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I've recently stopped buying any and all brands of canned organic tomato products. This is because I recently found out that all acidic foods, even organic, are packed in cans lined with BPA a very dangerous hormone disrupting chemical that is linked to a whole host of ailments.
I have to say that I was truly shocked and disappointed upon discovering that even Eden Organics, the company that pioneered BPA free canning, still uses BPA cans for acidic foods like tomatoes. I realize this situation is not the company's fault – Eden really wants a BPA free can for acidic foods. The FDA has just not approved one yet.
Don't you just love bureaucratic bottleneck where a major public health issue is concerned?
It's amazing to me how even if you are all over this stuff like I try to be that a very important snippet of information like BPA cans still being used for all organic acidic foods can somehow slip through the cracks!
In the meantime, I've drawn a line in the sand about canned goods. I'm done. Glass only for me, baby.
I cleaned out my pantry of the very few canned goods I had left in there last week and returned the organic canned tomato products from Eden Organics and Muir Glen (Muir Glen is owned by Campbell Soup, by the way. Ugh!)
My "glass only" resolve came primarily from a comment on my BPA Update blog back in August from Stanley Fishman, author of Tender Grassfed Meat. In that comment, Stanley writes about the danger of nanites, something I had never even heard about before. In that comment, Stanley writes:
"Nanites are tiny particles of various substances, such as silver iodide, nickel,etc, that are used to preserve food and increase shelf life. These tiny particles preserve food by killing bacteria, good and bad. Nobody knows what they will do to a human body. There is concern that these tiny particles could penetrate the cells of human organs and damage them, not to mention killing off beneficial bacteria in our bodies.
There is no labeling requirement for nanites. The government is allowing us to be guinea pigs once again. Nanites are already widely used in food packaging."
Stanley goes on to say that he will not even buy products packaged in tubes or cartons for the same reason. He's a "glass only" person.
I love it when I learn something very important like this from reader feedback! Stanley, I want to be a glass only person too!
I quickly realized in my zeal to go glass only that I was missing one key piece of information – how to make a decent homemade pizza sauce!
So, before returning my last can of Eden Organics pizza sauce, I wrote down all the ingredients on a piece of paper and started experimenting to come up with something that tasted great.
Here's what I've come up with so far. I'm sure I will be tweaking this in the coming weeks, but this basic recipe turned out quite delicious. All the kids gave it a thumbs up, which is an encouraging sign. The only thing I didn't like is that the sauce turned out a bit too thin. Maybe next time, I will try half strained tomatoes and half tomato paste (both packed in glass from Bionaturae). That change will probably thicken it up quite a bit.
Sarah's Homemade Pizza Sauce
1 – 24 oz bottle of organic strained tomatoes (sources)
1 TBL organic extra virgin olive oil (sources)
1/2 tsp sea salt (sources)
1/2 tsp organic basil (sources)
1/2 tsp organic oregano (sources)
1/2 tsp organic black pepper (sources)
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp organic dried onion (sources)
1/2 tsp organic thyme (sources)
1/4 cup dulse flakes (sources)
pinch cayenne pepper (sources)
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
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gabrielle reilly
Costco is now carrying organic crushed tomatoes in glass jars. I was so excited when I found them!
My mother from Italy used to make Tomatoe sauce with 3 small cans of tomato paste, seasoning and a lot of water. Then she cooked it over a low heat for hours until it was refuced to the right thickness. This was years before Bionatura but it was delicious and very slight on ingredients. It will reduce and give you a nicely textured sauce.
Mary Jordon
Back in the old days when they didnt have tinned or bottled tomato sauce, they roasted the tomatoes and pureed it through a sieve. I am going to make my own sauce.
I just took a look at the Eden Foods site as I had read they use BPA-free cans. It turns out they do for their bean products and they now use amber class for their tomato and pizza sauce products. The amber glass is supposed to protect the tomatoes from photo oxidation. I'm not sure when they phased in the glass so perhaps your store is trying to get rid of old stock.
Actually, some of the cheaper, non OG brands of tomatoes don't have the white BPA lining. I discovered that unintentionally at a Dollar General store. The lesser of 2 evils, I suppose.
The recipe looks great, BTW! The Eden Pizza sauce used to be my favorite before I learned about BPA.
I make my pizza sauce with fresh tomatoes. Full of flavor and I don't have to worry about canned….
sheila moser
Good Morning! Boy do I ever love your website!! I've been on it for what feels like nonstop since I found it. I've been making so many things from here ~ just love it. I have a question; what are dulse flakes? I've never heard of them before. Thanks! sheila
Amy Love@Real Food Whole Health
Hey Sheila, Dulse is a seaweed. You can buy dulse flakes in a salt shaker style bottle for use as a seasoning. It's salty (like any seaweed) and fairly mild. Hope that helps! Amy
Michelle H
Are the tetra containers that Pomi and other products come in safe?
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
I personally don't trust tetra containers. Only glass.
Vicki Rees
The brand "Lucini" also offers organic plum tomatoes in a jar. I buy mine through their website at lucini.com. They sometimes offer free shipping so I stock up on a couple of cases.
Sarah, the Healthy Home Economist
Hi Anonymous, General Mills also get an "ugh". Muir Glen is not moving away from BPA fast enough. They waited for consumer pressure to force their hand rather than doing the right thing from the get go .. typical of a company owned by a corporate conglomerate … not exactly on the up and up. I have stopped buying all their products.
Muir Glen is moving away from BPA lined products and they're actually owned by General Mills not Campbell's Soup. Here is a terrific summary of BPA legislative action. We should all be contacting our state and federal representatives asking them to outlaw. Thanks for the great site! http://simplygreensolutions.com/blog/tag/bpa-chemicals/
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Celeste, wow – using the broth would add a lot of nutrition and flavor to the sauce. Will have to try this next time. Thank you for sharing!
Hi Sarah,
Thanks for the post! One thing I've been doing lately in making homemade pizza/spaghetti sauce is using beef broth. I mix tomato paste (love that you can get it in jars) with my homemade beef broth, to the thickness I like. Combined with other ingedients – sauteed vegetables, ground meats, perhaps some pureed liver, and seasonings – it's a great, nutrient-dense sauce! My family doesn't miss the canned tomatoes.
Beth, Thanks for the Tattler site, just placed an order. I love being able to reuse/re-purpose items. I have been using the plastic storage caps that Ball has had on the market for several years for storing/saving food. I have read somewhere else that you can reuse the regular canning lids, haven't tried yet but wonder if the BPA will have been leached out from the first use. Just wondering out loud(in print =}).
how did you take all your canned tomatoes back to the store? did you have a receipt? that never even occured to me…but i might have to try it. i have a dozen or so muir glen cans left in mypantry.
i switched to buying my grocery store (Hyvee) brand organic tomato sauce or marinera sauce…and i use that for pizza sauce. its YUM and a good price. and it only comes in glass jars. i actually use it in any recipe that calles for canned tomatoes or sauce or anything..the extra flavor just adds to the recipe.
Amy Love@Real Food Whole Health
Whole Foods will usually take any non-perishable food back without a receipt, and they will generally refund you for any produce that was spoiled (or that didn't last long), meat that wasn't at its peak (I've had to buy grassfed meat at WF on occasion in a pinch and once it wasn't good-at all) and any products that you didn't care for. I don't think most people exploit this, so they are able to offer excellent customer service (as they should for the cost of things there!) It is nice to know that if I buy a natural care product I don't like, I can bring it back, and not waste $15.
Stanley Fishman
Sarah, you are right, I am totally glass only in this area. There is just no way to know what they have put into other packaging, (especially since there is no labeling requirement for nanites) unless you contact the company and feel that you can trust what they tell you.
Very nice looking recipe I will try it, maybe with 1/4 tomato paste.
Sarah, the Healthy Home Economist
The healthfood store. Tropical Traditions also has them online.
Sarah, can you share your source for the Bionaturae bottled tomatoes?
Amy Love@Real Food Whole Health
You can buy them in bulk on Amazon.com as well….
Sarah, the Healthy Home Economist
Kate, I feel the same way. It is infuriating that these food manufacturers feel like they can toy with people's health by using dangerous chemicals in the packaging process.
Sarah, the Healthy Home Economist
Yes, that is what Stanley was referring to as I interpreted his comments.
So, by cartons do you mean Tetra Pak containers?
Even the so called 'BPA Free' cans can still by law have trace amounts of BPA. It just has to be lower than a certain amount.
Kate @ Modern Alternative Mama
Ah, this just makes me angry. Stupid moronic food industry that puts crap in our food.
Of course, it also makes me happy that I feed family well and we don't buy any of this crap. We just had homemade chicken nuggets (breaded in sprouted flour and fried in palm oil) — that THAT, food industry! lol.
Sarah Smith
One more BPA-free option is Pomi tomatoes, which I am able to buy at our natural foods co-op. I do buy the Bionaturae strained tomatoes and paste, but the Pomi is great whenever I would have used diced tomatoes. They have great flavor, and only one ingredient: tomatoes! Check out this link:
Amy Love@Real Food Whole Health
We buy Pomi too! I also sometimes use a store-bought spaghetti sauce (organic, with only tomatoes, olive oil, sea salt, and other herbs- NO sugar, HFCS, additives or preservatives, etc) or a fresh salsa- same high quality ingredients, with no additives at all. The jarred spaghetti sauce comes in very handy for a quick soup or chili (not really spaghetti since we don't do noodles) and the salsa is great for mixing with beans, making a quick paella or mixing with shredded roasted pastured chicken for taco wraps, etc. It's saved me a few nights and while I do prefer to make everything from scratch- this is a "better than" situation for us.
Beth here from Minneapolis. I'm the one who posted about BPA-free canning jar lids, which I'll copy here for reference. First, though, I have an idea for your quest for safe, delicious pizza sauce. I've been drying homegrown tomatoes in our dehydrator, and the flavor is out of this world! Imagine a sweet punch of sweet concentrated flavor, with enzymes in tact (unlike canning). Tasting one of these "tomato chips" is like a spoonful of extra sweet, extra delicious tomato paste. I bet they could easily be rehydrated and made into pizza sauce, or added in place of tomato paste to your strained tomatoes. Anyway, it's worth a try, and dehydrating is a great way to turn the summer's bounty into something that will last all winter! No cans, no nanites, no glass — I'm using those wax paper bags or folded parchment paper within a zip-lock bag for storage.
Here's the post about the lids:
Ball and Kerr canning jar lids are lined with BPA. I wrote to them to ask if and when they will make them without BPA and got no reply. Here's their website for others who may wish to voice concern:
[[Sounds like we need to write to the FDA as well]]
A call to Leifheit yesterday revealed that their canning lids also contain BPA in "trace" amounts. They're working on a BPA-free lid in the future. I think they fit wide mouth mason jars.
There IS a lid maker called TATTLER that has BPA-free lids that fit standard mason jars (regular and wide mouth), and, get this, they're re-usable with a lifetime guarantee. I don't know what they're made out of and would be interested to know if they are PVC-free dioxin-free, another serious concern. [[NOTE: Stanley checked and they are PVC- & dioxin-free – HOORAY]]
Here's their website:
Tattler sells them online in bulk (starting at 3 dozen for $21-$24), and they may also be purchased from a couple of retailers listed on their site.
Opinions differ on the extent to which BPA leaches into food if the food doesn't touch the lid. For me, I'd rather take out the guesswork and forgo it completely.
Sarah, the Healthy Home Economist
Farmgirl Cyn, yes home canning is great but you have to be careful about that as the home canning lids have BPA too, from what I understand. Someone posted about a source for BPA free home canning lids on that August 31, 2010 BPA Update blog I wrote that is linked in above if you want to check it out.
Mama G
Farmgirl Cyn,
Bionaturae does sell tomato paste in glass jars.
Farmgirl Cyn
Sarah…What about home canning?
I have just canned some tomato sauce/puree from the organic Roma tomatoes from our CSA. I plan on doing some marinara sace also. Home canning has GOT to be cheaper than anything I can buy from the health food store.
And yesterday I dried 4 trays of the Roma's for packing in herbed olive oil.
I also just wash some and throw them in freezer bags and pop them in the freezer, but I am pretty much out of room in there.
I think I would just buy tomato paste (do they sell it in a jar?) as it takes a mess of tomatoes to get a decent amount of paste!


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Try not to let the considerable star power of Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby) and Antonio Banderas (Femme Fatale) lure you in. The Code (formerly known as Thick as Thieves) is a straight-to-DVD thriller, and it never manages to rise above that vibe once during the entirety of its 103-minute running time.
Freeman plays Keith Ripley, an art thief who has managed to elude the police for decades. He's getting ready to pull off what may be the biggest job of his career: stealing two immensely valuable Faberge eggs from a museum. In order to do this, he's going to need some assistance. He recruits Gabriel Martin (Banderas), a reasonably gifted jewel thief who just might be ready to bring his game to the next level. While the pair pieces together their grand scheme, Gabriel begins conducting a passionate affair with Ripley's Goddaughter (a fact that makes Ripley none-too-happy). As you might expect, once the games of theft begin, so do the usual plot twists and double-crosses.
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The dialogue here is particularly overwritten, unfortunately choosing to overemphasize just about everything anyone says. As such, many of the conversations sound as if they were penned by Lt. Commander Data of Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Sometimes I just need to feel the rush…the juice, the thrill, the excitement of doing something I shouldn't be doing." The film is also guilty of a trap that bad writers frequently fall into, forcing characters to say things they would not normally say in order to bring the audience up to speed on the plot. This particularly applies to the police investigator played by Robert Forster (Jackie Brown), who is agonizingly forced to utter every single thought that crosses his mind regardless of whether or not it is appropriate to do so.
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This is really something our Politicians should read. I know it will be hard (very very hard) for them to digest and implement (even 5%) but still I would want them to read ... just to realise what a mess they have created.
The book is a thorough analysis of the problems plagueing the country and the good thing is that it does not stop at the rhetoric. It goes one step ahead and recommends concrete action steps (real practical ones and not theoretical ones) to improve the situation.
How feasible are these recomendations .... well, I think some IAS officers, Honest and Able Politicians and the likes of Abdul Kalam might be able to throw light on that. To me, most of it seemed pretty do'able (except of course the opposition from Politicians since they would begin to lose their discretionary powers that enable them to be corrupt)
Reading a non-fiction at times boring as lots of description, analysis with technical terms and jargon. I found this book interesting.
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Easy and quick read
Author makes it a point to mention that book is a blue print
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though you can find some analysis with words that are normally used, I didn't get bored with the same
Hope is the key of the book, reform oriented in the current system
Pavan Varma comes up with an absurd theory which seeks to stereotype the Hindu religion and millions of its followers as morally loose and 'corruption friendly.'
Please read the elaborate response to Pavan Varma's theory on Vijayvaanidotcom before purchasing this book.
The books give lots of practical ideas to improve the system in our nation. The books also shows up the deep understanding of Author. The varied statistics given for information or support a fact interesting.
This book takes the very unbiased view of the overall situation and what steps are required in the field of Governance, reforms, economy, security etc. Author has explained various alternatives and how critical it is for us to get into action mode to come out of this crisis.
While buying this, I first felt that the author is just riding on brand "Chanakya" to sell this. But within the first few pages you will realize that it not only pin points the present day problems for India, but also provides a comprehensive and realistic agenda on how to bring about change.
I got really inspired reading this book. If we could implement even half of the things written here, India could easily overtake China as soon as in the next 5 years!
For me the favourite solution was to solve the coalition politics mess without tampering our constitution.
Who knows, if not the exact same solutions, chanakya would have clearly pointed out what problems take priority as the author very clearly does here.
excellent work by Pavan varma
our policymakers shud implement d solutions given in this book.
it forced me to think deeply about our country and d crisis we r facing..can't express my feelings but one thing for sure .."u will enjoy d solutions " of present day pblms.


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Soldiers of the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, conducted fire support certifications throughout April at Area X and East Range to ensure the indirect fire capabilities of the brigade met the establish standard.
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Almost everything everyone owns in America has spent at least some time in a truck. As such, the health of the trucking industry is a pretty reliable indicator of the health of the economy.
In July, NAFTA Class 8 truck (basically heavy duty trucks) orders collapsed 12,900 new orders were booked for trucks, short of the consensus of analysts, who were expecting 16,000-17,000.
And it's not just seasonality that played a role. Nigel Coe, an equity analyst covering multi-industry stocks for Morgan Stanley, alerted clients in a recent note that "the large 23% drop to 12,900 was far greater than the 11% median decline observed for the June/July period since 1996, and that, to make matters worse, the disappointing July print "came on the back of a larger than normal seasonal step-down in June, when Class 8 orders fell 7% M/M to 16,690 worse than the typical 3% M/M decline."
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Would it have anything to do with the new engine regulations?
The world economy is falling quick. It will not be long now.
Pair this news with FedEx saying their Q3 sales/shipments forecast being reduced.....
the tea leaves are starting to show a pattern.
So, with a sharp decline in agricultural production trucks sit there unused, suffer no wear, and the owners don't order new ones.
Next, tires, I see a major drop off in tire sales as well as ploughs, harvesters (for a nonexistent wheat crop), as well as increased farm bankruptcies!
Buddy of mine has a BIG Dodge diesel truck, 4 doors, roomy and can pull the largest 5th wheel they make. It's loaded, turbo, specialty engine computer for efficiency, heavy duty transmission.
He carpools with me, because at $4.31 a gallon for diesel, he's paying upwards of $250 a month in fuel. His goal is to sell this rig, and get a little Tacoma or Tundra - not only will gasoline be saving him big, but the fact that his current rig gets far worse mileage than most Tacoma or Tundra trucks - he'll slash his fuel bill by close to 75%.
With fuel costs high, and promising to go higher (with no end in sight) - why would anyone who doesn't absolutely NEED a big truck, consider a big truck?
I see rising unemployment, declining producer prices, and further declines in Fed Ex for at least a quarter. Then, since these things tend to happen in a quantum fashion, they'll have a period of slow growth followed by another quantum drop.
O has driven the US Economy into another recession.
Wrong type of truck my FRiend. Class 8 trucks are Kenworths and Peterbuilts. The new engine regs for consumer vehicles didn't play into this.
Who needs trucks when we have unicorns...
Haven't used the mower in two months.
Currently, in the Midwest, the main agricultural vehicles getting any use are water trucks.
The only thing unicorns haul is ass and that's at the race track.
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This is a larger picture here than a size contest of our neighbors "dually" in the drive way.
The similarities between this depression and the the great depression are eerie. There was also a great drought 4 years into the last one. The difference this time is there were already lots of government relief programs going on during normal times. Imagine the same 2008 crisis with not food stamps, welfare, and other programs. If the government measured unemployment the same way they did in the 30's then we would be seeing similar numbers to the great depression. And the government is trying the same policies of spending to remedy the situation.
Perhaps knarf, but bookings for freight have been down for several months now. Mrs. RQSR is a CSR for a National Truckload Carrier. A BIG carrier I might add, and this time of year is usually quite busy for the overall freight industry.
We've been aware the company isn't purchasing new equipment for awhile now. Most of the time it's an ongoing process for such a large company, but they aren't purchasing ANY new equipment until the economy warrants such.
The other big difference is the family structure.
No major Class 8 engine regs changes for 2012/2013. I believe 2014 is next set.
China has them on roughly the same cycle. It's a solar phenomenon.
Without getting myself in trouble, let's just say August was a little better for orders (this article is a month old).
I work in a truck factory and orders didn't get better. We're geared to build 150 a day but orders are at about 72 a day and our backlog is almost gone from when we had good orders a year ago.
As they say I'm Texas, the bigger the belt buckle, the smaller the d!$&.
Same may be true of trucks.
The big freight fleets are mere shadows of themselves on the roads now. Trucking relies much more on owner/operators like myself these days. Most of my contacts are holding on to their old rigs longer now due to the uncertainty in the business.
I bought a new International last year, and will hold on to it for at least 5 years.
unless things have changed you will find a class 7 (straight trucks/rv's/buses) engine in that dodge.
When dodge first started using the 5.9 diesel the truck could get mid to upper 20's to the gallon.
Now, all smoged up I hear it's in the teens.
I just read the same thing about truck sales falling fast in Germany.
I'm happy with my Girlie-man truck. I've nothing to prove - besides, I'm married. Although, in full disclosure, I have to say that she hated my '95 Toyota pickup and can tolerate my Tacoma.
If I had it to do over again, I'd step up to the Tundra because the quad-cab is more comfortable, and they only get about 1 mpg less than my Taco; plus they can pull most campers that are too big for my little V6 Taco.
I have a Ford Ranger with 170,000 miles. Thinking of getting a small SUV or Toyota Tacoma in a couple of years. Also thinking of the VW Jetta Sportwagon TDI that gets 49 highway mileage.
Tacos are nice - very dependable and there are tons of folks who are really into them. I get ~18/20 in city and highway with my V6. It's a quad-cab, so I can haul around 4 adults (2 in reasonable comfort).
If I have to nit-pick; it's a little under-powered for pulling a camper any significant distance; even with the tow kit.
But, getting 275 miles on a tank, and filling said tank for $45-50 is nice.
That narrows you down to N.C., Ohio or Texas:-) The order intake for August did get better than July (16,200 ), for the numbers that are referenced in the article. I know the build volumes for August and September are crap though, with reductions and shut down days. Not saying it is going to get much better. I think the increase is only equivalent to 40-50/day from July. Not enough to move the needle in the current market.
2007-2009 was really hard for the truck markets in general. Thought we were going to get a pickup coming out of last year. Things have tanked in the last quarter though. Lots of smaller fleets didn't make it.
If the government measured unemployment the same way they did in the 30s then we would be seeing similar numbers to the great depression.-—————
We already are seeing numbers 'similar' to the Great Depression, even with Obama and the corrupt media's false accounting.
23% ...(who knows what the number is of those that aren't even counted?)
If the government measured unemployment the same way they did in the 30s then we would be seeing similar numbers to the great depression.-—————
We already are seeing numbers 'similar' to the Great Depression, even with Obama and the corrupt media's false accounting.
23% ...(who knows what the number is of those that aren't even counted?)
The class 8 sales as precurser to the rest of the economy has held true for over 25 years that I have experianced and does not bode well for the next year or so. I'm not worried because of my seniority, if they Jonesville the plant I'll be one of the ones sweeping the floors when they pull the tooling out.
Interesting although trucks can and do last a long time. I still see a lot of Peterbuilts, KW's, etc that were made from the mid 1950's through the 1970's still in service. The Peterbuilt they used in "Duel" (1972 movie) is still a common sight and it is from the 1955/60+ era. One of my neighbors, he still uses the same 195's era Chevy dump truck that he had before I was born and I'm 46. I still see the message behind the article though that means the economy ain't too good and people are holding onto their old trucks (and cars too). I know one man who is getting his frame welded up and fixed for a 1991 Buick instead of buying a new car, it is cheaper for him to do that. There is another man who's 1995 Pontiac's engine blew up and he had a 1979 Plymouth Volaire (or Dodge Aspen) he hasn't fired up in over 15 years. He just needed a new alternator and he got it going. He can't afford to fix the Pontiac or get a new car so the 1979 Volaire will have to do.
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Basic Direct Access Method, or BDAM is an access method for IBM's OS/360 and successors computer operating systems on System/360 and later mainframes. BDAM "consists of routines used in retrieving data from, and storing data onto, direct access devices."[1]:p.5 BDAM is available on OS/360, OS/VS2, MVS, z/OS, and related high-end operating systems.
Basic, in IBM terminology, indicates a lower-level access method that deals with data sets in terms of physical blocks and does not provide either read-ahead, called anticipatory buffering, or synchronization — that is, the user program has to explicitly wait for completion of each input/output event.[2]:p.31
With BDAM, "the programmer can directly store and retrieve a block by specifying either its actual device address, its relative position within a data set (relative block number), or the relative track within a data set at which the system is to begin a search.[2]:p.63
BDAM provides no index or structure to the file except as programmed by the application. In many applications, a hashing or randomizing function may be used to assign the block address based on a key in the data. If physical keys are used, the key of the last record within the block must be written as the key for that block.
The BDAM application program interface can be compared with the interface offered by open, read, write and close calls (using file handles) in other operating systems such as Unix and Windows.
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Disk addresses[edit]
BDAM accepts disk addresses as either actual device addresses, as relative track addresses, or as relative block numbers.
Device addresses are eight byte fields in the form MBBCCHHR. All subfields are binary numbers.[4]
- M is the extent number for files with more than one extent — non-contiguous files.
- BB is zero. Previously this indicated the bin on an IBM 2321 Data Cell.
- CC is the absolute cylinder number on the device.
- HH is the track (head) number.
- R is the record number on the track. Record zero contains control information for the track and can not be used.
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Relative track addresses are three byte fields in the form TTR. All subfields are binary numbers.
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- R is the record number on the track.
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- ^ IBM System/360 Operating System Basic Direct Access Method Program Logic Manual (PDF). IBM. July 1967. Y28-6617-3.
- ^ a b c IBM System/360 Operating System Data Management (PDF). IBM. April 1966. C28-6537-1.
- ^ CICS and BDAM, IBM infocenter
- ^ IBM Corporation. "Executing Direct Access Programs". Retrieved September 23, 2012.
- ^ OS Data Management Services Guide (PDF). IBM. July 1973. GC26-3746-2.
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- Introduction to IBM Direct-Access Storage Devices and Organization Methods (PDF). IBM. February 1974. GC20-1649-9.


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Prague British School (PBS) is a British international school in Prague, Czech Republic. It an independent English language, multinational day school, providing British education for children aged between 20 months and 19 years. It has two campuses, the Kamýk campus in Prague 4,[1] and the Vlastina campus in Liboc, Prague 6.[2]
In 1996, the school introduced the IGCSE programme. The school, established as the British International School Prague (BISP) in 1992, changed its name to Prague British School in 2006.[3] BISP had 500 registered students at the time.
PBS pupils up to Year 9 follow the National Curriculum for England. Pupils in Years 10 and 11 follow the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE), followed by the International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma in years 12 and 13.
The Prague British School has two main sites:
- Kamýk in Prague 4 is a large site located in the south east of Prague. Since 2004, it has been the main school site, housing a Foundation Stage Unit, Primary and Senior School and the school administration. Approximately 550 students attend the Kamýk site. Since 2004, it has undergone extensive reconstruction, including the building of new outdoor sports facilities, a theatre and a new dining room and kitchen, a new Senior School library and multimedia center.
- Vlastina in Prague 6, north west of Prague, has Foundation Stage Unit and Primary School only. Graduates then transfer to the senior school at Kamýk to continue. The site has operated since 2008. It has approximately 250 students.
The Council of British International Schools (COBIS) describes PBS as "an established school of quality and distinction" adding "All teaching staff are highly qualified and experienced graduate teachers, with relevant experience of the National Curriculum, IGCSE and IB programmes."[4] The British Embassy in Prague actively takes part in various PBS activities.[citation needed]
- ^ "Kamyk." Prague British School. Retrieved on 20 February 2015. "Address: K Lesu 558/2, Prague 4"
- ^ "Vlastina." Prague British School. Retrieved on 20 February 2015. "Address: Vlastina 19, Prague 6"
- ^ "PBS School History". Retrieved 21 June 2013.
- ^ Council of British International Schools: Prague British School
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"If it happened in the next 10 years I would be very happy," said Tong, adding that a unified regulator would improve the information flow between the different bodies, reduce confusion, improving the service to the public and the industry, as well as cutting costs.
Tong has presented a motion to LegCo calling for review of Hong Kong's regulatory framework, but he is sceptical that anything will come from the effort. "There are so many vested interest groups. I can't see the government moving forward dramatically," he said, without providing any concrete details. Tong then went on to call on the assembled investment fund managers to use their influence to bring about change. "As a legislator I have few political powers," he said. "The government will pay more heed to voices from the commercial sector."
Debate about appropriate regulatory structures has intensified following former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's admission it had been a mistake to think banks could entirely self-regulate. In Hong Kong the issue has been aggravated by the minibonds saga - where retail investors have lost money on credit-linked structures. The minibond debacle highlighted the grey areas between the responsibility of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) to protect investors, said Tong, adding that Hong Kong is lagging behind its peers around the world that have already moved towards regulatory consolidation.
According to Tong, the SFC has pointed the finger of blame at the HKMA as the regulator responsible for mis-selling, while in turn the HKMA has pointed to the SFC's responsibility for approving documents, including product brochures. "The losses occurred without warning and left investors without remedy," said Tong. Hong Kong also has an insurance industry regulator, the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI), and a pensions regulator, the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority (MPFA). "We're in danger of falling between two stools - or in our case, four stools," said Tong.
Tong questioned whether the OCI and the MPFA were able to keep pace with market developments so as to protect investor interests in an effective manner.
Tong said an obvious problem with having multiple regulators is that the boundaries between institutions are becoming blurred, with banks offering services such as finance management, while insurance companies are starting to sell and manage financial products, making the environment more challenging for the regulators. "With a market-specific machine you cannot manage cross-market activity," he said.
Moreover, customers buying the same financial products from differently regulated institutions do not always get the same information provided about the product. "You can have different customers, in different markets, getting entirely different treatment, but the risks they have is the same," Tong said. He added that different regulators have different chains of reporting, with the HKMA reporting to the financial secretary and the OCI on matters of complaints to the Insurance Claims Complaints Bureau, while the SFC is independent. This means that, when complaining, consumers also face a spread in the type of treatment and response they will get.
Tong believes a central bank monitoring banks alongside a consolidated regulator to watch over the promotion and sales of financial products would be the right structure for Hong Kong, adding that Singapore has already achieved this and China is moving in that direction.
"You have to ask, is it really such a drastic change. [If regulators are kept as they are] you need a reliable communication network, so the regulators constantly talk to and agree with each other," said Tong. "Now, is that more difficult? To my mind, yes, given the tendency of [individual regulators] to see their own things as their own kingdom."
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