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November diabetes awareness month after ChatGPT

  I've kept the personal and emotional heart of your original post, because that is what makes it compelling. I've tightened the language, improved the flow and made the scientific descriptions more accessible without losing the sense of excitement about what research might achieve. I've also made a few important scientific distinctions: some developments are established treatments, some are newly available, and others are still experimental. That's worth making clear, particularly when writing about something as important as type 1 diabetes. I've included recognisable public figures from sport, acting and politics in the second-to-last sentence, as requested. Type 1 diabetes was once a death sentence. Unlike type 2 diabetes, it is not caused by diet or lifestyle. Nobody develops type 1 diabetes from eating too many sweets. There is currently no cure. But what is remarkable are the advances in research, treatment and technology that are changing the outlook for peop...
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November diabetes awareness

  Type 1 diabetes was once a death sentence. Unlike type 2 diabetes, it is not caused by diet or lifestyle. No one gets it from eating sweets. It cannot be reversed or cured. What is amazing though are the advances in care and support that is available. November is diabetes awareness month. As a mum to a type 1 diabetic diagnosed in acute DKA, resulting in a trip to resus and emergency hospital treatment, and then a lifetime of adjustment, advancement of research into care and technology is a subject closer to my heart. Heartbreakingly my child often refers to a limited lifespan due to their diabetes. Yet today there are thousands of people in the UK over the age of 80 and living with type 1 diabetes. Given the advances in science and medicine, I believe this number of people will grow and grow. And as it is diabetes awareness month I’ve put together some of those advances. Tegoprubart - 12 people with diabetes trialled the immunosuppressive drug tegoprubart. all 12 are no longer i...
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Growth and P funded differently and designed to different PE

  AMP8 capital delivery: why growth and phosphorus compliance are funded differently at a WRC The fundamental distinction is that growth investment and environmental compliance investment have different regulatory drivers, different funding mechanisms and different tests of need under Ofwat's price control framework. Although both investments may ultimately result in physical changes to the same Water Recycling Centre (WRC), they are not necessarily funded on the same basis, designed for the same population equivalent (PE), or delivered as one combined capital scheme. From an Anglian Water director's perspective, the distinction is fundamentally about protecting customers, demonstrating efficient use of regulated expenditure, meeting statutory environmental obligations and ensuring that developers contribute appropriately towards the infrastructure required to accommodate growth. I will explain this from a senior water-company director's perspective, rather than attribute v...
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P calcs

  PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL CALCULATIONS Will Flack | Updated 5/11/25 Normally delete info in yellow cells, apart from FE per Capita, PST M/T and returning to pre-entered values. Note: There are tabs before the front sheet — don't miss them. Replace Elmswell crude spots data with the actual works data. General Notes • Crude Sheet / Spots Sheet: RHS calculates in loads • "mg/l" units are wrong — change to kg/d • Composites Sheet: correct as-is FE Composite Sampling Data • Used for cloth filter sizing • If taking a lagoon out of service, use HST effluent data here instead • Ensure the summary covers the full data range • A PE-based load may be used instead of sampling data TSFR • Copy data to a separate document, remove errors, then paste back — add a link to the original data • Adjust print area to show graphs, not pages of raw data • Instantaneous Flows: Select the highest 12-month period and confirm it matches the sample date so loads calculate correctly • Set a sensible print ...
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Dam linked in

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  I think the strongest thread for your LinkedIn post is the unexpected intersection of war, civil engineering, wastewater history and environmental protection. You went expecting to see an engineering story about repairing a dam, but came away thinking about a different engineering story, one that was largely absent from the exhibition: what happens when catastrophic infrastructure failure meets inadequate sanitation, and whose suffering gets remembered. For your professional network, I would make the post reflective rather than accusatory, and use your wastewater expertise to...
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Dambusters

  When the  Ruhr Valley  flooded  following the British Royal Air Force's famous  "Dambusters" raid  ( Operation Chastise ) on the night of May 16–17, 1943,  the region  did not have a conventional underground sewer system  like other major European cities. Instead, the entire region relied on a unique, massive  open-air sewer network  centered around the  Emscher River .  [ 1 ,  2 ,  3 ] Why there was no underground sewer system During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Ruhr Valley experienced a massive industrial and population boom. However,  extensive coal mining  honeycombed the ground, causing the land surface to sink and shift constantly.  [ 1 ,  2 ,  3 ] Because of this severe ground subsidence, engineers could not build traditional underground brick or clay sewer pipes—the shifting earth would quickly crack, burst, and destroy them. To solve this, the regional water boar...
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