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Tuesday 27 January 2015
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Date of Meeting:
SolRX Sunscreens
Requested anonymity
SolRX Australia
Sections Found Justified:
Act section 42C; Code sections 4(2)(a), 4(2)(d), 4(2)(f), 4(6)(b), 4(6)(c), 6(3)
Sections Found Not Justified:
Publication of retractions; withdrawal of advertisement; withdrawal of representations
Panel Determination:
Complaint 2011-11-011 SolRX Sunscreens
Meeting held 16 February 2012
Complaint summary
Requested anonymity
SolRX Australia
Subject matter of complaint
Website advertisement
Type of determination
Sections of the Code, Regulations or Act found to have been
Act section 42C
Code sections 4(2)(a), 4(2)(d), 4(2)(f), 4(6)(b), 4(6)(c), 6(3)
Sections of the Code, Regulations or Act found
not to have been breached
Publication of retractions
Withdrawal of representations
Withdrawal of advertisement
* only sections of the Code, Act, or Regulations that were part of the complaint or were raised by the Panel are listed
The advertisement(s)
The complaint concerned an internet advertisement published at the website
The complaint related to three distinct elements in the advertisement: a reproduction of a page from the July 2008 edition of
Fishing World
magazine, a brochure that could be downloaded, and webpages describing SolRX as "the ultimate sunscreen".
The page from
Fishing World
magazine consisted of a testimonial that included statements such as "I burn really easily thanks to my fair skin" and "usually I applied it at least twice a day, although I'm pretty sure one application in the morning probably would've last[ed] all day".
The webpages included claims such as "SolRX is not just another sunscreen", and "water and sweat removes the average water resistant sunscreen after 40 minutes of activity", as well as testimonials. One testimonial was stated to be from the President of "Melanoma Patients Australia"; another was stated to be from "Dr Geoff Wilson". Other testimonials included the words "it's oil free, no fragrance and no titanium dioxide which is most important. Recent studies have linked titanium dioxide to certain cancers", "I didn't get any burning over a 6 hour ride in a very harsh sun".
An excerpt of the advertisement can be viewed in the relevant Appendix to this determination.
The product(s)
The advertisement promoted a range of SolRX sunscreens including Waterblock 30+ 4hr Water & Sweat Resistant Sunscreen, Sport 30+ 4hr Water & Sweat Resistant Sunscreen, Spray Dry Sport 30+ 4hr Water & Sweat Resistant Sunscreen, Rubber Ducky Children's Sunscreen 30+ 4hr Water & Sweat Resistant Sunscreen, and Lip Protection 30+ 4hr, as well as SolRX Aloe After Sun Gel.
The advertiser(s)
The advertiser was SolRX Australia.
The complaint
The complainant requested anonymity.
The complainant expressed the following concerns about the advertisement:
That it could lead consumers to "believe they do not need to reapply every 2-3 hours as per the norm for sunscreens in Australia", in breach of sections 4(2)(a) and 4(2)(f) of the Code;
That it breached section 4(2)(d) of the Code because of words such as "I'm too conscious of cheap and nasty chemicals major brand companies put into their products" and "little did I know that the one supplied to us was in fact more harmful than beneficial... recent studies have linked titanium dioxide to certain cancers";
That it breached section 4(6)(b) and 4(6)(c) of the Code because of implied endorsements by a healthcare professional, "Dr Geoff Wilson", and Melanoma Patients Australia; and,
That it breached section 6(3) of the Code because it did not include certain mandatory statements.
The advertiser's response to the complaint
In relation to the material from
Fishing World
magazine, the advertiser stated that it was "an unsolicited journalistic review done on the author and magazine's own initiative" and that they were "under the belief that any journalistic reviews were acceptable".
The advertiser stated that all testimonials would be edited to remove any words stating that other sunscreens were more harmful than good, and to address other concerns raised in the complaint.
Findings of the Panel
As a preliminary matter, the Panel noted that the material reproduced from
Fishing World
magazine was, insofar as it was reproduced as part of the website advertisement, advertising material published by SolRX Australia.
The Panel also noted that the testimonials contained in the advertisement were, insofar as they were reproduced as parts of the website advertisement, advertising material published by SolRX Australia.
Section 4(2)(a) of the Code prohibits representations that are "likely to arouse unwarranted and unrealistic expectations of product effectiveness". Section 4(2)(f) of the Code prohibits representations that "encourage inappropriate or excessive use" of therapeutic goods.
There were several representations within the advertisement that conveyed that the advertised products could be relied upon without any reapplication for extended periods, such as periods of six hours or an entire day, and that it could encourage consumers to use the products for extended periods without reapplication. The Panel was satisfied that the advertisement therefore breached sections 4(2)(a) and 4(2)(f) of the Code, and this aspect of the complaint was justified.
Section 4(2)(d) of the Code prohibits advertisements which "abuse the trust or exploit the lack of knowledge of consumers or contain language which could bring about fear or distress."
The Panel was satisfied that the advertisement contained representations that abused the trust and exploited the lack of knowledge of consumers, and contained language which could bring about fear or distress. These included the representations that the product could be used without reapplication for extended periods, as well as the representations that other sunscreen products or their ingredients were "linked to certain cancers" or were "more harmful than beneficial".
This aspect of the complaint was therefore justified.
Section 4(6)(b) of the Code prohibits representations that therapeutic goods are endorsed by healthcare professionals, including persons who "are healthcare professionals by way of their representation in advertisements". The Panel was satisfied that in referring to "Dr Geoff Wilson", without qualifying information, the advertisement represented the advertised products to be endorsed by a healthcare professional, in breach of section 4(6)(b) of the Code.
Section 4(6)(b) and 4(60(c) of the Code also prohibits representations that therapeutic goods are endorsed by "bodies... that represent the interests of health consumers" unless certain other information is included. The Panel was satisfied that the reference to "Melanoma Patients Australia" contained in the advertisement breached this provision.
These aspects of the complaint were therefore justified.
Section 6(3) of the Code sets out certain mandatory statements that must be included in advertisements for therapeutic goods. It sets out special requirements for "direct marketing and Internet marketing." The relevant provisions for the present complaint were requirements that the advertisement include (in addition to the product name and a reference to its indications for use):
a full list of the active ingredients of the products;
any mandatory warning statements for the goods;
any mandatory advisory statements required to be included in the product label, prominently displayed on each page that features the products;
words to the effect of "use only as directed".
The advertisement did not appear to include these mandatory statements. This aspect of the complaint was therefore justified.
The Panel also noted, without making any formal finding, that the advertisement appeared likely to breach sections 4(5), 4(7), and 5 of the Code in ways that were corollary to the breaches of other provisions already noted.
The Panel requests SolRX Australia, in accordance with subregulation 42ZCAI(1) of the
Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990
to withdraw the advertisement from further publication;
to withdraw any representations that other sunscreens or their ingredients may be harmful, may be more harmful than beneficial, are linked to cancers, or may cause cancer, together with any representations implying or stating that the advertised product may be used for more than four hours without reapplication;
not to use the representations in (b) above in any other advertisement*;
where the representation has been provided to other parties such as retailers or website publishers, and where there is a reasonable likelihood that the representation has been published or is intended to be published by such parties, to advise those parties that the representation(s) should be withdrawn;
to arrange for publication on the website www.solrx.com.au of a retraction in the form of, and in accordance with, the conditions set out in the attachment to this determination; and,
within 14 days of being notified of this request, to provide evidence to the Panel of its compliance, including a response in writing that they will comply with the Panel's sanctions, and where appropriate, supporting material such as copies of instructions to advertising agents or publishers, or correspondence with retailers and other third party advertisers.
The advertiser's attention is drawn to the provisions of sub-regulations 42ZCAI(3) and (4) which permit the Panel to make recommendations to the Secretary in the event of non-compliance with this request, including a recommendation that the inclusion of the goods on the Register be cancelled.
Dated 30 April 2012
For the Panel
Jason Korke
Appendix A:
Definitions and footnotes
In this determination, unless otherwise specified:
"the Act" means the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989;
"the Regulations" means the Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990;
"the Code" means the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code;
"the Register" means the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods;
"any other advertisement" appearing in sub-regulation 42ZCA1(1)(d) is not confined to advertisements in specified or broadcast media (in relation to which complaints may be made to the Panel under Regulation 42ZCAB). It should be noted that HTML metatags and other information which can be retrieved by internet search engines, whether or not it is ordinarily viewed directly by consumers, constitutes advertisement material.
*Under regulation 42ZCAI of the Regulations, the Panel may request that a representation not be used in any other advertisement unless the advertiser satisfies the Panel that the use of the representation would not result in a contravention of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989, the Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990 or the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code. Under the Panel's procedures, the Panel will not ordinarily give additional consideration to such a matter unless significant new material that was not available at the time of the Panel's determination has become available, or until at least 12 months have passed since the Panel's request was made.
Appendix B:
An advertisement is to appear on the homepage of the website
at the earliest booking opportunity.
A copy of the retraction advertisement, and the page on which it will be published, is to be provided to the Complaints Resolution Panel for approval before publication.
An advertisement for
SolRX sunscreen products, which we published on this website, should not have been published.
In the advertisement
we unlawfully made claims that our sunscreen products could be effective for extended periods without needing to be reapplied. This information was not consistent with the directions for use of the products, which must be reapplied at least every four hours. We also made claims that other sunscreens and sunscreen ingredients could be "more harmful than beneficial" and were "linked to certain cancers."
A complaint about the advertisement was recently upheld by the Complaints Resolution Panel.
We provided no evidence to support the claims, and the Panel found that the claims were unlawful and abused the trust of consumers, in breach of the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code.
The Panel therefore requested that SolRX Australia publish this retraction.
The full text of the Panel's determination can be found at:
No other copy should be included in the advertisement.
website front page, so that it can be viewed without scrolling the page
No less than 500 pixels wide and 200 pixels high
Arial or Helvetica
Red on a white background
The letters should be no less than 20 pixels in height, and should be no smaller than any other body text on the page
Arial or Helvetica
Red on a white background
The letters should be no less than 14 pixels in height, and should be no smaller than any other body text on the page
Text Box:
Red on a white background
90 days
In the case of website retractions, the retraction is to be presented in ordinary and valid HTML 4 in the body of the page. Pop-ups, Flash objects, or images are not acceptable formats for website retractions.
Appendix C:
Excerpt of the Advertisement
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Whoever thought unit conversions could be fun? Convert is a gorgeous unit converter and calculator that makes conversions for everything from money and time to air pressure and energy. It's a lot more useful than you'd think. When cooking, for instance, if you're trying to triple a recipe and need to convert tablespoons into cups, you can simply punch some numbers into this app. Or if you're traveling to Japan and need to convert dollars into Yen, this should come in handy, too. Convert is a buck in the App Store. Download Travel and Outdoors.
Sending postcards can be a real drag, especially when you're trying to take it easy on vacation. Forget about wasting money on a generic-looking postcard from the museum and just download Postman. With the app you can create your own postcard using photos taken during your trip and then send it off instantly. That spares you the trouble of blowing money on postage, too. Download Postman.
Red Laser
Everyone's familiar with this scenario: You're browsing a brick-and-mortar retail store, and you spot something you'd like to buy. But we all know you can probably find a better deal online, without paying tax, too. Red Laser's a great app to help you check. It's a barcode scanner that brings up online deals super fast. Beats the heck out of standing there and manually searching shopping sites with the iPhone's web browser. The app costs $2. Download Red Laser.
Not all gadgets turn us into lazy couch potatoes. The iPhone proves that with the help of RunKeeper. It's a nifty app for tracking your progress for runs, bike rides, hikes, skiing and more. The app tells you total distance, time and current pace, and when you're done it uploads your data to your account on RunKeeper's website. The $10 version, RunKeeper Pro, has audio cues; the free version is cueless. Download RunKeeper.
Taxi Magic
Cabs can be as hard to get as a high-paying position in the journalism industry, but TaxiMagic pulls off the miracle of getting you a cab late at night in San Francisco. The app automatically loads with nearby cab services, and you can even use Taxi Magic to calculate a fare estimate for your destination and pay for the ride when you get there. Good news: It's free. Download Taxi Magic.
We lurve public radio, and the KCRW app streams all three KCRW channels: On Air, Music and News. It accompanies the streams with clean art, and there's also an Events button displaying music, news and arts happenings around time. Totally sweet for just a buck. Download KCRW.

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Armored in athletic gear and mitts galore, the Pittsburgh Pirates began teaching us ladies the precision of pitching and the biomechanics of batting during the 5th Annual "Baseball Basics for Women" event in Bradenton, Florida.
With MLB Opening Day less than a month away, it's every baseball fans favorite time of year. The time when every single team in the game still has a shot at being the best. As a woman who's loved the sport my entire life, I've noticed some differences between the sexes when it comes to the game.
Today was Opening Day in spring training in Sarasota, Florida. The Baltimore Orioles hosted the Toronto Blue Jays in a game that didn't count, an upbeat, cheerful -- even joyous -- occasion. Neither club has lost a game that counts in the standings. Everyone was in a good mood.
If you don't see me in spring training, hitting baseballs over the fence and signing autographs for adoring fans, it will be because I was recently on...
Florida invented spring training and hosted the first integrated baseball game. Here's an introduction to the Florida cities that take you out to the ballgames.
Ernie Banks' positive attitude was infectious. He learned that he could make everyone around him smile, and a lot more comfortable, by creating his own weather.
Look the players you've never heard of. Look at the non-roster invitees. Legitimate dreams are on the line in Lakeland. Look at players like Quintin Berry.
Anticipating the start of his third season with the White Sox, the young lefty has already made his statement: He is an asset.
Our date nights are worked around game nights; dinner out means a local sports bar, my eyes glued to the big screen. Vacationing during the postseason doesn't even come up for discussion.
Baseball has been another parent, teaching my son more than I can about good sportsmanship, grace under pressure, patience, and respect for others.
I am sick and tired of hearing how the Mets are going to be awful this year. Spring training is supposed to bring about a time of positivity and happiness.
Even the predictably dreadful Pittsburgh Pirates seem energized this spring.
Spring training is the best. Everyone is hopeful, everyone has a chance -- except the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Spring training has a completely different vibe than the regular baseball season. The parks are much smaller, the crowds are more subdued; it's a quieter, more contemplative experience.
Get yourself ready for dreams and heartbreak. It's spring, time to be a kid again, because baseball is back: so order a bag of peanuts and a Coke and settle in.


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14 And from the bottom upon the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit. | 14 From the gutter on the ground up to the lower ledge it is two cubits high and a cubit wide, and from the smaller ledge up to the larger ledge it is four cubits high and a cubit wide. |
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Criterion Files #33: Lies Tell the Truth in 'Nanook of the North'
Criterion Files By Adam Charles on March 23, 2011 | Comments (2)The documentary feature has a considerably long history of a, most likely, mis-distinction in terms of what it actually is. To many, a documentary picture is something to be believed as veritable truth; or, if not wholly truthful then certainly not a depiction of blatant falsities. It's the capturing of life, edited to entertain or to inform (if done well then it should be both). The capturing of life portion of the formula may be the most important element in terms of relaying to the audience that they are seeing some semblance of truth. It may have been cut to highlight the area the filmmaker felt most pertinent to their, or cut to remove the section most damaging, but the moment captured and shown was spontaneous and real.
When things can begin to gt interesting is when the spontaneity, or believability in the events onscreen come into question. It's almost as if a perceived trust has been attacked. Even if that trust was jeopardized for the betterment of the experience; like telling your significant other their hair is breathtaking so you can both enjoy the party and you just hope that good/honest friend of yours doesn't show up to tell her the truth and burst the bubble of fun.
What's even more interesting is how the film credited as the first documentary feature was created on just such a lie. With that we present this week's Criterion Files entry Nanook of the North.
Culture Warrior: A Case for the Non-Fiction Best Picture
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on November 16, 2010 | Comments (3)With the release of Pixar's Up, last year saw a great deal of conversation surrounding the ghettoization of animated movies at major awards shows. This debate resulted in something of a minor, qualified victory for animated cinema of 2009, as Up was the first animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture since Beauty and the Beast, but then again it sat amongst a crowded bevy of nine fellow nominations, and animated films remain unthreatening to their live action competitors because of the separate-but-unequal Best Animated Feature Category. I'd like to take this space to advocate for the big-category acceptance of yet another marginalized and underappreciated category around awards time: non-fiction films.
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In the case of its cars, and specifically the Kizashi, the answer there would probably be, "Because I bought a Subaru." The Kizashi's angle - engaging performance, reasonable price, sharp interior, all-wheel drive - is shared by the Legacy. Pricing is pretty close. The volume-model Kizashi SE is $22,234, but the decked-out SLS with navigation (which includes leather and the Rockford stereo) costs $27,484. That's for a front-wheel-drive four-cylinder model. Meanwhile, a Subaru Legacy 3.6R Premium - minus leather and a big stereo but with all-wheel drive and a 256-hp boxer six-cylinder - goes for $26,690. And the Legacy definitely can't be painted with the "soulless transportation appliance" brush. Granted, Suzuki provides a longer powertrain warranty (seven years or 100,000 miles to the Subaru's five-year/60,000-mile plan), but the Subaru is right on top of it in most important ways.
But whether the Kizashi is better than a Legacy is beside the point. The major revelation is that Suzuki now builds a car that's worthy of that discussion, a car that seriously makes a case for itself in an arena packed with established competitors. Farewell, Forenza, and pass the Kizashi.
2010 Suzuki Kizashi
base price $19,734
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tires Dunlop SP Sport
tire size 215/60VR-16
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wheelbase 106.3 in
track f/r 61.6/61.6 in
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The next great baseball movie?
David SchoenfieldFun piece from Rob Neyer at SB Nation on what the next great baseball movie might be, following the success of "42." He asks different people for their ideas -- Bob Costas says Barry Bonds (good luck finding an audience for that one), Allen Barra sug...
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Rob NeyerThe list of great designated hitters is a short one, mostly because there haven't been that many long-time DHs.
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Rob NeyerDespite being a truly great hitter, Edgar Martinez falls short when it comes to Hall of Fame consideration.
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If this is it, Edgar painting a terrific final picture
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Rob NeyerIn comparing the careers of Frank Thomas and Edgar Martinez, Thomas comes out the more productive player.
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Just coming in: Hillary Clinton has had her passport files looked at as well as Barck Obama. More here.
Just coming in: Hillary Clinton has had her passport files looked at as well as Barck Obama. More here.
Anyone surprised by Republican dirty tricks?
It looks like the Republicans will go to any end to insure they can maintain control of The White House and finish, under George W. McCain, the looting of the government and economy so efficiently started by George W. "Whirling Dervish Idiot" Bush, seven years ago.
Hmmm… Deja vu all over again for Hillary. I haven't seen an article or heard a news report yet that recounts that Hillary isn't the first Clinton this happened to, so I did a quick newspaper database search to turn up literally hundreds of articles about the incident. The editorial below, which appeared in Newsday, covers it pretty well.
A U.S. Passport To Better Ethics Renew special prosecutor law
Newsday (Melville, NY) – December 26, 1992
The quiet appointment Dec. 14 of an independent prosecutor to investigate the unorthodox campaign-season search through Bill Clinton 's passport files is not only the proper course; it's also clear testimony why the nation still needs the Watergate-era law – which expired the very next day.
When word of the pre-election, nighttime searches first leaked out, they were portrayed as a "routine" matter in which StateDepartment officials sought to respond to requests for disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. But after an inquiry by StateDepartment Inspector General Sherman M. Funk, it became clear that this was instead an orchestrated, Bush administration effort to try to turn up damaging information on Clinton .
The inspector general said top White House officials knew of the searches and, at the very least, acquiesced. That's when the Justice Department took over, conducting a preliminary inquiry into possible criminal wrongdoing at the White House and recommending, rightly, that an independent prosecutor be named.
Under the strictures of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, there was no other course. The White House staffers involved are covered by the statute, which was created precisely for situations in which it's impossible for an administration to investigate itself. What if the whole matter had been put over for the incoming Clinton administration to pursue? Again, there would be the appearance of political motive.
No further convincing should be needed after this textbook case. Congress must re-authorize the act when it returns, and Clinton should approve it, as promised.
This is a joke. Democrats complaining someone looked at their records. Hillary illegally "looked at" several hundred FBI records on Republicans in the Filegate scandal.
John McCin's records were looked at as well if you read the story.
The dirty trick is by the TU reporters who made up the phony headline on the blog to make it sound like only Clinton was affected.
Of course I put this on the blog earlier but the comment was "supressed" by the TU staff.
The Bushites are illegally spying on everyone, including you and me.
This time that they got caught, they blame it on curious contractors.
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Hazard Mitigation
What is Hazard Mitigation?
How do I rebuild Safer, Stronger, and Smarter?
Are there videos demonstrating how to build a safe room or how to "harden" my home?
What is Mitigation Planning?
Where do I find out about the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)?
Are there any environmental or historic preservations considerations I should be aware of before rebuilding?
Are there any Best Practice stories or examples of homes that survived the tornadoes?
What is the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), Floodplain Management and why should it matter?
What is "Biggert-Waters" and where can I get more information?
Are there NFIP Publications available?
Hazard Mitigation is the effort to reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of future disasters by taking action now—before the next disaster—to reduce human and financial consequences later (analyzing risk, reducing risk, insuring against risk). Effective mitigation requires that we all understand local risks, address the hard choices, and invest in long-term community well-being. Without mitigation actions, we jeopardize our safety, financial security, and self-reliance.
FEMA Building Sciences - Rebuilding Safer, Stonger and Smarter
FEMA has multiple publications with information to help you and communities rebuild to be more resilient and disaster resistant to include Safe Room Resources. In addition to the publications listed below, visit 2013 Tornadoes – Building Science Activities & Resources to view FEMA Building Science Branch's flyers, recovery advisories, technical bulletins, and fact sheets. Please check back often to view new material.
Taking Shelter From the Storm: Building a Safe Room Inside Your Home or Small Business (FEMA P-320) - Having a safe room in your home or small business can help provide "near-absolute protection" for you and your family or your employees from injury or death caused by the dangerous forces of extreme winds.
Design and Construction Guidance for Community Safe Rooms (FEMA P-361) - This publication presents design, construction, and operation criteria for both residential and community safe rooms that will provide near-absolute life safety protection during tornado and hurricane events.
Tornado Protection: Selecting Refuge Areas in Buildings (FEMA P-431) - This booklet presents information that will aid qualified architects and engineers in the identification of the best available refuge areas in existing buildings.
Design Guidance for Shelters and Safe Rooms (FEMA 453) - The objective of this manual is to provide guidance for engineers, architects, building officials, and property owners to design shelters and safe rooms in buildings.
Safe Room and Community Shelter Resources CD (FEMA 388 CD) - On this CD, you will find displays, posters, handouts, multimedia, and other resources that provide information about mitigating for tornadoes or other high-wind events and about the importance of safe rooms and community shelter construction in saving lives during such events.
Community Safe Room Fact Sheet - This fact sheet provides information about safe rooms and explains that a safe room is a room or structure specifically designed and constructed to resist wind pressures and wind-borne debris impacts during an extreme-wind event, like tornadoes and hurricanes, for the purpose of providing life-safety protection.
Residential Safe Room Fact Sheet - This fact sheet provide information about residential safe rooms and explains that a safe room is a room or structure specifically de-signed and constructed to resist wind pressures and wind-borne debris impacts during an extreme-wind event, like tornadoes and hurricanes, for the purpose of providing life-safety protection.
Videos - Information on safe rooms and "hardening" of a home
What Makes a Safe Room Safe? - An animated illustration of the key Safe Room design elements that give a Safe Room "near absolute protection" from a severe storm, tornado or hurricane.
Building Stronger After a Tornado - Following tornadoes where homes are destroyed, some homeowners are strengthing their new homes by building safer structures.
Safe Room Technical Guidance Video - Interview with Bob Franke (FEMA Region VII) regarding FEMA P-320 (Taking Shelter From the Storm: Building a Safe Room For Your Home or Small Business) and other guidance/research on regarding building a safe room.
Safe Room Construction Videos - These four videos depict how to construct a residential or business safe room. These videos do NOT have an audio component.
Mitigation Planning
State, Indian Tribal, and local officials develop and adopt mitigation plans to meet the requirements of the Stafford Act. The Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Guidance provides the official guidance on these requirements and procedures for approval of hazard mitigation plans. The core steps in the graphic below show the process to complete a mitigation plan.
HMGP – Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
HMGP can be used to fund projects to protect either public or private property, as long as the project fits within State and local government mitigation strategies to address areas of risk and complies with HMGP guidelines. Through your State Hazard Mitigation Officer, communities and Federally Recognized Tribes can learn how to develop an application for a Hazard Mitigation Grant.
FEMA provides a variety of hazard mitigation grants to states and communities. To learn more, see the Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) Grant Programs Fact Sheet, http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=3648
Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation
It is FEMA's policy to act with care to ensure that its disaster response and recovery, mitigation and preparedness responsibilities are carried out in a manner that is consistent with all Federal environmental and historic preservation policies and laws. To learn more how you can help with this process after the tornado, visit the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the Heritage Emergency National Task Force. Also, read "Advice for Saving Damaged Family Treasures" for the care, protection, and restoration of family heirlooms, photos, and other keepsakes, or visit the National Archives for additional information.
Best Practices
FEMA collects Mitigation success stories, encourages the public to share their stories, and to review stories from other residents, it is known as the Best Practices Portfolio. Over the course of the coming days, weeks, and months we will be developing these stories for you based on this last tornado, until then there have been other best practices from past events.
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Hungarian Gypsy Tunes: Czardás! : Work information
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The desire to establish un-equivocally the identity of the composer of a piece of music has only become an issue in the last couple of hundred years. This means that for much music written before the 19th century, we cannot categorically say who wrote it or, indeed, whether any one person is responsible for the piece as we now know it. In the former category, we might label the composer as 'anonymous'; in the latter we might well refer to the music as 'traditional'. In effect this is to say that a piece of music, or more likely a melody, has been passed down from generation to generation in the manner of a tradition.
Often melodies or pieces of music can undergo changes as they travel through history with each succeeding generation choosing to adapt the tradition to fit more appropriately with the current social situation. With folk music, this is often an oral process that doesn't write down the music but retains it in the collective memory of a community. In this case, we have no way of reconstructing what the melody used to sound like. Often, though, the same melody will be remembered by two different communities, and remembered differently as time goes on. Eventually the two versions of the melody, having passed through many generations of variants, may eventually sound substantially different, though we can say that they derive from the same source. In the 20th century, composers like Vaughan Williams and Bartók wrote some of these down, anxious to preserve the repertoire before the folk tradition died out.
'Traditional' could also be applied to music that was composed by an un-identifiable individual. Where as 'anonymous' might be a more accurate way to describe its composer, the piece may well have entered our cultural language to the extent that its performance constitutes a tradition to be passed to succeeding generations. Certain Christmas carols perhaps fall under this bracket. Essentially, though, the word is a way of making music from a time when the individual was less important than the act of music-making itself, fit in with our composer-dominated view of music.
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- The Sun Has Set 1:42 min
- Why Mustn\'t I Love You? 2:38 min
- Her Beautiful Blue Eyes 1:38 min
- Listen, Gypsies 1:32 min
- Bad Brew 1:38 min
- I Was Born in a Rosebush 1:06 min
- I Have a Sweetheart 1:26 min
- No Letters Have Come 3:20 min
- I Court the Beautiful Ladies 1:30 min
- Corn and Nettles 1:32 min
- The Dance Begins 1:24 min
- A Leaf is Falling 1:38 min
- I am Looking for an Old Street 2:00 min
- It is a Prayer 2:58 min
- A Horgosi Czardas 1:08 min
- A Cloud Covers the Forest 1:42 min
- I Ran Away from my Beautiful Home Country 1:52 min
- Nothing, my Darling, Nothing 0:50 min
- Corn Kolo 1:52 min
- A Little Well 1:12 min
- My Yellow Filly 1:10 min
- Mama is Baking, and so is the Baker 1:22 min
- In the Gypsy Tent 1:40 min
- The Sad Poplar Forest 2:12 min
- The Bell Calls us to Vespers 2:00 min
- My Little Czardas Hat 1:04 min
- Rain is Silently Falling 1:10 min
- The Forest is Humming 1:56 min
- At Gyergyo or even Farther Away 1:58 min
- Below the Mountain of Csitar 1:04 min
- Palko Csinom 1:12 min
- You Don\'t Need Money to be Happy 2:08 min
- A Winter With Frost Patterns on the Windows 1:26 min
- I Turned towards the Kitchen 1:00 min
- I Deny, I Deny 1:38 min
- Fresh Czardas 0:54 min
- Street of Acacias 2:38 min
- My Beautiful Rose 1:32 min
- A Little Cottage on the Hill 1:26 min
- They are Singing in the Spinning Mill 2:24 min
- Never Grumble at Me! 2:54 min
- I am Afraid in the Crowd of Gypsies 1:02 min
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Qawwali singer Altaf Raja, who gained prominence with his "Tum toh thehre pardesi" in 1993, will be back with the second part of the song next year. He says it will have the same tune and feel, but will have a lyrical twist.
"'Tum toh thehre pardesi' is the signature mark in the name of Altaf Raja. I am coming out with part two of this song next year. It will have new lyrics and a new story and will come out around April," said the singer here.
"The first paragraph of the song is the same, but the lyrics following it will be different," added the 45 year old.
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Aug 21st 2008 5:41PM As for the 3 vs. 2 healers, I typically dual heal this with a resto sham or resto druid. I am a COH Priest.
My base stats sit at 2200 + healin and 97 haste (for dual healing I find haste better simply so that i can MT heal faster.). Sham totems and buffs also pump up my stats.
Maybe your priest could dual heal it but doesn't have the gear yet? Just tossing it out there. I've never done it dual with less stats.
I'll tell you one thing though. I'm picky on the make up for my dual healing. I don't like doing it with holy pallies that much. I also need to be able to trust the skill of my other healer.
Last night we did resto druid and resto sham with me as shadow and we did extremely well on the timer and no deaths. I just respeced to COH for hex. Holy pally + resto druid go pretty good also.


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If even the most imaginative desktop background is starting to bore you, it's time for a change. xdesktop waves allows you to change your desktop into a water scape. You can add rain and storms or just drag your mouse to liven things up.
Water attracts millions of holi day makers to the seaside, lakes, or rivers every year. Now, Oliver Hamann has developed a desktop tool to bring the wet look to the desktop. Oliver's xdesktopwaves [1] pro gram floods your desktop and makes waves when you drag your mouse and move windows. The program gives you a variety of options that allow users to add effects such as rain and storms or to change the color of the water. There is no need to do without your favorite wallpaper – the waterscape that xdesk-topwaves gives you is transparent. Do-It-Yourself The application is available from the project homepage. There are no ready to-run packages, so you will need to build the program from the source code. All you need is the gcc compiler and the developer packages for the graphical sys tem. Many distributions call the required package XFree86-devel or xorg-devel. Unpack the xdesktopwaves-1.3.tar.gz archive and change to the directory that this step creates, xdesktopwaves-1.3. Then enter make to compile the pro gram. Become root, and then type make install to copy the program file to /usr/ X11R6/ bin and the manpage to /usr/ X11R6/ man/ man1.
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Please refer the DWF Toolkit samples "W2dTest" and "XPSTest" to read/write a DWFx file.
Thanks Silvia,
I tried to use the two samples "W2dTest" and "XPSTest", but non of two samples succeeded to load dwfx files.
I passes dwfx file path to read_test() function that exists in the two samples and I got the following results:
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2. XPSTest, this sample is to write a dwfx file; the "read_test" and "skip_test" was corrupt, please ignore the two functions.
Thanks Silvia,
It seems that w2dtest reads w2x and xaml files but I need to read dwfx package,
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You can refer to the sample code Read2DDWFxFile.cpp.
Do you have any examples of parsing 3D content?
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The BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, is probably tournament tennis at its most relaxed…and most affluent.
Event owner, billionaire Larry Ellison of Oracle renown, has pretty well given a blank cheque to organizers and this year the site is resplendent with impressive upgrades.
The first being the new Stadium 2, a kind of medium-sized version of 16,000-seat Stadium 1, which is the second-largest in the tennis world after Arthur Ashe Stadium at the US Open.
That's 8,000-seat Stadium 2 in the background behind this beautifully landscaped brand new main entrance to the tournament site.
Space has never been a problem with this enormous property just below Highway 111 in Indian Wells. Including parking, there are more than 120 acres available for the Masters 1000 level event.
Above is a shot of the new grass-covered parking area on the east side of the grounds. Behind that metal barrier are a couple of football fields worth of parking – spaciousness being the hallmark of the Indian Wells event.
Milos Raonic was on practice court 4 on Tuesday with coach Ivan Ljubicic watching in the background – and it wasn't always pretty.
It appears Raonic has only been playing points for a couple of days as he attempts to come back from a high ankle injury that has kept him out of action since the Australian Open – where he injured himself in his opening round before losing to Grigor Dimitrov in the third round.
He hit and played games with Gael Monfils for about an hour and a half. Toward the end of the workout, Ljubicic could be heard saying to Raonic, "try and put a little more intensity in the legs."
But Raonic struggled, and became frustrated with his poor play. It seemed as if his high-ankle sprain (see kinesio tape above) is still not back to 100 per cent and allowing him total freedom of movement.
Note: The same colour blue trim on his shorts has nothing to do with the blue kinesio tape.
At least Raonic and Monfils had a little fun when they sat down during changes of end. Above, Monfils showed Raonic something on his phone and the two had a good laugh about it.
On the way back from watching Raonic, there was a huge crowd gathered around the main practice court – but I was able to take the picture above of Rafael Nadal from the second row through a couple of heads.
They did the men's draw for the 2014 BNP Paribas Open on Tuesday – that's American player Jack Sock in the blue shirt in the lower right corner helping out. Crowd members were able to go up and pull out the names of some of the players.
The top half of the draw, headed by No. 1 seed Rafael Nadal seems stronger – and there could be quarter-finals (top and bottom) between Nadal and Andy Murray (5) and Roger Federer (7) and Stanislas Wawrinka (3).
Second-seeded Novak Djokovic could play the left wrist injury-plagued Juan Martin del Potro (6) in the bottom quarter-final of the bottom half while Tomas Berdych (4) could face No. 8 Richard Gasquet in the top quarter-final in the bottom half.
Milos Raonic is seeded No. 10 (one spot above his ranking because of the absence of No. 4 David Ferrer) and will play, after a bye, the winner of Benjamin Becker of Germany and Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France in the second round. If he wins there, he might face No. 18-seed Jerzy Janowicz of Poland in the round three, with the possibly of a match against Murray in the round-of-16.
Vasek Pospisil, playing just his second event (first round loss last week in Acapulco) after injuring his back at the Australian Open, is seeded No. 25. Following a bye, he will open against the winner between Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan and a qualifier. He could take on del Potro in the third round.
As for the Canadian women, Eugenie Bouchard, seeded 18th, has a bye and then will play the winner between come-backing Vera Zvonareva of Russia, a wild card, and Peng Shuai of China. Further down the road, she could face No. 9 seed Sara Errani followed by No. 6 seed Simona Halep – not a bad draw.
Aleksandra Wozniak, using her injury-protected ranking for the last time, will play Urszula Radwanska with No. 15 seed Sabine Lisicki awaiting in the second round. All three players are of Polish ancestry.
Qualifier Sharon Fichman takes on Shahar Peer in her first-round match on Wednesday.
Peter Polansky advanced to the second and final round of the BNP Paribas Open qualifying on Tuesday with a 6-1, 6-0 victory over fellow-Canadian Steven Diez.
There wasn't too much to say about the one-sided match played on Stadium 9 – except that it's hard to believe there is a 'stadium' (as opposed to a 'court') 9 at a Masters 1000 event. But that says a lot about how things have grown at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Everything is bigger here.
Diez, who was born and grew up in Toronto until he was about eight years old, now lives in Spain.
"I played very aggressively, and was getting into all of his service games," Polansky said about the match with Diez. "I was playing really well today so he didn't stand much of a chance."
Walking back to the locker room with his mother after the match, Polansky talked about a misadventure he had as a result of a spider bite while spending the Valentines Day weekend with his girlfriend in Lexington, Kentucky.
He woke up one morning and felt a soreness in his left foot. "By seven or eight o'clock that night, I could barely walk," he recalled. He went to emergency and was proscribed anti-biotics.
That didn't work and after six days with the badly ankle swollen, he went back to the doctor. "They cut it open and got out all the blood and puss," Polansky explained. "There was a swelling about the size of a golf ball and it was stopping the blood from circulating." That intervention finally did the trick.
He had planned to play the ATP 250 event in Delray Beach but the bite put an end to that.
Polansky did not actually feel the bite and there is no certainty what kind of spider it came from. Speculation is that it might have been a brown recluse (or 'violin spider'), which is known to have a "venomous bite." He can certainly vouch for that.
In the second and final round of qualifying on Wednesday, Polansky plays No. 6 seed Guido Pella of Argentina. In the first round at Wimbledon last year, Pella pulled his hamstring against Jesse Levine of Canada and to be taken off the court on a stretcher.
Sharon Fichman advanced to the main draw of the BNP Paribas Open on Tuesday when she defeated No. 125-ranked Maryna Zanevska of Ukraine 3-6, 7-6(1), 6-3 in the second round of qualifying.
The 20-year-old from the Ukraine looked to be in a favourable position when she led 6-3, 5-2 against Fichman, whose demeanour was very much like the picture above.
But Zanevska got a little tight, especially on the forehand side, and Fichman cut down on her unforced errors to gradually take control.
Back in the top-100 at No. 97 this week, Fichman, 23, has drawn Shahar Peer of Israel for her main-draw first round on Wednesday. Peer, 26 and now ranked No. 82 after being as high as No. 31 in 2011, has lost in the first round of her last three tournaments without winning a set – including to Eugenie Bouchard in Acapulco last week.
Peer won her only previous encounter with Fichman, 7-5, 6-1 in Ningbo, China, last September.
Matt Cronin of Oakland, California, is an intelligent, fun, hard-working, well-respected and generous tennis writer.
It's tough to find anyone in the business who does not like Cronin, a slightly twitchy, hyper-active and massively enthusiastic tennis guy.
The news was not good a few weeks ago when he informed friends that he had a brain tumour.
Here is what he wrote on Monday about the whole situation.
He had the surgery on Tuesday and apparently all went well. Ever the prolific tweeter, this is what he tweeted Tuesday evening:
Out of surgery talking up storm, docs did great. Thinking clearly. Hope every future day as successful as today. Support wise u all r best!
— Matt Cronin (@TennisReporters) March 5, 2014
He won't make it to Indian Wells this year, but he should be around tennis for lots more tournaments, to the delight of his many twitter followers, listeners of his online radio work at the Grand Slams and readers of his insights at tennisreporters.net, tennis.com and other outlets.
The media room at the BNP Paribas Open breathed a collective sigh of relief when the good news about post-surgery Matt arrived late Tuesday.
It was a little after 8 p.m. on Tuesday night when Roger Federer and his new coaching advisor, Stefan Edberg, entered Stadium 1 for a session.
Federer went through a series of what appeared to be back exercises (see above), including one where he was down on his hands and knees and did some pelvic thrusting that was – how else can to put it? – suggestive!
The two hit for a little more than an hour.
I didn't see them play any points but Edberg, 48, certainly looked like a respectable sparring partner.
Towards the end, there was a little levity as Federer hit serves to Edberg, and did some exaggerated grunting just for kicks. As best one could tell, it couldn't be classified as an exact imitation of any one of his main rivals.
While he was aiming serves at Edberg, he also hit a few wide to where his agent, Tony Godsick, was standing near the playing surface. Godsick managed to get one back in play.
Federer then finished off with three or four deft underhand serves that landed just over the net. "I dare you to do that once, just once," Godsick said to Federer, appearing to suggest he wanted him to try it in a real match.
After they finished and were leaving the court, Federer sat down in the first row and Godsick took pictures of him looking into his cell phone – maybe he was tweeting. That resulted in a big laugh from everyone, including Edberg.
They then exited – but I still don't know the identity of the fourth member of the group on court during the practice.
NOTE: We'll be back later this week when Canadians are playing in the main draw.


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The Merrimack College women's volleyball team defeated Saint Michael's College 25-21, 25-16, 25-14 on Senior Night. The Warriors we led by the team's only senior, outside hitter Jackie Jones (team-high 15 kills, .556 hitting percentage). Junior outside hitter Stephanie Sheehan (13 kills, 11 digs) also starred as the Warriors improved to 14-13 and 8-4 in the NE-10.
The Merrimack field hockey team (13-5) is at Stonehill (18-3) for a first-round NCAA tourney game on Saturday at noon.
The Merrimack women's cross country team qualified for the NCAA Championships on Nov. 23 in Spokane, Wash. The Warriors are led by Kristin Schmidt (16th) and Fiona Coleman (18th), who both finished in the top 20 at the Division 2 East Regionals.
Freshman starting forward Noah Vonleh of Haverhill scored 17 points (6-12 shooting, 5-8 free throws) and grabbed 11 rebounds and Indiana held off upset-minded LIU-Brooklyn 73-72. Also, Vonleh was named one of the 50 players on the list for the John Wooden Award as the national player of the year.
Sophomore Georges Niang of Methuen had 12 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists and Iowa State drubbed Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 80-50.
The BC women beat Hofstra, 80-63. Senior Katie Zenevitch of the Methuen had 10 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists and sophomore Nicole Boudreau of Andover chipped in with 10 points and a career-high eight rebounds.
The Sports Club at Rockingham Park is hosting Combat Zone 46 on Friday, Nov. 22. The co-main events are Nate LaMotte vs. Jason Norwood and Rodrigo Almeida vs. Walel Watson. Tickets are $40-$120 and can be purchased at combatzonemma.com.


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"Go With the Flow" is a free public event celebrating the eagerly anticipated re-opening of the 103rd Street Footbridge connecting Manhattan to Randall's Island Park. The day also marks the opening of FLOW.12, an environmental art installation along the Island's scenic southern waterfront pathways in partnership with The Bronx Museum of Arts. this exciting family event is open to the public and will feature a morning filled with art, music, sports and snack.
- Randall's Island Park
- Near the East River Fields, just across the 103rd Street Footbridge
- Manhattan, NY 10035


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Lenasia men held for string of crimes
Comment on this storyJohannesburg - Two men were caught in connection with a string of crimes in Lenasia, Johannesburg, on Thursday, police said.
Aged 34 and 35, their alleged crimes included car theft and copying compact discs, said Lt-Col Katlego Mogale.
Six vehicles, believed to have been stolen, were recovered at the house of one of the men.
The vehicles included a Cadillac, a BMW, a Mercedes Benz ML, a Toyota Corolla, a Mitsubishi and a Nissan Skyline.
Police also found the man was reproducing CDs at his business, said Mogale.
Three of the man's shops were closed down and CDs worth an estimated R2.5 million were seized.
The 35-year-old man was allegedly involved in producing the fake CDs.
"Police also recovered a home affairs immigration stamp as well as one from the department of transport and public works of Botswana," said Mogale.
The men would appear in the Protea Magistrate's Court soon.
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