�The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned all employers to ascertain they protect their workers' lives after the jailing of a company film director for manslaughter.
Sharaz Butt, the director of Alcon Construction Ltd of Norwich, was sentenced to 12 months jail in Norwich Crown Court yesterday after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of Wu Zhu Weng. He as well received a five-year disqualification from playing as a company manager after pleading guilty to breaching section 37 of the Health and Safety at Work etc 1974 Act.
Mr Butt was prosecuted by Norfolk police force, with assistance from the HSE, over the incident on 31st January 2008. Mr Weng was working for Alcon Construction on the renovation of a building on Trowse, Norwich, when he fell 12 feet through and through a fanlight, suffering fateful injuries.
In his sentencing remarks, Judge Peter Jacobs aforesaid Mr Butt had shown a "cynical disregard" for his workers, including Mr Weng, by employing them illegally and failing to ensure their safety.
HSE Inspector Peter Nickerson said:
"The judgment of conviction handed down by the judge reflects the earnestness of the offence committed by Mr Butt. As company theater director, he was responsible for the health and safety of all his workers, and he failed to fulfil this responsibility.
"Mr Weng's tragic death could accept been prevented had his employer followed basic health and safety procedures. The skylight Mr Weng was working close had had not been properly covered and was a unsafe place to work.
"Mr Butt had as well failed to prepare a method statement and jeopardy assessment for the cultivate he expected his staff to do, did non provide earmark access and egress, and did non ensure that his faculty received the necessary training to carry out the work.
"All employers have a duty to protect the safety of their workers. The mental synthesis industry in particular has one of the highest rates of fatalities in Britain, and HSE volition not pause to prosecute those world Health Organization put the lives of their employees at risk in this way."
Notes
Section 37 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 states: "Where an offence under any of the relevant statutory provisions committed by a soundbox corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or secret approval of, or to have been attributable to whatever neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other alike officer of the body corporate or a mortal who purporting to move in such a capacity, he as well as the dead body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished consequently."
The utmost penalty for a breach of the Act in the higher court is an outright fine.
HSE also brought a prosecution against Alcon Construction Ltd under section 2 of the HSWA, which states: It shall be the duty of every employer to ascertain, so far as is reasonably feasible, the health, safety and welfare at work of all his employees." Alcon Construction was given a nominal fine of �10. IN his sentencing remarks the gauge made clear the fine would have been tens of thousands of pounds had the company been in a position to pay such an measure.
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Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Saturday, 30 August 2008
Advances In Conceptualizing Disease Progression In Alzheimer's Disease
�A hallmark of this year's ICAD meeting was the wealth of newfangled clinical trials information in Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Years of basic and presymptomatic research have paved the road for development of new medications and biologics. Results from many unexampled clinical trials were provided, ranging from promising Phase I and II trials to some disappointing Phase II and III results.
Hundreds of new agents for the treatment of dementias ar now in or approaching clinical trials. It is essential that new CNS-drug development in general, and clinical trials specifically, keep pace with the explosive growth in translational opportunities in AD and other CNS disorders. Emergence of novel treatments aimed at disease-progression requires improvements in methodological analysis, particularly in definitions of clinical outcomes, so that health-authorities, patients, physicians, and payers are satisfied.
George Grossberg states: "At the recently over ICAD in Chicago, we witnessed negative results from several large Phase 3 trials of compounds which were touted as potentially having disease-modifying effects for treating AD. Could problems such as those exemplified by these studies get been avoided with better clinical tribulation designs? The ISCTM meetingAdvances in the Conceptualization of Disease Progression in Alzheimer's Disease-An Interdisciplinary Conference, will prove an immensely worthful follow up to ICAD for scientists, clinical trialists, pharmaceutical industry and regulative authorities world-wide who are trying to make our research endeavors more efficient and effective." Ravi Anand and George Grossberg will co-chair the fall ISCTM meeting to pursue this important give-and-take.
The International Society for CNS Clinical Trials and Methodology (ISCTM) will gather world-reknowned experts to talk about challenges identified at ICAD and by others, on October sixty-seven, 2008, in Toronto. Topics to be addressed let in: "Disease Progression in AD," "Optimal Trial-Designs For Disease Modification In AD," "Clinical and Biological Endpoints in Disease Progression/Modification," and "Statistical Issues In Disease-Modifying Therapies In AD Trials." ( Detailed Agenda and Presenters )
Details and Registration (Early Bird rate efficient through Sept 5)
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The International Society for CNS Clinical Trials and Methodology (ISCTM) is a multi-disciplinary, self-governing organization devoted to addressing strategic clinical, regulatory, and methodological challenges that arise in the development and clinical enjoyment of CNS therapeutic agents through partnership with industry, academia, governmental and non-governmental agencies and the public.
International Society for CNS Clinical Trials and Methodology
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Hundreds of new agents for the treatment of dementias ar now in or approaching clinical trials. It is essential that new CNS-drug development in general, and clinical trials specifically, keep pace with the explosive growth in translational opportunities in AD and other CNS disorders. Emergence of novel treatments aimed at disease-progression requires improvements in methodological analysis, particularly in definitions of clinical outcomes, so that health-authorities, patients, physicians, and payers are satisfied.
George Grossberg states: "At the recently over ICAD in Chicago, we witnessed negative results from several large Phase 3 trials of compounds which were touted as potentially having disease-modifying effects for treating AD. Could problems such as those exemplified by these studies get been avoided with better clinical tribulation designs? The ISCTM meetingAdvances in the Conceptualization of Disease Progression in Alzheimer's Disease-An Interdisciplinary Conference, will prove an immensely worthful follow up to ICAD for scientists, clinical trialists, pharmaceutical industry and regulative authorities world-wide who are trying to make our research endeavors more efficient and effective." Ravi Anand and George Grossberg will co-chair the fall ISCTM meeting to pursue this important give-and-take.
The International Society for CNS Clinical Trials and Methodology (ISCTM) will gather world-reknowned experts to talk about challenges identified at ICAD and by others, on October sixty-seven, 2008, in Toronto. Topics to be addressed let in: "Disease Progression in AD," "Optimal Trial-Designs For Disease Modification In AD," "Clinical and Biological Endpoints in Disease Progression/Modification," and "Statistical Issues In Disease-Modifying Therapies In AD Trials." ( Detailed Agenda and Presenters )
Details and Registration (Early Bird rate efficient through Sept 5)
Poster Submission Details
The International Society for CNS Clinical Trials and Methodology (ISCTM) is a multi-disciplinary, self-governing organization devoted to addressing strategic clinical, regulatory, and methodological challenges that arise in the development and clinical enjoyment of CNS therapeutic agents through partnership with industry, academia, governmental and non-governmental agencies and the public.
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Mp3 music: Grayson Capps
 Artist: Grayson Capps: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Grayson Capps's discography:  Wail and Ride Year: 2006 Tracks: 12  If You Knew My Mind Year: 2005 Tracks: 12 A literate and warm songster whose vocal characters ar oft caught scarcely hanging on at the edges of American animateness, Grayson Capps is a bit like a New Orleans-version of Tom Waits, albeit more than of a roots rocker in real musical implementation. Capps was innate April 17, 1967 in Opelika, AL the logos of a Baptist sermoniser and an Auburn University student. After his birth, both of his parents complete up cosmos teachers in Brewton, AL. They fey to Fairhope, AL when Capps was in the 7th grad, and it was at that billet that he developed a womb-to-tomb captivation with theatre of operations, finally earning a doting learnedness to Tulane University in New Orleans to study performing, graduating with a BFA in 1989. But playing wasn't the only thing Capps studied at Tulane. He likewise erudite to play guitar and coupled a band called the House Levellers, wHO specialized in what the stria called "lam folk." The grouping sign with Tipitina Records in 1990 when Capps was barely 21-years-old, and following a whirlwind and musically quite successful year, Capps left the dance band, choosing to remain and do his nursing home in New Orleans. He started a new dance band with John Lawrence called Stavin Chain and they signing with Thomas Ruf's Germany-based Ruf Records in 1998, cathartic a single album, simply called Stavin Chain, in 1999, earlier disbanding. Capps met Shainee Gabel, a youth music director world Health Organization was filming a documental called Anthem, and she concluded up victimisation several of his songs in the finished celluloid. Capps had told Gabel about an unpublished novel his beginner, Everett Capps, had written and once Gabel show it, she knew she had to plastic pic it. She wrote a screenplay and the end termination was the 2004 film A Love Song for Bobby Long, which featured Capps in a piece part and as well used quaternity of his songs as ingredient of the soundtrack. The regionally released Grayson Capps album appeared in 2005 on Hyena Records followed by a solo debut proper, If You Knew My Mind, by and by that same class. During this time Capps continued to make his base in New Orleans just the Katrina catastrophe at summer's fill up in 2005 forced him to get out the city, at least temporarily. A second solo project, Howl & Ride, also on Hyena, came out in 2006. Ruf Records re-released Stavin' Chain in 2007. |
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Sunday, 10 August 2008
Jean-Pierre Rampal - flute; Robert Veron-Lacroix -
Artist: Jean-Pierre Rampal - flute; Robert Veron-Lacroix -
Genre(s):
Classical
Discography:
Sonata In E Flat Major BWV 1031
Year: 1975
Tracks: 3
Sunday, 22 June 2008
Billy Whitefox
Artist: Billy Whitefox
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Sacred Spirit
Year: 2001
Tracks: 7
Sacred Journey
Year: 2000
Tracks: 7
Mantovani E Sua Orchestra
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Jessica Simpson Warns Jennifer Aniston About John Mayer
Jessica Simpson is trying to warn Jennifer Aniston to be careful with new man John Mayer, because he is a notorious “ladies man”.
The wannabe country singer, who is currently dating American football star Tony Romo, was said to be jealous that her ex-boyfriend Mayer is dating the Friends star, but sources claim the green-eyed monster people are seeing is actually just concern.
A source says via Transworld News: “Jessica wants Jen to be aware of what she’s letting herself get into with John. She doesn’t want her to make the same mistakes. John is a ladies man.”
Others are also letting the rocker’s true colours be known, with a friend of Mayer adding: “He’ll spend every waking minute talking to someone and spending time with them and then move on to the next girl,” said the friend.
Is Jennifer making a mistake with John like she has done with all of these men?
The wannabe country singer, who is currently dating American football star Tony Romo, was said to be jealous that her ex-boyfriend Mayer is dating the Friends star, but sources claim the green-eyed monster people are seeing is actually just concern.
A source says via Transworld News: “Jessica wants Jen to be aware of what she’s letting herself get into with John. She doesn’t want her to make the same mistakes. John is a ladies man.”
Others are also letting the rocker’s true colours be known, with a friend of Mayer adding: “He’ll spend every waking minute talking to someone and spending time with them and then move on to the next girl,” said the friend.
Is Jennifer making a mistake with John like she has done with all of these men?
Monday, 9 June 2008
Emmerdale star tells of real-life abuse
'Emmerdale' actress Roxanne Pallett has spoken about how her current domestic abuse storyline has brought back memories of a real-life abusive relationship.
In 'Emmerdale' Pallett's character Jo Sugden is the victim of psychological and domestic violence at the hands of her husband Andy (Kelvin Fletcher), who has recently been released from jail.
The 25-year-old actress told 'This Morning' that the storyline was difficult to film because she once found herself in a similar situation in real-life.
Pallett said: "Kelvin and I have been living this storyline since Christmas and you're researching it and it brings it all back to you and it's devastating."
"I can't even watch these scenes back without it choking me up. I watched it with my mum and we just sat and she held my hand through it all because it's devastating."
The actress also said: "And what you're seeing is just a fraction of what people are still going through."
When asked if her mother knew that she was in an abusive relationship, Pallett said: "She got me out of it."
"A friend found out and she was my rock. And then my mum found out and it was only then that I thought, 'This is it now, I'm at a crossroads in my life where I can either continue in this spiral or I can get out'.
"It just takes one person and you have to just tell one person and confide in one person. People turn a blind eye, people don't want to know other people's problems."
Speaking about her storyline, she said: "We need to bring this subject to the forefront where women are watching it."
"Not just women, I'm sure there are plenty of men in that situation where women are controlling men... But there's people all over the country that I'm sure tonight will be sitting there and they'll see Andy and Jo at home and they'll be watching it. Behind closed doors they're suffering from that."
In 'Emmerdale' Pallett's character Jo Sugden is the victim of psychological and domestic violence at the hands of her husband Andy (Kelvin Fletcher), who has recently been released from jail.
The 25-year-old actress told 'This Morning' that the storyline was difficult to film because she once found herself in a similar situation in real-life.
Pallett said: "Kelvin and I have been living this storyline since Christmas and you're researching it and it brings it all back to you and it's devastating."
"I can't even watch these scenes back without it choking me up. I watched it with my mum and we just sat and she held my hand through it all because it's devastating."
The actress also said: "And what you're seeing is just a fraction of what people are still going through."
When asked if her mother knew that she was in an abusive relationship, Pallett said: "She got me out of it."
"A friend found out and she was my rock. And then my mum found out and it was only then that I thought, 'This is it now, I'm at a crossroads in my life where I can either continue in this spiral or I can get out'.
"It just takes one person and you have to just tell one person and confide in one person. People turn a blind eye, people don't want to know other people's problems."
Speaking about her storyline, she said: "We need to bring this subject to the forefront where women are watching it."
"Not just women, I'm sure there are plenty of men in that situation where women are controlling men... But there's people all over the country that I'm sure tonight will be sitting there and they'll see Andy and Jo at home and they'll be watching it. Behind closed doors they're suffering from that."
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