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In any case, the code is identical, just the name of the file changes.
To run the database code before the email is sent, you put the code in a file called "fmhookpreemail.inc.php" and upload that file to the server into the same folder as FormMail.
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If that works, now you can replace it with sensible error handling (which you'll want if your database code fails):PHP Code:
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Try that, and if you've got that working, the rest is straightforward. I'll post back with some sample database code.PHP Code:
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Getting over to France is simple, whether you fly, take the train or go by ferry. There are many ferry crossings to Calais.
Dover to Calais is only around 32 kilometres and on a good day you can see the white cliffs of Dover from Calais. P and O have up to 46 sailings a day between Dover and Calais - so finding a ferry to suit your plans is quite easy. By booking well in advance, you will reduce the fare you have to pay. The time of day you wish to travel also will affect your price.
When booking a car and passenger in two weeks time, you would pay around £35 each way. The prices for foot passengers are quite high - the same day and route for a foot passenger was £29 each way. The time spent on the boat isn't that long: the crossing takes around 75 to 90 minutes.
Taking the ferry is a lot better than taking a train or flying. You aren't stuck in a seat, or sitting waiting for your gate to be called. You can go for a walk, take in the sea views, go to a restaurant, let the kids play, or go for a spot of shopping. Taking ferries are often the most kid friendly way to travel. There is much to keep them entertained and they aren't stuck in their seats getting bored. P and O ferries during busy periods will have child entertainers on board to keep the kids entertained.
Their website is full of information and is quite easy to use. Their travel information page is worth a read before travelling. If you are driving there are many laws in France that we don't have here in the UK. So ensure you read 'driving in Europe' in the travel information page on their website, poferries.com
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Mark Alexander and Kyle Hill created our first graffiti piece for phase 1 "Malice in Wonderland"
Brendan Corrigan and Paul Gaffney
"Passing" is a collection of old slide photographs found at a boot sale presented in an amazingly intimate way.
Associated Minds
Cardiff based Hip-hop label Associated Minds presented 60 postcards depicting the history of the label and their artists.
Alex Wride
Alex produced three pieces of cubistic photo-montages of well known landmarks and sculptures in Cardiff.
Paul Roberts
Paul takes photos, of bands a lot of the time. He's staff photographer for The Miniature Music Press and submitted a number of great band shots in Phase 1 of the exhibition.


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In Flecker's magnificent poem "The Gates of Damascus", he writes "Thou hast not many miles to tread/Nor other foes than fleas to dread/Homs shall behold thy morning meal/And Hama see the safe in bed". See the poem here (and spot the typo!).
Sadly Flecker reckoned without President Assad. There are few of us today who would care to take our morning meal in Homs, or to try to sleep safely in Hama. A large part of Homs is surrounded by the tanks and artillery of the Assad régime. There is a brutal assault on the town, with wholesale slaughter of civilians — men, women, children — and indiscriminate destruction of property and infrastructure. It's a war zone. Recent reports say that the artillery is deliberately targeting the field hospital in the besieged area. Syria is, in short, a tyrannical dictatorship, lashing out desperately with all the military force at its disposal, determined to silence opposition at any cost, including the cost of human life.
So I was surprised by a Telegraph headline on Feb 6th, "Britain as tyrannical as Syria with unelected Lords, says Lib-Dem". The Lib-Dem in question was one Tim Farron, the Lib-Dem President. He is sometimes suggested as a future leader of the Party, if the last-century muesli-and-sandals brigade should benefit from the inevitable demise of the Orange Book tendency under Nick Clegg.
So let's stand back and get the perspective. The President of a once-great party is telling us that Britain is as tyrannical as Syria, because the Lords are unelected.
Let's also recall that we live in a democracy, where we saw a change of government less than two years ago. We have a House of Lords largely appointed by the elected government, with very limited revising powers. Meantime the elected Prime Minister can wheel out the Parliament Act to get his business through if he is so minded.
The Lords themselves are, for the most part, a bunch of avuncular figures, men (and women) of good will, if occasionally misguided. So help us, they even include a good number of Lib-Dems, Mr. Farron's allies. They are, to a man (and to a woman) committed to the ideals of democracy and human rights. And the appointment of these well-meaning folk, with their strictly circumscribed powers, makes us "as tyrannical as Syria".
We are accustomed to hearing politicians on flights of rhetorical hyperbole, but we surely except them to try to be reasonably credible, at least with their supporters, if no one else. Yet I imagine that the Lib-Dems themselves are cringing at Fallon's proposition. He is on such a flight of fancy that he brings himself and his Party (and the profession of politics) into disrepute. And he reminds us yet again of the huge irrelevance of the Lib-Dems to the British body politic.
I shall have a lasting mental image of Mr. Farron, waiting wistfully on the pavement outside Lib-Dem HQ, ready in the cause of democracy to throw himself under the tracks of the tanks that never came.


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Pioneer SX-3800 Receivers
Pioneer SX-3800 Receivers
[Apr 26, 2020]
Incredible power and sound quality for anything in its class.At 60w/p/c rated it seems to deliver so much more. I brought mine back from the dead bought it on EBay for $180 spent $100 for my tech to go through it inside and out and now I love it rocks the house I listen to all genres of music and it fully exposes everything I play through it. If you can find one like I did and of course know how to work on them or have an awesome tech like I do luckily I highly encourage and recommend it.
Heats up quite a bit after use weighs about 35lbs. Want to keep ventilated and in one place definitely don't want to move around to often.
Price Paid: 280
Purchased: Used
Model Year: 1980
[Nov 08, 2017]
I bought the Pioneer SX3800 with some Advent Speakers in the 1980's and I still love my sound system. It was worth every dollar I bought them for. Whatever you buy in the way of an amp make sure it has plenty of power to drive your speakers otherwise you're just not doing yourself any favors.
[Aug 16, 2017]
Jerry Bandy
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I bought the SX-3800 back in the early 80s when I was in the Navy. I loved it and paired with my JBL 4311B, it would out crank my roommate's Yamaha pyramid amp and his tower Boston Acoustic speakers. The only problems that I ever had was that the led light on "Speakers A" went out and I replaced it. The other problem that I had was occasional static while turning the tuning dial. It could be fixed by turning the dial back and forth quickly several times. I suppose there was dust or built up oxidation on the contacts. The last problem was that it was so heavy and I moved quite a few times. The wooden covers on the rear eventually became slightly loose. Yeah, it was heavy but it took everything I through at it and always sounded great. I wish I still had it. Coupled with a dbx 128 and the JBLs, it was a killer system in it's time.
[Apr 25, 2017]
Audio Enthusiast
I saved this classic reciever from certain death. I was helping my broinlaw clean out his deceased fatherinlaws office and noticed this on a shelf under 3 other old receivers.He showed no interest and told me it was going in a disposal bin if i didnt want it. Got her home and after stainless cleanup, vacuum, deoxit, and some lemon oil for the wood sides i fired it up and was amazed. The only problem was I had to upgrade my speakers to wharfedale floorstanders and turntable to carbon debut dc! It must be rated conservatively as power and clarity are fabulous. What wasnt impressive was the brand new 80w/channel pioneer I bough for my summer home-it doesnt even compare to this old tank! If u ever see one grab it!
[Jan 21, 2008]
Charles Hayhoe
Audio Enthusiast
Velvet warm sound, Exellent AM and FM receive. I can pickup all of my Washington DC FM stations with decency here in Baltimore and I can listen to my oldies Canada statiion AM 740 late at night. In retrospect, my current Yamaha HTR-5790 has to have an outboard tuner (Marantz ST-6000) to do any real radio receiving.
Does run rather warm so give this set good air circulation, ventalation.
Got this fine set about four months ago from the thrift store. I couldn't wait to try it out. It has a georgeous sound and even though it does not tout "DC Amplifier", it seems to have that kind of sound quality. After this inital test run, I disassembled the front part of the radio completely to very throughly clean all the controls with quality tuner cleaner from the local electronics store. Since some of the tiny pushbutton pilot lamps were out, I opted to do an LED retrofit for all of them. White 5mm LED's biased with about 10ma DC for each individual one (including the Stereo pilot and quartz lock), and just a standard replacement 8v wedge bulbs for the three main dial lamps. I kept the main dial lamps stock because I wanted to preserve the original overall look of the set itself. I then touched up the front end and blew out the dust of the tuning capacitor while running the dial up and down. This got the scratchines out of the tuner. This retrofit and minor work should only be attempted by someone with quality electronics experience. Anyway, after all that, I love this set and it has performed flawlessly ever since. It may only be 60wpc but this should be enough for most speakers. The main selling piont of surround sets today is crazy wattage numbers. Numbers usually blare whereas quaity shines brightly. A sleeper and definitly a keeper.
Similar Products Used:
Marantz model 4300, 2270 and ST-6000. Technics SA-800, Pioneer SX-950. Proton D940, Vector research VR-7000. Eico ST40, Fisher 440-T. Yamaha HTR-5790
[Jan 15, 2008]
Audio Enthusiast
The Pioneer SX-3800 is clean sounding and packs a punch. Also, if there is an issue it can be fixed and is most often worth the cost.
If this unit has a weakness, it's that it's dated. It is from another era, before CD players and surround sound. Don't buy this unit if you're looking for cutting edge technology.
I purchased a new-in-the-box unit in 2006 from an eBay store http://stores.ebay.ca/envirosponsible. The price was high, $875, but I was willing to part with my hard-earned cash for such a rarity. I've seen many SX-3800's that were used go for much less, but I wanted to be the first to use mine. I'd always wanted one when they were released in the early 80's, and only recently found new-in-the-box units at the same time I had the cash.
Customer Service
The online store I bought this from http://stores.ebay.ca/envirosponsible, provided excellent service and delivered on their "satisfaction guaranteed" policy. While their prices are high, so is there quality. They've got a ton of feedback on eBay, and almost all of it is positive. I strongly recommend buying from them if you're feeling nostalgiac and want to make an investment in solid audio gear.
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I've also used this unit's little brother, the SX-3500. The SX-3800 is much beefier and delivers much more bang for the buck.
[May 21, 2006]
Audio Enthusiast
High-wattage channels, clarity, punch, warmth, nostalgia, rock-solid construction
Pots a little noisy after all these years, super heavy.
After years of suffering with the lousy sound quality of various boomboxes, crumby shelf-systems, and mediocre computer speakers, I figured it was about time that I get a serious sound system so I can do serious listening on something other than my Grado SR325's. I bought a pair of Epicure 100's off ebay and needed a receiver until I could afford my own. So I dug my dad's Pioneer SX-3800 out of the garage and hooked it up. This thing rocks. I tested it out with a toshiba CD player and busted out some Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, Marcus Miller, Led Zeppelin, Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits. I don't know if it will be worth it to take this receiver out of the rig if I can buy another one. The sound is crystal clear and super-detailed. The quartz locked radio tuner is amazing. It gives its digital descendants a run for their money with its precision and clarity. The high per channel wattage is insane, I barely have to turn it up to be overwhelmed by the volume. The equilization control is minimal, but highly-functional. You can tweak your tunes a lot with the bass and treble controls. So overall...great sound, great features! It also looks awesome. It's got that old-school look of professionality and class, like something that wouldn't look out of place in a recording studio or at home. It's got super-sturdy construction. The thing weighs a lot. It was a frightening experience to lift it off of an overhead shelf, so watch out! I really like the system to connect the speaker cables to the back of the unit: a real slick approach where you just push in a button, insert the cable, release the button...and bingo! You're ready to rock. (A trivial detail I know, but it's pretty danged convenient.) Anywho...this is definately worth a look!
[Oct 23, 2005]
Audio Enthusiast
Solidly built, beautiful to look at, 4 gang tuner pulls in distant stations well, great sound compared to modern stuff unless you can afford audiophile equipment.
Push button source selector buttons are fragile after 25 years (super glue), wish it had a midrange control, if it seriously breaks down who ya gonna call?
I remember these receivers from when I was a kid roaming around the department store. Incredible sound, brilliant highs, fat bass and those cool blue flouroscan power meters. I decided the time had come, and picked up a used one on ebay. Now, lets not forget these things are 25 years old now and unless you buy one in mint condition, you are going to need to do a little work. After blowing the dust out, cleaning and lubricating all the knob and switches, wiping off the grime off the inputs and soaking the faceplate in the kitchen sink this thing sounds incredible! I had thought that my hearing had deteriorated after all these years, but I had just been listening to a surround sound system too long. They simply don't build em' like this anymore folks! It weighs about 35 pounds, the faceplate, knobs, switches, and buttons are all solid aluminum. The chassis is a thick steel stamping, and there is nothing on this unit that isn't resolutely screwed down. The sound compared to my Denon surround sound receiver, is much better in every way: better imaging, warm bass and crystal clear highs. The dynamics are also better with quiet passages not losing any detail and loud transients having more punch and definition (enough to scare the cat off the couch). They say an amplifier is only as good as it's power supply and in this case it certainly shows, the transformer and filter capacitors in this thing are pretty good size, rated at 60wpc it sounds like it easily puts out about 80 and still has the reserves to not lose any detail or get muddy. Comparisons: All these were done with a pair of JBL ARC1000's. I have a friend who brought over a pioneer sx-780 which is an earlier model with nearly the same specs, in a side by side comparison they sound very similar but I think the SX 3800 was cleaner sounding owing to it's lower THD rating and better S/N ratio. Another comparison: to my Sansui 9090db (this thing is a monster, 120 wpc and has a real warm "tube" sound and has a transformer the size of a canned ham) The sx-3800 had better presence and imaging but not quite as much midrange detail and of course, raw power. Compared to my modern Denon, it wins in every way. It's not that the Denon sounds bad it just was not built to be a 2 channel stereo system. While it has a stereo mode it just lacks the detail and soundstage of the pioneer. Bottom line: The collectors on ebay have not driven the price of these up too high yet like they have on the earlier model sx 750,780,850,880,1280,etc. So if you are looking for a great sounding reciever for 2 channel music I think this is a great buy, as are many other quality units built from 1970 to 1982.
Similar Products Used:
Sansui 9090DB, Pioneer sx-780, technics sa-946, Denon avr-1802.


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A fifth HD digital terrestrial TV channel is expected to launch by April next year in the UK. Ofcom has invited public service broadcasters to apply for the slot.
The media watchdog said the extra capacity needed for HD on DTT had been created by reorganising existing TV services and introducing MPEG-4 and DVB-T2.
The closing date for applicationsis October 17th and it is expected that the new HD channel will launch by April 2012. The BBC isn't in the running having already got two HD channels – BBC HD and BBC One HD
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Gramma's Stuffed Green Peppers
Patti Barrett
1 lbground beef
4-6green peppers (4 lg or 6 med)
2 mediumonion, chopped coarse
2 Tbspbutter
1/3 cminute rice
1/4 cketchup
1 tsplawry's season salt
1egg, slightly beaten
1 can(s)diced tomatoes
1 can(s)condensed tomato soup
How to Make Gramma's Stuffed Green Peppers
- Melt 2 tablespoons butter in saute pan. Add onion and saute for 10 minutes or so over medium heat, stirring often. After onions turn translucent, stir only when bottom begins to brown, scraping up browned bits, and allow to brown again. (You may have to cover the pan for a bit if the onions start to dry out) Repeat until onions take on a deep golden color and are quite soft. They will have reduced considerably.
- Meanwhile, add to a medium bowl the beef, rice, slightly beaten egg, seasoned salt and ketchup.
- Wash green pepper, dry, slice the very top off and clean insides of seeds and membrane.
- In medium stock pot sized to hold the peppers you've filled, add can of diced tomatoes and can of tomato soup (no water yet). Stir to combine. Bring to a slow boil over medium heat.
- Fill peppers with beef mixture to within a 1/4" of top. Add to pot all standing upright. Add enough water to cover the peppers at least by 1/3, but no more than a soup can full. Cook covered on high simmer for about 30 minutes, then move the peppers around to balance the cooking speed, or onto their sides if there's room. Cook for at least one hour total and up to an hour and a half.
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Dear Mr. Petrie
Re: Council Reorganisation Phase 4
UNISON is opposed to the proposals contained in the above consultation paper. A
further net deletion of 128 posts will mean a further wave of redundancies for our
members. In turn, this will create further unemployment in the borough and bring
hardship to local residents. Once again, we ask the Council to reject the cuts agenda
of central government. These cuts are not necessary, nor are they fair. UNISON
believes the national deficit can be tackled by a policy of fairer taxation, introduction
of a Robin Hood Tax and reinvestment in our public services.UNISON remains concerned about the cost of consultants. Indeed we understand that the Transformation Team is managed by at least 3 consultants paid around at least £500 a day. Surely the Council's reorganisation should be managed by Council employed staff rather than such substantial additional costs being incurred. The arrangement has been on-going for at least 3 years now.
Adult Social Care:
Sheltered Housing and Disability
All posts in the Service are grant funded from the Supporting People budget. This
will be reduced from 1st April 2011 but UNISON has not been informed of the size of
the grant reduction so we do not know how management decided the level of posts
to be cut.
The proposals will cut the number of manager's posts from 27 to 15 and the number
of Domestics from 14 to 7. According to senior management there will be sufficient
manager's jobs in the new structure for existing staff as there will be 15 manager's
posts for 14 blocks. Eight posts will be for managers and 7 for 'floating' managers.
In Waltham Forest
Half the Domestics are facing redundancy and the remaining domestic staff will all
have 19 hour contracts in the new structure. They will be expected to cover two
In order to provide the service with half the number of staff management are
proposing that the managers will cover two blocks each and the floating managers
will cover as required. Managers will be expected to carry out rounds at both blocks.
The service has been operating with a high level of vacancies for a long time and
managers have raised their concerned about their workload numerous times. They
believe this will increase as they will be expected to provide a full service to two
blocks, rather than just covering emergencies at the second as they currently do.
Management will re-issue a job description, which new staff have been working to.
This contains 'floating support/cover'. This will be a change to the Managers way of
working. It is not clear how the posts in the new structure will be recruited to as many
Managers will not wish to become 'floaters'.
There may be issues of travel for staff under the new structure as they may be
required to cover blocks outside their geographical areas and this will impact on their
working time.
The Transformation proposals include a plan to use a floating manager post to
provide support to people in the community. Management have not produced a clear
job role or job description for this and there is a potential overlap with other council
services such as Home Care and Social Work teams.
At the Transformation meeting on 11th February the Union proposed that such a post
would be better used providing cover for staff.
The Union is concerned that the service is not promoted to the community as widely
as it could be and senior management may use a floating manager post as an
Activities Coordinator for the blocks. No firm proposal or job description for this has
been shared with the Union.
Members in the service have questioned why two senior managers are still needed
when the frontline staff numbers have been halved. Yet again the lowest paid staff,
Domestics on scale 1c, are bearing the brunt of the cuts.
The Union understand that tenants are being consulted on the proposals and we
have concerns that they will be receiving a lower level of service in terms of support
from the managers and the cleanliness of the blocks.
Strategic Commissioning:
During our discussions around these proposals UNISON discovered that the work
created by previous cuts to Corporate Procurement had still not been satisfactorily
sorted out. On 26th November 2011 UNISON wrote to councillors on the Scrutiny
Committee highlighting how the loss of SAP staff from Central Procurement would
mean work going out to departments. The posts and staff were cut prior to the issue
about the work being resolved and now we see the work being forced into the
departmental teams. The departmental managers were only recently informed
although Directors were requested to nominate officers in early December – two
Directorates have failed to nominate officers as yet, so the necessary training has
not yet been given to nominees and the existing PG staff are having to pick up the
work. It appears that the UNISON concerns for the Council's chaotic procurement
processes continue to be valid. What we said to Councillors in November bears
"The risks to the Council include:
• Orders not reaching suppliers in good time
• Delays in receiving goods/services
• Inability to match and pay invoices promptly due to discrepancies
• Increased stress on remaining staff due to excessive workload
• Damaged reputation in the business community
Management are obviously reluctant to admit a significant error of judgement and
retain some staff as they will not then make the predicted savings, however this puts
the operational capability of the Council at risk."
These cuts were also sold to Councillors as savings for the Council, but the cost of
providing the SAP support is just being pushed into other departmental budgets.
UNISON believes that the model for breaking up the Central Procurement SAP
functions is fundamentally flawed and will come back to give the Council difficulties
that could have been avoided.
The transfer of functions has been so chaotic that the new job descriptions relevant
to this important work have still not been presented to the trade unions as I write. It is our view that the late arrival of job descriptions should mean an extension to the
consultation process. It is not fair to expect staff to take part in a consultation when
the jobs in the new structure have not been properly presented for consultation.
Furthermore, UNISON was surprised to learn that the direct payments officer posts
are being TUPE transferred to an organization called Disability Action. There has
been no trade union involvement in the process to date apart from a mention of a
plan to transfer at the departmental JCC. We do not yet know the transfer
arrangements, how this organization were chosen and why they were chosen,
whether they provided a broadly comparable pension for transferring employees etc.
UNISON expects this Council to enter into TUPE arrangements with openness and
honesty. In this example we have not even had a formal meeting yet.
Children and Young People Services
It is this department that feels the impact of this Phase the greatest. The Phase 4
proposals are largely about deleting those posts that are grant funded. UNISON
believes that the make-up and future distribution of the Early Intervention Grant
should be known before any of these cuts are made.
The loss of so many staff and so much in the way of knowledge and skills will be
keenly felt by the children, young people and the families of this borough.
UNISON is also concerned that these cuts are being made without formal
consultation with service users and the wider community.
Aiming High for Disabled Children
With the advent of the government's cuts program and the cessation of this grant
funded initiative it is very disheartening to all those who work with children with
disabilities to see the proposals in Phase 4. We have not yet had our formal
consultation meeting regarding this particular area so it is difficult to comment
further. Suffice to say that children with disabilities will be less well served by the
Council in the future and skilled workers will be losing their jobs.
Early Support and Early Years Inclusion Workers
This specialist service is being closed down completely. The work they do is about
ensuring that young children with disabilities are included positively in mainstream
nursery provision on the borough. This team works with staff in private and voluntary
settings so that those settings are equipped and able to provide a quality service to
children with additional needs. The work is vital early intervention work designed to
maximize each child's potential and to help prepare them for the mainstream
education system in line with the social inclusion agenda. It is UNISON's view that
the loss of this team will weaken the effectiveness of this work. The proposals state
that the work be transferred to the providers themselves or be commissioned.
UNISON believes that there will be a negative effect as a result because the focus
on inclusion will be watered down as workers with other priorities will be asked to
carry out the work required.
The service will be weakened and undermined by these cuts, which UNISON
believes could potentially be averted if monies available for Early Years inclusion
work from the School Forum Funding (about £200,000 last year) could be used to
fund this team which costs about £64,000 a year in staff salaries. If the Council does
close down this team then once again specialist skilled staff will be lost and those
who benefit from that expertise will lose out.
UNISON also believes that this is an area that could potentially be funded by the
Early Intervention Grant.
At the time of writing we are due to have our formal consultation on this area this
coming Friday.
First Response
UNISON'S concerns in this area centre on the issue of child protection. These grant
funded posts are all at risk because of the withdrawal of government grant funding.
However all six posts carry out vital work in the early identification of children who
are at risk in our community. Adolescent Support Workers work to try and prevent
adolescents being received into care. The loss of these posts could impact
negatively on the Council finances if it were to result in more expensive care
packages being required.
The Young Carers' social worker post is relatively new and is being developed to
prevent the children of young parents being received into care. Again this is highly
skilled and valuable preventative work. The deletion of this post could result in
financial loss for the Council should it lead to an increase in children requiring
Council care.
Finally, the two posts in Children's Centres that specialise in ensuring that children in
the centres are correctly assessed and any "risk" issues are quickly identified and
worked on. The loss of this work will mean that the specialist focus within Children's
Centres will be weakened.
All the cuts in First Response increase the safeguarding risks for children in Waltham
Forest. There is also the question of the risk incurred by Council in terms of greater
financial liabilities being incurred because the early intervention work is no longer
being carried out, which may result in more local children requiring care, and risk
associated with the highly charged issues around child protection.
At the time of writing the formal consultation on this area is due to take place on this
coming Friday.
Safeguarding Children Board
This is a potential cut in the administration time available to the Board. The
proposals are unclear as to what might happen in the future. At this point UNISON
has not had formal consultation on this particular area but we note that the proposals
appear to suggest that the work might be carried out in future on a shared basis with
another authority.
The quality of administrative work is vital in ensuring that the Council meets its
obligations towards safeguarding children. Without this work being done effectively
there is the risk that the Council will miss important deadlines within child protection.
This post deals with the Child Death Overview Panel and is vital in ensuring that the
multi-disciplinary approach is well co-ordinated and serviced. The post also has
responsibility for coordinating the multi-agency training programs that are essential
to maintaining an effective multi agency approach to Safeguarding Children.
At the time of writing the formal consultation on this area is due to take place on this
coming Friday.
Youth Support Services
This service is being completely devastated. 51 Youth worker and Connexions
Personal Advisor posts are being lost as the service is cut back to leave just the
management team and 13 Opportunities and Development Worker posts. Added to
the previous Phase's cuts to Careers, Education Welfare and Behaviour Support it is
clear that there will be a dramatic reduction in the amount of youth support work
carried out in Waltham Forest and it will only be the most vulnerable that will receive
any service at all. The future ramifications of these cuts are impossible to predict
accurately but it is certain that there will be future negative outcomes as support for
young people is massively reduced. Universal support for young people disappears
completely which could potentially mean a sharp rise in young people who cannot
find a positive role for themselves in our community. UNISON perceives this as a
real threat to the future of our borough.
UNISON has also found that the "one stop" youth bus programme from December,
2007-to-March, 2010 has cost YSS a total of nearly £300,000 in local tax money.
This figure can be broken down to the following cost areas:-
Three buses costing £73,813; to refit them cost £76,200, and to service them over
three years £12,330 to March, 2010. The cost of staffing: "working drivers" £75,000
and the use of agency drivers £46.08 per four hour shift.
The number of young people using the "one stop" programme (excluding Worth
Unlimited) over the three year period was under 500 can this be value for money?
This is an extravagance that could have prevented some of the jobs and service
being lost.
UNISON also wants to point out that the management posts in this service remain
unaffected in terms of job losses.
The formal consultation on this particular area has not happened as I write.
The proposals speak of an equalities impact assessment and a detailed action plan.
Neither of these has been forthcoming as yet.
Youth Offending Team
The cuts in Youth Support could lead to there being an increase in Youth Offending.
These could further be exacerbated by the proposed cuts to our Youth Offending
Team. There is a proposed reduction of 50% from 24 employees to 12 working in
Youth Offending. There is the possibility of some extra funding to compensate for the
loss of the grant funding in this area, but details are sketchy.
There are grave concerns about the current workload and health and safety
implications this proposal will raise.
UNISON also has not yet had the formal consultation on this particular area.
UNISON also wants to point out that the management posts in this service remain
unaffected in terms of job losses.
The proposals speak of an equalities impact assessment and a detailed action plan.
Neither of these has been forthcoming as yet.
Education for Communities: Extended Services
Again, these proposals are based on the loss of Government grant funding and
impact on a wide range of services provided to support children and families. At the
time of writing UNISON has not had a formal consultation focusing on this area but
we note that the outcomes of some of the grants were still not finalized when the
proposals were formulated. It is worth asking what has happened to the Sure Start
funding that is now incorporated into the Early Intervention Grant. The Common
Assessment Framework and Think Family grants have had no formal government
announcement at the time the proposals were formulated and we are not sure of the
outcome as I write.
Like so many of the Councils Children and Young Peoples Services the government
is saying that the services will be re-provided for out of the Dedicated Schools
Budgets. UNISON believes that the reality will be rather different with schools facing
difficult choices on where to focus their spending. The Dedicated Schools Grant s
unlikely to be increased by government in order to provide services lost through
these Council cuts. UNISON has certainly not seen any encouraging evidence of
schools buying into services formerly provided by the Council.
Education for Communities: Commissioning
This service will be under pressure following these proposals for similar reasons as
those outlined in the Adult Social Care Strategic Commissioning section above. The
introduction of category management in procurement appears to be happening in an
ad-hoc, unplanned way leaving the trade unions feeling very concerned about the
future of this Council's procurement.
Education for Communities: Education Plus
This service provides high quality personalized support to children and young people
who are not attending school for emotional and/or mental health reasons. The
service is integrated with health and is funded from the Dedicated Schools Grant.
Again, it is a service to children and young people and it is very worrying that
services such as this are being so dramatically cut.
All posts in CLaSS are externally funded and funding is secure until August 2011.
Management have been given an indicative budget for the following academic year
but this will not be confirmed until the end of March and yet management have
decided on cuts to administrative and IT posts.
However some of the proposals are affected by the future closure of Friday Hill
House and Chestnuts and the move to the new facilities at Queens Road.
This puts many of our members at risk of redundancy although management are still
making minor changes to the proposed structure at this stage. It is not clear whether
there will be 8, 8.5 or 9 FTE Customer Services Assistants or whether additional
administrative support will go into central services.
The work of the curriculum administration team is to be divided between MIS,
Finance and Central Service Teams. Members are concerned that the workload will
not be manageable with the number of staff proposed, the recent use of temporary
staff in addition to the current numbers confirm this. It still remains unclear how
substantial areas of their workload is to be distributed in the new structure.
To date the job descriptions for the new posts have not been available so it has been
difficult to track the movement of the work of posts being deleted and this has not
reassured our members who already have concerns about the workload.
The Cluster admin team are a frontline group which, among their many duties, enrol
and support learners and lecturers with any queries or problems with regard to
course information and availability. There will be a reduction of possibly 4.1 FTE
Cluster Admin staff (final numbers of Customer Services Assistants have still not
been decided).
The Customer Services Assistants will have a generic job description but there are
some amongst this group currently with key holding responsibilities which need to be
reflected in the new J.D.
Management's reasoning for this reduction is the loss of one cluster, Friday Hill.
Although CLaSS will use local schools, which need staffing, for the evening
provisions in Chingford. Also to accommodate for the loss of Chestnuts and Friday
Hill there will be an expansion in evening and weekend classes as it seeks to
maximise the use of the reduced space it will have at Queens Road. This will
necessitate remaining cluster staff working more evenings and weekends and make
cover difficult with a diminished number of these frontline staff, this can only mean
additional hours or TOIL.
This group were told that they will not have information about their working hours
when they apply for the Customer Services Assistant posts and these will be worked
out subsequently.
Management's proposal to reduce the IT Systems Technician's 2 FTE posts by 1
FTE is unrealistic. The remaining Technician will be required to cover a number of
sites, which open day, evening and also cope with the proposed increase to the
weekend schedule. Obviously this will not be practical thus leaving a substantial
period of CLaSS provision of service unsupported. This is a concern raised by many
areas of the organisation, dependent upon ICT in the completion their duties.
The Technicians are vital to ensure that all teaching commitments are met and
UNISON believes that the 50% reduction in posts will impact on learner numbers if
IT support is delayed and classes are cancelled as a result of this.
Environment and Regeneration
Housing assessment and Options:
The cuts to Housing appear untenable when you consider the increasing pressure
that is likely to be put on the Housing Service over the next few years. Rising
homelessness could well be exacerbated by local people losing their jobs, facing life
on benefits, not being able to keep up rent and/or mortgage repayments and
eventually finding themselves homeless.
Add to this scenario the expected influx of people from other London boroughs when
the Housing Benefit cap is implemented and you begin to see the making of a real
crisis for housing in Waltham Forest. Cuts to our Housing Services will inevitably
mean a reduced service at the very time that demand will increase. The posts
outlined for deletion in these proposals are all important posts that provide support to
families and households that are facing a housing crisis. The loss of these posts will
increase the stress on the remaining workforce who are working under considerable
stress at the moment because housing need far exceeds the resources available.
The Council has shown that it recognizes the imminent crisis as we have seen the
portfolio holder discussing the issues surrounding the impact of the Housing Benefit
cap in the national media. Cutting Housing Services to this extent will not be helpful.
Revenues and Benefits
We note the uncertainty as expressed in the Consultation document and again we
see cuts being made in an area that will come under increasing demand and
pressure as a result of Government policy.
The loss of posts will have a detrimental effect on the service as it currently stands,
though we note the intention expressed in these proposals to carry out further
reviews and investigate the possibility of shared services. The details are not
available at present so we can only comment on what is in front of us now.
Some of the posts are concerned with collection so could impact negatively if the
collection rate is negatively affected by these proposals, though we note the intention
to create two new posts, but overall there is still a cut to the number of staff working
in this area.
The proposals also remove the Revenues and Benefits staff from WFD, which
UNISON believes will result in growing pressure on the staff employed at Juniper
House. There should be a review of the risk assessments for Juniper House. This
proposal represents a reversal of the previous Council thinking and will make the
service less accessible to vulnerable customers as the local WFD shop services
close down. It is also a prelude to the complete closure of the WFD shops in
Chingford, Leytonstone and Leyton that are part of the Phase 5 proposals.
Notice of Termination for Reason of Redundancy
UNISON is in the process of registering a dispute over this proposal and the
redundancies that are being felt across the Council workforce.
Needless to say UNISON and our members are appalled by the Council's intention
to reduce the notice period for many staff, apart from the highest paid staff at PO9
and above who will retain the current notice period.
It is our view that this is a short sighted approach as it will further limit the time
available to identify redeployment possibilities for staff who face potential
redundancy. It might even result in the Council making redundancy payments to
employees who may have been retained given more time.
It is also our view that the proposed changes will be more difficult to administrate as
staff will have varying lengths of notice rather than all staff sharing the current 12
weeks termination notice period arrangement.
UNISON believes that the Council should reject this proposal as it is unfair and may
not save the sums of money anticipated.
UNISON believes that this proposal has been presented, not so much for
consultation but more as a statement of intent. The proposal includes the following
"The Council hopes that the Unions will consent to this change. In the event that the
Unions do not consent and the change is implemented without consent, then the
Council will take such steps as necessary to implement the change (which may be a
dismissal and re-engagement process)."
This demonstrates that the Council is not prepared to consult properly on this matter.
The wording above is included in the Council's initial proposal so right from the start
of consultation the Council are basically saying that they will sack all the staff and reengage unless the trade unions accept this change which is a matter of detriment to
many of our members. UNISON is not prepared to consent in these circumstances
and is currently registering a formal dispute with the Joint Secretaries.
Voluntary Severance
UNISON is opposed to the use of compromise agreements for voluntary severance
and we believe that such an approach is a waste of time and money in the
circumstances of voluntary severance. They are designed to be used where there is
a dispute between employer and employee in order to resolve the dispute on a no
blame basis.
For some reason, management in Waltham Forest are insisting that staff who have
agreed to leave under voluntary severance have to sign this over the top agreement
with all its waiving of legal rights and confidentiality clauses. It also costs the Council
£350 for each and every one so it is spending money that it does not need to spend.
For our members it is a matter of some bewilderment to be instructed to sign a
compromise agreement when they are leaving under voluntary severance.
UNISON opposes the cuts proposed and calls on the Council to reject the proposals
as unacceptable due to the negative impact that will be caused to the borough's
children and young people.
UNISON also believes that the Council's current position of meeting the demands of
central government will eventually have to be reconsidered. It is alarming to think
that many of these services will be lost to our community permanently as central
government continues its assault on public sector jobs and services. Even if the
Council does meet the current targets we do not see there being an end to the cuts
while the current government remains in power. The government is more likely to
come back for more and more in the way of spending cuts.
Yours faithfully
Dave Knight, Branch Secretary
(originally published 8.6.11)


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Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook, was destroyed on Morning Joe Wednesday morning because he tried to tap-dance around the most basic questions about his candidate's stands on issues.
Things started to go downhill about two and a half minutes into the interview when Willie Geist asked Mook if Clinton had regrets about the way Syria was handled. Completely ignoring the question, Mook's response was that Hillary left the State Dept. with a 70% approval rating.
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GEIST: But she was there when it started.
MOOK: Well, right, but, but, uh, you know, she, I, I think she's well regarded for her leadership as secretary of state. She came out of that office with a 70 percent approval rating. In contrast to Donald Trump, she has released a clear and decisive plan to defeat ISIS. Donald Trump has said that he thinks he knows more about it than the generals and refuses to tell us what his secret plan is.
GEIST: I understand, Robby. What about in Syria, though? She supported the drawing of the red line. Obviously, she was out of office when Assad used chemical weapons. Was it a mistake to draw the red line if the president was not willing to go — to do something about it when it was crossed?
MOOK: Well, as you pointed out, the decision regarding that was made after she was out of office, so I think you'd have to ask President Obama —
GEIST: Was she disappointed that the president didn't act when the line was crossed?
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The club wanted to do something for some of their sponsors who participated in the clubs Utah training camp in the USA. The brief was that it needed to be a quality gift, treasured and something that could be passed around to show other sponsors, colleagues and friends.
The Gift Box featured a gloss cover and once opened the large LCD screen displayed a video of the trip.
Both North Melbourne and tmdigital believed it kicked a goal with this choice…
Our Client Video Brochures work for all types of presentations where getting your message across quickly, is critical to the outcome. They are great for product launches, VIP invitations, tenders, company profiles, information pieces, trade shows, pre and post sales gifts as well as events. Ultimately they are designed for those who want to stand out and want to inspire their customers
At tmdigital we deliver our Client Video Brochures to the highest quality and guarantee that you will receive the best customer service levels available. Our systems and processes ensure that our Client Video Brochures will be carefully manufactured and processed.
Since 2012 tmdigital has been providing Australia with this innovative technology and have many happy clients who have successfully used it in their marketplace.


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Notification of termination ofAmerican Express Card AcceptanceDear Member,
From April 30 this year, Costco Wholesale Australia will cease to accept payment by American Express card at Australian locations, as our existing credit card agreement expires. As part of our continuing commitment to provide our members with the best value possible, we will no longer process these transactions from May 1, 2016.
We continue to accept cash, debit, Visa and Mastercard. There is also an ATM in each warehouse for your convenience.
We value your business and your choice to be a Costco member, and we are confident that we will continue to offer you the quality and value we are known for.
If you have any further questions or concerns, please visit the membership counter at the warehouse and we will be happy to assist you.
Yours sincerely,
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Since 2015 I have been studying for an MA in Inclusive Arts Practice at the University of Brighton. This has led me to reassess and reconsider my practice as a potential antidote to the toxic mis-encounters of childhood. Working in one-to-one collaboration with others I seek to create a place to meet, listen and respond, where it is possible to engage in a dialogue through making and creating. This dialogue does not just consist of the mutual stories shared, rich as these are, but also in the way we touch and work with the materials and objects and the choices we make as to what to reveal and what to keep hidden; though it is not always easy to keep things hidden from the materials and the objects.
I now consider myself both an artist and an Inclusive Arts Practitioner. How those two things will coalesce I am not yet sure; but what I do know is that my art practice evolves very slowly, and like the fermentation process in bread making for example, a little piece of the old is always needed for carrying over into the new.
http://www.otherselves.org : a project that began its life as an arts-based research project


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LOPEZ-CARRILLO, Lizbeth; SUAREZ-LOPEZ, Leticia e TORRES-SANCHEZ, Luisa. Breast cancer examination in Mexico: summary of the results from the National Survey of Reproductive Health. Salud pública Méx [online]. 2009, vol.51, suppl.2, pp.s345-s349. ISSN 0036-3634.
OBJECTIVE: To present a summary of the results of the National Survey of Reproductive Health 2003 regarding the practice of self and clinical breast examination. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The main sociodemographic characteristics and site of information about self and clinical breast examination, in 20 000 women 15 to 49 years of age residing in rural and urban areas, were identified by simple statistics and logistic regression models. RESULTS: Younger women with lower scholarity and socioeconomical status residing in rural areas informed a statistically lower self and clinical breast examination. A higher frequency of breast cancer was found in rural vs. urban area. CONCLUSIONS: Strategies for standardization and quality control for the clinical breast examination are needed to contribute in the prevention and control of breast cancer in Mexico.
Palavras-chave : breast self-examination; clinical breast examination; breast cancer; National Reproductive Health Survey; Mexico.


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The man they call D-Ray worked until 2 a.m. Tuesday. Six hours later, he was back in his office above Tropicana Field taking phone calls.
No, they still haven't confirmed who is performing the national anthem.
No, they haven't figured out how many staffers to assign to the standing-room-only section.
The World Series was only 34 hours away and the Rays' vice president of fan experience still didn't know who was going to throw out the first pitch.
"I've got meetings all day," he said, "about everything."
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Two years ago, Darcy Raymond was hired to rebrand Tampa Bay's struggling baseball team - and re-energize the few fans it had.
Today, when 42,000 baseball fanatics stream into the Trop, D-Ray will have overseen "everything they see, hear, touch, smell and taste."
"It won't be much different than what our fans have experienced during the rest of the playoffs," he said. "You gotta admit, it's been working."
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In fall 2003, Raymond left his job at Proctor & Gamble, where he had helped introduce the Swiffer mop. He enrolled in Harvard Business School and met Brian Auld, who nicknamed him D-Ray - as in Darcy Raymond, not Devil Rays. "It was an A-Rod thing," he said, "first initial, shorten the last name."
Two years later, when Auld was recruited to be a Rays VP, he introduced his boss to his buddy D-Ray - and Rays executives hired Raymond to survey season ticket holders. "Only 46 percent of the people buying tickets were rooting for the Rays," he said.
In January 2006, the Rays asked Raymond to convert baseball fans to Rays fans and to bring a new crop to the Trop: people who didn't know much about baseball.
He implemented theme nights: Tuesdays for retirees featured Elvis impersonators. Sundays meant kids could run the bases.
"If we were going to turn this team around," Raymond said, "we had to make the fans feel like part of the team."
He called the fans "10th man nation," the most important part of the roster. After asking ushers to identify the most enthusiastic cheerers, he started a group of 500 Maddon's Maniacs who meet between games and agree on new chants. Raymond coordinates their plans with the producer who runs the Trop's video screen. When they say, "Tampa!" the screen says "Bay!"
Blue disco wigs and cowbells. Pepsi bottle races and kiss cams. Carvel cup switches, trivia contests, Spot the Cow. Fans come to expect those segments, he said. The promotions become part of the fabric of the field.
Major League Baseball won't allow local branding for the World Series, so Raymond spent Tuesday trying to figure a way to have bottle races without the labels and kisses without e-Harmony's endorsement.
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About 11 a.m. Tuesday, Rays president Matt Silverman ducked his head into Raymond's office. "We got it," he said. "Bob Stewart is going to throw out the first pitch."
"Mr. Baseball?" Raymond asked, referring to the Pinellas County commissioner.
He wrote himself a note, crossed that off his to-do list. Only 33 hours until the big show.
Lane DeGregory can be reached at email@example.com or (727) 893-8825.


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Congratulations if you are continuing on with your New Year resolution to exercise on a regular basis. If you notice there are days where your performance is not up to par, yet you can't relate it to anything in particular, it may be inadequate hydration. Thirst drive is not stimulated until 1-2% water loss—therefore, exercise enthusiasts probably train in a state of hypohydration most times. When given free access to fluids, subjects tend to consume only about ½ of the fluid they lost through sweat.
Water is the largest single constituent of the human body and is essential for cellular homeostasis and life. Total water intake includes drinking water, water in beverages, and water that is part of food. Although a low intake of total water has been associated with some chronic diseases, this evidence is insufficient to establish water intake recommendations as a means to reduce the risk of chronic diseases. Instead, an Adequate Intake (AI) for total water is set to prevent deleterious, primarily acute, effects of dehydration, which include metabolic and functional abnormalities.
The primary indicator of hydration status is plasma or serum osmolality, but not a realistic option unless you have access to a lab. Because normal hydration can be maintained over a wide range of water intakes, the AI for total water (from a combination of drinking water, beverages, and food) is set based on the median total water intake from U.S. survey data. The AI for total water intake for young men and women (ages 19 to 30 years) is 3.7 L and 2.7 L per day, respectively. Fluids (drinking water and beverages) provided 3.0 L (101 fluid oz; ≈ 13 cups) and 2.2 L (74 fluid oz; ≈ 9 cups) per day for 19- to 30-year-old men and women, respectively, representing approximately 81 percent of total water intake in the U.S. survey.
Dehydration refers to an imbalance in fluid dynamics when fluid intake does not replenish water loss from either hyper hydrated or normally hydrated states. It impairs physical work capacity, physiologic function, and predisposes one to heat injury when exercising in a hot environment So what's the best way to increase voluntary fluid intake? Fluids should be cool…not cold. Sodium in the drink (.5-.7 g/L) will stimulate the thirst response. Thirst is triggered by a decrease in plasma volume and an increase in plasma sodium. Consumption of plain water may remove the osmotic drive to drink. Studies show that sports drinks are consumed at 2 times the rate of water. Sodium though does not enhance fluid absorption because the amount in the beverage is miniscule compared to the amount of Na in the bloodstream. Palatability is a big factor.
There appears to be little physiologic need to replace electrolytes during a single exercise session of moderate duration (eg, less than 3 to 4 hours), particularly if sodium was present in the previous meal. However, including sodium in amounts between 0.5 and 0.7 g/L is recommended during exercise lasting longer than 1 hour because it may enhance palatability and the drive to drink, therefore increasing the amount of fluid consumed. It should be noted that this amount of sodium exceeds that typically available in commercial beverages. Including sodium in fluid replacement beverages may also help prevent hyponatremia in susceptible people. Although most athletes who drink more fluid than they lose as sweat simply excrete the excess fluid as urine, in some people it is retained . If the fluid contains sodium, it could help prevent the dilution of serum sodium levels, thereby decreasing the risk of hyponatremia. Limiting fluid intake so that it does not exceed sweat rate can also decrease risk of hyponatremia.
Colder air contains less moisture than air at warmer temperature, particularly at higher altitudes. Greater fluid volumes leave the respiratory passages as the incoming cold, dry air becomes fully humidified and warmed to body temperature. Cold stress also increases urine production, which adds to total-body fluid loss.
So what is an appropriate amount of fluid to consume? You can easily calculate your hydration needs based on your sweat rate.
Sweat Rate:
- Wt before exercise = 176#
- Wt post exercise = 174#
- Difference = 2# X 16 oz. (32 oz)
- Fluids consumed during exercise = 70 oz.
- Total fluids used during exercise = 102 oz.
- Fluids used/hours of activity (102 oz/2hr)
- Sweat Rate = 51 oz/hour
Hydrating based on sweat rate:
- Drink every 10-12 min 10 oz – 5X/hr
- Drink every 15 min 13 oz – 4X/hr
- Drink every 20 min 17 oz – 3X/hr
In most cases athletes do not consume enough fluids during exercise to balance fluid losses, and thus complete their exercise sessions dehydrated to some extent. Consuming up to 150% of the weight lost during an exercise session may be necessary to cover losses in sweat plus obligatory urine production. Including sodium either in or with fluids consumed postexercise reduces the diuresis that occurs when only plain water is ingested . Sodium also helps the rehydration process by maintaining plasma osmolality and thereby the desire to drink. Because most commercial sport drinks do not contain enough sodium to optimize postexercise fluid replacement, athletes can rehydrate in conjunction with a sodium-containing meal. High-sodium items include soups, pickles, cheeses, processed meats, pizza, pretzels, and popcorn. Use of condiments such as soy sauce and ketchup, as well as salting food at the table, also increase sodium intake
- Urine color- the lighter the better
- Sweat rate
- Pre-exercise : 16-24 ounces fluid prior to 2-3 hours prior to work out
- During exercise: 6-12 ounces fluid every 15-20 minutes
- Post-exercise: 24 ounces per pound lost
- Possible inclusion of sodium foods or sports drink
In addition to increasing fluid intake 24 hours before strenuous exercise in the heat, it is recommend to consume 400 to 600 mL (13-20 oz) of cool water about 20 minutes before exercise.
Caution with hyperhydration. There was one documented case at Ft. Benning, GA when a Soldier from Alaska drank 10+ canteens of water the evening prior to hyperhydrate and he ended up with severe hyponatriemia resulting in the Soldiers death.
Good luck with continuing your pursuit of a new you for the new year.
Signature Joanne Slyter, dietitian, Westminster, CO Interest in sports nutrition


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Sunday, 22 April 2012
Sunday Supplement | 3
At uni I met the final year weaver that I will be assisting this term. She is lovely and I can already get a glimpse of how much work and massive amounts of money are needed to produce your final collection. Along side this, us first years have a trimmings project to complete. Its a really tiny warp (the width of the fabric) at only about 2 inches so hopefully will get all 10 required samples completed quite quickly.
In other quite exciting news my boyfriend and I have found a flat! We hope to move in in the middle of June so fingers crossed all will go to plan.
Ever since we found it there really has been no tearing me away from the ikea catalogue and random interiors blogs. In my mind it is fully furnished with gorgeous all white everything but in reality goodness only knows what strange mish mash of stuff we will end up with! But its fun to Imagine!
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Shareholders' Extraordinary General Meeting of ACLEDA Bank Plc.
November 24, 2020
The Shareholders' Extraordinary General Meeting was attended by public shareholders and approved nine agendas of which the first agenda has been interested. It is the change of ACLEDA Bank's logo.
Third quarterly report of ACLEDA Bank Plc.'s Group in 2020
November 16, 2020
For Q3 2020, ACLEDA Bank Plc.'s Group has total revenue of KHR 584.25 billion and approximated to those of in Q3-2019 and net profit of KHR 141.95 billion increased by KHR 26.98 billion equivalent to 23.47% compared to the same period last year in Q3-2019.
Fund transfer to other banks via Bakong
October 26, 2020
Now you can conveniently transfer money to Bakong's account or other bank's account through ACLEDA ToanChet (ACLEDA App).
Congratulations on the 41st anniversary of the re-establishment of the National Bank of Cambodia
October 16, 2020
Congratulations on the 41st anniversary of the re-establishment of the National Bank of Cambodia (10 Oct 1979 – 10 Oct 2020). The management and staff of ACLEDA Bank Plc. would like to extend our warmest...
ACLEDA Bank Plc. Donates US$250,000 to Help Flood Victims
October 14, 2020
The donation of US$200,000 is donated directly through the Royal Government of Cambodia, and US$50,000 is donated through the Association of Bank in Cambodia in aiming to help the flood victims.


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I have a project in which I want to handle one specific time and process critical interrupt entirely in assembler, but which on the whole is so complex I prefer C for the rest of the programming.
For clarity (lots of asm code!) and full control of the resulting asm code I put this routine in a .S file rather than inline-assembler in the C code.
I have one problem which I cannot find a usable answer to on this forum or through google, I have spent many an hour searching and probably it's my search terms, but I have found only posts about external RAM and other such foolish issues ;-).
I want to store a set of 16 variables, each 16 bit in RAM from the C code, which will be used by the assembler routine if necessary. I cannot however figure out how to make AVR GCC compile my program so that my array as defined in the main C file ends up in one specific part of the (internal!) RAM, so that I can be sure where to retrieve it in assembler. I process them as single bytes in assembler, so it's no problem to use constants in an LDS command (no runtime variation of which byte is processed where)
Is there an AVR GCC wizard out there with the answer? I'm pretty sure making all 32 registers volatile and storing my variables there is the worst possible solution! For many reasons... :-P
Many cheeses!,


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donate baby items to st. luke's church
The St. Luke Catholic Church Ladies' Club has been collecting funds from its membership in order to buy cribs for the Respect Life office in Margate. Each weekend in March, a crib or playpen will be placed inside the church, at 2370 Hammock Blvd., in Coconut Creek. People are asked to help donate some of the items on the Baby Shower wish list and place them in the crib or playpen. Items on the wish list include diapers (newborn, 3, 4 and 5), cloth diapers with plastic pants, baby wipes, baby shampoo, lotion and wash, bottles, crib sheets, towels and washcloths, baby formula, baby food and infant clothing (up to two-years-old for boys).
All of the items will be donated to Respect Life, along with the cribs the Ladies' Club is buying. If anyone has a used cribs, infant car seats, playpens, strollers or carriages that are no longer being used, call 954-977-7769. Call Club President Eileen Ferrigno at 954-979-5179 or fax 954-979-2138.
ENTER IN SENIOR IDOL competition
Holy Cross Hospital is sponsoring 'Senior Idol.' The competition is open to seniors 65 and older.
Prizes include a $1,000 cash prize, free pass to ride Tri-Rail for one year and more. Auditions will be on April 2 at Holy Cross Hospital, 4725 N. Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale.
The competition is open to solo singers that are residents of Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Counties. Only 12 participants will be selected during the auditions by a panel of judges. Audition finalists must be available to perform at the final competition scheduled for May 12.
To register for an audition time, please call 954-351-7804 by 5 p.m. on March 31.


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The introduction of a flexible system for parents to take leave on the birth or adoption of a child has been a feature of all of the main political parties' manifestos and agendas in recent years but, on 1st December, a new system of "Shared Parental Leave" ("SPL") came into force. Elizabeth Evans and Catherine Ridd from Morgan Denton Jones explain the key differences and responsibilities for both employers and employees.
In April 2011, the outgoing Labour government introduced the additional paternity leave system, designed to allow fathers to take part of the mother's unused entitlement to leave. In reality, this had very little impact (only about 0.6% of eligible employees made use of it) but now a new system has come into force to replace additional paternity leave and with the intention of addressing some of its pitfalls (particularly in relation to pay).
For ease, we refer to "father" and "mother" throughout this article but recognise that this may not always be the child's biological father and could be the mother or primary adopter's spouse, civil partner or partner. Similarly we make reference to "maternity leave" but the rights referred to in this note apply equally to adoptive parents and adoption leave.
What is SPL?
SPL entitles parents of babies due, or children placed for adoption on or after 5 April 2015, to share leave. In other words, both the mother and the father of the child can utilise the entitlement to leave of up to 50 weeks (the law still requires a period of 2 weeks' compulsory maternity leave).
One of the key changes is that SPL can be taken in blocks, with employees now able to stop and start their leave, and return to work in between, without forfeiting their entitlement. For example, a mother may choose to work alternately with her partner and take leave every other month.
Employees can also choose to take SPL at the same time as their partner, each taking up to 25 weeks concurrently. All in all, the aim of these changes is to offer employees more choice and flexibility around the responsibility and timing of leave (which may go some way towards challenging gender stereotypes when it comes to caring for children).
How does it work?
Employees are not obliged to take SPL; the default position on the birth of a child remains that the mother will take 52 weeks of maternity leave. If the mother wishes to take SPL then she will need to "opt in" by notifying her employer of her intention to end her maternity leave and share the untaken leave with the father.
An employee can choose to opt in to SPL at any time within the 52 week window, provided that they give at last 8 weeks' prior notice (and have completed the 2 weeks' compulsory maternity leave).
Where an employee requests to take one continuous period of SPL, this must be accepted by their employer. Where an employee requests discontinuous periods of leave however, they must give notice and the employer has two weeks to either accept the proposal, propose an alternative, or refuse it.
Where an employer refuses the periods requested, the employee may choose to take the total amount of leave
requested as a continuous period or withdraw their original notice. By law, an employee can serve up to three notices of SPL.
There are certain eligibility requirements that the employee and their partner must satisfy in order to qualify for SPL including in relation to continuity of employment and earnings, which are largely the same as the requirements for maternity leave and paternity leave respectively. Employers may request that employees provide evidence of their entitlement to take SPL.
As with current forms of leave, during SPL all of the employee's terms and conditions apply except for those
relating to pay. There are also additional provisions outlined in the regulations for 'Keeping In Touch' days, additional redundancy protections and the right to return to work after a period of SPL.
What about pay?
Employees are entitled to receive shared parental pay ("ShPP") for up to 37 weeks (the first 2 weeks of the 39 being
the compulsory period of maternity leave). This is payable at the same rate as the flat statutory maternity pay rate payable during weeks 7-39 of maternity leave (currently £138.18 per week or 90% of the employee's earnings, whichever is lower). If enhanced benefits (pay or otherwise) will be offered during SPL, they should be provided equally to male and female employees.
There has been some debate as to whether employers who offer enhanced maternity pay, should also offer enhanced
ShPP. To be clear, there is no express obligation under the legislation to do so and the government does appear to be of the view that this is not required. However, depending on how the case law develops employees may be able to argue either now or in the future that failure to do so amounts to discrimination. The most likely claim is for indirect discrimination by men, on the basis that paying enhanced maternity pay but not enhanced ShPP puts men at a particular disadvantage compared with women. It has been accepted, in the context of additional paternity leave, that such a claim could succeed and it may be difficult for employers to objectively justify such a decision on the grounds of cost alone.
Nonetheless, employers may want to retain a practice of treating maternity and SPL differently, pending further clarification by the courts. Employers can point to the government's technical guidance to support this approach, but should recognise that there remains some degree of risk.
Next steps
Employers are best advised to draft an SPL policy setting out the various requirements and rights, especially in relation to notification and eligibility for SPL, which are relatively complicated. It is also advisable for employers to engage with their employees about SPL and how it will work; employers may find that the new system provides them with more flexibility too.
Should you wish to discuss SPL and how it might affect your business in more detail, please feel free to contact one of the team who will be happy to help. In addition, if you would like us to draft a SPL policy for you, then we can do so for £300 plus VAT.


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Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Maestría en Ingeniería de Software (MIS) (in Spanish)
The Master of Software Engineering program has been created to meet the demand for professionals in the software industry and to provide the skills and knowledge necessary for developing large scale software.
This program gives students a high-level training in principles, best practices, and advanced technologies in software engineering, and is aimed at experienced professionals and academics who want to learn about best practices and technologies in this area.
The Master of Software Engineering program in is based on the curriculum of Carnegie Mellon University, an institution renowned for offering one of the best programs in the world in this field. This requires students to have knowledge of English in order to enroll in the program.
Graduates of this program, Mexican and foreign, are working in the software industry as project leaders, managers and developers. Some have continued on to doctoral studies.
The program is offered by CIMAT's IngSoft group, the largest group dedicated to software engineering research in Mexico.
For more details about the program, visit www.ingsoft.mx (in Spanish)