My "Island Inflatables" 2.6M was leaking water in, and air out. Had it a while. Quite good quality,not a bargain basement Chinese import, no Zodiac either, not hypalon,quite large diameter tubes, and takes a 6-10hp outboard(mine is 6hp Tohatsu). Maybe time for a new one, but I figured I`d try fixing it.
To find the water leak,I put it on supports, on paving, to see underneath, and poured water in. A seeping leak appeared at the corner formed by the transom. I marked it,and drained the water. The transom drain plug fitting I had suspected tested fine.
To find the air leak I inflated it hard and went over all the seams brushing on soapy water, like testing for propane leaks.
Eventually I got a good bubble at a seam of a side tube, but the seam was part covered with a reinforcing join strip.
Using reinforced pvc material and Sika waterproof contact cement I patched the water leak. The patch, and the area to be patched, were well sanded,wiped with acetone, and brought together after 2 coats of glue were touch dry, followed by much pressing and pushing towards the edges.Then left for 24 hours.
The leaking seam was more difficult,I couldn`t see the defect, but knew where it was. I had some Sika polyurethane glue on hand, it`s supposed to require one surface to be porous, pvc rubber is not, after talking to Sika I ran the glue into the area. It is thin, runs well, and has gap filling ability. I saw air bubble through the glue. More glue, and let it set for 24 hours, weighted to allow flow towards the defect. Then sanded the glue smooth and followed the patch procedure.
The dinghy has 3 air chambers, each side and bow. The bow was deflating, to a lesser extent, with the side tube, but I found no bow defect. When I inflated the repaired side chamber the bow one went hard, I figure the loss of support pressure of the deflating side chamber allowed the bow one to slump towards it.
That or a communicating internal leak, but I doubt that.
I`m yet to test the water leak, but fairly sure it`s fixed. So I sent the Admiral a confident message "It`s rock-hard." We`ll see what happens when I drop it in the water tomorrow.
Good job Bruce, I admire your tenacity in solving a problem !
The Saturday results for anyone breathlessly following the thread. A draw:Bruce 1, Dinghy 1. No air leak, but water leaked in. A suspicious area at the transom where the rubber mounts from the side tubes attach was confirmed by pouring water at the corners and seeing it emerge into the dinghy.
I`ll throw a tube of Sikaflex at it, pumped into the corners and along the seams, if that fails that`s probably the end. I`m guessing the motor torque affects these areas by force exerted on the transom.
It is interesting getting up close with the dinghy, if I wasn`t retired I `d have junked it as uneconomic, billed work hours would quickly have paid for the new one, but it`s become a challenge. And while chronologically 9yrs old, it spent much of its life reclining on straps under the garage ceiling.
I suspect a reason inflatables seams etc give trouble is they are imported crunched and rammed into boxes to minimize shipping space,straining joins and seams. A replacement will have endured that potentially damaging process.
On the plus side, we finally fitted the St Croix crane on the FB, and used it, without undue violence to the FB, to lift the dinghy from dock to FB,with a number of the dock neighbours present to applaud. Great piece of equipment,well designed and made, totally removable if wished, save for a small baseplate.
I hope this thread helps someone else trying to extend dinghy life. It`s been challenging fun playing about with it.
Bruce, Iv'e got a dinghy that goes very flet in between visits to the boat. Takes about 2 weeks to go down though, so I just pump it up for looks, in case a prospective buyer looks at the boat. I sort of have it half-heartedly on the market. Do you do house calls..?
RTF, my 'research" found dinghy specific liquid sealants you pour in via the inflation valve,you inflate and roll and turn the dinghy around to distribute the goo. The sellers say it is very successful(they would, wouldn`t they).I might resort to it if the soapy water technique failed to identify the air leak. It might be good on generally porous tubes, but if the dinghy is that leaky, it`s the dumpster, though I believe people do re-tube hypalon dinghies,but it is not cheap.
Sorry Peter, no house calls, find a quiet hour, go over the seams with soapy water, air leaks are easier to find and fix than water ones.
I notice my dinghy has just one overinflation relief valve, for the bow chamber. That reinforces my view the side tubes influence the bow one, so overinflation of a side chamber could press on the bow chamber, causing it to, ahem, relieve itself, and thereby relieve the side chamber.
Bruce, a mate of mine had the same transom issue on his Zodiac. He valiantly tried every fix known to man, alas to no avail.
He is now the proud owner of a new hypalon RIB.
Regarding the St Croix crane, I installed one on Sarawana a couple of years ago, great piece of kit. Though there is some rust coming through in places, despite being SS.
Andy, I attacked the transom joins with sealant, incl pumping it into the suspect corners. "Sea Trial" next Saturday. If it fails, that`s probably it.
The St. Croix instructions say to apply wax, on your experience I will, though I plan removing the mast and arm(not the baseplate) except when using it regularly. Should be 316, maybe it`s not.
Dinghy was relaunched today, 2 on board, and inside remained dry as a dead dingo`s donger, as we say here. I hope the sealing withstands the load of an outboard on the transom, the sealant used is tenacious and highly flexible, here`s hoping for another year or so.
We made up a 4 point lifting harness for the dinghy to connect to the block of the new St Croix Junior 190 crane, splicing the snap shackle and central ring attachments. Finding the center of balance to lift without the dinghy tilting took time, adjusting rope lengths to get it right.
Hopefully that`s it for a while for dinghy maintenance. One thing I learned when applying patches, is to round the corners of the patch. Looks neater, but more importantly I think it removes potential patch adhesion failure at a 90 degree corner.
Well done Bruce! Hopefully the sealant will last and you will enjoy your honorable dinghy some more years!
Yeah, I have a similar issue with my carib 11 light as Peter. No obvious leaks but all 3 tubes gradually lose air over the course of a couple of weeks. I think it is just general decline/seams as it is a 2007 model. It's still plenty usable and looks really good so I hate to replace it.
I've been thinking of trying the sealant. A buddy used it on his boat with good results. Anybody tried it? Do you need to put a bottle in each tube?
We've used it twice with great results. The first time on an inflatable keel we were ready to throw in the dump. The last time, 10 years ago when we first bought Hobo. We sold the 13.5' rib that came with her and hadn't found a replacement. A friend let us use his 10.5 inflatable. After 3-4 days we had to re-inflate. We couldn't find any visible leaks so we tried a sealant from Polymarine. The bottle, I think was less than a liter. We poured it into the 3 chambers via the valves, inflated and rolled the dinghy around. We did an air exchange/inflation/roll and repeated 3 times. When we returned the dinghy 2 months later it was still fully inflated. I don't want to sound like an ad but the stuff worked for us.
The only issue we had was I was a little careless pouring it into a valve and had to disassemble the valve to clean it so it would seal.


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Q: jQuery - Prevent Select Value from substituting text if no val is present I have a select and the first option is normally "Please select blah, blah, blah" and has no value so when I do a check using the code below, I get a value of "Please select an option" for the first option. How do I prevent this?
See here for an example, https://jsfiddle.net/nvcc84st/
CODE
<select>
  <option>Please select an option</option>
  <option value="one">Option One</option>
  <option value="two">Option Two</option>
  <option value="three">Option Three</option>
</select>

$('select').on('change', function(){
  if ( $(this).val ) {
    // do something
  }
});

A: I don't believe you can prevent this value from going to your JQuery code.  However you could just test for it and discard.
$('select').on('change' function() {
    if ($(this).val() == "Please select an option") {
        // do nothing
    } else {
        // do something
    }
});

Or
$('select').on('change' function() {
    if ($(this).val() != "Please select an option") {
        // do something
    }
});

A: Try to leave the value = "" in the first option and in the JavaScript code you can control if the user has selected the first option
<select>
 <option value="">Please select an option</option>
 <option value="one">Option One</option>
 <option value="two">Option Two</option>
 <option value="three">Option Three</option>
</select>

The selected value is ???

A: You can also use this:
<select>
<option value="0">Please select an option</option>
<option value="1">Option One</option>
<option value="2">Option Two</option>
<option value="3">Option Three</option>
</select>

The selected value is ???

$('select').on('change', function(){
var selectVal = $(this).val();
if(!parseInt(selectVal))
    {
  selectVal = "";
  }
  console.log('selectVal = ' + selectVal);
    $('span').text(selectVal);
});

A: Here is an example using .find() :selected :not() :contains()
witch unselected option with Please select an option
fiddle
$('select').on('change', function(){
var selectVal = $(this).find("option:selected:not(:contains('Please select an option'))").attr('value');
if(!selectVal)return console.log("not allowed");
  console.log('selectVal = ' + selectVal);
    $('span').text(selectVal);
});

A: Another solution to disable first-child option
Note: not recommended if you want to set option as placeholder and still available after selection.
See Fiddle
$("select option:first-child").attr("disabled",true);

or disable option :contains your text as you like.
$("select option:contains('Please select an option')").attr("disabled",true)

also disable option with value="SPECIFIC_VALUE"
$("select option[value='SPECIFIC_VALUE']").attr("disabled",true)

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We were #5 in group B in the running order. Everyone got together before we started and walked the 4 events: indoor was a small room in the school with tables stacked on top of each other and 2 sets of office furniture. Two desks and 2 chairs, rubber waste baskets. Outside the building there were 3-4 vehicles (can't remember exactly). The containers were in an X pattern ( you were expecting them to be patterned like an ORT? Not here), and finally the outside search was in a tiny courtyard with a walkway and some grass on either side. Nothing that we haven't seen before except for all of the wait stations that you moved systematically through before the event. Later after the walk through, at the briefing the judges and officials answered questions and were told that if the judge asked you were the hide was you had to be exact as if you had to retrieve it yourself. Close only counted in horseshoes. This freaked me out a little. I believe the man's name was Bob and he was a former policeman who trained and worked with German Shepherds. He supposedly wrote the book on nose work.
When #4 was flipped over on the stand, Becca and I approached the test odor boxes. She wanted nothing to do with them. Very odd. We finally started on the trail of wait stations. Our first event was the inside room with the office stuff. We walked in the room she took 2 whiffs at the chair and desk next to the entry and turned around and wanted out. I tried to move her through the run, but she stuck close to me and sat down 3 times. I was working my way back to the chair when the 3 min time was called. If you put a gun to my head and asked me if the 30 sec warning had been called I would have said no. Otherwise, I would have made a beeline for the chair again. Zero faults but we ran over the time limit. Zero points. The judge said she had no odor obedience. She is a pleas-or and was unsure in the new environment. He said she went right to the odor, touched it and wanted to go. He told me not to get frustrated and when I reward her go over the top. I wonder how our other dog, Jake , will take this since he is on a diet.
Next we went thru the waiting stations to get to the vehicles. Becca caught the scent (yes, you go girl) and began sniffing the running board and the corner of the front fender. I called the alert in 38 sec and 57 hundredths of a sec. The scent was on the exact spot except on the other side of the vehicle. The judge said she knew her odor she caught scent of it quickly but it was on the other side of the car. More experience with gusting wind will help and good trust in the dog's odor recognition. I couldn't believe it. We had never missed on vehicles before. Zero points and 2 faults.
Back to the car to wait for all 48 dogs to finish before lunch break. A nice volunteer named Terri, from Oregon, came over and loaned us her metallic cover and a small battery operated fan for the dash board. The match started back up around 1:30pm. I walked Becca over early. There was a young oriental girl sitting there with a pencil and a book busily scribbling something. ( Maybe she was Japanese and went to this school) I asked her if she wanted to give Becca a treat and she was very excited. No problem with Becca here. Then the girl handed me the cutest drawing that she had done of Becca. I should have had her sign it. You never no, Picasso may have started this way.
Everyone wondered what kind of dog Becca was and said how adorable she was. Now we started the maze of hall, stairs and wait stations. Our first event here was the white container boxes. We went in and she was working until she saw an exit door and she wanted to leave again. I told her no, we still had work to do. She finally caught the odor and sniffed one box on 3 sides. I called the alert and held my breath. Yes! She had gotten it right in 1 min 17 sec and 77 hundredths of a second. Thank you God. The judge told me always positive comments towards the dog. They never let us down, we let them down. Becca has lots of potential. No faults and 25 pts. We went outside where she was given a chance to pee and have water and she refused both. Now back thru the maze inside the school and to the waiting areas. When we got to the final door before entering the final event, the outside hide, we were introduced like we were at a royal event. "Presenting Pamela and Becca." Again Becca wanted to leave the event area but I brought her back and was trying to work her. I stepped into the grass and her nose made a beeline to sniff the grass. Oh, no. She's tracking to mark and I tried to pull her away as she squatted and peed in front on the judge. The judge said she was sorry. Peeing is an immediate disqualification. Yes she had potty breaks all day long and before each event. On our trek back to the car she peed 3 more times. Everyone kept asking if we were having fun. Yeah, I love working my dog in 86 degree weather, trying not to drop a treat (another disqualification), climbing hill and dale and stairs and mazes without being very successful. Well, I guess since Becca and I have only been working on this since March. I guess we can feel really good about getting one hide. Also a lot of the other contestants had handled dogs in other sports. So this was our maiden voyage for the two of us.
Carla and I chatted and compared results. Between us we had one perfect dog. The events Becca missed Gimme got and Gimme blew the containers Fringing, (smelling the odor one box off). We couldn't decide to call this new wonder dog Becme or Gimca. Finally at 3:30pm the trial was over. Now the long wait for the debriefing. I lost $1.00 to Carla as we bet on when it would start. It took over an hour. When it began they were giving individual times for placement. In one event third place was 6 sec. Six seconds for third. Holy banana oil , Batman. The fast time in one event was 2 seconds. I can't walk thru the door in 2 seconds and the all around best time was a little over 1 min. Darn those border terriers. They also awarded the Harry Award to a rescue named Apollo. He also took a gold ribbon in all around and got several other awards. We honor Harry because he was a rescue who was going to compete and was bitten by a snake and died 3 days prior to the first event. But as the judge pointed out he might have competed and peed in the outdoor search. LOL. Everyone who passed got a ribbon plus there were the placement awards. Finally it was over and we couldn't wait to get out of there. We got Terri's stuff back to her and left. I was trying to program the GPS with Becca asleep on my lap and Charles asked if we turned on 400St SE. Not wanting to break my record for the day I said no. This led to a detour around the river and through Geyser Park. We got home at 6:37pm to be met with the silver car cover where we left it in the kitchen, two dogs, and absolute exhaustion.
I had no idea how nervous I was until I heard that last "yes" from the judge and then I knew we had passed NW2. I felt this rush of emotion and relief come over me. I was so very proud of what we had just accomplished.
Jill took me on amazing ride that day!
Part 1 – First up was the Interior, 2 rooms with 1 hide each. She seemed to be in odor quickly in the first room but took a while to pinpoint the hide behind a switch plate. The 2nd room went much faster and again the hide was behind a switchplate….so I'm told. I could not for the life of me remember where the hide was in that room. Nerves!!
On to Vehicles! We had a nice breeze blowing at us and she hit the first odor fairly quickly on the trailer and then turned and bee-lined for the vehicle. The odor was up in the wheel well. She had her nose on it once and backed out to check the front of the truck and then right back to the wheel well and alerted. First 2 elements down and now time for a long break to contemplate what we had just done and what was to come.
Part 2 – We started with Containers. The walk through in the morning had me concerned, mostly about the amount of containers, luggage in this case. Jill is not a methodical searcher she is a scattered searcher. How was I going to keep track of where we had been and make sure we got back to those unchecked containers? Not only did I fear the amount of luggage out there but I also knew there was a food distraction. Jill is the ultimate chow hound and we hadn't done a lot of practicing with a food distraction so I had the fear of her alerting or at the very least tearing into the container to get the tasty morsel. Nope, she was all business. The famous words of "Trust Your Dog" rang loud in my head and in 29 seconds we were done and passed that element! What had just happened? Maybe we lucked out, as I learned later that we never approached the food distraction. But I'd like to think Jill knew what her mission was and stuck to it.
OK, one more element to go. The Exterior search was a concern to me also, as Jill tends to bolt into the area when given her search command. She could easily drag me down to the ground if I'm not on my toes. Thank goodness, there were no face plants. With the way the Exterior was set up I decided early on to run her on leash again due to her searching method, as there were areas accessible that were not in play. Jill seemed to pick the odor up fairly quickly but again had a hard time pin pointing and alerting. I had a good idea where it was by her search and could have called the alert but really wanted to be sure since we were so close to passing NW2. She finally worked it out and I called alert. The "Yes" coming out of the judge's mouth was the sweetest sound. Jill and I celebrated all the way back to the car.
The awards presentation was a sweet surprise as we received 2 first place ribbons, one for fastest Vehicle search and one for the dreaded Container search. I was so proud! We collected our books and judges sheets and learned that we had received 3 "P's". We also learned a valuable lesson. Somehow during the interior search I had dropped some food. I had no idea it happened. This gave us 1 fault and knocked us down from 2nd fastest time overall to #18. I let Jill down but you know what, she doesn't know or care! She had a blast and so did I!
Now on to chasing our NW3 title where i have no other choice but to Trust My Dog!
What follows is Cindy Franke's report on her NW3 experience with her English Bull Dog Rigel Orion. Cindy is a fantastic student of K9 Nose Work. She really studies her dog and his movements and has worked hard to get to this high level of trialing. I'm incredibly proud of her and of Rigel as well. Cindy also spent 5 full days at the trial site, helping set up, break down, and being there to work first thing in the morning, every day of the trial, even working between her runs [not recommended but she pulled it off very well]!
There is no one on this planet higher than I after this weekend at the first NW3 trial in the northwest. I am one end of a most amazing K9 Nose Work team. My partner, the incredibull Rigel Orion is the smart end of our team. For those few people in this universe that don't know, Rigel is an incredible English Bulldog; typical in his mannerisms, focus, and gait, but remarkable in his loyalty and generosity of spirit and cooperation.
Rigel and I earned our NW2 title in late February this year in Enumclaw, WA. Knowing of all the complexities and criteria of NW3 trials made me unsure of our readiness for this level but the opportunity to trial in our own backyard and gain invaluable trial experience overruled my cautiousness, so enter we did.
The weather was cool and wet, and we were the first team in the running order of 21 dogs which eliminated all the waiting at queue up stations which typically cuts into Rigel's enthusiasm.
note and called "finish" to end the search. There was another hide so we didn't qualify in that element but we were enormously successful just by the fact that we covered the room so well. I was thrilled beyond words in our effort.
Our next element was the Vehicle search. Two cars, a horse trailer, and two utility trailers were in this search. I let Rigel choose his search direction from the start line. He headed along the passenger side of one of the cars where his head snapped in passing and he quickly alerted on the first hide (on the hinged seam of the door that was revealing odor from inside the car). After the "yes" from the judge, we moved around that car to the second car and then on to the small utility trailer. He alerted on the trailer and again, we heard "yes" from the judge. After working around the remaining sides of the utility trailers and cars we started to work around the horse trailer when Rigel alerted on the hitch.
Hearing "yes" again, I gave Rigel his reward and called "finish" to end the search. The only vehicle that we didn't end up searching was the horse trailer so again I was ecstatic about our ability to get around the search area within our allotted time. We had successfully passed the Vehicle element.
go. I continued to keep Rigel moving toward the last bag as I counted down from "10". At the last bag and with about 2 seconds remaining in my countdown, I called "finish" to end the search. Of the 21 competing teams, seven (7) passed the container element. Rigel was among those seven AND we earned a "P" for pronounced. JOY! Most teams false alerted on the distracters (a muffin and some toys).
From the Containers we moved directly to the Exterior element. This element was conducted in a considerably sized, bark-dusted playground area. Time limit was 5 minutes and the area was secured which allowed handlers to work off leash if desired. I chose to keep Rigel on leash and again let him choose to start his own direction. From there, I continued on to a perimeter search. We quickly covered ground and Rigel successfully alerted on a swing set seat. After checking the last two swing seats Rigel snapped his head upwind and followed an odor back to a play structure shaped as a fire engine. There he alerted on a second odor which we also "got". I continued to move Rigel around the search area and "presented" several areas to him that he dutifully "sniffed". After covering most of the ground in the search area Rigel began to show less enthusiasm so I ended our search with a "finish". I was SO happy with our ability to cover so much ground and keep motivated that I really didn't care if there was another hide; which there was.
From that moment, I was on a high that I still haven't begun to come down from. In the overall standings Rigel actually ranked a remarkable 11th of the 21 teams.
NW3 turned out to be very liberating for me. I am finally "getting it". Not knowing how many hides there were in an element forced me to have to turn total control over to my dog. I gave him the reins and put my total trust in him for the first time ever. Though I had thought I was already trusting my dog and not trying to "think" during our searches, I realized how much chaos had been going on in my mind before that. My confidence in my dog and clearness of mind transferred to Rigel and he responded remarkably.
Although we did not "title" in NW3 this weekend, in this handler's heart, Rigel earned a title of heart worth much more to me.


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We're delighted to say that over 50 gifts have been donated to Cash For Kids' Mission Christmas Toy Appeal via the collection point at the Crown Oil Arena.
Items for children of all ages have been dropped off, from a trampoline to a table top pool table, games and cars, to dolls and smelly sets, as well as selection boxes and colouring books with pens and pencils.
We would like to thank everyone who donated a gift for their generosity.
Monday 17th December was the last day to drop off any items, and staff from MID Communications came to collect the huge box of goodies on Tuesday. They'll make sure the box full of presents is sent to the Mission Christmas team, so that they are distributed in time for Christmas.
Mission Christmas is a Bauer Radio's network initiative, aimed at supporting the needs of children in our local communities, and has been set-up to make sure no child in the Rochale or the North West wakes up on Christmas morning without a present to open.


Hyundai Motor Company and H2 Energy AG have signed a contract for a joint venture, Hyundai Hydrogen Mobility, aimed at taking a lead across Europe's burgeoning hydrogen mobility ecosystem.
The venture will then lease a large portion of these fuel-cell powered trucks to the H2 Mobility Switzerland Association, which comprises major refuelling station operators, transport and logistics companies, as well as to various other industry players that promote hydrogen mobility in Switzerland.
With the establishment of Hyundai Hydrogen Mobility, Hyundai expects to gain a foothold in Switzerland, where the demand for fuel cell trucks is expected to grow from a stiff nationwide road tax on diesel trucks, which incentivises fleet operators of diesel trucks to switch to zero emission vehicles.
H2 Energy has industrywide capabilities throughout Switzerland's hydrogen ecosystem, encompassing hydrogen production and supply, refuelling stations, fuel cell vehicle procurement and other fields.
The company also offers technical and consulting solutions, drawing on its engineering expertise, extensive infrastructure, solid market presence and close industrywide connections.
Hyundai Motor is a world leader in the development of hydrogen fuel cell technology, becoming the world's first automaker to commercialize fuel-cell electric vehicles with the introduction of ix35 Fuel Cell (also known as Tucson Fuel Cell in some markets) in 2013.
NEXO – Hyundai's second-generation FCEV with a 609-kilometer range on a single charge (under Korean certification standards) – emits only clean water vapor and purifies the air while driving.
The fuel-cell electric powertrain technology has advantages over the battery electric powertrain technology in large commercial vehicles, such as trucks and buses.
An EU-backed project called the European SMEs Robotic Applications, or Esmera, has launched a competition to find solutions to industrial end-user challenges.


Hi all, I've got a 3.5 year old Inspiron 15z laptop, and noticed that it doesn't want to start up any more. With the power adapter in, the "Power" LED on the laptop turns on after I press it, and the 3 quick start buttons also light up briefly. I hear the fan start, and then nothing. The screen stays black, the power LED stays on, but that's it.
I do know that it is getting power, since I've completely drained the battery and the power button LED won't light up unless I plug in the adapter. The LED on the adapter brick is green.
Am I stuck with having to replace the motherboard? I'm at a loss as to what else could be wrong. I've also tried doing a reset via the button near the RAM slots.
Thanks Robert... I've tried all those suggestions at least twice, no luck. It does seem like the laptop fails POST, based on what I've read, so I'll focus on that. Really hoping it isn't a shot motherboard.


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The two sparked reconciliation rumors recently when they were seen hanging out at the same two spots in London despite them leaving at separate times. They initially split after a four-month courtship. "They're just very different people," an insider told People Magazine at the time, though a second insider claimed the two were "hoping they might work it out." A second insider added: "They love each other very much, having dated quietly for some time before it became public. [But] they are in different life stages."
They reportedly began dating just one month after he announced his separation from The Cosby Show alum Lisa Bonet. "Right now, it's not a very serious situation, and they're both just seeing where it goes," a source told People who added they were dating "exclusively" after "meeting through work and mutual connections."
"They've been spending time together when they can and making it work between their two busy schedules," the source continued, adding that González shares "the same spirit" as Momoa and is a "very fun, down-for-anything type person and is pretty adventurous for the most part. It's not that he's not taking it seriously, but with his kids, he's not going to rush into anything quickly," the insider said.
Bonet and Momoa split after 16 years together, and four years of marriage. They have two children together. Their statement read in part: 'We have all felt the squeeze and changes of these transformational times…A revolution is unfolding and our family is of no exception…feeling and growing from the seismic shifts occurring."
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I spoke with Times of India on December 25 regarding increased scrutiny of H-1B petitions.
The USCIS has done a lot in the past few months to make it harder to qualify for H-1B visas. The percentage of H-1B cases receiving a request for evidence has doubled to 41%. The USCIS is questioning whether some computer positions require a bachelor's degree.
In addition to the USCIS taking longer to approve H-1B petitions, the State Department consulates are screening H-1B visa applications more carefully than before. All in all, it is harder than ever to get an H-1B these days.


Home / Opinion / Editor / Greece: Winds of Change?
The wave of Indignants appears to be spreading increasingly and the virus of "Speak Up"-disease infects more and more people and social classes. The voices of those seeking changes in the deadlocked political system are getting louder. No, no, there not demands about 'anarchistic revolts, "overturning the order" and other scary political concepts, as some circles here are trying to imply in order to undermine the general outcry. People demand other changes, democratic changes, structural changes of a system that many Greeks consider as "disdained" and "obsolete" and "in process of total decay".
"Responsibility", "Cleaning" "Punishment", "Democratic procedures" are the slogans that shake Greece these days. To the rows of low pensioners, students, jobless, employees, impoverished and middle classes protesting daily in front of the Parliament, come more and more academics and intellectuals. They raise their voices and even manage to break long standing Greek systemic taboos: To slip near the microphones of the mainstream media and draw attention to the government that the political system is collapsing and needs urgently structural reforms. That the deep crisis Greece is experiencing is not only economic, but also political and cultural.
On the opposite side, on the side of the government and its supportive media, reactions to the indignant movement came with heavy heart and only after the mass protests swelled in numbers that could not be ignored. Their reactions is rather 'patronizing' with commentators and some politicians describing the movement as "sympathetic". Deputy PM went even so far to speak of a "fashion wave of new technologies".
As the movement consists of the whole mosaic tiny stones of the Greek society that's a small possibility too. However, if political forces, especially those in power, do not listen to the challenges of the current times, I dare to assume that they will be soon lose the last pieces of dignity they might still have in the eyes of citizens, i.e. their voters.
Trying to degradate a public outcry, trying to level the needs for charge, trying downgrade mass protests shows only a high level of arrogance. And it verifies what many common people say: that the government has lost all contact to the society.
I entitled the article "Winds of Change". But so far the changes refer only to the needs of citizens for it. Hopefully politicians won't ignore them and turn a deaf ear to this historic momentum.


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7 Other Reasons Every American Should Be Worried About Alabama Senate Candidate Roy Moore
Who Is Alabama Senate Republican Candidate Roy Moore?
December 12, 2017 by Chelsea Adelaine Hassler First Published: September 27, 2017
Update: After a series of reports surrounding Roy Moore and sexual misconduct with young women, it was announced on Nov. 27 that President Donald Trump would refrain from campaigning for Moore. The original story, as published in September 2017, remains unchanged below.
The Republican Party is not having a great year. From failing to meet the seven-year-old promise to repeal and replace Obamacare — despite holding a majority in Congress — to continuously playing defense for an erratic president, the establishment has spent far more time spinning its wheels than enacting any sort of political agenda. And if Roy Moore's Senate nomination win is any indication, things are about to get a whole hell of a lot worse for the GOP.
On Sept. 26, Alabama Republicans hit the polls to vote for the party's Senate candidate. The seat in question was the one vacated when President Donald Trump tapped then-Senator Jeff Sessions for the role of attorney general and had been held in the interim by GOP-backed Luther Strange. But despite his incumbent status and the heavy push on behalf of the White House and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Strange lost the special election to former Alabama state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore.
While Moore hasn't secured the seat — he still has to face off against Democratic challenger Doug Jones in the December general election — there are more than a few reasons this early victory is a frightening one, and not just for the Republican establishment to which his win comes as a huge blow. The ideology that he stands for runs counter to much of what this country is built on, and the ascendancy of his particular brand of insurrectionism is something that nobody should be taking lightly.
Donald Trump may have been a disruption to the establishment when he was elected president, but he holds the office with a malleable set of values that he can be persuaded to drop or forget. Moore is far more dangerous, as he lives and dies by his beliefs and has no qualms about putting it all on the line in order to get what he wants. And having that type of person in office frankly poses a far bigger threat to democracy than we've ever faced before.
To give a bit more context, below are seven things every American should know about Moore, his politics, and the movement he represents. And if you're looking for an outlet after reading through, you've got lots of options to choose from to join in the fight against the right.
1. He has been removed from office for defying the law. Twice.
Moore was first ejected from the role of chief justice in 2003 when he disobeyed a court order to remove a 5,200-pound monument of the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the state's judicial building. He ran for the same position again in 2012, but was permanently removed in 2016 after he was caught encouraging probate judges to disobey the Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.
2. He has been on a vendetta against LGBTQ+ families for years.
In his ruling on a 2002 custody case involving a lesbian mother, Moore described homosexuality as "an inherent evil against which children must be protected." He's a vehement objector to the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling (see point No. 1), and when confronted about the fact that his beliefs were similar to those of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Moore responded by saying, "Well, maybe Putin is right. Maybe he's more akin to me than I know."
3. He uses religion and slurs in equal measure to bolster his cause.
"We were torn apart in the Civil War — brother against brother, North against South, party against party," Moore said at a rally in September. "What changed? Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting. What's going to unite us? What's going to bring us back together? A president? A Congress? No. It's going to be God." When confronted by those who were offended by his comments and found them tasteless, Moore did not back down, instead taking to Twitter to emphasize that the sentiment was religious in nature and therefore true. "'Red, yellow, black and white they are precious in His sight.' Jesus loves the little children of the world. This is the Gospel. If we take it seriously, America can once again be united as one nation under God."
4. He thinks 9/11 was God punishing America for rejecting his values.
Moore feels that because "we legitimize sodomy" and "legitimize abortion" in America, we are effectively rejecting the word of God. According to CNN, he expounded on this to a crowd at a campaign rally, saying that the 9/11 attacks were in retaliation for those stances: "Because you have despised His word and trust in perverseness and oppression, and say thereon . . . therefore this iniquity will be to you as a breach ready to fall, swell out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instance. Sounds a little bit like the Pentagon, whose breaking came suddenly at an instance, doesn't it?"
It also didn't stop there. "If you think that's coincidence, if you go to verse 25, 'There should be up on every high mountain and upon every hill rivers and streams of water in the day of the great slaughter when the towers will fall,'" Moore added, noting, "You know, we've suffered a lot in this country, maybe, just maybe, because we've distanced ourselves from the one that has it within his hands to heal this land."
5. He believes that Muslims shouldn't be allowed to hold office in the US.
Moore wrote an article titled "Muslim Ellison Should Not Sit in Congress" for Worldnetdaily.com in 2006. The first paragraph tells you everything you need to know about the rest of it: "Last month Keith (Hakim Mohammad) Ellison of Minnesota became the first Muslim elected to serve in the United States Congress and shocked many Americans by declaring that he would take his oath of office by placing his hand on the Quran rather than the Bible. Can a true believer in the Islamic doctrine found in the Quran swear allegiance to our Constitution? Those who profess a sincere belief in Allah say 'No!'"
6. Despite all the evidence, he still thinks Barack Obama isn't an American.
A CNN investigation uncovered that Moore was still saying that Obama wasn't American as recently as the end of 2016. Yes, that's right — even after Trump admitted that the birther thing wasn't real, Moore still believed it.
7. He honestly believes that parts of the US are under Sharia law.
Moore revealed this stance to Vox's Jeff Stein back in August. Here's the exchange, verbatim, because it's just too wild to describe:
Jeff Stein: "Some right-wing conservatives think Sharia law is a danger to America — do you?"
Roy Moore: "There are communities under Sharia law right now in our country. Up in Illinois. Christian communities; I don't know if they may be Muslim communities. But Sharia law is a little different from American law. It is founded on religious concepts."
Jeff Stein: "Which American communities are under Sharia law? When did they fall under Sharia law?"
Roy Moore: "Well, there's Sharia law, as I understand it, in Illinois, Indiana — up there. I don't know."
Jeff Stein: "That seems like an amazing claim for a Senate candidate to make."
Roy Moore: "Well, let me just put it this way — if they are, they are; if they're not, they're not. That doesn't matter. Oklahoma tried passing a law restricting Sharia law, and it failed. Do you know about that?"
Jeff Stein: "No, I don't."
Roy Moore: "Well, it did. The thing about it is it shouldn't have failed because it can be restricted because it's based on religious principles . . . Be careful on the religion [question] because it's very confusing. People don't explain the definition of religion. Put it right at the top, 'Religion is the duties you owe to the creator and the manner of discharging it,' per the United States Supreme Court, per Joseph Story. When you define religion, we get it all straight. You're free to worship Buddha and Muhammad. The reason that is free is because of Christian principles. Because of the two tables of the law — the first table can't be directed by government. He never gave Caesar the authority over the rights of conscience. In fact, it says it right here if you look right there, that the rights of conscience are beyond the reach of any human power; they are given by God and cannot be encroached on by any human authority without a criminal disobedience of the precepts of natural or revealed religion."
Jeff Stein: "I'd like to learn more about the communities in America you think are under Sharia law."
Roy Moore: "I was informed that there were. But if they're not, it doesn't matter. Sharia law incorporates Muslim law into the law. That's not what we do. We do not punish people according to the Christian precepts of our faith — so there's a difference. I'll just say: I don't know if there are. I understand that there are some."
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House District 29 candidates vie for votes
By Jenny Neyman • Aug 17, 2018
House District 29 candidates Ben Carpenter (left) and Wayne Ogle (right) will face each other on the Republican primary ballot Aug. 21, which Shawn Butler (center), an independent, will appear on the general election ballot.
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Candidates for the Northern Kenai Peninsula House District 29 agreed on more issues than not in a forum held by the Kenai and Soldotna Chambers of Commerce on Wednesday in Kenai. There were differences in priorities and approaches, however.
Ben Carpenter is a 1993 Nikiski High School graduate who is retiring from 21 years of military service this year. He has a peony farm with his family and works as project manager for Epperheimer, Inc., and says his lack of political experience is a mark in his favor.
"We cannot continue to do the same thing that we've always done. We cannot continue to think the same way that we've always thought and expect different results. We need people out of the communities who have never participated in politics to step forward and get involved. And that is the only way that we are going to right this state," Carpenter said.
His first priority is cutting government.
"The challenge is that the economy is showing signs of turning around and the discussion will be less on spending less and more on spending more when we have more money. So my focus will be on continued reduction of spending because it is too high as it is," he said.
Carpenter will face Wayne Ogle on the Republican Primary ticket. Ogle spent 24 years in the Coast Guard and served as the public works director in Bethel, then Kenai. He's represented Nikiski on the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly for the last five years and thinks his governmental experience will help him in Juneau.
"It is very important when you go down to Juneau to that you have some experience because inexperience wastes time, spends money and delays things really getting done," Ogle said.
His first order of business would be supporting the AK LNG project and its terminus in Nikiski.
"I'd like to see that landed for my district — I think that represents an awful lot of jobs — as well as for the entire state of Alaska," he said."
Shawn Butler is running as an independent, so will automatically make it to the general election. She's a retired Army officer, teaches in the computer science department at the University of Alaska Anchorage and runs a bed and breakfast in Hope, where she lives.
"As an independent, I'm tired of the stagnation over partisan politics. I just want to get stuff done. I think that we need a long-term vision for this state that not only manages the spending cuts but also looks to generate new revenue," Butler said.
Her main priority is reducing the cost of health care in Alaska.
"For employers, health care costs are one of the highest costs that most employers have, and I think that we can do a lot better job on health care and bringing the costs down," Butler said.
All three describe themselves as conservative and broadly agree on many issues. They support opening ANWR to oil drilling and allowing the Pebble Mine to go through the permitting process. They oppose the "Stand for Salmon" Ballot Measure One, saying the permitting process that currently exists provides adequate environmental protection.
They all oppose cutting or capping the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend and all support workman's compensation but think the system needs to be reformed to cut down on fraud and waste.
On whether the state should institute an income tax, Ogle and Carpenter are opposed. Ogle says it's "abusive to producing people" and isn't necessary with the current price of oil. Carpenter thinks the priority should be cutting government, rather than raising revenue. Butler favors a progressive wage tax as part of a long-term fiscal plan for the state.
"I think we need lots of different solutions to balance the budget. I am for a progressive wage tax, only because we are already right now suffering from, you can call it a lack of a permanent fund dividend, you're paying that tax. You're not getting the money for your resources. Those are your resources, those are our resources and we need to definitely spread the cost of government across multiple people, and a wage tax would tax the people that are coming to our state that don't live here and yet use our services," Butler said.
Regarding crime, Butler and Ogle think lawmakers should continue improving the legislation that's already in place, especially in imposing stricter consequences for Class C felonies to stop what's called "catch-and-release" crimes. Butler also says there should be more funding for public safety. Carpenter thinks Senate Bill 91, the criminal justice reform bill that took effect in 2016, needs to be scrapped altogether.
"We need people to be able to stand up and say, 'You know what? It didn't do what we thought it wanted it to do, we hear you, we'll repeal it and we'll put place what should have been put there in the first place,'" Carpenter said.
Education funding is one of the biggest costs in the state. Ogle thinks the Department of Education could stand some reductions and is happy that the federal government seems to be leaving states alone for the time being. Carpenter says education should be privatized altogether, while Butler says the answer is improving the quality we get for our investment in education.
On the AK LNG project, Carpenter says the state needs to stop pursuing the project on its own and bring back its business partners. Butler says she would support Nikiski and the borough through the federal permitting process and wants any risks or issues that might arise to be addressed.
Ogle also wants to see the permitting process go as smoothly as possible.
"One of the big issues is basically getting investors involved with the project. That has to happen; it hasn't yet. Also, making sure that the FERC process does go forward. I do believe that the FERC process is an honest process in which issues can be put forward and if the issues cannot be answered, we should not go forward with the project," Ogle said.
The Primary Election is Aug. 21.
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Illegal campaign sign enforcement will arrive on Peninsula after primary election
By Jay Barrett • Aug 15, 2018
As we reported earlier, Alaska's campaign sign laws are a complex combination of state rights-of-way, private-property rights, federal highway law and a 1998 Alaska citizen voter initiative that passed with nearly 75 percent approval that should have left our roadsides pristine.
It is, in essence, very simple, according to Heather Fair, the chief of the DOT's Right of Way division.
"Any sign visible from the traveled way is not allowed," she told KDLL last month when campaign signs first started sprouting.
Kenai-Soldotna gets taste of Republican governor's race
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Three of the candidates hoping to become the Republican nominee for the governor's race shared their views at a joint Kenai-Soldotna Chamber of Commerce forum Wednesday at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex.
Former Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell, former Mat-Su state Sen. Mike Dunleavy and Michael Sheldon shared their views on the state budget, economy, crime, fisheries and many other issues.
Two weeks of absentee voting open before Primary Election Day
By Jay Barrett • Aug 6, 2018
Absentee voting places are open across the state of Alaska now, and will be through Primary Election Day on Aug. 21.
Alaska election law allows for a quartet of ways to vote absentee, including in-person, by mail, by fax or electronically, or through a personal representative.
This year Alaskans will vote on half the state's senators, all the state house members, our governor and his lieutenant, and for U.S. House.


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Publication Date 01/07/2014 Volume. 6 No. 6
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Welcome to the July 2014 homepage edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine.
At the commencement of 2014 i2P focused on the need for the entire profession of pharmacy and its associated industry supports to undergo a renewal and regeneration.
We are now half-way through this year and it is quite apparent that pharmacy leaders do not yet have a cohesive and clear sense of direction.
Maybe the new initiative by Woolworths to deliver clinical service through young pharmacists and nurses may sharpen their focus.
If not, community pharmacy can look forward to losing a substantial and profitable market share of the clinical services market.
Who would you blame when that happens?
But I have to admit there is some effort, even though the results are but meagre.
In this edition of i2P we focus on the need for research about community pharmacy, the lack of activity from practicing pharmacists and when some research is delivered, a disconnect appears in its interpretation and implementation.
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Feature Contribution
Woolworths Pharmacy - Getting One Stage Closer
It started with "tablet" computers deployed on shelves inside the retailer Coles, specifically to provide information to consumers relating to pain management and the sale of strong analgesics.
This development was reported in i2P under the title "Coles Pharmacy Expansion and the Arid PGA Landscape"
In that article we reported that qualified information was a missing link that had come out of Coles market research as the reason to why it had not succeeded in dominating the pain market.
Of course, Woolworths was working on the same problem at the same time and had come up with a better solution - real people with good information.
Intensive Exposition without crossing over with a supermarket
Fiona Sartoretto Verna AIAPP
Editor's Note: The understanding of a pharmacy's presentation through the research that goes into the design of fixtures and fittings that highlight displays, is a never-ending component of pharmacy marketing.
Over the past decade, Australian pharmacy shop presentations have fallen behind in standards of excellence.
It does not take rocket science - you just have to open your eyes.
Recently, our two major supermarkets, Woolworths and Coles, have entered into the field of drug and condition information provision - right into the heartland of Australian Pharmacy.
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The sure way to drive business away
Gerald Quigley
I attended the Pregnancy, Baby and Children's Expo in Brisbane recently.
What an eye and ear opening event that was!
Young Mums, mature Mums, partners of all ages, grandparents and friends……...many asking about health issues and seeking reassurances that they were doing the right thing.
'Marketing Based Medicine' – how bad is it?
Baz Bardoe
It should be the scandal of the century.
It potentially affects the health of almost everyone.
Healthcare providers and consumers alike should be up in arms. But apart from coverage in a few credible news sources the problem of 'Marketing Based Medicine,' as psychiatrist Dr Peter Parry terms it, hasn't as yet generated the kind of universal outrage one might expect.
Community Pharmacy Research - Are You Involved?
Mark Coleman
Government funding is always scarce and restricted.
If you are ever going to be a recipient of government funds you will need to fortify any application with evidence.
From a government perspective, this minimises risk.
I must admit that while I see evidence of research projects being managed by the PGA, I rarely see community pharmacists individually and actively engaged in the type of research that would further their own aims and objectives (and survival).
Organisational Amnesia and the Lack of a Curator Inhibits Cultural Progress
Most of us leave a tremendous impact on pharmacies we work for (as proprietors, managers, contractors or employees)—in ways we're not even aware of.
But organisational memories are often all too short, and without a central way to record that impact and capture the knowledge and individual contributions, they become lost to time.
It is ironic that technology has provided us with phenomenal tools for communication and connection, but much of it has also sped up our work lives and made knowledge and memory at work much more ephemeral.
Academics on the payroll: the advertising you don't see
This article was first published in The Conversation and was written by Wendy Lipworth, University of Sydney and Ian Kerridge, University of Sydney
In the endless drive to get people's attention, advertising is going 'native', creeping in to places formerly reserved for editorial content. In this Native Advertising series we find out what it looks like, if readers can tell the difference, and more importantly, whether they care.
i2P has republished the article as it supports our own independent and ongoing investigations on how drug companies are involved in marketing-based medicine rather than evidence-based medicine.
I've been thinking about admitting wrong.
Mark Neuenschwander
Editor's Note: This is an early article by Mark Neuenschwander we have republished after the soul-searching surrounding a recent Australian dispensing error involving methotrexate.
Hmm. There's more than one way you could take that, huh? Like Someday when I get around to it (I'm not sure) I may admit that I was wrong about something. Actually, I've been thinking about the concept of admitting wrong. So don't get your hopes up. No juicy confessions this month except that I wish it were easier for me to admit when I have been wrong or made a mistake.
Brian Goldman, an ER physician from Toronto, is host of the award-winning White Coat, Black Art on CBC Radio and slated to deliver the keynote at The unSUMMIT for Bedside Barcoding in Anaheim this May. His TED lecture, entitled, "Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about it?" had already been viewed by 386,072 others before I watched it last week.
Dispensing errors – a ripple effect of damage
Kay Dunkley - BPharm, Grad Dip Hosp Pharm, Grad Dip Health Admin, MPS, MSHPA
Most readers will be aware of recent publicity relating to dispensing errors and in particular to deaths caused by methotrexate being incorrectly packed in dose administration aids.
The Pharmacy Board of Australia (PBA), in its Communique of 13 June 2014, described a methotrexate packing error leading to the death of a patient and noted "extra vigilance is required to be exercised by pharmacists with these drugs".
This same case was reported by A Current Affair (ACA) in its program on Friday 20 June http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/article/8863098/prescription-drug-warning
Take a vacation from your vocation
Have you ever had one of those days when all you could think was, "Gosh, do I need a vacation."
Of course you have – because all work and no play aren't good for anyone.
A vacation doesn't have to be two weeks on a tropical island, or even a long weekend at the beach.
A vacation just means taking a break from your everyday activities.
A change of pace.
It doesn't matter where.
Everyone needs a vacation to rejuvenate mentally and physically.
But did you also know that you can help boost our economy by taking some days off?
Call it your personal stimulus package.
Explainer: what is peer review?
This article was first published in the Conversation. It caught our eye because "peer review" it is one of the standards for evidence-based medicines that has also been corrupted by global pharma.
The article is republished by i2P as part of its ongoing investigation into scientific fraud and was writtenby Andre Spicer, City University London and Thomas Roulet, University of Oxford
We've all heard the phrase "peer review" as giving credence to research and scholarly papers, but what does it actually mean?
Peer review is one of the gold standards of science. It's a process where scientists ("peers") evaluate the quality of other scientists' work. By doing this, they aim to ensure the work is rigorous, coherent, uses past research and adds to what we already knew.
Most scientific journals, conferences and grant applications have some sort of peer review system. In most cases it is "double blind" peer review. This means evaluators do not know the author(s), and the author(s) do not know the identity of the evaluators.
The intention behind this system is to ensure evaluation is not biased.
The more prestigious the journal, conference, or grant, the more demanding will be the review process, and the more likely the rejection. This prestige is why these papers tend to be more read and more cited.
Dentists from the dark side?
Loretta Marron OAM BSc
While dining out with an elderly friend, I noticed that he kept his false tooth plate in his shirt pocket. He had recently had seven amalgam-filled teeth removed, because he believed that their toxins were making him sick; but his new plate was uncomfortable. He had been treated by an 'holistic dentist'. Claiming to offer a "safe and healthier alternative" to conventional dentistry, are they committed to our overall health and wellbeing or are they promoting unjustified fear, unnecessarily extracting teeth and wasting our money?
Planning for Profit in 2015 – Your key to Business Success
We are now entering a new financial year and it's a great time to reflect on last year and highlight those things that went well and those that may have impacted negatively in the pursuit of your goals.
It's also a great to spend some time re-evaluating your personal and business short, medium and long term goals in the light of events over the last year.
The achievement of your goals will in many cases be dependent on setting and aspiring to specific financial targets. It's important that recognise that many of your personal goals will require you to generate sufficient business profits to fund those aspirations
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ReWalk is a wearable robotic exoskeleton that provides powered hip and knee motion to enable individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) to stand upright and walk.
ReWalk, the only exoskeleton with FDA clearance via clinical studies and extensive performance testing for personal use, is now available throughout the United States.
Attracting and Retaining Great People
Barry Urquhart
Welcome to the new financial year in Australia.
For many in business the past year has been described as a challenging period.
Adjectives are a key feature of the English language. In the business lexicon their use can be, and often is evocative and stimulate creative images. But they can also contribute to inexact, emotional perceptions.
Throughout the financial pages of newspapers and business magazines adjectives abound.
References to "hot" money draw attention and comment. The recent wave of funds from Chinese investors, keen to remove their wealth from the jurisdiction and control of government regulations is creating a potential property bubble in Australia.
Updating Your Values - Extending Your Culture
Pharmacy culture is dormant.
Being comprised of values, unless each value is continually addressed, updated or deleted, entire organisations can stagnate (or entire professions such as the pharmacy profession).
Good values offer a strong sense of security, knowing that if you operate within the boundaries of your values, you will succeed in your endeavours.
Evidence-based medicine is broken. Why we need data and technology to fix it
The following article is reprinted from The Conversation and forms up part of our library collection on evidence-based medicines.
At i2P we also believe that the current model of evidence is so fractured it will never be able to be repaired.
All that can happen is that health professionals should independently test and verify through their own investigations what evidence exists to prescribe a medicine of any potency.
Health professionals that have patients (such as pharmacists) are ideally placed to observe and record the efficacy for medicines.
All else should confine their criticisms to their evidence of the actual evidence published.
If there are holes in it then share that evidence with the rest of the world.
Otherwise, do not be in such a hurry to criticise professions that have good experience and judgement to make a good choice on behalf of their patients, simply because good evidence has not caught up with reality.
Laropiprant is the Bad One; Niacin is/was/will always be the Good One
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, July 25, 2014
by W. Todd Penberthy, PhD
(OMNS July 25, 2014) Niacin has been used for over 60 years in tens of thousands of patients with tremendously favorable therapeutic benefit (Carlson 2005).
In the first-person NY Times best seller, "8 Weeks to a Cure for Cholesterol," the author describes his journey from being a walking heart attack time bomb to a becoming a healthy individual.
He hails high-dose niacin as the one treatment that did more to correct his poor lipid profile than any other (Kowalski 2001).
Culture Drive & Pharmacy Renewal
Deep within all of us we have a core set of values and beliefs that create the standards of behaviour that we align with when we set a particular direction in life.
Directions may change many times over a lifetime, but with life experiences and maturity values may increase in number or gain greater depth.
All of this is embraced under one word – "culture".
When a business is born it will only develop if it has a sound culture, and the values that comprise that culture are initially inherent in the business founder.
A sound business culture equates to a successful business and that success is often expressed in the term "goodwill" which can be eventually translated to a dollar value.
Pharmacy 2014 - Pharmacy Management Conference
The brave new world of health and wellness is not the enemy of Pharmacy, it is its champion.
Australian futurist, Morris Miselowski, one of the world's leading business visionaries, will present the Opening Keynote address on Pharmacy's Future in the new Health and Wellness Landscape at 2.00pm on Wednesday July 30.
Morris believes the key to better health care could already be in your pocket, with doctors soon set to prescribe iPhone apps, instead of pills.
Technology will revolutionise the health industry - a paradigm shift from healthcare to personal wellness.
Health and wellness applications on smartphones are already big news, and are dramatically changing the way we manage our personal health and everyday wellness.
Generation and Application of Community Pharmacy Research
Editor's Note: We have had a number of articles in this issue relating to pharmacy research.
The PGA has conducted a number of research initiatives over the years, including one recently reported in Pharmacy News that resulted from an analysis of the QCPP Patient Questionnaire.
Pharmacy Guild president, George Tambassis, appears to have authored the article following, and there also appears to be a disconnect between the survey report and its target audience illustrated by one of the respondent comments published.
I have asked Mark Coleman to follow through, elaborate and comment:
Multi-Professional Prescribing- The AMA Lost Out
articles by this author...
Neil Johnston is a pharmacist who trained as a management consultant. He was the first consultant to service the pharmacy profession and commenced practice as a full time consultant in 1972, specialising in community pharmacy management, pharmacy systems, preventive medicine and the marketing of professional services. He has owned, or part-owned a total of six pharmacies during his career, and for a decade spent time both as a clinical pharmacist and Chief Pharmacist in the public hospital system. He has been editor of i2P since 2000.
You have to scratch your head sometimes, particularly when you see news reports quoting Steve Hambledon (AMA President) stating that autonomous prescribing by "non medical health professionals" (which, of course, includes pharmacists), is "dangerous".
This statement is just about as ridiculous as an earlier statement indicating vaccines provided through pharmacy were dangerous because pharmacy lacks suitable refrigerators.
This followed the decision by COAG to approve the draft Health Professionals Prescribing Pathway, now only requiring legislative approval and Board Guidelines to become a significant factor in the pharmacy profession moving forward.
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The AMA view is that autonomous prescribing encourages fragmented health care and poses greater risks to patient safety.
The PGA view has been that any services requiring a fee for service, should be tied to a pharmacy, and not the individual pharmacist.
Both of these views are archaic and it is time for a Pharmacist Practitioner to be allowed to move "front and centre" within the primary health care system.
Up to the year 1950, pharmacists reigned supreme in the field of primary health care.
Most pharmacists however, were unaware of the market share held by the profession.
Not so their medical counterparts who were plotting to bring in the grand design of the National Health Scheme of which the PBS component would be too good an offer for pharmacists to refuse.
The original PBS was supposed to be for life-saving drugs only and was promised never to become more than 25 percent of total dispensing business. The rest, as they say, is "history".
In the year 2000 the millennium heralded new aspirations for health professionals.
It also was the year the precursor of i2P (Computachem Newsletter) was born.
The following article was published in March 2000.
ARE THE NURSES AHEAD? A LOOK AT THE ROLE OF THE NURSE PRACTITIONER
With nurses displacing pharmacists in the Morgan Gallup Poll an awareness of the expansion of this discipline is occurring. Nurses have organized themselves industrially to become a potent political force and with the advent of clinical nurse consultants and nurse practitioners, an overlap into other disciplines is occurring.
This is certainly causing concern in some areas of the medical profession and pharmacists should also be concerned, as competition for new community services will be fierce. Only the most competent (and perhaps the cheapest) services will be purchased by government and consumers. Nurses are already mobile in the community, pharmacists are not. However, pharmacists with their 5000 strong community network offer an ideal springboard to develop mobile community services.
In 1990 The NSW College of Nursing and the NSW Nurse's Association prepared a joint submission for the NSW Department of Health, to conduct a number of pilot projects. This was agreed to, and an expanded role for nurses was trialled within the health system depending on community need.
The venues were as diverse as Wagga Wagga hospital emergency department to the Mathew Talbot Hostel for Homeless Men, in Sydney. The final report on the project, based on ten separate pilots, was recently released, and highlighted the benefits of strong collaborative relationships between nurses working in a practitioner role with medical practitioners.
It concluded that nurse practitioners are feasible, safe, and effective in their roles and provide quality health services in the areas surveyed. The Australian Medical Association (NSW Branch) did not endorse the report.
Nurse practitioners are now able to write medication orders covering a restricted range of S3 and S4 substances, which are listed in a nurses' formulary. The order for medication must be appropriate to the context of care and the specialty area e.g. a contraceptive pill in a women's clinic. Nurses see this step as simply legitimizing what they are already doing. Is there a parallel here for pharmacy?
Fast-forward to 2013. While we have seen some expansion for the role of nurse practitioner, it is still "invisible" to most of the general population.
The odd one or two has teamed up with a pharmacy to provide a joint (but limited) primary health care exercise, the concept has not been prolific.
Some nurses found a limited collaboration within GP clinics, but that appears to have been a very controlled environment.
Collaboration of this type has been promoted to pharmacists by the AMA and some consultant pharmacists have taken up the offer.
John Dunlop, the New Zealand writer for i2P was one such pharmacist.
He seems to have found a niche within a medical practice, but his medical associates shyly introduce him within the practice structure as "the clinical pharmacologist".
That was a title developed within the medical education system for developing a medical counterpart to a consultant pharmacist.
There is the hint of embarrassment about having an associate pharmacist in a medical practice it seems.
Rising above all the petty politics of inter-professional rivalry and the determination of the medical profession to own and control everything involving health is the COAG organisation, Health Workforce Australia https://www.hwa.gov.au/ .
Through this group we now see a plan called Health Professionals Prescribing Pathway – a blueprint for breaking medical domination and allowing allied health professions to grow.
Increasing patient access to medication will mean reduced doctor visits which will mean belt-tightening in GP practices through reduced patient visits
Up to now, the word "collaboration" has been a buzzword that in medical terms meant only collaboration with the medical fraternity.
However the opportunity for pharmacy to collaborate with any other health professional is opening up and this is where patient growth is liable to develop at an intense rate.
Collaboration in its broadest vision will be welcomed by all non-medical health professions that will break the medical monopoly on health services development and delivery.
Collaborative partnerships will embrace more skills than will be found in just medical establishments and we may yet see doctors making a formal application to join in with collaboration groups.
Believe me, the real competition for the future will not be found in wholesaler marketing groups selling products, but in collaborative health disciplines working together to deliver an economical and timely health service (and referring patients to each other).
Whoever is successful at recruiting patients will win the health dollar and a satisfying professional career….and about bloody time!
Published in Information to Pharmacists , 1 November 2013, Volume 5, No. 10
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yeah, i have the original.. I wish i would have waited.. i'd of gotten the KO.. not the Oversized one, or the weird colored one, but the one that looks exactly like the Warby one, scale and all..
it's way cheaper on Sirtoys.
Still..go with jinbao. I've had both, and sold warbo a while back.
Finally able to transform and take the following pictures. I call these guys the first set of Decepticon triplets! Why? Aside from Devastator being introduced in the last episode of season 1, these guys basically dominated the combiner episodes of season 2. And all three have earth vehicle modes, unlike the latter three that are all creatures. I'm also amused that each of these guys is the first combiner attempt by the three different iterations of what is basically the same company: Warbotron/Generation Toy/TransForm Mission.
I tried to capture Bruticus in a brutish-looking stance. He is the best combiner of the three, though the Combaticons are the weakest, especially Onslaught. Alt modes are okay.
how do you make him stand as tall as the bruticus? and what have u done with those side bits on the legs? they annoy me as his legs are too fat.
That's probably the oversized KO of Feral rex, and their arms fold and peg in around the back in leg mode.
Some recent pics of them in the mix.
So as these guys were originally being released I bought the first three. I sort of lost interest and was thinking about going back and picking up Onslaught and Vortex. How does this set hold up over time? Would I be better off using the $150 it would cost for picking up the rest of Warbotron on one of the new Bruticus sets coming out? I transformed the 3 figures i have into their limb modes today, just to make sure mine didn't have any issues. I originally was buying them as my masterpiece versions, but I booted them off the shelf when it got too full.
I've got both the complete Warbotron set and the Jinbao set. I personally like the Warbotron set a bit better. They feel a little more sturdy, whereas the Jinbao has a cheaper, lighter feel to them despite being bigger. I also like the light piping in the Warbotron Combaticon's eyes, the Jinbao set doesn't seem to have much, if any, of that. If you like light piping like I do, that's a plus for the Warbotron set. However, they're both nice sets.
Agreed. I've said much the same about MMC's releases. They're right in between MP and Classics. A very good place to be if you're trying to sell as many toys to as wide an audience as possible.
Personally, I'd like my combiners to be as close to the same size as possible as that's how they were portrayed in the cartoon and in every scale chart I've ever seen. I'm very much an "Orthodox" Transformers fan. The closer to G1,warts and all, the better.
Is Bruticus meant to be the same size as Devy?
I don't know if "meant" is the right word for it.
But usually, when Combiners fought in season 2, they appeared evenly matched, size-wise.
That pattern has led many fans (including myself) to want all their Combiners to be the same size (which can make things messy when looking at alt modes or the Sunbow chart).
It depends much on personal preferences too, I mean, in real life, military vehicles are bigger than normal cars (and specially an space shuttle that is huge) but construction vehicles are bigger too and with Devastator they was 6 components so, you could say they can be same scale been a little permissive with real life scale (space shuttle, hehe). In G1 animation, all they was same size, even the ones made by animals, like Predaking, only Omega Supreme was bigger.
For me, I like Devastator and Bruticus same size, Menasor just a little small (just a hair) and the rest smaller than Menasor (not much) and for Autobots, Superion as the taller one and Computron and Defensor as Menasor size, just my personal preference.
Because the shoulder width was narrow, petit remodeling.
So this set is 200 including X-ray at bbts so I picked one up, not blast off was missing one of the handles on his missle pod but seems like a solid set.
The Jinbao OS KO set is great too. "Ratched" up a notch.


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