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After George Osborne’s deeply political approach to Budgets and Autumn Statements, what can we expect from Philip Hammond’s first big performance next month? John Greenwood reports

As the number two in a new government whose political and economic strategies we know very little about, Philip Hammond will be keenly listened to when he delivers his first Autumn Statement next month, with advisers seeking clues on what to expect from the Conservatives in the post-Cameron/Osborne era.

Hammond watchers describe the new chancellor as more pragmatic than his predecessor. A successful businessman before and during his political career, he has had interests in housing, building, healthcare, oil and gas. He has also carried out several assignments for the World Bank in Latin America. His first attempt to become an MP was in 1994, where he was defeated by Labour’s Stephen Timms, but he won Runnymede and Weybridge in 1997.

A Remainer during the EU referendum campaign, Hammond had previously expressed Eurosceptic views on a regular basis. He was one of four Cabinet ministers to vote against gay marriage in 2011.

Hammond sees the Treasury as his natural home. Having been made shadow chief secretary to the Treasury by Michael Howard in 2005, he returned there in 2008 after a stint as shadow work & pensions secretary. He is understood to have been in line for the chief secretary role in 2010 had the Conservatives won outright, but ceded to LibDem Danny Alexander under the Coalition agreement, taking the transport, defence and foreign office briefs instead. Some insiders have suggested he was even in line to succeed George Osborne as chancellor had David Cameron stayed on.

So what tone can we expect at the dispatch box on 23 November from the new incumbent in Number 11 and how will tax and economic policies differ from what we have got used to over the past six years? Hammond’s early signals on debt reduction suggest he does not see the target of a surplus by 2020 as a priority.

A senior tax expert close to the Treasury, who wishes to remain anonymous, says: “Hammond is not a political showboater like his predecessor. He is less of a political tactician and pointscorer than Osborne and more of a steady-as-you-go administrator. He is very capable and will want to show that he is running an efficient ship. Things are working his way so far for the economy, so I do not expect anything too radical just now – no changes to the basic rate of tax, or to inheritance tax.

“As to pensions tax relief, it would be politically challenging. It has been a political football for too long and really needs some stability. But the triple lock does seem over-generous given the nation’s current circumstances, so he could well have a look at that.”

Cicero Group executive chairman Iain Anderson disagrees on the pensions tax relief point, noting that the only thing that had prevented big changes last March appeared to be fear of upsetting Tory MPs ahead of the Brexit vote.

Anderson says: “The new mantra is: ‘A government that works for everyone, not just those at the top.’ There is a ready-made, fully costed, off-the-shelf policy to support that idea. That’s scrapping higher-rate relief and creating a single-tier tax relief for pensions. The Treasury did that work for Osborne – the industry prefers this to scrapping pensions relief altogether – and it fits with the new politics. What’s not to like for Hammond?”

Jelf Employee Benefits head of benefits strategy Steve Herbert says: “On tax relief I expect something to happen, probably within the next 18 months. But I am not convinced he will feel the need to do this right now. Hammond does not strike me as a political grandstander, unlike his predecessor. I think he is more likely to be ‘Steady as we go’ for the moment as there is too much else going on that is really important to risk getting distracted by that.

“Theresa May’s opening speech on taking office, when she said her government would not “entrench the advantages of the privileged few”, gives clues as to her likely attitude towards a spreading-out of incentives to save for retirement.”

Willis Towers Watson senior consultant David Robbins says one can look at the nation’s macro position, and its likely impact on pensions tax relief, in two ways. He says: “On the one hand you could argue that, because Hammond has abandoned Osborne’s target of achieving a surplus by 2020, there is less of a need for revenue-raising measures from pension. On the other hand, it may be that, when the Office for Budget Responsibility puts in its new forecasts for the long-term health of the economy, if there is a negative impact from Brexit then there will be more need.”

An easier subject for Hammond is the consultation on introducing a pension advice allowance that can be withdrawn from pension to pay for advice, and the increasing of the tax-free allowance for employer-paid advice from £150 to £500. The consultation on the pension advice allowance closes at the end of this month.

Herbert says: “These combined allowances will be a huge boost to the financial advice industry. This has to be worth building in to advisers’ propositions, and employers will embrace it too in the longer term. These changes are not controversial and they will not cost the Treasury much, so I’d expect them to be in there.”

Salary sacrifice is a less contentious issue now that pensions, childcare vouchers and bike-to-work schemes have been taken out of the equation, although Robbins sees a potential wrinkle in the current consultation that could have bigger consequences further down the line.

He says: “The Government seems to be saying it is going to treat tax and National Insurance differently depending on whether you got the benefit when you joined the employer or you engineered your choices through your flex system. This seems unfair. How much National Insurance you pay should depend on what benefits you get, and not on how you got there. This could be seen as setting a precedent for pensions in the long run.”

NI on pensions could raise its head in other areas too. Reports of Osborne looking to merge income tax and NI go back at least as far as 2011, and he is understood to have commissioned reports when in opposition on how this could be achieved. Office for Tax Simplification tax director John Whiting is leading an investigation into the project, but experts point out that this has been on the political agenda for decades.

A source close to Corporate Adviser recalls attending a meeting at the Treasury a couple of years ago where chief secretary to the Treasury David Gauke led a debate on the issue, at which an older delegate commented that he had been asked by the Treasury to work out how to merge income tax and NI three decades ago.

A high-profile tax expert says: “I cannot see Philip Hammond going down this path. Yes, it makes sense, but the political collateral is just too great. Ministers like the idea until they realise they will have to put up the basic rate of income tax to 35 per cent, which they are obviously not prepared to do.”

Robbins adds: “It is clearly not easy to implement. You have got the fact that pensioners do not pay NI, so they would be adversely affected. And what do you do about employer NI? Your employer should be interested in the total cost of employment, so if you abolish NI that should feed through to higher salaries, subject to higher income tax. But how sure are we that that would happen in a way that did not leave some groups worse off?”

Speculation will build to feverish levels in the run-up to Hammond’s first Autumn Statement. Most people in the pension and benefits industry will hope for something of a damp squib.

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Definition - What does Intergranular Corrosion mean?

This is a corrosion type that attacks the boundaries of the metal crystallites, as opposed to attacking the surface of the metal. Intergranular corrosion can also be referred to as intergranular attack under a condition known as grain boundary depletion.

Metals and alloys, like other elements, have micro-structures that can be described as grains. Metals can contain multiple grains, and these are separated by a grain boundary. Intergranular corrosion can be defined as an attack along the boundaries of several grains in the metal or near the grain boundary with the largest portion of the grain remaining unaffected.

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The relation of corrosion to the grains can be explained in terms of element segregation. When an element adequate for the resistance of corrosion is lost, either from the boundary or the zone adjacent to it, it creates a condition where the spot becomes an anode with reference to the rest of the grain. Corrosion then proceeds along the affected grain boundary and may cause grains to dislodge due to the boundary deterioration.

Stainless steels and weld decay sensitization are the best examples of intergranular corrosion. Grain boundaries that are rich in chromium elements will precipitate lead. This makes the boundaries very vulnerable to corrosion attacks in various electrolytes. This is caused by reheating the part that has been welded, especially in multi-pass welding.

In the process of intergranular corrosion, a knife-like attack, a form of intergranular corrosion, can occur when carbon reacts with niobium, titanium or the austenitic stainless steels. Carbides form in the areas close the welded part, making it difficult for them to diffuse. This condition can be corrected by reheating the part to enable the carbides to diffuse.

Aluminum-base alloys are mostly affected by this corrosion due to two main reasons. The first is when the phases anodic to aluminum are along the grain boundaries. The second is due to the depleted parts of copper which are adjacent to the boundaries. Other alloys that are prone to intergranular corrosion are those that have elongated and flattened grain micro-structures. These are the heavily worked on alloys or those that have been extruded.

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Save the Pan Flute: An American Raises Millions to Preserve Traditions in Bolivia

High on a steep hill above the arid valleys around the world's highest capital, Peter McFarren's dream is coming true.

"I want to preserve and promote Bolivia's traditional folk art, which is some of the world's best," says Mr. McFarren, the son of American missionaries to Bolivia. "But I also want to stimulate greater interest among Bolivians in their own cultural history."

Over the past five years, he cajoled four foreign governments, several private foundations, and international institutions to donate $10 million to found the Laikakota Cultural Complex. When the $15 million, 170,000-square-foot building that will house a museum of popular culture, public research facilities, and an artisan-training school where poor Bolivians will learn Inca, Tiwanaku, and Aymara designs.

He also convinced Juan Carlos Caldern, Bolivia's top architect, to work for a partial fee, and got La Paz City Hall to donate a $6 million lot atop Laikakota Hill, in the heart of the city. Construction began last year.

"Few people believed in this project and everyone asked why I would support this crazy gringo," says La Paz Mayor Ronald MacClean. "But I believe in Peter."

So do the World Bank, UNESCO, and the governments of Canada, Mexico, Switzerland, and the Netherlands - the latter giving a donation of $2.1 million.

And in a unique debt swap designed by McFarren, the US Agency for International Development and the nongovernmental organization Plan International bought up $33 million of Bolivia's commercial debt from 20 foreign banks. In the end, the project got an annual stipend of $120,000 to pay for exhibits through a debt-for-culture swap that is the largest of its kind in the world.

McFarren was born in La Paz, and holds both US and Bolivian citizenship. He is a professional pastry chef, who once managed the Cambridge, Mass.-based Creative Cuisine cooking school. In Bolivia, he has been a photographer, book and newspaper publisher, reporter for the Associated Press, and a board member of several foundations that work to reforest the La Paz area and improve housing for the poor. His nonprofit Quipus Cultural Foundation is overseeing the building of the Laikakota Complex.

McFarren's brother and sisters are also involved in the development of Bolivia, one of the world's poorest countries. Tim McFarren installs wind-power energy in poor high-plains villages; Jill McFarren Aviles develops children's educational materials for a La Paz radio station, and Wendy McFarren will administer the cultural center.

When the cultural museum finally opens in 1999, many of the exhibits will come from McFarren's personal collection. He has donated 1,200 pieces, including religious icons, ceramics, musical instruments, weavings, feather art, and masks. A national photo archive will feature the best of 75,000 file pictures that he shot over the years for his photo agency.

But the museum will be more than artifacts and pictures on the walls.

Visitors will see replicas of 18th-century La Paz, Lake Titicaca, Andean villages, and Jesuit missions. They will walk over maps of Bolivia and experience the Spanish Conquest through a "sight and sound" tunnel. And with the touch of a computer screen, they will learn about the nation's cultural history in English, Spanish, and Aymara, the pre-Inca language still spoken by most of La Paz's population.

In the interactive children's museum - which is scheduled to open next May - kids will learn about Bolivian culture, health, the environment, and science through exhibits, using finger paints, clay, puppets, musical instruments, and costumes. Hands On, a US nonprofit group with experience in designing children's museums, is helping to create the exhibits.

"We live in a country where there is a permanent shock of cultures," says Sergio Rios, coordinator of the children's exhibits, referring to clashes between Europeans, Indians, and mestizos, those of mixed European and Indian extraction. "We want all Bolivian children to feel proud of their culture."

For now, McFarren is busy wheeling and dealing for the remaining $5 million needed to finish the project. Most recently, he approached Fidelity Investments of Boston, asking its officials to consider a financing plan he put together.

Some are already touting the project's importance for Bolivia and Latin America.

"This museum will give Bolivians an entertaining, sophisticated, and accurate view of their own country's culture," says US Ambassador Curtis Kammans. "It will be a leader in this hemisphere."

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Canadian gardener told that her garden will be replaced with grass.

It's impossible to pick up a newspaper these days or turn on the TV without seeing something about the benefits of an environmentally green world. We're thinking more about things many of us gave little attention to  before -- the impact of plastic water bottles and the benefits of houseplants that provide not just indoor beauty  but cleaner air.

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Some of the most popular articles on the Monitor's gardening site recently have been about edible landscaping and the increase in home gardens. But a few people still think those gardens don't meet community aesthetic standards.

So it was that last week that Dianne Perras of Ottawa received a letter from the Ottawa Community Housing Corp. informing her that the garden in front of her residence had to go. And to add insult to injury, she was told that the garden that she's spent eight years creating and working in was going to be replaced by grass.

Any gardener reading that would have to growl, "How could they??"

But it appears there might be a happy ending to this story in the Ottawa Citizen. Possibly realizing that razing a garden to plant a plot of grass may not be the best public relations move, the CEO of the housing corporation later said the letter was a bit more forceful than intended.

The housing organization had gotten bad publicity from a similar incident three years ago and been forced to back down when local politicians came to the aid of the affected gardener.

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Ms. Perras isn't so sure. She'll wait and see what happens. But she clearly can't imagine why anyone would mandate grass instead of lilacs, irises, and visiting birds.

Here in the US, Kentucky residents are battling efforts to turn 125 acres of  parkland owned by the city into a $20 million private youth baseball camp,  the Louisville Courier-Journal reports.

"At issue," the paper says,  "is a plan to build a complex with as many as 25 ball fields with synthetic turf infields, including one field with bleachers for 4,500 people. Tentatively named Nation Baseball Park, it also would include 60 small buildings, each capable of sleeping up to 20, a dining hall and a store selling baseball equipment and memorabilia."

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But many residents are up in arms. And they may have some environmental regulations on their side: The Kentucky glade cress, a protected species found only in two counties, makes its home in the park and could be threatened by the development. And critics point out that some parts of the park were purchased with federal environmental funds, limiting the uses of the land.

These articles show that plants do matter to people, but vigilance is required until everyone feels the same.

Later addition: OK, let's leave this subject with a smile on our faces. Look at this article from the Chicago Tribune: Suburbs' fake flowers can stir genuine controversy.

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The residents of Des Plains, however, would have none of it. The proposal to change to faux blooms died after a huge outcry. Score one for the green team!

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It was a bad day for Ms. Yingluck, whose days are looking numbered.

“This indictment is a really serious turn of events for Yingluck,” says our correspondent in Bangkok. “The rice scheme is the slow-burning element to this political crisis, which wasn’t immediately interesting or headline grabbing, but has been showing over time to be maybe her biggest undoing.”

The failed scheme has turned some farmers – normally Yingluck’s core supporters – into some of the most hard-core opponents of the regime, our correspondent adds. “It has also provided the judiciary [and] some of these government bodies a solid reason to go after her under the law.” For more on the particulars of the rice scheme, read our earlier coverage here.

Yingluck’s party supporters, so-called Red Shirts, have promised to protest nationwide if her government falls. Analysts tell our correspondent that the next government in that scenario would be some form of committee, which would try to pass various election reforms. But the committee may not be able... For the rest of the story, continue reading at our new business publication Monitor Global Outlook.

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Texans may soon be buying health insurance the way they buy electricity — in a marketplace where consumers can shop for policies with the same “apples to apples” comparisons they use to weigh electricity rates.

Last week’s Supreme Court decision upholding President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul clears the way for such markets in all 50 states, despite opposition from Gov. Rick Perry and other Republican governors who were hoping the law would be dumped by the court.

Texas Republican Rep. John Zerwas, an anesthesiologist from Simonton, last year wrote a bill to create a Texas insurance exchange. The bill called the health care overhaul “unconstitutional,” but it died in the face of a Perry veto threat.

Perry vowed that Texas would do nothing to lend credence to the health care law until the Supreme Court weighed in. In 2010, the Texas Department of Insurance got a $1 million grant from the federal government to study insurance exchanges. But last year the department returned more than $900,000 of that amount.

Zerwas said Perry assured him the state could create an exchange without needing action by the Legislature, which does not meet until 2013. Deputy press secretary Lucy Nashed said Friday that Perry hasn’t decided whether to do that.

A federal exchange would put Texans at a disadvantage, Zerwas said, because it could mean a “one-size-fits-all approach.”

“I’ve always looked at it kind of like the way we deregulated electricity,” Zerwas said. “All of a sudden people had to buy something they really hadn’t thought about for two seconds.”

“An insurance exchange would be serving the same kind of purpose out there,” he said. “It’s a place people could go to better educate themselves, get a comfort level with the costs and so forth. I see that happening whether you have government health care reform or not.”

Waiting on repeal

By Nov. 16, the state is supposed to declare whether it intends to create its own exchange or leave it to the federal government to create one. If Mitt Romney wins the election that month and can get Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, the prospect of a federally administered insurance exchange for Texans may disappear through repeal of the law.

But there’s not much time left if Texas wants to design its own exchange rather than accept the Obama administration’s approach. And that worries insurers, benefit analysts and even some conservative health economists.

“It’s very political,” said Devon Herrick, a health economist with the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis. “We’ve always maintained it’s probably better for a state to go ahead and set up an exchange. That way a state could have more bargaining power to maybe extract better services from [the federal government].

“The administration wants this to work; they’re desperate to have the Affordable Care Act work. … This way, a state can tailor their own exchanges to meet their own needs,” Herrick said. “Not all free market analysts think that way.”

Indeed. Under an argument popularized by two Forbes magazine columnists and the conservative Cato Institute, states opposed to the law shouldn’t lift a finger.

Companies with more than 50 workers are required under the law to provide health insurance to their employees. If they don’t, and their workers seek subsidies in an exchange, the company has to pay a fine of $2,000.

The way the law was written, subsidies are provided for individuals shopping in a state-created insurance exchange, but there are questions about whether they are provided in a federally administered exchange.

“It’s just a mistake in the law,” said John McCracken, health management professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. “The way the law was drafted, an employer only pays a penalty if one of the employees receives a subsidy on an exchange. Because no subsidies are offered in federal exchanges, in Texas, there is effectively no employer mandate. They won’t be penalized for not offering health insurance.”

Federal officials say that’s just not so. Asked point blank if the law provides subsidies on federal exchanges, U.S. Health and Human Services’ insurance oversight director Mike Hash said, “Yes, it does.”

The doubt lingers.

“It’s a nuance in the law that I think needs to be answered, frankly,” Zerwas said. “I don’t know if it would drive Texas one way or the other, but it needs to be clarified.”

Who would shop?

Under Obama’s health care overhaul, each state would have an insurance exchange for individuals by 2014. (The law also creates separate exchanges for small businesses.) Most Texans could expect to continue to get their health care at work as an employee benefit. The individual exchange would offer markets to people between jobs, people who can’t get insurance because of their health or who work for firms that don’t offer comprehensive insurance.

Families making less than $88,000 a year would qualify for federal subsidies. The law limits the amount a family would be expected to spend at 9.5 percent of income; the amount drops to 3 percent for individuals making about $15,350.

Two years ago, the state’s Health and Human Services Commission told the Legislature that as many as 43 percent of an estimated 6.5 million uninsured Texans could qualify for subsidies under Obama’s individual insurance exchange.

The Affordable Care Act creates separate Small Employer Health Insurance Plan exchanges where small businesses can go for employee health insurance.

Ceci Connolly, managing director of the Health Research Institute of PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers), said many small firms are very interested in the exchange.

“They’re probably the most viable option for them to offer affordable, comprehensive insurance for their workers — something that has been exceedingly difficult for some time,” she said.

Connolly said PwC expects health insurance exchanges will grow into a $200 billion market by 2020.

Follow Jim Landers on Twitter at @landersjim.

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  2. 09/10 Relaxing the lock down: Finally! The Russians are letting people travel out of the camp, its been a long time coming. There are a lot of those things still wondering around, maybe Chernobyl will be a decent place to call home, I've heard that the Radiation is low enough in some levels to be livable. I should attempt to get a group together, maybe we can find some old AK's in the city that's about two clicks to the east of here. 10/20 Traveling in winter: Winter is starting to rear its head, we have some supplies and are reasonably equipped to endure at least a week in the cold. we have only about five days of travel left to go, but people are starting to get tired. Oh well, they are gonna have to tough it out. *It is apparent that someone other than mark has written in this book, and judging from the torn out pages and the small chunks of grey matter, he got it back* 04/10/1 Justice: Finally tracked this asshole down, he though he had a one up on me for using Lily to pull me into an ambush, In case I lose this book again, they thought they could screw me out of a small sum of Kevlar vest, they didn't Account for the one I took though. They payed with their life thought, and thus the dept is even. 04/25/1 Life: After flipping though the last couple of my entries, I realized that I have not detailed life in "The Zone" as its locally known. I live in the area known as Zaton, it looks like this place used to be an old shipping area or a graveyard for boats. When we I arrived here, I was amazed to find other people living here as well. They all warned about Traveling into the city. Most of these guys had the same idea of braving a bit of radiation in exchange for the lack of infected. Turns out we made quite a living here, as long as we keep a steady supply of Potassium nitrate and lead around us life is good. 05/01/1 Bar tending: I have tried my hand at bar tending here at our home boat, Turns out i'm not too bad. I make a steady supply of Rubles here i'm making at least 10,000 a week, its not much but its steady and safe for the most part. 05/15/1 Chernarus: I overheard some of my more wealthy patrons talk about getting a really big deal. They spoke of a place that's apparently quite the hike from the zone itself. The deal entails lugging some 200,000 rounds of ammo and some 150 crates of Cheap AK's over to a country known as Chernarus, I might tag along and get payed. 06/16/1 Arrival in Chernarus: It wasn't easy getting here, but apparently they don't value the dollar here, they are overpaying by like 1,000,000 RU but hey, who am I to judge. The convoy we had with us seemed to startle the locals, they are for sure waaaay behind the engineering in the zone. Part of the deal that I made with my friends was no return trip to the zone, so here I am Chernarus, Pack full of the best liquor I could get my hands on and my Model 70. 07/15/1 My home for a war zone: I found a home, Gorka, for now at least. the town is really unstable and its constantly under attack. I lost two bottles of Vodka to stray bullets! Damn. 08/16/1 Mary: I ran into a girl, her name's Mary, she's sweet. She was amazed at the fact I actually had high quality liquor. I Enjoyed my time with her, it was an escape from theday to day rabble and gun violence. 09/17/1: I miss Th...* this page is spattered in blood, its totally illegible and it would appear that mark left a photo in between the pages. The last barely legible thing written is...* I am alive.
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Everyone has pride. You want to do what you say you will, live up to your word. Well what if ? in the heat of the moment ? you promise to get a tattoo? Would you rise to the ‘challenge? and get ink’d?

That’s exactly what the loveable Andy Bernard did on a recent episode of NBC’s ‘The Office?.

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After recently being named the new manager of the office, we’ve seen Andy try out a few different tactics to motivate his team. Unfortunately, in his own excitement in the middle of pushing his troops to get fired up, he promises to get a tattoo on his (we’ll call it) ‘rear end? if the staff is able to double their sales ? a tattoo of their choosing.

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While shopping the other day, I came across a festive purple and yellow messenger bag made from a recycled plastic banner. Its brand was "Mission Wear" and it was made by Robin, according to its label.

Founded in 2006, Mission Wear creates products that are all about determination and redemption. It started when founder Beth McWhirter was mentoring Carrie, a woman who was trying to break free from a life of addiction and prostitution.

Beth says, "She and I tried to find employment for about 4 months with no success. After that she ended up relapsing, going back to drugs and prostitution. I couldn't help but think that if she had had the stability of a job opportunity, she might not have relapsed."

Beth also was bothered by the fact the the U.S. goes through 100 billion plastic bags annually. So after her twins started pre-school, she combined these two problems and started teaching women with life challenges how to sew fun and attractive reusable bags.

"I wanted to promote environmental products as well as awareness about how plastic bags are really harmful to our environment and encourage individual responsibility."

Mission Wear has had around 32 women go through the program since 2006, and typically employs 7 or 8 at a time. The goal is to get them back on their feet after they've experienced homelessness, addiction, incarceration or domestic abuse. "Mission Wear offers at-risk women a job opportunity that they most likely will not be able to get in the workplace with their backgrounds," Beth explains.

Beth works with local assistance programs to recruit her employees. "We have several connections with agencies in Denver that direct women who are coming out of prison or drug rehab," she says, "and when we have job openings, we simply give a call out to those agencies to see if they have any clients that know how to sew or would be interested in working in a sewing business."

The majority of the material used in making the bags is donated-old blue jeans, colorful linens, and sewing supplies are all appreciated. Mission Wear's top sellers are the totes made from recycled banners, and you can even request a custom bag with your own recycled banner. There is also a selection of up-cycled fabric bags, cotton blend bags and miscellaneous items such as wallets and wine bottle sleeves.

The products can be purchased from the online store, or at various locations throughout the city.

Beth finds that the biggest challenge in running a nonprofit is finding enough money to support it, and having enough hours in the day. But it's all worth it "to see our employees succeed in becoming self-sufficient and reaching their personal goals."

Her advice to someone who wants to start a nonprofit? "Do something that you really believe in. There are sacrifices that you cannot anticipate."

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As the rumors leading up to E3 2011 suggested, Sony decided to side with the PlayStation Vita name for the device previously dubbed NGP. The handheld was a large focus during the company's press conference, and for good reason.

It had a solid showing, with a number of big-name Vita games discussed, and a lovely $249/$299 price point disclosed. In general, the event went rather smoothly, I thought. Next time, boys, be sure to start on time. Think of poor Nick Chester.

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A new study from the NIH shows a low incidence, but an incidence none the less, of tumor formation in rats due to exposure to cell phone radiation.

Where is your cell phone, usually? If you are like most people your cell phone is either on your waist, in your pocket, or somehow on your person. But is it a good thing to have our cell phones so close to us so much? Or even our bluetooth headsets for that matter? A recent study done by the National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institute of Health, found a link between cancers in rats and cell phone radiation.

Using more than 2,500 rodents for this study. They exposed the rats to radiation that is emitted by our cell phones for 9 hours a day for 2 years straight. To me, this is similar to having our cell phones in our pockets or on our waist for 9 hours a day while we are at work. And if you are like me, most of us have had cell phones since the late 1990s or early 2000s.

The findings showed that “low incidences of two types of tumors - seems to support earlier findings from epidemiological studies, which found the same types of tumors in humans, and which led the International Agency for Research on Cancer to classify radiation as a possible human carcinogen, back in 2011. The tumors found were gliomas (in the brain), and schwannomas (of the heart).

Even with this information we are, yet again, at a stalemate as to the safety of cell phones since the study in question only shows low incidences of cancer in the rats. However, let’s not gloss over that it shows an incidence of cancer in rats.

So what is to be done then? We have already had a bill in 2010 come up in California that would require the cell phone companies to list cell phone radiation information. There has been a back and forth about the safety of cells phones for years with 39 countries asking the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and others to develop stricter controls on cell phone radiation. But places like the CDC say there are no issues with cell phone radiation.

What this all means to me is that I need to watch where I keep my cell phone, and keep track of how close it is to myself and my son as well as limiting my time with my cell phone. Even though everything can be accessed on my phone, I need to put my phone down more. The Environmental Working Group made a great guide to Safer Cell Phone use that you can access here.

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Full Waveform Inversion utilises the entire seismic wavefield to generate refined, high-resolution velocity models for imaging and characterisation.

At a high level, what FWI tries to do is actually quite simple. It iteratively updates an initial model by forward modelling synthetics and comparing them to field data.

Advances in supercomputing make wave equation-based inversions like Reverse Time Migration and Full Waveform Inversion a lot more practical. As the name suggests, Full Waveform Inversion, or FWI, inverts for a high-resolution earth model (typically velocity), using the entire seismic wavefield. Just as the physics of wave propagation is non-linear, FWI is a highly non-linear parameter estimation problem.

In order to generate synthetics, we have to reproduce the seismic experiment that we carried out in the field. This requires knowledge of the source wavelet, the acquisition geometry, and the physics of 3D wave propagation.

The objective function is then straight forward. We want to optimise our earth model parameters, such as the P-wave velocity, to minimise the difference between the synthetics and the field data. Our FWI implementation can be used in 2D or 3D and can handle isotropy, VTI or TTI.

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Smooth starting velocity model prior to FWI, after FWI and after FWI but co-rendered with the seismic data in the background. Note that the stratigraphic and structural details in the FWI velocity model are consistent with the seismic data. Data courtesy of Shell NZ.

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Other new products that the company will release include a camcorder with 5MP camera lens, wide-screen LCD TVs up to 57 inches and a number of home theatre systems.

The 80-inch plasma TV will be launched in May. Currently it is world's largest plasma screen, but Samsung has already demonstrated a prototype 102-inch plasma screen. The price of these screens is unknown.

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Can your business show that it has adequate procedures in place to prevent bribery? If not, learn how an initial risk assessment of your bribery risk can inform and focus this process.

The Bribery Act 2010 came into force on 1 July 2011, with wide ranging scope in both domestic and internal contexts. An objective going to the core of the Act was an attempt to strengthen the UK's position on bribery and corruption in a global context.

Consequently, it is imperative for companies to be aware to the Act in practice and the implications of falling below the expected standard.

Importantly for companies, the Act extends the scope beyond an individual transaction of giving or receiving a bribe, through the introduction of the corporate offence of failing to prevent bribery (section 7 of the Bribery Act 2010).

The offence under section 7 automatically applies if anyone associated with a company has paid a bribe and extends to third parties who act on behalf of a company.

The only potential defence for an organisation is one of having adequate procedures in place. This corporate offence and corresponding due diligence defence puts great importance on organisations to not only adopt appropriate anti-bribery policies but to also actively embed the principles in their day-to-day business culture.

Due to the subjective manner of what is termed 'adequate', the Ministry of Justice has published important further guidance about procedures that companies can put into place to prevent persons associated with them from bribing. This guidance encourages a six principles-based approach as a benchmark for company policies and procedures.

Understanding risk

There is an ever important emphasis on companies understanding the inherent risks associated with operating within certain sectors and industries. A risk-based approach should be adopted to analyse the current policies in place designed to mitigate corruption or bribery, expose any flaws or inadequacies in the policies and focus on high risk areas. An effective risk assessment should lead to detailed recommendations of remediation works to ensure compliance with the Act.

Risks are categorised into two areas, internal and external risks:

  • Internal risks arise through, amongst other areas, inadequate knowledge of employees regarding policies and bribery risks, the payment structure of the company and flawed policies relating to hospitality and gifts.
  • Companies are also however exposed to a number of external risk factors, mainly through the countries they operate in, particular sectors and the transactions they are engaged in. For example, some jurisdictions are perceived to have higher risks than the UK, due to inadequate or entirely absent bribery legislation and those operating internationally should be diligent to the risks.

The inclusion of third parties acting on behalf of the company and agents of the company creates an additional element to the due diligence process for outsourcing. The degree of due diligence required depends on the risk correlating with the sector, as identified by the company's risk assessment.

To the relief of many, the procedures implemented by companies should be proportionate to the risk identified and the scale of the organisation. Not only can effective assessments therefore help target company procedures on those medium/high risk aspects of their operations, but they can also help to avoid excessive procedures being implemented in lower risk areas.

Communicating procedures

The risk of falling within the scope of the Bribery Act 2010 should be a serious concern for companies. It is not enough to simply have the policies in place. Companies need to communicate their procedures across the business, through training or any such means deemed appropriate. This often neglected aspect of the implementation of effective procedures, along with the need for on-going monitoring, is essential to ensure the procedures continue to mirror the needs of the company, reflecting growth and market factors exposing new areas of risk.

It is abundantly clear that the onus is on companies to be pro-active in their responsibilities. The Act creates an accountability concept for the actions of their employees and contracted third parties.

However, it can become a manageable compliance framework for the company to work within and result in an overall benefit, both internally and externally. It can be achieved through companies engaging in thorough risk assessments and embedding appropriate policies in the day to day culture of the company alongside on-going monitoring and training.

Should you wish to obtain support or guidance with the completion of an initial risk assessment of your company's operations, please contact a member of the Regulatory Team for further assistance.

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