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Tech Lighting Recalls Coda Pendant Light Fixtures Due to Impact Injury Hazard (Recall Alert) - Consumer Product Safety Commission
The glass Coda pendant light fixtures can detach from their electrical cord, causing the fixture to fall unexpectedly, posing a risk of injury from impact.About 670 (In addition, about 11 were sold in Canada)
Tech Lighting toll-free at 888-475-1136 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, email at techlightingcs@visualcomfortco.com, or online at www.techlighting.com/recall or www.techlighting.com and click on the recall link at the bottom of the home page for more information. Tech Lighting is contacting all known purchasers by mailed letters.
The recalled Coda pendant is a clear or smoke glass suspended light fixture that provides general illumination and is available in two sizes, large (40” high and weighs 7 lbs) and small (21” high and weighs 4 lbs). The model/item number is on the light fixture packaging. The light uses an integrated LED light source. The recall involves the following model numbers:
Item Number
Description
700TDCDAPLCCS-LED930
Coda Large, Clear Glass
700TDCDAPLKCS-LED930
Coda Large, Smoke Glass
700TDCDAPSCCS-LED930
Coda Small, Clear Glass
700TDCDAPSKCS-LED930
Coda Small, Smoke Glass
365TDMISC4052
Custom spare part LED module with 20’ cord
365TDCODALS-A
Spare part LED module
Consumers should immediately prevent people from going under the recalled light fixtures and contact Tech Lighting to receive a free repair kit. Consumers will need to schedule installation of the repair kit by a certified electrician, and Tech Lighting will reimburse the consumer for the service. Upon submitting the invoice to Tech Lighting for the installation charges, consumers will receive a reimbursement check.
The firm has received two reports of the pendant light fixtures detaching. No injuries have been reported.
VC Brands LLC, of Skokie, Illinois
This recall was conducted, voluntarily by the company, under CPSC’s Fast Track Recall process. Fast Track recalls are initiated by firms, who commit to work with CPSC to quickly announce the recall and remedy to protect consumers.
The chairs’ leg base can break, posing fall and injury hazards.
The threads in the recalled woven baby blankets can come loose and detach posing choking, entrapment and strangulation hazards.
The surface paint on the tan side panels of the desks and storage units contains levels of lead that exceed the federal lead paint ban, posing a lead poisoning hazard. Lead is toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health effects.
The space between the second rung of the bed’s ladder and the lower bunk frame is wider than 3.5 inches, posing an entrapment hazard to children, when the mattress is removed.
The space between the fourth ladder step and the cross-member of the hutch of the bunk bed is wider than 3.5 inches, posing entrapment and strangulation hazards.
The wall beds can break or detach from the wall and fall onto those nearby, posing serious impact and crush hazards.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risk of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product-related incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products has contributed to a decline in the rate of injuries associated with consumer products over the past 50 years.
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A new study suggests the few vaquita marina may have learned to escape fishing nets - Fronteras: The Changing America Desk
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A mural of a vaquita mother and calf near the boardwalk in San Felipe, Baja California.
The continued survival of a small porpoise in Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California may indicate that the few remaining members of the species have learned how to escape from fishing nets. But experts warn that it will still become extinct if it’s not protected from those nets.
The vaquita marina is the world’s most endangered marine mammal, with an estimated fewer than 10 left. But the small porpoises have survived longer than many expected, with researchers continuing to find the small porpoises, including new calves, living in a small area of the Gulf of California.
A new study published in the journal Endangered Species Research suggests that the remaining vaquita may have learned to avoid gillnets or disentangle themselves. And may be able to teach that skill to their young.
"It doesn’t mean that they are bulletproof against entanglement," said Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, lead author on the study. "But these vaquita are extremely valuable. And probably at least some of these animals have taught their calves how to disentangle."
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A vaquita trapped in a net.
Rojas-Bracho said the gillnets are the sole threat to the species, and unless that threat is removed the vaquita will become extinct.
Getting rid of nets would require cracking down on illegal fishing, as well as providing local fishermen with viable alternative fishing gear. So far, that hasn’t happened, and Rojas-Bracho admits it's not an easy task.
"Although eliminating gillnets seems like a simple problem, in reality the task involves a really major social and cultural changes, too. And you need political will to develop that alternative fishing gear and maintain the livelihoods (of fishermen)," he said.
Conservation scientists have been asking the Mexican government to take that step for more than two decades, he said, but it has only become more difficult with the rise of poaching in the region in recent years. In order to be successful now, he said, the international community needs to not only put pressure on Mexico, but also offer support.
And scientists are convinced that without the threat of nets, the species could recover even from its current low numbers.
"The vaquita can be saved," Rojas-Bracho said. "The vaquita is a very resourceful animal. If we stop killing them, they will recover."
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Wednesday, January 4, 2023
Exercise can reduce severity of breast cancer treatment side effects - Science Daily
Breast cancer is the most common form of the disease among women; in Australia, one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer by the age of 85.Radiotherapy has emerged as an important component of breast cancer treatment but can lead to cancer-related fatigue and negatively impact patients' health-related quality of life including their emotional, physical and social wellbeing.
However, latest research by Edith Cowan University (ECU) has revealed exercise may make radiotherapy more tolerable for patients.
ECU's Exercise Medicine Research Institute included 89 women in the study, with 43 completing a home-based 12-week program, consisting of a weekly exercise regime of one to two resistance training sessions and an accumulated 30-40 minutes of aerobic exercise.
The remaining patients were a control group who did not participate in the exercise program.
Researchers found patients who exercised recovered from cancer-related fatigue quicker during and after radiotherapy compared to the control group and saw a significant increase in health-related quality of life post radiotherapy.
No adverse effects from the exercise were reported.
Study supervisor Professor Rob Newton said this showed home-based resistance and aerobic exercise during radiotherapy is safe, feasible and effective in accelerating recovery from cancer-related fatigue and improving health-related quality of life.
"A home-based protocol might be preferable for patients, as it is low-cost, does not require travel or in-person supervision and can be performed at a time and location of the patient's choosing," he said.
"These benefits may provide substantial comfort to patients."
Important changes
Australia's current national guidelines for cancer patients recommend moderately intense aerobic exercise for 30?minutes per day, five days a week, or vigorously intense aerobic exercise for 20?minutes a day for three?days a week.
They also call for 8-10 strength-training exercises with 8-12 repetitions per exercise, for two-to-three days per week.
However, study lead Dr Georgios Mavropalias said benefits were still observed with less exercise.
"The amount of exercise was aimed to increase progressively, with the ultimate target of participants meeting the national guideline for recommended exercise levels," he said.
"However, the exercise programs were relative to the participants' fitness capacity, and we found even much smaller dosages of exercise than those recommended in the national guidelines can have significant effects on cancer-related fatigue and health-related quality of living during and after radiotherapy."
The study also found once participants began an exercise program, most stuck with it.
The exercise group reported significant improvements in mild, moderate and vigorous physical activity up to 12 months after the supervised exercise program finished.
"The exercise program in this study seems to have induced changes in the participants' behaviour around physical activity," Dr Mavropalias said.
"Thus, apart from the direct beneficial effects on reduction in cancer-related fatigue and improving health-related quality of life during radiotherapy, home-based exercise protocols might result in changes in the physical activity of participants that persist well after the end of the program."
'The effects of home-based exercise therapy for breast cancer-related fatigue induced by radical radiotherapy' was published in Breast Cancer.
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Lush, local art exhibit set to open at Tryon Fine Arts Center - The Tryon Daily Bulletin - Tryon Daily Bulletin
Published 11:03 am Thursday, September 1, 2022By Submitted article
The Animals of Red Bell Run: Flora and Fauna is opening at Tryon Fine Arts Center’s JP Gallery on Thursday, September 8 at 6:30 p.m.
Passion begets passion, beauty begets beauty…this is the thought that is in the mind of Monica Stevenson, a professional, every moment she spends at Red Bell Run. The photographs for this exhibition are inspired by Mary Adams, the owner of Red Bell Run, who is dedicated to the animals and plants that thrive at her equine sanctuary.
Stevenson is a commercial photographer and creative director who offers a sophisticated outlook built from years of working with high-profile clients ranging from Chanel to Coca-Cola. Stevenson is known for creating intricate lighting arrangements while photographing accessories, liquids, powders, cosmetics, jewelry, and a variety of other ad imagery. She applies a sense of color that is refined, playful, and sometimes unexpected, yet always technically on point for each application. A recognized lecturer and respected fine artist, she has earned numerous industry awards and has seen her work published in a variety of industry magazines and fine art publications.
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An avid equestrian since childhood, Monica Stevenson combines a background in technical commercial photography with a love for pastoral equestrian culture to produce artistic portraits and artful explorations of the equine form. Her fine art equine photography has provided a vital creative outlet for a veteran commercial photographer used to working on high-profile advertising shoots. The work is free-flowing and romantic, yet carefully crafted and precise. The resulting imagery has found a home in more than a dozen publications, appeared in collections at Princeton University and the Kentucky Museum of the Horse in Lexington, and earned awards from the Advertising Photographers of America, the Annual Photography Masters Cup and the EQUUS Film Festival, to name a few.
As with much of Monica’s work, this exhibit leans heavily on her own collaborative spirit and the generous nature of her artistic partners–Preston Wainwright, floral designer, Thomas Ignatius and Sean Smith, both illustrative designers, to support some of the exhibit’s featured works. The resulting pictures included in this show, photographed with a large format digital camera and hand printed, display an abundance of beautiful details– flowers, leaves, illustrations, textures, colors, dogs, cats, horses, donkeys, expressions, shapes, movement, fur, teeth, limbs–all the things that make up the natural world that is Red Bell Run.
The exhibit will open on September 8 at 6:30 p.m. with a reception open to the public. The Animals of Red Bell Run: Flora and Fauna will be on display to view and purchase Stevenson’s work from September 8 – October 29, 2022. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Friday from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., and on the fourth Friday of each month from 5 – 7 p.m.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Thieves steal kitchen appliances from South Side homes for sale - CBS Chicago
Watch CBS NewsBy Asal Rezaei
November 1, 2022 / 5:28 PM / CBS Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Thieves are targeting homes for sale in Chicago – breaking in and cleaning out the kitchen appliances.
As CBS 2's Asal Rezaei reported Tuesday, police put out a community alert after three homes were burglarized in the South Side's Greater Grand Crossing community within just a few weeks. The crew of burglars hitting each house at least once in the morning before returning at night or on another day.
The specific times and locations were as follows:
The realtor for one of the houses said the thieves got in by breaking into a lock box. That house is now boarded up.
Police say one or more people could be a part of the burglary crew, who so far has gotten away with kitchen appliances from these properties.
One property manager in the neighborhood said they have been seeing thieves target empty homes for sale here for some time now - in some cases not only taking kitchen appliances, but also copper from pipes, air conditioners, and even hot water heaters in some cases.
The property managers say it is easy to pop open lock boxes - so they recommend buying heavy duty lock boxes, or boxes that open in the back to make it harder for thieves to break in.
Police are asking people to stay alert. So far, they don't have anyone in custody in connection to these burglaries.
Any with information should call Area One detectives at (312) 747-8384.
Asal Rezaei joined CBS2 Chicago as a general assignment reporter in August 2021.
First published on November 1, 2022 / 5:28 PM
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