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Maybe I'll do a video, have so many lined up and pre-recorded hahhaha.This is Toyota's third major recall in 2020.
The Japanese company recalls 1.5 million cars worldwide, which were also produced under the Lexus brand. The cause of the malfunction is problems with the fuel pump, which have already been faced to by owners of more than 5 million cars.
The new recall includes 1.5 million Toyota and Lexus cars that have been produced worldwide since 2013. The problem is a fuel pump malfunction. The defect can cause the engine to stop at high speed, as well as the loss of power when braking or taxiing, which can lead to a serious accident.
The Japanese automaker's models that are subject to the recall include the RAV4, 4Runner, Tacoma, Land Cruiser, Corolla, Highlander, Sienna and Tundra. Besides, some Lexus models will be sent for repair, including the LS, LX, GS, GX, NX, UX, RC and ES. The fuel pump will be replaced free of charge on the recalled vehicles. All problem vehicle owners will be notified of the recall by December.
This is the second recall caused by a fuel pump malfunction since the beginning of the year. In March, the company recalled 3.2 million cars due to problems with the gas pump. In January, Toyota sent more than 82,000 fire-dangerous cars for repair.Large sized spherical shaped fruit, bright orange in color, seedless juicy flesh, with excellent flavor and moderate peel thickness. A fruit easy to peel and known for its excellent taste as a table fruit. Organic Navel oranges are characterized by the growth of a second fruit at the apex, which protrudes slightly and resembles a human navel.
The thriving period of organic Navel oranges is from mid-December to late April. As their main advantage, organic Navel oranges have their high resistance to transport and storage.
Medium sized spherical shaped fruit, orange in color, with particularly juicy flesh, seedless or carrying few seeds, with excellent flavor and fine peel thickness. The commercial harvest season runs from mid-April to the end of July. Organic Valencia variety has a high resistance to transport and storage.
Large sized spherical shaped fruit, bright orange in color, with juicy seedless flesh, excellent flavor and moderate peel thickness. It has an excellent taste as a table fruit and a high resistance to transport and storage. The commercial harvest season for organic Lane Late oranges is from March to May.Endocrine Unit, Department of Pediatrics University of Pisa I-56125 Pisa, Italy
The data of Baroncelli and colleagues (1) reinforce the need to relate bone mass to bone volume in the growing skeleton. They have demonstrated that growth hormone deficiency separately reduces both the size of the bones and the amount of bone within the periosteal envelope, but this important conclusion is obscured by confusing terminology. "True" bone density refers to bone as a substance or material, whereas "apparent" bone density refers to a whole bone as an organ (2, 3). The phrase "apparent true bone density," which appears several times in the text and in the editorial flyer on the cover, is an absurdity. Also, the accumulation of cancellous and cortical bone during growth should not be referred to as "mineralization," which is the accumulation of mineral by osteoid. This process is unaffected by growth hormone deficiency, which causes not "undermineralization" but reduced net bone formation on the endosteal envelope.
We appreciate the comments of Dr. M. Parfitt about our recent study (1), and we agree with them. Our study shows that anthropometric variables and bone size affect lumbar bone mineral content (BMC) and bone mineral density (BMD), measured by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), in children with growth hormone (GH) deficiency. In order to reduce the influence of bone size on BMD measurement, mathematical models to correct the BMD values on the basis of the estimated lumbar bone volume have been proposed (2, 3, 4). However, there is no doubt that BMDarea and BMDvolume are surrogate of the true bone density. This is also evident in the terminology we and others use, e.g. "bone mineral apparent density" (3, 5), "apparent volumetric bone mineral density" (2), "volumetric bone mineral density" (6, 7), "volumetric bone mineral apparent density" (8, 9), or "apparent true bone density" (1) to indicate the correction of BMC for bone volume. The term "apparent" reinforces that density is not a real or true density but a bone mineral mass within a region, not all of which is mineral (10). Thus, BMDvolume reflects only an estimation of true bone density, but it is not the true bone density. Indeed, as recently stated in an editorial by Seeman (11), the terms "apparent" and "real" are almost universally dropped from the literature for brevity and convenience, though at the price of understanding that the size of the bone influences the reported measurement of bone density.
During growth, volumetric apparent BMD depends not only on the amount of cortical and trabecular bone contained within the periosteal surface of the bone and its true BMD, but also on the growth of the external size related to the accrual of bone taking place within the growing bone (11). Thus, in children with GH deficiency a reduced BMDvolume may reflect a decrease in mineral accrual or in bone size. Additionally, the reduced bone size did not completely account for the reduction in BMDarea and BMDvolume, suggesting that children with GH deficiency may have a reduced amount of bone within the periostial envelope (1). However, on the basis of the methodological problems related to the measurement of BMD by DEXA, in the conclusion of our article (1) we clearly stated that "further studies are needed to define whether true bone density is affected in children with GH deficiency."
Although we agree with Dr. Parfitt that "mineralization" reflects the accumulation of mineral by osteoid, many authors employed the terms "bone mineralization" (12, 13, 14, 15), "skeletal mineralization" (16), or "bone mineral status" (12, 15) to indicate the mass of mineral in a skeletal region (not all of which is bone) measured by noninvasive methods such as single- or dual-photon absorptiometry or DEXA, and expressed as BMD. Thus, in our article (1) the term "undermineralization" was used synonymously with reduced BMD corrected for the estimated bone volume (BMDvolume) in children with GH deficiency.
We thank Dr. Parfitt for giving us the opportunity to clarify some methodological problems related both to DEXA measurement in children and to the terminology usually employed to report the results obtained with this technique. In this regard, unanimous agreement on the terminology used to define "bone mineral" measured by DEXA would avoid confounding messages.
Footnotes
Address correspondence to: Giampiero I. Baroncelli, Endocrine Unit, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pisa, Via Roma 67, I-56125 Pisa, Italy.
Received December 23, 1998.
ReferencesUnions will hold a mass meeting at the Southampton Ford factory later, to discuss how to fight the planned closure of the plant.
Last Thursday (Oct 25th) Ford announced it would close next summer with the loss of 500 jobs. Business and council leaders are also planning to talk about the impact on the city later this week.
It is understood that Ford will offer a generous redundancy package and redeployment to workers who want to stay with the company.
''This is devastating news for the workers in Southampton and Dagenham and is very bad news for UK manufacturing.
"This decision- apparently reached without discussion or consultation- is a genuine and devastating blow to Southampton's economy. Once we include service staff and the impact on the wider supply chain, the total job losses could be double what were announced by Ford today. But this is not just about Southampton- it is part of a wider move by Ford to quit the UK as a manufacturer.The Barbie Issue!
On March 9, 1959, thanks to the vision and determination of Ruth Handler, Barbie debuted at the New York Toy Fair. Kinky, by Denise Duhamel, a celebration of Barbie and so much more, was published on March 1, 1997. To celebrate Barbie’s 63rd birthday and Kinky’s 25th anniversary, Dustin Brookshire and Denise Duhamel are teaming up to co-edit a special issue of Limp Wrist dedicated to Barbie.
The editors are looking for poems inspired by or dedicated to Barbie. Poems don’t have to be “fully Barbie”—they invite work with Barbie cameos. They want to read poems that include a well-placed Barbie appearance that strengthen or amplify what the poet is accomplishing in the poem.
The submission period for the Limp Wrist Barbie issue closes at midnight (EST) on Friday, December 31, 2021. The Barbie issue will be published in March 2022.
Please be sure to follow Limp Wrist's submission guidelines that are outlined on the Join the Agenda page and include "Barbie" in the subject line of the email.
America's Next Top Car Blogger: And Your New Weekend Editor Is...
After a week of suspense (sorry that SEMA got in the way of the announcement post), it's time to declare the winner of our month-long contest to find America's Next Top Car Blogger. And your new