Archive for September, 2009

Home spa surge aids Tek-Tube.(News)(plastic tubing manufacturer plans factory expansion)(Brief Article)

Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Home spa surge aids Tek-Tube.(News)(plastic tubing manufacturer plans factory expansion)(Brief Article)

Plastics News, September, 2003 by Miel, Rhoda

Byline: Rhoda Miel Americans’ increasing interest in at-home hot tubs and spas is bubbling over into business for extruded hose maker Tek-Tube LLC, which is launching a $1.6 million expansion to keep up with new orders. The Las Vegas-based company is adding two extrusion lines to its existing eight, giving it a 35 percent boost in production capacity.

Tek-Tube also expects to increase its staff to 22 employees from 18 once it begins full production in January and is adding another 25,000 square feet to its factory, bringing its manufacturing footprint up to a total of 84,000 square feet. Milacron Inc

Ship shape: as part of its ongoing restoration, the Calypso, Jacques Cousteau’s original research ship, will be outfitted with the world’s greenest marine engines

Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Ship shape: as part of its ongoing restoration, the Calypso, Jacques Cousteau’s original research ship, will be outfitted with the world’s greenest marine engines

Natural Health, July-August, 2009 by Francine Cousteau

IF YOU’D ASKED my late husband Jacques Cousteau about the heart of the Calypso–functionally and figuratively–he would’ve pointed straight to her engines. The analogy works: The machines that make a 139-foot former minesweeper move determine how she responds to the sea. As a result, when choosing the engines for the restored Calypso, I wanted them to be state-of-the art, minimally polluting, and manufactured as sustainably as possible.

After months of bids and proposals, the Cousteau Society finally found the greenest model on the market: the Volvo Penta D16-650, produced at a Swedish plant where heat energy is derived from renewable sources and recovered for reuse. These engines will reduce the Calypso’s fuel consumption by 20 percent, and by giving off extremely low levels of exhaust, they meet the antipollution standards used for Europe’s Rhine River (the world’s strictest) and by the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization. The engines also comply with regulations the United States plans to enforce in 2012.

From Sweden, the engines were shipped to a third-generation Volvo Penta dealership near the Calypso’s shipyard in France. When I arrived to pick up the engines, I met the dealership’s founder as well as his son and grandson, who currently maintain the family business. Our meeting was most poignant

Life after cancer treatment—psychosocial adjustment issues of cancer survivors

Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Life after cancer treatmentツ用sychosocial adjustment issues of cancer survivors

CME: Your SA Journal of CPD, Oct, 2008 by Linda Greeff

The development and advances in the field of oncology over the last 15 years have contributed to the fact that cancer is no longer seen as a death sentence and is currently viewed as a chronic illness. More people are surviving cancer and there is a need to find creative strategies to assist them in coming to terms with the cancer reality. Learning to live with the uncertainty is part of the challenge the cancer survivors have to face. The following facts are worth noting:

* Over 60% of adults diagnosed with cancer will be alive in 5 years.

* In 2010, 1 out of 250 adults aged 20 – 29 will be a childhood cancer survivor.

* 3 out of 4 families will have a member affected by cancer.

According to the ASCO website: (1)

* The number of cancer survivors in the USA has increased from 3 million in 1971 to 10.5 million in 2003.

* About 66% of people diagnosed with cancer today are expected to live at least 5 years beyond their diagnosis.

* Most cancer survivors in the USA are currently 65 years or older.

In South Africa, we do not have any reliable survivor statistics. However, we can assume that there will be a similar trend.

Challenges faced by cancer survivors after treatment

Despite the advances made in treatment the adjustment to the reality of learning to cope with the life after cancer treatment remains a challenge to most cancer patients and their families. The process of learning to incorporate the illness as part of the ‘new normal reality’ is not an easy task

Picky Eater: Spike drinks with fun, not alcohol

Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Picky Eater: Spike drinks with fun, not alcohol

0 Comments | Oakland Tribune, Dec 24, 2008 | by Jolene Thym

TO DRINK OR not to drink is not the question. If you are the designated driver, don’t. If you are the host or hostess, here are some ways to turn not drinking into a festive affair.

Have a special drink area established for designated non- drinking drivers where guests can create their own alcohol-free drinks. Stock it with nonalcoholic mixers, including a variety of fruit juices, lemon-lime and club soda and alcohol-free ciders.

— Keep plenty of fun garnishes on hand: maraschino cherries, fresh sprigs of mint, whipped cream, candy canes and cinnamon sticks. Don’t forget the festive stemware with sugar-flavored rims!

— Create your own “signature” nonalcoholic drink. Exotic fruit juices are the perfect place to start. Visit www.ots.ca.gov for nonalcoholic drink recipes, or look for recipes online and post them at the station.

— Have a contest to see who can make the best nonalcoholic drink, with your guests as judges. Award the winner a bottle of nonalcoholic champagne.

— Offer nonalcoholic options to traditional activities like wine tastings by doing tastings of apple, raspberry, pear, white cranberry and other nonalcoholic bottled fruit juices.

ELEGANT TOAST: Those who like to bring in the New Year with an ultra-elegant toast of something new will be absolutely stunned to taste the rediscovered St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur, an incredibly beautiful bottle of blossom-scented liqueur. The liqueur inside is first-class and guaranteed to seduce; the sculpted glass bottle is a work of art. The liqueur, which won a double gold medal at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition in 2007, gets its bouquet from freshly plucked, snow-white colored elder flowers that bloom in the Alps. It can be splashed into champagne, stirred into soda water or paired with a shot of apple- or pear-flavored vodka. It’s $33 per 750 ml. bottle and can be found at fine liquor stores.

WARM AND SPICY: I’m not a huge fan of rum by any means, and wasn’t particularly excited about tasting the bottle of rum that landed on my desk last week. But I did and I have to admit that Kilo Kai spiced rum is exactly right for a cold winter night. It has a luscious vanilla-citrus-spice aroma wrapped in a bit of brown sugar. I am not sure rum purists would love this stuff, but I do. A splash in a tiny glass goes down as easy as a glass of Graham’s Six Grapes Port ($23), (always my first pick.) Kilo Kai is $25 per bottle.

iCOCKTAIL: If you like cocktails but can never think of what to order, check out iPhone’s new Pocket Cocktails, a new 99-cent iPhone application that serves up pictures, ingredients and even sound- bytes with every cocktail

SMART STORAGE

Saturday, September 26th, 2009
SMART STORAGE

0 Comments | Sunday Mirror, Apr 26, 2009 | by ANDREA DEAN

TOP & INSET If you need to change the suite in a small bathroom, how about one with underbath storage? It’s ideal for stashing away those ugly cleaning products. Thyme suite, pounds 760.50 (www.focusdiy.co.uk, 0800 436436).

ABOVE For a streamlined look, house loo rolls inside this built- in holder, pounds 110.50 (www.utopiagroup.com, 0800 288 8410).

TOP LEFT Dine in a tiny kitchen with a Norbo drop-leaf table, pounds 24.90 , and Ingemar bar stools, pounds 33 each (www.ikea.co.uk, 0845 355 1141).

TOP RIGHT Keep things handy in a B& Q carousel corner unit pounds 350 (0845 850 0175).

ABOVE StoreMore wraparound sink drawer, part of a fitted kitchen from pounds 7,500 (www.moben.co.uk, 0800 413413).

TOP LEFT Create a tiny office, with a PS laptop work station, pounds 29 (www.ikea.co.uk, 0845 355 1141).

TOP RIGHT A Miller sofabed has a wide drawer and more storage in the arms, pounds 269 (www.littlewoodsdirect.com, 0844 8222321).

ABOVE Surf from the sofa with this Capella coffee table and computer desk, pounds 79 (www.littlewoodsdirect.com, 0844 8222321)

Namo Announces CyberFence: Internet Filtering Software

Saturday, September 26th, 2009
Namo Announces CyberFence: Internet Filtering Software

Market Wire, June, 2009

SJ Namo, Inc., a leading developer and
global supplier of software solutions for the world wide web, is proud to
announce the release of its CyberFence internet filtering software.

“The average age at which children are first exposed to pornography is 11
years old.”

“The largest group of consumers of internet pornography are youths aged 12
- 17.”

The statistics speak for themselves; however, today’s internet filter
products block adult websites, but cannot directly block pornographic
videos.

CyberFence is the first solution to effectively block over 90% of the
pornographic videos that are circulating on the internet today, preventing
them from being played, edited or transferred through email, Instant
Messenger, USB or CD. It also provides a variety of other functions to
help parents protect their children from some of the harmful aspects of
computer use.

Namo CyberFence has 4 main functions:

Media Blocking: Blocks adult videos from being played on your computer

Web Site Blocking: Blocks adult websites from being viewed on your computer

Program Management: Blocks various file-sharing, chatting, and
user-selected programs from being run on your computer

Time Restriction: Shuts down your computer after a certain amount of time
to prevent overuse

In addition to these main functions, Namo CyberFence is also able to
perform tasks such as searching for adult content on your hard drive,
filtering search engine results, and creating charts and reports concerning
adult content on your computer.

Namo CyberFence runs on your computer constantly to protect you 24 hours a
day and cannot be shut down or deleted without the administrator password.
It blocks adult material by matching it with a vast database of known adult
content which is managed by the Namo CyberFence service. Adult material
cannot be disguised by renaming or altering it.

Frequent and automatic software updates assure up-to-date protection for
children.

Unlike other internet filtering products, the Namo CyberFence service works
in real time, blocking the thousands of pornographic videos being released
everyday on the internet, similar to how anti-virus protection updates
virus definitions. www.cyberfence.com , www.namo.com

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The Emerald Bracelet

Saturday, September 26th, 2009
The Emerald Bracelet

Reviewer’s Bookwatch, March, 2009 by Willis M. Buhle

The Emerald Bracelet

Brandon V. Peters

Vantage Press

419 Park Ave. South, New York, NY 10016

9780533150588, $13.95, www.vantagepress.com

True love overlooks deception. “The Emerald Bracelet” is a novel of deceit and love. Philip seems to be nothing more than a grunt doing grunt work

Spin cycle. (rollerblading and in-line skates)

Saturday, September 26th, 2009
Spin cycle. (rollerblading and in-line skates)

Footwear News, July, 1995 by Tedeschi, Mark

Shoe retailers expect the in-line skate category to continue its explosive sales in 1996. Retailers report that sales of in-line skates increased 49.5% in 1994, and 512% since 1990. Statistics from the National Association of Sporting Goods Manufacturers put the number of in-line skaters at 19 million, outnumbering aerobics, skiing and tennis

Construction Employment.

Friday, September 25th, 2009
Construction Employment.

Construction Equipment, August, 2009

Staff

Contractors cut 59,000 jobs in May, the fewest since last September. There were substantial cuts in heavy construction where the construction stimulus program has yet to be significant, and relatively few cuts in nonresidential buildings where construction spending has declined the most. At least 100,000 more layoffs are expected yet this year followed by more than 200,000 new jobs by the end of 2010. The hiring ahead will be mostly for residential and heavy construction work.

For more california green design analysis, visit our Economic Outlook at ConstructionEquipment.com

Marriage

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Marriage

Conscience, Spring, 2008 by Dale Parkes

STEPHANIE COONTZ’S article, “The Validity of Marriage: Who Gets to Decide? Who Gets to Choose?” (Winter 2007-2008) was a tour de force, explaining the ever-fluid nature of marriage. As somebody who has been in a monogamous relationship for many years, and argued vehemently against tying the knot, it’s always welcome to gather more ammunition for those dinner-table arguments about whether marriage is necessary.

The Vatican’s new york wedding videographers approach to annulments is one issue that certainly deserves close attention, as it appears that the Catholic church is only too willing to grant and even expedite annulments for rich, American Catholics–especially those who play a role in public life. Perhaps that might be a subject for a future article.

Finally, a brief correction. It was Rudy Giuliani’s first marriage, to Regina Peruggi, that was ended by a civil divorce in 1982 and a subsequent annulment a year or so later, not as Coontz wrote, his second