo and signs for cafes are no strangers to each other. Restaurant signs in general have much to communicate beyond the name of the business that's under the shopfront. In the case of Five Grains, its cafe sign has to say "wholesome" in a pretty big way and it has to play well with shopfront window graphics too. We think we got it right.
We started with as honest-a-looking slab of pine as you'll ever see and turned it into the fascia sign's background. It looks like it has seen a few summers but it's well protected from the elements. Next comes the cafe signs' lettering. That's a fret-cut material with some very subtle things going on, if you look closely, those little design wrinkles are informed by elements of the superb printed window graphics underneath.
The cafe window graphics are printed on a great material that makes the window look as though it has had thousands of pounds lavished upon it in traditionally etched work. It hasn't. Its a rather special film that we know how to work with and which can be removed if needed. There's some eye-catching busy scribbles going on in the window graphics' design and it counterpoints the simplicity of the shop front signs – goes against the grain you might say.
View a cafe signing fascade like this an an ensemble and we present something that clearly works. Behind the fascia, there's a great business serving wholesome foods and lovely infusions to customers attracted by the ambience the business radiates. We're proud to have played a part in delivering this experience and it's a bit beyond the signs for cafes you might be used to seeing.
Give us a call if you think we could do the same for your cafe or restaurant.


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Watch The Trailer For One Of Paul Walker's Final Films, Hours
Posted on Mon Dec 2nd, 2013 6:30am PDT By X17 Staff
Paul Walker was working on several films at the time of his tragic death over the weekend, one of which, Hours, is set to be released on December 13.
In the film Walker plays a father trying to keep his infant daughter alive after Hurricane Katrina, and the trailer made the rounds on the internet over the weekend.
It seems as though Walker got involved with the project due to his own personal interest in helping the victims of natural disasters. Walker created the non-profit organization Reach Out Worldwide after seeing the devastation from the Haiti earthquake in January of 2010, and he also helped victims from the 2010 Chile earthquake and the Oklahoma City tornado in June.
When he died, Walker was attending a toy drive in Santa Clarita, California to raise money for the thousands of people in the Philippines affected by the recent typhoon.
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Old Sarum Kettles
More than 140,000 'kettles' were made and sold locally as souvenirs in Salisbury between 1889 and 1921.
The original earthenware pitcher was chosen as the result of a misunderstanding because labels had been mixed up. It was believed to have been excavated at Old Sarum but it was really an oil or wine pitcher brought back from Africa in the 1800s. It was copied in stoneware by Royal Doulton and in bone china by W H Goss.
Other items in the Ceramics & Glass collection


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Not long ago, I posted that I was going to make Georgia Pellegrini's Adobo Javelina Backstrap recipe and review "Girl Hunter, Revolutionizing the way we eat, one hunt at a time." Time got away from me and what I thought had been only a couple of weeks ago, has actually turned into a month. I did, however, make the dish and enjoyed it very much, as did my husband and son.
For the recipe, check out my previous post, "Recipe Review Coming Up." In the instructions, Georgia recommends brining the meat first because, as she says, game animals are athletes, running in the wild each and every day, so the meat can tend to be tough if not processed properly.
After following her technique, I can say that this dish was extremely tender and tasty, although I did end up cooking it longer than the recipe required. The smoky flavor of the chile and adobo sauce really dominates, and although this is not an extremely spicy dish, it might be a bit much for someone that likes their food bland – but then again, said person would not likely try a dish with "adobo" in the title to begin with. 🙂 I would recommend pairing it, though, with side dishes such as rice and steamed veggies so that the pork is allowed to shine as the primary flavor fiesta.
I used hog tenderloins, rather than javelina backstrap, and Georgia states that the recipe may also be used well with antlered game, which would not require the brining process.
"Girl Hunter" is filled with recipes for many different types of game, mixed in and among stories of Pellegrini's hunts for each animal in a beautiful and intellectual tome. Each scene is painted with such artistry that you feel as though you are right there with her, slipping into the shadows, waiting for that tom turkey to come trotting out, volunteering to be tonight's tasty treat.
I highly recommend the book, especially for anyone that loves hunting and/or cooking. You can purchase "Girl Hunter," or read more about it, by clicking here.


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Think green
PUBLISHED: 15:12 17 December 2009 | UPDATED: 16:26 20 February 2013
Leigh Clapp looks into buying local, sustainably-grown Christmas trees and offers advice for choosing the best varieties
Choosing a real tree to decorate is one of the joys of Christmas and it is good to know that we can buy them locally, from sustainable sources, here in Hampshire.
Every year more than seven million trees are sold in the UK. Although many are grown in Europe, more and more are being grown at sites in this country, with the number increasing each year.
The reluctance to spoil woodlands and the need for high-quality trees has led to designated tree plantations. These are also wonderful havens for wildlife and as trees are harvested, more are planted. Another advantage is that real trees absorb carbon dioxide while growing and release oxygen into the atmosphere.
It makes environmental sense to buy from a renewable source and reduce the transport mileage. Some growers sell directly to customers, as well as to local retailers such as garden centres and farm shops. Look for the British Christmas Tree Growers Association label to indicate that it was grown in the UK or visit a site and choose your own.
Meet some growers
At Burcot Farm in East Stratton you can buy freshly cut Nordmann fir Christmas trees, known for their needle retention and symmetrical shape. We supply around 60,000 trees across the country as well as selling some at the farm. They are grown on 18 hectares in an eight to 10-year cycle. The average, popular size is 1.75 to 2 metres and we grade the trees and label each with coloured tags for easy identification by mid September, ready for sale, explains Estate Manager, Bill Welling.
On a smaller scale, Andrew and Caroline Dingley grow Norway Spruce and Nordmann Fir at Priors Farm in Mattingley on around five acres. From the first weekend of December they are kept busy selling them from the barn. The Nordmann Fir is popular for its thicker needles and the Norway Spruce for its traditional pine scent, comments Andy.
Find your tree
Burcot Farm, East Stratton
Between East Stratton and Northington crossroads
Open daily from December 1
Tel. 01962 774432
Nordmann Fir displayed in an indoor wood.
Nordmann and Noble Fir wreaths, stands and decorations.
Dingleys Christmas Trees
Corner of B3349 and West Green Road, Mattingley
Open daily from first weekend in December.
Tel. 01256 767039 or 07768686567
Nordmann Fir, Norway Spruce trees, stands, fresh holly wreaths and decorations.


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Knauf Insulation's ThermoShell® Internal Wall Insulation (IWI) system has been installed in an ambitious project to refurbish almost 600 social housing properties, across six tower blocks in north Glasgow.
The project is expected to make significant savings for residents in heating bills (the Energy Saving Trust advises that this can be up to £460 per year for solid wall insulation), in an area that is heavily affected by fuel poverty.
Robert Tamburrini, CEO of NG Homes comments: "NG Homes has a proven track record of investing in our property and this insulation will make an appreciable difference for our residents. It will improve the energy efficiency of the homes, make them warmer and reduce fuel bills.
"With so much invested in the project, we wanted to be sure that we were choosing the most suitable system – Knauf Insulation is a strong brand with an excellent reputation for high performance insulation solutions and this was a key factor in the decision making process."
Following close consultation with contractors City Technical Services (UK) Ltd, Knauf Insulation's ThermoShell IWI system was specified for use across the project. The challenges of such an extensive installation were many – for example, the installation faced restrictions created by the enclosed working space of a 24 storey tower block, in which resident access must be maintained at all times.
Kenny Henderson, Managing Director of City Technical Services (UK) Ltd, comments: "There were 586 properties to be tackled on this phase of the project, with the aim of completing as many of those as possible by the CERT cut off date of 31st March. Therefore, we needed a system that was simple and quick to install – whilst delivering reliable thermal performance. The Knauf Insulation ThermoShell system is such an easy system to use that it was the natural choice – and it has really helped make the project a success."
Knauf Insulation's ThermoShell IWI system has been developed specifically to be the most effective solution to 'whole house – low energy' refurbishments, delivering exceptional thermal performance and comfort through a very straightforward and easy to use installation process.
The simplicity of the ThermoShell IWI system allows a competent tradesman to become an approved installer, and to install and finish the system using a traditional plaster skim finish or dry lining techniques. No scaffolding is required and the system can be installed on a room-by-room basis, or as part of a whole house refurbishment plan.
The use of thermally engineered insulated studs (EcoStud) eliminates the thermal bridging issue associated with traditional systems incorporating timber and metal studs. The extruded polystyrene content (XPS) of EcoStuds provide a high level of thermal and moisture resistance, as well as offering a high level of compressive strength.
The system incorporates Earthwool® EcoBatts, high performance, water repellent glass mineral wool slabs, that are friction fitted between the EcoStuds to completely fill the available space and deliver benefits over other systems that use rigid insulation boards, which have the potential to cause air leakage if they are not cut accurately to fill the inter stud space. Overall, the ThermoShell IWI system is almost 13 per cent more thermally efficient than a timber stud system of the same thickness.
The system is only available to approved installers that have completed the ThermoShell IWI training course. Training is available at Knauf Insulation's dedicated ThermoShell training academy in Birmingham. Knauf Insulation offers a 25-year guarantee on the system – a key requirement under the new Green Deal legislation. This new scheme provides a funding mechanism for energy efficiency retrofits, with a particular emphasis on upgrading the thermal performance of solid wall properties – making the ThermoShell IWI system and ideal solution.
Having decided that the ThermoShell IWI system was the most appropriate solution for the NG Homes project, all of City Technical Services (UK) Ltd's engineers, including Managing Director Kenny Henderson, completed the training.
"For us, the biggest challenge was the fact that we had never done anything like this before and so the training was quite intense – but I think that speaks volumes for the simplicity of the Knauf Insulation system, as we've been able to go on and master the system with excellent results," Kenny concluded.
Robert Tamburrini continues: "Fuel poverty is a big issue in Glasgow and in Scotland as a whole, and this system has made an appreciable difference to our residents. Their houses are warmer, their fuel bills are lower and I think their general quality of life has improved.
"We know already from the information that we're getting back from tenants that it's made a vast difference from day one of the installation. Several residents have commented that they are setting their heating to a much lower level and some have even switched it off completely. Others have commented on the difference it has made to the acoustics, stating that noise from neighbours and the road outside has also been greatly reduced.
"The project has been so successful in fact that residents that were initially resistant to the installation are now coming forward to have it installed – which is a fantastic endorsement of both the Knauf Insulation ThermoShell IWI System and the installation by City Technical Services (UK) Ltd."
For more information please visit www.knaufinsulation.co.uk


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Let me just say that I can't believe it has been almost a week since the marathon. What's even better is that there was very little post-race soreness which came as a bit of a surprise.
Even more of a surprise is that I don't miss running as much as I thought I would during this self-imposed recovery period. Having been grinding out miles consistently since last March, it's actually been nice just take it easy and not have to put forth the physical as well as the mental effort that it takes to get out 5-6 times a week.
I'm also happy to report that I haven't gained any weight this week as I've been on point with regards to my diet. Once you commit to eating clean it becomes a habit. Also, since I've been keeping my fat intake up, my hunger is suppressed and I've also managed to stay in ketosis. Yay me! It helps to have a great nutritionist in-house too.
There has been one side effect to not running however; my ability to fall asleep easily. It's not like I am one of those people that fall asleep easily to begin with but I forgot just how much trouble it was for me. A lot has to do with the extra mental energy I have so my mind tends to race and the slightest little thing can pull me awake as I descend into sleep.
Overall my body seems to be recovering pretty well with nothing noticeable in the TFL and only a bit of occasional discomfort in the heel which on a scale of 1-10 it's probably a 1.5 or so. As of now I'll most likely stick to no activity for another week before I get in a stretch next Saturday in advance of a run on Sunday; Garmin or not. On that front, I got an email that they received it and I should have the replacement in 10-14 days.
I think I have my schedule pretty much ironed out for the next 3 months. March will be easy base rebuilding, April will be fast and May will be ramping up the mileage. The goal for May through August will be to get in as many 20-30 mile runs as possible. I want to get my body used to this to the point where it becomes easy, relatively speaking. What I mean here is that I can run this distance as stress free as I can run 10-13 now. We'll see how that goes.
I also need to decide on a September BQ race. Right now it's a toss -up between Last Chance BQ Chicagoland and Last Chance BQ Grand Rapids with Illinois looking to have the early edge based on flight availability and cost. Other than that both races appear to be equal; loop courses, pacers, "elite" support, weather and flat. IL is probably a little flatter but the small roller in MI is not any concern and could make for a nice change for the muscles. It also may seem trivial but IL has a far more informative website which includes a video of the course.
So that's where I'm at right now; nothing too exciting. Now to go and enjoy a beautiful winter day in the desert.
Week ending February 21st - 26.2 miles


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Rent out a Room
Renting a room out in your home can be a profitable and often fun way to earn some extra cash. You can rent out multiple rooms in your home and actually make a pretty interesting profit provided you get the right tenants.
Renting a room is fast becoming one of the most common forms of leasing as tenants find it harder to afford the sky high rents demanded in some cities and so have to look to rent rooms rather than whole properties. If you are a landlord with a spare room or two, why not use the extra space and start earning a little on top of your salary every month.
Renting a spare room to a lodger can have lots of benefits, beyond simply earning a little extra cash. In this section I aim to look at some of the positives you will experience by renting out space in your home.
Flexible Earnings
Being able to earn flexibly is something that a lot of people are looking for and being able to earn money from your home certainly eases some of the financial worries that modern day society can give us.
If you earn a modest salary in your professional life being able to top up your earnings by renting out spare space at your property seems like a pretty great idea. It also gives you the benefit of being able to charge what you feel is a fair price for the space.
Use a local website such as Gumtree or Craigslist to help you get an idea of the value of rooms in your area and aim towards the figures it suggests. You can also of course use these platforms to market your space too.
Pay Off Mortgage Quicker
You may choose to have your lodger's rent cover your mortgage payments which is obviously a great bonus. However it is becoming more and more common for owners to continue to pay their mortgage as they were, but add the lodger's rent onto their mortgage payments every month.
If you have a mortgage that won't hit you with early repayment charges this is a really good way to pay off your loan quicker than you may have been able to without the lodger.
Having an additional person or people at your property helps massively with security. If you are someone who is away a lot or works long hours which means that your home is left unattended for large portions of the day having a lodger can help you keep the place secure.
Having additional people at home or coming and going frequently can give you added peace of mind and in some instances can even lead to lower insurance premiums; which is a benefit that most people don't even consider.
From a pure profitability point of view renting properties on a room by room basis is significantly more profitable than renting out an entire space. If you live in a three bedroom property and rent out each room for $650 per month you will find that your earnings far outweigh what a similar two bedroom property in your area would earn.
An example would be that the average two bedroom place renting at $1,100 per month would rent room by room for between $600 to $700 per room, topping you out at potentially $1,400 per month. So you can see that renting rooms separately can be very lucrative.
As you can see there are a number of potential benefits, but there are of course some negatives that you have to consider. These negatives may make renting to a lodger something you are not keen to consider or they may be fairly minor issues to you and may make you push ahead with your plan.
Unknown Individual
You may have only lived alone before or have only lived with friends or family and will find living with a stranger stressful. Of course this can be tricky and you will have to get to know each other and understand how to behaviour to make the living environment a happy one for both of you.
Of course the flipside to this is that meeting new people and potentially making new friends through your lodger is a nice caveat to living with someone you don't know. This is particularly true if you are moving to a new area or city as your lodger may be able to expose you to more people than you may normally have had the chance to meet.
Behaviour Can Cause Issues
Living with a lodger that is constantly noisy, messy or causing problems can be tricky. They will be in your home when you have guests and family to visit and also you will be there when their friends come by. This may unfortunately coincide with times that you are unwell or are trying to focus on work, etc. and having your lodger's friends stop by may cause you no end of problems.
It is important that you work out a way to live fairly together. You have to understand that there are risks with allowing someone into your home. They may be noisy, may smoke, have lots of gatherings or carry out criminal activities that you simply cannot stand for.
So, remember that it pays to learn a little bit about your potential lodger is advance of them moving into the property. Try to carry out some background checks and get a sense of their character so that you can feel confident that you are compatible as housemates.
Non-Payment of Rent
This can be particularly stressful as unlike a tenant of a private property that doesn't pay rent it is fairly likely that you will be seeing your lodger everyday and them not paying rent or missing rental payments can put a massive strain on your relationship.
It pays to be firm but fair with lodgers and ensure they understand that whilst you may get on well and may have a fun as friends you are also their landlord and as such expect rent to be paid on time. If you are firm about the issue as soon as it arises you will be able to avoid any further issues in the future.
When deciding whether to rent out your spare space or not it is important that you check the rules and regulations that your city imposes on lodgers and their landlords. Most areas will have rules that mean your property must meet minimum health and safety requirements and some areas even go so far as to make landlords of lodgers apply for special licenses.
There may be requirements relating to fire safety and even a fee when applying for these licenses, so make sure that you do your research and understand if anything is required of you before allowing a lodger to move in. The potential fines for non-compliance can be hefty so do make sure you do what is necessary.
Tips and Tricks
As with renting an entire property there are some tips and tricks that you may find helpful when planning to rent out a room at your property. In this section we will look at some of the things that you should consider doing to make the process a smooth one.
Ready the Space
You will need to do some checks on the property yourself and ensure that any faults or issues are taken care of. The last thing you want is a strained relationship with your new lodger because the TV doesn't work properly or there is an issue with the toilet leaking. Have a thorough check of your property and be honest with yourself, if you would put up with it that's fine but it is unlikely that your new lodger will.
Add locks to bedroom doors. You will need to be able to lock away your belongings and will have to provide your lodgers with the same luxury. Anyone you rent to has the right to privacy and giving them the ability to lock their room when they go out will give them the peace of mind in knowing that you or any of your guests can't gain access to their personal belongings.
Decide Which Room to Give Up
Have a think about which rooms within your home you are happy to rent out. You may wish to lease out all of your spare rooms to maximise your income or would prefer to lease out one of your rooms and keep one for your own use as an office or home gym for instance.
It pays to think of the value of the room at this time as you may wish to allow the lodger the master bedroom with ensuite thus affording you the ability to charge a higher rate.
Use local spare room websites to gain an idea of the achievable rates of rent in your area and then decide how you want to go about dividing up the space. Think carefully and once you are sure it may be a smart idea to use the same websites to market your room for rent.
Be Honest
When posting your advert it pays to understand what you want from a lodger. Are you looking for someone more settled who will be staying longer term or are you happy to rent weekly or daily on airbnb type websites.
Also, think if there is anything you cannot accept. Maybe you are not happy to take a smoker or somebody that has a pet. Make a note of this in your advert and do not deviate.
Being honest with yourself will avoid you wasting your time and anybody else's and will also ensure that your advert is seen by the type of tenants you are hoping to attract.
Background Checks
It is a good idea to carry out thorough background checks on any lodger. You can pay a referencing company to do this for you or can carry out a simple credit check yourself.
If you are planning to do this yourself, my advice would be to also speak with any previous landlords your lodger may have as well as any previous housemates. This will give you an idea of their character and what type of lodger they may become.
The credit check will also help you make a logical decision as to whether to accept them or not as credit reports are often good indicators of a potential tenants attitudes towards paying rent or credit on time.
Tenancy Agreement
This may not be a full rental, but having some paperwork in place is a must. A tenancy agreement gives you something to fall back on when disputes arise and it shows your lodger that you are taking the rental seriously and expect them to do likewise.
You can download simple agreements online and are able to amend them yourself to factor in your tenant's details, etc. Do the right thing and handle the process professionally and you will see your lodger do the same.
In my opinion renting a room in your home is both a great financial benefit and can add a benefit to your life in the form of meeting new people, gaining additional security and help with bills, etc.
Do your research and understand what you need to do to comply with any rules and regulations in your area and aim to meet a number of potential lodgers so that you can get an idea of what type of individual you would like to live with.
Carry out background checks and put a tenancy agreement in place and I am fairly confident that you will find the process to be both financially and personally rewarding.


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Back in the 50s, ice cream and liqueur parfaits became quite the thing to serve at ladies bridge lunch and at dinner parties as well. Parfaits is #10 in my list of the 13 classics to serve at a retro ladies bridge lunch.
They are so easy for one thing. So delicious for another. So endless the possibilities. And they can be done ahead of time. It's not really cooking–just putting some ingredients together in parfait glasses (see note below about that).
- You can do good vanilla ice cream (Breyer's Vanilla Bean for instance) layered with almost any liqueur from low-priced coffee to upscale name-brand Drambuie. But consider more sophisticated combinations . . .
- Peach ice cream layered with whole raspberries or Framboise-flavored raspberry puree (strained and seedless!) for a Peach Melba Parfait.
- Coffee ice cream layered with frozen then crushed Heath Bars and coffee liqueur.
- Lemon sherbert layered with fresh watermelon cubes and some kind of fruity liqueur
- Butter pecan icecream (my favorite brand is Edie's), layered with toasted crushed pecans and your favorite non-fruity name-brand liqueur
- I don't happen to like mint ice cream–tastes like cold toothpaste to me–but for the many who do, a bottle of creme de menthe could be applied to either vanilla or chocolate ice cream.
- My favorite when I can afford it is Frangelica (hazelnut liqueur) over dolce de leche ice cream ( )
A fancy cookie to accompany the parfait is a nice touch, and if you don't bake there's always Pepperidge Farm's bags of excellent ready-made cookies.
Note: Choosing parfait glasses. I found 8 tall-ish narrow glasses at a yard sale decades ago and they have served me well over the years (but now down to only 7). Narrow is good, so you can make ahead and store them in your freezer without taking up too much space. Remember, however, to remove them from the freezer 5 or 10 minutes before serving–too hard frozen ice cream doesn'taste as good as "warmer"ice cream, odd as that sounds. And of course the liqueur, being alcoholic, doesn't freeze. .Edible anti-freeze you could say.


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Beach Erosion finds
It has been a strange year and the winter has been warm with only a night or two where we built a fire in the fireplace. This spring reacted differently also. Generally after the spring equinox the beach here is piled high with new sand and it feels like Jell-O to walk on but this spring it is not there at all!
In fact the whole beach is low and solid packed. It has been cleaned out for sure and empty. We went with friends to the beach the other day in a rainstorm. Don't ask why… Beach hunting is so addictive you just get to ignore sandstorms, rain, and nightfall. In the middle of the rain and strong SE winds the water was high on the beach and not looking good. After hunting for a bit suddenly the wind shifted to an offshore wind and the high water began to back down obediently. I got onto a bit of shallow water and wet sand and of course it was clean of any finds but then something strange happened.
I got a deep signal of a coin and dug down to discover something that made me smile. I had found a hole in the beach that reached all the way to the strata that holds goodies! I dug out a quarter quickly and kept on pulling quarters for quite a while. My friend John was down the beach and I wanted him to bring his Soverign over and see if he could find any deeper ones. On the way to John I got a signal and dug out a nice gold nugget ring(14K).
Well I showed John and he showed me a nice gold ring too. He used the Soverign on my hot spot but did not find anything else. Well it sure was fun while it lasted and such a surprise. The hole was only about 15-20 feet around and that seems to be the way I find them. Never much larger and never smaller.
If that quick offshore breeze had not come when I was on the beach I would have missed it all! It looks like the Island will need beach replenishment soon as it has been stripped down far and is not replenishing.
Strange how for millions of years the ocean deposits loads of sand on those Islands and then suddenly rips it all off again.


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Speech therapy apps – helping your littles with their speech via an app is a great way to learn thru play. Learning thru play is something we have really strived to do with our kids.
When our older kids were little, iPads and technology really weren't a thing. Their learning thru play occurred with Leap Frog toys and Baby Einstein. Our younger two kids are all about iPads and electronics, so when it became apparent that they both needed speech therapy, in additional to working with a speech therapist – we incorporated app play.
Best Speech Therapy Apps
These apps are not meant to replace speech therapy by any means, but act as another encourager and teach as your child learns to pronounce sounds correctly.
Articulation Station
First on our list of Speech Therapy Apps for Kids is the Articulation Station speech app. This speech therapy app offers 6 engaging articulation activities. The app is free to download and offers the "P" sound program for free. You will need to purchase the other sound programs.
The Articulation Station app offers practice at the word, phrase, sentence and story levels in one app. These activities encourage your kid to love practicing their sounds and hopefully forget that they are actually working, not playing!
Here are some features. Something to note, this is a pricey app if you purchase all downloads – though it does gets excellent reviews.
- Quick tips for teaching each sound
- 20 target words per sound position (initial, medial, final)
- Beautiful high quality images
- Create custom word lists
- Shuffle multiple sounds
- Flashcard activity
- Matching activity
- Rotating Sentences (like carrier phrases)
- Unique Sentences
- Level 1 stories with picture prompts and comprehension questions
- Level 2 stories with comprehension questions
- In depth Scoring and data tracking for each child/student
- Student profiles
- Group sessions (Up to 6 students at one time!)
- Voice recording and playback feature for monitoring responses
- Save audio recordings
- Backup and restore your data
Elmo Loves ABCs
While the Elmo Loves ABCs app is not your standard speech therapy app, is does work with your children on articulation and it features a fun lovable character that your child probably already knows… ELMO!
The Elmo Loves ABCs app features songs, videos, games and more all about letters!
App Features:
• Slide, sweep, swipe, touch, trace and dig to discover over eighty classic Sesame Street clips, seventy five Sesame Street coloring pages, and four different ways to play hide and seek!
• Touch and trace your favorite letter to unlock its surprises.
• Tap on the star button to discover even more letter activities.
• Personalize by adding your own photos and videos to the game.
• ABCs tracker for grown-ups to see how your child is doing.
• Ability to purchase even more great letter content and holiday surprises.
What Your Child Will Learn:
• Letter identification (uppercase and lowercase)
• Letter sounds
• Letter tracing
• Art and creativity
• Music appreciation
Elmo Loves ABCs App Tips:
• If you wish to personalize Elmo Loves ABCs by adding your own content, remember to complete all the fields: name, recording, photo, and video! If you do not have all four, your content will not appear in the game.
• Your videos must be in "Photos" (your device's photo library) on your iPad or they will not be accessible by the game.
• To upload video into the "Photos" folder using iTunes, connect your device and click on the "Photos" tab. Click on the "sync photos from" box, and use the drop down menu to choose the folder that your videos are in. Make sure that you have the "include videos" box checked before you sync. If you are using a Mac, you may also use iPhoto to sync your videos under the pictures tab. Again, just make sure you have the "include videos" box checked.
Kids Vocabulary, Grammar and Language Learning Games App
Another Speech Therapy Apps for Kids to check out is the Kids Vocabulary, Grammar and Language Learning Games App. This app was developed to help your child get ready for school with fun language development learning and educational games for kids via an app.
• Cross-curricular game-based learning program in Math, Science, Literacy, Language and more
• Self-adjusting levels of difficulty
• Unique progress tracker to follow your child's progress across apps and devices
• Detailed success stats
• Recommended learning path personalized for each child
• Add up to 4 children per account
• Over 200 fun rewards to motivate your child to continue his/her learning experience
• Designed with educational and child development experts
• No third party advertising
Phonics Studio App
Phonics Studio app is a free app that provides over 2,500 flashcards to help kids pronounce more than 200 sounds. Your child selects a letter from the alphabet than a sound. Each has a collection of flashcards. Your child can practice by listening and then recording their voice saying the sounds.
● The app comes loaded with over 2,500 gorgeous flashcards
● Phonic sounds are grouped by letter into 200+ unique sound groups
● Consistent number of phonic words within each sound group
● Beautiful high quality images
● Supports In-depth scoring and user tracking
● Ability to track unlimited number of users
● Ability to email detailed summary reports
● Stores students progress, including their audio so you can clearly hear progress over time
● The app is beautifully designed which makes it great for kids of all ages and all abilities
● This app is FULLY customizable to your students needs
● Can even add own cards, categories, sound groups and more…
Speech Therapy Tool Kit
Last on our list of Speech Therapy Apps for Kids is The Speech Therapy Tool Kit app. It was created by a licensed SLP and offers nine great tools for parents, teachers and therapists.
This app is free to download, but does offer in-app purchases for full capability. Here is what is included in the Speech Therapy Tool Kit app:
- Milo's Sticker Chart is great for rewarding children. There are a lot of cute stickers for your child to choose from. You can have a sticker chart for as many children as you like.
- The Coloring Book is good fun for any child. You can color on the iPad or print it out and color the old fashioned way.
- Therapy Ideas is new and improved. We have 130 ideas for activities focused on speech and language, and we continue to add more. We have the ideas broken into 'general', 'articulation', 'language', and 'videos'.
- Articulation Tool – popular articulation images, there are approximately 1400 images.
- Tracking Tools: goal tracker, therapy notes to keep daily SOAP notes, attendance tracker, IEP calendar
- Age Calculator
Which of the Speech Therapy Apps for Kids is your favorite? Leave us a comment below!
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text: dahyland 0 Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 I'm currently running CCleaner Pro 5.31.6105 (64 bit) For the last couple of updates that have been available I've received the following error when attempting to update CCleaner: CCleaner could not be updated.0x2f08: A redirect request will change a secure to a non-secure connection Following this post I manually updated to the latest version but clearly this has not worked as I receive the same error again when I try to update to 5.32.6129 Another manual update required here but it would be nice to be able to update via the app again. Any ideas? David Link to post Share on other sites


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...Back in 2012 "Reload" was only a concept that began getting developed solely over iPhones. Our mission was to bring a one-stop Sneaker Marketplace to our home-town. By the end of 2013 "Your Friendly Neighborhood Sneaker Store" was finally birthed. After a few location transfers, and tons of man-hours our Flagship Location is conveniently located in the heart of the San Fernando Valley.
We are not your cookie-cutter sneaker store. Consider "Reload" like a wedding dress; something old; something new; something borrowed; something Blue. We Buy, Sell, Trade, & Consign Premium; New and Pre-owned Rare, Retro, and Vintage footwear. We carry Nike, Air Jordan, Adidas, New Balance and more. To round it out we provide a full array of Repair/Custom/Maintenance Services in house...


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Luke re-joined some familiar faces at Lindsay Bennelong in June 2014 and now works as Development Manager on Lindsay Bennelong's land development projects.
Prior to joining Lindsay Bennelong, Luke worked previously with several of our senior team members at CPG Developments and Investa Property Group.
In his 10 years with Investa Property Group, Luke held roles in Contract Administration, Project Management, Golf Resort Management, Acquisitions and Development Management. Luke played a key role in the delivery of major projects including the 180-lot Shearwater Estate at Warriewood, the $350m Kooindah Waters Residential Golf Resort and the highly successful $400m Breezes Muirhead project in Darwin.
Luke brings to Lindsay Bennelong a strong understanding of feasibility modelling, deal structuring and project acquisition, contract administration, development delivery, Development Management Agreement consultancy, WHS, Government tendering and compliance.
As a Development Manager Luke facilitates and oversees design and cost management, feasibilities, sales and marketing, and the construction delivery of various developments within the Lindsay Bennelong business. His role sees him actively involved with local government, the finance sector, builders, consultants and purchasers.
Luke's current projects include the 54-lot Kensington Park development in Kellyville, 65 townhouses in Bungarribee (with Bridge Housing Ltd), 23-lot subdivision in The Ponds and High Grove at Box Hill, which will yield over 250 lots on completion.


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The cheerful article remembering Mayor Corning who died 25 years ago left out one of the enduring legacies I see in the demoralized West Hill neighborhood. One of the criticisms I hear about the neighborhood is the people don't care or aren't willing to step forward to make a difference. Supposedly they just turn a blind eye to the drug dealing , crime and prostitution, the basis of the West Hill economy.
There is another story here that is the legacy of the Corning political machine that subsequent mayors have adopted. One way to deal with community activists who pop up, start organizing their neighbors and bringing their grievances to city hall is to resist and attack. This is the kind of politics you find everywhere. One problem with this approach is if you're opponents are mad enough, being attacked emboldens them even more and they get stronger. The resistance grows.
Another approach Corning used very effectively was identifying community leaders he saw as threats and giving them patronage jobs. This is particularly effective with poor people who don't have much and may have a family to feed. Yes, they want to fight for their neighbors too, but their self-interest trumps their community concern. Leaders who have the skill to listen, organize and speak up are rare. By removing them from the community nonviolently, control is maintained without stirring up a hornet's nest of trouble.
The co-oped leader may feel at first they can be effective by working on the inside. But once they get used to the income and adjust their standard of living to include it, they lose their independence and their ability to go against what the mayor wants or tells them to do. It is an extremely effective way to maintain control over a community without brutal repression. A dis-empowered, and demoralized community is far easier to control than one that brings its demands to the mayor's doorstep and makes a lot of noise.
The legacy of this strategy is a very distressed neighborhood that makes the whole city of Albany very unattractive. But does this really matter as long as the trouble stays on the north side of Central Avenue?
I think so. I hope you do too.


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The Reason for Great AC Maintenance
The best technology that alters the properties of air into a better favorable condition, which is comfortable, is the air conditioning.Thus, very necessary every day since without it the life quality will have a reduction in higher levels. Almost all homes use the air conditioning to experience the great advantage of fresh, breathable air.Additionally, they are useful to all sort of climate servicing such kind of units to ensure they are in order of performance always.
Thus, when you consider the installation of the air conditioning unit you will notice the staff efficiency. The normal temperature can tamper the quality of work delivered by employees. Therefore, when you consider the air conditioning to improve your condition, you will realize the increase of work efficiency. The great benefit of the air conditioning will be seen from the much work delivered at the required time.
Good environment with fresh filtered air is realized when there is installation of air conditioning system.Moreover, various dust and particles are contained naturally in the air and can ensure harming the health of a human being negative. The use of the air conditioning services will cater for the negative outcome because of air pollution.
Some conditioners are designed to filter all kind of bacteria, smoke, and microorganisms. Better health of people will be acquired when you consider the conditioner to filter the effective bacteria.Therefore, it is very important to consider the air conditioning for better health.
The fan is the alternative method that is used when there is no ac. The noise produced by the fan can affect the working station to become unconducive. Therefore many prefer air conditioning than fan.The window and doors in the areas having the air conditioning stay closed to enable the noise outside to be low.Since it has no noise, sleeping or working is neither unnecessary being disrupted.
It is important to ensure the conditioning system is clean and out of dust in the internal unit.Unless the core is taken regularly of maintenance and cleaning of the air conditioners, they will cease to perform the cooling effects at it used in a better way before.
It is essential to have repair of air conditioning and various centers are there in towns and cities that offer the services. You can ensure getting the contact of the professional in a website online to contact them when you require their service of your air conditioning unit. The importance of acquiring the trained professional is to ensure that you receive a quality service toward your air conditioning unit.
Therefore, when you consider the best expert for your service, the air conditioner will run smoothly to provide the conducive air environment.The Professional chosen will be able to advise you the appropriate time depending on your machine. Depending on the condition of your air conditioning unit, the professional can advise you of the change or repair.


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Islands of disasters and Troubles!
The history of this island archipelago is that of sadness from conflicts to natural disasters, from dictatorships to epidemics and President Duterte?
The people are perhaps some of the most resilient on the planet or so it would seem, but one is sure that the pains of loss never really go away and suffering probably continues in silence?
The islands are plighted with on going terrorism in the southern islands of Mindanao and Jolo and the threat to Manilla is always there despite U.S. troops being in the country! The war on the drug cartels continue, despite some injustices but before Mr. Duterte came to office the situation was way out of hand and effected nearly every family?
Religious faith in great in this nation, it keeps many going! But to know the Lord as your personal Saviour is even more important to encourage believers to push and press on with education and science to improve their nation with innovation?
Meanwhile the Philippines needs our prayers also, especially when it is out of the media headlines!
Deuteronomy 1:38, 1 Samuel 23:16, Psalm 119:28, Isaiah 40:1, Romans 1:12, 15:4, Colossians 2:2, 1 Thessalonians 5:11, 1 Timothy 5:1, Hebrews 3:13, 2 Peter 3:1.


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Iran Approaches a "Gorbachev Moment". YaleGlobal. Robert A. Manning. November 26, 2013.
The United States and Iran have reached a historic interim accord that would limit sanctons and Iranian nuclear enrichment, subject to IAEA inspections. Iran confronts a transformative moment, explains the author. Western sanctions have contributed to high inflation, unemployment and other economic woes for Iran. "Like Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985, Rouhani inherited economic catastrophe and ascended to power with a mandate to fix the economy and improve a tarnished standing in the world," Manning writes. If verification proceeds and both parties act in good faith, the six-month accord could lead to a final deal. Iran has reason to pursue pragmatic policies, and the U.S. must ensure that region-wide security is the outcome. Neither side should risk flouting compromise. Active diplomacy is in play, and the biggest challenge for the two presidents is assuring skeptics at home and among allies. [Note: contains copyrighted material].
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Right decision to go in which job after B.Pharm
Pharmacy is a profession which gives you different areas of jobs to join in. After B.Pharm one can join in Producction, QA, QC, Clinical research (CR), DRA, Hospital Pharmacist, pharma marketing etc.
And that's really appreciating that you choose three out of that as you mentioned which are production, CR and Hospital Pharmacist.
I am giving you brief ideas on each of them, but choose career wise upon your own interest.
Production - Industry hires pharma and non-pharma graduates/postgraduates in production department. In Production you may have to work in shifts until you reach on certain seniority level. It looks like office work though it requires hard work and sincerity.
This may be brief areas of working in production: Granulation, Coating, Capsule, Encapsulation, Compression, Bottle Packing, Bulk Packing, Blister Packing, Manufacturing QMS, Investigation, Market Complaint, Documentation etc.
Clinical Research – Clinical Research Industry is all set to become the next big demanding career in India. A large population with a substantial workforce and cost benefits influence multinationals to set up research facilities here. People with B.Pharmacy, M. Pharmacy, Pharm D, B.Sc, M.Sc, B.Tech(Biotech), M.Tech(Biotech), MBBS, BDS, BHMS, BAMS, BMS, BPT, Nursing etc are all eligible.
The discipline of Drug Development Clinical Research has created multiple cross functional opportunities in the Industry, namely
- Clinical Research Associate (CRA)
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- Clinical Data Manager
- Pharmacovigilance / Drug Safety Professional
- Medical/Regulatory affairs
- Medical Writing Professional
- Investigator
- Bioavailability & Bioequivalence Expert
- Clinical Project Manager
- Trial Supplies / Logistics Manager
- Quality Assurance Auditor
- Clinical Trial Documentation in-charge
- Business Development Personnel And many others
Hospital Pharmacist – Hospital Pharmacist is responsible to serve society directly. Various chain hospitals and chain pharmacies are making it lucrative as career.
Job profiles for Hospital Pharmacist
• Dispensing the drugs as per prescription / indents
• Building customer relationship for effective service towards total patient care
• Patent Counseling and Pharmacy Maintenance
• Dosage instructions and precautions to the Patents
• Receive the stock from stores and check against the Issue slips for quantity, batch no, expiry etc
• Doing physical verification of stocks with computer data daily
• Regular checking of short-expiry medicines
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Flowers are a wonderful addition to the designers palette. I have never been very arty and I struggle to make my home look more than just acceptably modern and tidy. By magazine standards, the interior is rather basic, not a lot has been done to update the decor – one new lick of paint all round in March five years ago and that was the first from moving in 8 years before that! So I'm not known for being overly creative. However, I have discovered the joy of buying flowers at my local market and arranging them in large colourful displays. I ave been much inspire in my design from helping out at a local heritage house. They're well known for their English country garden setting and every duty day is improved greatly upon seeing the fantastic bouquets on display in the great hall. Whenever they host weddings at the Hall, the flowers are part of the service supplied in the hire fee. Each bride has several colourways to choose from and I have learned much from hovering near the massive vases . .. . Easily an aid to the iterior design of our houses and this is one way to bring life to a room without vast expense.
Bringing Alive A Small Home To Create Space
I have been getting into watching a particular north american property programme – over here it's just called buying and selling but over there it refers to the two host as they are twin brothers. Like so many of their very successful series, this one does rely very heavily on a standard formula and it never varies. The hapless families needing the home refurbishment or 'reno' are different every show, but the ideas are exactly the same and you can set your watch on various segments of the hour long show. However, it does show us some really good ideas for updating houses and making a worn and tired out family home come alive with just a few changes – ripping out the old fashioned cooker and replacing with a shiny range with classy looking splash back behind that and the sink – if there's room, putting a well designed island unit in the kitchen and replacing the counter tops and cabinet doors and drawers seems to do the trick. It makes me feel uncomfortable now watching the funny little property shows we have over here. Guess it reflects the funny little properties we live in!
Iconic '70s Design Ignored & Overlooked
I often wonder how folk com eto the decisions they do when it comes to home decor and general style. I was in a house recently that screams 1970s – it had seriously retro sofa and sideboard. I was almost excited at first, thinking my otherwise staid and genuinely frumpy old buddy had been hiding some amazing style talents. But when I actually had a chance to look round her home, I realised these were simply things to sit on and dump stuff on. There wasn't really any connection or emotion between the user and the item. If I was lucky enough to have an ercol table and chairs set from the middle of the 1960s, I would be caring for it with appropriate covers and making sure the rest of the decor around it all didn't jar or detract from these as a central point. I nearly offered my chum the 1960s table cloths and other accessories I inherited from a grandmother, but I could see thees would probably get trashed like the other stuff!
Transfixed By Bathroom View From Traffic Queue
I never really gave interior design a lot of thought before now – I've only ever accepted the dimensions of any given room as what dictated the sort of furniture I could have in it and been pretty satisfied with my lot. The change for me was a few years ago when sat in a traffic queue, just minding my own business, I took note of an eye catching bathroom setting in a very stylish bathroom and kitchen showroom. The showroom had been there years and I'd driven past daily, also for years but for that 2 or 3 minutes, I was transfixed and at the first opportunity, I raced back on foot to see the showroom itself. That was the start of my journey to having cleaner, more modern lines as a design theme. Starting funnily enough with my bathrooms and ensuite. It was a life changing decision – I called a couple of designers and chose the one who seemed drew a schematic totally encapuslating the vague ideas in my head and put them into a reall design. He was fantastic and his work still thrills me every day.
Letting The Changing Rooms Effect Through
In this country we're not usually known for shriekingly loud wall paper designs or flambouyant soft furnishings. As our houses tend to be much smaller than in some countries, we have let past generations influence us with their reserved colourways and lack of inspiration when it comes to 'doing up the front room'. It's quite refreshing to be able to watch the many home style daytime tv programmes – I particularly like make-overs where a team of 'experts' get to work on somewhere small and tediously ghastly. I have to say that some of the results at the end of the programme are equally ghastly, but it would be a boring show otherwise! However the point of the programme is to encourage people to take chances, make a splash and get out there and decorate – Doing up one room at a time, from ceiling to floor can be utterly exhausting and it takes practice to get each task done but it will be worth it.
Adding Calming Space Into The Crowded House
We all need to feel space around us – from morning til night we can be rushing around and helping other folk. Busy lives call for more precious moments of just time to ourselves. In a hectic house, this is sometimes very difficult to achieve and the more we fill our houses with the latest furniture and effects, the less space we have for relaxing. The best possible way to ensure that a house is totally fit for purpose is to have an interior designer draw up an scheme. They are so experienced – they can look at an existing layout and see the potential for making a room more spacious and calming. It goes without saying that much of the problem is overcrowding with stuff – that has to be addressed but a design studio can turn a busy overloaded house into a divine and serene, relaxing home. They are the experts after all.
Recliner Bonanza Brings Vibrant Decor Update
We do tend to stick to a particular theme in our family. My sister loves the soft romantic mauves, pinks and pale colours of heathers and light dawn shades. This had been their scheme for many years and then suddenly all change. They went over to pale ivory silk walls and a quite bold green leather for their settees and chairs. This was in fact because an interior designer friend had suggested she needed more colour and the speciality company supplying the reclining suite items had a fantastic sale offer on the green! It has made a tremendous difference to them as a couple – such vibrancy has really enhanced their mood and with the light that floods in, bouncing off the nice sunny walls, it looks most inviting and a joy to congregate in their. They have updated the artwork on the walls and of course the soft furnishings to suit. An incredible transformation.
Design Professionals Achieve Spacial Wonders
Now that Christmas and the new year period is upon us, it feels like the right time to get down to changing some of the layout in my house – I am lucky enough to have a big enough area in most rooms to adjust the positioning of the furniture – not so much in the bedrooms as the wardrobes ae fitted along one wall, but it's possible to move the bed to sit under the window and that sort of thing Changing and refreshing a room can revitalise our passion for a place – it livens up the senses and as they say, a change is as good as a rest. With smaller properties it's not so easy – but with a little financial investment it's possible to have an interior designer look over the property. It is incredible how a professional can make so much more of a space – it's really worth their fee.
Quirky Design Features Off Target
We all have our favourite way of display little bits and pieces around the home. I don't like lots of ornaments, ceramic teddies or plaques of any sort. Nothing twee for me. I do however have a very nice collection of miniature jugs which have come from all over Great Britain and around the world. Once friends know you collect something, they kindly go lookng for something to add to it! These cute little creamers are kept in a dedicated display cabinet and are quite a source of intrigue for visitors. On the other hand, when I was doing a 'cheering up the sick' visit to a chum, I was slightly horrified by the sheer number of teddy bears she had lurking all around her cottage. She felt very much at home with her particular interior design quirkiness, but it made me feel very uncomforable. One woman's passion is another's poison maybe?
Hot Humidity Needs Different Painting Teqniques
I have been visiting an ex colleague in her rather lovely villa in the med. She and her hubbie built the place themselves – from planning, designing and organising all the materials. They decorated it a particular way and my chum has never wavered from this . . . . It is a lovely place, but it's been standing for some 20 odd years and of course, like everyone's home, it is looking its age. I would love to get in there with a whole fresh new colour palette – take out the jaded greens and zip through with sunny shades. Over there the walls are treated differently to compensate for humidity, so base coats on very dry surface is essential. Then at least two coats of the top colour. If the surface was adquately dried and aired before the base coat then using kitchen and bathroom emulsion paint can be very successful – so long as humidity is not trapped between the coats.


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