| Medrad 'goes green' at Saxonburg plant
Medrad's new assembly plant in Victory Road Business Park has been built to qualify for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, certification. The idea behind the certification is to do well by doing good: erecting and operating buildings that put less stress on the environment and workers, and offer the potential to reduce construction and operating costs. The LEED certification system was developed by the nonprofit U.S. Green Building Council. When the projects were being planned, Medrad's top executives and board reviewed information on LEED certification for both the Victory Road factory and for the company's new Global Center headquarters in Marshall, according to Eric Ferchaw, the company's director of global facilities. Directors agreed that "going green" would improve working conditions for employees, offer financial benefits, help the company's public image and aid the environment.
In the liberal breast beats a strange passion for normalizing ...
The BBC correspondent broke down in tears live on air: if she'd been doing her job, she might have noticed how dry-eyed the locals were — hence, the Hamas takeover in Gaza shortly thereafter. Similarly dewy-eyed, Sir Simon Jenkins, grandee of Fleet Street, deplored the way that "America refused to acknowledge Yasser Arafat as a democrat." .
Guards, inmates a volatile dynamic
He believed that inmates are going to get out some day, and you've got to give them programs to prepare them for when they get out," Flaherty said. "He was progressive, and I wanted to be like that." Instead, what Flaherty found at Walpole, he said, was a bureaucracy that crushed idealism and muzzled dissent. Officers who cozied up to top prison officials enjoyed choice job assignments and got away with abusing inmates and staff, he said. Those without influential benefactors struggled for years to get off the night shift. "We used to call it the Department of Corruption and Favoritism," he said. Picard joined the Department of Correction in 1987 after working about a year as a part-time Bellingham police officer. He was ultimately promoted to captain, a job in which he oversaw about 20 officers.
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