UK trade in goods - monthly statistics classified according to Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) as well as monthly estimates for total trade in services.
The deficit of trade in goods and services for May 2015 was £0.4 billion, narrowing by £1.4 billion from £1.8 billion when compared with April 2015. The trade position reflects exports minus imports.
The deficit is the smallest since June 2013 and this narrowing is a result of imports decreasing by £1.4 billion to £43.4 billion, as exports were unchanged at £43.0 billion in May 2015.
The monthly changes were attributed to trade in goods as the deficit narrowed by £1.4 billion to £8.0 billion, compared with the surplus on services which increased by £0.1 billion to £7.6 billion in May 2015.
In detail, exports of goods were £24.6 billion in May 2015, unchanged from April 2015, however there were offsetting movements in different commodities. Exports of fuels (specifically oil) increased by £0.5 billion and unspecified goods increased by £0.4 billion, whereas exports of chemicals decreased by £0.3 billion, miscellaneous manufactures (which includes jewellery and works of art) decreased by £0.4 billion and material manufactures decreased by £0.2 billion.
Imports of goods decreased by £1.4 billion in May 2015 to £32.6 billion, the lowest level of imports since April 2011. Imports decreased for all of the main commodity groups including a £0.5 billion decrease in imports of ships and a £0.4 billion decrease attributed to material manufactures.
In May 2015, the trade in goods deficit with the EU narrowed by £0.6 billion to £6.4 billion as imports decreased. The trade in goods deficit with countries outside the EU narrowed £0.8 billion to £1.6 billion, the smallest deficit since June 2013, again attributed to a decrease in imports.
Trade statistics for any 1 month can be erratic. For that reason, it is recommended to compare the latest 3-months against the preceding 3-months and the same 3-months of the preceding year.
In the 3-months ending May 2015, the total trade deficit narrowed by £1.4 billion to £5.4 billion as exports increased and imports decreased.
In the 3-months to May 2015, the trade in goods deficit narrowed by £1.9 billion to £28.1 billion. Exports increased by £0.6 billion to £73.1 billion in the 3-months to May 2015, attributed to an increase in exports of chemicals to countries outside of the EU.
Imports decreased by £1.4 billion to £101.2 billion in the 3-months to May 2015, the lowest since the 3-months to June 2011. Imports of chemicals and material manufactures decreased by £0.5 billion and £0.3 billion respectively, over the period. Despite a decrease in imports of most commodities, imports of cars increased by £0.5 billion in the 3-months to May 2015, reaching a record high of £7.9 billion. Imports of oil also increased by £0.5 billion in the 3-months to May 2015.
By area, the UK's deficit with the EU narrowed by £1.0 billion to £20.7 billion in the 3-months to May 2015, as imports decreased more than exports. In contrast, both exports and imports to countries outside the EU increased, resulting in a narrowing of the trade in goods deficit with countries outside the EU of £0.9 billion to £7.4 billion.
For the 3-months to May 2015, exports of goods to EU countries decreased by £1.2 billion reflecting decreases in oil and semi-manufactured goods (both of £0.6 billion). In contrast, exports to countries outside the EU increased by £1.7 billion, attributed to exports of chemicals, which reached a record high of £7.3 billion for the 3-months to May 2015.
Geographically, in the 3-months to May 2015, the UK's surplus with the USA was at a record high of £4.0 billion, an increase of £1.2 billion when compared with the 3-months to February 2015. This can be attributed mainly to an increase in exports of chemicals and fuels (specifically oil). The UK's deficit with Switzerland widened by £1.5 billion, as exports decreased by £1.1 billion. In contrast, the UK's deficit with France narrowed by £0.9 billion in the 3-months to May 2015, when compared with the 3-months to February 2015.
This bulletin also reports on trade in services. However, the information on trade in services is mainly obtained from quarterly surveys, in some cases underpinned by larger annual surveys. That means that the data for the latest months are inevitably uncertain.
The surplus on trade in services was £22.9 billion for quarter 1 January to March 2015. Financial services, at record high of £10.3 billion, were the largest contributor to this surplus.
Between quarter 4 October to December 2014 and quarter 1 January to March 2015, exports of services rose £0.2 billion to a record high of £55.2 billion. The increase mainly reflects a £1.0 billion rise in transport. Imports of services rose by £0.5 billion to £32.3 billion in quarter 1 January to March 2015, attributed to increases in financial services (£0.3 billion) and intellectual property (£0.3 billion).
By area, in quarter 1 January to March 2015, exports to countries within the EU rose by £0.5 billion to £20.6 billion, which was a record high since comparable records began in 1999.
The value of trade in goods grew steadily from the beginning of 2007 to mid-2008. The onset of the global economic downturn in mid-2008 affected the economic performance of the UK's major trading partners and the value of both UK exports and imports fell sharply until quarter 2 April to June 2009. Growth in the value of trade in goods resumed from mid-2009 with improving global economic conditions. However, the value of both UK exports and imports has remained largely flat since mid-2011 with the continuing difficulties in many economies.
In May 2015, the UK's deficit on trade in goods was £8.0 billion, narrowing by £1.4 billion from April 2015.
Total exports decreased by £14.0 million (0.1%) to £24.6 billion and total imports decreased by £1.4 billion (4.1%) to £32.6 billion.
At the commodity level, the data are shown in Table 2.
In the 3-months to May 2015, the deficit on trade in goods was £28.1 billion, narrowing by £1.9 billion from the 3-months to February 2015.
Total exports increased by £0.6 billion (0.8%) to £73.1 billion and total imports decreased by £1.4 billion (1.3%) to £101.2 billion.
At the commodity level, the data are shown in Table 3.
In May 2015, the deficit on trade in goods with EU countries narrowed by £0.6 billion to £6.4 billion. The deficit on trade in goods with non-EU countries narrowed by £0.8 billion to £1.6 billion (Figure 4).
Between April 2015 and May 2015, exports to the EU decreased by £35.0 million (0.3%) to £11.2 billion.
Between April 2015 and May 2015, imports from the EU decreased by £0.6 billion (3.3%) to £17.6 billion. Imports from Germany decreased by £0.3 billion and imports from Finland, France and Sweden all decreased by £0.1 billion.
Between April 2015 and May 2015, exports to non-EU countries increased by £21.0 million (0.2%) to £13.5 billion.
Between April 2015 and May 2015, imports from non-EU countries decreased by £0.8 billion (5.1%) to £15.0 billion. Imports from South Korea decreased by £0.6 billion and from Switzerland by £0.4 billion. These decreases were partially offset by an increase in imports from China, Qatar and the USA, each of £0.2 billion.
In the 3-months to May 2015, the deficit on trade in goods with EU countries narrowed by £1.0 billion to £20.7 billion.
Between the 3-months to February 2015 and the 3-months to May 2015, exports to the EU decreased by £1.2 billion (3.4%) to £33.4 billion. Exports to the Netherlands decreased by £0.7 billion and to Germany and the Irish Republic each by £0.2 billion. These decreases were partially offset by an increase in exports to France of £0.4 billion.
Between the 3-months to February 2015 and the 3-months to May 2015, imports from the EU decreased by £2.1 billion (3.8%) to £54.1 billion. Imports from France decreased by £0.5 billion, from the Irish Republic by £0.4 billion and from both Italy and the Netherlands by £0.3 billion.
At the commodity level, the data are shown in Table 6.
In the 3-months to May 2015, the deficit on trade in goods with non-EU countries narrowed by £0.9 billion to £7.4 billion.
Between the 3-months to February 2015 and the 3-months to May 2015, exports to non-EU countries increased by £1.7 billion (4.6%) to £39.7 billion. Exports to the USA increased by £1.4 billion, to China by £0.4 billion and to India by £0.3 billion. These increases were partially offset by a decrease in exports to Switzerland of £1.1 billion.
Between the 3-months to February 2015 and the 3-months to May 2015, imports from non-EU countries increased by £0.8 billion (1.7%) to £47.1 billion. Imports from South Korea increased by £0.6 billion and from Switzerland by £0.4 billion. These increases were partially offset by a decrease in imports from Canada and Norway, each by £0.3 billion.
At the commodity level, the data are shown in Table 7.
The UK's top 10 export trading partners were unchanged in May 2015 when compared with April 2015.
Outside of the top 10, there were record highs in exports to Egypt and Mexico respectively. Although comparatively small value figures, the £0.1 billion increase in exports to Egypt represents a 105.3% increase when comparing May 2015 with April 2015. An increase of £24.0 million in exports to Mexico represents an 18.0% increase over the same period.
The UK's top 5 import trading partners were also unchanged in May 2015 when compared with April 2015. Germany remains the top import partner with imports of £4.9 billion. Imports from the USA were at a record high of £3.0 billion. Anecdotal evidence suggests this £0.2 billion increase is due to a rise in the import of aircraft.
Outside of the top 10, imports from Poland were at a record high of £0.7 billion, representing a £49.0 million (7.3%) increase when May 2015 is compared with April 2015. Finland recorded a record low in imports with a decrease of £0.1 billion (33.0%) over the same period.
In the 3-months to May 2015, there were record highs in exports to the USA, Mexico and Saudi Arabia. Exports to the USA increased by £1.4 billion (12.2%) to £12.5 billion when comparing with the 3-months to February 2015. Over the same period, exports to Mexico increased by £0.1 billion (53.8%) to £0.4 billion and to Saudi Arabia by £0.1 billion (6.8%) to £1.2 billion.
In the 3-months to May 2015, imports from South Korea, the USA, New Zealand and Pakistan were all at a record high. Imports from South Korea increased by £0.6 billion (62.7%) to £1.5 billion when compared with the 3-months to February 2015. Over the same period, imports from the USA increased by £0.1 billion (1.7%) to £8.5 billion, from New Zealand by £0.1 billion (38.0%) to £0.3 billion and from Pakistan by £6.0 million (2.2%) to £0.3 billion.
Between April 2015 and May 2015, the total volume of exports decreased by 3.4% and the total volume of imports decreased by 3.5%.
At the commodity level, the data are shown in Table 10.
In May 2015, compared with April 2015, export prices decreased by 0.5% and import prices decreased by 0.9%. Excluding the oil price effect, export prices decreased by 1.0% and import prices decreased by 0.9%.
In the 3-months to May 2015, when compared with the 3-months to February 2015, export prices and import prices both decreased by 0.4%. Excluding the oil price effect, export prices decreased by 1.0% and import prices decreased by 1.1%.
In May 2015, the balance on trade in oil was in deficit by £0.6 billion when compared with a deficit of £1.2 billion in April 2015. Oil exports increased by £0.5 billion to £2.1 billion and oil imports decreased by £0.1 billion to £2.7 billion.
In the 3-months to May 2015, the balance on trade in oil was in deficit by £3.1 billion, widening by £0.6 billion when compared with the 3-months to February 2015. Oil exports decreased by £0.2 billion to £5.4 billion and oil imports increased by £0.5 billion to £8.5 billion.
In May 2015, the UK's estimated surplus on trade in services was £7.6 billion.
Exports in May 2015 were estimated to have been £18.4 billion and imports £10.8 billion.
In the 3-months to May 2015, the estimated surplus on trade in services was £22.7 billion.
In the 3-months to May 2015, exports were estimated to have been £55.2 billion and imports £32.5 billion.
Information on trade in services is mainly obtained from quarterly surveys, in some cases underpinned by larger annual surveys. That means that the data for the latest months are inevitably uncertain. The quarterly data up to and including quarter 1 January to March 2015 are consistent with UKEA B tables and the Quarterly Balance of Payments.
In quarter 1 January to March 2015, the surplus on trade in services was £22.9 billion. Financial services, which at a record high of £10.3 billion, was the largest contributor to this surplus.
In quarter 1 January to March 2015, exports of services rose by £0.2 billion to a record high of £55.2 billion. The increase mainly reflects a £1.0 billion rise in transport. Additionally, record high exports were seen in financial (£13.1 billion), intellectual property (£3.4 billion), and telecommunication, computer and information services (£4.1 billion). For the same period, imports of services also rose by £0.5 billion to £32.3 billion. The main contributors to this increase were financial services (£0.3 billion) and intellectual property (£0.3 billion).
By area, in quarter 1 January to March 2015, exports of services to countries within the EU rose by £0.5 billion to £20.6 billion, which was a record high. Imports from the EU also rose by £0.5 billion in the same period to £16.0 billion.
The balance of trade in services with non-EU countries fell by £0.3 billion in quarter 1 January to March 2015 to £18.3 billion. This decrease reflects a fall in exports to the USA of £0.1 billion and imports from the USA of £0.2 billion. In quarter 1 January to March 2015, record high exports of services were seen in Japan (£1.5 billion) and China (£1.1 billion).
Revisions to quarter 1 January to March 2015 mainly reflect updated estimates from the quarterly ONS International Trade in Services Survey and ONS International Passenger Survey. Exports were revised up by £0.2 billion and imports revised up by £0.5 billion.
Revisions to trade in services estimates for 2014 are due to updated transport survey information and administrative sources and a reassessment of seasonal factors, the surplus of services was revised upwards by £0.1 billion.
The UK trade record information for May 2015 (35.5 Kb Excel sheet) can be accessed on our website.
HMRC Trade Statistics are amending the mechanism for the data source used in the compilation of Natural Gas traded with non-EU partners. We will implement these revisions in a phased approach.
On 9 June 2015, we published a short story on the importance of China to the UK economy, including value of UK trade with China.
Non-monetary gold is now included in the erratics series; along with ships, aircraft, precious stones and silver. In compliance with the BPM6 changes, non-monetary gold which is held as a store of wealth, is now recorded within trade in goods.
To comply with international statistical guidelines, we introduced estimates for trade in non-monetary gold and other precious metals into the quarterly national accounts from 30 September 2014, and the monthly UK Trade statistics released on 10 October 2014. In developing these estimates further it had been proposed to use data from a Bank of England (BoE) survey, collecting estimates of physical holdings of gold and other precious metals for the reporting period March 2013 onwards, as described in the article 'Measurement of non-monetary gold' published on 23 January 2014.
However, on receiving the aggregated survey results, the data were volatile with large monthly changes that, despite being on a net trade basis, significantly distorted the estimated monthly trade balance. Due to this volatility and given that the survey is relatively new, having only commenced from the reporting period March 2013, it has been decided to undertake further work to quality assure these data and to review the methods used to measure non-monetary gold and other precious metals more generally. In addition, further disclosure assessment is required to ensure the confidentiality of businesses within the survey is maintained. So, the method used for the series pre-2013, derived from BoE information of gold as a store of wealth by UK MFIs, has been extended with the survey information being used to inform the movements of the later periods, but rescaled to the level of the pre-2013 data.
We will keep users informed of progress and it is likely we will seek views on how best to proceed.
In this release, periods from January 2014 are open for revision.
Users should be aware that in some periods, the monthly data does not sum precisely to the quarters (or the quarters to annual), for the MTIC series due to rounding.
Chain-linked indices (chained volume measures) which are indexed to form the volume series in this bulletin differ from fixed base indices in that the growth from one year to the next is estimated by weighting the components using the contribution to value of trade in the immediately preceding year (effectively re-basing every year). This series of annually re-weighted annual growths is then "chain-linked" to produce a continuous series.
The implied price deflators derived by comparing current price data to chained volume measures data are not the same as the price indices published in this statistical bulletin because the former are current weighted while the latter are base (2011) weighted.
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Ever since statistics on exports and imports of goods were first collected in 1697, UK trade has been one of the country's main economic indicators.
All information included in the monthly UK Trade statistical bulletin is on a balance of payments (BoP) basis and is seasonally adjusted unless otherwise specified. The release contains tables showing the total value of trade in goods together with index numbers of volume and price, figures analysed by broad commodity group (values and indices) and according to geographical area (values only). In addition the UK Trade statistical bulletin also includes early monthly estimates of the value of trade in services.
Data appearing in the UK Trade statistical bulletin are also used as a direct input into the quarterly balance of payments and national accounts.
Import figures for trade in goods include adjustments to allow for the impact of VAT MTIC fraud.
The adjustments to trade in goods relate only to part of the carousel version of VAT MTIC fraud. This fraud leads to under recording of imports as fraudsters import goods from the EU, which they then sell on before disappearing without paying VAT on that sale. The goods are eventually exported. Such exports are declared and are therefore already reflected in the UK's trade in goods statistics.
Changes to the pattern of trading associated with MTIC fraud can make it difficult to analyse trade by commodity group and by country as changes in the impact of activity associated with this fraud affect both imports and exports. However, the MTIC trade adjustments are added to the EU import estimates derived from Intrastat returns as it is this part of the trading chain that is not generally recorded. In particular, adjustments affect trade in capital goods and intermediate goods–these categories include mobile phones and computer components, which are still the most widely affected goods.
International convention determines that the treatment of the impact is to adjust imports upwards by the relevant amounts of missing declarations (non-response). However, users may wish to interpret short-term movements in imports excluding that part of the fraudulent activity that is not included in the import estimates. For this purpose, an analysis of the import figures with the VAT MTIC adjustments excluded is shown in Table 13.
A glossary of terms is published in the UK Balance of Payments - The Pink Book, 2014.
UK Trade is a key economic indicator due to the importance of international trade to the UK economy. It is also a very timely statistic, providing an early indicator of what is happening more generally in the economy.
In addition, it is a major component of 2 other main economic statistics: UK gross domestic product (GDP) and the UK balance of payments. This means that there is a threefold potential for UK Trade statistics to inform the government's view of the UK economy, as well as the views of others, such as economists, City analysts, academics, the media and international organisations.
Trade in services estimates have been derived from a number of monthly and quarterly sources. For components where no monthly data are available, estimates have been derived on the basis of recent trends. The results should be used with appropriate caution, as they are therefore likely to be less reliable than those for trade in goods.
Reliability: Revisions to data provide one indication of the reliability of key indicators. Table 12 shows summary information on the size and direction of the revisions which have been made to the data covering a 5-year period. A statistical test has been applied to the average revision to find out if it is statistically significantly different from zero. An asterisk (*) shows that the test is significant.
The table covers estimates of UK trade first published from August 2010 (for June 2010) to July 2014 (for April 2014). Revision spreadsheets giving these estimates and the calculations behind the averages in the table are available on the our website.
More information about revisions material in this statistical bulletin can be found on our website.
The coverage of EMU countries was extended to cover Cyprus and Malta from July 2008, Slovakia from January 2009, Estonia from January 2011, Latvia from January 2014 and Lithuania from January 2015. Some EU and non-EU breakdowns of commodity data for chained volume measures which are available on request may be less reliable than the current price data. Please consult Katherine Kent on +44 (0)1633 455829 if you are considering using them.
A summary quality report (91.3 Kb Pdf) for this statistical bulletin and associated data can be found on our website.
National Accounts revisions policy (43.3 Kb Pdf) can be found on our website.
Revisions Table 17R shows revisions to the main aggregates since the last UK Trade statistical bulletin of 9 June 2015. The revisions to trade in goods from January 2015 reflect revised data from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs and other data suppliers, revised estimates of trading associated with VAT MTIC fraud, later survey data on trade prices and a re-assessment of seasonal factors.
There are revisions to trade in services from January 2014.
Supplementary quarterly data analysed by industry according to the Classification of Product by Activity (08) (UK trade in goods by classification of product by activity) are also available.
The complete run of data in the tables of this statistical bulletin are also available to view and download in other electronic formats free of charge using our time series data website service. Users can download the complete statistical bulletin in a choice of zipped formats, or view and download their own selections of individual series.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) publish overseas trade statistics on the same day as we release the UK Trade data each month. The aggregate estimates here will differ slightly from those that are published by us as part of the balance of payments (BoP), as the 2 sets of data are compiled to different sets of rules. The BoP publication shows a high level picture of UK trade in goods, whereas the OTS publication shows a detailed picture of the UK's trade in goods by commodity and partner country.
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Marcia is a colleague of mine at ReligionLink and Publishers Weekly and is a fellow member of the Religion Newswriters Assoc. She is also the author of – I think three books, Marcia? – including one called "Come and Sit," which is about what to expect and do at a Buddhist meditation center. So she knows what Gilbert is writing about.
Marcia, I too, resented the idea of someone parachuting into the religion and field and BINGO writing a bestseller. But you quickly realize it isn't a journalistic endeavor, and I wouldn't want to have to go thru what EG went through to get to write this book (I am speaking of the divorce, not the 23 lbs of pasta weight she gained in Italy). I really liked the India section, too, though many of my friends said they felt their attention lag there. Some of them felt she got too whiny and lost perspective about what is really important in the world – her spiritual enlightenment or the fact that kids were going shoeless outside the walls of the ashram. But when you read this book, you have to reaize that it could only have been written by a white American, because only a white American would be as as privleged as Gilbert was/is. This isn't to take anything away from her or the book. I am just saying I knew when picked it up that this was a the story of one very lucky woman.
One reason I liked India is I know which guru EG is talking about. When I was in my 20s, I had a brief spiritual fling (about 1 year) with this same guru, going several times a week to meditation at her New York City ashram. That added an extra layer of familiarity to this for me. The same guru has a big ashram here in Oakland.
Thanks for reading, Marcia. It occurs to me you should send me a copy of "Come and Sit" and let me write about it here and then interview you about the practice of sitting and praying.


Yup, at last, Chase will support Android Pay. In a leaked photograph of a Chase "Enhancement Guide," the company claims it will bring support on September 7, allowing members to take advantage of Google's mobile payments platform.
Which members can use it? Well, if you use a standard Visa-branded credit card or consumer debit card, you can use it. Support will also be available for business debit card and Chase Liquid card users.
So, while all of these major banks appear to be adopting the future, my bank (Simple) continues to hold out on me. Get with the times, financial institutions.
Once the announcement is made official by the Android Pay team or Chase, we will let you know.


With MagicInfo Server, can you create different groups of LFDs and set different content for each group?
Yes. The MI Server interface allows you to create user groups and set specific content for different demographics.


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Take a look into my eyes, please
By Pam Wright, Local Journalism Initiative ReporterThe Chatham Voice
Mary Schawb's complex medical needs have the potential to affect her eyesight.
But the 57-year-old Wallaceburg resident hasn't been able to see an optometrist for the past 14 months and can't get in for an appointment until March 2022.
"This is serious," a worried Schawb told The Chatham Voice recently, noting she's frustrated by the wait, and frightened by what could happen.
Macular degeneration, Type 2 diabetes and a rare disorder where her body's connective tissues lack collagen are among the disabled woman's difficulties.
"I want to get my eyes checked as soon as I can," she stressed.
Schawb's son Matthew Schawb, who also suffers from severe astigmatism and is at risk of developing macular degeneration, has been doing his best to advocate for his mother without any luck.
He's contacted six area optometrists to see if he and his mother can get earlier appointments, but all but one have turned him down.
The Schawbs are among thousand of Ontarians affected by the withdrawal of services for OHIP cases by the Ontario Association of Optometrists (OAO).
The action primarily affects children, teens, seniors and the disabled, as adults 18 to 65 pay for an exam either through insurance or out of pocket.
On Sept. 1, the 2,500-member OAO began the work reduction in an attempt to get the Ministry of Health to forge a new agreement with them.
But the action cuts deep, as Ontario eye doctors routinely carry out 15,000 eye exams every business day.
In an interview with The Voice, OAO president Dr. Sheldon Salaba said he empathizes with the Schwabs' plight, but he stresses the province's refusal to address the problem is at the heart of the issue.
Currently, the Ministry of Health pays an eye doctor around $45 for each OHIP eye exam. But that's a far cry from what optometrists receive in other provinces. Manitoba currently pays $77 for an eye exam under its health-care system, Quebec pays $106 and Alberta is at the top at $137.
Salaba said Ontario optometrists have only received a $5 increase in the past 30 years. He questions why the ministry refuses to come to the table.
"We provide over four million eye examinations a year," Salaba explained. "I feel really sorry for patients and I'm sorry that it has come to this."
The OAO said it costs at least $80 for an eye doctor in Ontario to provide an exam, meaning optometrists are presently subsidizing eye care in Ontario.
Salaba said he hopes the province will step up to the plate, as eye care is critical to health care across the board.
The OAO is asking patients to make their concerns known to their local Member of Provincial Parliament.
According to a statement from the Ministry of Health on Sept. 17, the government has made "every effort" to lay the foundation for a "long-term relationship" with the OAO.
In October the ministry is paying Ontario optometrists $39-million as part of their October payments, regardless of whether there is an agreement in place.
The statement also said the College of Optometrists of Ontario – the regulatory body – has made it clear that if an individual optometrist decides to withhold care from their patients they are "expected to take steps to ensure patients can continue to receive appropriate care."
Salaba said the $39-million so-called back payment equates to about $1 for each retroactive eye exam carried out in the past.
Meanwhile, the Schwabs wait. However, Matthew said he's not letting the issue go, saying he believes the withdrawal of OHIP service is a human rights violation. He and his mother are both disabled.
The younger Schwab said he's been told his mother can go to a hospital emergency room and see an ophthalmologist. The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance does offer that service.
Matthew has offered to pay for eye exams out of pocket, but's not allowed in Ontario for people receiving disability benefits.
Both Matthew and Mary say they are not alone, explaining they know quite a few people in the same boat.
"All of Wallaceburg is screaming," he added, noting the office of Lambton-Kent-Middlesex MPP Monte McNaughton has been fielding a lot of calls from him regarding the matter.


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I wanted to add Alligators, Old Mink and New Money by Allison Houtte.
This was a fun, quick read all about the world of vintage clothing... who buys it, what to look for and how to care for it.
Allison Houtte is a former model who opened a vintage clothing store in NY. I enjoyed reading about different designers, quick fixes for thrift finds, and shopping hints. The books follows her modeling career (fascinating in and of itself) and how her love of thrift shopping led to a business.
Pefect quick read for Valentine's Day, and now, of course, I will have to watch the movie again.
Does anyone know this book ?
"Prudencia Prim is a highly intelligent woman. When she comes across a vacancy advertising for someone to re-organise a private library it doesn't sound terribly challenging, but as a proper bibliophile and in need of work Miss Prim's interest is instantly piqued. If the comment at the bottom of the vacancy, "graduates and post graduates need not apply", wasn't sufficient for her to discover that there is something different about her potential employer, then her meeting with The Man in the Wingchair certainly seals the deal. Furthermore, the entire village of San Ireneo de Arnois seems just slightly peculiar.
I read about this book on a German Catholic News website.
It does look really interesting.
I have had it on my list for some time since I've seen it recommended in many places, including Sarah at Amongst Lovely Things. I think it looks promising!
I saw it on the library shelves and took a chance... turned out it surprised me in a way I never expected. The author, who is somewhat of an atheist, is on a year long quest to bake a perfect loaf of bread, and his journey takes him many places.
Towards the end of his baking year, he spends a few days baking in the kitchen at the Abbey of Saint Wandrille in Normandy... he thinks baking in an ancient oven in an ancient place will help his bread. The catch is he can only use the abbey's kitchen if he is willing to teach one of the monks to bake.
I won't spoil the story, but I will say it is a life-changing experience for him: he says nothing shakes a person up like having his lack of faith shaken. He writes beautifully of life at the abbey... this was such a joy to read as well as a great surprise hidden away towards the end of the book.
I know these books have been mentioned many times, but I am just now discovering them.
These have been the most spiritually enriching books I have ever read, particularly the second one. I prefer non-fiction, and Fr. Ciznek's witness as shared in these books is just life-changing!


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With a shockingly deep catalog of dozens of albums, and sales topping more than 30 million, Lynyrd Skynyrd remains a major cultural icon, still known to a remarkably wide audience for more than just their beloved Southern rock anthem "Sweet Home Alabama," which, incidentally, lights up more than two million phones as a downloaded ringtone. The band was recently inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and the group's latest album, Gods & Guns, debuted on the Billboard Top 20 at #18, representing their highest chart bow since 1977.
It's against this backdrop that Live From Freedom Hall, one of the last concerts Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded with longtime members Billy Powell and Ean Evans, each of whom passed away last year, streets as both a concert CD and DVD. With Johnny Van Zant on vocals, providing plenty of arm pumps and crowd-stoking greetings (sample: "How 'bout that, Kentucky?"), this well-photographed show solidly showcases the band's own inimitable brand of stubborn, scruffy, stubbled, deep-fried rock 'n' roll, in which boozy, armchair patriotism meets catchy melodies and riffs.
Gary Rossington and Rickey Medlocke man lead guitars, Powell takes care of keyboards, Evans is on bass, Michael Cartellone on drums, Mark Matejka on guitar and Dale Krantz Rossington and Carol Chase provide back-up vocals. "Travelin' Man," and "Workin'" open the set, followed by "What's
Your Name?," "That Smell," and a nice rendition of "Simple Man." The track listing for the rest of the album is as follows: "Down South Jukin'," "The
Needle and the Spoon," "Ballad of Curtis Loew," "Gimme Back My
Bullets," "Tuesday's Gone," "Red White and Blue," "Gimme Three
Steps," and "Call Me the Breeze." "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird" aren't played… just kidding! They close the show, of course, and send everyone home happy.
Benefiting from a superb transfer and unfussy direction that neither eschews timely cutting nor indulges in multiple angles willy-nilly, just for cutting's sake, the DVD is available separately, in a regular plastic Amaray case in a 1.33:1 full frame presentation, with robust Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound and 2.0 stereo audio tracks, or as part of a CD-DVD deluxe set, which lets you take the concert on the road with you. To purchase the CD-DVD combo from Amazon, meanwhile, click here. The group is also on tour throughout the summer. For a full
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Can Corporations Be Carpool Buddies?
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Q: Git command to get live back to staging Is there a git command to get live back to staging?
The reason for that is: every now and then we have images and stuff uploaded via the joomla admin on live and they don't get tracked by git so images get broken on staging...
so i'm wondering if there is a command we can do to pull those files from live back into git so i can load them back into staging.
my current setup:
local files on my working machine: those files get pushed to git repo.
staging server: staging.domain.com
I pull files from repo to this server for testing
Live server: domain.com
once all testing is done on staging, files get pulled from repo to live.
the problem is when images get uploaded straight into live server they don't get tracked by git so not in the repo.
What i need is to be able to do a git command that will pull those new files back in to the repo so i can pull them back to the staging server.
sorry about the bad explanation. I hope its understandable.
Cheers,
dan

A: all i needed to do was login into the live server and do
git add .
git commit
git push origin master
then login into staging and do a pull...

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Trulia (TRLA) announced Tuesday that industry veteran Alon Chaver will become the new vice president of industry services for the online real estate marketplace.
With more than 25 years of experience, Chaver will oversee Trulia's data operations and industry services. Before joining the Trulia team, Chaver was the co-founder and CEO of iHomeFinder for 15 years.
In his new role, Chaver's key responsibilities will include strategizing and directing Trulia's Broker, MLS and Data teams. Trulia will utilize Chaver in its efforts to build new industry services for both Brokers and MLSs, grow data quality initiatives and solidify partnerships within the industry.
"I'm excited to tackle this new role and join Trulia's innovative team to further expand the company's industry services, better support the success of our current partners and empower brokers and MLSs with the tools and services they need to grow their businesses and deliver value to their agents," Chaver said.
Within the last 18 months, Trulia expanded its leadership team significantly with the hiring of Ginger Wilcox, head of industry marketing; Todd Carpenter, senior manager, industry engagement; and Matt Dollinger, head of industry relations.


Kathleen Marden is Betty and Barney Hill's niece and she knew them well. She and Stanton Friedman co-wrote a book detailing never-before-revealed information about this famous abduction case: Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience. On July 5,2008, Kathleen and Stanton T. Friedman did an interview with Jerry direct from Roswell, New Mexico.
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Avis Ruffu now lives in the Dallas area but in the late 60s she met Betty Hill who used to come into her shop when Avis lived in New England. Avis tells Jerry some interesting details of what Betty told her over the years including little known details about the encounters and some of the things that happened on board the space craft as well as an astounding mysterious story that indicates Betty may have been visited by the Aliens again shortly before her death.
Alien Abduction is the theme of, "The White Mountain Abduction," which delves into the mysterious case of Betty and Barney Hill, the first people to go public with claims that they were abducted by aliens while driving through the White Mountains of New Hampshire in 1961.
The film is based on the book "Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience"
A long-misplaced interview with Betty Hill recorded in the 1999 by folklorist John Horrigan has surfaced recently and we make it available to you to give you a feel of not only the incident but the Hills themselves.
Betty Hill died on October 17, 2004. CLICK HERE for her obituary from The New York Times 10/23/04 edition.
by Avis Ruffu In 1961 in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, coming home from a trip from Canada, Betty and Barney Hill spotted a light in the sky. Thinking it might have been a asteroid coming in, they kept a close eye on the bright object. It occurred to Barney that it might be a military plane of some sort. He stopped the car and took his binoculars out to have a look. What he saw frightened him. He saw a craft with strange beings looking at him from windows. Barney came running back to the car believing that the beings in the craft wanted to "grab him." Betty and Barney heard several beeps and further down the road they encountered what they believed were nine men in the road. The car came to a stop and Betty and Barney were taken from their car by beings who were not from this world. They were taken on board the craft and both were examined. Betty engaged the beings in conversation and seemed to have more reign when aboard the craft. She was shown a star map and given a book. After some conversations among the beings, it was decided that she would not be allowed to leave with the book. Barney and Betty were returned to the car and they continued their trip home. Two hours were missing from their timetable. After working with Dr. Simon, being put under hypnosis by him, a story so extraordinary it defied everything we held to be true about us and our place in the universe, unfolded. A Boston newspaper picked up the story and ran it for five days. The story was picked up by newspapers around the world. Betty and Barney Hill's story became a part of history. Most people believe that was the end of their story...in reality it was just the beginning.
The abduction event is a small part of Betty's history. Betty was a child welfare worker in New Hampshire and retired from a supervisory position after working for years for the state. Betty raised several children that she'd adopted while working and being a wife. Betty's family was important to her and she had many brothers and sister and her parents that she and Barney were close to. Her father was a mayor and her mother was very progressive for her time. Betty and Barney's interracial marriage was unique for its day, but they were valued members of their community and it was never an issue to them or others. They loved and lived full lives built on mutual respect for each other in the service of others. Betty has always held strong political views and has been involved in politics as well as other organizations that were designed to help the less fortunate. Barney was employed with the postal service after being in the military. Barney was equally busy working after-hours with civil rights, integration, his church, Community Action and other projects. They were solid citizens and gave back to their community more than most. These were people that had both feet on the ground. They were not a couple of loose canons with pie in the sky dreams or fantasies.
Betty and I went over her history spanning the time period before, during, and after her abduction. When Barney died in February 1976, Betty believed the interest in them and their abduction would end. It did not. For years Betty traveled around the globe going to Russia, South America, and many other places. She spent a good deal of time lecturing and doing TV spots talking about the 1961 abduction incident. She gave telephone interviews, sometimes more than 120 in a month's time.
Betty retired from the UFO community in September of 1991, her thirty-year anniversary of the abduction. She has never regretted her decision to do so. She has lived a very full life and gave much of herself over the years to traveling , lecturing, and documenting sightings. She was, as she says, "ready to retire" and become like one of the local tourist in her home state and lie on the beach and go boating. Betty very quietly and unceremoniously slipped away from public view. But she never quite made it into that retirement. Now and then, as with the N.Y. symposium, she returns for a brief moment and then slips back into the background tending to her brood of chickens, cat, and flower beds at home.
Betty is more apt to talk these days about local or global politics. Tracing her roots and genealogy is a past-time she loves to research and discuss. If the truth be told, she would love to be known when she is gone as one of New Hampshire's finest child welfare workers rather than Betty Hill of UFO fame. It was a job she took very seriously as she worked for many years protecting children. Betty has a great love of people and I believe that is what makes her so open and friendly to all she meets. She has her opinions, as we all do, and they are held as firmly as her New England accent. Betty is extremely bright and quite articulate. A reflection of those qualities shows up in her ability to laugh. She has a warm and heartfelt laugh that she doesn't mind directing at herself when the occasion arises.
She knows she has lived a charmed life meeting astronauts, scientist and celebrities along the way. She has woven into her somewhat controversial life a network of good friends whom she views as extended family. The telling and retelling of her story has allowed her to be on television around the world, even Chinese television, and has afforded her the luxury of traveling to many far-away places. She has lived the good life and worked hard to preserve her privacy when need be. She is in good health and spirits but is tired of telling her story of being abducted saying "it's boring." She has moved on and so have we; but every now and then she returns to us.
Many people know of Betty Hill and her abduction experience, but not many know of the fifteen years she spent going out in the local community with a hand picked group of people to investigate and document sightings. Included in her group were high ranking military officials, medical doctors, police, associated press, television cameramen, scientists, teachers and a priest.
She has a collection of slides of UFO's that were made from the pictures taken over the years. She still has her dress that she was wearing the night of the abduction. Each time I see the dress, there is a little less of it to see as samples are taken and sent off to be analyzed in labs around the world. As of today, the results are inconclusive regarding the pink powdery substance that stained the dress. The dress is kept in a bag but every now and then she will bring it out for review. She has the star map still vividly ingrained in her mind. Marjorie Fish brought the star map to fame when she came across it. Betty had hand-drawn the map under hypnosis during one of her sessions with Dr. Simon in Boston. Other than the remembering of that map, Betty was left with no clues or information as to where the alien visitors came from or any information about them or their civilization.
by Betty Hill (Star catalogue names for corresponding stars as determined by the Fish 3d spatial projection Model of the near solar neighborhood (below).
Now, Zeta Reticuli is often referred to as a possible home of our alien visitors. She has a bust of the leader that she and Marjorie worked on many years ago. Junior, the name the local school children gave to the peculiar green/gray alien, sits retired in the bedroom on a mantel. Not many know that on the night she was abducted, Betty was also wearing a pair of blue earrings that ended up missing. Many months later when she and Barney returned home from a venture to the White Mountains, they found a pile of leaves on their kitchen table. Brushing away the leaves, they discovered the blue earrings there. They knew that the aliens knew where they lived. The abduction took place in the town of Thornton many miles from her home. While speaking with the leader, Betty informed him that they were not from around there and that she would like to meet them again. The leader didn't seem to have any concern with where she lived nor about getting back in touch with her should they want. The earrings on the table were all the proof she needed that they knew where she lived and at any time could, if they chose, make contact with them. Some time later, a neighbor told them that he saw two men in black enter the house and did not react or think it strange as Betty and Barney had strangers visit quite often. Leaving the doors unlocked was something you did back then so the neighbor did not think it was suspect to see them enter, believing Betty and Barney were home.
Betty says she has the proof of her abduction. She still has the dress that is covered with pink stains of some unknown substance. She has drawn the star map that Marjorie Fish brought to fame. Betty told of having a needle in the navel and being told it was a pregnancy test. Betty said it was no pregnancy test back then in 1961, but afterwards doctors developed the "needle in the navel" pregnancy test. The local air force base picked something up on radar that evening that they couldn't account for. They also sent out two planes to check it out. Because of the military's records, Betty and Barney knew that the craft left at 2:14 a.m.. Betty made an appearance on F. Lee Bailey's TV show and took a lie detector test which she passed. Betty underwent a brain scan to look for anomalies. She passed with flying colors. The best proof of Betty's abduction is Betty herself. Her story is now 42 years old and she has never wavered from her story in any part. She holds fast to the validity of the event and, knowing Betty, one is immediately struck by her persona of being a woman of truthfulness and of being very grounded, exhibiting a no-nonsense approach to life.
Betty has had numerous sightings over the years around her home. As she and Barney were returning from local events, it was not unusual for them to be paced by a UFO. Betty has sat out on her back steps and seen them over the house and the trees in her back yard. She laughs, cupping her hands around her mouth to demonstrate how she calls out to them with "UFO's? Can you hear me? I'm here!" It was typical of Betty to stick her hand out of the car and wave when she spotted a UFO in the area yelling out "hi boys." She was friendly, not afraid, and believes it had a lot to do with all the sightings she has witnessed over the years. Betty is that 'friendly' and talks about her experiences as casually as we might talk about going to the store or seeing a meteor streak across the night sky.
I asked Betty one time many years ago "why is it that you are able to see so many UFO's and the rest of us will be lucky to see one in our lifetime?" She replied "what do you see when you look up at the sky"? I answered "stars." "Then that is all you will ever see is stars" she advised. That brief statement has stuck with me throughout the years and at times I think it must mean something, but I'll be darned if I know what it is.
Betty describes many of the craft being different in size and purpose. The mother ship seems to be the biggest and stays the farthest out and smaller and smaller ships are launched as they come down closer to the planet. Betty says most people see the smaller ships that come to observe. However, there is a craft that comes in that she calls a "sneaky one." It will come right down in close to a populated area and set down in a wooded area. The craft looks like a house with a pitched roof and the windows are lighted so that it looks like someone is home with the lights on. Betty said if you passed it while driving you would only think it was a house sitting back in the woods. This shape and ordinary appearance allows them to come into populated areas without being seen for what they really are.
I asked Betty if she thought the beings she encountered were biological or robotic in nature. She said they were real and not robotic. She said the beings she and Barney encountered were anywhere from 3 feet to the tallest being 5 feet. They were not weak, skinny creatures...they were rugged. They were short in stature but well proportioned and built. Each of the beings had a different face and personality just as if there were 11 different people together in a room. Again, she surprised me saying "but...they do have a robot." It is some kind of robot they use that has a dark structure and a large orange head with wires running through it. At one time she saw nine of them. Others in their silent UFO research group saw them as well. They nicknamed it "pumpkin head". Betty has no idea what their purpose was but that pumpkin head was some kind of mechanical device that the aliens used for research. Although Betty and Barney met the typical small grays with the wrap around eyes, she believes that others have encountered aliens that were much different than the ones they encountered.
In the early years after their abduction, Barney and Betty received reports and saw first hand UFO's pacing police cars. If the blue lights were flashing on the police car, the UFO had its blue lights on pacing the police car down the road. The same was true of a fire truck going to a fire with it's red lights on. The UFO's would put on red lights and pace the fire truck as it sped to a fire. They have been spotted hanging over schools while a school dance was in progress. At a local race track, it was not uncommon for folks to witness a UFO sitting silently in the sky over the track as a race was in progress.
Betty claims "they were exploring---primitive life forms--- just trying to see how we lived." One time Betty says they telepathically spoke to some beings in a craft when a UFO showed up at a Christmas parade. They wanted to know what it was all about. I jokingly asked Betty "and just what exactly did you say that made any sense?" The aliens were told that it was a religious holiday and we had a Santa, with a long beard and red suit that gave gifts; but that there really wasn't a Santa. It was the parents who gave the gifts. I asked her "did they get it?" She answered "we assumed so...they never disagreed with us." Betty told the aliens about all holidays.
Betty reports that at one point they were able to record their communications on tape with an alien. The woman who had the tape promised a copy to Betty but died and she does not know what happened to that tape. Somewhere out there I hope it still exists and someday it will be found. Betty is just so darn used to having UFOs and aliens as a part of her life she takes little interest in the gathered items she's collected and has stored away throughout her home. You would almost be tempted to think that some of the stories she tells are the ramblings of an 84 year old woman who has a very vivid imagination or has lost touch with reality. But in reality, Betty is as solid as the granite rock that the state of New Hampshire itself sits upon. Betty is a no-nonsense kind of woman. Even in her advanced age she is quick-witted, agile, and has a good strong mind for dates, names and facts. I for one would never want to have to come up against her in a court of law. She is that convincing.
The first thing that you notice about Betty is that she is unassuming in her presence and just her natural relaxed way of being is refreshing, down-home and true. She does not feel all that important but believes it is very important that we continue to study the UFO phenomenon and gather as much information as we can. Someday we will have contact. Although having said that and laughing, she knows first-hand we already have. I asked her why is it if so many people have seen them and videotaped them and taken pictures, why does the government not come forward. She said "nobody pays attention to the government!" The people know they are real because the UFO's and aliens let them know they are real. Betty was very impressed with Dr. Steven Greer and his attempts to bring the UFO enigma to the forefront and gain the support of our government and military. The truth needs to come out. Even though she feels we might be looked at as a primitive life form to many of our intergalactic visitors, she really has no inside scoop nor was told why they are here. Like most, she takes an educated guess at the reasons.
Betty believes that our space visitors have moved beyond war. "For them to come here they have resolved their problems" said Betty. She believes they are a peaceful people. She also believes there is a galactic federation of some sort and that beings from different parts of this universe know each other. Soberly I asked her "do you think they will save us if we resort to nukes? She said emphatically "no, they couldn't save us." She hopes that we don't end up like the late great planet Mars. If we don't blow ourselves up, we will one day resemble our intergalactic brothers. Holding Junior on her lap and affectionately patting his head, Betty shares what a physical anthropologist told her that 25,000 years from now we will look like Junior. With each succeeding generation, we are losing more hair, our noses and ears are getting smaller, our eyes bigger. Betty hopes that we continue with our space program and move away from our reliance on fossil fuel. We will have to if we are to go beyond these few planets that we know of to join the rest of the galaxy in exploration and contact. She holds out hope for us as a species. Someday someway we will throw off the restraints of war, fossil fuel and ignorance to join our fellow travelers among the stars.
Betty became quiet at one point in the interview when she said to me, "I'm the only one living. John Fuller is gone, Dr. Simon is gone, Barney's gone." I could feel her private memory tinged with sadness as she spoke. When I was last up to see Betty, another person of UFO notoriety had died. Norman Muscarello of Exeter died, at the age of 55 on February 26, 2003. Norman's UFO story was also penned by John G. Fuller in his book Incident at Exeter. Norman and Betty lived very close to each other and although they did not know each other well, they knew each other. Only Betty is left now.
Betty, the Grandmother of Ufology remains as "feisty" as ever, living quietly among us. She will not be with us forever but she and her story are the stuff of legends and it will live on in history. For those of us who know her personally, we have been given a gift. She is everyone's grandmother in some small way and has generously over the years shared herself with us. She is retired but every now and then...she returns.
Article provided by Stacey Allen McGee, Founder and Director, The ARC ~ Alternate Realities Center.


The Hon Ken Wyatt AM MP, Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Indigenous Health, addressed the Committee highlighting key work being done across the sector. Minister Wyatt talked about the establishment of the Aged Care Industry Reference Committee, the Diversity Framework and action plans and the announcement to implement unannounced audits across Australia's residential aged care facilities.
Specialist Dementia Care Units (SDCUs).
ACSC Communication and Engagement Sub-group.
The Aged Care Funding Authority (ACFA) provided an update on the ACFA 2018 work program.
Committee Members reflected on the sector achievement's in 2017 and participated in a facilitated discussion on the Committee's 2018 work priorities.
The next face to face meeting is scheduled for 6 July 2018.


Political door knocking is legal and protected; however, someone called the police on two black men who were campaigning for Congressional candidate David Kim.
Eli Sabur is a student at Morehouse College in southwest Atlanta. He works for David Kim's Congressional District 7 campaign canvassing neighborhoods. Sabur has been canvassing for years and he says last week things took a turn for the worst.
A video of the incident has gone viral and Sabur says this nothing new.
"When I repeatedly hear of incidents like this, it deeply saddens me that this has become a running commentary of my campaign. I understand why every parent of a child of color must have "the talk" and worry about all our team members out in the field."
The statement went on to say he's relieved the officers were friendly and that this regrettable incident didn't escalate into something worse.
As for Sabur, he says he not going to let this incident prevent him from helping the campaign.


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Deep sea creatures provide a guiding light in the quest to develop cancer-fighting therapies
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A team of scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of USC is looking to some deep sea dwellers to create a better way to develop cancer-fighting therapies. Harnessing the power of the enzymes that give these marine animals the ability to glow, the team created a test that makes it easy for researchers to see whether a therapy is having its intended effect — killing cancer cells. The results of their study were published in Scientific Reports on Jan. 9, 2018.
"One of the most promising areas in cancer research is immunotherapy, including chimeric antigen receptor-T (CAR-T) cells. It is also one of the most difficult because the methods for testing immunotherapies are not ideal," says corresponding author Preet M. Chaudhary, professor of medicine at the Keck School, chief of the division of hematology and center for blood diseases, director for bone marrow transplant at USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, and principal investigator with USC Stem Cell. "Radioactive chromium release assay is the gold standard for testing whether an immunotherapy kills cancer cells. This method is expensive, complicated and requires special disposal practices. Other available methods also suffer from limitations and don't allow scientists to rapidly screen immunotherapeutic agents to find the best candidates."
The team set out to develop a simple, precise and inexpensive test based on marine animal luciferases, the enzymes responsible for bioluminescence. A group of small crustaceans and deep sea shrimp were selected for their bright bioluminescence, and their luciferases became the basis of the test, called the Matador assay. Engineered to get trapped inside cells, the luciferases leak out of cells when they die, causing a visible glow. The level of luminescence can then be measured with a luminometer.
To test the Matador assay's effectiveness at measuring cell death, several different types of cancer cells, including chronic myelogenous leukemia, acute myelogenous leukemia, Burkitt's lymphoma and solid tumors, were treated with a variety of immunotherapies, including CAR-T cells, bispecific T-cell engagers and monoclonal antibodies. Results showed that the assay was so sensitive that it could detect the death of a single cell, a level of sensitivity far exceeding existing assays. Chaudhary's lab has since developed more than 75 cancer cell lines expressing the marine luciferases and used them successfully in the Matador assay to develop next-generation CAR-T cells.
The assay is fast, inexpensive and can be performed in a 384-well plate format, saving time and reagents.
"In our hands, the Matador assay can detect cell death in as little as 30 minutes, which can ultimately translate to more expedient treatments for patients getting cellular immunotherapies such as CAR-T cells," Chaudhary says.
The Matador assay has many potential applications in biomedical research and cellular therapy manufacturing, he explains.
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Mentioned in this article: Preet M. Chaudhary, MD, PhD
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The study of neutron nuclear reactions and nuclear reactions in general is of paramount importance in physics of nuclear reactors. Progress in the understanding of nuclear reactions generally has occurred at a faster pace compared to similar studies of chemical reactions and generally a higher level of sophistication has been achieved.
Shortly after the neutron was discovered in 1932, it was quickly realized that neutrons might act to form a nuclear chain reaction. When nuclear fission was discovered in 1938, it became clear that, if a neutron induced fission reaction produces new free neutrons, that each of these neutrons might cause further fission reaction in a cascade known as a chain reaction. Therefore the calculations of nuclear reactors are determined by the transport of neutrons, their interaction with matter and their multiplication within a nuclear reactor.
A neutron nuclear reaction is considered to be the process in which neutron interacts with a nuclear particle to produce two or more nuclear particles or ˠ-rays (gamma rays). Thus, a neutron nuclear reaction must cause a transformation of the target nuclide to another nuclide. Sometimes if a nucleus interacts with another nucleus or particle without changing the nature of the nuclide, the process is referred to a nuclear scattering, rather than a neutron nuclear reaction.
In order to understand the nature of neutron nuclear reactions, the classification according to the time scale of of these reactions has to be introduced. Interaction time is critical for defining the reaction mechanism.
A projectile and a target nucleus are within the range of nuclear forces for the very short time allowing for an interaction of a single nucleon only. These type of reactions are called the direct reactions.
Nuclear reactions, that occur in a time comparable to the time of transit of an incident particle across the nucleus (~10-22 s), are called direct reactions. Interaction time is critical for defining the reaction mechanism. The very short interaction time allows for an interaction of a single nucleon only (in extreme cases). In fact, there is always some non-direct (a multiple internuclear interaction) component in all reactions, but the direct reactions have this component limited. To limit the time available for multiple internuclear interactions, the reaction have to occur at high energy.
The cross-sections for direct reactions vary smoothly and slowly with energy in contrast to the compound nucleus reactions and these cross-sections are comparable to the geometrical cross-sections of target nuclei.
Very important feature and a direct consequence of the thermal equilibrium inside a compound nucleus is the fact the mode of decay of compound nucleus does not depend on the way the compound nucleus is formed. The large number of collisions between nucleons leads to the loss of the information on the entrance channel from the system. The decay mechanism (channel) that dominates the decay of C* is determined by the excitation energy in C*.
These nuclear reactions are fast and involve a single-nucleon interaction. The interaction time must be very short (~10-22 s). Incident particles interact on the surface of a target nucleus rather than in the volume of a target nucleus.
A projectile and a target nucleus are within the range of nuclear forces for the time allowing for a large number of interactions between nucleons.
Products of these reactions are distributed near isotropically in angle (the nucleus loses memory of how it was created – the Bohr's hypothesis of independence). The mode of decay of the nucleus do not depend on the way the nucleus is formed.
One the following statements is not typical for nuclear resonances?
Nuclear resonance is one of the excited states of the nucleus formed by the combination of the incident particle and target nucleus.
The narrowest resonances are usually the compound states of heavy nuclei (such as fissionable nuclei) and thermal neutrons (usually in (n,γ) capture reactions).
The observation of nuclear resonances is restricted to neutron-nuclear reactions.
Explanation: The observation of resonances is by no means restricted to neutron-nuclear reactions.
Raising the temperature of PWR fuel causes the fuel nuclei to vibrate more rapidly within their lattice structures. This causes an increase in resonance absorption of neutrons.
This phenomenon is known as the Doppler broadening of resonances, which is very important phenomenon, that improves reactor stability.
Potential scattering. In potential scattering, the neutron and the nucleus interact without neutron absorption and the formation of a compound nucleus. In fact, the incident neutron does not necessarily have to "touch" the nucleus and the neutron is scattered by the short range nuclear forces when it approaches close enough to the nucleus. Potential scattering occurs with incident neutrons that have an energy of up to about 1 MeV. It may be modeled as a billiard ball collision between a neutron and a nucleus.
Compound-elastic scattering. In some cases, if the kinetic energy of an incident neutron just right to form a resonance, the neutron may be absorbed and a compound nucleus may be formed. This interaction is more unusual and is also known as resonance elastic scattering. Due to formation of the compound nucleus, initial and final neutron are not the same.
Elastic scattering (cross-section) of slow neutrons by molecules is greater than by free nuclei.
If the kinetic energy of an incident neutron is large compared with the chemical binding energy of the atoms in a molecule, the chemical bound can be ignored.
If the kinetic energy of an incident neutron is of the order or less than the chemical binding energy, the cross-section of the molecule is not equal to the sum of cross-sections of its individual nuclei.
During an inelastic scattering the neutron can be absorbed and then re-emitted. This reaction belongs to direct reactions.
Explanation: The reaction occurs via compound nucleus.
One the following statements is not typical for neutron inelastic reactions?
For hydrogen nucleus as a target, inelastic scattering occurs only for low energies of incident neutron.
Explanation: For hydrogen nucleus, inelastic scattering does not occur, because it does not have excited states.
The most important neutron absorption reactions are divided by the exit channel into two types of reactions. One the following reactions is not an absorption reaction.
Sort the following isotopes according to the radiative capture cross-section for thermal neutrons from highest to lowest cross-section.
For which neutron absorber is the following chart (cross-sections) typical (see the cut-off energy ~0.5 eV)?
There is a cadmium cut-off energy (Cadmium edge) in the absorption cross-section. Only neutrons of kinetic energy below the cadmium cut-off energy (~0.5 eV) are strongly absorbed by 113Cd. Therefore cadmium is widely used to absorb thermal neutrons in a thermal neutron filters.
What is not typical for (γ, n) reactions (production of photoneutrons)?
(γ, n) reactions are threshold reactions.
Photoneutrons do not contribute to neutron flux in a reactor when the reactor is in long term shutdown.
These reactions play a significant role also in reactor kinetics and in a subcriticality control.
The lowest threshold energy for (γ, n) reaction have 9Be with 1.666 MeV and 2D with 2.226 MeV.
Explanation: Photoneutrons are usually major source in a reactor and ensure sufficient neutron flux on source range detectors when reactor is subcritical in long term shutdown.
The most important neutron nuclear reactions in nuclear reactor physics are reactions of thermal neutrons with boron nuclei (rather with 10B nuclei). In nuclear industry boron is commonly used as a neutron absorber and a neutron converter.
Which type of reaction is used in neutron absorbers based on boron (n + 10B)?
Which of the following charged particle reactions is very important in reactivity control?
Explanation: Most of (n,alpha) reactions of thermal neutrons are 10B(n,alpha)7Li reactions accompanied by 0.48 MeV gamma emission. Therefore boron can be used as neutron absorber in case chemical shim, burnable absorbers or control rods. It can be also used as the neutron converter in neutron detectors, because its cross-section is very high and produces energetic alpha particles.
Which of the following charged particle reactions is very important in radiation protection?
Explanation: This nuclear reaction continually take place especially in the earth's atmosphere, forming equilibrium amounts of the radionuclide 14C. In nuclear power plants, it is important especially from radiation protection point of view. The reaction is responsible for most of the radiation dose delivered to the human body by thermal neutrons. The nitrogen atoms are contained in proteins, therefore if the human body is exposed to thermal neutrons, then these thermal neutrons may be absorbed by 14N, causing a proton emission. Protons are directly ionizing particles and deposit their energy over a very short distance in the body tissue.
the difference between the sum of the masses of the initial reactants and the sum of the masses of the final products, in energy units (usually in MeV).
the difference between the sum of the electric charges of the initial reactants and the sum of the electric charges of the final products.
the difference between the sum of the baryon numbers of the initial reactants and the sum of the baryon numbers of the final products.


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Q: boost::spirit alternative parsers return duplicates I am working on https://github.com/F-Bergemann/RegexSplitter.
Purpose: parse a regular expression string, and create breakable and unbreakable top-level substrings. Breakable substrings can be broken up again. Unbreakable substrings must remain as is. Unbreakable applies to 'groups' and 'character classes'
I am currently working on the 'character classes'. For those, i mainly use qi::rule<Iterator, std::string()> parsers, and only a single qi::rule<Iterator, ASTNode*> parser for the root parser. I.e. only the root parser shall create an AST result. The child parsers shall just validate.
When testing compiled regex-splitter i get this:
> ./regex-splitter "[1]"
TEST:[1]
### ASTNode c'tor (std::string &) #1: Unbreakable
### ASTNode c'tor (std::string &) #2: U:[11]
### ASTNode c'tor (ASTNode const *, std::vector<ASTNode *> &) #1: Collection
### ASTNode d'tor #1: Unbreakable
### ASTNode d'tor #2: U:[11]
### ASTNode c'tor (ASTNode const *, std::vector<ASTNode *> &) #2: Collection
U:[11],
### ASTNode d'tor #1: Collection
### ASTNode d'tor #2: C:[11]

I.e. instead of "[1]" i get as a result "[11]".
I know it has to do with following part of the code:
tok_set_item =
tok_range | tok_char
;

tok_range =
tok_char >> qi::char_('-') >> tok_char
;

tok_char =
qi::alnum // TODO BNF: <char> ::= any non metacharacter | "\" metacharacter
;

It seems to try tok_range, 1st. Then switches to tok_char.
But why to do i get "[11]" here?
It should just validate the syntax and return the original data.
I tried to find out what happens for the parser action here.
I have no explicit parser action here.
What it is using implicitly? boost::variant<...>?
Does it make a difference, when i use  qi::as_string[...] wrappers?

A: It's the age-old "container attributes aren't atomic" pitfall:

*

*boost::spirit::qi duplicate parsing on the output

*Understanding Boost.spirit's string parser

*Parsing with Boost::Spirit (V2.4) into container
You can paper over it using qi::hold. Or you can revise your strategy.

I'll see whether I can find some time to review the code. You might post at CodeReview.stackexchange.com for good measure.


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