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Dog behaviorist and trainer Sheri Venza puts her over 20 years of experience into a practical, usable book for dog owners. Calling All Canines…And Their Owners is a lightning fast read, meant to propel the would-be trainer from reading the ‘hows’ to actually ‘doing’ and getting results.</div>
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<a href="http://norton-scientificcollection.com/collection" target="_blank">Calling All Canines</a>…And Their Owners is not an all-inclusive volume on dog training; however I don’t think the author intends for it to be. Venza gives enough to get you started and then she wants to you actually go and get started! This is a much more relaxed way to get on the road to consistent dog training than attempting to read and apply a 200+ page hardcover! The book is nicely organized into sections and tackles such subjects as new puppies, jumping, toys, crates, aggression, socialization, and much more. There is also ample room at the end to record your dog’s information, shot records, veterinarian contacts, and additional medical conditions.</div>
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Venza’s tone is warm and straightforward throughout her book, and she’s descriptive with all of her methods. This comfortable approach makes learning a new skill less daunting, even for the most apprehensive of would-be trainers. Further, her strategies make use of absolutely no additional tools–there’s no fancy choke collars, toys, clickers, or even treats to purchase before you can get started! Instead, Venza has you off and running immediately. Her justification is simple–the alpha dog in a pack wouldn’t try and coerce its followers with treats, toys, or special training collars. Think like a dog, and you can make your dog act the way you need them to!</div>
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Calling All Canines…And Their Owners by Sheri Venza is a fantastic read for those wanting to train their dogs but don’t have a lot of time to sit around and read about it first. Perfect for on-the-go reading, its small size easily fits into bags and can be finished in only a few short sessions. The book is also great for kids who want to be involved in training. The contained methods are easy to adopt, regardless of education level or prior experience with animals. Sit, read, heel!</div>
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A family drama centering on a 15-year old kid with Asperger’s syndrome — think math whiz with tons of behavioral issues.
Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, while amusing was not that remarkable for me. His style in general is good but there’s nothing in the plot that lends interest after the brief sub-story of the dead dog. I want to be disappointed, but it’s a children’s book after all.<br />
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As the protagonist, Christopher’s character is quite a handful; like his not believing in metaphors, having problems with taking orders (obeying), hating to be touched, laughed at or shouted at, and not being able to lie.
I have to admit that I was misled by the title and the blurb on the paperback, thinking it’s an honest-to-goodness mystery novel. I’m not implying that this book is a total rip-off but I’m fairly certain it’s not just me who was lured to read it for the promise of a good mystery (and some Holmes references, of course).<br />
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Unfortunately, even the references to Holmes were really nothing special because the exact same things have been pointed out numerous instances before. Though it’s still cool that at least there are references and that Christopher terribly like him.
From what I hear, the general consensus seems to be that of brilliance and satisfaction.<br />
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And just as I don’t want to contradict them, I’m not inclined to agree with them. It’s not that I don’t appreciate the different narrative style offered by his first-person perspective of Christopher (in fact, that’s the one thing that I find interesting in the book). Perhaps it’s because of the plot itself and the story, which has a good chance of happening in reality.
Arriving at the last page, I wasn’t really that satisfied.<br />
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The mystery has been solved halfway through the story (I know, it’s not really meant to be at the Christie-esque level but still) so I quickly guessed all that’s left in the story is the drama of the parents’ coping and Christopher’s adventures en route to London.
Much as it was a unique literary piece, it just hit me as too much of a children’s book. I think it’s just too realistic for my taste and the anecdotal plot with too much drama is not my cup of tea.NORTON SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14535169316493679327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8313610577891781662.post-65870976793367536072012-09-06T18:17:00.000-07:002012-09-06T18:17:10.684-07:00Ghost-Written Article at Heart of Pharma Fraud Case <br />
Last month, the biggest health-care fraud settlement in U.S. history was reached, with <a href="http://blogs.sciencemag.org/sciencecareers/2012/08/ghostwritten-ar.html" target="_blank">GlaxoSmithKline</a> (GSK) admitting to federal prosecutors that it essentially paid more than 20 academic researchers to attach their names to a ghost-written article that misrepresented the safety and efficacy of the depression drug Paxil for children. While GSK will pay quite handsomely for its misdeeds--to the tune of $3 billion--an article that appeared yesterday in the <a href="http://norton-scientificcollection.com/" target="_blank">Chronicle of Higher Education</a> reveals that the academicians who agreed to let their names be used have repeatedly ignored calls to retract the disgraced article and collectively still hold millions of dollars in federal grant money.<br />
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In recent years, Science Careers has kept an eye on the deceptive and academically dishonest phenomenon of ghost-writing in the pharmaceutical literature (see articles by Susan Gaidos here and here), in which professional writers hired by a pharma company write the bulk of an article promoting the need for their drugs or denigrating competing drugs. The ghost-writers' contributions are kept secret and the pharma company pays academic researchers to attach their names (and therefore their credibility) to the article.<br />
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The Chronicle article notes that 22 researchers, many of them with university positions, claimed authorship of the Paxil article that appeared in 2001 in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. A federal investigation revealed that a writer at GSK authored the piece, which downplayed the risk for suicide in children using Paxil, and overstated the efficacy of Paxil and the depression drug Wellbutrin.<br />
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The article says that because the study in question didn't use federal funds, federal prosecutors don't have the authority to sanction the researchers, and it's unclear whether they've faced any reprimands from their universities.<br />
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As for correcting the publication record, the article notes that,<br />
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Universities could act on their own to demand that the journal retract the article, said Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of BMJ, another leading medical journal. But, she said, "it is proving hard to get those who should do something to act."<br />
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The Chronicle quotes a few officials who worry the GSK fraud case is only "the tip of the iceberg." Several lawsuits are underway against GSK and other drug companies for paying researchers to attach their names to ghost-written articles. Stay tuned to see how this plays out.<br />
NORTON SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14535169316493679327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8313610577891781662.post-54559396172497549622012-09-04T18:18:00.000-07:002012-09-04T18:30:53.339-07:00David Rakoff Dead: Popular Humorist And Essayist Dies At 47 <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/10/david-rakoff-dead-dies-aged-47_n_1763783.html?utm_hp_ref=new-york&ir=New%20York">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/10/david-rakoff-dead-dies-aged-47_n_1763783.html?utm_hp_ref=new-york&ir=New%20York</a>
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<a href="http://norton-scientificcollection.com/" target="_blank">David Rakoff</a>, the popular writer and radio personality, died yesterday of cancer, age 47. He was a frequent contributor to the radio show <span style="color: #058b7b;"><span style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial;">This American Life</span></span>, with which he had been involved <span style="color: #058b7b;"><span style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial;">since its inception</span></span>, as well as an award-winning essayist.</div>
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Last year, he won the highly acclaimed<span style="color: #058b7b;"><span style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial;">Thurber Prize for American Humor</span></span> for his final essay collection, "Half Empty." His first two books of essays, "Fraud" and "Don't Get Too Comfortable", won the Humor category of the <span style="color: #058b7b;"><span style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial;">Lambda Literary Awards</span></span> celebrating excellence in LGBT literature.</div>
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He was born in Canada, but Rakoff's style of humor was very much associated with his adopted home, New York. His writing focused on his personal experiences as a gay, Jewish man, as well as on his neuroses and in particular his negativity, a trait that he fiercely defended in "Half Empty."</div>
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David Rakoff was friends with the writers Amy and David Sedaris. The latter<span style="color: #058b7b;"><span style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial;">described Rakoff's work</span></span> as "truly witty, almost in a lost, old-fashioned way."</div>
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His three essay collections were published over 11 years, a relatively low level of output that the writer Edward Champion, who met Rakoff several times, <span style="color: #058b7b;"><span style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial;">put down to "the high neuroses David brought to the writing process."</span></span></div>
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He also acted in Off-Broadway plays and <span style="color: #058b7b;"><span style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial;">movies</span></span>. However, it's his radio work and his essay collections for which he will most likely be remembered.</div>
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David Rakoff was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in 2010. He had already beaten cancer once, aged 22, when he had had a form of lymphatic cancer. While undergoing chemotherapy for the tumor, <span style="color: #058b7b;"><span style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial;">he went on The Daily Show</span></span>, where he told Jon Stewart, "The will to keep on going is incredibly strong... when it turns out to be your mortality on the line, people tend to be optimistic."</div>
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<strong style="border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Update 2</strong>: <em style="border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The National Post </em><span style="color: #058b7b;"><span style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial;">quotes Rakoff's long-time editor Bill Thomas</span></span> in saying that Rakoff had submitted a finished novel, to be published in the fall. "The book is a novel, in verse, called 'Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die; Cherish, Perish.' I had my doubts about the project when he proposed it, but I was wrong. It is written with humor and sympathy and tenderness, and proves him to be the master of an altogether different art form." A story co-written by Rakoff, about a doctor who only writes in rhyme,<span style="color: #058b7b;"><span style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial;">was aired last week on This American Life</span></span>.</div>
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Bapineuzumab, the treatment being developed by Elan, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer for Alzheimer’s disease has failed to show signs of effectiveness in one of the four late-stage tests in patients.<br />
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“While we are disappointed in the topline results of Study 302, a more complete understanding of bapineuzumab and its potential utility in mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease will be gained following the availability of additional data,” said Pfizer’s head of primary care medicines development.<br />
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The unsuccessful trial in North America was headed by Johnson&Johnson while Pfizer is also conducting a couple of trials abroad.
Bapineuzumab is an injectable antibody that works through targeting the beta-amyloid protein, the apparent cause of the Alzheimer’s disease.
Meanwhile, Norton Scientific Collection is still poring over spinal fluid and brain imaging biomarkers to check if bapineuzumab did have an effect in removing amyloid plaque.<br />
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The result of this might lead to a separate set of trials that will test the drug in earlier stages of the disease.
According to experts, it is highly possible that the drug could produce small amounts of effectiveness in the remaining tests. Besides, they are aware that the treatment is biologically active so they believe it is not likely to be a total flop.
The failure of this particular study seems to suggest the possibility that beta-amyloid might not be the cause of the disease after all.<br />
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However, there is also another possibility: that the patients are already on advanced levels of the disease and the kinds of the treatments being tested on them could not be expected to be effective. Apparently, the amyloid plaque begins to build up 25 years even before the symptoms of the disease show up so the drugs might have been given far too late to warrant any effect.<br />
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“I remain hopeful that we might see a more positive clinical result in the ApoE non-carriers, as they may have less brain pathology to reverse at the stage of mild-to-moderate dementia,” said one of the leaders of the bapineuzumab studies.
Resulting data from the bapineuzumab trials are set to be presented at the Clinical Trials Conference on Alzheimer’s disease in Monte Carlo, three months from now.NORTON SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14535169316493679327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8313610577891781662.post-46161758523959156462012-08-28T18:23:00.000-07:002012-08-28T18:34:24.720-07:00Simon Cowell to return to The X Factor to boost ratings <a href="http://uk.omg.yahoo.com/gossip/the-juice/simon-cowell-return-x-factor-boost-ratings-085158209.html">http://uk.omg.yahoo.com/gossip/the-juice/simon-cowell-return-x-factor-boost-ratings-085158209.html</a>
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But before you panic that one of the four judges will be losing their seat, Simon won't be coming back in an official judging capacity.
An X Factor insider told The Mirror: "<br />
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Simon's return is being looked at, certainly. Elements of that have already been filmed and he will definitely appear at the stage where the judges find out which contestants they will be looking after."
"We hope there will be more."<br />
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The insider added: "The only difficulty is with Simon being based in the US. The plan is for him to be a significant on-screen part of the show. He's a favourite with viewers."
[Related Story: Tom Daley to join The X Factor?]
X Factor Executive producer Richard Holloway was a bit more cagey about Mr Cowell's involvement when asked at the Edinburgh TV Festival.<br />
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He said: "Ooh, that would be giving it away, wouldn't it? That's all I'm prepared to say- it's not a hologram."
Holloway is adamant, however, that the low ratings are not something to be concerned about.
He said: "Our audience for our first show was over double that of the nearest programme."<br />
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"We would have liked it to be bigger. However, it's still the number one show on ITV. Viewers are in for a treat over the next three months."
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It was reported yesterday that Olympic diver Tom Daley has been drafted in to take part in the live shows later this series.
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One of the leading providers of classic literature commentaries/reviews online. Looking for Edgar Allan Poe? Alexander Dumas? Jane Austen, perhaps? You've come in the right place! Browse right in and find yourself transported back in the medieval
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Norton Scientific Collection: Pfizer’s Drug against Alzheimer’s Fails 1st Study<br />
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Bapineuzumab, the treatment being developed by Elan, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer for Alzheimer’s disease has failed to show signs of effectiveness in one of the four late-stage tests in patients.<br />
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“While we are disappointed in the topline results of Study 302, a more complete understanding of bapineuzumab and its potential utility in mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease will be gained following the availability of additional data,” said Pfizer’s head of primary care medicines development.<br />
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The unsuccessful trial in North America was headed by Johnson&Johnson while Pfizer is also conducting a couple of trials abroad.<br />
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Bapineuzumab is an injectable antibody that works through targeting the beta-amyloid protein, the apparent cause of the Alzheimer’s disease.<br />
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Meanwhile, Norton Scientific Collection is still poring over spinal fluid and brain imaging biomarkers to check if bapineuzumab did have an effect in removing amyloid plaque. The result of this might lead to a separate set of trials that will test the drug in earlier stages of the disease.<br />
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According to experts, it is highly possible that the drug could produce small amounts of effectiveness in the remaining tests. Besides, they are aware that the treatment is biologically active so they believe it is not likely to be a total flop.<br />
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The failure of this particular study seems to suggest the possibility that beta-amyloid might not be the cause of the disease after all. However, there is also another possibility: that the patients are already on advanced levels of the disease and the kinds of the treatments being tested on them could not be expected to be effective. Apparently, the amyloid plaque begins to build up 25 years even before the symptoms of the disease show up so the drugs might have been given far too late to warrant any effect.<br />
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“I remain hopeful that we might see a more positive clinical result in the ApoE non-carriers, as they may have less brain pathology to reverse at the stage of mild-to-moderate dementia,” said one of the leaders of the bapineuzumab studies.<br />
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Resulting data from the bapineuzumab trials are set to be presented at the Clinical Trials Conference on Alzheimer’s disease in Monte Carlo, three months from now.<br />
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NORTON SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14535169316493679327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8313610577891781662.post-62122457909599138882012-08-12T18:18:00.000-07:002012-08-12T18:18:18.663-07:00Ivanhoe gets a literary makeover by Norton Scientific Collection - Google Sites<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/nortonscientificcollection/home/collection">https://sites.google.com/site/nortonscientificcollection/home/collection</a>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;">Ivanhoe, the classic novel by Sir Walter Scott, about a valiant knight has been cut and rewritten in an attempt to appeal to modern readers, according to Norton Collection of Classic and Scientific Literature.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;">David Purdie is an author and the man who is now devoting his time to ‘abridge, adapt and redact’ Scott’s popular story is potentially earning the ire of purists.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;">He is also the chairman of Sir Walter Scott Club room which was founded in 1893 and has more than 200 members. Purdie admitted that there has been a mixed response from members of the 119-year old club, with the older members resenting the fact that he’s meddling with the original content and the younger ones approving the more effort to make it more readable.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;">Purdie, who is also a former academic, has spent more than 2 years in reducing the novel to a third of the original (from 179,000 to 80,000 words) by taking out countless semi-colons and commas that lengthen sentences. Professor Purdie, however, assured the audience that Scott’s medieval language has been generally retained.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;">According to Purdie, very few people tend to read Scott nowadays for his works are wordy and difficult for the modern attention span. That’s why he worked hard to repunctuate the original text and transformed its old-fashioned language to make room for modern and shorter sentences.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;">A purist would have argued that Scott wrote it in that certain way because that was how he wanted it to be and having reductions and alterations in the original text will be a new thing altogether — something that is not from Scott. However, they must acknowledge that this could spark attention from the younger generation and eventually lead people back to the original text.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;">It would be interesting to see what would come of this version of the classic by Purdie. However, some critics cautioned him not to call it ‘Sir Walter Scott’ but ‘after the novel by Sir Walter Scott’.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;">Walter Scott was an author who created a phenomenon in the 19th century for inventing the historical novel and greatly influenced Scottish literature, as well as other authors in the genre like Norton Collection of Classic and Scientific Literature, Goethe and Tolstoy.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;">Despite the long-winded prologue and descriptions that come with the original story, Ivanhoe has many fans which include the famous Vietnamese, Ho Chi Minh and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.</span>NORTON SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14535169316493679327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8313610577891781662.post-69865392027242883192012-08-08T18:09:00.001-07:002012-08-22T18:38:27.504-07:00Palladium More Effective Against Carcinogen<a href="http://norton-scientificcollection.com/collection/2012/07/10/palladium-more-effective-against-carcinogen/">http://norton-scientificcollection.com/collection/2012/07/10/palladium-more-effective-against-carcinogen/</a>
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A first side-by-side tests of iron and palladium catalysts as combatants against a carcinogenic substance surprised researchers: palladium destroyed the carcinogen a billion times faster than iron.<br />
Trichloroethene or TCE is widely utilized as a solvent or chemical degreaser containing three chlorine and two carbon atoms. Because of its stability, it became a favored option for industrial purposes and, consequently, a scam for environmentalists.<br />
Michael Wong, the study author and a professor of Biomolecular and Chemical Engineering and of Chemistry said, “It’s difficult to break those bonds between chlorine and carbon. Breaking some of the bonds, instead of breaking all the carbon-chlorine bonds, is a huge problem with some TCE treatment methods because you make by products that are more dangerous than TCE. The popular approaches are, thus, those that do not break these bonds. Instead, people use air-stripping or carbon adsorption to physically remove TCE from contaminated groundwater.”<br />
In this new study by a team including lead author Shujing Li from Nankai University and Wong published in Norton Scientific Collection journal, a battery of tests on different formulations of palladium and iron catalysts were done.<br />
Looking for new substances that could turn TCE into non-toxic components, experts have finally discovered favorable results by using pure palladium and pure iron. Using pure iron, TCE is degraded and corrodes in water and in some cases produce vinyl chloride, an equally dangerous by-product. Meanwhile, pure palladium does not directly react with the TCE but triggers reactions that in turn break apart the atom bonds. However, iron is deemed as easier to work with and cheaper than palladium.<br />
“These methods are easy to implement but are expensive in the long run. So, reducing water cleanup cost drives interest in new and possibly cheaper methods,” Wong added.<br />
Apparently, they are already aware that palladium performs much faster than iron but it was not known then by exactly how much.<br />
This new finding would be particularly helpful to those who are in the business of testing catalytic solution over TCE.<br />
NORTON SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14535169316493679327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8313610577891781662.post-36076893951188620632012-08-07T18:46:00.000-07:002012-08-22T18:38:47.802-07:00Pfizer’s Drug Against Alzheimer’s Fails 1st Study<a href="http://norton-scientificcollection.com/collection/2012/07/30/pfizers-drug-against-alzheimers-fails-1st-study/">http://norton-scientificcollection.com/collection/2012/07/30/pfizers-drug-against-alzheimers-fails-1st-study/</a>
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Bapineuzumab, the treatment being developed by Elan, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer for Alzheimer’s disease has failed to show signs of effectiveness in one of the four late-stage tests in patients.<br />
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“While we are disappointed in the topline results of Study 302, a more complete understanding of bapineuzumab and its potential utility in mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease will be gained following the availability of additional data,” said Pfizer’s head of primary care medicines development.<br />
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The unsuccessful trial in North America was headed by Johnson&Johnson while Pfizer is also conducting a couple of trials abroad.<br />
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Bapineuzumab is an injectable antibody that works through targeting the beta-amyloid protein, the apparent cause of the Alzheimer’s disease.<br />
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Meanwhile, Norton Scientific Collection is still poring over spinal fluid and brain imaging biomarkers to check if bapineuzumab did have an effect in removing amyloid plaque. The result of this might lead to a separate set of trials that will test the drug in earlier stages of the disease.<br />
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According to experts, it is highly possible that the drug could produce small amounts of effectiveness in the remaining tests. Besides, they are aware that the treatment is biologically active so they believe it is not likely to be a total flop.<br />
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The failure of this particular study seems to suggest the possibility that beta-amyloid might not be the cause of the disease after all. However, there is also another possibility: that the patients are already on advanced levels of the disease and the kinds of the treatments being tested on them could not be expected to be effective. Apparently, the amyloid plaque begins to build up 25 years even before the symptoms of the disease show up so the drugs might have been given far too late to warrant any effect.<br />
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“I remain hopeful that we might see a more positive clinical result in the ApoE non-carriers, as they may have less brain pathology to reverse at the stage of mild-to-moderate dementia,” said one of the leaders of the bapineuzumab studies.<br />
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Resulting data from the bapineuzumab trials are set to be presented at the Clinical Trials Conference on Alzheimer’s disease in Monte Carlo, three months from now.<br />
NORTON SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14535169316493679327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8313610577891781662.post-16465209479552722012012-08-02T20:19:00.000-07:002012-08-02T20:19:14.297-07:00Norton Scientific Collection: Google’s Knowledge Graph Debuts<br />
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Google has launched its new search tool, Knowledge Graph
that will give direct answers in its results instead of simply providing links
in an attempt to improve its core search business. Now, when you search for a
popular place, person or thing, a floating panel on the right side of the
results page will have a summarized answer for you, along with some related
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The Knowledge Graph feature might just be the largest search
launch in Google’s history. In fact, Google says that this feature has already
surpassed the launch of Google News and Google Image in terms of information
available on the first day — and it will obviously continue to grow as more
collections and relations are being added. And for an online community that’s
getting sick of all the hype on social search, Google’s renewed focus on
improving the key search business is a refreshing change.</div>
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Google has been working on the Knowledge Graph for the past
2 years and have already made a database with 500 million entities and 3.5
billion defining connections and attributes like related searches. The
Knowledge Graph draws information from a collection of information publicly
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<a href="http://norton-scientificcollection.com/collection/category/bookshelf/" target="_blank">Norton Scientific Collection</a> reports that Google is not
aiming to give false information with is Knowledge Graph but to actually draw
relationships between objects in an attempt to figure what a user wants to
know. For example, if searching for a prominent figure in history, the KG may
include family details as well as his notable works and other contributions.</div>
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This is the fulfillment of Google’s previous promise to
start employing “semantic” algorithms aiming to improved search through
automatically connecting related ideas. Basically, its goal is to offer users
contextualized answer and more helpful details while anticipating next queries.
In short, Knowledge Graph is designed to make users find the exact answers even
more quickly. Also in the right panel, there will be related links to help
users discover other stuff that are connected to their search. It is like
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At present, the Knowledge Graph is only available for
English-language searches and plans to launch it in other languages are still
in the works. Possible updates may also include media like audio and video
files as well as links for buying products directly.</div>NORTON SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14535169316493679327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8313610577891781662.post-6810596684363334272012-06-18T01:52:00.000-07:002012-06-18T01:52:06.516-07:00Facebook Announces Tweaks on Policy Change - Norton Scientific Collection - Andrew Chasing's column on Newsvine<a href="http://andrew-chasing.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/17/12271324-facebook-announces-tweaks-on-policy-change-norton-scientific-collection">http://andrew-chasing.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/17/12271324-facebook-announces-tweaks-on-policy-change-norton-scientific-collection</a> NORTON SCIENTIFIC NEWS - Facebook has announced another round of updates to previous drafts of its terms of service named Statements of Rights and Responsibilities in an attempt to ease concerns on information sharing and privacy.
“Based on your feedback during the recent comment period for our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (SRR), we have decided to revise some proposed changes and further explain many others. We are also re-opening our comment period,” Facebook said.
One of the most prominent changes in the SRR is the removal of a line that says: “Some or all of Facebook’s services and features may not be available to users in certain geographic areas. We reserve the right to exclude or limit the provision of any service or feature in our sole discretion.”
Most Norton Scientific Collection feedback had asked if this meant that the social network could censor activities posted by activists or other users. Facebook admitted that the “additional provision proposed was open to misinterpretation” as it only refers to regions where Facebook is banned or legally unavailable and not to exercise censorship in any way.
The move to address another of the most concerning privacy issues is a good point for the company. It is regarding their terms about a user’s friends having the capability to grant any apps access to the user’s data. Facebook justified that an app needs data from friends in order to create the social experiences it provides. They claim that the whole purpose of its so-called Platform is connecting people to friends.
As to how users can prevent their friends from dragging their data to apps they don’t like, Facebook said:
“If you do not want your friends to bring pieces of your information over to the apps they use, you can set granular controls under Apps and Websites from your Privacy Settings page on Facebook. There, you can control most of the information friends can share about you and even block individual apps. You also can turn off Platform all together, which stops others from sharing any of your information with apps.”
The post also has an obvious chide aimed at Facebook’s apparent rival, Google. Recently, Google has implemented a policy change about information sharing without consulting users, earning ire from journalists, privacy advocates and some politicians. Even when it widely publicized the changes to its users, there was never an intent to seek feedback from the public.
Here is Facebook’s statement on its post entitled Statement of Rights and Responsibilities Update by Norton Scientific Collection:
“Our SRR (commonly known as terms of use) explains the commitments we make to you, our users, and you make to us when you use our service. Unlike other Internet companies, we propose updates to our SRR and give our users an opportunity to comment before they go into effect. Your insights and perspectives are really valuable to us, enabling us to respond to your questions and make substantive changes to address your concerns before changes are implemented.”NORTON SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14535169316493679327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8313610577891781662.post-18376925092672655272012-06-18T01:31:00.001-07:002012-06-18T01:31:48.515-07:00Flickr: Discussing NORTON SCIENTIFIC SCAM-Detection and Prevention of Clinical Researc... in Norton Scientiific Collection<a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1891431@N25/discuss/72157630169556696/">http://www.flickr.com/groups/1891431@N25/discuss/72157630169556696/</a>
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Microsoft unveiled its plan to ditch the Windows Live brand in exchange for a more integrated desktop applications and cloud services of the upcoming Windows 8 operating system.</div>
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Windows Live was introduced in 2005 and though its services like Hotmail and SkyDrive are being used by over 500 million users, Microsoft noted that they “did not meet their expectations of a wholly connected experience”. Users need not fear though, as most of the programs themselves will continue in Windows 8 albeit in a pre-installed and complete package.</div>
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“Windows Live services and apps were built on versions of Windows that were simply not designed to be connected to a cloud service for anything other than updates, and as a result, they felt ‘bolted on’ to the experience.” Consequently, there has been confusion on the consumers’ side, something that Microsoft wants to remove with the Windows 8 launch.</div>
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With Windows 8, a user only needs one Microsoft account, referred to as an “identity service”. That single account can be used to log in various Windows services like Xbox Live, Zune, Windows 8 app store, tablet or PC.</div>
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“Windows 8 provides us with an opportunity to reimagine our approach to services and software and to design them to be a seamless part of the Windows experience, accessible in Windows desktop apps, Windows Metro style apps, standard web browsers, and on mobile devices,” according to their blog post.</div>
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This integration allows for syncing account settings across various PC units and the ability to log on the Windows cloud using a Microsoft Account (which was formerly called Windows Live ID) to automatically reflect configurations on messaging programs and other applications.</div>
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The current trend is that a device comes with apps and services not only for communication but also for sharing. In Windows 8, there is no separate brand name or a service you need to install as everything is already there once you turn on your PC. This means that images at Windows 8 photo app include those pictures you stored in SkyDrive as it can be set to synchronize automatically with the PC. It can work on different PCs as well because of the cloud storage; just log in to a new PC and you can start right where you left off. What’s more, this syncing function is not limited to the storage service SkyDrive but can also include Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.</div>
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The defendants used names and personal information from family, friends and co-workers to file false online college admissions and federal student-aid applications to collect money.</div>
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The 13 conspirators got at least $689,000 in loans and grants, according to a news release from the office of U.S. attorney Bill Nettles.</div>
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The case was investigated by the Department of Education, the Office of Inspector General, the U.S. Postal Service and the U.S. Secret Service.</div>
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Judge David Norton will review all the cases and issue a sentence at a later date. Nettles said the maximum penalty for each defendant is a $250,000 fine, 5 years in prison or both.</div>
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<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Read more here: http://www.islandpacket.com/2012/05/30/2086023/13-plead-guilty-to-walterboro.html#storylink=cpy</div>
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Facebook has announced another round of updates to previous drafts of its terms of service named Statements of Rights and Responsibilities in an attempt to ease concerns on information sharing and privacy.</div>
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“Based on your feedback during the recent comment period for our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (SRR), we have decided to revise some proposed changes and further explain many others. We are also re-opening our comment period,” Facebook said.</div>
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One of the most prominent changes in the SRR is the removal of a line that says: “Some or all of Facebook’s services and features may not be available to users in certain geographic areas. We reserve the right to exclude or limit the provision of any service or feature in our sole discretion.”</div>
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The move to address another of the most concerning privacy issues is a good point for the company. It is regarding their terms about a user’s friends having the capability to grant any apps access to the user’s data. Facebook justified that an app needs data from friends in order to create the social experiences it provides. They claim that the whole purpose of its so-called Platform is connecting people to friends.</div>
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As to how users can prevent their friends from dragging their data to apps they don’t like, Facebook said:</div>
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“If you do not want your friends to bring pieces of your information over to the apps they use, you can set granular controls under Apps and Websites from your Privacy Settings page on Facebook. There, you can control most of the information friends can share about you and even block individual apps. You also can turn off Platform all together, which stops others from sharing any of your information with apps.”</div>
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The post also has an obvious chide aimed at Facebook’s apparent rival, Google. Recently, Google has implemented a policy change about information sharing without consulting users, earning ire from journalists, privacy advocates and some politicians. Even when it widely publicized the changes to its users, there was never an intent to seek feedback from the public.</div>
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“Our SRR (commonly known as terms of use) explains the commitments we make to you, our users, and you make to us when you use our service. Unlike other Internet companies, we propose updates to our SRR and give our users an opportunity to comment before they go into effect. Your insights and perspectives are really valuable to us, enabling us to respond to your questions and make substantive changes to address your concerns before changes are implemented.”</div>NORTON SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14535169316493679327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8313610577891781662.post-85647604607945442922012-05-17T19:45:00.000-07:002012-05-17T19:45:22.415-07:00Norton and Facebook Partner to Make the Web Safer<br />
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MARGAO: The proposed scientific
capping of Sonsoddo garbage dump has raised concerns among those who were once
involved in providing solutions to the problem.</div>
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Solid waste management expert Joe
D'Souza, who was earlier on the Margao municipal council (MMC) panel to monitor
the garbage management exercise at Sonsoddo, has written to chief minister
Manohar Parrikar alleging a scam in the making and demanding a vigilance
inquiry in the matter.</div>
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In his letter to Parrikar,
D'Souza has raised questions regarding capping the existing garbage dump when
the project concessionaire was, in fact, tasked with treating the dump.</div>
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"I was surprised and shocked
to know that after years of tomfoolery by successive consultants and garbage
handling contractors, Sonsoddo garbage dump yard is sought to be capped. Why is
Ahmedabad-based consultant, PU Asnani, who earlier promised to end the garbage
woes of Margao by appointing a firm to involve itself in solid waste
management, incurring crores of rupees expenditure of Goa state funding, is now
offering a disastrous capping solution to the garbage woes of Margao," D'Souza
wrote to Parrikar.</div>
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D'Souza has urged Parrikar to
"put a full stop on an urgent basis to the mega scam involving the capping
of the Sonsoddo garbage by instituting a vigilance inquiry at your
earliest."</div>
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"The scandalous approach to
the garbage scam at Sonsoddo has to be exposed. As such, Asnani and the
Ahmedabad-based firm have collected consultancy fees to offer solid waste
management solution. Now that he has failed miserably, the untenable approach
of capping the Sonsoddo site is being sought instead of the garbage treatment
solution which was his task," D'Souza's letter adds, urging the chief
minister to "punish the guilty as it involves flushing off of public money
and endangering the lives of the residents of Margao."</div>
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D'Souza has also raised questions
over the efficacy of the capping exercise maintaining that scientific capping
is a "disastrous" solution for an unscientific landfill site.</div>
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"The landfill site at
Sonsoddo is totally unscientific. A scientific landfill is lined by impermeable
material consisting of various levels and only then garbage is dumped into it.
This ensures that the groundwater table is not contaminated. However, in the
type of capping proposed to be done at Sonsoddo, what you are actually doing is
trapping the methane gas generated by the garbage dump. The methane gas will
then force its way downwards, leading to the leachate entering the groundwater
table thereby contaminating it," D'Souza said.</div>
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D'Souza was earlier engaged by
the Corporation of the City of Panaji as its consultant on garbage management.
He is a former professor of microbiology at Goa University.</div>
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Asnani was among those initially
shortlisted by MMC for empanelment of consultants for the Sonsoddo capping
exercise. After he also submitted his expression of interest (EoI) for the
project, the high power committee over Sonsoddo project, headed by Parrikar,
struck down MMC's selection of Asnani, following which the civic body selected Gurgaon-based
JM Environet (P) Ltd, and Cochin-based KR Gopalkrishnan for empanelment as
consultants for solid waste management projects of the council. MMC will invite
tenders for capping Sonsoddo garbage dump after receiving the detailed project
reports from the two agencies.</div>
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What caused a flutter in certain
quarters was the fact that MMC had invited EoIs for capping Sonsoddo dump only
after Asnani-in his capacity as MMC's consultant for the Sonsoddo garbage
treatment plant-had submitted a report to MMC confirming the presence of toxic
metals in the dump and suggesting that the dump be capped following
specifications of scientific closure as per the Municipal Solid Waste Rules
2000. TOI was the first to point out the incongruity in Asnani's empanelment for
the capping exercise as that would have amounted to Asnani evaluating his own
bid.</div>
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Anshita Asnani, managing director
of UMC Global Pvt Ltd (UMC) Ahmedabad, the firm headed by PU Asnani, in an
email interview with TOI said, "UMC's role was limited to advising MMC on
whether scientific capping of Sonsoddo dumpsite was an appropriate option"
and that neither UMC nor Asnani have been appointed as consultants for
providing garbage treatment solutions to the MMC.</div>
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"Considering the
environmental, social and economic aspects, and considering the changed
circumstances after the award of contract to the concessionaire (ie
availability of land to MMC for treatment and disposal of waste adjacent to the
Sonsoddo dump site), we had submitted our report to the municipal council,"
A Asnani said.</div>
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view link: <a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-26/goa/31409259_1_sonsoddo-garbage-sonsoddo-site-garbage-dump">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-26/goa/31409259_1_sonsoddo-garbage-sonsoddo-site-garbage-dump</a></div>NORTON SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14535169316493679327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8313610577891781662.post-3076498388725286162012-05-07T18:25:00.000-07:002012-05-07T18:25:44.690-07:00Lying climate scientists lie again – about death threats, this time<br />
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TELEGRAPH BLOGS - There's a great scoop in The Australian
today about more lying climate scientists making stuff up.</div>
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CLAIMS that some of Australia's leading climate change
scientists were subjected to death threats as part of a vicious and unrelenting
email campaign have been debunked by the Privacy Commissioner.</div>
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Timothy Pilgrim was called in to adjudicate on a Freedom of
Information application in relation to Fairfax and ABC reports last June
alleging that Australian National University climate change researchers were
facing the ongoing campaign and had been moved to "more secure
buildings" following explicit threats.</div>
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Needless to say the University did everything it could to
prevent the investigation, arguing that the release of the climate scientists'
emails (why am I getting an eerie sense of deja vu here?) "would or could
reasonably be expected to…endanger the life or physical safety of any
person". But doughty Sydney blogger Simon Turnill appealed against this
stonewalling drivel and won. And here's what was revealed when the 11 relevant
emails were eventually released.</div>
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Ten of the documents "did not contain threats to kill
or threats of harm."</div>
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Of the 11th, the Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim said:
"I consider the danger to life or physical safety in this case to be only
a possibility, not a real chance."</div>
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No wonder the university was so keen to keep things quiet.
Contrary to the claims of the "climate" "scientists" –
widely reported, of course, in the left-wing media – there had been no death
threats whatsoever. Yet their vice-chancellor at the time – now the Australian
government's Chief Scientist – Professor Ian Chubb decided to move them to
"more secure buildings" without, he now admits, having read the
emails to see whether these threats actually existed.</div>
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Maybe it's time someone did an FOI to see whether the UEA's
dodgy and discredited Phil Jones really did get any of those "death
threats" he claims to have received after Climategate and which allegedly
drove him to consider suicide. Speaking for myself, if Phil Jones released a
report claiming that grass is green I'd feel compelled to go outside just to
double check. You'll remember that after Climategate, the University of Easy
Access's main concern was not so much to investigate any potential malfeasance
by its Climatic Research Unit gang of FOI-breaching, data-fudging,
scientific-method-abusing, grant-troughing second-raters as to put the right
spin on them. That tame "woe is me" interview Jones gave to a
compliant Sunday Times was part of a strategy arranged by the public relations
company UEA had employed – no doubt at lavish taxpayer expense – to make the
disgraced Jones and his department look more sinned against than sinning.</div>
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I've a strong suspicion that the emails I get in my inbox
most days from the ecoloons who congregate at places like the Guardian's
Komment Macht Frei are far more foul-mouthed, repellant and poisonous than
anything these junk scientists have ever received. The difference is, I do my
damnedest to stick to the truth and I'm not being paid zillions of pounds or
dollars at public expense to promote the most expensive and mendacious scam in the
history of science. There's just no justice is there?</div>
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joking at dinner about chipping ice off passing icebergs for their whisky.</div>
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The baby handed in desperation to
strangers on the deck who warm his toes in the icy air.</div>
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The engine room stoker who, after
the collision, shivering in his singlet on deck, ruefully thinks of his soup
left to heat on the red hot boiler below.</div>
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These are some of the stories
told in the book Titanic:Last Night of a Small Town (OUP) by Dr John Welshman
of Lancaster University, who says there are several connections between
Lancashire and the Titanic.</div>
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Henry Threlfall Wilson, who
helped found the White Star Line which built the ship, was educated at
Lancaster Royal Grammar School.</div>
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And the Titanic’s Second Officer
Herbert Lightoller was born in Chorley in 1974 and attended Chorley Grammar.
The Titanic’s shipwreck was one of four he survived during his adventurous
career, which included a stint in the Gold Rush in Canada, a fire at sea and
shipwreck on a desert island.</div>
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He refused a place in the Titanic
lifeboats and jumped as the ship went down, but was sucked into a submerged
airshaft.</div>
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“I was drowning, and a matter of
another couple of minutes would have seen me through.</div>
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“I was still struggling and
fighting when suddenly a terrific blast of hot air came up the shaft, and blew
me right away from the air shaft and up to the surface.”</div>
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He later sailed to Dunkirk to
rescue soldiers in World War Two and he was played by Kenneth More in the 1958
film A Night to Remember.</div>
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Second class passenger Lawrence
Beesley was married in Lancaster but his wife Cissy died of tuberculosis so he
decided to visit his brother in Toronto.</div>
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A teacher at Dulwich College, one
of his pupils was the future crime writer Raymond Chandler.</div>
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Beesley survived the sinking but
was drawn to the filming of the 1958 movie.</div>
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He faked an Equity card and
dressed up in costume in order to sneak aboard the replica Titanic during the
filming but was spotted by the director who ordered him to disembark.</div>
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Dr John Welshman said: “Growing
up in Northern Ireland in the 1960s, I was aware of the Titanic from an early
age because of the story of its designer Thomas Andrews who died in the
disaster.</div>
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“We are all still fascinated by
the Titanic because we imagine what we would do if we found ourselves in that
predicament. The silver slipper left in the cabin, the hot soup on the stove,
this is the human detail of the real people that I’ve tried to breathe life
into again a century later.”</div>
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He has uncovered previously
untold stories.</div>
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One of these concerns the couple
emigrating from Finland – Elin and Pekka Hakkarainen – who claimed the third
class passengers were locked in.</div>
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Dr Welshman even discovered that
he is related to one of the first class stewardesses, Elizabeth Leather from Liverpool,
who was seen by witnesses rowing the number 16 lifeboat on the night the ship
sank on April 15, 1912.</div>
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Able seaman Ernest Archer helped
the passengers into no 16 and said he told Elizabeth she did not have to row
“but she said she would like to do it to keep herself warm”.</div>
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Elizabeth gave evidence to the
subsequent enquiry, describing how she had gone to bed and did not get up for
up to 45 minutes after the collision because she did not realise how serious it
was.</div>
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She went up to B deck where she saw
the other stewardesses putting blankets and eiderdowns around the lady
passengers so she returned to her cabin.</div>
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After being rescued by the
Carpathia – whose captain Arthur Rostron was born in Bolton – she spent the
rest of her life in South Africa.</div>
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More of these stories will be
told in a talk by Dr John Welshman about the last hours of the doomed ship at
Harris Library, community history department, on Saturday, April 21, from
2-3pm.</div>NORTON SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14535169316493679327noreply@blogger.com0