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HI, I'm Dr Steve
From what you are describing, she has some vague symptoms. A reduced appetite can be caused by a low grade fever that can be due to a mild infection.
If she would have a mild respiratory infection, it could cause her to couh and have a lowered appetite.
ANother possibility could be heartworm infection. This is due to a mosquito biting her and transmitting the baby heartwotms into the blood stream. Then they go to the heart and grow to be 4-6 inches long. THis can cause a cough and reduced appetite. THe only way to know if she has heartworm is to have a blood test done by your vet.
When she is at the vet he can take her temperature to see if she has a fever. HE can also listen to the lungs and heart to seeif she may have a respiratory infection.
Some dogs can have mild infections that cause vague mild symptoms, but if these continue too long they can become worse. Your best option to help her wold be to take her to a vet at your earliest convenience. If she would happen to have trouble breathign or becomes lethargic, then she shoudl be seen by a vet at that time.
There are effective treatments for heartworm infections and respiratory infections, but these are more effective the sooner they are started. I hope this has helped. If it has would you please click the submit button so I may receive credit for my answer. I will check tomorrow to see if you have more questions. Thanks for using just answer and good luck
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William Bellini, Ph.D.
On Jan. 7, the California Department of Public Health reported measles cases among seven people who visited Disneyland or Disney California Adventure Park sometime between Dec. 15 and 20. According to news reports, there are now at least 26 cases of measles in four states that are linked to the outbreak and it may travel farther. At least one person infected in the outbreak traveled on a plane to visit family not knowing she was sick. Her travel could have exposed many more.
It’s a small, small world when it comes to disease transmission, and crowded places like theme parks are the perfect spots for spreading disease. Being surrounded by lots of people also means being surrounded by their germs. But Mickey’s not to blame. While the United States officially eliminated measles in 2000, unvaccinated travelers can bring measles with them from anywhere in the world, including the United States.
That doesn’t mean you should avoid theme parks, however. Getting vaccinated against preventable diseases is the best way you can keep yourself, your loved ones and your community healthy. Vaccines are available to protect us from measles and more than a dozen other serious diseases. Babies and young children — common theme park visitors — are especially susceptible to diseases. That’s why it’s so important to get children vaccinated at an early age.
As a parent or caregiver, make sure you learn about recommended child vaccination schedules and talk about them with your doctor or health care provider. Not vaccinating your children not only leaves them vulnerable to dangerous diseases, but threatens the health of fellow children who are either too young to be vaccinated, are unable to be vaccinated or have not been fully immunized. You want your child to take home souvenirs and happy memories home from vacation, not an infectious disease, right?
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Wadi Hanifah is a popular tourist destination for those who want to go hiking and spend a relaxing day in the clean, wide-open spaces. There are various scenic views, and numerous natural formations and environmental elements. Such elements include Sud Al-Elb Park, Sud Wadi Hanifa Park, Stone Dam Park, Factories Lake Park, and the Jaz’ah Lake Park. All of these facilities are equipped with seating for hikers, pedestrian walkways and parking areas. | <urn:uuid:31ecdc0b-5147-4ec6-9d2e-64f1f08a417a> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://www.narcissusriyadh.com/attractions/wadi-hanifah | 2022-07-05T16:24:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104585887.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220705144321-20220705174321-00283.warc.gz | en | 0.898876 | 121 |
|Published November 10, 1999|
Kitware Wins Contract from NLM for Long-Term ITK Maintenance
Kitware, Inc. has been granted a contract by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health (NLM/NIH) to perform ongoing maintenance of the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK). This maintenance includes supporting and porting ITK on computing platforms; extending ITK's class structure, performing bug fixes and quality enhancements; and building interfaces from ITK to other systems. ITK is a premiere, open-source system used around the world in medical image analysis.
Kitware, Inc. is a leading software development company providing products and services in the areas of medical image analysis, visualization and 3D graphics, supercomputing, computer vision, open publication, and software quality process. Kitware is known for its advanced open source software tools such as the widely used Visualization Toolkit (VTK), Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK), and the CMake build management software. Established in 1998, Kitware is rapidly growing to support top research and development clients around the world; including such prestigious customers as the US National Labs (Sandia, Los Alamos, Livermore, and Argonne), the National Institutes of Health, the Army and Air Force Research labs, and a variety of academic, commercial and governmental research labs. Our commercial customers range from Fortune 500 oil and gas companies to small medical imaging start ups. | <urn:uuid:09c18c4e-a2a9-43d7-a060-bd1e077c75b0> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://www.kitware.com/news/home/browse/84?siteid=http.. | 2014-09-18T01:38:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657125113.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011205-00092-ip-10-196-40-205.us-west-1.compute.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919919 | 304 |
At www.Karaoke2Night.com/, we run a network of Karaoke Listing as well as Karaoke fact sites. We all love Karaoke so we founded this community of sites after growing to be annoyed, trying to discover Karaoke whenever we had been taking a trip. We extend free listings which contain more information as compared to most websites paid listings, however for establishments trying to stay at the top of those listings we currently offer extremely low-cost services to do this!
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Trip at a Glance
Vatican City, Lazio, Italy
Art Tour, Sightseeing
$300 USD per trip
Departure Day(s) and Time(s)
9 am and 2 pm
Private guide, no-line tickets and reservations, headsets when necessary
Price shown is for a maximum of 2 people.
- Learn all about the Sistine Chapel so you know what you are looking at
- See the treasures the Romans and Popes collected from all over the world
- See the most beautiful and important Church in the Holy world
- Skip the incredibly long line to get in
- Admire the most amazing collection of art in the world without being overwhelmed because you guide will keep you entertained as well
Join A & R Tours for this guided exploration of Vatican City, the smallest independent country in the world, located in Rome.
See the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St. Peters Basilica and Square. Discover the ancient and modern treasures housed in the world’s largest museum collection. Vatican City contains the richest and most impressive collection of art including Michelangelo’s masterpieces which are simply breathtaking.
A & R Tours is 100% exclusive and private. Simply walk off the plane to meet your private driver and we will have every detail of your trip planned, with surprises around each corner. We will create a flawless and divine Italian dream come true. Let us do the work – you are on vacation.
We look forward to guiding you!
Your adventure awaits!
Customized, private tours throughout Italy. A&R Tours is an enthusiastic team of professional guides and drivers, here to give you a genuine, local experience. No line ticket reservations, off-the-beaten-path tours and smiling people to take care of you. Now you have a friend in Italy!
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While we were note necessarily expecting the Acer Iconia Tab A100 to come available just yet considering we had been hearing of a delay — it looks like Walmart either has plans of their own or they did not get the delay memo. Either way, while it does not look like one can walk into Walmart and make a purchase at this time, there has been some information in regards to the price of the tablet. According to these recently spied Walmart price tags, the Acer Iconia Tab A100 will be $349 when it comes available. And for those who may have glossed over this as being just another Android tablet offering, the A100 comes with a 7 inch (1024 x 600) touchscreen display, dual core 1GHz processor, 5 megapixel rear facing camera, 2 megapixel front facing camera and perhaps most important — Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Yup, assuming Acer gets this out, it may end up being the first Honeycomb tablet on the market with a 7 inch display. But alas, for now we can only see that the price will be $349.
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This historic mining town is also known as the “City of Stairs.” Its architecture has earned the city a World Heritage Site designation and its fascinating museum tells the story of the town’s copper mining heritage and the people who built the city.
Parque Safari de Rancagua
In addition to the animal exhibits, this zoo takes visitors through a five-acre enclosure that is home to six lions. The trucks are enclosed in metal cages, and meat is thrown onto the roof. Once the lions leap onto the cage, visitors get a very up close and personal look at these magnificent animals. This tour is not for the faint of heart!
Estadio el Teniente
Home to the local football club O’Higgins, this multipurpose stadium has hosted games for the Copa Libertadores de América, the Copa Sudamericana, and the Copa Conmebol and was named one of the top 32 stadiums in the world in 2014.
Reserva Rio Cipreses
A favorite of outdoorsmen and nature lovers, this stunningly beautiful nature reserve features exotic animal and plant life, including birds, lizards, and mammals. There are also mountains and valleys, a volcano and two hiking routes, the Tricahues Trail and the Los Peumos Trail.
Hotel Manquehue Rancagua
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My feet have barely touched the ground at this year’s RSA Conference, and already there are too many talking points to mention.
One thing which immediately struck me is the sheer number of people attending this year compared to 2011. The reason for this, which RSA president Art Coviello addressed in his opening keynote: the last year has seen an unprecedented number of high-profile security breaches. If this isn’t sufficient reason for the great and good of the security industry to converge on San Francisco to discuss and dissect their experiences, then I don’t know what is!
The sheer volume of breaches in the past twelve months seems to have brought about a shift in the executive office’s attitude towards security policy. At the highest level, there is always a trade-off between the risk of a breach and the cost of the security required to prevent it. In the past, more often than not, most companies were willing to accept this risk, believing that even if they were breached the remediation cost would be less than taking more proactive security measures. This is perhaps why, at last year’s conference, it seemed like everyone was focused on GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance).
By contrast, this year the hot topic is taking risk seriously and implementing controls to ensure that breaches like the ones we have seen in the past year simply do not happen again. While no company can be fully immune to attack, this focus on being proactive rather than reactive to risk is promising and should result in better overall security. Funding for these sorts of controls should now be easier to come by, thanks to the wake-up-call the whole industry has been given.
Art’s keynote (which you can watch in full below) reinforced the need for proactive security measures and for our industry to shift its focus from a reactive stance that may previously have been the norm. Now that the full cost of a security breach (both financial and reputational) is better understood at executive level, there should hopefully be more backing for these projects in the years ahead.
Over the next few days I’ll keep you up-to-date with highlights, impressions and the debate we get stuck into at RSA. If you’re at the event yourself then let us know your thoughts on what’s happening in the comments section below, or Tweet me for a chat @ewizworld. I’m always open to suggestions of what else I should be taking a look at!
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Max occupancy: 4
1 Queen Bed,
1 Sofa Bed
140 Ida Belle Drive #8238, Keystone, CO 80435
Enjoy peace of mind with flexible, no-fee options for trip changes and cancellations.
You can reschedule your trip, cancel it and receive 100% credit for a future stay, or cancel it for a refund (minus the booking fee) at least 30 days before check-in.
Note: If your trip starts after August 31, you have these options as long as you change or cancel your trip at least 30 days before check-in.
Professional housekeepers clean and stock each home, using an EPA-approved disinfectant.
Each trip is backed by 24/7 customer support and local teams everywhere we operate.
Most Vacasa homes use smart locks or lockboxes for a smooth, contactless check-in.
Cozy condo w/shared hot tub, mountain views, steps from skiing
Couples and small families will love this Keystone condo, complete with modern comforts, gorgeous views, and access to perks like a shared hot tub.
Keystone Resort's incredible peaks are just minutes from your door, with the lifts only a few steps away. Summertime visitors will love being steps from mountain biking trails, while year-round guests can go shopping at River Run Village and grab a bite at the Overlook Grill.
You'll feel right at home with the cozy living room, featuring free WiFi, cable on the flatscreen TV, and gorgeous views of the mountains and sunrise from the deck. The kitchen features brand-new stainless steel appliances, ideal for cooking up your favorite tasty meal.
Make your next mountain getaway truly special - save your dates today! A damage waiver, covering up to $2,000 of accidental damage to the property or its contents, is included in the cost of your reservation.
You must be 21 years or older to rent this property.
Hot tub (Shared)
Washer/dryer : Shared
Heating & cooling
Kitchen & dining
Walk to lifts
Nearby activities & attractions
Hot tub : Shared
Pool table : Shared
Gas grill : Shared
Parking & access
Carolyn S.Mar 2020
Attractive, comfortable condo within River Run Village. Wlak to everything. Lockers on ground floor, 3 hot tubs with towels.
Justin C.Mar 2020
We have stayed at other properties in River run before, but will probably not stay in River run again. The room was well decorated, but you could hear every little sound above and below and outside, all night long!
There were a lot of small issues with the unit it’s self. The handle is broken on the master bedroom door, a lightbulb shattered in the bathroom while our daughter was showering. We assume someone put a regular bulb in the heat bulb spot. There is a random screen just sitting behind the couch, screenMissing from the window. The smoke alarms are super sensitive, which I guess is a good thing, but we set them off while we were cooking steak in our room.
None of these items were really a big issue, we didn’t contact the rental company because we didn’t want to spend our time waiting for things to be fixed. We will not stay in River Run again. When you pay top dollar for a room at a nice resort, you expect a little bit more.
Thank you for sharing your feedback, Justin. We are sorry to hear this home was not as expected. We appreciate you bringing these items to our attention, and we will work with our maintenance team to make repairs and improvements. We hope to have another chance to impress you in the future!
Mike K.Oct 2019
It was difficult with the instructions I received on finding the key boxes to get our cards. After several stops we finally ran into one of your maintenance persons who was very helpful
We are sorry you had a check-in issue. The check-in details were sent to the e-mail address that was provided. Please call us next time at our 24/7 Guest Services line for the fastest service. We hope we can host you again soon!
Jenna O.Sep 2019
Awesome stay and great locations! The condo was very easy to get the keys and to find the room and parking. I will say one thing, which the owner cannot help, it was very hot so we opened the windows at night, due to its location next to some type of dinning hall you heard people slamming items down or yelling. A little annoying when going to bed, but again that's life.
Robert L.Aug 2019
Booked though Gondola Resorts, Inc. (www.gondolaresorts.com) and received great service from both Vacasa and the reservations company. The location was great and this unit was much nicer than some other Silvermill condos I have stayed.
Elias C.Aug 2019
Booked through GONDOLA RESORTS (www.gondolaresorts.com) and received excellent service. Great location in River Run Village. Easy check-in. Clean condominium. Simple checkout.
Lindsey C.Jul 2019
We loved the location, the attractions, and this cozy condo. Fun things to do and see over the weekend. The condo was great, their rules were very reasonable and they had helpful comments on how to find the condo in the maze of Keystone. We weren't a fan of the bed, didnt get the best sleep due to the bed being pretty uncomfortable. Also, the AC didn't work and we picked a weekend that was pretty hot so it wasn't helpful to open windows. Other than that, we loved our stay!
Lindsey, thank you for sharing your experience! We are pleased to hear that you had such an enjoyable stay. We apologize if there was any confusion regarding AC, however, this unit does not list AC as an amenity. Regardless, we hope you stayed cool in the home, and look forward to your next visit!
Jan G.Mar 2019
The condo had very convenient underground parking and was a 6 minute walk to the gondola. The condo had a well equiped and supplied kitchen; we cooked breakfasts, made lunches for the slopes and cooked delicious dinners at the condo. 4 out 5 because the shower water was not consistently hot and the pull out bed in the couch could use an upgrade.
Joy M.Mar 2019
This was a great condo, highly recommend!
Donovan D.Mar 2019
Condo is nicely furnished and quiet. Pullout sofa frame is not acceptable, kids had to sleep on sofa mattress on floor. Long walk from elevator.
Richard J.Mar 2019
Phil D.Dec 2018
great place to stay nice walk to lift, and pubs, don't forget to bus to Arapaho for a day.
Jessica R.Nov 2018
We will continue to make keystone our thanksgiving tradition. It is such a wonderful family vacation.
Amanda N.Jul 2018
We loved our stay in this cozy condo! The bed was super comfortable, we had everything we needed in the kitchen, and we could see the sunrise!
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How to Buy a Dishwasher
When shopping for a dishwasher, today's models clean better, use far less water, and function more quietly than their predecessors. "Every shopper wants a dishwasher that cleans, operates quietly and looks good," says Chapman Logsdon, a regional manager with hhgregg.
"You're going to live with your dishwasher on average for 14 years," he adds. "It's worth it to invest in a good one."
Considerations When Choosing a Dishwasher
- What is your budget?
- Where will the dishwasher be in your kitchen design?
- Where will the other appliances be in relation to the dishwasher?
- How big will your wash loads be?
- Do you do a lot of entertaining or heavy cooking?
- How much noise can you tolerate?
Cost Range. Shoppers can expect to pay $250 for a noisy dishwasher with a control knob and plastic interior tub and as much as $1,000 for a sleek and quiet stainless machine with concealed digital controls and adjustable racks.
Size and Installation. The most common dishwasher width sold is 24 inches, says Logsdon, though it is always wise to bring accurate cut-out dimensions when shopping. Homeowners with granite or other solid-surface countertops should seek out models that mount to the cabinetry on the sides rather than the underside of the countertop.
Interior Size. "One of the biggest changes in newer dishwashers is the removal of the lower kick panel," says Logsdon. Smaller motors and pumps have allowed dishwasher doors to extend almost down to the ground, making way for larger interiors. These so-called "tall tubs" are now available on all but the least expensive models.
Noise. It is worth it to spend a little more money for a quiet model, says Logsdon, especially if the kitchen is located close to the family room or bedrooms. The good news is that all dishwashers are less noisy than older models thanks to improved insulation. For the quietest ones out there, expect to pay at least $500 and up.
Appearance. Not every shopper buys an appliance for its performance. Equally important to many is how the dishwasher will look in the home. Must-have design elements like stainless steel panels and hidden control panels have become more affordable, with models starting as low as $300 and $500, respectively. But the trade-off is often a machine with fewer features. "You can get the look for less but there will be less on the inside," Logsdon says.
Buyers also will pay about $150 more for a stainless steel tub, though the upgrade is largely cosmetic. Though a plastic liner might discolor over time, it will almost always last longer than the machine.
Racks. "This is one of those lifestyle type factors," Logsdon says. Families who entertain frequently might feel the extra money for a model with adjustable racks and tines is worth it. These racks offer the flexibility to accommodate delicate wine glasses one night and baby bottles the next. Adjustable racks also are able to manage oversize or oddly shaped plates and platters.
Shoppers also will pay more for Teflon or another durable rack coating, which will outlast inferior plastic-coated racks that eventually disintegrate, allowing the metal below to rust.
Cycles. "A large majority of people use the same wash cycle every time they run the dishwasher," says Logsdon. An entry-level dishwasher will typically have two wash cyclesnormal and lightas well as a heated or cool dry. The additional wash cycles that appear on pricier models include an ultra-quick wash for lightly soiled items, a top-rack-only wash for glassware, and a heavy-duty cycle for pots and pans.
Parents of young children may find models with a "sani-wash," which heats the water to sanitizing temps, indispensible for cleaning baby bottles. "Some models use heat and pressure to turn water into steam, which penetrates baked-on food stains better," explains Logsdon. Expect to pay north of $700 for a machine with steam.
Soil Sensors. Soil sensors, also called turbidity sensors, monitor the levels of particulate (tiny particles of a substance) in the wash water, explains Logsdon. This technology allows the dishwasher to "know" when the dishes are clean, shortening wash cycles and saving energy in the process. Models boasting this technology are available for as little as $350. | <urn:uuid:49a3daeb-95e7-4ffd-80fb-1c462ca22bee> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.hgtv.com/remodel/kitchen-remodel/how-to-buy-a-dishwasher | 2016-05-31T10:04:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464051268601.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524005428-00186-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955955 | 947 |
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Evidence of bidder eligibility in respect of specialist knowledge
Awarding bodies have a duty to award public contracts for the assembly and repair of drains and sewers to eligible bidders. That is why more than 5,000 contracting authorities and engineering firms across Germany are currently engaged in verifying the technical eligibility of bidders on the basis of the Gütesicherung Kanalbau RAL-GZ 961 as a reference work for the formulation of eligibility requirements.
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Major Water Use Online Registration Instructions for First Time Registrants
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- A valid email address is required to register major water use with the online Major Water Use Information System.
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a. An existing major water user has registered water use with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources previously and will have a unique 8-digit major water user identification number.
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Monday, October 31, 2016
I love playoffs. I think every sport should have a playoff once the regular season is over. In golf, the PGA Tour has had some success with FedEx Cup playoffs and now the Champions Tour is following suit with the Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs. The first event was here in SoCal, the Powershares QQQ Championship at Sherwood Country Club.
I have never been to or played at Sherwood but was eager to with memories of the "Showdown at Sherwood" stuck in my head (that great match between Tiger and Duval in their prime). I haven't had a chance to play it in person yet (which I hope to one day) but I figured a stroll around the course seeing some high end golf is just what the doctor ordered.
First off, Powershares and Sherwood CC did a great job putting on this tournament. The volunteers were extremely friendly and there was a really laid back vibe to the whole proceedings. Sherwood is not the most walkable course with significant elevation gains and losses but the tournament put food and drink stations in the right areas and all the spectators had a good time.
Sherwood is schizophrenic but in a charming way. The front side for the most part is flat and follows various parts of a lake set amongst old oak trees.
Don't let the front side fool you, there is no bombing the ball here as there are various washes and streams that bisect the fairway in multiple areas.
The backside has a crazy amount of elevation gain and losses, none felt more so than the par 3s. It seems that every par 3 on both the front and backside, you are hitting over a ravine to a green you would be lucky to get on in the best of conditions.
The par 4s and par 5s are no bargain either with forced carries for your tee shots and oak trips devilishly placed to catch an errant tee ball.
There are also a tremendous amount of rocks on the course which become boulder-sized starting on 9
Any time you get to hang out with Wayne Gretzky (member of Sherwood) to watch golf and to go into the pro shop and see Dustin Johnson's US Open trophy and bag, well you sir get bonus points!
Also bonus points should be added for the sweet tourney merchandise at Sherwood. Often tourney schwag isn't awesome but this time it was. My only regret is that I didn't pull the trigger on getting a Sherwood archer hat with the orange Powershares tourney logo on the side. Still thinking bout that hat as I write this ;).
Overall, the inaugural Powershares QQQ Championship got off to a great start and is being held at the fascinating Sherwood course. I will definitely be back again.
For more info on the tourney check out this link! http://www.pgatour.com/champions/tournaments/powershares-qqq-championship.html
Thursday, October 27, 2016
An hour Northwest of Los Angeles is the small town of Fillmore that is home to Elkins Ranch. ER is a rarity in SoCal in that they control their own water supply so conditions are often green where other courses are putting on their brown coats. Having played Mountain View a few months ago, I was eager to try out ER which is right down the road.
ER is set up like your typical parkland course with holes running parallel to each other. The trees, while sparse, are set up to capture stray shots for the most part. What this course lacks in routing prowess, it more than makes up for in elevation changes.
You have holes with elevated greens and holes with crazy elevated tee boxes. While the course is under 6,500 yards and rather boxed in to its surroundings, its amazing to me how many changes to the elevation occur in such a confined space.
Because ER controls its own water, they have some pretty sweet water features including this brute of a hole, the par 4 ninth hole.
The number 1 handicap hole, you have a sliver of fairway to the right as you make your way around the pond. I missed my par putt by inches but it made want to play this hole over and over again. Water is a double edged sword as the course might be a bit overwatered but the water features are pretty sweet.
The course does have some oddities. The few traps that exist on the course are oddly removed from the greens, which is a design feature I have never encountered before. There is at least a good two feet of rough between the trap and green below.
Also, the course is EXTREMELY compressed in certain areas. Right here there are three greens that are within a bump and run from each other.
I am not sure what the solution is to this compressed conundrum, especially since it leads to a lot of fences around the course but if the course ever undergoes a redesign and get rid of this pancaking the course could be really something.
For more info on Elkins Ranch, check out the link! http://www.elkinsranchgc.com/
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
As you are driving to the Lakes at El Segundo, part of you wonders how it can even exist? Several of the holes border Sepulvada Blvd (a very busy road here in Los Angeles) and it seems hemmed in on all sides by other major roads and the run off from LAX. But exist it does and LA golfers are better for the course existing.
Lakes offers an LA golfer a bunch of short holes (short = sub 110 yards) which sharpens the wedge game and the greens roll true so you get a classic short course vibe. Unlike a lot of short courses, Lakes has a crazy amounts of bunkers, none more so than a 76 yard hole that has huge swales of bunkers in case you are not incredibly precise.
Lakes ups the ante into executive course territory offering two really interesting par 4's (both sub 300 yards). One is uphill with a lot of strategically placed bunkers
and one downhill with water and bunkers to harass your shot.
Lakes does have some issues, geese have taken over the course and evidence of them are everywhere and the squeezing between the boulevards does affect the yardages so you are making a lot of the same shot for 9 holes. That being said, I really enjoyed my Sunday morning round. It was very relaxed and a good walk in the park!
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David Mamet’s play Oleanna is about the power struggle between a university professor and one of his female students who accuses him of sexual harassment. It came out around the time of Anita Hill’s testimony against U.S. Supreme Court Nominee Clarence Thomas and the themes still ring true. The early 90s had Anita Hill and the 2010s have the #MeToo movement, proving these problems are, unfortunately, still very relevant. Today, there is a push to hold those in power to task for their predatory behavior, and political correctness is at the forefront of discussion. It is no surprise that a play centering around power and submission and who has the right to occupy what position, is fiercely relevant and needed today. I’m just not sure Oleanna is or should be that play.
While the play’s ideas are relevant and invite further discussion, the method – in the way characters are presented and the weight behind each of their arguments – misses a chance of presenting the kind of ambiguity that could have made the play great. Putting aside the critiques of Oleanna, Seventhirty Productions’ grapples well with the flawed material. The production cannot, however, present something that isn’t there in the play; it faithfully presents a straightforward, well-acted production that makes the audience sympathize with the professor.
Oleanna’s story is fairly simple. Carol (Madeleine Jullian) comes to see her professor John (Guy Buller) because she is failing his course. Guy Buller plays a charming, somewhat scattered professor who cares about his students and changing the educational system. His body language is non-threatening, even as he circles Carol in the small office. Buller is so full of charm that it’s easy to miss how condescending and selfish John is, pontificating against the nature of education and fancying himself a counter-culture rebel. He is unquestioningly convinced of his own magnanimity, all the while interrupting Carol to take calls about his impending house purchase and tenure appointment instead of listening to her very real problem.
Madeleine Jullian presents Carol’s progression from scared student to a confident, strident woman seamlessly; though she does struggle, as most would, with humanizing Carol. This is not her fault – any actress would struggle with the empty husk of a character Mamet has created. Carol is alternatively presented as a dimwit and a malevolent mastermind, yet is denied any kind of back story or depth. Jullian grapples with the challenges of the role and plays into Carol’s lessening humanity, her tone and actions becoming sharper and increasingly aggressive. She certainly holds her own in a battle of wits, as both her and Buller keep up with the demanding pace of Mamet’s script.
The excellent acting is rounded out by John P. Kelly, whose directing explores the location of power with a much more subtle approach than the script. He follows the shift in power, using John’s desk as the invisible line that divides the strong from the weak. He plays Carol and John like chess pieces, choreographing them as they weave in and out of each other’s space, vying for the top spot. There is a simmering tension from the beginning between the characters and Kelly plays it patiently – building up their relationship in the first act and allowing the emotions to boil over naturally.
Oleanna raises a lot of essential questions about power, who defines the context of what is and isn’t appropriate, and why. But, instead of allowing the audience to come to their own conclusions, it instead presents a worst-case scenario of political correctness in Carol. Her one-dimensional character, as well as her eventual need for absolute control, is stiflingly authoritative and obliterates the possibility for an entirely valid conversation. Nevertheless, Seventhirty productions does a commendable job of putting on this complex and difficult play.
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Shelton woman shot while answering the door
A Shelton, Wash., woman who answered her door early Friday morning was shot by two men.
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#1 Nov 23, 2012
wow,the news has been messing up with this story all over.It did not happen on friday and she was not into drugs AT ALL....
#2 Nov 26, 2012
you tell'em babe.. imu
#3 Nov 27, 2012
I am from shelton and I am known to the police not because if drugs or criminal behavior but because I was raised in a small tight knit community.. I am also the same age as the woman killed I pray for her family and children especially with losing their momma so close to christmas and right after thanksgiving!! I am sry if people are so blinded by controversy that they can't see the loss of a young mother sister daughter and friend.. This is what truly matters in this time not her personal choice to trust that the world is safe enough to open her front door in city that small
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This is one good looking phone, though you’ll notice straight off that the 6S Plus is a little chunkier than the 6 Plus (because of that new screen tech, we hear). That does make the device more robust, though, as does the unibody glass and metal build. This is obviously an iPhone, with its sleek lines, rounded corners and minimalist look, but it’s bigger, and therefore better, at least for some. Looks aside you’re getting some mighty impressive specs here. There’s a bunch more speed thanks to a new Apple chipset, alongside some upgraded cameras, and then there’s that awesome new 3D touchscreen as well. Not a bad package at all. Phablets are an investment, and this one is going to cost you. But in the end, you get what you pay for, and if you’re looking for looks, power and performance, then the iPhone 6S Plus is going to be just the ticket.
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So what’s this whole 3D screen thing about then? The display is essentially extra sensitive, which allows it to know the difference between a touch and a press and respond differently depending on input. This gives you twice as many options, in the same way, that a computer mouse having right and left buttons do. It takes a little getting used to, but this is actually very useful. Regarding size you’re getting 5.5 inches, so not the biggest screen around, but still more than big enough for excellent on-screen typing and reading. On to resolution then, and this is a 1080 x 1920 display, making it around 401 PPI. That’s not the whole story, though since this is a Retina display with LED backlighting and IPS. Put that means that this display is awesome. Colours are true, images are sharp and precise, and viewing angles are wide. If we were forced to choose we’d say that this is probably the best display around right now, for picture quality alone. Add in 3D touch, and you’ve just made an incredible display even more unbelievable.
There’s been a surprising development on the camera front in that there’s been some upgrading going on, which is unusual for Apple. At the front, there’s a 5 MP camera, perfect for FaceTime and video calling. It’s got screen flash too, which is a nice touch that allows the display of the phone to act as a flash for the camera. Behind you’re now getting a 12 MP affair, a big difference from the old 8 MP cameras we’re used to seeing from Apple. There’s the full host of features too, including phase detection autofocus, 4K video recording, optical image stabilisation, dual-LED flash, and then some impressive 4609 x 2592 resolution as well. Photographers will be jumping for joy since the 6S Plus takes better pictures than ever before. If you like your snaps (and who doesn’t these days?), then the 6S Plus won’t disappoint.
Hold up, we’re not quite finished; there are a few other things too. The 6S Plus does have a fingerprint scanner for extra security. It’s also equipped for Apple Pay, Apple’s digital wallet and payment service. How about a fancy new camera mode? Live Photo lets you take video and a photo simultaneously, resulting in a still photograph along with a short, 3-second video of the time surrounding the picture. Neat, right? Last, but not least, Siri has been upgraded too. She’s even more useful than ever and can understand more complex commands (but she’s still pretty sarcastic).
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|Weight||192 g (6.77 oz)|
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|- Apple Pay (Visa, MasterCard, AMEX certified)|
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|Secondary Camera||5 MP, 1080p@30fps, 720p@240fps, face detection, HDR, panorama|
|Alert types||Vibration, proprietary ringtones|
|WLAN||Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, hotspot|
|Bluetooth||v4.2, A2DP, LE|
|GPS||Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS|
|NFC||Yes (Apple Pay only)|
|USB||v2.0, reversible connector|
|Sensors||Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer|
|Messaging||iMessage, SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email|
|- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic|
|- Siri natural language commands and dictation|
|- iCloud cloud service|
|- iCloud Keychain|
|- Document editor|
|- Photo/video editor|
|Battery||Non-removable Li-Po 2915 mAh battery (11.1 Wh)|
|Stand-by||Up to 384 h (3G)|
|Talk time||Up to 24 h (3G)|
|Music play||Up to 80 h|
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There are a fair few phablets around right now, and some pretty good ones, but the iPhone 6S Plus blows the others away. With excellent performance specs, that beautiful 3D touch display and it’s great new cameras, the 6S Plus is everything you could ever want from a phablet.
What about connectivity then? It’s the usual: 3G, 4G, WiFi and Bluetooth, though advanced LTE tech should mean you’re getting faster mobile data speeds. Regarding memory, you’re getting 16 GB of internal storage on the base model, which isn’t very much. Couple that with a lack of SD card slot (meaning you can’t add more memory), and you’re going to have to watch that storage very carefully.
What don’t we like here? 16 GB of internal memory is pretty small, especially for a phone as big and powerful as the 6S Plus, though you can always use online cloud storage if necessary. Other than that, we’ve got no complaints. The iPhone 6S Plus is a fantastic device, one that will please even demanding users, and just a great piece of tech!
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Murray has won the last two meetings in straight sets. His overall record with is 10 Murray/ 8 Fed. Will he show the former number 1 that he IS the future number 1?
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No dice for Murray. After a close 6-7 loss in the first set, he goes down yet again in the second, 2-6.
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Riverside gets funds to build fire station 2
The Riverside Volunteer Fire Department is ready to proceed with the construction of its No.
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anyone know why fire trucks cruised redskin ridge until 2am wed. night.
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A number of complex hazards can affect the pharmaceutical supply chain. Tom Teixeira, life sciences practice leader for the Willis Group, discusses the benefits of an integrated risk management framework in controlling these dangers.
Tom Teixeira: With today's companies facing a challenging economic and regulatory environment, effective management of risk and reward has become increasingly important for any overall business plan. What an integrated approach to risk management offers is a framework to align each and every aspect of risk that a company might face, from risk retention through to financing and transfer.
There are two key benefits: one is related to the improvements made within the decision-making process, which creates greater resilience across the company; the other relates to the major decisions pharmaceutical companies must take in order to reduce uncertainty and remain competitive. They face a raft of potentially hazardous situations in drug development, acquisition, supply chain management and diversification. Integrated risk management can provide the data to effectively manage these scenarios, ensuring that the correct strategic decisions are made.
At the operating level, you may see a reduction in losses as a result of more effective controls. You may also see a fall in insurance premiums as underwriters look more favourably on effective risk prevention and continuity planning measures.
With the move towards lean manufacturing, pharmaceutical companies and CMOs are becoming increasingly reliant on a smaller number of key suppliers, both internally and externally. The sudden loss of one of these suppliers could lead to major business disturbance and potential disruption to future revenues. Other risks, not necessarily related to property damage at supplier sites, are also important. These include cyber attacks, problems with IT infrastructure, regulatory shutdowns, a loss of validation and certification, product recalls and political risk.
If a dual sourcing strategy has not been adopted, it can take between six and 18 months to get an alternative supplier in place to produce an active pharmaceutical ingredient intermediate that is FDA/MHRA/EMA-approved. This is why risk-management strategies are so crucial.
Obviously, you have a lot of administration costs, particularly when a number of trials are being undertaken concurrently. You also have to understand the laws and rules for insurance protection and cover, which might not apply in other, more familiar, locations. It's also important to monitor any changes to the trial conditions and the data that is being produced.
These problems can be managed through a combination of business continuity planning, risk assessment methodologies and the right type of insurance product. For supply chain risk, consideration should also be given to dual sourcing and buffer-stock strategies, and potentially buying financially fragile suppliers. For foreign clinical trials, technology portals that can access the latest data on country requirements can assist in ensuring the required insurance cover is always in place.
Risk management will always remain an important function for the pharmaceutical sector. The frameworks that large companies operate must be able to adapt to the changing profile of risk. As new products are developed, new risks will need to be managed with ever-more complex manufacturing and distribution systems, shorter product lifecycles and different supply chains. Future consideration must also be given to the possibility of greater public scrutiny and heavier regulation.
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Although we all are discussing Autumn collections already, let’s not forget that it is still Summer…
To remind us of that Rouge Bunny Rouge created a new look, which is the first part of their new trilogy- Under Good Omens.
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Manual locks are considered no good today. The presence of a locksmith at every corner of the street has made the task of getting a duplicate key child’s play. In times like these all of us have shown high level of faith in the fancy number locks. Not like we believe in what fancy locks have got to offer but maybe they are 5% better than the traditional ones plus pretty sophisticated.
I can’t say about sophistication but security is something we all need to rethink about. The Combo Breaker is a motorized, battery powered, 3D printed, Arduino based device that can crack any Master combination lock in less than 30 seconds. It is a simple device which can be built by anybody. Combo Breaker uses a simple program which exploits manufacturing flaw of the combination disks present in the lock which has a difference sort of resistance to certain numbers. What it does is not very different from a brute force attack used to crack passwords on a system. Within seconds without any human interaction, your lock is opened.
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A client gifted all the share capital of a business he owned to a trust four years ago. At the time of the gift, the business had a value of approx £1m. The business also owed him £900k.
Since the gift was made the business has stopped trading (lost a couple of exclusive supply contracts) and is effectively worthless. The only thing on the balance sheet is the £900k still owing to him. He would like to set up another trade through this company in the hope that it makes money and can repay the loan (as this would be more tax efficient than salary and dividends at the higher rate)
However getting access to credit etc is difficult because of the way the offshore trust is set up and the difficulty in getting through AML checks.
My question is, as a settlor can not take assets back out of a trust (at least in this case he can't) can he buy the shares back from the trust even though he gifted them in the first place? The company is basically worthless and so a nominal transaction sales price of £1 would be agreed.
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In the time I’ve been penning these personal thoughts about cycling’s problems with doping, starting with the 1960s, I’ve become more conscious of how the cycle of revelations and reactions keeps on repeating itself. And how true breakthroughs in the fight against doping only happen when there’s a combination of scientific advancement and unscripted events.
The death of Danish amateur cyclist Knud Jensen, who was on amphetamines, at the Rome Olympics in 1960 initially woke up the sports world to the need for drug testing. France was the first to enact anti-doping legislation, in 1963, but its implementation was erratic and resulted in a riders’ strike when the gendarmerie descended on a Bordeaux hotel at the 1966 Tour de France and inexpertly took urine samples from a number of athletes, including French star Raymond Poulidor.
But it was only after Professor Arnold Beckett, head of London’s Chelsea School of Pharmacy, finalized a rock-solid test for amphetamines that the UCI became the first sports governing body to introduce testing. The first experimental tests at the 1965 Tour of Britain were so successful that the race leader and two others tested positive and were thrown out of the race. Encouraged, the UCI extended the program, including its own world championships the following year. But, because of those problems with the heavy-handed French government testing, the Tour de France didn’t get any UCI-approved controls until 1968—the year after Tom Simpson died on Mont Ventoux with amphetamines in his system.
Simpson’s death triggered the International Olympic Committee to set up a medical commission, which Beckett joined, and the first list of banned substances was drawn up before testing began at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. As I wrote in a previous column, the early anti-doping controls were not always conducted according to the rules, with pro cyclists finding ways to avoid testing positive (as illustrated by Michel Pollentier at the 1978 Tour). Also, it didn’t help that there was no definitive test for steroids until 1974 (also pioneered by a London laboratory), and even then the riders and their soigneurs learned how to use masking agents, such as diuretics, to beat the system, before they were banned too.
It was widely known in the 1970s and early-’80s that long-distance runners and cross-country skiers from Scandinavia were using blood-boosting methods (by re-infusing their previously stored blood) to improve their performances. In Italy, its Olympic Committee CONI even sponsored sports doctor Professor Francesco Conconi (inventor of the Conconi test for establishing an athlete’s anaerobic threshold) and his biomedical research center at the University of Ferrara to prepare athletes from several sports, including skiing and cycling, using blood-boosting methods. And it’s widely accepted that Conconi and his assistant Michele Ferrari helped Francesco Moser break Eddy Merckx’s world hour record at Mexico City in January 1984.
Blood doping was undetectable and even encouraged until members of the 1984 U.S. Olympic cycling team (track and road), under the supervision of the U.S. Cycling Federation coaching staff, blood-boosted in Los Angeles. Some intra-federation memos (this happened before e-mails existed) were leaked to Rolling Stone magazine, which published a salacious article on the affair in its February 1985 issue. The result was several USCF officials being reprimanded. It was regarded as a huge scandal in the United States and resulted in blood doping finally being prohibited, first by the USCF, then the UCI, and eventually by the IOC in 1986.
It was ironic that just as blood doping was being banned a team of scientists at biotech company Amgen in California was researching an artificial, or recombinant, form of human erythropoietin for boosting the red-blood-cell count of anemic cancer patients. FDA approval for the new drug Epogen (EPO) came in 1989, but it was already on the black market in Europe, and EPO eventually became the most widely used doping product in cycling, cross-country skiing and long-distance running.
There was no way EPO could be detected in blood tests because it was a genetic hormone that helped athletes create their own new red blood cells. Scientists in Europe and Australia began research on methods to identify the use of EPO by athletes, but it was a long, difficult (and expensive!) process. In the early-1990s, dozens of athletes, including cyclists, allegedly died because of their hematocrit (percentage of red blood cells) reached levels as high as 60 or even 70 percent. In Italy, CONI again gave money to Professor Conconi, this time to research an EPO test, but this merely led to Italian athletes and Italian cycling teams becoming the leaders in the use of EPO.
That was confirmed when the Gewiss team placed three riders in the first three places at the Flèche Wallonne classic in April 1994, after which their team doctor, Ferrari, told Italian and French journalists in an interview that only the abuse of EPO was dangerous, not the drug itself, and that he wasn’t scandalized by riders using it.
That unscripted incident in 1994 was one that didn’t get the reaction it merited, either from the media or the UCI. It gave Verbruggen an opening to condemn the apparent abuse of EPO in Italy, but he played down Ferrari’s remarks and said that the other teams should work and train harder to challenge the Italians. The press criticized Verbruggen but no real investigative journalism was set in motion, and it should be noted that the publications with the biggest resources, L’Équipe in France and La Gazzetta dello Sport in Italy, also happened to be the organizers of the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia respectively. Conflicts of interest were an obvious factor in the lack of action.
With no detailed investigations by the media or the UCI and no definitive test for EPO on the horizon, the blood-boosting drug became more and more predominant in the European pro peloton. Finally, both the UCI and the international ski federation (FIS) looked at ways of deterring athletes from using EPO. The result was that the UCI, after discussions with sports doctor and the pro teams themselves, implemented a 50-percent hematocrit limit in January 1997. Several medical experts questioned the UCI limit as being too stringent, especially as the FIS limit was much higher (equivalent to some 53 percent before a tested athlete was stopped from competing). UCI president Hein Verbruggen was criticized for saying that the new limit was a “health check” and it did not imply use of EPO, but with no foolproof test yet available he was just stating the facts.
The new blood testing had an immediate effect. In the very first tests before the March 1997 Paris-Nice, three of the 20 riders tested, tested over the 50-percent limit. They were all domestiques: Frenchman Erwan Menthéour (who would write a book detailing his use of EPO and other performance-enhancing products, including so-called Pot-Belge, a mixture of amphetamines, cocaine and heroin that riders, and even some French journalists, got high on at parties); and the Italians Mauro Santaromita (later named on a list of athletes implicated in a police investigation into doping), and Luca Colombo. But the penalties of being excluded from the race, along with a fine and a two-week suspension of their racing licenses, was not a huge deterrent.
It was only after the Festina Affair in July 1998 and the various entities (the IOC, sports federations and federal; governments) came together that the World Anti-Doping Agency was formed in December 1999 and the sports world started to take the modern doping problem far more seriously, with the extra funding needed to institute more testing and to enable more research into definitive drug tests. I’ll conclude this story and comment on other more recent revelations in my column next week.
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Dolphin trainer-turned-marine activist Ric O’Barry decided to dedicate his life to saving porpoises and whales after watching the star of 1960s TV show “Flipper” take her own life.
O’Barry helped to capture and train dolphins for the beloved TV show, but stopped hunting the creatures down when the star of the series stopped breathing rather than live in captivity.
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Back in the mid to late '90s one of my favorite bands was the Minneapolis duo Sukpatch. They were a kind of twee hip hop act, two white boys cutting and pasting samples over phat beats, a sort of precursor to the kind of thing Hot Chip have mastered. They put out a few records themselves, then got signed to the Beastie Boys' label Grand Royal - just in time for the label to fold. They finally called it quits in 2004.
Ultrachorus are former Sukpatch-er Chris Heidman and fellow Minneapolis studio production whiz Jeff Lorentzen. They make electronic pop with a few analog and organic twists. They have a new 7" single out - Words Kept Talking b/w Planetman. They also did a remix of 1901 by current blogosphere faves Phoenix.
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MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers announced today that the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) has awarded nearly $9 million to 23 county agencies and five tribal nations to provide treatment services for the harmful use of opioids—such as prescription pain relievers, heroin, and fentanyl—or stimulants—such as cocaine and methamphetamine.
“Too many Wisconsinites, and their friends, family, and neighbors, have experienced the tragedies of harmful use of stimulants and opioids first hand,” said Gov. Evers. “It tears apart families, impacts our kids, and has affected every Wisconsin community in one way or another. I am glad we are able to get these critical funds out the door to provide treatment and hope for so many.”
“The problem use of opioids and stimulants is an epidemic in Wisconsin,” said DHS Secretary-designee Andrea Palm. “These grant awards enable our county and tribal partners to expand access to help those who need it most, giving them hope and healing, as we continue our collective work to build healthy communities.”
The grant awards listed below are based on the level of need for treatment services in the county or tribe and the types of treatment services to be provided by each county or tribe.
All counties and tribes were invited to apply for funding to support unmet treatment needs in their communities through September 29, 2021.
All of the grant recipients are connecting people struggling with opioids to medication-assisted treatment. Medication-assisted treatment involves one of the three Food and Drug Administration-approved medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder—buprenorphine products, methadone, and naltrexone—as well as therapy and other supports. Research shows medication-assisted treatment is the most effective way to treat opioid use disorder.
Thirteen of the grant recipients also are connecting people struggling with stimulants to services that have shown strong evidence of reducing stimulant use, including cognitive behavioral therapy and a treatment practice known as the Matrix Model.
More than 2,100 people are expected to receive treatment services as a result of these grant awards.
These grant awards are funded by Wisconsin’s share of the State Opioid Response Grant Program managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In addition to providing funding for unmet treatment needs, Wisconsin’s State Opioid Response Grant Program includes investments in prevention activities, harm reduction strategies, other efforts to expand access to treatment services, and recovery support services.
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Deciphera receives $6 million payment as cancer drug advances, sets up corporate offices in Boston; Bargain Depot closing; update on SportQuest
There are 6 million pieces of good news on the Lawrence bioscience front today, and one piece of news that may create some worry among local bioscience leaders.
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals — the Lawrence-based biotech company that has been labeled as a hot prospect for breakout success — has reached a major milestone. The company announced that it has received a $6 million payment from the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly after one of Deciphera's cancer treatment inhibitors moved into phase I clinical trials. Deciphera is developing the treatment, which the company hopes will be successful in battling several types of advanced cancer, in partnership with Eli Lilly.
At the same time, Deciphera announced that it has a new president/CEO and that the company is establishing corporate offices in Boston. New president and CEO Mike Taylor, a biotech veteran, will office in Boston.
Deciphera's press release says all research activities for the company will continue to be based in Lawrence. But the press release doesn't make clear whether the company's corporate headquarters will be in Boston. Reports by biotechnology media outlets give that impression. The Web publication FierceBiotech reports Taylor "is looking for a handful of execs to join him in the big Boston hub."
Boston is one of the power centers for the pharmaceutical industry, and Deciphera clearly is moving into a new phase of its development. Taylor previously was CEO of Ensemble Therapeutics, where he brokered research alliances with Roche, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer and other major pharmaceutical companies.
Dan Flynn, the founder of Deciphera, will remain with the company, but will give up his title of president and CEO. Flynn now will serve as chief scientific officer, and will continue to serve as a member of the company's board of managers. It appears that he'll remain based in Lawrence with the research operations.
Perhaps in today's mobile world, the idea of corporate headquarters isn't as important as it used to be. Lawrence leaders, after all, will be thrilled if Deciphera grows its research team and the good-paying jobs that come with it in Lawrence. But local leaders — with good reason — long have been concerned about promising companies with KU ties leaving Lawrence just before they become big successes. A big part of the city's economic development strategy is capitalizing off of KU research, and then keeping those promising companies in the community for the long haul. It has worked well in places like Stanford, MIT, the University of Colorado and other places. Leaders are convinced KU — especially with its pharmacy school — has the potential to produce a homegrown home run.
Deciphera — which has its offices and some lab space in downtown Lawrence — long has been listed as that type of prospect. As part of the announcement of Taylor's hire, it was confirmed that Deciphera will be looking for new investors, FierceBiotech reported. Sometimes investors dictate where companies need to be located, so it will be worth keeping an eye on.
I hope to get in touch with Deciphera officials soon, and report more details on the latest developments.
In other news and notes from around town:
• If you are like me and the best drug is a good bargain, there is some bad news. Bargain Depot, the 23rd Street business that sells surplus items ranging from tools to camping gear, is closing.
The signs are up, and the sale is underway. Deborah Wall, the store's liquidation manager, said an exact closing date hasn't been set, but she expects it to be in May.
Wall said the decision to close the store was based on the owner's desire to retire. The store was previously been owned by a partnership, but one of the partners became ill, and that created a transition period for the business, which Wall estimated had been in Lawrence for about 10 years.
The store is just west of 23rd and Harper streets. The sizable building is owned by an Overland Park-based trust, according to records from the county courthouse. A commercial real estate firm already has begun marketing the property, and Wall said several prospects have shown an interest.
Suddenly, there are quite a few spots on 23rd Street up for redevelopment. They include the old Carlos O'Kelley's location, the former Half Price Books store, the former Kwik Shop location, and a pretty good amount of space in the shopping center that includes Panera Bread.
Plus, there are two other sites that often get overlooked, but may have some of the largest potential: the former Don's Steakhouse building and the former construction yard for Diamond Everley Roofing. The sites are next to each other and right on the eastern edge of Lawrence. They are just west of Lawrence VenturePark, which is set to become the city's newest business park.
When you combine those two sites, you have the potential to do a fairly sizable project there. I have heard people in certain business circles talk how that could be a site for a new grocery store. I haven't yet heard that any new grocery companies are seriously considering the Lawrence market at the moment. (Other than the specialty grocer that has signed in West Lawrence. Still waiting for an official announcement on that name, by the way.) The site across the street near Tractor Supply also is positioning itself for a grocery tenant. But folks in that business have told me the old Don's Steakhouse location may get a look from grocers as well because, unlike the Tractor Supply site, it is on the north side of the road, which makes it convenient for commuters on their way back from Johnson County.
• It was a long City Commission meeting last night, which means it was tough to get all the news out on deadline. One item that got some discussion was the idea of naming the new recreation center at Rock Chalk Park SportQuest. As we briefly reported, the idea didn't go over well with commissioners. They didn't formally reject it, but said they wanted another two weeks to look at other names. Commissioner Jeremy Farmer will work with staff members on that project. Farmer already has said he likes a name along the lines of the Ad Astra Center, so keep an eye open for that.
But while commissioners didn't sign off on the name, they did agree to move forward on finding a corporate sponsor for the center. Commissioners approved a $17,500 contract with Premier Sports Management to seek out one major corporate sponsor for the center and two or three other smaller sponsors.
Premier has said it will be talking with companies such as Hy-Vee, Dillons, Checkers, Dick's Sporting Goods, Jock's Nitch, health care companies and other such firms that have a natural tie into sports, health or wellness.
Any type of sponsorship deal is expected to take several months to materialize. What I assume, but what wasn't really discussed on Tuesday, is that once a tentative deal is reached, the proposed corporate sponsor will be brought to the City Commission for final approval.
In the meantime, those of us who have to put names of facilities into articles and headlines are ordering extra ink. We can't be caught off guard if the facility ends up being named Dick's Sporting Goods Ad Astra Center at Rock Chalk Park.
More LJWorld City Coverage
I don’t know about your neighborhood on the Fourth of July, but in mine last night there were plenty of young venture capitalists on display: People willing to burn their money in hopes for a big bang in return.
Venture capitalists — the high-risk investors who provide start-up money to promising young companies — have long been a source of conversation and concern in Lawrence. The conversation has been: Where can I find them? The concern has been: There aren’t enough of them in the Midwest to make Lawrence a major player in the competitive bioscience arena.
Well, there’s a new study out that shows Lawrence may be doing better than people thought when it comes to at least one measure of venture capital. Lawrence has the sixth highest level of venture capital investment in America, when measured on a per capita basis.
Guru demographer Richard Florida — who lectures frequently on the power of the creative class — has crunched the numbers and found Lawrence is part of a trend of smaller communities connected to universities that are doing well in the venture capital arena.
Florida calculated Lawrence had $40.8 million in venture capital deals per 100,000 people in 2012. It put Lawrence in some great company. The top five were:
- San Jose, Calif., a.k.a. Silicon Valley: $216.9 million
- San Francisco: $159.1 million
- Boulder, Colo.: $86.9 million
- Boston: $68.1million
- Santa Barbara, Calif.: $59.1 million
Lawrence’s metro population — in other words, Douglas County’s population — is just a little more than 100,000 people. So, in real numbers, Douglas County companies attracted a little more than $40 million in venture capital investments in 2012. Think about that for a minute: $40 million in largely outside money came flowing into Lawrence’s economy because of start-up companies.
For whatever reason, area companies don’t do a lot to announce their venture capital successes, so I don’t know what companies attracted the cash in 2012. But in recent years, we have talked quite a bit about rising stars such as Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, drug particle company CritiTech, and the more than 30 companies ranging from animal health firms to e-commerce companies that are affiliated with Bioscience and Technology Business Center at KU.
There is no doubt that this new list is a good one for Lawrence to land on. It helps tell the story that local bioscience officials have been working to tell: You can have success in raising funds in the Heartland. But you could also read too much into this ranking as well. At the end of the day, when people think about hot venture capital markets, they think about real dollars, not per capita dollars.
A separate ranking by Florida shows how much work Lawrence has to do to crack the top 20 markets of overall venture capital activity.
Obviously, setting our sights on the Silicon Valley or top-ranked San Francisco isn’t going to be too productive. San Jose and San Francisco had about $10.7 billion in venture capital investments in 2012, accounting for about 40 percent of all the venture capital activity in the country.
More instructive is to look at some other college communities. Austin ranked No. 8 at $626 million, Boulder ranked No. 14 at $256 million, Raleigh, N.C. ranked No. 18 at $184 million and Provo, Utah ranked No. 20 at $162 million.
But the good news is, when you look at this study, Florida has created a blob map of venture capital markets. Lawrence shows up as a speck on it. And a speck is a start.
Hopefully, though, people aren’t counting on my neighbors to be the next wave of venture capitalists. After what I saw last night, they have to be broke. | <urn:uuid:f2ba4660-454a-4fe9-9ab4-e19bdb895586> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://www2.ljworld.com/weblogs/town_talk/tags/deciphera/ | 2017-08-24T01:39:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886126017.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170824004740-20170824024740-00244.warc.gz | en | 0.968565 | 2,340 |
Why do Akali, Ahri and Sona get moved around on the Champion page?
This Problem should have been fixed.
Why are the images loading slow?
Right now the images are being loaded from riot. Their site isn't the fastest in the world. If i get enough users and traffic I will host them on Amazon S3 and add alot more server power here.
Where is the commenting system?
Current work in progress check out the features page.
Progress Bars for votes whats the scale?
The scale is the highest number of votes any champion has recieved. Reason, numbers are nice and i might include them later but they also alter perception. Lets take Ahri from a rival site. Her counters are LB 1500 votes, Ryze 400 votes, Talon 250 votes and Kass with 250 votes. There arn't any other classical mages on the radar. First up LB isn't 3+ times better then Ryze or Talon in lane i'm sure the win loss percentage of those games are about the same. It also makes it less possible for any other champion to make it up the scale. even if ziggs was "THE BEST" counter. he would never catch up to the historical record that LB has gotten. The answer is as the game evolves and champions get buffed and nerfed it may be fix to alter the scale such that older votes take less percidence then newer ones. Hopefully you will see where this is going. Eventually I will apply filters to narrow down lanes roles whatever. As well as add logic for the adding or revamping of champions | <urn:uuid:453bbe7f-ddd8-43fd-a428-96f324013fab> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.lolcounterpicks.com/pages/faq | 2016-05-05T04:50:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860125897.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161525-00156-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956676 | 324 |
Proud of this 2018 ranking, we all know how much work we did to get there.- Dany Tremblay, President Démex
Number 3 in Canada in 2018
Predominant player in the field of demolition in Canada
Démex is proud to announce that it is now one of the top 100 demolition companies in the world according to the “demolition & recycling international” May-June 2019 issue. Démex occupies the 3rd and 52nd positions in Canada and internationally, respectively. Congratulations to all the team behind this unquestionable success. | <urn:uuid:a1abbfce-520a-485b-ae5d-8feed65b94ca> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://www.groupedemexcentrem.com/en/news/number-3-in-canada-in-2018/ | 2023-12-08T00:14:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100705.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207221604-20231208011604-00425.warc.gz | en | 0.932547 | 120 |
There’s some lessons that take a lifetime to learn. Then, you have the lessons that take a few significant hardships. Then you have the lessons that you learn almost instantly because the outcome was so devastating.
The outcome was something you never thought could ever happen to you, but it did.
It didn’t matter that you were a product of your environment. It didn’t matter that your father wasn’t around. It didn’t matter that your mother struggled. It didn’t matter that you were young. It didn’t matter that you didn’t hurt anyone. They didn’t care that you were guilty by association. None of what you had to say mattered. This was the lesson where you learned that life can be good or bad depending on your own choices.
We all must learn this but we all learn it at different times in different situations. Once we internalize that lesson, we learn how to analyze every situation considering the best or worse outcome. We then decide that if the worse happens, could we handle it. Then we decide. But the truth is, no one has this down perfectly. The truth is us humans live imperfectly until the day we die. The truth is we are all dealt a hand of cards and learning the best way to play them. We do this repeatedly for a lifetime.
I know that people have a lot to say about where you are, but most people would be where you are if they had gotten caught. Because the truth is most people have been apart of illegal scenarios. The last I checked marijuana wasn’t legal for recreation nationwide. Shop lifting on any level can damage your record if the law gets involved. Most of us have been in association with the wrong people even as simple as asking that person for a ride home. There’s white collar crimes that can often be overlooked at a moderate level. There are people who can afford to pay for proper legal representation and gain freedom from even the worse situations.
I am telling you this, so you understand that no one on the outside is better than you. Many of us would be where you are had the day just ended differently.
But you’re where you are now with a new set of cards and life isn’t over for you.
You can have a scarcity mindset or make the best of your situation. You can take advantage of the education or ignore it. You can open your mind to the idea of entrepreneurship and learn all about it or give up on yourself. You can just survive or thrive.
It’s all up to you.
You have the opportunity to transform yourself for yourself. It may seem like you’re developing but still stuck. But one day the doors will open and you’ll be a free man. You can take all the knowledge you acquired and change your world. Your life is not defined by others. Your life is not defined by where you are now. Your life is defined by you and how well you play your hand.
The most beautiful things transform out of pure darkness. It’s up to you to see the light.
The positive outcome of your life depends on how well you change your outlook now.
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From: Los Angeles Daily News
Michael Deering ate the bitter herbs, broke the matzo and partook in the Seder meal as Passover began Wednesday evening.
For more than 3,000 years, Jews have celebrated Passover to remember their deliverance from slavery in Egypt.
But Deering is a lifelong Catholic - and he's among a growing number of Christians who attend Seders to connect with their religious roots and to draw parallels to their deliverance from sin.
"Any Christian who doesn't know our Jewish roots is an incomplete Christian," said Deering, 55, of Granada Hills.
"The Passover is more of the Exodus story; that was the birth of the modern Jewish nation," said Deering, one of more than 200 people at a Seder at St. John Eudes Catholic Church in Chatsworth. "Jesus was tied into it through being the sacrificial lamb to wash away our sins."
The Seder began with the "mother" of each table lighting a candle that represents the spiritual joy of God's promise to the Israelites. Monsignor Peter Nugent explained to the goys what each object on the Seder plate represented - the bitter herbs of slavery, the nuts and apples of hard work, the unleavened bread of people on the run, among other items.
They filled their glasses with wine and after Nugent sang in Hebrew, they drank the first spirits of deliverance. Three more sips followed.
"Each of us, each generation, is a beneficiary of God's power of salvation," the people said in unison. "For this reason we raise our cup."
The two-hour Seder could have been celebrated in a synagogue just as easily.
"As an educational tool to learn about Judaism, that is great," said Rabbi Cheryl Peretz, associate dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism. "Being able to see it for what it is as a Seder, not creating something that isn't Jewish out of it."
The divergence from Jewish tradition, obviously, is made with the inclusion of Jesus.
The Last Supper of Christ and the Apostles was itself during Passover, at which Jesus gave the bread and the wine new meaning to his followers.
"You really can't understand the Communion if you don't understand the Pesach (Passover)," said Mark Brewer, senior pastor of Bel Air Presbyterian Church, a 2,300-member congregation that sits above Encino on Mulholland Drive.
Communion, or what Catholics call the Eucharist, is the remembrance of Christ through eating his body (bread) and drinking his blood (wine or grape juice).
Brewer said Passover is heavy with Christian symbolism: the striped matzo representing the scourges of Jesus; Father, Son and Holy Spirit seen in the three matzos; the sacrificial lamb that spared the Jews' firstborn from the Angel of Death.
"We understand the Passover through the eyes of Jesus," Brewer said.
That's why most of Bel Air Presbyterian's congregants are participating in Seders with their Bible studies. The text provided by the church was written by two members with Jewish heritage.
Glendean Thompson is accustomed to attending Jewish Seders. On Friday - Good Friday - she will host her first.
"It has so much meaning for a Christian," said Thompson, a Woodland Hills psychotherapist who leads a small Bible study. "Christianity is a Jewish faith."
Other groups, like Betsy Cramer's, are trading the gefilte fish and unleavened bread for food a bit more American.
"We're calling it a fake Seder dinner," Cramer, 26, of Sherman Oaks said of their trip Tuesday night to Hamburger Hamlet, where they read through materials provided by Bel Air Presbyterian.
"We certainly revere our Jewish friends, but we didn't think we had to go fully out to embrace the tradition," Cramer said. "Plus, all of us are so gentile. We were like, 'Where do you get a rack of lamb?"' | <urn:uuid:c69e0b11-29f1-47c3-89a2-74609fa90332> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://musclys.blogspot.com/2006/04/pass-matzo.html | 2017-04-27T14:56:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122174.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00642-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973347 | 851 |
Dossier Center Investigation: Prigozhin's Cyber Troops
Translated: How the IT infrastructure of Wagner, Troll Factory and Concorde works
Dossier Center Investigation: Prigozhin's Cyber Troops
March 18, 2023
In early autumn 2022, unknown hackers gained access to more than 1 million documents of Yevgeny Prigozhin's structures. For several months, the group maintained access to the network, pumping out all the fun from there. Some of the files from the #Wagnerleaks archives were at the disposal of journalists from Die Welt, the Dossier Center, Insider, Paris Match, and Arte.
For five years now, the Dossier Center has been investigating the murder of three journalists in the Central African Republic who were trying to make a documentary about the Wagner PMC. We managed to study the internal structure of Prigozhin’s business empire, including the so-called “Troll Factory” (Lakhta project), the Concord group of companies, the so-called PMC “Wagner” and other business activities of the Kremlin chef: school meals, construction, hotel business, chocolate trading, media business, mining of gold, diamonds, oil, and other minerals, international political consulting, a meat processing plant in the African jungle, a car wash - and more.
Numerous publications in the media usually focus on one aspect of his multifaceted activities, although in reality they are all organically linked: wounded Wagner soldiers come to their senses at a recreation center in Gelendzhik, Defense Ministry officials receive discount cards at the Eliseevsky store, Lakhta "trolls "meet in a building built by Prigozhin's companies and promote the services of PMCs from there to an international audience. Today, lawyers and financiers are considering concession agreements in St. Petersburg, and tomorrow - in Antananarivo or Bangui. The same thing happens with elections: the same political technologists work out orders in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Tula, Kyiv, Tripoli, Maputo, and Cape Town. Employees are regularly transferred from project to project: those who yesterday chose the furniture for Prigozhin’s daughter’s apartment,
It is precisely because of this flexible structure that sanctions against Prigozhin's projects do not work well. But with all the external independence and inconsistency in the actions of individual parts, Prigogine's mycelium is united by centralized information systems - today we will talk about some of them.
There are few IT specialists directly in the Wagner PMC - a few dozen people, mostly signalmen. Many more of them work for the Troll Factory, the Concord company, and the YaRus social network.
As of autumn 2021, the IT service of the Troll Factory employed about 40 people: project managers, 10 system administrators each, back-end developers and front-end developers, and a couple of web designers and testers.
The salaries of developers and system administrators are quite modest - from 60 to 250 thousand rubles per hand, depending on the position. On average - 110 thousand rubles.
Although in fact the employees of the Troll Factory work on the same projects, they are registered in different legal entities, mainly the media - NovInfo, Nevskiye Novosti, Ekonomiku Segodnya, the Federal News Agency (FAN), MAN LLC, and others.
In addition to the Troll Factory, Wagner, and Yarus, employees of the Company's IT department work in restaurants, hotels, and other projects. Here is how they are referred to in internal correspondence:
Car wash, VP, School meals, Eliseevsky, Russian Army, Catering, Old customs, Street food bar, Empire, River Palace 1, River Palace 2, Room 1137, River Lounge 1, River Lounge 2, RGO Catering, Motor ship Sochi, Chocolate Museum, Warehouse accounting MSK, Chalet, AUP Department of real estate, Tech. repair, Hotel, Combines (Yanino, Klenovo), Soc. food Moscow, central district.
By the way, they also take care of Prigozhin's relatives, including his mother Violetta Kirovna - recently she was almost lifted off the EU sanctions that were introduced in connection with the activities of Prigozhin and the Concorde group of companies.
Let's add: not only do they buy tickets for her at Concorde, but they also pay for other expenses, for example, wired Internet; the issue is coordinated at the level of the director of the IT department.
The work biographies of the IT specialists of Prigozhin's structures vary. On the one hand, among the staff, there are talented graduate students from programs in programming and former scholarship holders of the Oxford Russian Foundation, recognized as "undesirable" because of ties to Mikhail Khodorkovsky. They are next to former accountants from Karaganda who have retrained in short-term online courses for web designers (which is reflected in the quality of the websites). There are also people with experience in military service, including in the GRU.
How do you feel about the military operation?
Many employees of the Troll Factory come to St. Petersburg from other cities or countries. This is due to the long-term negative image of Prigozhin in the urban labor market.
All potential employees, even if they work in restaurants, are subject to a mandatory two-hour interrogation on the Diana-07 polygraph. Its goal is to identify potentially disloyal or dangerous characters for Prigozhin. Weed out supporters of the opposition, people with contacts in the media and law enforcement agencies, drug users, and debtors.
After the start of the war, another question was added to the standard set - about the attitude towards the "military operation".
If the test subject has feelings about the war or Ukrainian relatives, he is rejected by the security service, even despite the approval of potential superiors.
Almost half of the IT people work underhand, without a workbook, and officially registered employees often receive 40–60% of their salary in envelopes, follows by accounting documents. Between themselves, Prigozhin's employees discuss that in addition to the white salary in other companies, "there is something that we do not have and will not have": a flexible start to the working day, medical insurance, bonuses. Former employees also complain about the "climate in the team" - in particular, mutual intrigues. Uncompetitive working conditions may explain the low level of education among IT specialists of Prigozhin's structures. Qualified specialists can hardly withstand Prigozhin's spontaneous micromanagement and rudeness - many had moved to "unfriendly" countries even before the start of the war.
Perhaps in the coming months, Prigozhin will be able to recruit new, better employees in the IT departments. Wagner's aggressive PR campaign after the start of the war helped improve the Company's image in the eyes of the younger generation of IT students in St. Petersburg. For example, at the end of December 2022, Prigozhin held a Wagner PMC hackathon, in which talented programmers took part. Despite the criticism in social networks and the media, many of them saw nothing wrong with this. The hackathon was dedicated to drone programming and was used for recruiting — Concord structures have been actively looking for such specialists since the fall of 2021, according to internal documents. Probably, the recruitment was not only for the war in Ukraine but also for other projects. For example, employees of Wagner PMC have been using drones and quadrocopters in Syria and the Central African Republic for several years, even negligently burning one of their expensive reconnaissance drones of the Orlan model.
Despite the sanctions, the hackathon site was hosted on Amazon's AWS cloud hosting and was only blocked after activists complained.
In addition to IT specialists for the Internet projects of the Troll Factory, in 2022, more than 40 system administrators and specialists in 1C, the accounting system, worked in the central IT department and the main office of Prigozhin. By the way, their salaries are higher than those of the “factory” employees. For example, the head of the department receives not 250, but 400 thousand rubles, and her deputy - 300 thousand rubles.
Prigozhin needs so many 1C specialists due to the fact that he manages about 400 different companies - front legal entities and real enterprises with double bookkeeping (official for tax and real for internal accounting).
For example, in 2015, after Prigozhin received a contract from the Ministry of Defense to service dozens of military camps, remote access to 1C in St. Petersburg was provided to more than 360 users from various regional divisions of JSC Slavyanka and GU Housing. It was almost impossible to tell the fake companies from the real ones.
What does the Troll Factory do?
An analysis of the activity of "trolls" in social networks shows that they work most actively where you can use other people's content without restrictions and buy ads using gray schemes.
Here are some examples of rather undemanding projects of the "factory" in VK.com: news projects - "Shark", "Daring Square", "How do you like it, Elon Musk", "Strip", "Trashach", "Minning", "Dirt Warehouse ”, “The Art of War”, “Truth Serum”, “Curb City”, “VideoPiter”, in St. Petersburg - “Meme Horseman”, animated projects “Eagle (CheBe)” and “Spot”.
The budget also includes payment for publications and access to community administration in the VK "Arms of Russia" , for creating content for the project " Brezhnev's Eyebrows ".
In the documents of the "factory," there are mentions of payment for publications, retweets, and likes from independent thousands of bloggers on political topics on Twitter. For example, here:
A separate line is a payment for the services of a content manager for the projects " Actual Russia " and "Actual World".
In Telegram, the “trolls” paid for publications from third-party Telegram channels, such as Media Technologist, “Somehow Like This” and “338”, paid for reposts in the “Karaulny” channel, bought places in collections and ratings, and purchased services to cheat subscribers.
According to former employees, about 400 employees now work at the “factory”, of which more than 30 are engaged only in writing comments on media sites, and about 30 more people write comments on YouTube. Since 2019, about 40 employees have been sent to comment on publications in the Ukrainian media as well. The estimated budget for the "factory" in 2022 was 70-100 million rubles per month, excluding "special tasks".
"Special Tasks" are additional Internet projects related to the personal interests of Yevgeny Prigozhin. This category includes, for example, the organization of bullying on the Internet by Lyubov Sobol, who actively fought against corruption in the organization of school meals - the area of business interests of Prigozhin. In 2019, they spent from 700,000 to 1.7 million rubles a month on a project called Sable Hunting, although the documents do not say what exactly this money was spent on.
This also includes the payment of informants who provided information to Prigozhin's structures from the headquarters of the opposition in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the opposition media, the liberal environment, and other public groups. At various times, the staff of informers consisted of 17 to 25 people. On average, they received from 15 to 25 thousand rubles a month.
A source from the Dossier Center says that the curator of the "special tasks" is a former employee of RIA Novosti, Ilya Gorbunov. Since 2019, he has actually been in charge of the Patriot media group, since 2020 he has been in charge of the Troll Factory and all pseudo-opposition Telegram channels and has also been discrediting Governor Alexander Beglov.
The “special tasks” of Prigozhin’s employees are directed not only against oppositionists but also against completely systemic characters. A source of the Dossier Center claims that it was Ilya Gorbunov who initiated the collection of compromising evidence on Alexander Vinokurov, the son-in-law of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Novaya Gazeta talked about a criminal case against people associated with Prigozhin, who ordered the hacking of Vinokurov's SIM card and instant messengers. According to the source, compromising evidence was needed to blackmail Lavrov himself.
Gorbunov could be the direct supervisor of the administrators of the Scanner Project Telegram channel, who were detained in 2022 on charges of extorting money from the subjects of their publications. Gorbunov oversaw the Telegram channel and helped employees with connections in Moscow. Scanner itself published criticism of the Russian authorities, but, according to journalist Mikhail Maglov, it changed owners several times and eventually began to be used to discredit the opposition.
Such channels are another area of work for the Troll Factory. They have been creating their Telegram network since 2017, and in the fall of 2020, they received the Kremlin’s approval to create pseudo-opposition resources. Issues of such importance are usually resolved directly with Sergei Kiriyenko, a Dossier source claims.
In addition to the federal Telegram channels, Prigozhin controls a small “opposition” network in St. Petersburg, which is busy criticizing Beglov:
"Earlier than all St. Petersburg";
"Warehouse of dirt";
Prigozhin's Telegram channels almost never interact with other major pro-government resources, such as Kristina Potupchik's networks. All work with third-party channels is based on a paid basis: someone on a “subscription fee,” and someone receives money for each publication separately. For example, in one of the documents, Prigozhin’s employees claim that in order to promote the YaRus project (which will be discussed below), they paid for posts in the following channels:
"How I Met Tetanus";
"Only to no one";
"Chicken House" (show business news);
ebobo (show business news);
In addition, even before the invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine, Prigozhin actively cooperated with the “military commanders”. His employees paid for publications in the public " Anti-Maidan ", " Syria|Military Chronicles " and one of the most famous "military bloggers" Yurasumy, he is Yuri Podolyak. “Military writer Vladlen Tatarsky ”, aka Maxim Fomin, also received compensation for promoting the necessary theses back in 2021.
Another well-known military observer - Rybar, aka Mikhail Zvinchuk, - a couple of years ago, came to work in the office of the Troll Factory and actively promoted his channel at her expense. In one of the documents of that time, Zvinchuk was listed as the head of the “international direction”, where, in addition to him, 49 other people were involved and received payments, including journalist Abbas Juma and military observer Boris Rozhin (Colonel Cassad). Employees of the “international direction” of the “factory” wrote analytical materials for the FAN and promoted the theses of the “trolls” through their Telegram channels:
"Wings of War";
"Lu Man: Looking East";
"Center for Human Rights Violations";
"The Fifth Republic";
"Tales from the Favelas" and others.
Of the famous people in the archive, you can find the deceased Daria Dugin. She joined the Patriot media group in 2018 or 2019 and worked there until the murder. Dugina was responsible for the foreign direction, including organizing Prigozhin's publications and comments in the Turkish media. In particular, according to the source, she organized a big interview with the Aydınlık newspaper and a photo of Prigozhin on the front page.
In the budgets of Prigozhin's employees, paid publications to slip through not only in social networks but also in the media - from small publications to Literaturnaya Gazeta and Kommersant. Accommodation in the latter in the winter of 2021, according to the documents, could cost Prigozhin 750 thousand rubles.
And to make it more difficult for the public to learn about the activities of Prigozhin's structures in open sources, the budget of the "factory" includes payment for the services of a content manager for Wikipedia accounts - writing and publishing articles.
On the technical side, most of the Troll Factory's web projects are unremarkable - they are mostly simple sites assembled "on the knee" for publishing propaganda materials (like the " Fund for Combating Repression ") or "stub sites" for shell companies. Standing apart among them is the YaRus project. It produces and distributes propaganda content in a standard factory fashion, but on a much larger scale.
YaRus has been created with Prigozhin’s money since January 2019. The project is described as a "patriotic counterpart" to Zen, Instagram, and TikTok. Probably, the need for their own social network arose due to the massive cleansing of the accounts of "trolls" on many portals. Judging by the reviews, videos are uploaded with a creak, moderation works poorly, there are few views, and monetization is almost zero.
In 2021, YaRus had 86 positions, but only 63 people worked. The total cost of paying their labor is 10 million rubles a month, while the bulk of the salaries were again paid in cash. The salary of the developers is small: project testers earn 70 thousand rubles, and the technical director - 270 thousand rubles a month. Prigozhin’s total expenses for YaRus for 2021 amounted to about 30–40 million rubles per month, depending on advertising costs.
There are practically no live users on the social network, and the content is mostly copied from other platforms.
There was even a separate line in the marketing budget “Content duplication”, and in the staff list there are several positions (about 10 people) of employees engaged in “ search for interesting videos on the Internet ”.
Much of the rest of the content is produced by Prigozhin's staff. For the work of "bloggers" three apartments were rented in St. Petersburg at the following addresses: Bogatyrsky Prospekt, 37; st. Aircraft designers, 36; Primorsky prospect, 22. Also, YaRus planned to order the service "manual filling of events" from the Daynet agency .
Comments and likes are generated by YaRus employees in two shifts - 14 people in the morning and 17 people in the evening. Each employee maintains eight separate accounts.
Servers for the project were rented from DataLine, which is part of the Rostelecom Data Processing Center, the ru service was used for SMS messages, and software for employees was purchased through softline.ru.
For additional masking and bypassing IP blocking, Prigogine's "trolls" buy proxies from the Russian services Proxy6.net and best-proxies.ru.
In order to deceive the protection against the automatic publication of comments, the “trolls” purchase the services of a captcha recognition service. The costs for it in 2021 ranged from 35 to 50 thousand rubles per month. The average cost of solving 1,000 ordinary captchas is 35 rubles, that is, the service allowed “trolls” to write about 1 million automatic comments per month (or at least 30,000 to 50,000 comments per day).
To monitor the news, the “trolls” use “Medialogia” - they once wanted to buy the services of Igor Ashmanov’s company “Kribrum”, but did not agree on the price.
Additionally, Prigogine residents purchase subscriptions to analytics, design, and audio services: SMM Planer, AdSpoiler, Postinggram, LiveDune, SMMbro, Telegram Analytics, Canva, onlipuit.ru, Target Hunter, Adinblog, Splice, Soundly, Envato Elements, Telemetr, Artlist, Storyblock, simpleimage.services. To voice content, order the author's voices through Golosa24.ru.
Reviews in the AppStore and Google Play stores for YaRus and other applications were also ordered from external contractors - the Go Mobile company.
Likes for VK and YouTube are purchased from the cheat services z1y1x1, Youliker, ru, and others. In total, Prigozhin's structures spend 900 thousand rubles a month on likes for their own and dislikes for opposition videos.
In addition to services, “trolls” are constantly buying ready-made Vkontakte, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Google, and Protonmail accounts, since service administrations regularly block bots.
The technical capabilities of Prigozhin's structures to conduct active IT events are also quite limited - everything is done by contractors. Here is an example of a typical task: for 8,000 rubles, an outsider was assigned to check a database of almost 300,000 telephone numbers from the Congo for links to WhatsApp messenger.
The same situation is repeated with other countries, for example in Chad. In internal correspondence, Prigozhin’s employees call the performers “our hackers,” but in reality, they only pass orders along the chain.
An analysis of these operations leads to the conclusion that journalists often exaggerate the capabilities of the Troll Factory. Many of their successful activities have been outsourced on a commercial basis. This works with simple tasks that can be outsourced for a small fee: cheating views likes and dislikes, buying ads on Facebook and Instagram, buying up ready-made channels, or bottling Telegram. When creativity and skill are required, such as in live English-language online discussions on Twitter, it becomes more difficult to show results and it becomes necessary to brandish sledgehammers. What can I say if they are still active on livejournal.com (they maintain at least 76 accounts).
At the same time, the "trolls" manage to use the existing commercial infrastructure, hiding among law-abiding clients, while foreign offices with local employees, sometimes hired in the dark, and an international network of companies allow their operations to continue.
Devices and Prigozhin's secret mail
As a result of Prigozhin's hacking in 2015, it became known that he used to love using an iPad - sending letters, writing memoirs, and taking selfies.
Due to increased secrecy, the American device had to be parted. But Prigozhin remains true to his old habits - like 15 years ago, he uses a Psion battery-powered organizer.
Such an ancient toy, and even without an Internet connection, could protect Prigozhin from leaks if all the information was stored only there. However, backup copies of Prigozhin's personal organizer from 2012 to 2022, the contact book, and the schedule of meetings and meetings are found in the same place as all other documents - in a shared network folder on the server.
Important servers and "closed" mail
A server with the telling name SecMail was also available on the internal network - Prigozhin's secret mail passes through it. There is also a secret file-sharing service called Msec (as well as secfs and secfs-old) and several backup servers, including bkpsec for highly secret backups. Part of the secret mail encrypted with GPG is available on a public server in Thunderbird portable edition backups.
Most of these servers, as of autumn 2022, were located at the address: St. Petersburg, Primorsky Prospekt, 78 (perhaps some backups still remained on the 9th floor of the Senator business center). As part of the investigation into the murder of Russian journalists in the Central African Republic and other crimes associated with Wagner PMC and Prigozhin, law enforcement agencies could analyze these servers. The investigation should also take a look at a NAS server named Polit_BKP , which is likely to store reports of election interference by various countries, including Russia. If the security service cleans them up, you can always deploy backups. It's also worth taking a look at a couple of Roket.Chat servers are used for internal communications.
In Syria, Libya, Sudan, and the Central African Republic, Wagner units were provided with satellite Internet using Comtech UHP routers, the serial numbers and geographic coordinates of some of them are at the disposal of the Dossier Center. This equipment was located both at large bases and at tiny stations of a few people. Mikrotik routers were connected to UHP devices - their serial numbers are known to the Dossier Center.
The main workhorse for the Wagnerites is an inexpensive Thuraya satellite phones from a UAE company. Only in the Central African Republic, mercenaries use about 50 such devices. In addition, they have several tubes from the Iridium company, which Prigozhin himself sometimes uses.
"Closed" phone, CODE
Initially, Prigozhin’s employees used ordinary disposable cell phones with left-handed SIM cards, issued “for a task,” but then switched to SMP -Atlas / 2 cryptophones - they are more difficult to listen to. At the same time, the introduction and use of satellite phones began.
A source from the Dossier Center says that disposable phones were not reliable - even the Concorde security service has several cars with special equipment to intercept cellular network traffic. Although they are intended only for security officers, they are easy to find on the open market - the use is limited to rather legal risks.
As the numbers grew, the Wagner PMC fighters had to switch to a cheaper and more versatile home-made version of the crypto smartphone, which supports voice calls, text messages, and email and file forwarding. Prigozhin's employees call them a "closed" phone, in internal documents, they are called VPN, KOD, or CODE. These are phones with a customized version of the Android operating system that uses the OpenVPN protocol with self-signed certificates to create an encrypted network between devices and a central server.
Basically, Prigozhin’s employees, including the Wagner PMC, use Samsung as “closed” phones - the Galaxy A20, A20S models, for some - the Samsung Galaxy On8 or Samsung Galaxy A31. Also, there are Samsung S8 and Asus Zenfone 3. All these phones are with two SIM cards.
The Dossier Center knows more than 500 devices that were active at the time of the murder of journalists in the Central African Republic. Another one-and-a-half hundred special telephones were used by employees of the Troll Factory. After the invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine, their number was to increase in proportion to the recruitment of Wagnerites - now there may be about 1 thousand units in operation.
This is how the interface of this messenger looks like - like secret mail, it works inside Prigogine's VPN. This scheme would be secure, but the central servers can be accessed from Concord's internal network, which, in turn, is open to almost the entire Internet. And since it is inconvenient to use designation codes, telephone directories are created in almost every department of Prigozhin's structures with a detailed description of who is hiding behind which number, where they are, and what they do.
Since security officers are constantly afraid of information leaks, they rewrite the serial numbers of all registered devices, write down the number and call sign of each owner, and force them to sign in special sheets - to report on the briefing. In the future, these statements are photographed, scanned, and sent, including through open communication channels, which nullifies all cybersecurity efforts.
“Closed” phones are also used by designers, video editors, and other PR people. Sometimes they are issued to foreign partners, such as officials and the president of the Central African Republic, or Russian officials of the Ministry of Defense.
The Wagnerites also use office phones to watch porn videos, visit dating sites, get acquainted with the value of "coins of various countries" and visit the Avito website. The security service is unsuccessfully trying to deal with all this - we talked about it in a separate investigation.
The secret communication itself does not work well - for example, a Wagnerian with the call sign Motorola complained about this. In addition, mercenaries have to maintain contact with the local population and other "related" organizations. So they buy local SIM cards and unregistered phones and immediately set up Telegram and WhatsApp accounts—sometimes with the approval of their superiors, and sometimes arbitrarily—to communicate with relatives and colleagues.
IT specialists also participate in telephone checks. Prigozhin’s security service gives them lists of phone numbers, names, and dates of birth of employees, after which the IT department looks for them on social networks and compiles lists of who and when went out or posted photos on WhatsApp, VK, Odnoklassniki. The search goes through friends and relatives, by date of birth and city - as in a real journalistic investigation. Violators are forced to delete and clean up social networks under the threat of heavy fines and dismissals. A typical note in a report looks like this: “ Repeatedly. The surname, day, month of birth, linking the page to the phone number, the spouse's friends (the name is removed. - CD), SSHG "Cap" match.
By 2020, there were about 50 active messengers out of 2,400 tested phones.
Now, most of the pages recorded in the checks have been deleted, although some messenger users are still active and answer calls from the Dossier Center employees.
For the operation of local “troll factories”, Lakhta employees buy a large number of local SIM cards to register accounts on social networks - this happens in many countries. For example, this is what they did in Estonia, the Central African Republic, Syria, Sudan, France, and other countries. Interestingly, the Wagnerites are massively taking Russian SIM cards abroad with them, and, of course, this should be noticeable to local operators.
In addition to more or less standard phones, Wagner employees also have laptops of various models - mostly inexpensive HP, Lenovo and Asus for 10-30 thousand rubles.
Judging by the metadata of the files, laptops are running various versions of Windows, and sometimes even pirated copies are found. As an antivirus, the use of the free version of Avast was noticed.
A typical report on the equipment in the hands of Wagner employees looks like this:
Such reports are regularly compiled for each division, but this does not save you from the presence of unaccounted devices.
Prigozhin's internal network has several hundred servers - physical and virtual, including a significant number of physical 1C servers, as well as a whole cluster of 1C virtual machines. At some point, Concord employees even had to register their own 1C franchisee (for the shell company Vertikal LLC) in order to get a discount on countless licenses. In the accompanying documents, Prigozhin’s IT people worried that the lack of licenses could “lead to ‘unhealthy interest’ on the part of the regulatory authorities (department K and department R (MVD. — TsD))” .
Basically, the servers are running Windows Server 2012r2, Windows Server 2008R2, or Windows Server 2016, there are even "virtual machines" with Windows XP, and occasionally Ubuntu Linux is found.
Mail and SIP
To hide participation in tenders of front legal entities, several dozens of virtual mail servers (VMware) and "virtual machines" with the VLIS document management system and "bank-client" systems are used. The affiliation of all these legal entities with each other also has to be hidden - for this, many separate agreements are concluded with providers (however, sometimes they get by with the help of separate USB modems for mobile Internet). For e-mail alone, about 100 external IP addresses were used, obtained from several providers.
Address of the objectSubdivisionService ProviderShpalernaya, 36 (former Zhukovsky 4)Personnel department (Zhukovsky, 3 - Mokhovaya), Vyborgskaya embankment 45GlobalWebHuman Resources DepartmentSeveren-TelecomKolpinskaya 9Cleaning Department (Kolpinskaya)ObitKrestovsky IslandKrestovsky Island (5151-5154 Khabarovsk)Severen-TelecomBolshaya Pushkarskaya 25Warehouse DepartmentGlobalWeb17 Line 22Building Department (Senator)Severen-Telecom17VPUpholsteredZelenina, 8Lenvo DivisionUpholsteredAcademician Pavlova 14/2Alps363-49-8317200 numbers for bank clients on Sredny 77WestCallUniv. Emb. 21StreetFoodBar №1Megafon (issued on kmik)Univ. Emb. 21StreetFoodBar №1 - MerchandiserGlobalWeb7th Line V.O. 76 (of. 509)ITC (accounting)Yaninofood plant "Concord", CJSC "KDP" west callPiskarevsky 25CJSC "KDP" GlobalWebRevolution Highway 69Shkolnik-SWunitelAlexander Nevsky Square, 2BusinessProf (BC Moscow)Obit17 Line 22KROwest call17 Line 22KRO officewest callEmb. 12 Griboyedov Canal, letter A, apt. 6RSP LLCGlobalWebPrimorsky 78Lakhta Plaza HotelWestCall, Unitel reservePl. Al. Nevsky, d. 2E, of. 2014Provision LLCunitelShipbuilders st. 30, room. 234-NBit Plus LLCGlobalWebMoss 37 lit. B, office 1 BC OscarKMiK LLCGlobalWeb16 line V.O 7, room 1404IP Kovaleva O.V.GlobalWeb8th line V.O., 19IP Lobanova E.A.unitel16 line V.O 7, pom. 1408OOO RealGlobalWeb18 line V.O. 45 Lit. A., pom 15-NOOO ProvisionObit16 line V.O 7, pom. 9601-9608OOO BusinessInvestGlobalWebSea embankment d. 21k2 room. 10NAktual LLCGlobalWebNevsky 17EmpireObitBolshoi Ave. V.O., 80R, room 608, 6th floorOOO "Information Bureau" west call9 Line 34OOO "Diva" RecruitmentGlobalWeb5-line V.O. house 42, lit. B, room 60Technosila LLCwest callBolshoy Ave. V.O., 80, bldg. R, of. 317Profit Group LLCwest call44, lit. A, of. 311AOOO PoloGlobalWebZausadebnaya st. 31, lit. A1-A9, A1-A5, office K11Fiesta LLCGlobalWebst. Rozenshteina 21, lit. A, room 121 - H, room. elevenLLC Computer LawGlobalWebPeat road d 7 lit A, office 310OOO RadiusGlobalWebKolomyazhsky pr.33OOO RemstroyproektGlobalWebSinopskaya 22OOO BusinessprofObitProf. Popova 38Amegauniteltelephony is in the Alps (ip - Veliky Novgorod)GlobalWebPopova 47LLC SolutionGlobalWebPirogovskaya emb., 21, letter AJSC United Investment GroupunitelMoskovsky pr., 103Ferrum Mining LLCunitelVyborgskaya embankment, house 29, letter A, room 12-N, 13-N, 14-N, 15-N, office No. 527OOO "UK"severeBolshoi prospect VO, 83 room 328GlobalWebst. Zvenigorodskaya 9-11, lit L, 3rd floor, office 311MNK-Prof LLCGlobalWebLLC EuropolisGlobalWebLigovsky Ave., 43-45, letter B, of. 405MTO-Expert LLCGlobalWebLakhta, sales department LLC Lakhta park, Lakhta PlazaPetersburg telephonest. Novaya d. 51 building. 26Petersburg telephoneRevolution Highway 69 lit. B, cab. 425OOO "Verona"UnitelSredny Ave. V.O. 85UJSC "MIK" Unitel26th line of VO, 15, bldg. 2OOO DivaUnitel18th line V.O, d.29LLC "Adel" Severen19th line V.O., house 34, building 1, letter B, room 121-1LLC "Metropol" Unitel12 line V.O., 13, room 18-NMain Line LLC KROWestCall7-line d.76 office №304ITCWestCallHelsingforsskaya, 4, bldg. 1, lit. V, pom. 17NMegalineUnitelLakhtinskoe 85"LLC Legal field"GlobalWebEmbankment of Lieutenant Schmidt, 7LLC Bar ServiceUnitelASP LLCWestCall(R-Telecom)
The presence of a large number of contracts also helped in responding to tax inquiries. For example, to the request of MIFNS 18, the Global Web Group provider replied that Colosseum LLC and Center Social Nutrition LLC are two different companies that used two different IP addresses, these companies have different agreements with the provider, and protocols of communication sessions "cannot be provided for technical reasons."
Additionally, a dozen virtual mail servers are spinning on the network for legal entities involved in Prigozhin's international operations, such as Europolis, M-Invest, M-Finance, Wellada, Ferrum Mining, and others.
For SIP telephony, there are many Asterisk servers on the network.
In total, 260 to 450 leased servers are used for Prigozhin's IT projects at different times. The smallest and cheapest for proxy and VPN services and auxiliary tasks, full-fledged - for temporary and permanent web projects. Presumably, in order to mask activity and minimize the risks of sanctions, Prigozhin's employees use the services of over 20 different hosting providers.
As of September 2021, the main supplier for the Troll Factory was inferno.name hosting - where Prigozhin's employees rented about a hundred servers purchased from several accounts, probably due to the fact that inferno provides many servers with IP addresses of 20 countries of the world. Hosting "Inferno" has been registered in the UK for 10 years. The shares in Inferno were transferred several times from one offshore company to another, now the Estonian company Netrox Europe OU is listed in the register. More than 60 servers of the Prigozhin structure are rented from the Russian hosting timeweb.ru (addresses in the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, EU), a few dozen more - from netbreeze.net (Europe, Asia, USA), and a few dozen - from ruvds.com(RF). Also, several servers are rented from Ukrainian hosting thehost.com.ua and American digitalocean.com, well-known Russian companies Selectel and Infobox. Most likely, they do not even know who their client really is. In contrast, for example, the DataLine company, which hosts the YaRus project.
Among other things, Prigozhin’s employees also rented dedicated servers from the German hosting provider Hetzner for several years, including for use as a VPN and watching movies while “being on the territory,” that is, in Syria, Sudan, and the Central African Republic.
These are some of the IP addresses:
Here are a few more permanent external IP addresses that have been directly used by Prigozhin's structures in St. Petersburg over the past few years:
Additionally, the address 184.108.40.206 was highlighted, where previously it was possible to connect to the old, Moscow office, with VPN and RDP; Cisco Anyconnect was used to connect to the VPN.
From the list of VPN networks based on Juniper 210 in different regions of Russia, it follows that Prigozhin's employees consider St. Petersburg to be the country's capital - in any case, the Moscow office is clearly in last place on the list, and even in the "Regions" tab.
In addition to renting the usual commercial hosting, Prigozhin's employees sometimes installed computer equipment in rented apartments abroad - in those countries where the "trolls" were active. For example, in France, political technologists under the leadership of Jeyhun Aslanov have repeatedly tried to take part in promoting a radical agenda in social networks. The earliest such case was recorded in April 2014.
Interestingly, Dmitry Syty, one of Prigozhin’s employees in Bangui, also lived in France for some time and until recently visited there regularly.
Despite the direct prohibition of the "boss" to work from home, some employees worked remotely for several years. Moreover, system administrators turned off the antivirus (Avast Free Antivirus), turned on TeamViewer 10 and AMMY Admin remote access systems, provided access to the system for third-party consultants, installed personal Skype on work computers and played Sims 4 during working hours. All this indicates a real state of affairs with cybersecurity in Prigozhin's structures.
Prigozhin's employees often used the same passwords by default, stored them in plain text files, and sent each other files with server addresses, login passwords, and user certificates. Based on the data in these files, multiple mail accounts use the same passwords. The Dossier Center has refrained from checking their relevance, but there are good reasons to suspect that they are never changed. On the other hand, the study of passwords makes it possible once again to make sure that Prigozhin's employees have certain tendencies: the numbers 1488 often turn out to be part of the password. However, sometimes Prigozhin's employees added these significant numbers to the outgoing numbers of official documents.
There were two open vacancies for security specialists among the system administrators in the YaRus staffing table. In other projects, such positions were simply not provided for in the staffing table.
How, then, do the requirements of the law manage when organizing electronic document management with authorities? Very simple - with a pen and paper. Nominee directors sign orders to appoint one of the 1C programmers as administrator for information security, and this is where it all ends - the formal requirements are met. Due to the formalism, in order for employees to access network folders, it is necessary to submit paper applications for each employee, which are signed by department heads, but in the end, all information lies on shared network drives.
Of course, several times, especially after 2019, there were attempts to tighten the regime - the use of code designations for locations expanded: “Sands” instead of Syria, “Tsaritsyno” instead of the Central African Republic, “Lipetsk” instead of Libya, and so on. Increasingly, employees are recorded in documents by COD numbers, even at some point they carried out a change in token numbers and a scheme for generating pseudonyms for the Wagnerites. Including there were attempts to introduce rules for handling personal data.
One version of the regulation even implied 100% isolation from the Internet of workstations that processed employee data, including Wagner PMC.
The same ideas were put forward regarding accounting programs and internal accounting documents, but they remained not fully implemented.
In the archives of Prigozhin's companies, we practically did not find any documents indicating training or at least informing the Wagnerians about possible IT risks. The same emptiness in place of security audit reports of IT projects and IT systems - there are almost no traces of targeted information protection.
The general attitude of Prigozhin's employees towards data protection looks careless. They repeatedly used free public hosting services (Yandex.Disk, Mail.ru) to transfer files containing sensitive information - for example, they posted copies of their databases and lists of full names and addresses of tens of thousands of residents of the Russian Defense Ministry military camps they serve.
This applies to both the central office and the Wagnerites in the field. The contents of laptops, mobile devices, and external drives of fighters and "political scientists" captured by the enemy were shown in the media, confirming that the measures to protect information on these devices were not sufficiently reliable.
Among the many thousands of files leaked at various times from Prigozhin's former and current employees, there are almost never encrypted ones. Even ordinary archives with a password are so rare that they can be counted on the fingers, except that an employee with the call sign Prival put a password on his archives a couple of times, which later, in unpacked and decrypted form, were still sent by free e-mail - Mail.ru, Gmail, Yandex.ru or messengers. A couple of times, “political scientists” tried to start using Tutanota encrypted mail to transfer documents among themselves, but soon returned back to Telegram. It comes to the ridiculous - Prigozhin's employees send files to each other through open communication channels with requests to "send them to a secret mail address."
An outside observer cannot help being surprised by the fact that Wagner, in principle, keeps such detailed records and draws up such a large number of various documents on any occasion. Why do we need all these tens of thousands of receipts with passport data and exact amounts? What is the point of compiling tables in Excel indicating what amounts are paid officially, what amounts are paid in black cash, and what size bribe was paid to this or that official, minister, or rebel in a distant African country?
The answer to this question is given by the book “The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Organizations” - secret expenses allow employees to steal significant amounts, so even the most criminal organized crime groups and real terrorists are forced to keep detailed records of exactly how much money was spent on bribing officials, buying and transporting weapons and feeding their fighters. Multi-level control and audit allow to slightly reduce, but not stop, the volume of theft (theft on political projects is especially great). For the same reason - "accounting and control" - all reports, applications, invoices, justifications, receipts, and lists of real, former, and potential Wagnerists are repeatedly scanned, duplicated, and accumulated in the central office, which in the event of a hack leads toto massive leaks of hundreds of thousands of classified documents.
Synergy is created by mixing business activities with the military, intelligence, political dirty deeds, and media activities. On the other hand, this brings huge problems, since the level of operational security in departments is very different and all military secrets are blabbed out by some cook, political PR assistant, or accountant.
It turns out a strange imbalance: intimidation of employees with a polygraph, requirements to delete social networks, a ban on their own smartphones, the use of cryptophones, nominees to register contracts with providers, and regular investigations for information leaks are combined with an absolute disregard for digital security - no employees, no training, no instructions, no encryption, no quality monitoring of the network infrastructure, in general, you can go on for quite some time, in any case, this is not what you expect to see from a "transnational criminal organization". How can this be?
There are several possible explanations:
incompetence and nepotism;
deliberate sabotage by employees;
savings on matches;
It seems that the latter option is the most likely: from the analysis of the documents of the security service, it can be seen that the main threats that Prigozhin and the security services of Wagner-Concord are fighting are his own employees, who pass materials on journalists, opposition and friends/acquaintances the activities of Wagner, the tax authorities, from which large amounts of black cash are hidden, government agencies, from which dummy bidders hide, as well as the FSB. For unknown reasons, employees of the PMC "Wagner" with friends or relatives in the FSB are instantly blacklisted, but people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the GRU are not. Surprisingly, the list of threats does not include Anonymous hackers, the SBU, the FBI, the NSO Group, or similar organizations from countries where Prigozhin’s employees interfere in elections or directly participate in hostilities. At least no attempts to somehow take IT security issues seriously on the part of the Concorde and Wagner structures were recorded. More than Americans, Europeans, or Ukrainians, Prigozhin hides from the FSB, which is always somewhere nearby. | <urn:uuid:c69640d9-75f9-4d4e-83de-0daccfc571b6> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://olgalautman.substack.com/p/dossier-center-investigation-prigozhins | 2023-06-01T18:17:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648000.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20230601175345-20230601205345-00590.warc.gz | en | 0.940071 | 10,776 |
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I used some on this journal page. The words "A Dream" came from a music sheet, as did the picture of the woman on the right. These pages are not quite finished yet.
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Acrylic paint, pressed flowers, paper scraps. Old post card.
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Over the course of Monday, the tech world got duped by a phony press release that claimed Google had acquired ICOA, a wireless Internet company, for $400 million. Both Google and ICOA have since denied the acquisition, with ICOA's CEO George Strouthopoulos suggesting to Buzzfeed's John Herrman that the press release was a hoax intended to increase the stock's value so an insider, as-yet-unrevealed but apparently from Aruba, could make himself a lot of money.
This was a Hoax. We are investigating the source, so far it originated from Aruba
This is NOT TRUE!! Never had any discussions with any potential acquirers!! This is absolutely false!
Someone, I guess a stock promoter with a dubious interest, is disseminating wrong, false and misleading info in the PR circles. ICOA will report this to the proper authorities.
The journalists who first reported the press release as a not-hoax have since updated their posts. But the act of misreporting the news has already done its damage. The penny stock spiked to five cents, likely leading to a profit in the hundres of millions of dollars range for the lone scammer, notes Herrman. In order to prevent this from happening again (it's happened before), let's take a look at some of the tell-tale signs we should have seen from the press release that might have indicated its fakery — and fended off an unfair stock-market bump.
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For reference, here's the release in question (no longer on the Internet):
ICOA Has Been Acquired by Google for $400 Million
Warwick, RI (PRWEB) November 26, 2012
Google has announced its acquisition of ICOA Inc. A provider of Wi-Fi to high traffic public locations. ICOA is a leading vertically integrated, neutral-host broadband wireless Internet network provider. Their suite of services and solutions power the unique requirements of high-traffic public locations such as airports, marinas, restaurants and more, while also providing back office solutions for hotspot operators and wireless service providers. Google looks to further diversify it's already impressive portfolio of companies.
ICOA, Inc. is a national provider of wireless and wired broadband Internet networks in high-traffic public locations. ICOA provides design, installation, operation, maintenance and management of WI-FI hot-spot and hot-zone Internet access. Based in Warwick, Rhode Island, ICOA owns or operates broadband access installations in high-traffic locations across 40 states, located in airports, quick-service restaurants, hotels and motels, travel plazas, marinas etc. ICOA networks are compatible with widely-used 802.11x technology and with virtually all Internet service providers. Further information is at http://www.icoacorp.com.
1. No Quotations
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Nowhere in there does a spokesperson, CEO, president, CFO or the like from Google or ICOA gush about the new company. While those quotes aren't generally controversial and therefore not very useful to reporters, a press release without one should look suspect, as AllThingsD's Arik Hasseldahl notes.
2. No Contact Information
Usually, at the bottom of these press releases, reporters have a contact email or phone number (or both) to get more information. This press release just gave a website with a generic URL: http://www.icoacorp.com, which doesn't lead to any real information.
3. Came from PRWeb
Google didn't write about it on one of their blogs, nor did it come via email to reports. The press release made its way to TechCrunch and others from PRWeb, a press-release hub. Apparently, it doesn't take much to put a statement up on that site, according to the Hot Stock Market tweet.
@jwherrman Re your ICOA piece. PRweb will publish anything if you just pay the fee. Source: I see promoters do it all the time— HotStockMarket (@HotStockMarket) November 26, 2012
Hesseldahl also makes this good point about PRWeb: "The release was posted on PRWeb, a free service operated by the PR firm Vocus, which, it just so happens, is publicly held on the Nasdaq."
4. A Lot of Money for That Company
The release had Google paying $400 million for a company with a market capitalization of less than $850,000.
ICOA has reported the matter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, reports The Hill's Brendan Sasso. Putting out a fake release like this is illegal. One 23-year-old who scammed business and news wires was sentenced to 44 months in prison and forced to pay $350,000. | <urn:uuid:4257597b-e26f-4839-8b06-75cb02602556> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/four-signs-google-ioca-press-release-wasnt-real-222209891.html | 2013-05-25T10:02:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705926946/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120526-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950083 | 1,005 |
Chelsea have confirmed their Barclays Premier League fixture against champions Manchester United will go ahead despite the cold snap.
The cold weather has seen several sporting events postponed this weekend due to snow and frozen playing surfaces.
But Chelsea said there were no major problems at Stamford Bridge and the game will be played at 4pm as planned.
"Today's Barclays Premier League fixture against Manchester United WILL go ahead as planned," a statement on the club's website said.
"The Stamford Bridge site and surrounding area is being cleared of snow and local transport is working."
"Kick-off is at 4pm. Supporters are advised to allow extra time for their journeys."
One of the football matches is off, with Derby County's npower Championship derby meeting with local rivals Nottingham Forest postponed on safety grounds.
The match was due to kick off at 12.15pm, but heavy snow last night has left roads and pavements around the ground dangerous, and the club have called off the fixture after discussions with the match officials, police, the Football League and Forest.
Derby chief executive Tom Glick told the club's website: "The pitch is fine and inside the stadium is safe and dry. However, the roads throughout the city and county are unsafe.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed positive year-to-date for the first time in 2016 on Thursday.
The index finished the trading session at 17,481.49. It surged about 12% from the low reached on February 11.
This comeback happened after US stocks had their worst start to a year ever as investors were concerned about everything from global economic growth to the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike.
Stocks spiked on Wednesday after the Fed decided to hold its benchmark rate steady and lower its forecast for hikes this year.
Much of the commentary out of Wall Street on Thursday morning said that the Fed was more willing to keep rates lower than markets had anticipated.
Apart from the expected rate hold, the Fed lowered its forecasts for inflation and growth.
The Fed's decision was still fresh on investors' minds in trading on Thursday, along with some strong economic data out in the morning.
Initial jobless claims rose 7,000 to 265,000 last week, but less than expected. The Philly Fed's manufacturing index surged to a nine-month high of 12.4, coming in positive for the first time in seven months.
And, the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey showed that openings leveled off a bit but stayed at a historically high level of 5.55 million in January.Andy Kiersz/Business Insider | <urn:uuid:a8d13a86-92e5-4860-90a8-a601891ab894> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | http://www.businessinsider.com/market-update-march-17-2016-3?r=UK&IR=T | 2018-01-17T01:37:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084886792.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20180117003801-20180117023801-00747.warc.gz | en | 0.968158 | 272 |
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This was a diorama entry in the Crystal Brush competition at Adepticon last month. (The Adepticon 2018 picture thread is here, new images still being added.) Does anyone recognize the spider-centaur queen figure at the top? Someone asked me what mini it was and I couldn’t answer.
This weekend I quickly threw some paint onto Blood Widow and finished the painting tonite. Not a great paint job, in fact I touched up mistakes my pictures showed me. But, I find it captures the comic character nicely. I have to say she stands out as most of my painting is very muted and gritty so the bright red spandex jumps out. More pictures and of course rambling on my blog. Comments appreciated. | <urn:uuid:d2178cbd-091c-4e6f-afd4-2e40c5b2ac03> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/tags/spider%20woman/ | 2021-01-24T06:24:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703547333.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20210124044618-20210124074618-00392.warc.gz | en | 0.949676 | 171 |
Auto sales booming - except for electric cars
Let's agree that if auto makers ever came up with an electric car whose performance came close to matching a gasoline vehicle and whose price was right, it would be a marvelous advancement in technology.
But that's not the case today. In order to sell just about any electric or hybrid car, government must suibsidize it. And even then, there are few takers.
Electric car sales are not charging the marketplace. A new study by online automotive research company Edmunds.com suggests the segment may have run out of gas.
Sales of electric drive vehicles are stuck at about 3.6% of all new car sales for 2014, Edmunds senior analyst Jessica Caldwell said.
That's below the 3.7% market share for 2013, and it's not likely to grow any before the end of the year.
And that's during an otherwise robust sales season. Total figures for August were higher than any time in the last decade.
Automakers sold about 1.6 million vehicles in the U.S. in August, an increase of about 3% from August 2013, according to initial industry estimates released Wednesday.
"The whole automobile market has grown," Caldwell said. "We’re not seeing electric vehicles as part of that growth."
The numbers are surprising, Caldwell said, to automobile forecasters. Five years ago, analysts thought that electric vehicle sales would continue to expand as more manufacturers put more electric vehicles on the road and as the vehicles' cost came down.
That hasn't happened. Electric vehicle sales have slowed while prices have come down and dealers have been offering increasingly better deals on financing and incentives.
"It isn't growing," Caldwell said. "It's stagnant and even slightly down."
Caldwell said stable gas prices have contributed to a slackening in interest in non-gasoline electric hybrid and plug-in vehicles. So have the increasingly good fuel efficiency levels of gas cars generally.
Buyers are looking at the higher average price of electric vehicles, Caldwell said, and deciding that "the math doesn't really work out."
Electric cars are not only far more expensive than gas powered autos, but the performance characteristcs are horrendous. At most, you can travel about 50 miles without recharging. For many Americans, that's a couple of trips to the mall. The hybrid performance is good, but you're paying an awful lot more for a few miles more in fuel efficiency.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
An Ombre Day
It all started it out nice and sunny a little mud here and there, but that soon changed. Clouds rolled in from nowhere as the storms took over the sun like an ombre affect. Flowers who were smiling in the breeze, were now dropping from the hit and run rain drops. A little white house was full of nice clean floors, until the owner came in with muddy rain boots from the storm. Yes some days start out nice and sunny, but then they have this ombre affect on us. They slowly but surely get darker and darker. The same thing around, some days maybe dark, little dark. then light, to lighter. If you live in Texas, you know how the storm went in. I usually love these days, but I my senses told me that I didn't like this rain. I am so fond of rain, but how could this be? I haven't figured it out lately myself. Like the flowers on my blouse, they start off bright and then fade to the dark gloomy colors.
I normally wear this outfit with my blue gem necklace that has sadly broken. I also wear it with my tux jacket, and a watch. But not all things turn out, so I decided to do a different way of the usual outfit. I have the ombre flower shirt I got for my birthday in January, it was from Target. The shiny black belt is from Kohl's, which I find hard to find things there. Kohl's is like a jungle, you will never know what you will find. A couple months ago my mom found some space flip flops. I normally love all the Vera Wang stuff, but I wait for it to go on sale. The purple skinny jeans are from Old Navvy. The boots are from ebay. I saw my dream catcher earrings out on my art drawer, and it didn't look that bad, so I wore them. I wore my aquarius necklace , and got it from Urban Outfitters (they still have them hurry and get your zodiac)!
That's about it!!
I'm planning to read 2 chapters of Lord of the Flies in 2 days... it maybe hard to accomplish since the text is so small.
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Hazard, John Stafford, "The Prediction of Scholastic Success By Intelligence Tests and Scholastic Grades" (1935). Master's Theses. 205.
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The Gospel of St. John
InterVarsity Press is proud to present The Lightfoot Legacy, a three-volume set of previously unpublished material from J. B. Lightfoot, one of the great biblical scholars of the modern era. In the spring of 2013, Ben Witherington III discovered hundreds of pages of biblical commentary by Lightfoot in the Durham Cathedral Library. While incomplete, these commentaries represent a goldmine for historians and biblical scholars, as well as for the many people who have found Lightfoot's work both informative and edifying, deeply learned and pastorally sensitive.
In addition to the material on the Acts of the Apostles, published in volume one, there were detailed notes on the Fourth Gospel, a text that Lightfoot loved and lectured on frequently. These pages contain his commentary notes for John 1-12. Lightfoot had long wanted to write a commentary on the Gospel of John, but he was unable to do so due to more pressing demands on his time, as well as his respect for his colleague B. F. Westcott. As a result, though he continued to compile notes on the text, they never saw the light of day until now. Included alongside the commentary are Lightfoot?s long out-of-print essays on the historical reliability of the Fourth Gospel.
Now on display for all to see, these commentary volumes reveal a scholar well ahead of his time, one of the great minds of his or any generation.
"Here is the second of IVP's planned releases of recently-discovered commentaries by famous scholar J. B. Lightfoot. . . . Though many of Lightfoot's commentaries have been popular for over a century, these releases cover commentaries on parts of the Bible that he did pursue publishing because dear friends wrote on those same books of the Bible. Now with this publishing event, his work was not in vain. . . . We have here both an interesting, historical commentary and something of a collector's item. You will want to check it out."
"The Gospel of St. John: A Newly Discovered Commentary is an exciting window into the mind of one of the most brilliant biblical commentators of the past two centuries. Readers of all backgrounds and interests will benefit greatly from the wisdom and judicious historical and exegetical care of J. B. Lightfoot. This was true for his previously published work, and evidently, it remains true for these newly discovered ones as well. This is an important publication that I would not want to be without, and thus it comes highly recommended."
"Though Lightfoot was dealing with an older incredulity and skepticism, nevertheless his observations and evaluations are helpful as we face similar suspicions and cynicisms. And his commentary shows the value of thoughtfully reading passages from the original languages. This would make a great addition to the library of your favorite seminarian or pastor. I heartily recommend the volume for more than just its historical value."
Editors' Introduction: J.B. Lightfoot as Biblical Commentator
Introduction: External and Internal Evidences of the Authenticity and Genuiness of the Fourth Gospel
The Commentary on John
Appendix A: External Evidence for the Authenticity of the Fourth Gospel
Appendix B: More Internal Evidence for the Authenticity and Genuineness of St John?s Gospel
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Darkfield Microscopy Image Gallery
Butterflies, because of the wide spectrum of wing scale patterns exhibited by members of this order, are one of the most colorful members of the insect world. The digital image presented below illustrates a number of miniature scales that decorate most of the surface of a butterfly wing. The wing scales in this image were illuminated with a darkfield substage condenser and captured at low magnification (50x).
A network of scales covers most of the wing, giving it a beautiful array of colors produced either by pigmentation or through optical interference. The iridescent colors usually associated with butterfly wings arise from the small ridges on the scales, which interact with light causing constructive and destructive interference, much like that produced by a soap bubble. Other coloration in the wing is caused by clusters of dehydrated blood cells, leading to a wide spectrum of colors that we see as distinct patterns in the wings.
Over 160,000 species of butterflies and moths together comprise a large order of insects named Lepidoptera, which is Greek for wing scale. There are a number of similarities and differences between butterflies and moths. Most butterflies are brightly colored and fly during the day while a majority of moths have a dull and drab appearance and usually fly by night. Butterflies tend to hold their wings upright over their backs when resting, but most moths spread their wings flat near the surface when not flying. These insects also differ in the construction of their antennae. Butterfly antennae are usually long and thin and knobbed at the tip whereas moth antennae can be much more complex and often resemble feathers.
The first moths appeared about 150 million years ago during the Cretaceous period when the world was largely inhabited by dinosaurs. Butterflies evolved much later, about 40 million years ago, and many of the species alive today have evolved during the last five million years.
Butterflies and moths have a complex life cycle that consists of four separate stages. The first stage is the egg, which is fertilized during a typical insect mating ritual. Male butterflies and female moths secrete airborne pheromones that act as sexual stimulants to members of the opposite sex. In many instances, courtship is highly complicated and involves the coloration of the partners, a prenuptial courtship flight, and specialized "dances" that lead to mating. The sex attractant pheromones are complex biochemicals that probably determine most aspects of this mating behavior. Fertilized eggs are sometimes scattered by the female, but most butterflies and moths seek a suitable plant food source for their offspring. Most species lay a thousand eggs or more, but this number can vary with climate and the prevailing environmental conditions.
A short period of time after the eggs are laid, they hatch to produce caterpillars, one of the most complex and interesting stages in the life cycle of butterflies and moths. Caterpillars usually molt several times during their life by discarding their outer "skin" and forming a more elastic covering that allows expanded growth. Most of the life of a caterpillar is used to prepare for the next stage in development. They spend a majority of their time consuming nutrients to produce silk, which is used to spin a cocoon.
Caterpillars spin themselves into a silk cocoon, then transform into an immobile stage known as the pupa. During this stage, the pupa is transformed from a caterpillar into a butterfly or moth. The pupa stage can last weeks or even months, but when finished, a beautiful butterfly or functional moth breaks free from the cocoon to start the cycle again.
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In a recent post, I wrote of Brother Joseph F. Schmidt, FSC, and his amazingly insightful book Everything Is Grace: The Life and Way of Thérèse of Lisieux.
For years Br. Joe was at the International Renewal Center near Santa Fe, and is now living and teaching in teaching in Naorobi. Simply discovering this remarkable man and his work would have been gift enough. But Saturday night I discovered that he's temporarily back in the States and giving a retreat from July 16th through the 23rd on St.Thérèse, and prayer, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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he retreat is being given at the Canossian Spirituality Center. It so happens I'm going to be in Taos for the month of July. So I am going, darn it!
|FR. LARRY BRITO|
AT THE "CALVARIO" NEAR THE TAOS, NEW MEXICO, MORADA
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More than 90% of mainland Portugal’s municipalities have “effective and up-to-date” Municipal Fire Protection Plans (PMDFCI), the Minister of Internal Affairs announced on 4th December today, saying that Portuguese can rely on “good results”.
“The Portuguese can rely on the results, these two years – 2018 and 2019 – account for the results, […] good laws, good plans are needed, but above all good results are needed and that’s why we respond,” said Eduardo Cabrita at the presentation ceremony of the first Republican National Guard (GNR) ranger course, held in Queluz, Sintra, in the Lisbon district.
According to the information provided in the infoPMDFCI online application of the Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests (ICNF), 59 of the 278 municipalities in mainland Portugal do not have updated PMDFCI in force.
However, the minister assured that, “today, over 90% of the continent’s municipalities have effective and up-to-date plans.”
“But I would say that, in this matter, what is fundamental is the collective conscience, is the commitment of means, that alone will guarantee the results,” said Eduardo Cabrita.
Mandatory for all municipalities on the Portuguese mainland, the PMDFCI aims to operationalize at local and municipal level the standards contained in the DFCI legislation.
As part of an audit of the PMDFCI, which analysed 278 municipalities in mainland Portugal, from 2015 to 2017, the Court of Auditors concluded that 32 municipalities do not undertake to carry out the actions contained in the PMDFCI. Therefore “the fact is that the existence of PMDFCI does not, by itself, guarantee greater capacity in forest defence, although it allows the fulfillment of an obligation and attesting to a compliance status that has an impact on municipal funding.”
From the perspective of the head of the Internal Affairs portfolio, Portuguese society realized that DFCI is a theme that “demands a response throughout the year, requires knowledge, requires preparation”, stating that “if something has changed in Portuguese society, over the last two years, it has been the priority given to prevention.”
“If the results of these two years were encouraging in reducing the burned area, but especially in saving lives, I think that what has changed is the deep commitment of all public policy sectors, also the municipalities, who have realized that this is an essential area, even as first-line civil protection officials, ”said the minister, considering that in view of the“ good results ”one cannot but“ maintain this absolute priority ”.
On August 16 this year, the Government ordered the retention of 20% of the twelfth of transfers from the Financial Balance Fund to Odivelas, Paços de Ferreira and Peniche because they have not yet approved the PMDFCI.
A note from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI) stated that the withholding would be made by the Directorate-General of Local Authorities.
According to the current wording of Decree-Law No. 124/2016, municipalities are required to draft, execute, evaluate and update the PMDFCI.
In addition, the MAI said in a statement at the time, the State Budget for 2019 determined that “failure to comply with this standard by 31 March 2019 will result in the retention of 20% of the twelfth of current ETF transfers”.
“After the legal deadlines for pronouncing the municipalities, and having not been answered in any of the three cases, regarding the submission of their plans to the ICNF, the retention was determined,” said the MAI.
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The Board of Trustees
Agenda of Regular Meeting
A Regular Meeting of the Board of Trustees of Aledo ISD will be held July 19, 2010, beginning at 7:00 PM in the Aledo ISD Administration Board Room.
The subjects to be discussed or considered or upon which any formal action may be taken are as listed below. Items do not have to be taken in the order shown on this meeting notice.
Unless removed from the consent agenda, items identified within the consent agenda will be acted on at one time.
I. Call to Order
II. Determine a Quorum
III. Public Comment
IV. Consent Agenda Presenter: Joe Dearing, Jr., President
A. Minutes - June 21, 2010
B. Monthly Financial Report
C. Board Report
D. Check Payment List/Register
E. Consider Employment of Personnel
V. Superintendent Reports Presenter: Don R. Daniel, Superintendent
A. Bond Update
B. Second Quarter Investment Report Presenter: Chris Whiddon, CFO
C. Terry and Helen Hyles Employee Award Winners for 2009-2010 School Year - Second Semester
VI. Consideration of Budget Amendment Presenter: Chris Whiddon, CFO
VII.Consider Approval of Recommended Changes to DEC (Local) Board Policy Regarding Local Leave Presenter: Don Daniel, Superintendent
VIII. Consider Approval of Solar Energy Purchase Agreement with New Energy Wind and Solar, LLC Presenter: Dan Manning, Executive Director of Administration
IX. Consider Electing Delegate and Alternate to the TASB Convention Presenter: Joe Dearing, Jr., President
X. Consider Approval of Chief Appraiser's Bond Presenter: Chris Whiddon, CFO
XI. Consider Approval of Bids for Walkway Covers Presenter: Chris Whiddon, CFO
XII. Consider Proposal to Refurbish High School Tennis Courts - Resurface and Replace Wind Screens Presenter: Don R. Daniel, Superintendent
XIII. Consider Board Member Resignation Presenter: Joe Dearing, Jr., President
XIV. Trustee Comments/Acknowledgements
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When trying to fix your pull, the best strategy is to encourage the exact opposite fault; a push. Unfortunately, after awhile practicing the same incorrect move over and over again, it will begin to feel comfortable in your swing.
To really understand how to perform the correct motion, you need to feel the opposite of the incorrect move you are performing. This drill is designed to encourage a push. With some practice you will find the happy medium between your pull and the newly created push.
This drill is difficult to setup, but very effective once you get it going. Take a look at the enclosed pictures, and try to setup your shafts the same way. Explaining what I did here in words would be pretty much impossible. The keys are having the shaft closest to you parallel to your club at address. Also making sure that the far shaft is slightly farther away from the hole, as this will encourage the in to out swing path we are hoping for. Also make sure there is enough room for error between the shafts to make decent contact with the ball.
Remember that hitting the shafts can be dangerous, so take this drill slow in the beginning.
Setup normally to the ball in the center of the shafts; notice how the shafts will force you to swing on an in to out path to make contact with the ball. Definitely start by swinging slowly, and consider starting without a ball. The idea is to hit the ball and miss the shafts entirely. You should notice immediately how different the swing path feels. It should feel like your going to hit yourself on your backswing. Try this drill for ten swings, then step away and try hitting balls normally. If you’re still pulling, try the drill again. | <urn:uuid:6fb130ba-775f-4219-8c36-9dd5496905ae> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | http://sirshanksalot.com/78-double-shaft-drill-fix-your-pull/ | 2018-01-19T03:28:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084887729.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20180119030106-20180119050106-00020.warc.gz | en | 0.959151 | 352 |
Posted with Kaitlin’s (15) permission.
For several years our goal has been for Mark to be more involved in homeschooling our children, specifically as they get into the upper grades. We’ve slowly and surely made progress in this direction and this year Mark is the primary homeschool parent for our oldest children. (He plans, gives and checks all assignments in all subjects, oversees all group readings and leads all discussions. This really allows me to focus on home educating our younger children.)
I hope that this is an encouragement to those of you who have a goal of a father being very involved in the homeschooling. Mark does not have the type of job where he can take children with him (he’s on the road everyday and most of the places that he goes require security clearance). This is something that our family has grown into and the Lord has brought about and I’m confident that for nearly all families who desire this it is possible, even with those situations that make it more challenging.
It made me giggle, I love these kids.
Here is the email:
The assignment was to start an outline that will be used to write your own confession. I gave the assignment last week but no one was finished on Monday and only one was done last night. Read Kaitlin’s below.
In the year of our Lord 1998 I, Kaitlin ____ was born to two Christian parents. I have been raised to love the Lord Jesus Christ who is my Savior and who was willing to die on the cross to save me.
For my school I was told to do a paper about my confessions. Instead I slacked off and did not get it done.
Dad wanted me to write a paper so that I could learn diligence and practice my writing.
Instead of doing this writing I played, ran and forgot to do it. When it came time to turn the paper in I tried to make excuses for not having it done instead of telling Dad the truth.
I told Dad I forgot, but forgetting is a sin because I didn’t think it was important enough to remember.
When I saw Dad’s look of disappointment I knew I had failed him and had not obeyed my Heavenly Father. Thank you Lord for your mercy to those who do not keep your commandments.
Dad here is my outline. I love you.
What have your kids done recently that made you laugh or just shake your head in disbelief?
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Need to know
Eight villa suites and three rooms; two villa suites can be booked as a pair for families.
11am, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in: 3pm, or earlier if the room is free.
Double rooms from $247.94, excluding tax at 31.08 per cent.
Rates are half-board and include a huge gourmet breakfast as well as lunch or dinner. There’s a two-night minimum stay (three in high season), and all rates include service charges and government taxes. Solo travellers, contact the Smith24 Team for rates.
Owner Rob Drummond worked closely with award-garnering Raefer Wallis of Shanghai’s A00 Architects to ensure the design and build tread as lightly as possible. The resort's spiral layout is lifted from the Fibonacci sequence, but we’re sure you already guessed that. If you want to come home with a new party trick, ask the hotel to arrange tuk tuk-driving or stilt-fishing lessons.
At the hotel
Free high-speed WiFi; six acres of grounds; a library of art, design, architecture and travel books; a projector for screenings; a yoga <i>shala</i> for Quantum Yoga classes, and personal trainers. In rooms: minibars in some suites, free bottled water, Spa Ceylon toiletries; three of the villas have private plunge pools too.
Our favourite rooms
Rooms in the Water Tower are cosy cabins with glorious views; the tower’s cinnamon-wood cladding makes it look somewhat like a high-end haystack – trust us, that’s a good thing. The Lake Villa’s private pool is both view blessed and shaded from fellow guests by a smattering of greenery; it’s ideal for a spot of late-night skinny-dipping.
The resort’s glimmering lake-edge infinity pool has ionising filters, and its panoramic green-and-blue views are really rather lovely.
Each guest has a bespoke plan of yoga classes and spa treatments, involving Lara Baumann's unique Quantum Yoga approach. Classes are held in a shala floating above the bamboo grove, and treatments take place in two elevated rooms. Post-pampering, stop by the steam cavern, or head to the sheltered relaxation area, with a gently trickling fountain, white flowers and bamboo. Ayurvedic massages are tailored to individual needs, where guests can choose their preferred oils and pressure, and shirodhara (a soothing water massage) and cleanses are offered too. Active types can hop on an exercise bike, follow a 'holistic parkour circuit' around the lake (accompanied by a personal trainer, on request), or learn how to climb a coconut tree with the aid of a rope.
Bring binoculars to spy on the scores of birds fluttering about their lakeside habitat. Don’t forget eye masks and earplugs if you’re a light sleeper who likes a lie-in – the glorious dawn chorus is loud and proud.
The hotel is not best suited to guests with mobility issues.
Tri is better suited to families with older children; only children 12 years and older are permitted at the resort. In rooms, a sofa can be made up as an extra single bed (US$75 a person, each night).
Sustainable materials and building practices are exemplary: water is solar heated and transfers are by old-fashioned fishing boat. Tri’s entire philosophy is based on going local – from team members to ingredients in the kitchen and the art displayed. A carbon-consulting company in Colombo was enlisted to conduct a comprehensive biodiversity report. | <urn:uuid:40c804bb-884e-4794-94aa-f582d7c62c66> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://www.mrandmrssmith.com/luxury-hotels/tri | 2019-05-23T07:46:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257156.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20190523063645-20190523085645-00303.warc.gz | en | 0.941208 | 785 |
First and foremost: Yes--I will be attending Megacon (March 15-17) with my partner in crime
and right next to my good friends
. You can find us all at tables Purple 17/18.
With Megacon debuting my book "Sin of Omniscience", I've decided to jump on the pre-con commission bandwagon. If you were planning to get a commission from me, get on my list now and you can pick up your piece from my table at the show!
Spots are limited and the pre-con list will only be open until March 8th.
(Just to reiterate--this journal only pertains to Megacon commissions which are to be picked up at the con. I am not available for any other commissions at the moment.)
My con sketch commissions are drawn on either 11x14 (for full body) or 9x12 (for half body or bust) Bristol Board. Prices are per character. There is minimal background (detailed backgrounds are extra). Color commissions are colored with Copic Markers.
Bust - $10 for Black & White
$25 for Color
Half Body - $30 for B/W
$45 for Color
Full Body - $60 for B/W
$75 for Color
I will be taking sketch commissions during the con as well (again spots are limited and are first come/first serve). The details/prices remain the same.
For pre-con commissions I take PayPal only and do ask for payment up front in order to secure your place on my list.
For commissions requested at the show I will be taking Cash or Credit Card (with my square reader) only.
You can pick up your pre-con sketch commission from my Table at Megacon anytime during show hours.
If you're interested send me a note.
Aside from pre-con/con sketch commissions--I will also be selling prints [link]
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St Brides Spa Hotel
St Brides Hill, Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, SA69 9NH
The M4 motorway is 40 miles from St Brides Spa Hotel, bringing Saundersfoot within easy reach by car from most parts of the UK. Drive along the M4 motorway west to Carmarthen, where you will take the A40 to St Clears. From here, take the A477 towards Tenby. At Kilgetty roundabout, take the A478 to Saundersfoot. Stay on the A478 until Twy Cross Roundabout at New Hedges. At the Twy Cross roundabout, take the first exit left. Continue down St Brides Hill (approximately 1 mile) until you see the Hotel on the right.
N.B. Satellite Navigation users should be aware that St Brides Spa Hotel is in Saundersfoot, South Pembrokeshire and not St Brides Bay in West Pembrokeshire.
Main line trains travel to Swansea with connections to Saundersfoot and Tenby. We recommend that you stay on the train to Tenby as this is a main station as opposed to a platform in Saundersfoot. From Tenby (Saundersfoot is a request stop) , you can take a 5 minutes taxi ride to the hotel.
Stena operate from Rosslare to Fishguard. Irish Ferries sail from Rosslare to Pembroke Dock.
Scheduled worldwide connections are available to Cardiff International Airport, which is 90 miles form the hotel.
St Brides Hill, Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire SA69 9NH
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FULLY FINISHED 5BDRM,(3up,2down), 3BTH MODIFIED BI LEVEL ~ WALK OUT BASEMENT ~ HEATED TRIPLE ATTACHED GARAGE ~ Open concept main floor layout with vaulted ceilings, built in speakers and tons of natural light ~ Gas fireplace in the living room has floor to ceiling stone and built in TV niche ~ Dining room has row of south and west facing windows plus garden door access to the large deck with gas line for BBQ ~ The kitchen features an abundance of dark stained oak cabinets, granite counter tops, massive island with raised eating bar, full tile backsplash and corner pantry ~ 2 Main floor bedrooms are both a good size and are located next to the 4PC main bath ~ Secluded master is just off the main floor, can easily accommodate a king sized bed and furniture, has a large walk in closet with built in organizers, and a spa like 4PC ensuite with a separate shower and jetted tub ~ Spacious family room with 9ft ceilings, in floor heat, more built in speakers and garden door walk out with covered patio ~ 2 additional bedrooms and a 4PC bath are just off the family room ~ Laundry has built in shelving ~ Play area for the kids tucked away under the stairs ~ Large fully fenced backyard has underground sprinkler system, vinyl fencing, shed for added storage, and backs onto walking trail and pond ~ Triple attached garage is heated and has two man doors.
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Arsenal look set to step up their interest in Montpellier attacking midfielder/winger Younes Belhanda after the club’s owner admitted that the Moroccan international could leave in the summer.
Speaking to French radio station RMC, Louis Nicollin said that Belhanda is the best player at Montpellier, but that he and striker Olivier Giroud will be allowed to leave if the club is offered enough money.
“The largest pearl, the biggest ruby is Younis. He is stronger than Hazard, Pastore and company. He has more class.
‘If we’re offered a lot of money, Giroud and Belhanda will certainly go.”
Arsène Wenger is known to be a fan of Belhanda, who has scored 11 goals in 27 appearances this season. The 22-year-old has previously suggested that he wishes to play in the Premier League and Wenger made comments last month which clearly show that he is on our radar.
“I know Younes well and like him a lot.
“But I don’t want to cause problems. Only Montpellier can decide where he goes to.”
Despite beginning his career in a more defensive role, Belhanda has developed into a fully fledged attacking midfielder who has been compared by his coach René Giarar to Robert Pires – a player who Arsenal fans will know all about. However, it is difficult to know if Arsenal are in the market for an attacking midfielder. Song and Arteta play much deeper roles, Tomas Rosicky is 31 and Aaron Ramsey needs to work on his finishing, but we will have Jack Wilshere and Abou Diaby back in the side next season as well as (hopefully) Lukas Podolski.
“His desire to get on the ball combined with excellent technique means he can play through the middle or on the wings. He reminds me of Robert Pires.” | <urn:uuid:4aabf0f8-938b-4ca6-8d3c-ff785008cf48> | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | http://straightalkingooners.com/transfer-talk-gunners-to-step-up-interest-in-montpellier-attacking-midfielder/9656/ | 2014-03-11T18:51:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1394011240315/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305092040-00037-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973926 | 415 |
Solid Energy refuses request for Don Elder to meet with MPs
6 March 2013
Solid Energy refuses request for Don Elder to appear before MPs
Solid Energy has refused Labour’s request for former chief executive Don Elder to appear before the Commerce Select Committee tomorrow, despite him still being on the payroll, Labour’s SOEs spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove says.
Last week Clayton Cosgrove wrote to Solid Energy’s new chairman Mark Ford and interim chief executive Garry Diack requesting that former CE Don Elder appear before the Commerce Select Committee as part of the 2011/12 Financial Review Hearing of Solid Energy on Thursday 7 March.
Today Solid Energy has responded simply by saying, ‘given that Dr Elder resigned from the role of CEO, it is no longer appropriate for him to represent the company, so he will not be appearing at Select Committee’.
Clayton Cosgrove says: “Solid Energy say it’s not ‘appropriate’ for Dr Elder to appear before MPs. It wasn’t appropriate for Solid Energy to lose $389 million through mismanagement and lack of oversight and taxpayers who are footing the bill have a right to an explanation from the man in charge not his proxies who weren’t there at the time.
“Everyone involved in the collapse of Solid Energy is running down burrows. Tony Ryall and Bill English won’t answer straight questions on it and Don Elder and the former chairman John Palmer are nowhere to be found.
“Tony Ryall himself says Don Elder is still on the payroll in a transitional role. Explaining what went wrong sounds exactly what someone in a transitional role should do. Solid Energy should be prepared to front up with Dr Elder.
“Solid Energy has gone from an export award-winning company bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars to the taxpayer to a basket case. Ordinary Kiwis deserve to know what happened, who is responsible and who should be held to account. Other than the ministers Don Elder is the only person who can provide that information.
“No one attending the select committee tomorrow took the decisions that led to Solid Energy’s collapse. The attendees are the new chair, the new interim chief executive, the chief financial officer and the company’s chief spin doctor. They will not be able to offer a detailed insight or explanation about how Solid Energy went from being worth $1.7 billion a year ago to absolutely nothing now.
“There are $389 million reasons why Kiwis deserve an explanation. Ministers and Solid Energy have to front up and Dr Elder must be present,” says Clayton Cosgrove. | <urn:uuid:9686fe26-f96e-4984-936d-382b6eabddd4> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1303/S00087/solid-energy-refuses-request-for-don-elder-to-meet-with-mps.htm | 2015-02-01T07:14:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115855897.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161055-00022-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949893 | 542 |
Cloud (aka Tyler Taormina) is back with his third album, and it's a return to the glorious glum Lo-Fi of his debut Comfort Songs, which was crowned the BEST album off 2013 on this very website. It's been 3 years since Cloud's more polished and hopeful second album Zen Summer, and i'm not sure what has happened in between but it makes for a dark and beautiful record. Plays With Fire opens with a healthy dose of feedback which rings throughout the entire song, offering a distant-dreamlike undercurrent to an otherwise standard acoustic number. It's stark and lonely and it's quite a good indication of the following half hour of music. There's tonnes off stuff that will appeal to fans of Galaxie 500 (see "Mary Goes Mad Again", "Heartfluttered" or the achingly slow and angelically sung "Me, Her & Lavender") and the odd curveball like the electro "Wildfire" which sounds like an early New Order number (from the era when they were still finding their feet). "Oh, So Juvenile" is perhaps the highlight of the record though, perfectly marrying the introspection that Taormina does so well (in this instance with piano and some flourishes of clean guitar) with some warmer and more uplifting brass parts. We do get the odd moment of pop though. "Two Hands Bound" is a summery joy (musically, not lyrically) and the guitar riff in "Disenchanted" is more Paul Simon than Nick Drake, but it's still called "Disenchanted" and it still has a sad sliding guitar getting in on the action. Although it's dark, it's not depressing, and even when the music is slow and the singing is solemn, you'll get a bit of brightness breaking through the clouds, such as the wonderful guitar solo which appears disarmingly early on "Comet Happer" or the more raucous one that seems to act as a satisfying release of energy on "Heartfluttered". Audio Antihero, who are putting this record out (one of the most consistent and under-rated labels around!), seem to be hinting that this may be the last Cloud album. I really hope that's not the case, but if it is, he's gone out on a high note. I think we should all just buy it and then maybe he'll change his mind. | <urn:uuid:1901af25-d22d-4d62-9a1f-6a65f213a21f> | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | https://cracklefeedback.com/artists/cloud/plays-with-fire | 2020-05-28T18:18:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347399830.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20200528170840-20200528200840-00326.warc.gz | en | 0.978701 | 489 |
Passed away peacefully on
Monday 16th March, 2020
at Manilla Hospital
Aged 76 years
Dearly loved husband of Jenny
Loving father of Norman, Fiona and Annette
Adored father-in-law and Pa of their families
The relatives and friends of the late Stuart Maunder are respectfully invited to attend his funeral. The cortege will leave the Manilla Uniting Church, Strafford Street Manilla after a Funeral Service commencing at 11am on Friday 20th March 2020. Thence for interment in the Manilla Cemetery. | <urn:uuid:49641e3f-4d02-4a4f-a5c5-a7743e262049> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://lightfootfunerals.com.au/maunder-stuart-sidney/ | 2023-12-01T02:54:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100264.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201021234-20231201051234-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.936804 | 119 |
The CRF300RX, which derives from the 250, gives me the same feeling, confidence and smoothness, the engine never seems to die despite the number of revs, it is much easier to ride in any mapping than its sister; excellent and fun for whoever wants to ride enduro.
The third bike I test is the CRF400RX, which derives from its bigger sister, and which ranks 2nd in my personal preference list; it has a brilliant and powerful engine, even with the wrong number of rpms you just need to open the throttle and the bike picks up immediately pushing without problems while maintaining good agility and riding comfort; I would define it as another simple bike suitable for most enduro riders.
The fourth and last bike in the RX range is the CRF450, the biggest; it carries a very powerful , you just need to open the gas to feel it, the suspensions are accurate whatever the bend or obstacle, the frame is rigid but complies with your riding, fun but very challenging after a long day of enduro for those who are not well exercised.
Finally, it’s time to test the highly anticipated novelty, the CRF450XR, a beautiful new entry that widens the Honda 2019 range even more; the engine is pleasantly softer than that of its sister RX, it features a sixth gear and slightly more sustained suspensions that however work excellently, offering a very pleasant compromise; it’s very easy to ride, very simple and precise when cornering. I’m skeptical so I choose the hard section of the track prepared for the tests, I want to put it to the test. The XR performs well even on the most complicated downhills, obstacles and steep climbs. It’s an excellent bike that gives you the liberty of taking on any type of fast or more technical enduro track, just like the glorious XR which inspired it. Definitely positive feelings for this new entry, which offers prolonged use without requiring extraordinary maintenance, with distances of up to 30,000 km!
The whole RX range adopts a very amusing electronic launch control, which works greatly, the kickstarter has been definitively abandoned, the modified crankcases no longer include housing, but not to worry, the Batteryless system allows you to start the bike even with a slight push, in the event of a battery blackout. | <urn:uuid:a4e80853-97b3-4758-8919-71489c22b255> | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | https://www.discoveryendual.com/eng/blog/test-and-previews/presentation-of-the-honda-enduro-redmoto-2019 | 2021-06-22T01:05:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488504969.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20210622002655-20210622032655-00082.warc.gz | en | 0.955951 | 487 |
Vegan cinnamon pancakes are the perfect weekend breakfast! They’re warm, light, fluffy and taste similar to a cinnamon roll. Add some chocolate chips to the batter for a chocolatey twist. They’re easy to make and require 9 simple ingredients!
Christmas Centerpiece: This table decoration is becoming a hit for every holiday season. Simply flip a wine glass over and place a candle on top. Underneath you can place Christmas ornaments or any other holiday trinkets. | <urn:uuid:a0c63da1-9835-4eeb-82ad-9e88ee1498c3> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | https://cz.pinterest.com/jvokata/ | 2018-01-19T14:36:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084887981.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20180119125144-20180119145144-00178.warc.gz | en | 0.838928 | 100 |
Hello all! Im soo excited, because today when I logged onto my blogger dashboard I saw that I had
Im so very excited!
Thank you all who have recently found and followed my blog, and thanks to all those who were with me from the start. :) Haha I feel a little silly getting so excited.. I mean its not like Ive got 1000 followers or anything, but that doesnt matter! 100 is still a big number, and I am very excited to have 100 people think Im interesting enough to follow! So Thank you all for making me feel so SPECIAL!!
Well it seems I have gotten a lot more followers since December rolled around. Everyone seems to like my Christmas crafts. And thats a really good thing because I have one more for you today.. and a few more projects coming!!
I made this adorable little ruffled ribbon Christmas tree a few nights ago, I think it just turned out soooo cute! So Im sharing the tutorial with you! :)
-Spool of Ribbon!
(This was a 5 yard spool... and I used ALL of it!)
- Foam Cone
(you can also use a hot glue gun.. but I was out of glue sticks! lol So the pins worked perfectly and I think I actually prefer them because I was able to un-pin the ribbon if I wanted to adjust anything)
-Needle & Thread
To start off you will thread your needle. You will want a long line of thread.
Start by weaving the needle in and out of the top of your ribbon, as shown in the picture below.
(do not cut the ribbon from spool)
Once you weave it through as much as you can, pull the needle all the way through. Then pull the thread tight and you will see it will bunch up your ribbon, and make it ruffled!
Keep doing this over and over, until you have a long amount of ribbon ruffled.
Then you can start to wrap it around your cone. Use one sewing pin and stick it through the end of the ribbon into the cone. Starting from the BOTTOM up! :) Keep adding sewing pins every so often to secure it in place as you go around the cone.
You can see I did this a little at a time. Making the ruffled ribbon, then wrapping it around the cone, then going back to ruffling the ribbon. I did this because I wasnt for sure how much ribbon it would take.
So I ruffled, then wrapped, then ruffled, then wrapped.. you get the idea. LOL
I ended up using ALL of the 5 yards of ribbon. But I could have easily used more than that, if I wanted the make the ruffles tighter.
Here it is half way to the top! At one point my thread ran out. So all I did was tie it in a knot, then cut the ribbon! Sealed it with lighter to prevent fraying. Secured it to the cone with a pin. And then started fresh with the ribbon again, after I re-threaded my needle.
Here it is all complete. When it was done, it seemed like something was missing. It needed a topper! I wanted to do something more creative.. but all I could come up with was....
A BOW! lol I figured its a ribbon tree... I could make a cute ribbon bow to put on top. So I just grabbed a small scrap piece of ribbon I had and made a pretty little bow.
Placed it on top of the tree and secured it with a pin... you can see below.
And thats it.. Simple and sooo adorable!! :)
Its up on my mantel right now.. looking all lonely... but it will have friends soon enough! LOL Ive got more to show you in the next few days. :)
Until then you can also check out my other holiday decor ideas & tutorials:
If you decide to make any of these I would soooo LOVE to see your take on them! So please post and come back and leave me a link! I could see these ruffled trees being made with pink ribbon.. how cute and girly would that be?? :) So let me see your version!
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October 22, 2012; Source: West Central Tribune
As any good advocate knows, passing a law is only one step towards changing a bad practice. Implementation can take as much or more effort. So it is with the four-year-old Health Parity and Addiction Act.
Ten years ago today, Sen. Paul Wellstone and members of his family were killed in a plane crash. Now, Paul David Wellstone, the late senator’s son, is emerging from a long period of retreat to take up a cause long championed by his father. Wellstone had been long dead by the time President George W. Bush signed the Paul Wellstone & Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act into law. The parity law would require insurance companies to provide the same levels of coverage for mental illness as for other types. They would not be allowed to charge higher deductibles or cap payments at a lesser level. But now, four years later, implementation of this important law has stalled. No regulations have been promulgated and no enforcement mechanisms have been put in place.
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Some reports suggest that President Obama is not pursuing implementation of this law aggressively because he does not wish to use the capital required when his signature health care reform implementation is pending but apparently former Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), son of the late Ted Kennedy, another sponsor of the bill, and former Sen. Jim Ramstad (R-Minn.) are unwilling to let the issue fade and are reportedly on the issue “like a bad rash.”
But according to columnist Christine Stapleton, who writes about depression, “[t]he bad news is that the insurance companies aren’t giving up, either. They have a wily stable of well-paid lawyers who have done a fine job of dissecting the Parity Act. They have found every whiff of a loophole and are devising ways to jump through and expand each one. Their power to stall, stymie and litigate away the implementation of parity is truly impressive in a diabolical kind of way.” She writes that the insurance companies count on stigma to keep consumers fairly quiet about the whole thing.
Wellstone intends to create a nonprofit to pursue implementation of the parity act and is unembarrassed about drawing on the respect people had for his father. “My dad was well-respected, well-loved,” Wellstone said. “So if my name is Paul Wellstone Jr., I can use a nonprofit to make sure the law we passed in his name has teeth and is being followed. That, at least for me, brings some meaning to everything.”
This effort will be the second nonprofit that will carry forth the legacy of Wellstone. Wellstone Action, founded less than a year after the plane crash, provides training for political action with some programs specifically targeting American Indians, labor and students. “Paul knew if you didn’t have a good idea and an organized base, there wasn’t much you could do,” comments Ben Goldfarb of Wellstone Action. Wellstone Action will conduct 160 training workshops in 30 states this year alone with 18 full-time workers and many volunteers. –Ruth McCambridge | <urn:uuid:7d04aa13-1c30-4eac-8fe5-815961cdac23> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://nonprofitquarterly.org/mental-health-parity-wellstone-and-kennedy-pursue-dads-dream/ | 2023-10-01T06:07:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510781.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20231001041719-20231001071719-00421.warc.gz | en | 0.969477 | 720 |
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, 93, can’t use a phone. He rarely leaves his house. His family says he has never successfully made a cup of tea. His closest aides think he doesn’t know the name of Israel’s prime minister. He studies the Torah for, give or take, 17 hours a day.
Yet despite his apparent detachment from worldly life, Rabbi Kanievsky has become one of the most consequential and controversial people in Israel today.
The spiritual leader of hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews, Rabbi Kanievsky has landed at the center of tensions over the coronavirus between the Israeli mainstream and its growing ultra-Orthodox minority.
Throughout the pandemic, the authorities have clashed with the ultra-Orthodox over their resistance to antivirus protocols, particularly their early refusal to close schools or limit crowds at religious events. Similar conflicts have played out in the New York area.
Rabbi Kanievsky, issuing pronouncements from a book-filled study in his cramped apartment in an ultra-Orthodox suburb of Tel Aviv, has often been at the fore of that resistance. Twice, during the first and second waves of the pandemic in Israel, he rejected state-imposed antivirus protocols and did not order his followers to close their yeshivas, independent religious schools where students gather in close quarters to study Jewish Scripture.
“God forbid!” he exclaimed. If anything, he said, the pandemic made prayer and study even more essential.
Both times he eventually relented, and it is unlikely that he played as big a role in spreading the virus as he was accused of, but the damage was done.
Many public health experts say that the ultra-Orthodox — who account for about 12 percent of the population but 28 percent of the coronavirus infections, according to Israeli government statistics — have undermined the national effort against the coronavirus.
The reaction has been fierce, much of it centered on Rabbi Kanievsky.
The rabbi “must be arrested for spreading a disease,” blared a column last week in Haaretz, a left-wing newspaper. “This rabbi dictates the scandalous conduct in the ultra-Orthodox sector,” said an article in Yedioth Ahronoth, a centrist news outlet.
The backlash exaggerates both the rabbi’s role and that of the ultra-Orthodox in general. Ultra-Orthodox society is not monolithic, and other prominent leaders were far quicker to comply with antivirus regulations.
Ultra-Orthodox leaders say most of their followers have obeyed the rules, although their typically large families, living in tight quarters under what is now the third national lockdown, have inevitably contributed to the spread of the contagion.
Rabbi Kanievsky’s position has also been more nuanced than sometimes portrayed. But he has nonetheless contributed to one of the biggest-ever showdowns between the Israeli mainstream and the ultra-Orthodox.
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How to draw a covariance error ellipse?
In this post, I will show how to draw an error ellipse, a.k.a. confidence ellipse, for 2D normally distributed data. The error ellipse represents an iso-contour of the Gaussian distribution, and allows you to visualize a 2D confidence interval. The following figure shows a 95% confidence ellipse for a set of 2D normally distributed data samples. This confidence ellipse defines the region that contains 95% of all samples that can be drawn from the underlying Gaussian distribution.
In the next sections we will discuss how to obtain confidence ellipses for different confidence values (e.g. 99% confidence interval), and we will show how to plot these ellipses using Matlab or C++ code.
Axis-aligned confidence ellipses
Before deriving a general methodology to obtain an error ellipse, let’s have a look at the special case where the major axis of the ellipse is aligned with the X-axis, as shown by the following figure:
The above figure illustrates that the angle of the ellipse is determined by the covariance of the data. In this case, the covariance is zero, such that the data is uncorrelated, resulting in an axis-aligned error ellipse.
Furthermore, it is clear that the magnitudes of the ellipse axes depend on the variance of the data. In our case, the largest variance is in the direction of the X-axis, whereas the smallest variance lies in the direction of the Y-axis.
In general, the equation of an axis-aligned ellipse with a major axis of length and a minor axis of length , centered at the origin, is defined by the following equation:
where defines the scale of the ellipse and could be any arbitrary number (e.g. s=1). The question is now how to choose , such that the scale of the resulting ellipse represents a chosen confidence level (e.g. a 95% confidence level corresponds to s=5.991).
Our 2D data is sampled from a multivariate Gaussian with zero covariance. This means that both the x-values and the y-values are normally distributed too. Therefore, the left hand side of equation (2) actually represents the sum of squares of independent normally distributed data samples. The sum of squared Gaussian data points is known to be distributed according to a so called Chi-Square distribution. A Chi-Square distribution is defined in terms of ‘degrees of freedom’, which represent the number of unknowns. In our case there are two unknowns, and therefore two degrees of freedom.
Therefore, we can easily obtain the probability that the above sum, and thus equals a specific value by calculating the Chi-Square likelihood. In fact, since we are interested in a confidence interval, we are looking for the probability that is less then or equal to a specific value which can easily be obtained using the cumulative Chi-Square distribution. As statisticians are lazy people, we usually don’t try to calculate this probability, but simply look it up in a probability table: https://people.richland.edu/james/lecture/m170/tbl-chi.html.
For example, using this probability table we can easily find that, in the 2-degrees of freedom case:
Therefore, a 95% confidence interval corresponds to s=5.991. In other words, 95% of the data will fall inside the ellipse defined as:
Similarly, a 99% confidence interval corresponds to s=9.210 and a 90% confidence interval corresponds to s=4.605.
The error ellipse show by figure 2 can therefore be drawn as an ellipse with a major axis length equal to and the minor axis length to .
Arbitrary confidence ellipses
In cases where the data is not uncorrelated, such that a covariance exists, the resulting error ellipse will not be axis aligned. In this case, the reasoning of the above paragraph only holds if we temporarily define a new coordinate system such that the ellipse becomes axis-aligned, and then rotate the resulting ellipse afterwards.
In other words, whereas we calculated the variances and parallel to the x-axis and y-axis earlier, we now need to calculate these variances parallel to what will become the major and minor axis of the confidence ellipse. The directions in which these variances need to be calculated are illustrated by a pink and a green arrow in figure 1.
These directions are actually the directions in which the data varies the most, and are defined by the covariance matrix. The covariance matrix can be considered as a matrix that linearly transformed some original data to obtain the currently observed data. In a previous article about eigenvectors and eigenvalues we showed that the direction vectors along such a linear transformation are the eigenvectors of the transformation matrix. Indeed, the vectors shown by pink and green arrows in figure 1, are the eigenvectors of the covariance matrix of the data, whereas the length of the vectors corresponds to the eigenvalues.
The eigenvalues therefore represent the spread of the data in the direction of the eigenvectors. In other words, the eigenvalues represent the variance of the data in the direction of the eigenvectors. In the case of axis aligned error ellipses, i.e. when the covariance equals zero, the eigenvalues equal the variances of the covariance matrix and the eigenvectors are equal to the definition of the x-axis and y-axis. In the case of arbitrary correlated data, the eigenvectors represent the direction of the largest spread of the data, whereas the eigenvalues define how large this spread really is.
Thus, the 95% confidence ellipse can be defined similarly to the axis-aligned case, with the major axis of length and the minor axis of length , where and represent the eigenvalues of the covariance matrix.
To obtain the orientation of the ellipse, we simply calculate the angle of the largest eigenvector towards the x-axis:
where is the eigenvector of the covariance matrix that corresponds to the largest eigenvalue.
Based on the minor and major axis lengths and the angle between the major axis and the x-axis, it becomes trivial to plot the confidence ellipse. Figure 3 shows error ellipses for several confidence values:
In this article we showed how to obtain the error ellipse for 2D normally distributed data, according to a chosen confidence value. This is often useful when visualizing or analyzing data and will be of interest in a future article about PCA.
Furthermore, source code samples were provided for Matlab and C++.
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Over the years, I've had the opportunity to meet many other Canadian small business owners, specifically other brands making slow fashion or sustainable fashion too! I thought it would be fun to do a little round up of my favorite Canadian Slow Fashion Brands!
MAS Montreal by Mckenna Bisson is such an awesome brand focusing on deconstructing beauty standards and self expression. Mckenna has become such an amazing peer for me as a small business owners and we bond over our community over competition approach. I adore this sweater from her current collection! Everything from MAS is made in Montreal by Mckenna and her team, love it!
Connally is another LOA bestie! We have bonded over our struggles and wins as small brands and designers and she is just an incredible human being. Her brand offers infinite sizing which is just *chefs kiss* and I look up to her so much for her inclusivity. Sustainable, slow, small batch fashion at it's finest!
Although I've never met Jess in real life before, I have been following her brand, Free Label since I started LOA! If you are looking for loungewear or any sort of comfy knitwear, look no further! I have been a cheerleader, watching her brand grow and I just love the team and their approach! Size inclusive, slow, sustainable and made in Canada, MAGIC!
I met Carissa at my very first One of A Kind show! I fell in love with her upcycling and needlework! She is such an amazing brand owner I just love everything she does! One of my favorite parts of her brand is her no labels, just vibes where she upcycles previously owned styles and embroiders them with the slogan, no labels just vibes. Genderless, sustainable, slow fashion, made in Canada by Carissa herself, wonderful!
I have so many other wonderful brands to share, but for now I'll leave you with these! There are so many awesome creators here in Canada making unique and high quality fashion with amazing ethics behind them. It's been such a pleasure connecting with these brands.
And don't forget about us, Lights of All! Making vegan, sustainable, ethical and slow fashion here in Toronto!
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1. Develop a technology fund to assist local school districts with software and hardware needs not currently addressed by their existing budgets.
2. Provide a testing assistance fund to help students take ACT/SAT testing for college entrance, AP testing for college credit, career counseling testing, and GED testing for drop-outs.
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It's important to protect yourself from the harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun. Higher levels of exposure over the past 20 years have lead to a spike in the number of skin cancer cases reported recently, and the problem doesn't show any signs of slowing down. There is an easy fix: All you have to do is wear sunscreen. Unfortunately, for a small minority of the population, allergies can make that difficult.
There are two different types of sunscreen allergies that we know of. They are contact allergies and photoallergies. Put simply, contact allergies will cause a reaction as a result of application. That means anywhere you put sunscreen, you're going to have an allergic reaction, usually in the form of a rash. With photoallergies, however, you won't have an allergic reaction until you actually go outside in the sun. Sunlight reacts with chemicals in the sunscreen and your body to cause an allergic reaction [source: McCoy].
So how do you tell the two apart? It's not always easy, but a simple patch test can be the answer [source: Bassett]. A patch test involves putting a small patch of sunscreen on your body somewhere, often on the underside of your arm or your back. This is done in a controlled environment away from UV rays. If you're allergic, your body will react, but only in the small section where the patch was applied. If there is no initial reaction to the sunscreen, the patch can be placed under a UV light to see if the allergy is a photoallergy.
Patch testing can also be used to find out if a certain ingredient in the sunscreen you're using is causing your allergic reaction. If that's the case, all you have to do is find a sunscreen without that particular ingredient. If all else fails, you can also try using a physical sunscreen. These sunscreens often contain zinc oxide or titanium dioxide. Instead of absorbing UV rays, these chemical compounds reflect them, giving you a literal shield against the sun [source: McCoy].
Don't get burned by your allergies: It's important to wear sunscreen. If you're allergic, you should work with a dermatologist or another qualified physician to find an alternate form of sunblock.
Read on to get more information about sunscreen allergies.
Related HowStuffWorks Articles
- Bassett, Dr. Clifford. "Are You Allergic to Sunscreen?" Fox News. May 30, 2008. (accessed 08/05/2009)http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/05/30/are-you-allergic-to-sunscreen/
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As the nation’s highways crumble, some way has to be found to repair them but the hitch is that everyone hates taxes. However, a recent study has found some people might be willing to pay higher taxes for road projects under certain circumstances.
A taxing problem
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The highway system of the United States is falling into disrepair. Roads are funded through taxes and few things are more detested. The traditional funding, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, is through an 18.4 cents per gallon federal tax on gas, which was last raised in 1993.
A study has found, though, that some might be willing to pony up higher taxes, according to AutoGuide, for road maintenance, albeit under the right circumstances.
Right road maintenance taxes for right reasons
The Mineta Transportation Institute, part of San Jose State University, has conducted a survey, polling 1,519 people about their attitudes toward taxes for road maintenance. The survey found people were willing to pay more in some circumstances, but less so than others.
A 10 cent per gallon tax hike to “improve road maintenance” was supported by 58 percent of respondents, but only 20 percent supported a similar tax hike for maintenance and improvement. Sales taxes were more favorable for transportation purposes, as fewer supported gas taxes or “mileage taxes,” surcharges on less fuel-efficient vehicles than sales taxes.
The survey also found that respondents’ willingness to pay additional taxes depended on what the tax was funding and how it was worded. How the tax was put to use was also found to matter, as was how the tax was implemented. A tax increase spread over several years was considered more favorable than an immediately implementation of the full tax. The survey, according to MarketWatch, was done over a three year period and attitudes did not change over time.
Asphalt partially at fault
There are a number of reasons why the federal government, as well as state and municipal governments, can’t keep up with highway repairs. More people are driving over the roads, incurring more damage. Legislators are also loathe to increase taxes.
Furthermore, the price of asphalt is pegged to the price of oil, as asphalt is a mixture of bitumen, a petroleum distillate, and cement. The cost of oil has been pushing the cost of asphalt up in recent years. The New York Times reported in June 2008 that the price of asphalt had gone up 5 percent since April of that year alone, 10 percent in the previous year, and had doubled since 2005.
The Wall Street Journal reported in July 2010 that many rural counties couldn’t afford the high cost of asphalt, which had more than double since 2000, with falling tax revenues and were simply letting rural roads revert to gravel or ripping asphalt up and laying gravel, which is one-quarter the cost.
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Fungi are everywhere. You likely breath them every day, and may even eat them regularly. In the form of various edible mushrooms, fungi are both harmless and delicious. Different strains of fungi, however, cause many problems in the body. If you have ever experienced athlete’s foot, ringworm, thrush, or a yeast infection; a fungus was responsible. So, how to get rid of these infections? There are many over the counter antifungal creams, and stronger prescription medications to eliminate them. Luckily for many people seeking a natural alternative to fungal creams, pure essential oils provide the answer.
How Fungal Infections Work
A fungus is an organism which often gets lumped in with other microbes like viruses and bacteria. Fungi are actually a bit different. Fungi are far-reaching; from single-celled organisms like yeast to the mushrooms on your pizza. Most fungi exist as spores in the air or soil. As such, that is how most fungi travel.
Fungi exist in great number in the body, especially in the mucous membranes and the intestines. This is perfectly natural, as the immune system keeps them in check. If the immune system is compromised, either by drugs or conditions, and the fungus has the ideal time to incubate and procreate, the body can be thrown out of balance, causing many of the fungal infections we see today.
The common treatment for fungal infections such as these is chemical medications containing azole class antifungal agents. Azoles have been used since the 1950’s, and work by disrupting the membranes of the fungal cells. Different types of azole medicines remain the standard treatment for fungal infections through the use of various creams and oral medications. There is evidence that over time, fungi have become resistant to azole medications, decreasing their effectiveness.
Natural Remedies for Fungus
Because of resistance to chemical medicine and the possibility of hypersensitivity and adverse reactions to azole medications, more and more people turn to natural fungicidal solutions. Many home remedies have come out to get rid of fungal infections, but a few of the most promising are listed below.
Probiotics are microorganisms which help keep the body’s intestinal microbes in balance. Most of the fungi which cause infection in the body exist normally, and are kept in check by the immune system and cultures in the intestines. If your intestinal cultures are out of balance, it is not long before the symptoms of fungal infection start to show up.
Fermented foods like sauerkraut, kombucha, yogurt, kefir, and kim chi all have a large amount of these beneficial probiotics. Additionally, isolated strains like Lactobacillus acidophilus and LactobacillusBulgaricus can be taken as a supplement to help bring the body back into balance. You can support the actions of probiotics through sustaining a diet that is low in processed carbs and refined sugars, as fungi especially love these two foods. As fungi like trichosporan and candida are notoriously difficult to completely eliminate, it is important to make dietary choices that help starve the fungi.
The boom in the use of coconut oil is for many reasons. Coconut oil has many benefits for the body, due in large part to the medium chain fatty acids it contains. These fatty acids are responsible for coconut oil’s antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal effects. Caprylic acid is the fatty acid attributed to the oil’s antifungal effects. Topical application of coconut oil can help reduce symptoms of infection such as toenail or foot fungal growth.
Garlic is one potent little bulb. Used for centuries in traditional medicinal, modern medical science is finally starting to catch up. A recent study looked into the use of a compound in garlic as an antifungal. Researchers compared a compound in garlic to the active ingredient in a leading over the counter antifungal cream. The study concluded that the natural compound was actually more effective than the chemical medication. Cloves of garlic can be minced, added to olive oil, and spread on your foot every day to treat athlete’s foot.
Antifungal Essential Oils
By far the most promising home remedy for fungal infections is through the use of essential oils. As many different fungal strains like to attack plants, many plants contain compounds which they use to protect themselves from invaders such as bacteria and fungi. Because of this, the list of essential oils which contain antifungal compounds is HUGE, and would require much more than one article. Here we will take a look at the most well researched antifungal essential oils to date.
The various bioactive compounds of these plants are extracted to produce these pure essential oils. It is the high concentrations of these natural compounds which make various essential oils powerful antifungal treatments.
1. Lemongrass Essential Oil
Native to many tropical islands and used in various culinary dishes, lemongrass is actually a potent medicinal herb. Its power as an antifungal agent is just one of the many benefits of lemongrass essential oil. If you are unaware of the power of this oil, it is well worth the read.
One recent study found Lemongrass essential oil is an effective antifungal. Researchers looked at the effectiveness of lemongrass essential oil and one of its main compounds, citral, in combatting the Candida species of yeasts. The study concluded that both citral and lemongrass essential oil were very effective against yeasts of the Candida species.
To increase effectiveness, add a few drops of lemongrass essential oil to your coconut oil and gently apply it to the site of infection as needed.
2. Citronella Essential Oil
As it shares many of the same compounds as Lemongrass oil, Citronella essential oil also has similar properties; such as the power to repel insects and help clear up fungi. One recent study focused on Citronella as a possible fungicide for crops, and found that it was indeed useful against problematic fungi, eliminating virtually all fungal cells in just 10 days.
Another study focused on the effectiveness of citronella oil against aspergillus fungi. Researchers found the oil significantly reduced the fungal strains present.
3. Camphor Essential Oil
The same study found that Camphor essential oil is a potent antifungal, especially for people suffering from aspergillosis. Aspergillosis is a disorder caused by inhaled aspergillus fungal spores latching onto the lungs and procreating. Most people inhale aspergillus spores every day, and the body easily eliminates them. In someone with a compromised immune system or lung disease, the risk of contracting aspergillosis is much higher.
The application of camphor essential oil in this instance is obviously through inhalation via an aromatherapy inhaler. The calming effects of camphor essential oil also help to reduce cough and the pain associated with strong coughing.
4. Oregano Essential Oil
Oregano Essential oil is as powerful as its scent is strong. The sharp, herbaceous scent may remind you of pizza- but the health benefits are a bit better than that of your favorite slice. Oregano essential oil is composed of primarily carvacrol, a strong antimicrobial compound. The high levels of carvacrol make oregano essential oil an amazing antifungal compound. This particular study focused on the effect carvacrol had on candida overgrowth. Researchers concluded the compound showed very significant damaging effects to the fungal structure, and noted its possible benefit as an antifungal agent.
5. Ravintsara Essential Oil
The scent of ravintsara oil is unique and yet familiar. The scent is close to that of Eucalyptus oil, and it is no wonder! Ravintsara essential oil contains high levels of a compound called 1,8 cineole, better known as eucalyptol.
1,8 cineole is being very highly studied for its major medicinal benefits in the body. Just one of thse benefits is its use as an antifungal. One recent study focused around antifungal activity of different compounds. Researchers found that 1,8 cineol is a potent antifungal. It follows that any essential oil high in the compound, such as ravintsara oil and eucalyptus essential oil, is beneficial for eliminating fungi from the body.
6. Dill Weed Essential Oil
While your favorite pickled snack will not clear up your fungal infection, the smell just might! The fresh, herbaceous scent of dill weed essential oil is rather true to the herb, and often reminds people of their favorite pickled cucumbers. Delicious scent aside, dill weed essential oil is also a natural antifungal. A recent study shined the spotlight on the fresh essential oil’s ability to fight off certain strains of fungi. By way of destroying the strain’s ability to function properly, researchers found dill essential oil is an effective antifungal agent.
7. Orange Essential Oil
Because you see it every day, you may not assume the essential oil from common oranges is so powerful. Truth be told, the sweet juice of this fruit has been a favorite target for bugs and various microbes throughout history, and the plant has adapted itself to this. This adaptation makes orange essential oil a great antifungal. In studies against multiple strains of fungi and bacteria, orange essential oil effectively eliminated them all.
Another such study focused orange essential oil itself, finding that both the essential oil and vapors from the orange peel were effective antifungal agents. Researchers noted that orange essential oil quickly inhibits fungal growth. This makes a promising case for using orange oil as an antifungal.
8. Palmarosa Essential Oil
Palmarosa essential oil is kind of a background oil, not often talked about except for in tight-knit essential oil circles. Time for that to change! In reality, palmarosa essential oil has a lot to offer. It can help to reduce cramps, relieve stress, and – of course – fight fungal infections.
One recent study found palmarosa essential oil has amazing antifungal abilities. The oil was tested against twelve of the most common fungal strains, and effectively eliminated all of them! Another such study found that the antimicrobial effects of palmarosa were not only against fungi, but included many bacteria as well. Numerous strains of bacteria and fungi were easily controlled by palmarosa essential oil.
9. Patchouli Essential Oil
Patchouli essential oil has long been used as a way to repel insects and kill microbes. Cloth shipped from India in the 19th century was not considered “authentic” unless it had the unmistakable scent of patchouli. Traders put the plant in between folds of the cloth to protect it from moths and invaders on the long trip overseas. Medical science is now supporting the many benefits of patchouli essential oil, some 200 years later.
One such medically studied benefit of patchouli essential oil is in its use against fungal infection. A recent study looked at the effectiveness of many essential oil against the common fungal strains. Researchers found patchouli essential oil is very antifungal, effectively eliminating 12 different fungal strains.
10. Lemon Essential Oil
Seen as an everyday oil, lemon essential oil is no less powerful. In fact, its use as an antifungal is just one of the large number of benefits of lemon essential oil. The terpenes a-pinene and b-pinene, both found heavily in lemon essential oil, work to kill fungal cells. According to one study, this makes lemon essential oil a great antifungal. The antifungal effect of these terpenes also acts synergistically with other antifungal compounds, so combining lemon oil with other antifungal home remedies can prove even more beneficial.
11. Tea Tree Essential Oil
With all the health benefits of tea tree essential oil, it is a must have in any medicine cabinet. The oil is astringent, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and of course, antifungal. Recent research focused on a wide range of the properties of tea tree oil. Researchers highlighted the fact that tea tree essential oil is effective against candida. As species of Candida are responsible for many of the common topical infections experienced today, having pure tea tree oil on hand can be a timely remedy.
12. Cinnamon Bark Essential Oil
A recent study noted a “renaissance” of antimicrobial essential oils, testing many oils and finding them to be effective at eliminating chemically resistant strains of bacteria and fungi. Due to rampant overuse of chemical antimicrobial compounds, resistant strains were created. Pure cinnamon bark essential oil provides a natural alternative to antimycotic- resistant Candida strains.
Of the most effective compounds, cinnamon essential oil inhibited fungal growth in some of the most stubborn strains affecting hospitals. Researchers noted that while some strains were more effective, nearly all tested strains had a great effect on fungal strains. Essential oils tested for their antifungal properties included Eucalyptus, Tea tree, Thyme white, Lavender, Lemon, Lemongrass, Cinnamon, Grapefruit, Clove Bud, Sandalwood, Peppermint, Kunzea and Sage oil.
13. Rose Geranium Essential Oil
The most common form of yeast infection in the body is an overgrowth of the infamous Candida albicans. The fungus is a common cause of vaginal yeast infections, urinary tract infections, oral thrush, toenail fungus, skin fungus, and some sinus infections. The good news is that rose geranium essential oil completely blocks the fungus’ development. This recent study focused on both the antifungal and antibacterial activity of rose geranium essential oil. In addition to strong inhibitory effects against C. Albicans, the study also highlighted the ability of the essential oil to eliminate various problematic bacterial strains.
Essential Oil Recipes for Fungal Infections
Applying essential oils topically to the site of a fungal overgrowth can be a great way to inhibit the fungal growth and keep it from coming back. As a natural remedy to fungal infections itself, coconut oil makes for the best carrier oil around.
The essential oils also make for great aromatherapy sessions. Inhaling the diffused oils allows the compounds to go directly to the bloodstream, where they can fight the fungi from the inside. Here are just a couple essential oil recipes for fungal overgrowth.
Topical Oil for Fungal Infections
- 10 drops tea tree essential oil
- 10 drops palmarosa essential oil
- 10 drops lemon essential oil
- 2 oz coconut oil
- Mix ingredients in a 2 oz container. Apply daily as needed for fungal overgrowth.
Antifungal Diffuser Combo
- 2 drops camphor essential oil
- 2 drops lemongrass essential oil
- 2 drops rose geranium essential oil
- Add to an aromatherapy diffuser and run for 30-60 minutes daily. Can also be used as a supplemental therapy to topical treatment.
One Last Word
It’s your body. As such, the antifungal remedy that works for you is the right remedy. When using pure essential oils for fungal infections, it is important to remember a few things. Pure essential oils like these are very powerful, and should always be used with care. The pure oils should always be diluted before applying to the skin, as allergic reactions can occur. You want to pay attention to any reactions your body may have to oils when applied on the skin, and should start by applying them to a small area before moving onto a large area of the body. Children and pregnant women should use any essential oil under the guidance of a healthcare practitioner.
The most important thing to consider when purchasing your essential oil is the quality of the product. Always look for pure essential oils. Pure oils are not only the most beneficial – they are the safest.
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Summary and Analysis: <i>Medicine for Melancholy</i>
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Tom and his friend Chico share a house on the beach off the Coast Highway. Tom is a lonely man, wanting more than anything else to find the perfect girl to marry. Several times in the past he thought that he had found such a girl. Yet every time he brings a girl home, she always decides not to stay. All of Tom's great expectations have ended in failure. He is considering moving away, and it is during this low point in Tom's life that a young boy from the beach brings him news of a "funny" woman who has been washed up on the shore. Tom and Chico go to view this sight and are amazed to see a beautiful mermaid at the water's edge. Chico immediately recognizes the monetary value in the mermaid. Tom, however, is content to accept this beautiful gift that the water has given him. All he cares about is that he is happier than he has been since he was a child. Tom gazes upon this beautiful creature while the waves roll higher on the shore. Finally, they wash the mermaid back into the sea, yet Tom is still happy. He believes that without the sea, his beautiful mermaid will die. He then realizes a truth about himself, too. He now knows that he can never go away. Instead, he finds meaning in his life through swimming in the sea, the element which has given life to his "lady fair."
Water imagery, a favorite of Bradbury's, again is the major symbol in this story. First, the mermaid, the gift that the sea gives to Tom, is described: Her eyelids are a faint water color, her mouth is a pale sea rose, and her body seems alive only when the sea waves wash over her. It is the sea which gives the mermaid life. Likewise, the sea gives new life to Tom's depressed spirits. It not only becomes the promise of joy for him, but it also provides regeneration for him. Bradbury seems to be saying that we need a deep purpose for living before we can discover lasting joy. | <urn:uuid:92e0c26c-30ab-477e-90f2-dcee332ff6de> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/b/bradburys-short-stories/summary-and-analysis-medicine-for-melancholy/the-shore-line-at-sunset | 2015-08-29T03:06:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440644064167.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827025424-00240-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98249 | 446 |
Big growth opportunity for big data in smart buildings
The market for fault detection based on big-data building analytics will expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 40% during the next five years, according to a new report entitled “Value Added Services in Intelligent Buildings” from IMS Research, now part of IHS.
Fault detection in 2012 represented 27% of the $16 million global market for building analytics, with optimization accounting for the remainder. However, as the market develops and grows, fault detection will take a larger share of the market, IHS forecasts.
Big data is a term used to describe large and complex data sets that can provide insightful conclusions when analyzed and visualized in a meaningful way. Buildings are full of systems that produce data, from building management, which captures temperatures and humidity levels, to access control, which collects occupancy statistics.
“The challenge for big data in smart buildings is to combine the silos of information from different systems into a single unified location where the data can be analyzed,” said William Rhodes, senior market analyst with the Building Technologies Group at IHS. “Some systems allow for an Internet protocol (IP) interface, whereas others require acquisition and transformation of the data before it can be combined. Data naming and labeling is critical at this point to ensure consistency across buildings and equipment.”
After the data is combined it needs to be normalized in order to adjust for seasonality, measurement scales and other factors that may skew the findings.
“Once combined and normalized, the opportunities for big data can emerge,” Rhodes observed. “Analytics and algorithms can be run on the data to identify operational and energy savings. Fault detection and building optimization are the two primary methods to drive savings and provide quick payback on the cost of installing the solution.”
The final step is to provide big data analysis to the relevant stakeholders. The facilities team needs a dashboard to show where the faults are, or will be. In contrast, the chief financial officer requires a dashboard to reveal where the savings are being made.
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When America needs a reminder of what happens when violence is permitted to reseed itself in the generations of a family, they have only to read the story of Willie J. Bosket, a soul interrupted, an intelligent man imprisoned for nearly all the years of his natural existence on earth, forever branded one of New York's most infamous criminals. Readers will wonder, if there had been help earlier in Willie's life, where might his intellect have taken him?
Willie's sister Cheryl made a break from the environment in which she and Willie grew up, where killings, stabbings, muggings, and domestic violence were rampant. She made a choice, along with her husband, to trust in God and move away. Her life took a dramatic turn for the positive. Could not Willie have done the same, or was he predestined, by way of his family's history, to end up in prison?
This reissue of Butterfield's original book, All God's Children is an important read, particularly for those in the social sciences who step into roles that will require them to work with youth and families struggling under the weight of generational poverty and violence. No doubt those already working in those such careers will see in Willie Bosket's life common threads in the lives of troubled youth and dysfunctional families of today. Regardless, every reader will understand, after having read this book, that violence and racism are destructive forces, not visited only on the present. The negative aspects of them are felt even centuries later.
All God's Children was a meticulously researched book and the letters between Willie and Butch give readers an insight into the minds of both generations of men that is present in few other books of this type. Butterfield could not have done a better job unless he'd followed the generations of the Bosket family himself every day and kept an account of their every word and deed. I give Butterfield's book five stars for detail, excellent writing, structure, and choice of subject. | <urn:uuid:99198079-29e2-4638-b396-cdf6bc21825d> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://www.curledup.com/allgodsc.htm | 2014-09-17T17:32:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657124236.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011204-00316-ip-10-196-40-205.us-west-1.compute.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975164 | 402 |
South St. Paul junior Jacob Zarnke stood in the postgame team huddle and asked: “Is this real life?”
The reaction was understandable. No other Packers team has felt the same way before. South St. Paul is going to the Prep Bowl for the first time after a 19-14 victory over Rocori in their Class 4A semifinal on Saturday night at Maple Grove High School.
The Packers will try to keep the feeling going in the title game against Becker at 4 p.m. Friday at TCF Bank Stadium.
“Don’t forget this feeling … hang onto it,” South St. Paul coach Chad Sexauer told his team after the game.
South St. Paul needed four defensive stops in the fourth quarter to pull the victory out, but when senior quarterback Dan Pietruszewski took the field to kneel down and run out the clock, the Packers’ student section began to chant “TCF!”
The accomplishment piles on a list of growing milestones for the Packers (11-1), who won their first state tournament game last week and now have over 10 wins for the first time in school history.
Advancing to the title game has been a goal for the Packers since their 34-33 loss to Stewartville in state semifinals last season, and many players starting crying after the game as they soaked up the victory.
“From the moment we stepped in the weight room for strength and speed … we knew we could do it and it was true,” junior wide receiver-defensive back Ryan Duffy said.
South St. Paul advanced by staying true to a completely run-focused offensive identity that has been nearly impossible for teams to stop this season.
The team ran for more than 350 yards Saturday night, and had only one pass completion, for six yards.
“We were just thinking ‘run the ball all night,’ ” Pietruszewski said. “Passing is not our thing at South St. Paul.”
Pietruszewski took command of the team’s offense from the start, rushing for more than 220 yards and piling up big plays on the ground.
Pietruszewski ran for 51 yards on the team’s first offensive play, and when the Spartans scored a touchdown to take a 14-13 lead in the third quarter, the quarterback ran for a 73-yard touchdown on the Packers’ next play to put his team up for good.
The fast-paced offense of Rocori (9-4) had chances to regain the lead in the fourth quarter, but the South St. Paul defense forced three turnovers on downs and intercepted a pass.
The defense also had a goal-line stand in the second quarter, forcing a turnover on downs after the Spartans had first-and-goal from the 1-yard line.
The Packers lost the turnover battle three to two, but the defense stayed sharp.
“Offensively, I’m glad we still had two toes left because we shot a lot of them off with the turnovers and creating a different field for them. But defensively the kids rose to the challenge,” Sexauer said.
The Packers now only have one challenge left in their season, one final milestone to accomplish. They’ll have their chance on Friday at TCF Bank Stadium.
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Originally Posted by critical05
So I turned the wheel as far as it would go and snapped a pic. There is no interference that I could see or any signs of contact between the endlink, sway bar or any other part.
One thing I did notice is the space between the driveshaft and steering rack. It looks like the sway bar would probably be centered in this space on a stock car. It looks like on a stock car the sway bar would be angled further down than on a lowered car. Either case, the end link would be further from vertical and the sway bar further from horizontal.
Edit - I do see a slight mark before the label on the half shaft that looked like the end link scratched the dirt off. Since the car was stationary when I turned the wheel would explain the horizontal line. The good thing is that it only occurs when the wheel is close to full lock. I don't see the paint on the half shaft scratched to indicate this is a common occurrence. the other good thing is the half shaft is steel and the endlink is aluminum so the endlink will wear first
Where your clean line on the half shaft is is exactly where my half shaft has a groove. Contrary to your wrought, it was the part that took the beating. I think mine was very close like yours, but the collar on my AST's was not orientated correctly causing just enough of an increase in that angle. I have since corrected that. You can actually see the groove in my photo on page 2. | <urn:uuid:2eedb02a-6ed3-4fd0-961c-7e82e9386d9a> | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | http://www.e90post.com/forums/showpost.php?p=13402098&postcount=51 | 2014-11-24T16:31:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416400380866.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20141119123300-00153-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981681 | 309 |
I have been shooting for a long, long time but I am still a sucker for a great sunset, and we had a glorious one tonight. Throw in a reflection and a recognizable landmark and I pretty much have to take a picture.
Lamb Chop and I were out walking the dog when we came across this scene. I was pretty much glued in one place as the light changed and Lamb Chop ended up walking the dog by herself for a while. If you like this photo and see my wife please thank her for her patience. | <urn:uuid:21a50447-ece7-4fdf-872c-ca7210efd735> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://badkins55.wordpress.com/ | 2014-07-25T06:45:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1405997893881.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20140722025813-00078-ip-10-33-131-23.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986034 | 107 |
Fun This test is not based on any scientific study whatsoever. Copy this link to your site: Ready to challenge your brain? Before class, you often meet and have a little chat with him. I can trust my partner. Agree strongly Agree slightly Disagree slightly Disagree strongly 14. You often dream about him.
Many people fall into a trap and think that the deepest feelings of love are experienced at the beginning of a relationship. Before going to bed, you think of what happened between you and him that day. You wish to be his bride one day. After months and years of relationship, you can say your love is deep. You can spend hours with him on the phone. By the way, take this quiz and find out exactly how serious your feelings are. In fact, what you feel throughout the first dates is excitement and desire.
You collect tiny things like movie tickets that remind you of the things you do with him. I am not in Love right now! Agree strongly Agree slightly Disagree slightly Disagree strongly 13. Agree strongly Agree slightly Disagree slightly Disagree strongly 10. Your best friend knows that you like him a lot. Have you ever asked yourself this question — how intense and stable are my feelings of love? My partner is very charismatic. I would do almost anything for my partner. Agree strongly Agree slightly Disagree slightly Disagree strongly Your results will be displayed below.
Until now you could only wonder. If you said yes to any of these questions, then this is the place for you! Agree strongly Agree slightly Disagree slightly Disagree strongly 5. Agree strongly Agree slightly Disagree slightly Disagree strongly 4. He knows about your favorite food, color, hide-away place and many other things. Agree strongly Agree slightly Disagree slightly Disagree strongly 7. Created by: kreazor GoToQuiz Presents. Do you know how much an elephant weighs? Quiz topic: How deep am I in love? Agree strongly Agree slightly Disagree slightly Disagree strongly 11.
When I feel bad, I confide my fears and worries to my partner only. It's sad to imagine life without him. He's different from any other guys you have dated before. All of your responses are confidential. The test below was built with an ambitious goal to help you figure out whether or not you are in love.
Have a look around and see what we're about. Grohol is a published researcher, author, and mental health expert, and he currently sits on the scientific board of Computers in Human Behavior. You think of him when you wake up every morning. We seem to be on the same wavelength when we are together. You hope that this quiz will tell whether he's also in love with you.
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Psalms 31:23-24 (ESV) – 23 Love the Lord, all you his saints!
The Lord preserves the faithful
but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.
24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
all you who wait for the Lord!
Humility and courage do not seem to be two things that go together. I think of the puffed up chests of superheroes or the uniforms full of medals of military heroes, and I think those heroes are full of pride. I don’t necessarily mean that in a negative way, but I definitely don’t think humility. I think of courageous people as those who are sure of themselves and have confidence in their abilities… and maybe they do. In fact, I’m sure that when a firefighter goes into a burning building they have to have confidence in their abilities, their training, and their equipment. But they also have confidence in something else… the team around them. That’s where humility comes in.
To have biblical courage, it is not based on how great we are but on how great we believe our God is… and relatedly on those around us who support us during times of difficulty. The above passage speaks to both aspects.
The writer speaks to the collective “faithful” and reminds them to love God and in that love they can take courage as they wait for the Lord.
What are the struggles you are facing? Where are you going to find the courage to take heart? Pray Psalms 31 and ask for God to fill you with that level of strength. | <urn:uuid:3bfaa51d-3a38-4dd6-ab67-4f1f0b98aa99> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://zactalks.org/2016/03/22/on-psalms-3123-24/ | 2020-09-23T10:34:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400210616.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20200923081833-20200923111833-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.97702 | 332 |
I've been thinking about age lately, perhaps because I'll be turning 32 on Friday. 32! I am dating a guy who is 28 but I don't notice an age difference. We get along so well! I can't even imagine dating an older guy. I'm weird about age. And I found it somewhat disturbing when Taylor Swift, 21, was dating Jake Gyllenhaal, 30.
Now we have confirmation that age was a problem for them—or for Jake, at least. Yesterday, a source close to Swiftenhaal told Us Weekly:
"[Jake] said he wasn't feeling it anymore and was uncomfortable with all the attention they got…He also said he could feel the age difference. Taylor is really upset. We told her not to move so fast with this but she didn't listen."
I can only imagine how little they would have in common, and how different the maturity levels would be. I mean, his last serious girlfriend (Reese) was a mother of two!
What's the biggest age gap you've ever experienced with a guy? Has your age difference ever been a problem? In what ways?
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“Is it possible for your voice to reach so high that it can shatter glass?” a Peterson Middle School student asked the opera singers visiting from Opera San Jose (www.operasj.org) for a Jan. 18 school presentation. The answer was “yes” although none of the opera singers present have ever accomplished this feat. During this hour-long presentation, students learned about opera, a story told by actors through music and singing, usually without speaking.
“While the opera is entertaining, there’s also that passion, that fire that gets fed,” said Susan Harris, Principal of Peterson Middle School. “I love that our students are inquisitive. They want to know more. This might be a profession for them someday. Where do passions start in our kids? It’s around this time—in middle school.”
According to Lettie Smith, Educational Outreach Coordinator at Opera San Jose, opera singers—unlike other stage performers—don’t use microphones on stage.
“Opera singers are trained to project their voices,” Smith said. “They’re trained to make sure their voices are heard in these enormous theaters without the benefit of amplification.”
Smith explained that the soprano, who often plays the heroine, is able to sing higher notes than other voice types. The mezzo-soprano’s range is not as high as the soprano so she can sing lower notes with a darker vocal quality.
“The difference between tenor and baritone is the same as the difference between soprano and mezzo-soprano,” said Nicholas Dold, a coach/accompanist for Opera San Jose. “The baritone would sing in a darker and lower voice. The tenor sings the higher range of male voices. Instead of utilizing the full orchestra, we have a pianist playing the part of the full orchestra.”
With the melodious piano music played by Dold, the rich and silky voices of the opera singers filled Peterson Middle School’s Multi-Purpose Building during performances by Brandan Sanchez, a baritone; Nicolas Gerst, a tenor; Savannah Swan, a mezzo-soprano; and Gaby Catipon, a soprano. Songs sung in Italian included a duet from Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” and the “Famous Quartet” from Verdi’s “Rigoletto.”
During the interactive presentation, students practiced directing the singers by making the arm motions associated with conducting music. Also, a few students got to come in front of the stage to demonstrate theatrical gestures associated with live theater, such as opera.
The opera singers also educated the students about opera. Facts they shared included that the first opera was performed in Florence, Italy in 1600, the first opera performed in the United States was in 1829 in New York City, and it costs Opera San Jose about a million dollars to produce an opera.
“We’ve been partnering with Opera San Jose for almost 15 years,” said Mary Fries, sixth grade homeroom teacher at Peterson Middle School. “We want to expose students to opera, which is an enriching cultural experience, and to encourage their interest in the arts. This program is made possible by a generous grant from the Santa Clara Schools Foundation.” | <urn:uuid:647a8891-538c-4816-82c5-741097088bb3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.svvoice.com/peterson-middle-school-students-get-opera-tunity-to-meet-musicians-from-opera-san-jose/ | 2022-08-14T19:25:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00775.warc.gz | en | 0.963153 | 725 |
Joe Meno and Elizabeth Crane
The Great Perhaps
(W. W. Norton, $24.95)
Q: This book is a bit of a departure for you, but at the same time it still feels very much like a Joe Meno book. Can you talk a bit about your inspiration?
A: I started working on it in 2005, and there was still this kind of pervasive mood of fear, so it came out of that era leading up to the 2004 election. There were characters I already started working on in different short stories or plays, and I realized that the problems they all had all related to fear, and then I thought, What if they were actually related? So I built this family, and the thing that they have in common is that they’re all cowards, and each also has some sort of physical manifestation of that cowardice—epilepsy, stress-induced asthma, hives, etc.
Q: One of the things that really engaged me was this idea of searching. I had the sense that whether they were conscious of it or not, the characters were all looking for answers that science or the world wasn’t giving them.
A: The father, Jonathan, is looking for this squid, which he thinks is going to help him prove the theory of evolution. The mother, Madeline, she’s a behavioral scientist. For the daughter Amelia it’s politics; for the youngest daughter, Thisbe, it’s religion; and for the grandfather it’s through a historical context. Each of them thinks they have the answer, and then it fails them, and then they have to look for something larger.
Q: I thought it was really lovely that all the characters had their different obsession with clouds. Where did this playful twist come from?
A: The first thing was the White Album by the Beatles. It’s incredibly complex. The other two things were Slaughterhouse-Five by Vonnegut and the early films of Godard. All were making this work at the height of the Vietnam War, and had this incredible inventiveness and humor and playfulness even though they were dealing with incredible issues. For a book to have meaning doesn’t mean it can’t have a sense of humor or absurdity or imagination.
Q: What’s your take on Chicago’s literary scene?
A: It’s amazing! You, Stuart Dybek, Aleksandar Hemon; there’s also a great underground literary scene. What I really love about Chicago is the willingness to work with one another, which seems unique and welcoming and genuine. As a writer there’s so much room to explore. I don’t know how many people have written about Hyde Park in that way, whereas in New York, I think Brooklyn has the highest amount of writers anywhere in the world, so you’re always worried about stepping on someone’s toes. Here there’s all this territory to stick your flag in.
Q: How is it that you’re still so prolific, now that you’ve got a young daughter at home?
A: I would say I’m not! I’m happy I got as much work done as I did before she was born. But I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
GO: Stop Smiling magazine hosts a book release party for The Great Perhaps at Quimby’s on Thursday, May 7th. For info, quimbys.com
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New treatment could provide relief for people with knee pain
There may be new hope for people dealing with chronic joint issues. In a phase one clinical trial conducted in both France and Germany, researchers found giving patients a single low dose of their own stem cells provided osteoarthritis pain relief.
In the study, which appeared in the STEM CELLS Translational Medicine journal, researchers took 18 patients with symptomatic and severe osteoarthritis and injected one dose of stem cells directly into their knee. The patients were divided into three groups, with one group receiving a low dose (23,106) of cells, the second group a medium dose (103,106) and the third a high dose (503,106). After six months of follow-up, researchers saw no serious adverse effects, and treatment appeared to progress without any issues.
“While the goal of this small study was to evaluate the safety of using a patient’s own stem cells to treat osteoarthritis of the knee, it also showed that one group of patients experienced improvements in pain and function,” says Dr. Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, in Winston-Salem, N.C, and editor-of-chief of STEM CELLS Translational Medicine. “These results are encouraging, and it will be interesting to see if these improvements are seen in larger groups of study participants.”
A two-year phase II trial is now underway, involving 150 patients at 10 different clinical centers across Europe.
Also known as degenerative joint disease, osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis, affecting more than 25 million people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The condition, which breaks down the cartilage between the joints and worsens with age, leads to pain and swelling. The new research may offer a better alternative to current treatments.
“Some total knee replacements can be dangerous, and the recovery time can really be taxing to some individuals,” says Dr. Greg Primus, orthopedic surgeon at Advocate Trinity Hospital in Chicago. “You have to look at new treatment options because osteoarthritis affects people differently and can really affect their quality of life.”
As of now, no definitive treatment exists to stop joint degeneration. According to the Arthritis Foundation, osteoarthritis risk is driven by genetics, obesity, injury, joint overuse and other forms of arthritis.
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The home front during World War I covers the domestic, economic, social and political histories of countries involved in that conflict. It covers the mobilization of armed forces and war supplies,lives of others, but does not include the military history. For nonmilitary interactions among the major players see Diplomatic history of World War I.
And about 10.9 million combatants and seven million civilians died during the entire war, including many weakened by years of malnutrition; they fell in the worldwide Spanish Flu pandemic, which struck late in 1918, just as the war was ending.
The Allies had much more potential wealth that they could spend on the war. One estimate (using 1913 US dollars), is that the Allies spent $147 billion on the war and the Central Powers only $61 billion. Among the Allies, Britain and its Empire spent $47 billion and the US$27 billion; among the Central Powers, Germany spent $45 billion.
Total war demanded the total mobilization of all the nation's resources for a common goal. Manpower had to be channeled into the front lines (all the powers except the United States and Britain had large trained reserves designed for just that). Behind the lines labor power had to be redirected away from less necessary activities that were luxuries during a total war. In particular, vast munitions industries had to be built up to provide shells, guns, warships, uniforms, airplanes, and a hundred other weapons, both old and new. Agriculture had to be mobilized as well, to provide food for both civilians and for soldiers (many of whom had been farmers and needed to be replaced by old men, boys and women) and for horses to move supplies. Transportation in general was a challenge, especially when Britain and Germany each tried to intercept merchant ships headed for the enemy. Finance was a special challenge. Germany financed the Central Powers. Britain financed the Allies until 1916, when it ran out of money and had to borrow from the United States. The US took over the financing of the Allies in 1917 with loans that it insisted be repaid after the war. The victorious Allies looked to defeated Germany in 1919 to pay "reparations" that would cover some of their costs. Above all, it was essential to conduct the mobilization in such a way that the short term confidence of the people was maintained, the long-term power of the political establishment was upheld, and the long-term economic health of the nation was preserved. For more details on economics see Economic history of World War I.
World War I had a profound impact on woman suffrage across the belligerents. Women played a major role on the homefronts and many countries recognized their sacrifices with the vote during or shortly after the war, including the United States, Britain, Canada (except Quebec), Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Sweden and Ireland. France almost did so but stopped short.
Further information: Economic history of World War I
The total direct cost of war, for all participants including those not listed here, was about $80 billion in 1913 US dollars. Since $1 billion in 1913 is approximately $15 billion in 2017 US dollars, the total cost comes to around $2 trillion in 2017 dollars. Direct cost is figured as actual expenditures during war minus normal prewar spending. It excludes postwar costs such as pensions, interest, and veteran hospitals. Loans to/from allies are not included in "direct cost". Repayment of loans after 1918 is not included. The total direct cost of the war as a percent of wartime national income:
The amounts listed below are presented in terms of 1913 US dollars, where $1 billion then equals about $25 billion in 2017.
The two governments agreed that financially Britain would support the weaker Allies and that France would take care of itself. In August 1914, Henry Pomeroy Davison, a Morgan partner, traveled to London and made a deal with the Bank of England to make J.P. Morgan & Co. the sole underwriter of war bonds for Great Britain and France. The Bank of England became a fiscal agent of J.P. Morgan & Co., and vice versa. Over the course of the war, J.P. Morgan loaned about $1.5 billion (approximately $22 billion in today's dollars) to the Allies to fight against the Germans.:63 Morgan also invested in the suppliers of war equipment to Britain and France, thus profiting from the financing and purchasing activities of the two European governments.
Britain made heavy loans to Tsarist Russia; the Lenin government after 1920 refused to honor them, causing long-term issues.
At the outbreak of war, patriotic feelings spread throughout the country, and many of the class barriers of Edwardian era faded during the years of combat. However, the Catholics in southern Ireland moved overnight to demands for complete immediate independence after the failed Easter Rebellion of 1916. Northern Ireland remained loyal to the crown.
In 1914 Britain had by far the largest and most efficient financial system in the world. Roger Lloyd-Jones and M. J. Lewis argue:
Economic sacrifices were made, however, in the name of defeating the enemy. In 1915 Liberal politician David Lloyd George took charge of the newly created Ministry of Munitions. He dramatically increased the output of artillery shells—the main weapon actually used in battle. In 1916 he became secretary for war. Prime Minister H. H. Asquith was a disappointment; he formed a coalition government in 1915 but it was also ineffective. Asquith was replaced by Lloyd George in late 1916. He had a strong hand in the managing of every affair, making many decisions himself. Historians credit Lloyd George with providing the driving energy and organisation that won the War.
Although Germans were using Zeppelins to bomb the cities, morale remained relatively high due in part to the propaganda churned out by the national newspapers. With a severe shortage of skilled workers, industry redesigned work so that it could be done by unskilled men and women (termed the "dilution of labour") so that war-related industries grew rapidly. Lloyd George cut a deal with the trades unions—they approved the dilution (since it would be temporary) and threw their organizations into the war effort.
Historian Arthur Marwick saw a radical transformation of British society, a deluge that swept away many old attitudes and brought in a more equalitarian society. He also saw the famous literary pessimism of the 1920s as misplaced, for there were major positive long-term consequences of the war. He pointed to new job opportunities and self-consciousness among workers that quickly built up the Labour Party, to the coming of partial woman suffrage, and an acceleration of social reform and state control of the British economy. He found a decline of deference toward the aristocracy and established authority in general, and a weakening among youth of traditional restraints on individual moral behavior. Marwick concluded that class differentials softened, national cohesion increased, and British society became more equal. During the conflict, the various elements of the British Left created the War Emergency Workers' National Committee, which played a crucial role in supporting the most vulnerable people on the Home Front during the war, and in ensuring the British Labour remained united in the years after the Armistice.
Scotland played a major role in the British effort in the First World War. It especially provided manpower, ships, machinery, food (particularly fish) and money, engaging with the conflict with some enthusiasm. With a population of 4.8 million in 1911, Scotland sent 690,000 men to the war, of whom 74,000 died in combat or from disease, and 150,000 were seriously wounded. Scottish urban centres, with their poverty and unemployment were favourite recruiting grounds of the regular British army, and Dundee, where the female dominated jute industry limited male employment had one of the highest proportion of reservists and serving soldiers than almost any other British city. Concern for their families' standard of living made men hesitate to enlist; voluntary enlistment rates went up after the government guaranteed a weekly stipend for life to the survivors of men who were killed or disabled. After the introduction of conscription from January 1916 every part of the country was affected. Occasionally Scottish troops made up large proportions of the active combatants, and suffered corresponding loses, as at the Battle of Loos, where there were three full Scots divisions and other Scottish units. Thus, although Scots were only 10 per cent of the British population, they made up 15 per cent of the national armed forces and eventually accounted for 20 per cent of the dead. Some areas, like the thinly populated Island of Lewis and Harris suffered some of the highest proportional losses of any part of Britain. Clydeside shipyards and the nearby engineering shops were the major centers of war industry in Scotland. In Glasgow, radical agitation led to industrial and political unrest that continued after the war ended.
In Glasgow, the heavy demand for munitions and warships strengthened union power. There emerged a radical movement called "Red Clydeside" led by militant trades unionists. Formerly a Liberal Party stronghold, the industrial districts switched to Labour by 1922, with a base among the Irish Catholic working class districts. Women were especially active in solidarity on housing issues. However, the "Reds" operated within the Labour Party and had little influence in Parliament; the mood changed to passive despair by the late 1920s.
See also: David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George became prime minister in December 1916 and immediately transformed the British war effort, taking firm control of both military and domestic policy.
In rapid succession in spring 1918 came a series of military and political crises. The Germans, having moved troops from the Eastern front and retrained them in new tactics, now had more soldiers on the Western Front than the Allies. Germany launched a full scale Spring Offensive (Operation Michael), starting March 21 against the British and French lines, with the hope of victory on the battlefield before the American troops arrived in numbers. The Allied armies fell back 40 miles in confusion, and facing defeat, London realized it needed more troops to fight a mobile war. Lloyd George found a half million soldiers and rushed them to France, asked American President Woodrow Wilson for immediate help, and agreed to the appointment of French General Foch as commander-in-chief on the Western Front so that Allied forces could be coordinated to handle the German offensive.
Despite strong warnings it was a bad idea, the War Cabinet decided to impose conscription on Ireland. The main reason was that labour in Britain demanded it as the price for cutting back on exemptions for certain workers. Labour wanted the principle established that no one was exempt, but it did not demand that the draft actually take place in Ireland. The proposal was enacted but never enforced. The Catholic bishops for the first time entered the fray and called for open resistance to a draft. Many Irish Catholics and nationalists moved into the intransigent Sinn Féin movement. This proved a decisive moment, marking the end of Irish willingness to stay inside the UK.
When on May 7, 1918, a senior army general on active duty, Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice went public with allegations that Lloyd George had lied to Parliament on military matters, a crisis was at hand. The German spring offensive had made unexpected major gains, and a scapegoat was needed. Asquith, the Liberal leader in the House, took up the allegations and attacked Lloyd George (also a Liberal), which further split the Liberal Party. While Asquith's presentation was poorly done, Lloyd George vigorously defended his position, treating the debate as a vote of confidence. He won over the House with a powerful refutation of Maurice's allegations. The main results were to strengthen Lloyd George, weaken Asquith, end public criticism of overall strategy, and strengthen civilian control of the military.
Meanwhile, the German offensive stalled. By summer the Americans were sending 10,000 fresh men a day to the Western Front, a more rapid response made possible by leaving their equipment behind and using British and French munitions. The German army had used up its last reserves and was steadily shrinking in number and weakening in resolve. Victory came with the Armistice on November 11, 1918.
Prime Minister David Lloyd George was clear about how important the women were:
The militant suffragette movement was suspended during the war, and at the time people credited the new patriotic roles women played as earning them the vote in 1918. However, British historians no longer emphasize the granting of woman suffrage as a reward for women's participation in war work. Pugh (1974) argues that enfranchising soldiers primarily and women secondarily was decided by senior politicians in 1916. In the absence of major women's groups demanding for equal suffrage, the government's conference recommended limited, age-restricted women's suffrage. The suffragettes had been weakened, Pugh argues, by repeated failures before 1914 and by the disorganizing effects of war mobilization; therefore they quietly accepted these restrictions, which were approved in 1918 by a majority of the War Ministry and each political party in Parliament. More generally, Searle (2004) argues that the British debate was essentially over by the 1890s, and that granting the suffrage in 1918 was mostly a byproduct of giving the vote to male soldiers. Women in Britain finally achieved suffrage on the same terms as men in 1928.
The British Empire provided imports of food and raw material, worldwide network of naval bases, and a steady flow of soldiers and workers into Britain.
The 620,000 men in service were most notable for combat in the trenches of the Western Front; there were 67,000 war dead and 173,000 wounded. This total does not include the 2,000 deaths and 9,000 injuries in December 1917 when a munitions ship exploded in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Volunteering provided enough soldiers at first, but high casualties soon required conscription, which was strongly opposed by Francophones (French speakers, based mostly in Quebec). The Conscription Crisis of 1917 saw the Liberal Party ripped apart, to the advantage of the Conservative's Prime Minister Robert Borden, who led a new Unionist coalition to a landslide victory in 1917.
Distrusting the loyalties of Canadians of German ethnicity and, especially, recent Ukrainian Canadian immigrants from Austria-Hungary, the government interned thousands of aliens.
The war validated Canada's new world role, in an almost-equal partnership with Britain in the Commonwealth of Nations. Arguing that Canada had become a true nation on the battlefields of Europe, Borden demanded and received a separate seat for Canada at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Canada's military and civilian participation in the First World War strengthened a sense of British-Canadian nationhood among the Anglophones (English speakers). The Francophones (French speakers) supported the war at first, but pulled back and stood aloof after 1915 because of language disputes at home. Heroic memories centered around the Battle of Vimy Ridge where the unified Canadian corps captured Vimy ridge, a position that the French and British armies had failed to capture and "Canada's Hundred Days" battles of 1918 which saw the Canadian Corps of 100,000 defeat one fourth of the German Army on the Western Front.
Billy Hughes, prime minister from October 1915, expanded the government's role in the economy, while dealing with intense debates over the issue of conscription.
From a population of five million, 417,000 men enlisted; 330,000 went overseas to fight during the First World War. They were all volunteers, since the political battle for compulsory conscription failed. Some 58,000 died and 156,000 were wounded. Fisher argues that the government aggressively promoted economic, industrial, and social modernization in the war years. However, he says it came through exclusion and repression. He says the war turned a peaceful nation into "one that was violent, aggressive, angst- and conflict-ridden, torn apart by invisible front lines of sectarian division, ethnic conflict and socio-economic and political upheaval." The nation was fearful of enemy aliens—especially Germans, regardless of how closely they identified with Australia. The government interned 2,900 German-born men (40% of the total) and deported 700 of them after the war. Irish nationalists and labor radicals were under suspicion as well. Racist hostility was high toward nonwhites, including Pacific Islanders, Chinese and Aborigines. The result, Fischer says, was a strengthening of conformity to imperial/British loyalties and an explicit preference for immigrants from the British Isles.
The major military event involved sending 40,000 ANZAC (Australia and New Zealand) soldiers in 1915 to seize the Gallipoli peninsula near Constantinople to open an Allied route to Russia and weaken the Ottoman Empire. The campaign was a total failure militarily and 8,100 Australians died. However the memory was all-important, for it transformed the Australian mind and became an iconic element of the Australian identity and the founding moment of nationhood.
The War Precautions Act 1914 provided the Commonwealth government with wide-ranging powers for a period of up to six months after the duration of the war. It covered: the prevention of trade with hostile nations, issuing loans to pay for the war effort, the introduction of a national taxation scheme, the fixing of the prices of certain goods, the internment of people considered a danger to Australia, the compulsory purchase of strategic goods, and the censorship of the media.
At the outbreak of the war there were about 35,000 people who had been born in either Germany or Austria-Hungary living in Australia. They had weak ties with Germany (and almost none to Austria) and many had enlisted in the Australian war effort. Nevertheless, fears ran high and internment camps were set up where those suspected of unpatriotic acts were sent. In total 4,500 people were interned under the provisions of the War Precautions Act, of which 700 were naturalised Australians and 70 Australian born. Following the end of the war, 6,150 were deported.
In 1914 the Australian economy was small but very nearly the most prosperous in the world per capita; it depended on the export of wool and mutton. London provided assurances that it would underwrite a large amount of the war risk insurance for shipping to allow trade amongst the Commonwealth nations to continue. London imposed controls so that no exports would wind up in German hands. The British government protected prices by buying Australian products, even though the shortage of shipping meant that there was no chance that they would ever receive them.
On the whole, Australian commerce was expanded due to the war, although the cost of the war was quite considerable and the Australian government had to borrow considerably from overseas to fund the war effort. In terms of value, Australian exports rose almost 45 per cent, while the number of Australians employed in manufacturing industries increased over 11 per cent. Iron mining and steel manufacture grew enormously. Inflation became a factor as the prices of consumer goods went up, while the cost of exports was deliberately kept lower than market value to prevent further inflationary pressures worldwide. As a result, the cost of living for many average Australians was increased.
The trade union movement, already powerful, grew rapidly, although the movement was split on the political question of conscription. It expelled the politicians, such as Hughes, who favoured conscription (which was never passed into law). The government sought to stabilize wages, much to the anger of unionists. The average weekly wage during the war was increased by between 8 and 12 per cent, it was not enough to keep up with inflation. Angry workers launched a wave of strikes against both the wage freeze and the conscription proposal. Nevertheless, the result was very disruptive and it has been estimated that between 1914 and 1918 there were 1,945 industrial disputes, resulting in 8,533,061 working days being lost and a £4,785,607 deficit in wages.
Overall, the war had a significantly negative impact on the Australian economy. Real aggregate Gross Domestic Product (GDP) declined by 9.5 percent over the period 1914 to 1920, while the mobilization of personnel resulted in a six percent decline in civilian employment. Meanwhile, although population growth continued during the war years, it was only half that of the prewar rate. Per capita incomes also declined sharply, failing by 16 percent.
The country remained an enthusiastic supporter of the Empire, enlisting 124,211 men and sending 100,444 to fight in World War I (see New Zealand Expeditionary Force). Over 18,000 died in service. Conscription was introduced in mid 1916 and by the end of the war near 1 in four members of the NZEF was a conscript. As in Australia, involvement in the Gallipoli campaign became an iconic touchstone in New Zealand memory of the war and was commonly connected to imaginings of collective identity.
The war divided the labour movement with numerous elements taking up roles in the war effort while others alleged the war was an imperial venture against the interests of the working class. Labour MPs frequently acted as critics of government policy during the war and opposition to conscription saw the modern Labour Party formed in 1916. Maori tribes that had been close to the government sent their young men to volunteer. The mobilisation of women for war work/service was relatively slight compared to more industrialised countries though some 640 women served as nurses with 500 going overseas.
New Zealand forces captured Western Samoa from Germany in the early stages of the war, and New Zealand administered the country until Samoan Independence in 1962. However many Samoans greatly resented the administration, and blamed inflation and the catastrophic 1918 flu epidemic on New Zealand rule.
South Africa had a military role in the war, fighting the Germans in East Africa and on the Western Front. Public opinion in South Africa split along racial and ethnic lines. The British elements strongly supported the war and comprised the great majority of the 146,000 white soldiers. Nasson says, "for many enthusiastic English-speaking Union recruits, going to war was anticipated as an exciting adventure, egged on by the itch of making a manly mark upon a heroic cause." Likewise the Indian element (led by Mahatma Gandhi), generally supported the war effort. Afrikaners were split, with some like Prime Minister Louis Botha and General Jan Smuts taking a prominent leadership role in the British war effort. Their pro-British position was rejected by many rural Afrikaners who favoured Germany and who launched the Maritz Rebellion, a small-scale open revolt against the government. The trade union movement was also divided. Many urban blacks supported the war, expecting it would raise their status in society, others said it was not relevant to the struggle for their rights. The Coloured element was generally supportive and many served in a Coloured Corps in East Africa and France, also hoping to better their lot after the war. Those blacks and Coloureds who supported the war were embittered when the postwar era saw no easing of white domination and restrictive conditions.
The British controlled India (including modern Pakistan and Bangladesh) either directly through the British Raj or indirectly through local princes. The colonial government of India supported the war enthusiastically, and enlarged the British Indian army by a factor of 500% to 1.4 million men. It sent 550,000 overseas, with 200,000 going as laborers to the Western Front and the rest to the Middle East theatre. Only a few hundred were allowed to become officers, but there were some 100,000 casualties. The main fighting of the latter group was in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), where large numbers were killed and captured in the initial stages of the Mesopotamian campaign, most infamously during the Siege of Kut. The Indian contingent was entirely funded by the Indian taxpayers (who had no vote and no voice in the matter).
Although Germany and the Ottoman Empire tried to incite anti-British subversion with the help of Indian freedom fighters, such as Rash Bihari Bose or Bagha Jatin, they had virtually no success, apart from a localized 1915 Singapore Mutiny, which was a part of the Gadar conspiracy. The small Indian industrial base expanded dramatically to provide most of the supplies and munitions for the Middle East theatre. Indian nationalists became well organized for the first time during the war, and were stunned when they received little in the way of self-government in the aftermath of victory.
In 1918, India experienced an influenza epidemic and severe food shortages.
Nearly all of Belgium was occupied by the Germans, but the government and army escaped and fought the war on a narrow slice of the Western Front. The German invaders treated any resistance—such as sabotaging rail lines—as illegal and immoral, and shot the offenders and burned buildings in retaliation. The German army executed over 6,500 French and Belgian civilians between August and November 1914, usually in near-random large-scale shootings of civilians ordered by junior German officers. The German Army destroyed 15,000-20,000 buildings—most famously the university library at Louvain—and generated a refugee wave of over a million people. Over half the German regiments in Belgium were involved in major incidents. Thousands of workers were shipped to Germany to work in factories. British propaganda dramatizing the Rape of Belgium attracted much attention in the US, while Berlin said it was legal and necessary because of the threat of "franc-tireurs" (guerrillas) like those in France in 1870. The British and French magnified the reports and disseminated them at home and in the US, where they played a major role in dissolving support for Germany.
The Germans left Belgium stripped and barren. They shipped machinery to Germany while destroying factories. After the atrocities of the first few weeks, German civil servants took control and were generally correct, albeit strict and severe. There was no violent resistance movement, but there was a large-scale spontaneous passive resistance of a refusal to work for the benefit of German victory. Belgium was heavily industrialized; while farms operated and small shops stayed open, most large establishments shut down or drastically reduced their output. The faculty closed the universities; publishers shut down most newspapers. Most Belgians "turned the four war years into a long and extremely dull vacation", says Kiossmann.
Neutrals led by the United States set up the Commission for Relief in Belgium, headed by American engineer Herbert Hoover. It shipped in large quantities of food and medical supplies, which it tried to reserve for civilians and keep out of the hands of the Germans. Many businesses collaborated with the Germans, and some women cohabitated with their men. They were treated roughly in a wave of popular violence in November and December 1918. The government set up judicial proceedings to punish the collaborators. In 1919 the king organized a new ministry and introduced universal male suffrage. The Socialists—mostly poor workers—benefited more than the more middle class Catholics and Liberals.
Rubber had long been the main export; production levels held up but its importance fell from 77% of exports (by value) to only 15%. New resources were opened, especially copper mining in Katanga province. The British-owned Union Miniere company dominated the copper industry; it used a direct rail line to the sea at Beira. The war caused a heavy demand for copper, production soared from 997 tons in 1911 to 27,000 tons in 1917, then fell off to 19,000 tons in 1920. Smelters operated at Lubumbashi; before the war copper was sold to Germany; the British purchased all the wartime output, with the revenues going to the Belgian government in exile. Diamond and gold mining expanded during the war. The British firm of Lever Brothers greatly expanded the palm oil business during the war, and there was an increased output of cocoa, rice and cotton. New rail and steamship lines opened to handle the expanded export traffic.
Many French intellectuals welcomed the war to avenge the humiliation of defeat and loss of territory to Germany following the Franco-Prussian War of 1871. Only one major figure, novelist Romain Rolland retained his pacifist internationalist values; he moved to Switzerland. After Socialist leader Jean Jaurès, a pacifist, was assassinated at the start of the war, the French socialist movement abandoned its antimilitarist positions and joined the national war effort. Prime Minister Rene Viviani called for unity—for a "Union sacrée" ("Sacred Union"); France had few dissenters.
However, war-weariness was a major factor by 1917, even reaching the army, as soldiers were reluctant to attack—many threatened to mutiny—saying it was best to wait for the arrival of millions of Americans. The soldiers were protesting not just the futility of frontal assaults in the face of German machine guns but also degraded conditions at the front lines and home, especially infrequent leaves, poor food, the use of African and Asian colonials on the home front, and concerns about the welfare of their wives and children.
The industrial economy was badly hurt by the German invasion of major industrial areas in the northeast. While the occupied area in 1913 contained only 14% of France's industrial workers, it produced 58% of the steel, and 40% of the coal. Considerable relief came with the influx of American food, money and raw materials in 1917. The arrival of over a million American soldiers in 1918 brought heavy spending on food and construction materials. Labor shortages were in part alleviated by the use of volunteer labor from the colonies.
The war damages amounted to about 113% of the GDP of 1913, chiefly the destruction of productive capital and housing. The national debt rose from 66% of GDP in 1913 to 170% in 1919, reflecting the heavy use of bond issues to pay for the war. Inflation was severe, with the franc losing over half its value against the British pound.
The World War ended a golden era for the press. Their younger staff members were drafted and male replacements could not be found (women were not considered). Rail transportation was rationed and less paper and ink came in, and fewer copies could be shipped out. Inflation raised the price of newsprint, which was always in short supply. The cover price went up, circulation fell and many of the 242 dailies published outside Paris closed down. The government set up the Interministerial Press Commission to closely supervise newspapers. A separate agency imposed tight censorship that led to blank spaces where news reports or editorials were disallowed. The dailies sometimes were limited to only two pages instead of the usual four, leading one satirical paper to try to report the war news in the same spirit:
Georges Clemenceau became prime minister in November 1917, a time of defeatism and acrimony. Italy was on the defensive, Russia had surrendered. Civilians were angry, as rations fell short and the threat of German air raids grew. Clemenceau realized his priority was to restore civilian morale. He arrested Joseph Caillaux, a former French prime minister, for openly advocating peace negotiations. He won all-party support to fight to victory calling for "la guerre jusqu'au bout" (war until the end).
Tsarist Russia was being torn apart in 1914 and was not prepared to fight a modern war. The industrial sector was small, finances were poor, the rural areas could barely feed themselves. Repeated military failures and bureaucratic ineptitude soon turned large segments of the population against the government. Control of the Baltic Sea by the German fleet, and of the Black Sea by combined German and Ottoman forces prevented Russia from importing supplies or exporting goods. By the middle of 1915 the impact of the war was demoralizing. Food and fuel supplies grew scarce, war casualties kept climbing and inflation was mounting. Strikes increased among low-paid factory workers, and the peasants, who wanted land reforms, were restless. Meanwhile, elite distrust of the incompetent decision making at the highest levels was deepened when a semiliterate mystic, Grigory Rasputin, gained enormous influence over the Tsar and his wife until he was assassinated in 1916. Major strikes broke out early in 1917 and the army sided with the strikers in the February Revolution. The tsar abdicated. The liberal reformer Alexander Kerensky came to power in July, but in the October Revolution Lenin and the Bolsheviks took control. In early 1918 they signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk that made Germany dominant in Eastern Europe, while Russia plunged into years of civil war.
While the central bureaucracy was overwhelmed and under-led, Fallows shows that localities sprang into action motivated by patriotism, pragmatism, economic self-interest, and partisan politics. Food distribution was the main role of the largest network, called the "Union of Zemstvos." It also set up hospitals and refugee stations.
Italy decided not to honor its Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria, and initially remained neutral. Public opinion in Italy was sharply divided, with Catholics and socialists calling for peace. However nationalists saw their opportunity to gain their "irredenta" – that is, the border regions that were controlled by Austria. The nationalists won out, and in April 1915, the Italian government secretly agreed to the London Pact in which Britain and France promised that if Italy would declare war on Austria, it would receive its territorial rewards. The Italian army of 875,000 men was poorly led and lacked heavy artillery and machine guns. The industrial base was too small to provide adequate amounts of modern equipment, and the old-fashioned rural base did not produce much of a food surplus. The war stalemated with a dozen indecisive battles on a very narrow front along the Isonzo River, where the Austrians held the high ground. In 1916, Italy declared war on Germany, which provided significant aid to the Austrians. Some 650,000 Italian soldiers died and 950,000 were wounded, while the economy required large-scale Allied funding to survive.
Before the war the government had ignored labor issues, but now it had to intervene to mobilize war production. With the main working-class Socialist party reluctant to support the war effort, strikes were frequent and cooperation was minimal, especially in the Socialist strongholds of Piedmont and Lombardy. The government imposed high wage scales, as well as collective bargaining and insurance schemes. Many large firms expanded dramatically. For example, the workforce at the Ansaldo munitions company grew from 6,000 to 110,000 workers as it manufactured 10,900 artillery pieces, 3,800 warplanes, 95 warships and 10 million artillery shells. At Fiat the workforce grew from 4,000 to 40,000. Inflation doubled the cost of living. Industrial wages kept pace but not wages for farm workers. Discontent was high in rural areas since so many men were taken for service, industrial jobs were unavailable, wages grew slowly and inflation was just as bad.
Italy blocked serious peace negotiations, staying in the war primarily to gain new territory. The Treaty of St. Germain awarded the victorious Italian nation the Southern half of the County of Tyrol, Trieste, Istria, and the city of Zadar. Italy did not receive other territories promised by the Pact of London, so this victory was considered "mutilated". In 1922 Italy formally annexed the Dodecanese (Possedimenti Italiani dell'Egeo), that she had occupied during the previous war with Turkey.
President Woodrow Wilson took full control of foreign policy, declaring neutrality but warning Germany that the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare against American ships would mean war. Wilson's mediation efforts failed; likewise, the peace efforts sponsored by industrialist Henry Ford went nowhere. Germany decided to take the risk and try to win by cutting off Britain; the US declared war in April 1917. America had the largest industrial, financial and agricultural base of any of the great powers, but it took 12–18 months to fully reorient it to the war effort. American money, food and munitions flowed freely to Europe from spring 1917, but troops arrived slowly. The US Army in 1917 was small and poorly equipped.
The draft began in spring 1917 but volunteers were also accepted. Four million men and thousands of women joined the services for the duration. By summer 1918 American soldiers under General John J. Pershing arrived in France at the rate of 10,000 a day, while Germany was unable to replace its losses. The result was an Allied victory in November 1918.
Propaganda campaigns directed by the government shaped the public mood toward patriotism and voluntary purchases of war bonds. The Committee on Public Information (CPI) controlled war information and provide pro-war propaganda, with the assistance of the private American Protective League and tens of thousands of local speakers. The Sedition Act of 1918 criminalized any expression of opinion that used "disloyal, profane, scurrilous or abusive language" about the US government, flag or armed forces. The most prominent opponents of the war were Wobblies and Socialists, many of whom were convicted of deliberately impeding the war effort and were sentenced to prison, including the Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs.
Woodrow Wilson played the central role in defining the Allied war aims in 1917–1918 (although the US never officially joined the Allies). He demanded Germany depose the Kaiser and accept the terms of his Fourteen Points. Wilson dominated the 1919 Paris Peace Conference but Germany was treated harshly by the Allies in the Treaty of Versailles (1919) as Wilson put all his hopes in the new League of Nations. Wilson refused to compromise with Senate Republicans over the issue of Congressional power to declare war, and the Senate rejected the Treaty and the League.
By 1915 the British naval blockade had cut-off food imports and conditions deteriorated rapidly on the home front, with severe food shortages reported in all urban areas. The causes included the transfer of so many farmers and food workers into the military, combined with the overburdened railroad system, a shortage of coal, and the British blockade that cut off imports from abroad. The winter of 1916–1917 was known as the "turnip winter" (de:Steckrübenwinter), because that vegetable, which was usually fed to livestock, was used by people as a substitute for potatoes and meat, which were increasingly scarce. Thousands of soup kitchens were opened to feed the hungry people, who grumbled that the farmers were keeping the food for themselves. Even the army had to cut the rations for soldiers. Compared to peacetime, about 474,000 additional civilians died, chiefly because malnutrition had weakened the body. According to historian William H. MacNeil:
Morale of both civilians and soldiers continued to sink, but using the slogan of "sharing scarcity", the German bureaucracy ran an efficient rationing system nevertheless.
The end of October 1918 saw the outbreak of the German Revolution of 1918–19 as units of the German Navy refused to set sail for a last, large-scale operation in a war which they saw as good as lost (→Kiel mutiny). By 3 November, the revolt had spread to other cities and states of the country, in many of which workers' and soldiers' councils were established (→ German Revolution of 1918–19). Meanwhile, Hindenburg and the senior commanders had lost confidence in Kaiser Wilhelm II and his government.
The Kaiser and all German ruling princes abdicated. On 9 November 1918, the Social Democrat Philipp Scheidemann (1865-1939) proclaimed a Republic. On 11 November, the armistice ended the war with a total defeat for Germany. The Rhineland was occupied by the Allies (until 1923/1930);
The heavily rural Empire did have a small industrial base, but its major contribution was manpower and food. Nevertheless, Austria-Hungary was more urbanized (25%) than its actual opponents in the First World War, like the Russian Empire (13.4%), Serbia (13.2%) or Romania (18.8%). Furthermore, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had also a more industrialized economy and higher GDP per capita than the Kingdom of Italy, which was economically the far most developed actual opponent of the Empire. On the home front, food grew scarcer and scarcer, as did heating fuel. The hog population fell 90 percent, as the dwindling supplies of ham and bacon were consumed by the Army. Hungary, with its heavy agricultural base, was somewhat better fed. Morale fell every year, and the diverse nationalities gave up on the Empire and looked for ways to establish their own nation states.
Inflation soared, from an index of 129 in 1914 to 1589 in 1918, wiping out the cash savings of the middle-class. In terms of war damage to the economy, the war used up about 20 percent of the GDP. The dead soldiers amounted to about four percent of the 1914 labor force, and the wounded ones to another six percent. Compared all the major countries in the war, Austria's death and casualty rate was toward the high-end.
Whereas the German army realized it needed close cooperation from the home front, Habsburg officers saw themselves as entirely separate from the civilian world, and superior to it. When they occupied productive areas, such as Romania, they seized food stocks and other supplies for their own purposes, and blocked any shipments intended for civilians back in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The result was that the officers lived well, as the civilians began to starve. Vienna even transferred training units to Serbia and Poland for the sole purpose of feeding them. In all, the Army obtained about 15 percent of its cereal needs from occupied territories.
The Ottoman Empire had long been the "sick man of Europe" and by 1914 it had been driven out of nearly all of Europe, and had lost its influence in North Africa. It still controlled 23 million people, of whom 17 million were in modern-day Turkey, three million in Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, and 2.5 million in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq). Another 5.5 million people were under nominal Ottoman rule in the Arabian peninsula.
A faction of the Young Turk movement, the Committee of Union and Progress, turned the Ottoman Empire into a one-party-state after a coup in 1913; they mobilized the country's society for war, employing numerous political and economic reforms. The Unionists, through its Committee of National Defense, fostered pan-Turkish nationalism based in Anatolia. The Young Turks created new organizations, such as the Ottoman Red Crescent Society, the Ottoman Navy League, and the Committee of National Defense, to extend their political influence to the middle class, to mobilize support for the war effort and to construct a Turkish identity. When the war broke out the sultan, in his capacity, as caliph, issued a jihad, calling all Muslims in Egypt, India and other Allied territories to revolt against their Christian rulers. Very few listened. Meanwhile, many Arabs turned against the Turks and rose in rebellion in the Arab Revolt.
Reacting to fears that the Armenians could be a potential fifth column for the Russian army, the CUP forcibly evacuated the Armenians from eastern Anatolia, regardless of the 600,000 or more lives lost in the Armenian Genocide. On October 1918, as the Allied powers were gaining ground on Macedonian and Palestine Fronts, the Three Pashas, the ruling Unionist triumvirate fled into exile. The Armistice of Mudros ended World War I between the Allied powers and the Ottoman Empire, however the Turks would again see themselves in the battlefield with the Allies in the Turkish War of Independence.
Despite its small size and population of 4.6 million, Serbia had the most effective manpower mobilization of the war, and had a highly professional officer corps. It called 350,000 men to arms, of whom 185,000 were in combat units. Nevertheless, the casualties and expenditure of munitions in the Balkan Wars left Serbia depleted and dependent on France for supplies. Austria invaded twice in 1914 and was turned back after both armies suffered very heavy losses. Many captured Austrian soldiers were Slavic and joined the Serbian cause. The year 1915 was peaceful in the sense there was no military action, but food supplies were dangerously low and a series of deadly epidemics hit, especially typhus. The death toll from epidemics was about 100,000 civilians, 35,000 soldiers, and 30,000 prisoners of war.
In late 1915, however, German generals were given control and invaded Serbia with Austrian and Bulgarian forces. The Serbian army hastily retreated west but only 70,000 made it through, and Serbia became an occupied land. Disease was rampant, but the Austrians were pragmatic and paid well for food supplies, so conditions were not harsh. Instead Austria tried to depoliticize Serbia, to minimize violence, and to integrate the country into the Empire. Nevertheless, Serbian nationalism remained defiant and many young men slipped out to help rebuild the Serbian army in exile.
France proved an invaluable ally during the war and its armies, together with reorganized Serbian units, moved up from Greece in 1918 and liberated Serbia, Montenegro, and Vojvodina.
The war ended the very heavy death toll, which saw 615,000 of Serbia's 707,000 soldiers killed, along with 600,000 civilian dead. The death toll in Montenegro was also high. Serbia achieved its political goals by forming the new Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia) in 1918. It proved more difficult to create the new-model "Yugoslav" as an exemplar of a united nation containing diverse ethnicities, languages and religions. For example, Montenegro was included but, fearful of losing its own cultural traditions, there was a revolt there that the Serbian army crushed.
Main article: Bulgaria during World War I
Bulgaria, a poor rural nation of 4.5 million people, sought to acquire Macedonia, but when it tried it suffered defeat in 1913 in the Second Balkan War. In the First World War Bulgaria at first stayed neutral. However its leaders still hoped to acquire Macedonia, which was controlled by an Ally, Serbia. In 1915, joining the Central Powers seemed the best route. Bulgaria mobilized a very large army of 800,000 men, using equipment supplied by Germany. The Bulgarian-German-Austrian invasion of Serbia in 1915 provided a quick victory, but by the end of that year Bulgaria was also fighting the British and French—as well as the Romanians in 1916 and the Greeks in 1917. Bulgaria was ill-prepared for a long war; the absence of so many soldiers sharply reduced agricultural output. Much of its best food was smuggled out to feed lucrative black-markets elsewhere. By 1918 the soldiers were not only short of basic equipment like boots, but they were being fed mostly corn bread with a little meat. Germany increasingly took control, and Bulgarian relations with its ally the Ottoman Empire soured. The Allied offensive in September 1918 destroyed the remnants of Bulgarian military power and civilian morale. Troops mutinied and peasants revolted, demanding peace. By that month's end Bulgaria signed an armistice, giving up its conquests and its military hardware. The Bulgarian Czar abdicated and Bulgaria's war ended. The Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1919 stripped Bulgaria of its conquests, reduced its army to 20,000 men, and demanded reparations of £100 million.
Greece had been exhausted by the Balkan wars and sought to remain neutral, but its strategic position as the gateway to the Balkans made that impossible. In the National Schism, King Constantine I, a traditionalist who had German ties, battled with his modernizing liberal Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos, who was sympathetic to the Allies. Venizélos with Allied support, set up the short-lived Greek "state" of Salonica, from October 1916 to June 1917. An Allied blockade forced the king to abdicate in June 1917. Venizélos was now in full control and Greece sided with the Allies and declared war. Greece served as a staging base for large numbers of French, Serbian and other Allied units. By war's end the Greek army numbered 300,000 and had about 5,000 casualties. The schism between modernizers and traditionalists did not heal and for decades was the polarizing factor in Greek politics.
Main article: History of the Republic of China
The warlord Duan Qirui was the most powerful leader in China. He dissolved the parliament and declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary on August 13, 1917. Enemy nationals were detained and their assets seized. Around 175,000 Chinese workers volunteered for well-paid positions in the labor battalions that served the Allies behind the lines in France, and Africa and on supply ships. Some 10,000 died, including over 500 on ships sunk by U-boats. No soldiers were sent overseas.
Japan's military seized German possessions in the Pacific and East Asia. but there was no large-scale mobilization of the economy. Foreign minister Kato Takaaki and Prime Minister Okuma Shigenobu wanted to use the opportunity to expand Japanese influence in China. They enlisted Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925), then in exile in Japan, but they had little success. The Imperial Navy, a nearly autonomous bureaucratic institution, made its own decision to undertake expansion in the Pacific. It captured Germany's Micronesian territories north of the equator, and ruled the islands until 1921. The operation gave the navy a rationale for enlarging its budget to double the army budget and expanding the fleet. The Navy thus gained significant political influence over national and international affairs.
Inflation caused rice prices to quadruple, leading to small-scale riots all across the country in 1918. The government made thousands of arrests and prevented the newspapers from reporting the riots. Some 250,000 people died in the Spanish flu epidemic in late 1918. The death rate was much lower than other major countries because some immunity had developed from a mild outbreak earlier; public health officials successfully warned people to avoid contact; and the use of inoculation, herbals, masks, and gargling.
Main article: Economic history of World War I § Further reading
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The problem is the vast majority of Microsoft's installed base of PCs—some 670 million—don't have a touch interface.
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