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Tony Danna, vice-president at Three Square Market, gets his microchip implant.
Last year an American company microchipped dozens of its workers. In a "chip party" that made headlines around the world, employees lined up to have a device the size of a grain of rice implanted under the skin between their thumb and forefinger. At first, Todd Westby, the CEO of Three Square Market, thought only about five or six people – him and a couple of directors, some of the people who worked in the IT department – would volunteer. But of the 90 people who work at the headquarters, 72 are now chipped; Westby has a chip in each hand. They can be used to open security doors, log on to computers and make payments at the company's vending machines.
Can he see it taking off at lots of other companies? "Not necessarily," he says. Or at least not yet. It's partly a generational thing, he believes. "You may never want to be chipped but if you're a millennial, you have no problems. They think it's cool." There are other uses for it – two months ago, the company (whose core business is selling vending machines and kiosks) started chipping people with dementia in Puerto Rico. If someone wanders off and gets lost, police can scan the chip "and they will know all their medical information, what drugs they can and can't have, they'll know their identity." So far, Three Square Market has chipped 100 people, but plans to do 10,000.
The company has just launched a mobile phone app that pairs the chip with the phone's GPS, enabling the implantee's location to be tracked. Last week, it started using it with people released from prison on probation, as a replacement for ankle tags, which Westby describes as "intimidating and degrading". Could he ever see the company using GPS to track its chipped employees? "No," he says. "There's no reason to."
Not all firms would agree. Tech companies are coming up with ever more bizarre and intrusive ways to monitor workforces. Last week the Times reported that some Chinese companies are using sensors in helmets and hats to scan workers' brainwaves and detect fatigue, stress and even emotions such as anger. It added that one electrical company uses brainwave scans to decide how many breaks workers get, and for how long. The technology is used on high-speed train drivers to "detect fatigue and attention loss". While this sort of technology may have legitimate safety applications – a similar project was carried out with Crossrail workers using wristbands that sensed fatigue – it's not hard to see how it could creep into other areas.
In February, it was reported that Amazon had been granted patents for a wristband that not only tracked workers' locations in the warehouse as they "picked" items to be dispatched, but could "read" their hand movements, buzzing or emitting a pulse to alert them when they were reaching for the wrong item. In the filing, Amazon describes it as being able to "monitor performance of the placing of the incoming inventory item into the identified storage location by the inventory system worker".
There are tech companies selling products that can take regular screenshots of employees' work, monitor keystrokes and web usage, and even photograph them at their desks using their computers' webcams. Working from home offers no protection, as all this can be done remotely. Software can monitor social media usage, analyse language or be installed on employees' phones to monitor encrypted apps such as WhatsApp. Employees can be fitted with badges that not only track their location, but also monitor their tone of voice, how often they speak in meetings and who they speak to and for how long.
Employees have always been watched at work, and technology has always been used to do it. But where it was once a factory foreman with a stopwatch, or workers having to physically clock in and out, now "all of that physical stuff has gone into digital technology", says André Spicer, professor of organisational behaviour at Cass Business School. "It captures things that you weren't able to capture in the past, like how many keystrokes are people taking, what are they looking at on their screen while they're at work, what kind of language are they using. And surveillance follows you outside the workplace now."
Some Chinese companies are using sensors to detect employees' levels of fatigue and their emotional state.
How much of this is legal? In the UK, employers are allowed to monitor which websites you look at while at work, says Philip Landau, a partner at Landau Law Solicitors who specialises in employment law. "However, the device they monitor must be partly or wholly provided by work. Employers must also give prior warning if they are going to monitor your online activity, and should make you aware of the relevant social media policy." It is also legal to monitor keystrokes, though again employees must be told they will be watched. "In companies where this system is in place, it is not uncommon for employers to speak to employees if they feel that their number of keystrokes is low," says Landau. "It is worth noting that a high number of keystrokes does not necessarily mean high levels of productivity and vice versa."
Employers could theoretically use your computer's webcam to see when you're at your desk but "there should be a justification for such monitoring, and you should be informed of it beforehand. You should also be informed what the pictures will be used for, and how they will be stored." As for GPS tracking, "a company may track any vehicles that they supply to their staff. However, the data they collect must only be used for the management purposes of the company. Any GPS device is not allowed to be turned on if the employee is using the vehicle for personal reasons outside of work."
James Bloodworth spent a month working as a "picker" – the person who locates the products ordered – for Amazon in March 2016 for his book "Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain". "We carried this handheld device at all times and it tracks your productivity," he says. It would direct workers to the items they need to find on the shelves in one of Amazon's vast warehouses. "Each time you picked up an item, there would be this countdown timer [to get to the next item] which would measure your productivity." Bloodworth says supervisors would tell people how productive they were being; he was warned he was in the bottom 10%. "You were also sent admonishments through the device saying you need to get your productivity up. You're constantly tracked and rated. I found you couldn't keep up with the productivity targets without running – yet you were also told you weren't allowed to run, and if you did, you'd get a disciplinary. But if you fell behind in productivity, you'd get a disciplinary for that as well." It didn't feel, he says, "that you were really treated as a human being". Workers had to go through airport-style security scanners at the beginning and end of their shifts, or to get to the break areas. He says going to the loo was described as "idle time" and once found a bottle of urine on one of the shelves.
Amazon says its scanning devices "are common across the warehouse and logistics sector as well as in supermarkets, department stores and other businesses, and are designed to assist our people in performing their roles", while the company "ensures all of its associates have easy access to toilet facilities, which are just a short walk from where they are working". It adds: "Associates are allowed to use the toilet whenever needed. We do not monitor toilet breaks."
Some of Bloodworth's colleagues, he says, were angry about the level of monitoring – "but it was more cynicism and resignation. Most of the people I met hadn't been in the job very long or were looking for other jobs. Every job was temporary and it was a workforce completely in flux." Has Bloodworth seen the future? Will we all be monitored like this by our bosses in years to come? Possibly, he says. "One of the things that has arisen in response to the book is that people say work is going to be automated anyway, or workers need to be more flexible, as if this is the way of the future and it's inevitable, which I think is quite dangerous. Amazon can get away with this because of political choices and because the trade union movement is quite weak. I think other businesses will look at Amazon, see they have had success with this business model – and seek to replicate it."
For his book "Working the Phones", Jamie Woodcock, a sociologist of work at the Oxford Internet Institute, spent six months working in a call centre. You get a sense of the monitoring, he says, "from the moment you walk in. You have TV screens that have everyone's relative performance to each other displayed. Managers collect data on almost every single part of what you do. Every single phone call I ever made was digitally recorded and stored. In terms of monitoring, it's like being able to call back every single thing somebody has made on an assembly line and retrospectively judge it for quality. We all make mistakes and we all have bad days, but this kind of monitoring can be made retrospectively to sack people and is used to give people a sense that they could lose their jobs at any moment."
Monitoring is built into many of the jobs that form the so-called "gig economy". It's not easy to object to the constant surveillance when you're desperate for work. What has surprised Spicer is how willingly people in better-paid jobs have taken to it. "Prisoners in the past were forced to wear tracking bands but now we willingly put on step trackers or other kinds of tracking devices given to us by our employers, and in some cases we pay for the privilege." Companies such as IBM, BP, Bank of America, Target and Barclays have offered their employees Fitbit activity trackers.
It is part, Spicer says, of "this whole idea of wanting to improve or optimise yourself. A lot of technology is designed to not just feed back data about your performance to your boss, but also give it to you. I guess they're also seen as cool or fashionable, so it's not surprising they're taken up so readily."
Spicer has watched the shift away from "monitoring something like emails to monitoring people's bodies – the rise of bio-tracking basically. The monitoring of your vital signs, emotions, moods." Of Three Square Market's practice of chipping employees, he says: "You can imagine that slowly extending. You could imagine things like employers asking to have your DNA in the future, and other kinds of data."
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Surveillance can have positive applications. It's necessary (and legally required) in the financial industry to prevent insider trading. It could be used to prevent harassment and bullying, and to root out bias and discrimination. One interesting study last year monitored emails and productivity, and used sensors to track behaviour and interaction with management, and found that men and women behaved almost identically at work. The findings challenged the belief that the reason women are not promoted to senior levels is that they are less proactive or have fewer interactions with leaders, and simply need to "lean in".
Still, says, Woodcock, "we need to have a conversation in society about whether work should be somewhere that you're surveilled". That need is perhaps most urgent where low-paid, insecure jobs are concerned. "If you work in the gig economy, you have a smartphone," Woodcock points out, and that smartphone can be used to track you. "I think because many of these workplaces don't have traditional forms of organisation or trade unions, management are able to introduce these things with relatively little collective resistance."
The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain is well aware of the issues of monitoring and data collection. James Farrar is the chair of its United Private Hire Drivers branch, and the Uber driver who won a legal battle against the company last year for drivers' rights. "They do collect an awful lot of information," he says. "One of the things they will report to you on a daily basis is how good your acceleration and braking has been. You get a rating. The question is: why are they collecting that information?" Uber also monitors "unusual movements" of the phone when someone is driving (implying it knows if someone is using their phone while at the wheel) and, of course, tracks cars and drivers by GPS.
"My concern with it is this information is being fed into a dispatch algorithm," he says. "We should have access to the data and understand how it's being used. If some kind of quality score on my driving capability [is put into an algorithm], I may be offered less valuable work, kept away from the most valuable clients – who knows?" It's not an unreasonable fear – the food delivery company Deliveroo already does something similar, monitoring its riders' and drivers' performance, and has started offering "priority access" when booking shifts to those who "provide the most consistent, quality service". Uber, however, says its monitoring is intended only to deliver "a smoother, safer ride … This data is used to inform drivers of their driving habits and is not used to affect future trip requests."
Not all surveillance is bad, says Farrar. In some ways, he would like more. He was assaulted by a passenger and is calling for CCTV in all vehicles, partly for the safety of drivers. "There is a role for surveillance technology," he says. Ironically, when Farrar went for a meeting with Uber to discuss the assault, the company made him turn his phone off to prove he wasn't recording it.
Comment: The Guardian seems to be subtly attempting to condition people to think that a heavily surveilled society, where everyone would be tracked and monitored, is becoming the new normal and we should just accept it. George Orwell must be turning in his grave.
Source: https://www.sott.net
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Interview with Dr. Liz Rylott on Bioremediation
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Interview with Dr. Liz Rylott – Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) – Department of Biology – University of York
Liz is a world leader in the development of GM and synthetic biology technologies for the phytoremediation of organic pollutants, especially explosives, such as TNT and RDX, and inorganic contaminants.
When did you first develop an interest in plant sciences?
"I have always been interested in plants, from before school. I grew up in a farming community so was exposed to plants from a young age.
"At school you were encouraged to continue in whichever area you were good at, and I excelled in biology, and plant biology particularly, but didn't know where that would end up. Growing up in Lincolnshire, careers advice from school was to go into horticulture, growing vegetables or flowers in a glasshouse. That was the limit of their ambition.
"I went to the University of Manchester and took a degree in applied plant science. It was such a specific course, I couldn't believe that I could find something that sounded so exactly like what I wanted to do. The course had a year in industry, and I spent this time at AstraZeneca, working on some of the first GM field trials."
What is phytoremediation? What type of pollutants can be targeted?
"Phytoremediation is the use of plants to remediate environmental pollutants. This doesn't necessarily mean that you are using the plants to take up the contaminants. It might be viaphytostabilization to remove or reduce exposure, purely through planting. It is seen as a relatively low cost, aesthetically pleasing alternative, and helps to restore the natural ecology in these areas. This can often lead to a natural attenuation process [the reduction in toxicity or mass of a contaminant without human intervention]."
"Both organic and inorganic pollutants can be targeted. Organic pollutants would include PCPs and dioxins. We work specifically on explosive compounds, such as 2, 4, 6 – trinitrotoluene [TNT] and RDX. These have been exemplar chemicals in the phytoremediation of organic pollutants. We have been fortunate in finding bacterial enzymes that are able to completely mineralise RDX, which is the holy grail of an organic phytoremediation project. But PCPs, for example, are more challenging, as they comprise a group of halogenated compounds, that bind tightly to the soil, requiring a number of different enzymes to break them down."
"Inorganic pollutants include cadmium, arsenic, mercury, some of which are extremely toxic. These obviously cannot be mineralised; otherwise I would be very rich if we could!
"You have two options, if you take the material up into the plant, you now have a plant that is full of cadmium; the price of cadmium is relatively low and it is toxic. You would have now made environmental waste that would have to be dealt with in landfill, which we try to avoid. So with inorganics, we often utilise phytostabilization to try and lock the pollutants down, or you can develop plants that will compartmentalise the metals away from the parts that people are going to eat.
"There are a lot of people in Asia, for example, who are eating rice contaminated with arsenic, and if you can reduce the amount of arsenic that is going into the grain, it's not perfect, but it is something."
Is there a way to recycle these heavy metals or rare metals?
"People have used chelating agents, such as EDTA, to loosen metals from the medium of the soil, in the hope that the plants will take them up. But in practice this can be environmentally extremely damaging, and is now looked upon as an incorrect approach. Plants have a very discrete area around their root that they will take metals up from. However, [with the use of chelating agents] these metals are indiscriminately released, so the plants do not reach a lot of them. The metals are then washed downstream, and could kill all of the fish, so this approach is no longer used.
"A more sophisticated approach is to engineer the plants or microbes in areas around the roots, to exude compounds that would release the metals [from the soil] for uptake.
"With respect to nickel and rare metals such as, palladium, platinum or gold, we have been doing quite a lot of work in that area. We know that plants will take up some of the platinum group metals and gold, and they deposit those as discrete nanoparticles, with some catalytic activity. This can make [phytoremediation] more financially viable, as the material can be used in planta, rather than smelting the dried plant biomass into an ingot, as this is too energy intensive to yield a profit."
How easy is it to move from the model Arabidopsis thalianasystem to a more applicable/ real world system?
"Arabidopsis thaliana is the model plant system for molecular biology studies. We can look at the genes very readily, it is a very small plant, we can grow it very quickly in large numbers and we know the full [genetic] sequence. We can also get mutants in the genes very readily too, and introduce genes from anywhere else. It is perfect for proof-of-concept, but absolutely imperfect for actually mining. It has poor tolerance for the environments that you would be growing these plants in: the heavy metals themselves, additional contamination, and a hostile place with poor soil."
"Willow, miscanthus and poplar are good candidates. These are all used as biomass crops already, so we have the existing agricultural infrastructure in place. For example, there have been tractors designed to harvest coppiced willow into bundles, straight to the power station. This makes using these species a more viable option."
Do you have a recent example where bioremediation was applied successfully?
"There is a fern, Pteris vittat that hyperaccumulates arsenic, discovered in China. Hyperaccumulator plants are plant species that accumulate very high concentrations of one or more heavy metals from the soil. They have evolved this ability to flourish in environmental niches where there are naturally occurring very high levels of cadmium, zinc or arsenic, for example. People have used this to clean up localised areas of metal contamination. China is investing massively into phytoremediation. Partly because, historically, they have produced quite a lot of contamination, and now they have realised they need the soil back to grow crops for people. The development and use of this Pteris fern is one of those technologies."
"The technology that we focus our research on is using GM, for organic explosives. We have taken bacteria that have evolved the ability to detoxify or degrade these compounds, and we have found the genes that encode for the enzymes that are responsible, and transform these into the plants, which has worked fantastically. The plants themselves haven't had time to evolve any mechanisms of their own to do this. We have carried out field trials in the States [USA], last summer, and these provided very promising results. We can take these organic pollutants, remove them from the environment, mineralise [the organic pollutant] completely, and the plants even grow better because of the nitrogen from the explosives. There is no other viable alternative to cleaning up such large areas of the U.S."
How do you deliver these phytoremediation plants to war torn countries, with high levels of explosive contaminated soil?
"Our technology has been designed for active training ranges where you need to contain the explosives to stop them leaching out, and remediate the site. They can keep [the site] active, and continue to contaminate it, but contain it. When you are looking at areas where there has been contamination from conflict, it may take a long time before it becomes a safe place to enter, and by then historical records may have been lost, and contamination isn't very widely documented. It isn't often the first thing on peoples list for recovering their country, with their economy, healthcare and infrastructure, taking priority, but one day, we hope to have the technologies ready for this."
Could you give an outlook for the future of bioremediation?
"Hopefully we are still here on this planet for thousands more years, and when we think how far we have come with GM technology since the 90's, so only 30 years further on now, there is a massive amount that we can achieve. I am very excited to wonder where we will be even in 50 years time. We can engineer transporters. These are the proteins on the cell membranes that can take up metals. At the moment there are hundreds of them encoded in plants, and quite a lot of them are fairly promiscuous, and will take up a range of different metals. Understanding the chemistry of how they bind the different metals, can we work out specificity there, so that we can take up a particular metal and partition that away somewhere so that it is not interfering with the plants own metabolism, because these metals can be quite toxic to the plant. So you cannot get the plant to take up cadmium because it dies, but we could make up a specific transporter that would take up the cadmium, then partition it to a particular compartment in the plant…
"Maybe we could even have artificial organelles that become depots for the metal that you want to take up. This is moving along into the future, but why not? One day there may well be someone working on that. There is massive promise in this area."
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The first lesson is to connect to the people you wish to represent by learning about them and winning their trust. The time when politicians could rely on party machines, focus groups, and traditional polling is over. The complacent assumption that people will always vote along party or class lines is obsolete. In France's presidential and parliamentary elections last year, support for both the centre-left Socialist Party and the centre-right Républicains collapsed. Likewise, established political parties suffered humiliating defeats in Italy's election last month.
After a decade of economic malaise, voters are sceptical of mainstream politicians who offer rote promises of growth and improved standards of living. In the eyes of disenchanted workers, those in power have simply been feathering their own nests. Even in many of the world's strongest economies, workers are earning less in real terms than they did ten years ago. To quote the head of the OECD, they are "back at work, but out of pocket." In the United States, 56% of households report declining household incomes. At the same time, the twin threats of automation and outsourcing have made employment more precarious, and sapped workers' bargaining power.
Who is to blame for this state of affairs? Those who vote for populists clearly hold establishment politicians responsible, and they may not be wrong in doing so. Contrary to popular belief, recent research finds that technology is not the primary driver of labour's declining share of income. Rather, the worsening plight of workers is due to lost bargaining power and union density, welfare-state retrenchment, offshoring, and the growth of the financial sector as a share of the economy.
Another important factor is tax policy. According to a report in the Financial Times, the effective tax rates "paid by the world's 10 biggest public companies by market capitalisation in each of nine sectors" have fallen by nearly one-third since 2000, from 34% to 24%. And since 2008, personal income-tax rates across all countries have increased by 6%, on average.
Against this backdrop, the emergence of populist parties and politicians should come as no surprise. When a majority of people becomes poorer, there will be stark consequences at the ballot box. And yet, in one country after another, the political establishment has been remarkably slow to recognise this.
The winner, Clement Attlee, promised what was effectively a new social contract for war-weary Britons still living under rations. His government went on to provide free universal health care, unemployment insurance, pensions, decent housing, and secure jobs in nationalised industries. And all this was done with the national debt still at 250% of GDP.
This piece was originally published by Project Syndicate on 11 April 2018.


Editor's note: This commentary is by Tony Redington, of Burlington, for the Pine Street Coalition LC3. He is a transportation policy development and research specialist.
Turns out the Champlain Parkway goes back to court Aug. 8 with two opposition groups — the Pine Street Coalition and Burlington Fortieth LLC, which owns Innovation Center — appealing property takings by the city of Burlington over claiming lack of notification of some property owners and others affected.
The grassroots Pine Street Coalition and Fortieth Burlington filed separate appeals.
The Pine Street Coalition appeal follows its challenge a few weeks ago to the city, the Vermont Agency of Transportation, and the Federal Highway Administration to stop the shoddy project now because of changes in laws and policies since the 2009 now stale and invalid environmental document. The coalition backs its challenge with 240+ page documents set. The coalition seeks a cheaper, new generation approach that meets the business and community needs of the South End neighborhoods. The stated purpose of speeding cars between I-189 and downtown belongs to the car-centric 1960s, not the multi-modal world of today.
The 2.3 mile project's fatal flaws stem from laws, policies and new technology adopted since the last public hearing in 2006 and an environmental document filing in 2009. This decade, the South End emerged as the most exciting and vibrant area of Burlington, bursting with new development, generator spaces, eateries, a technology enclave, small businesses, an expanding artist and artisan neighborhood, and major anchor installations led by the City Market Co-op South End with 100+ jobs and Champlain College's Miller Center education and cybersecurity venture with 70 jobs.
The surge this decade in highway fatalities, led by pedestrians and bicyclists, compares to the absence of any safety consideration in the parkway, counter to the 2012 Vermont Complete Streets Law and federal statutes as well as several city plans since. The coalition predicts increased intersections injuries. Other major areas dismissed or ignored in the parkway runup: climate change emissions, impacts on the low income Maple-King street neighborhood, gasoline use, separate and safe pedestrian and bicycle travelways and encroachment on open space and the stressed Englesby Brook, and blocking transit terminal facilities access and routes.
The two most obvious wasteful and hurtful parkway elements: two streets between Home and Flynn avenues instead of one quality and the severing of one of the only two north-south corridors in the South End by dead ending Pine Street short of Queen City Park Road, which forces South Enders onto Shelburne Road to travel to Hannaford, Lowe's or the Palace theater. The Burlington Walk Bike Council in detailed letters to the city cited unsatisfactory walk and bike facilities and in 2016 endorsed the coalition's parkway Redesign Guidelines.
Yes, technology and best practices for street design changed radically this decade on busy streets which now include roundabout intersections (90 percent reduction in serious or fatal injuries – advocated by AARP, Geico, AAA, the Federal Highway Administration and VTrans draft development guidelines) and cycle track (protected bike lanes). Bicycles and pedestrians now require separate and safe travelways — a parkway defect easily remedied in a new design.
The coalition calls for a cheaper (about $8 million cheaper), greener, quicker and (much) safer parkway design done through a democratic process. After four decades of studies and still invalid design, "let's do it right the first time" by shaping a parkway the city can love!


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CMA Announces New International Artist Touring Series with Brandy Clark, Devin Dawson, Lindsay Ell and Tenille Townes
Posted by Jessica on December 19, 2018 at 7:30 pm
Photo credit: David McClister
The Country Music Association has announced its new international artist-focused touring series, aptly titled Introducing Nashville, which launches in March of 2019 in Australia and New Zealand featuring Brandy Clark, Devin Dawson, Lindsay Ell and Tenille Townes (Australia leg only) followed by an industry event in Tokyo, Japan including Frankie Ballard. Tickets for Australia and New Zealand are on sale here.
As part of CMA's mission to support the expansion of Country Music around the globe, Introducing Nashville will provide a platform to introduce exciting current artists to international audiences for the first time. Each tour stop will replicate a Nashville writer's round, with artists appearing on stage together in an acoustic lineup, introducing their songs and talking about their careers and personal stories. As international touring opportunities and global streaming continues to grow for Country artists,
CMA will continue to use strategic research and tactics in an effort to bring Country artists to fans in foreign territories eager to discover and learn more about the Country genre. Introducing Nashville builds on the remarkable response CMA has seen with artists presented alongside hit songwriters during international tours of the CMA Songwriters Series. Since 2012, CMA has invited more than 40 songwriters and artists overseas to familiarize audiences with the breadth and rich heritage of the Country genre. The CMA Songwriters Series will continue to present songwriters to international fans with a focus on the importance of the craft of songwriting.
"We are excited to invest in artists who are building international careers and to help place them in front of fans in multiple cities who seldom experience Nashville artists live," said Milly Olykan, CMA Vice President, International Relations and Development. "Launching the first Introducing Nashville tour with these distinct artists, each of which occupy such different lanes musically, illustrates the broad range of sounds coming out of Nashville and the Country genre."
Introducing Nashville 2019:
March 18 – Lismore, Australia – Lismore City Hall
March 19 – Brisbane, Australia – The Old Museum
March 21 – Sydney, Australia – The Factory Theatre
March 22 – Canberra, Australia – The Abbey
March 23 – Melbourne, Australia – Athenaeum Theatre
March 26 – Auckland, New Zealand – Tuning Fork
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MIT-Zaragoza Speaker Series: Jan Fransoo
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ZLC, Lecture Room A1
Prof. Jan Fransoo
Department of Technology Management at Technische
Universiteit Eindhoven
"Research Overview at the Department of Operations, Planning, Accounting, and Control at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven"
Jan Fransoo has been a Full Professor of Operations Planning & Control (Hoogleraar Technische Bedrijfskunde, i.h.b. Logistiek) at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven since September 1, 2003. Prior to that, he has filled positions at the assistant and associate level at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven since 1996. Following the completion of his PhD Thesis, he was awarded a fellowship by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. He specializes in Operations Planning and Supply Chain Management in the process and FMCG industries, and is part of the Eindhoven Retail Operations group. He also serves as Research Director of the European Supply Chain Forum. Jan held visiting appointments at Clemson University, Stanford University, and the University of California at Los Angeles. He serves as Senior Editor of Production and Operations Management, Associate Editor of Journal of Operations Management, Associate Editor of Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Services and Operations Management, Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of OR Spektrum, and has published in academic journals such as Journal of Operations Management, IIE Transactions, Production and Operations Management, and European Journal of Operational Research. Fransoo also serves as Program Director of the MSc Program in Operations Management & Logistics
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Toyota Etios Liva Engine & Performance
Toyota Etios Liva Overview
The Etios sedan has quite literally turned around Toyota's fortunes in India. From what used to be a small segment in the Indian automotive market, Toyota has become one of the major players in the country. The Liva, is the hatchback that is based on the Etios and it shares majority of its parts with the sedan. Toyota launched the sedan in December 2010, followed by the launch of the Liva hatchback in June 2011 for the Indian market.The Toyota Etios Liva hatchback competes with the Maruti Suzuki Swift, Hyundai Grand i10 and Nissan Micra in the Indian market. View offers on Toyota Cars from Toyota dealers in Hyderabad at Autozhop
Toyota Etios Liva Exterior & Style
The dimensions of the Etios Liva are similar to those of the Etios in terms of width, height, ground clearance, and fuel tank capacity. The variations are obviously is with respect of the length and wheel base, due to its hatchback shape. The car's exterior design is on par with other cars like Hyundai i20, Skoda Fabia, VW Polo and yet to be launched Maruti new Swift, Though there have not been many impressive changes or innovations in styling, the boosting factor for the Etios Liva are the colour options, brand and quality image of Toyota.
At the front of the Liva, the head lights on the wide front bumper and the chrome lined Toyota emblem give the confidence of Toyota brand. However, the head light size seems on the large size, and though positioned well, it certainly feels that it could have been improved. The positioning of the windshield is in par with aerodynamics and adds to the aesthetics of the front portion. Black radiator grill and fog lamp add to a good impression of the car.
Toyota has used a good quality of body panels which is indicated by the sturdy feel of the front fender, front door, rear door and quarter panel.Compared to sedan version Etios, a lot of curves have been introduced in the Etios Liva to make it impressive in styling. The rear side of the Etios Liva is also quite attractive. It looks quite big and the newly designed Tail lamps help in boosting the image of rear side of car,
Toyota Etios Liva Interior & space
Let's be honest about the fact that not many of us like the interior styling of the instrument panel. The circular air-con vents might be highly effective, but they miss out on the appeal bit and even the central instrument cluster isn't something one will appreciate. The quality of the Etios Liva for the price is acceptable, however not its design. The central instrument cluster has always been no-no for all recently launched cars. In terms of features, the Liva is a well-loaded product.
The Liva's recent upgrade to adjustable headrest was a very good option. This makes the car feel a lot more premium on the inside. The Japanese car maker has changed a lot of things in the Etios family after a delayed customer feedback. The space in the front row is good and even the seats are large enough, however the second row is a bit tight for knee room. There is a lot of stowage space. One can store seven litres of bottles in the Liva alone, which is humongous. Then there is a decent size boot as well. Seating comfort, driving position, access to controls, these are some elements that Toyota well has taken care of.
When you sit in the driving position, it is easy to get comfortable and adjust the steering wheel and the seat. There is height adjustable in the top-of-the-line VX trim. The A-pillars (side pillar) are thin and the visibility is good. However, the mirrors could have been bigger for better visibility of the rear. The large headrests at the rear, somewhat block the rear visibility.
Toyota Etios Liva Engine & Transmission
There was a lot of talk of the Liva getting the big 1.5-litre engine from the sedan, but anyone who knows the Indian market would know that the hatch would be looking to exploit the maximum benefits of the excise duty concessions that the Indian government has on offer for small cars. That means that under the Etios Liva hood is a 1.2-litre four-cylinder engine (Read :Engine & Transmission). On paper, it isn't all that bad, 80PS @ 5600rpm and 104Nm @ 3100rpm. In fact the figures are pretty close to most of the competition and better than some as well. Coupled with the Liva's approximately 900 kg kerb weight, it should also make for a great power-to-weight ratio to score high on performance. But somehow, that's not the case because the Etios LIVA's brief seems to be rather straight forward – better efficiency. With the gear ratios matched to make life in the city easier, the car does feel peppy enough at low revs and accelerates cleanly off the line, but the excitement tapers off much too soon and you really need to work the engine to get past 120km/h.
Our instrumented tests did see the car cross the 150km/h mark but it took a lot of patience and even more stretches of empty roads to get there. The 5-speed manual gearbox may be the culprit here with gear ratios more conducive for city driving rather than highway cruising. But that does have a rather positive effect on its fuel efficiency. The ARAI certified stat reads 18.3kmpl cumulative but real world conditions should see you get about 14.3kmpl in the city and 16.1kmpl on the highway. Considering the prices of petrol today, that's a welcome proposition indeed! All through the test, the Liva's gearbox provided positive feel and slick shifts all the way to fifth. Predictably, the Liva didn't scorch the acceleration runs, taking over 17 seconds to cross the 100km/h mark.
Toyota Etios Liva Driving Dynamics
The ride comfort of the Etios Liva is very good. It doesn't feel stiff on bad roads. The suspension absorbs most of the road shocks to give a comfortable ride. However at high speeds, it does feel a bit bouncy if your tyre pressures are incorrect. The handling is good enough. It doesn't have the alacrity like its European competition, but it does a good job. The steering wheel too is light in weight and convenient to drive and park. The driving dynamics are how you get in a Toyota, there is absolutely no compromise
Toyota Etios Liva Braking & Safety
The list of protective aspects include seat belts for all occupants along with driver seat belt reminder notification, keyless entry, a defogger, fog lamps, a central locking system and high mounted stop lamp. For enhancing the safety quotient in case of any collision, the company has given it driver along with passenger side airbag too. The advanced engine immobilizer safeguards the vehicle from any theft and unauthorized entry. Apart from these, it also has door ajar and headlamps on warning notifications on instrument panel with buzzer.
Toyota Etios Liva Cost in Chennai
Toyota Etios Liva Ex-Showroom Price in Chennai ranges from 5,48,196/- (Etios Liva G) to 7,39,342/- (Etios Liva VXD Dual Tone). Get best offers for Toyota Etios Liva from Toyota Dealers in Chennai. Check for Etios Liva price in Chennai at Carzprice
Toyota Etios Liva Bottomline
It's an open secret that the Liva's appeal is fairly limited, especially in the wake of much newer rivals. That being said, the little Toyota is hard to fault when it comes to ride quality and reliability. What's more, Toyota has made constant improvements towards the safety aspect as well. As a result, the updated Etios Liva gets ABS with EBD and dual airbags as standard across all variants, meaning even the no-frills entry-level variants benefit from these essential safety aids.
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Temenos Launches SaaS Explainable AI Models to Help Banks Support Small Businesses and Retail Customers During COVID-19 Crisis
Temenos launches new transparent XAI models delivered as SaaS to help banks and credit unions speed up digital onboarding and loan processing for economic relief to SMEs and retail customers
Temenos delivers XAI models in the cloud rapidly, securely and cost-effectively; new XAI capabilities to be demoed live during Temenos' virtual conference, TCF Online, April 29-30
Press Releases, April 23, 2020
GENEVA, Switzerland – April 23, 2020 – Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, announced today the launch of Explainable AI (XAI) models to enable banks and credit unions to rapidly offer loans to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that have seen their cash flow disrupted by the Covid-19 outbreak. These patented XAI models allow banks to accelerate digital onboarding, conduct eligibility checks and process loan applications for SMEs and retail customers. The models are available as part of the Temenos AI portfolio or can be integrated with Temenos Infinity, the leading digital omnichannel product, and are delivered as Temenos SaaS for fast and scalable deployment.
Max Chuard, Chief Executive Officer, Temenos, said:
"These are challenging times for small businesses in particular. As the leader in banking software, Temenos is committed to innovation that not only keeps banks and the global economy running, but also helps SMEs and retail customers access funding at a time of financial distress. We are delivering our cloud-native, advanced AI banking software as SaaS to enable banks qualify and process loans rapidly. I am proud that with our technology we can provide banks with a modern digital banking platform and decision-making capabilities, allowing them to move incredibly fast and compress projects that would usually take months into days."
Temenos' XAI models help banks make urgent lending decisions that are transparent and explainable in human language to the end-users, customers and the regulators. These models enable banks to identify appropriate products that carry an acceptable level of risk for both the customer and the bank. The SME model, in particular, provides on average over 25% greater accuracy compared to the risk score provided by leading credit bureaus, allowing banks to increase their pass rate by 20% while keeping defaults under control.
The new XAI models enable banks to take into account a wide range of variables when making lending decisions, such as additional incomes, new cost reductions, and alternative forms of collateral. Temenos XAI models can instantly calculate the impact of new variables and suggest additional terms and conditions.
As a result of the pandemic, banks are being asked to lend in unusual circumstances, requiring them to manage the twin pressures of increasing arrears and political pressure not to trigger defaults. Government Initiatives like the UK Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) and the US Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) are aiming to help SMEs in need of financial support by promoting emergency bank loans.
Jerry Silva, Research Vice President, IDC, said:
"A record number of small businesses and individuals are now applying for loans and financial relief. In the face of this demand, banks need to respond by providing digital self-service user journeys, quickly conducting eligibility checks, adhering to bank risk criteria, and establishing appropriate pricing. Solutions like Temenos' new XAI models are designed to help banks accelerate the loan application process by centralizing and enforcing policy rules using AI to ensure decisions are based on bank-specified criteria while maintaining transparency with customers and maintaining compliance and risk controls."
These API-driven XAI models can be rolled out with the associated policy rules, allowing smart decision-making with minimal integration that can be deployed in the cloud in days or just a few weeks. This consistency in decision-making helps frontline staff by reducing the need for manual intervention, which can slow the processing of the huge volumes of applications being considered. Temenos' XAI models can be used by any business user with minimum reliance on the IT department.
The XAI models available worldwide include:
Temenos AI – SME Smart Decisioning: Temenos provides centrally created support for decision makers at the front line, for on-boarding, edibility checks and rapid loan processing. Furthermore, it reduces the need for human intervention in underwriting departments. The model is already proven with blue-chip UK lenders and can rapidly augment the decision-making processes already in place.
Temenos AI – Urgent Relief Loan: Identify customers with a significant drop in income, who are at financial risk and offer further credit or credit deferral products.
Temenos AI – Personalization: Offer personalized products to customers in real-time based on their changing behaviors and needs identified using Explainable AI models
Temenos AI – Loan Pre-Approvals: Lending pre-approval for all customers. Expedite short- term urgent lending to the greatest number of customers.
Temenos AI – Digital Financial Advice: Identify customers who are unlikely to be able to continue without finding a new source of income, hence both reducing risk and offering the opportunity to provide suitable financial solutions to them.
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Former Bath Rugby coach Toby Booth joins Gallagher Premiership rivals Harlequins
The former London Irish head coach departed The Rec this summer
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Toby Booth (Image: David Rogers/Getty Images)
Former Bath Rugby coach Toby Booth has joined Harlequins as an assistant coach, supporting Paul Gustard and his coaching team for the remainder of the 2019/20 season.
Booth served as first team coach at Bath from 2012 until June 2019 when he left as part of a coaching shake-up which saw Stuart Hooper replace Todd Blackadder as director of rugby of the Blue, Black and Whites.
Bath play Harlequins on Saturday evening in their second game of the Heineken Champions Cup, with both sides essentially needing victory to keep their hopes of progressing out of the group alive having lost to Ulster and Clermont respectively last weekend.
After coaching with England Students and Under-21s, Booth joined the Exiles as assistant academy manager in 2002. He was appointed head coach in 2008 after Brian Smith joined the England set-up and the club got to the Guinness Premiership final at the first time of asking; losing 10-9 to Leicester Tigers.
In May 2012, Booth joined Bath to work under new head coach Gary Gold - another ex-Irish man. After Gold he worked under Mike Ford and Todd Blackadder, and had a strong relationship with all three, finishing as forwards coach at the club.
In his 15-year coaching career, Booth has been involved in two European Challenge Cup finals and two Premiership finals but he has built his reputation on developing young players into internationals.
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Toby Booth (Image: Malcolm Couzens/Getty Images)
The 49-year-old will also be reunited with Chris Robshaw, having coached the Harlequins captain in the England Saxons side which won the Churchill Cup in 2008.
Harlequins general manager of rugby Billy Millard said: "We have been looking to add to our coaching staff and Toby provides the skills and experience we have been searching for.
"He has extensive experience in the Premiership as a head coach and assistant coach covering most areas of the game and will offer invaluable support, knowledge and experience."
On joining Harlequins, Toby Booth added: "When the opportunity came up to join Harlequins, it was an exciting prospect that I knew I had to take. Harlequins is one of the iconic teams in club rugby, and a side I know well having competed against them on many occasions over the years.
"Quins is a side full of rich talent and international experience. The pack contains some exciting players. It is an ambitious group and has good potential to improve. Having developed players throughout my career I look forward to adding value to this squad of players and developing their performances on the pitch."
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Quins head of Rugby, Paul Gustard added: "I have known Toby personally for a long time, and he is a coach who will add tremendous value to our whole group.
"He has a successful record of developing players and teams and we cannot wait for him to start. His main remit will be our lineout, but I know he will also have significant impact on the wider programme and will prove to be an outstanding resource for not only myself, but our young and talented coaching group.
"He is a great guy with good values and someone who had a big impact on my personal coaching pedagogy early in my career. His signing is a great boost for the club and we look forward to seeing the impact he will quickly make."
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Q: PTX "bit bucket" registers ...are just mentioned in the PTX manual. There is no hint about what they are good for or how to use them.
Does anyone know more? Am I just missing a common concept?

A: Bart's comment is basically right. In more detail, as stated in the PTX ISA 3.1 manual,

For some instructions the destination operand is optional.  A "bit bucket" operand
  denoted with an underscore (_) may be used in place of a destination register.

There is actually only one class of instruction listed in the 3.1 PTX spec for which _ is a valid destination: atom. Here are the semantics of atom:

Atomically loads the original value at location a into destination register d, performs a reduction operation with operand b and the value in location a, and stores the result of the specified operation at location a, overwriting the original value.

And there is a note for atom:

Simple reductions may be specified by using the "bit bucket" destination operand '_'.

So, we can construct an example:
atom.global.add.s32 _, [a], 4

This would add 4 to the signed integer at memory location a, and not return the previous value of location a in a register. So if you don't need the previous value, you can use this.  I assume that the compiler would generate this for this code
atomicAdd(&a, 4);

since the return value of atomicAdd is not stored to a variable.

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Q: Verifying database schema in a database-first application? I'm currently working on a project that quite often fails due to enormous amounts of models and the wrong approach that was taken (database-first) in such app.
While I can't remake the entire application using code-first approach, is there any way to verify database to find all missing relations, columns and errors?
I've googled a plenty about this aspect, but couldn't find anything helpful.


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CLUTCH Singer NEIL FALLON Launches Fund-Raising Charity Auction
To Benefit The INNOCENT LIVES FOUNDATION
Neil Fallon is the lyricist, singer, and rhythm guitar player of the rock band CLUTCH. What you might not know, is that since 2017, he's also been on the board of the non-profit organisation INNOCENT LIVES FOUNDATION.
Based in the United States but working globally, the ILF is committed to helping children by unmasking anonymous online predators and aiding law enforcement to bring them to justice. Through open source intelligence gathering, the ILF create dossiers on possible child exploiters by searching the Internet for information and scouring the dark web for proof. Once evidence is found, the ILF turns the dossiers over to the appropriate law enforcement agencies. In 2019 more than 80 of the dossiers produced by the ILF are being used by law enforcement to track, capture, and and apprehend child predators. The ILF is a 501c3 charitable organisation and relies solely on donations.
Now, Fallon has organised a special online auction of rare and sought after rock 'n roll memorabilia to benefit the Innocent Lives Foundation.
The auction lots include signed guitars from SLIPKNOT, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, NO DOUBT, ZAKK WYLDE, THURSDAY, and CLUTCH. Also up for bids are signed posters from the FOO FIGHTERS and BLACK LABEL SOCIETY. Finally, there is a limited edition (#21 of 25) black and white photo print of Chris Cornell, courtesy of Andrew Stuart and approved by the Cornell estate. [Images of the lots can be seen at the link below]
When asked why he wanted to organise an auction for the ILF, Fallon responded, "No one wants to hear, let alone talk, about the topic of child abuse. We can choose to look away, but the victims don't have that option. I realised that if I am in a position to help, how could I not? Putting together this auction is an easy thing to do for kids that need our help so desperately."
Interested fans can place bids HERE.
Bidding starts on November 25th at 11am EST (8am PST/4pm GMT/5pm CET) and concludes on December 7th at 11:59pm EST.
Fallon returns to the UK with CLUTCH for headline shows pre-Christmas, with special guests GRAVEYARD and KAMCHATKA. For tickets, visit www.pro-rock.com.
Join the band at the following UK dates:
12.17 - SOUTHAMPTON O2 Guildhall
12.18 - LONDON Roundhouse
12.19 - LEEDS O2 Academy
12.20 - NOTTINGHAM Rock City
About the Innocent Lives Foundation
The ILF uses experts from around the globe to save children and stop the spread of child abuse material, which can include child pornography, child erotica, and content displaying any type of child abuse. They create technology and processes to combat child abuse material. They use this technology to assist law enforcement in bringing predators to justice.


Two new life-saving defibrillators have been installed in two rural villages.
Thanks to Ythan Community Council, the new defibrillators are now available to use in Ythanbank and Berefold.
Donations were given to the Community Council by Leonard and Hamish Garland from their wind turbine project.
The money given was enough to purchase two defibraillators and protective boxes which have now been installed too.
The first machine installed is located on the external wall of Michaelmuir Garage in Ythanbank.
The second defibrillator has been installed at Overton Garage and Car Sales where the equipment is similarly connected and highly visible.
Charles Coulson of Ythan Community Council said: "Our thanks go to Andy and Stuart Duncan for having this equipment linked in to their electrical system to maintain an even temperature in the harshest of conditions.
"Again our grateful thanks to Gordon Kelly.
"The reason these locations were chosen is in each community, everyone knows where the garage is and thus the location is easy to find.
"High footfall also helps with reminding residents and visitors alike that this facility exists.
"We recently held a training evening for residents in Ythanbank facilitated with the help of Ellon First Responders and we were delighted to see a good turnout of potential life savers.


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Obsidian Entertainment, Inc. är ett amerikanskt datorspelsföretag som grundades 2003 och ligger i Irvine, Kalifornien. Företaget är mest känt för Fallout: New Vegas och Pillars of Eternity och blev uppköpt av Microsoft i november 2018.

Företagshistorik

Det grundades 2003 av de tidigare Interplayanställda Feargus Urquhart, Chris Avellone, Chris Parker, Darren Monahan och Chris Jones efter att Black Isle Studios lades ner.

Företaget har utvecklat spel baserade på både redan existerande varumärken och egna. Några av företagets tidiga projekt var Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords och Neverwinter Nights 2 som båda var uppföljare till existerande BioWarespel. Företagets första egna spel var Alpha Protocol från 2010. Sedan följde Fallout: New Vegas (2010), Dungeon Siege III (2011) och South Park: The Stick of Truth (2014).

Obsidian fick finansiella problem under 2012, bland annat på grund av flera nedlagda projekt. Detta ledde till att man beslutade att använda crowdfunding för att finansiera företagets nästa spel, Pillars of Eternity (2015). Spelet var ett datorrollspel i ett isometriskt perspektiv i stil med Baldur's Gate och Icewind Dale. Spelet blev en succé och räddade studion från nedläggning.

Obsidian har ett nära samarbete med inXile Entertainment som grundades av andra tidigare anställda på Interplay. 2018 släpptes Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire som även det finansierades genom crowdfunding.

Den 10 november 2018 meddelade Microsoft att de skulle köpa Obsidian och inXile Entertainment.

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America: land o' lawsuits
March 7, 2013 News Desk Opinion 0
The days of merely disagreeing with a fellow citizen have given way to the days of legalized bullying in a tsunami of civil lawsuits.
With potential payouts in the thousands, the lawsuit industry of America costs $251 billion a year. Personal injury law is exploding to the point where 83 per cent of American participants in a 2010 Harris Interactive survey said they felt it was too easy to make frivolous claims.
The latest high-profile frivolous suit comes from none other than Donald Trump, who is suing comedian Bill Maher for $5 million. Maher quipped that if Trump could produce a birth certificate proving he was not fathered by an orangutan, he would donate $5 million to charity. Trump produced the document, and is serious about collecting on the bargain.
America is the land of the free and, according to the American Bar Association, home to 1.2 million lawyers.
As capitalism spurs a culture where shouting matches and fistfights are replaced by lawsuits, petty suits are not limited to the rich and famous – although theirs get the most media attention.
Another incentive for frivolous lawsuits may also be the relatively light burden of proof that is required to win.
The majority of civil cases are not determined with proof beyond a reasonable doubt. In fact, the evidence need only show that the defendant is more likely than not to be guilty. This can be as low as a 51 per cent likelihood of guilt.
The structure makes winning a civil suit more likely than winning coins at the slot machine, and infinitely more likely than winning the lottery. It's no wonder 15 million of them are filed every year in the United States.
Though there are lots of legitimate targets for lawsuits – drug companies that hide the dangers of their products, insurance companies that shoot down claims because of trivialities – one has to question the validity of a rich businessman suing a rich comedian for making a joke. Have lawsuits simply become the replacement for slapping someone in the face?
A darker side to this narrative could be the growing income gap in the US – maybe some plaintiffs feel a lawsuit is the only way to get ahead financially.
"Money has become…the currency of human interaction"
A term often used to describe the explosion of civil cases is that America has become "sue-happy". Where apologies and cards once sufficed in resolving differences, the option of winning money has tantalized a growing number of plaintiffs.
It's as though money has successfully evolved from the currency of the economy to the currency of basic human interaction. Instead of hurting someone by telling him how much of a jerk he is, you can hurt him by taking his money.
From the back-and-forth suing between Apple and Samsung to the paternity suits against pre-pubescent pop stars, this new culture of suing each other is playing out nicely across media lines.
As repugnant as it may sound to pick a private fight (with the likes of Bill Maher), solving petty disputes one-on-one may be better than perpetuating the quarter-trillion dollar civil lawsuit free-for-all.
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What is Pneumonia in children?
Pneumonia is a disease that can be caused by beta-hemolytic streptococcus, and that occurs as bronchopneumonia or interstitial pneumonia as a complication of ARVI or other infectious diseases. This pneumonia is more susceptible to other children from 2 to 7 years.
Children of preschool and school age become ill with streptococcal pneumonia in cases of hypothermia, with reduced immunity (for various reasons), in many cases after having suffered from an acute respiratory illness. If a pregnant woman is ill, she risks infecting the fetus through the placenta or during birth, as well as after birth by contacting the newborn with the mother.
Streptococcus is a genus of bacteria of spherical or oval shape, with a diameter of 0.5 to 1.0 microns. Streptococci can be located separately or form chains of different lengths. These bacteria can live in animals, as well as in the human respiratory tract, especially "love" they nasal mucosa.
Hemolytic streptococci of group A have increased resistance to various physical and chemical influences. Some species are able to survive when heated to 70 ° C, staying in a humid environment for 1 hour, and at ambient temperatures up to +65 ° C they can last up to 2 hours. Streptococci react normally to freezing. In the blood or dried pus can "live" for several weeks or even months. But under the influence of disinfectant solutions Streptococcus group A quickly "die".
Streptococci do not form a spore, can not move. They are grown on meat-peptone nutrient media. This means that they can multiply in the usual refrigerator in soups left for a few days. Do not leave pans with cooked dishes open. Before use, the contents of the pan need to bring to a boil.
In the morphological picture, small foci with areas of necrosis are noted. Further, areas of inflammation increase, can merge and capture whole lobes of the lung. The pleura is often involved in the pathological process, which leads to the development of pleurisy and empitema.
Under pleurisy means inflammation of the pleura, the serous membrane, which envelops the human lungs. Pleurisy can be chronic or acute, severe or moderate. Also, pleurisy can develop on one part or on the sides of the chest.
The onset of the disease is turbulent, the symptoms of intoxication are pronounced, the patient is in a fever and shivering. The temperature reaches 39-40 ˚С. Symptoms such as a wet cough (with phlegm) and chest pain appear. Percussion changes are not characteristic, wheezing changeable. If pleurisy occurs, physicians detect changes in percussion sound and weakened breathing on the affected side while listening.
X-ray examination shows interstitial changes with multiple rounded foci in different phases of resorption. In some cases, massive infiltration is seen in the image. When streptococcal pneumonia increases the lymph nodes of the root of the lung (in most cases). A blood test shows neutrophilic leukocytosis with a left shift, increased ESR.
For the diagnosis of streptococcal pneumonia, a set of laboratory and clinical radiological data is necessary.
titers of antistreptolysin in the blood of a sick child grow.
Streptococcal pneumonia is treated with penicillin or its semi-syntactic derivatives. For treatment, a dose of 100-200 mg per 1 kg of a child's body per day is required, divided into 2 doses. The drug is administered by intramuscular injection. Doctors may also prescribe other antibiotics (protected penicillins, cephalosporins). The course of antibiotics usually lasts 7-10 days.
For the treatment of sterptococcal pneumonia in children, physiotherapy, vitamin intake, and in severe cases, blood transfusion are also used. A sick child should be in a comfortable temperature environment, not overheating and not overcooling. The room in which the treatment is carried out, must often be ventilated.
It should be given as much tea and water as possible to the child. Also, to increase immunity, vitamins are given (as prescribed by a doctor). To eliminate cardiovascular insufficiency, administration of glucose, blood plasma transfusion, and administration of potassium preparations are used.
Mustard and hot wraps are recommended. The doctor may prescribe physiotherapy, which is the effect of microwaves and current. If there are pathological changes in the lungs, doctors prescribe immunoglobulins. The course of the disease is directly proportional to how quickly the foci of inflammation are cleared of pus.
A child who has had streptococcal pneumonia should be monitored by the attending physician for a year after recovery.
Streptococci can be transmitted by airborne droplets and by contact, as well as through food. Less common transmission routes are through everyday objects. It is most likely to be infected when a sick person sneezes nearby, coughs as well as when kissing with him. In closed groups, such as kindergartens, schools, nurseries, the infection is spreading rapidly. Because patients and carriers should be as soon as possible identified and isolated from the team.
Methods for preventing streptococcal pneumonia are primary and secondary. The primary ones are to maintain the protective functions of the body, eliminating the factors that weaken it. It is necessary to observe the daily regimen, eat rationally, do not forget about physical activity. It is useful to temper the child, to conduct prevention of acute respiratory infections Pregnant women should be wary of infectious diseases.
Secondary methods are to avoid repeated diseases. Children who have had a disease should be healed. Ill children must be treated until complete recovery. Repeated pneumonia usually becomes chronic. As a preventive measure of pneumonia in children, therapeutic exercises and physiotherapy are recommended.


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Gen. Vallejo's travails in prison, upon release
Jerry Bowen
His life under the American flag was not great despite importance
In my last column in this series, Gen. Vallejo had narrowly escaped an execution that Lt. Fremont favored. Vallejo and his fellow prisoners were then unceremoniously thrown into their "cell" together at Fort Sutter and their future remained very uncertain.
Because Fremont felt that Sutter would sympathize with the prisoners, he sent Edward M. Kern with a detachment of several men to the Fort to guard the prisoners. His express orders were that Kern was not to release any of the prisoners under any circumstance unless he, Fremont, ordered their release.
Four days later, Jos Noriega and Vicente Peralta happened to pass by on business and were promptly arrested and forced to join the other unhappy inmates. They were given the same lousy consideration as Vallejo and the others and in the beginning were not allowed to communicate with their friends or families.
Malaria, then known as "Sacramento fever," soon reared its ugly presence and the prisoners were treated with laudanum (opium) and bleeding, which only made matters worse. Add to that, very little food that was usually quite unpalatable given to the prisoners made the situation even worse.
Later, the prisoners were allowed to send a few letters to their families, but the contents were closely examined and censored by Fremont's men. No attempts at all were made to provide for an appeal for justice, and their guards lost no opportunity to insult them.
Victor Prudon wrote to Jos de la Rosa on June 28, 1846, saying that they were still in prison and had no hopes of getting out. In his letter he asked Rosa to call on his wife Teodosa and tell her "not to go out nor to allow the girls out on the street lest they be insulted, and to sell nothing, not even sugar, but to nail up the box."
He cautioned her to record everything that was taken, especially cows and oxen. He also advised her that ... "The more she and the family remained indoors the better it would be."
The prisoners' families persuaded Mrs. Vallejo's brother, Julio Carrillo, to seek information at Sutter's Fort. Lt. Missroon, at Sonoma, provided him with a passport to and from the Fort. He was allowed to see the prisoners, but Kern refused to allow him to leave and he was also imprisoned.
A few days later, July 5, Robert Ridley, port captain of Yerba Buena, who had been captured by Semple at his home on July 2, went to Sutter's Fort and he too was imprisoned.
Meanwhile, Vallejo and the others had been doing their utmost to find out why they were confined, and to obtain their release. Vallejo wrote to his brother Jose Jesus on July 6, 1846, saying, "We are not dead as rumored. We believe our imprisonment was only political, and we expect to be released as soon as the permanent change should come." He also added that though their situation was appalling, the prisoners felt they owed Mr. Sutter their eternal gratitude for the many favors he had showed them. He asked Don Jos to publish the letter, adding in a postscript that Carrillo, Peralta, Noriega and Ridley were there also.
Eventually the prisoners did find out that their families were safe and although not everything was normal, they were secure and in good health..
On July 7, 1846, Commodore Sloat sailed into Monterey Harbor and raised the American flag, effectively ending the Bear Flag Revolt.
Vallejo continued to protest and to try to get an interview with Fremont. When Fremont returned to Sacramento he was informed of Vallejo's desires and on July 9 sent word that on the next day he would grant them an interview. But Fremont failed to see them as promised.
An angry Vallejo wrote to Fremont saying, "Yesterday I had the pleasure of receiving a note from you, by one of your officers, that today we would have an interview with you, the which I have been awaiting anxiously all day long; but since this is already very advanced, I fear that you will no longer have time. As much to calm the uneasiness of the gentlemen who share my prison, as well as for my own satisfaction, I wish that you would let me know whether our imprisonment is now ended, which as you know has been made more severe by an absolute solitary confinement since the 16th of last June."
Once again, Fremont failed to respond.
Over time, many attempts to free Vallejo and the others were made without success because of politics and Fremont's orders that they not be released.
Finally on Aug. 1, 1846, orders came to Sacramento to release Gen. Vallejo and his brother-in-law. Vallejo had two brothers in law in prison with him and the order was meant to release Jacob Leese.
However, his other brother-in-law, Julio Carrillo was released instead. The rest of the prisoners remained under arrest because Kern had not received direct orders from Fremont. When Vallejo finally arrived home in Sonoma he only weighed 96 pounds and was in ill health.
Vallejo did not forget his friends and relatives after he was home and after writing several letters on their behalf they were released on Aug. 8.
One would think that after fully supporting the takeover of California by the United States because of rampant corruption and the lack of interest in California by Mexico that Vallejo would have become quite bitter because of his treatment at American hands.
A letter written by Gen. Vallejo on Dec. 5, 1845, to a foster son, Jose (Altimira) Vallejo who had been educated in Mexico with all expenses paid by Mariano Vallejo reveals his steadfast belief in the United States.
"Beloved Son,
"Senor Larkin whom I esteem, wrote to me saying that you had arrived at Monterey on the Chilean corvette the Confederacion which pleases me. At the same time, I received from the Captain of the boat, a letter in which he told me what he thought about your conduct at his table, insulting him and the American flag, besides your saying that 'all Norte Americanos in California should have their throats cut quickly.'
"Impudent young man! What right have you to speak like that? Are these the principles of courtesy you have learned at college? Is that what your teachers taught you? Have you forgotten that you have received benefits from the Americans? Do you ignore the fact that only the depraved and ingrates abuse hospitality? Without doubt such conduct is very bad. I disapprove and feel a great disappointment. In writing this letter I order you that you immediately give satisfaction to the Captain of the boat and I forbid you to ever express yourself again in such a manner to the Americans for you have neither right nor reason to do so."
Because of the constant noise and profanity at the Sonoma Plaza by army garrisons, Vallejo built a new home, Lachryma Montis in the early 1850s that still stands as a museum today.
In the later years one would have expected that Vallejo would have been able to enjoy a better life under the American flag. Although he participated in the future of California and served in many important political posts, it was not always so.
We will finish our series on Vallejo with a look at his life and final years after the Bear Flag Rebellion in my next column.