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Green and Gold Greats
Australian Historical and Archival Sporting Legend Interviews on CD
ABC Radio sportscaster David Lord has produced a wonderful CD of 30 Australian Sporting Legends on CD
2 volumes, 10 discs and over 13 hours of content...
Included in the set are cricketers Neil Harvey, Arthur Morris, Sam Loxton, Bobby Simpson and Alan Davidson; tennis greats Margaret Court, Ken Rosewall and Frank Sedgman; golfers Peter Thomson and Kel Nagle; Rugby League stars Graeme Langlands and Bobby Fulton and Johnny Raper; Rugby Union legend Ken Catchpole and AFL stars Ron Barassi, Leigh Matthews and Bobby Skilton. Also there, are Olympians Herb Elliott, John Landy, Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, Betty Cuthbert, John Konrads and Murray Rose. Then…who could forget skipper of Australia II, John Bertrand or Horse Trainer, Bart Cummings, race caller Ian Craig and Jockey Edgar Britt.
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The Robert G. Wehle Nature Center, located on 25 acres of rolling hill country in Bullock County, is designed to enhance the appreciation for conservation and an understanding of man’s relationship with the environment. It features conservation and environmental educational exhibits aimed at both students and adults.
A state-of-the-art audiovisual theater focuses on the natural wonders of outdoor Alabama. A conference area/exhibit room is available for conservation meetings and hands-on nature presentations. Remote from the main building, at the edge of a small wetland, sits a viewing kiosk which gives young naturalists an up-close and personal experience with the inhabitants of Alabama's wetland.
Three trails extend away from the Center, taking hikers on short, medium, and long treks through different habitats. These trails are augmented with interpretive stations highlighting the unique characteristics of many local plants and animals. A large pond provides opportunities for scheduled fishing events. The facility is used and/or provided by the Lands Division to promote environmental education either by its own staff members or educators from other divisions, agencies or institutions. For More information email DCNR.WLCCMidway@dcnr.alabama.gov.
This Nature Center is located approximately 5 miles Southeast of Midway, Alabama in Bullock County on County Road 47. Take U.S. Hwy. 82 from either Montgomery or Eufaula to Midway and follow the "Nature Center" signs.
For complete information on the Wehle Land Conservation Center, including the Nature Center, visit www.alabamaforeverwild.com/wehle-tract.


The Man Who Could Make Your Kids Less Ignorant
tags: college,Robert Maynard Hutchins
A new Council of Foreign Relations and National Geographic survey shows that most American collegians are global illiterates. Only 29 percent of 1203 enrolled students or fresh graduates passed a “global literacy” test—asking, for example, whether Indonesia has a Muslim majority. The average score was 55 percent. Illiterate college students become ignorant citizens—and policy makers. In 2006, during the Iraq War, The New York Times reported that many members of Congress couldn’t distinguish Sunnism from Shiism. One Democrat admitted: “it’s hard to keep things in perspective and in the categories.”
Before force feeding anyone more facts, this survey is a reminder of how we must redefine the purpose of higher education. This way, whatever facts are conveyed will fit into a “perspective” and “categories” that resonate for students.
Although he died nearly 40 years ago in 1977, we need the wisdom of the educational reformer Robert Maynard Hutchins. While he probably would be shouted down on many campuses today for being politically incorrect, this Oberlin graduate and anti-McCarthyite was a true liberal. He wanted universities producing thoughtful, knowledgeable, and critical world citizens, not narrow-minded specialists, soulless technicians or indoctrinated political bullies...
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The huge increase in home and hybrid working over the past two years means that CIOs and CISOs have re-evaluated security policies and are looking to bolster endpoint security. It’s little wonder that Gartner Group report that 61% of CIOs of organisations plan to increase spending on cyber and information security this year.
It’s turned out to be a bigger project than expected. According to a survey of 750 IT decision makers carried out by Tanium, 82% of CISOs said that they were overhauling endpoint security, but 94% were faced with endpoints that were either unprotected or overloaded with conflicting software agents. As many as one in five endpoints were discovered to be vulnerable to attack.
Organisations are experiencing more attacks than ever before. Cybersecurity Ventures notes that ransomware attacks on businesses occur every 11 seconds. All the while, businesses experienced a 50% increase in weekly cyberattacks in 2021.
Cyber criminals are also becoming more targeted in their attacks. Microsoft’s recent ‘Digital Defence Report’ stated that threat actors have rapidly increased in sophistication over the past year, using techniques that make them harder to spot, and which threaten even the most seasoned IT security team. Criminal groups targeting businesses have moved infrastructure to the cloud, where they can hide among legitimate cloud services, and attackers have developed new ways to scan the internet for systems vulnerable to ransomware.
This massive growth in the number and complexity of attacks, combined with a global shortage of IT security professionals, is a big problem for businesses.
Something needs to change
Endpoint security company Tanium says there is a fundamental problem in how most organisations approach endpoint security management. As the number of IT security threats increases exponentially, companies often respond by buying another point solution. In the last year, 90% of organisations have bought at least one new IT security point solution, and almost half (45%) have bought at least four new products, according to the Foundry ‘Security Priorities Study.’ A typical enterprise now has 43 separate IT security and security management tools in its infrastructure.
This approach simply isn’t sustainable. When businesses add more tools to their infrastructure, they don’t necessarily increase their protection, because the pace with which new threats emerge is faster than most organisations can keep up with. This is especially true in today’s highly distributed organisations. There’s also some evidence that the effectiveness of some point solutions is falling; according to one recent report in the New York Times, the first detection rates of some antivirus tools has fallen below five percent.
Then there’s the issue of keeping up with a proliferation of point solutions, each with its own data, interface and owner. Perhaps one tool is managed by IT operations and reports into one data silo daily, but another is managed by compliance and reports quarterly into another data silo. If that scenario is repeated 40 times, that’s an example of the data headache that CIOs and CISOs are facing.
This patchwork approach cannot provide complete protection, and it can be actively harmful to corporate security efforts. If an organisation has multiple security tools sitting in multiple silos, CIOs can’t get a clear overview of how many endpoints there are, much less how effectively they are protected, and what changes need to be made.
In many ways, security is a data visibility problem. When an organisation is running dozens of systems, and dozens of IT security solutions, each generating huge volumes of data at different rates, how is that data being integrated and understood? Simply put, companies can’t protect what they can’t see.
Today’s security decision-makers need help. They need a platform that helps them to keep up with a proliferation of endpoints, and to understand exactly how each one is performing, the threats posed to it, and how it can be protected. This information needs to be available in one place, and in real-time. Only then can CIOs create a single view of security that is needed to deliver effective protection and create a strategy that prioritises the right things at the right time.
What’s needed is a converged solution.
Just how bad are things out there?
Tanium spoke with hundreds of IT security decision makers who said they want a way to reduce and simplify endpoint security management.
Key challenges that organisations face in managing endpoint security include siloed teams, especially in IT operations and security, that aren’t able to share security data quickly or effectively. Despite this, many business leaders feel a false sense of confidence about their protection. Second, poor visibility of security data leaves networks vulnerable to attack. Some 64% of businesses expect to experience a cyber attack in the next 12 months.
This lack of visibility and fragmented approach puts companies at risk of financial losses, downtime, damaged brand reputation and potential heavy fines for non-compliance. This is a huge concern given that 20.4% of vulnerabilities that are discovered within businesses are classed as high or critical risk. It also takes an average of 61.4 days to remediate a critical risk, according to Edgescan, presenting a huge security risk to organisations.
Endpoint security management must be a higher priority for business leaders. In a recent Harvard Business Review survey, 70% of business leaders said they thought that leadership should be more concerned about cybersecurity.
A new approach to endpoint security management
“It’s crystal clear that businesses need a new approach to endpoint management that helps us to keep pace with tomorrow’s threats,” says Steve Daheb, CMO at Tanium. The reason why so many enterprises fall victim to ransomware attacks is that the tools they use are no match for the sophistication of attackers: tools are slow, unreliable and lack a common dataset to operate from. And they inherently create silos.
This approach to security isn’t working. It’s time to unite tools and data with a unified solution: converged endpoint management (XEM).
Introducing converged endpoint management (XEM)
Tanium takes a unified approach to IT security management. Its platform combines multiple endpoint tools and data so that organisations can have visibility and real-time data on all endpoints, through a single interface.
“Unlike traditional, fragmented approaches to endpoint management, XEM maximises visibility, control and trust, and allows teams to interact with all endpoints in seconds, regardless of the scale and complexity of the IT environment,” says Daheb.
XEM provides accurate, real-time data to support end-to-end automation, so information security teams can align their efforts and protect their organisations against attacks more effectively. With a unified approach, there’s no need for staff from IT operations, compliance, security and numerous other siloes to spend hours collating and sharing data. It can be viewed in a single interface, meaning IT security teams can do more with less resources.
Legacy management systems are often at the heart of problems for organisations looking to improve visibility and efficiency. Moving to a converged platform gives back countless hours of management time, allowing companies to allocate headcount elsewhere and address dangerous vulnerabilities more quickly and effectively across the whole organisation.
The case for better data
IT leaders can’t make effective decisions about security without the right visibility into data across their infrastructure. XEM provides real-time information from every single endpoint, so that critical information isn’t locked in siloes, accessed by different teams using different tools.
By converging tools into a single interface, companies can focus on actually delivering effective security. With XEM, organisations can easily see, assess and manage all their IT security data in a single view. Data can be shared, allowing for more effective collaboration and easier, more cost-effective management. Ultimately, a converged approach provides reliable, timely insight that can be used to drive better, faster decision-making. That’s essential in today’s fast-moving threat landscape.
Providing effective governance
IT governance is a top priority for many CIOs but when it comes to security, it can be almost impossible to achieve. Organisations have multiple teams with responsibility for IT security, including compliance, governance, IT operations, security and risk. These teams are often working in isolation from each other, so there’s no visibility of organisation-wide threats.
“Without collaboration or visibility about organisation-wide risks, enterprises can develop blind spots, making both security and compliance a challenge. If you don’t have visibility into all your endpoints, it’s almost impossible to enforce access policies and maintain control across your IT infrastructure,” Daheb says.
The good news is that fixing these blind spots doesn’t need to be a complex, time-consuming process. XEM provides a relatively quick solution to existing challenges, increasing efficiency and effectiveness by reducing unnecessary complexity and improving visibility of your IT assets. Daheb adds: “Tanium’s platform approach means that everything you need – from risk and compliance to data monitoring and more – is accomplished in a single solution. We can identify where all your data is in a matter of seconds, meaning that you can deploy security tools across all endpoints, with a single control plane and common data set and taxonomy.”
Making a difference
Daheb says: “Tanium’s XEM offering is the only solution that allows teams to collectively perform detailed and complete discovery, in-depth assessments, enterprise prioritisation, cross-platform remediation, and continuous vigilance everywhere.”
XEM-based approaches to endpoint security allow organisations to deliver convergence of IT operations and security, as well as the security infrastructures that are based on point solutions. The Tanium platform aims to change the market and meet the twin challenges of spiralling cybersecurity threats and rising complexity of endpoint security management.
Without XEM, the industry will inevitably see more breaches, more attacks, more data leaks and more problems. It’s time to make a change.
Learn more about converged endpoint management (XEM) - visit tanium.com/converged-endpoint-management
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Manitowoc man faces child sexual assault charge
MANITOWOC – A 20-year-old Manitowoc man faces a felony charge of second-degree sexual assault of a child in connection with a girl who was 13 at the time. He was 19.
Trenton J. Propson's initial appearance has been set for 2:30 p.m. on Aug. 25 in Manitowoc County Circuit Court.
According to court records, the sexual contact occurred when the girl went to his residence during spring break.
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The swamp spurge is essentially a larger version of the highly valued and more widely grown, E. epithymoides (polychroma). The narrow, medium-green leaves clothe the upright 30" stems, topped in April and May with bright yellow bracts (like a poinsettia). A mass of E. palustris in the spring garden will truly make a breathtaking show. Unlike other euphorbias, E. palustris thrives in moist conditions, including shallow standing water. E. palustris will seed around the garden a bit, especially in moist sites, so don't plant it near small treasures.

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Church to celebrate 171 years, restoration
By Lucia Suarez
STAFF WRITER | January 26,2013
Vyto Starinskas / Staff Photo
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Wells will celebrate completion of a four-year restoration project Sunday.
WELLS — When the Rev. William Davidson took over as vicar of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Wells close to four years ago, the church’s tower was rotting, the foundation was shaky, and it had no bathrooms or running water.
On Sunday, Davidson, along with the church’s congregation, will celebrate the completion of a four-year project to repair and restore the exterior of the church building. It will also be the celebration of the 171st year since the church was erected.
“They started raising money and getting help from the Vermont Trust for Historic Preservation and the Vermont Division of Historic Preservation,” Davidson said. “They hired an architect, Tom Keefe, and he came up with plans.”
He added: “When it started, it was just a handful of people, then we had a lot of help from the community. ... People have a lot of fond memories about coming to church.”
The church tower was the first component to be repaired and they went from there. The walls were repainted, the foundation was strengthened and the windows were repaired according to their original design when the church was first built.
“We were able to keep the original glass that was not broken or cracked,” Davidson said. “It’s great.”
The most recent part of the project is a group of newly fashioned lamps that are being installed in the front deck. They were designed by a company in West Rupert in an 1840s style.
“We were hoping to have them up by Sunday,” Davidson said.
For running water and bathrooms, the church has a new parish house that also offers space for meetings.
“The building now looks exactly how it did when it was built, except for a front porch we needed to build for wheelchairs,” Davidson said. “It looks like it did.”
But the work will not end there. Small projects will be completed inside the church, and the vicar also wants to modify the parish house and open the bottom floor for a large meeting space.
“We hope to in the future meet the needs of the people,” Davidson said. “There has been a big community spirit throughout (the project). We would like to do more.”
To celebrate the building’s restoration, a special service conducted by the Rev. Thomas Ely, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese, will start at 9 a.m. The church will be rededicated on its 171st birthday.


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Gunfight at the OK Corral
Burt Lancaster is Wyatt Earp, Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday. Earl Holliman as a Deputy, Dennis Hopper as Billy Clanton, and DeForest Kelley as Morgan Earp. Also, Whit Bissell (from Trouble With Tribbles) as the newspaper editor, Martin Milner (of Route 66 & Adam 12), Lee Van Cleef as Ed Bailey, and ugly one-eyed Jack Elam as Tom McClowery.
Kelley's part isn't that large I believe, but he's in the big showdown.
And then you could show the kids Spectre of the Gun.

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A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot
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" There are two species, bitter and sweet, from which the cassava of commerce is prepared in the West Indies, tropical America, and Africa. The bitter (Manihot utilissima) is the more important; this has a poisonous sap, but by grating, pressing, and baking the root the poisonous qualities are removed. The sweet (Manihot Aipi) is used as a table vegetable."


After winning the competition back in 2015, Zaha Hadid Architects was appointed to design the Danjiang Bridge in Taiwan. Today, ZHA announced the start of construction on the 920-meter structure, which will reportedly be the world's longest single-mast, asymmetric cable-stayed bridge, ZHA says. As of right now, the $405.2 million bridge will be constructed in 68 months and open in 2024.
The bridge will span the mouth of the Tamsui River estuary, an important natural ecosystem that has been attracting more tourism as a recreational area. A critical element in upgrading northern Taiwan's infrastructure, the new bridge will reduce traffic congestion on local highways, as well as the existing Guandu Bridge by 30 percent.
It will also improve connectivity between the region, the Port of Taipei, and the Taoyuan International Airport. And it's also expected to shorten the journey between Bali and Tamsui on either side of the river by 15 kilometers, which would save 25 minutes of travel time for those crossing the river.
The bridge features a slender 200-meter concrete mast (designed with Sinotech Engineering Consultants and Leonhardt, Andrä and Partner) that supports the main 450-meter span, which will have designated road, cycling, and pedestrian lanes. It'll also be able to accommodate the future expansion of the Danhai Light Rail network.
According to ZHA, this single-mast design minimizes both its visual impact as well as its disruption to the riverbed, in accordance with nature protection programs for the Tamsui estuary.
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Design: Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher
Project Directors (Competition): Charles Walker, Manuela Gatto
Project Architect (Competition): Shao-wei Huang
Design Associate (Competition): Paulo Flores
Lead Designer (Competition): Saman Saffarian
Project Team (Competition): Evgeniya Yatsyuk, Paul Bart, Sam Sharpe, Silviya Barzakova, Julian Lin, Ramon Weber
Project Director (Delivery): Cristiano Ceccato
Project Architect (Delivery): Shao-wei Huang
Project Team (Delivery): Carlos Michel-Medina, Chien-shuo Pai, Julian Lin, Elena Scripelliti
Project BIM Support (Delivery): Paul Ehret
Lead structural engineering consultancy and JV Partner: Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner (Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner, Beratende Ingenieure VBI AG , Germany)
Local engineering consultants and JV Partner: Sinotech Engineering Consultants (Sinotech Engineering Consultants, Ltd, Taiwan, R.O.C.)
Lighting designer: Chroma33 Architectural Lighting Design (Taiwan, R.O.C.)
All images courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects.
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The Marvels #11 (2022) : At last, the secrets of Siancong’s history—not to mention its existence at all—are revealed. In…a comic book? But while the Marvels learn everything they need to know, they still have to find a way home. And they may have just triggered a threat capable of destroying them, Siancong, Earth and our entire universe. The end of everything may have just begun.
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While many makers obsess about the replication of vintage ’Bursts, Joe Knaggs isn’t one of them.
As this signature Kenai illustrates, it’s obvious where the inspiration lies. It’s the second Knaggs artist model, after Steve Stevens’, and regular Guitarist readers should be very familiar with the skills of Doug Rappoport who joined us for a blues-rock masterclass earlier this year.
Steve’s signature model slightly downsizes the Kenai blueprint, but here Doug’s uses the original plans with its almost Tele-meets-Les Paul outline measuring approximately 344mm (13.54 inches) across its lower bouts, with a trimmer-than-LP maximum depth of 52mm.
It appears even trimmer (and is tapered from base to heel) when you look at the rim: while the top has a beautifully graduated carve, the back is flat with a rib-cage cutaway and noticeable chamfering around the edges, reducing that rim to approximately 43mm. Neither chambered nor weight-relived, this Kenai weighs a near perfect 8.5lbs.
“Very much pain goes into finding the right weight wood,” considers Joe from Knaggs HQ in Greensboro, Maryland. “It is getting more and more difficult. I’m not sure if weight relief or chambering is the future: there are other woods out there that are lighter in weight. I do think harder/heavier woods tend to be a bit more dominant on the treble side, but this is not always the case. I’ve heard great-sounding heavier guitars. I’ve heard crappy-sounding light guitars, too – not ours, I might add!”
On first playing a Kenai, weight played its part for Doug. “I was struck by how light it was,” he tells us. “I realise weight - where guitars are concerned - is unpredictable and varies widely. I am also aware there is a lot of debate about wood density, weight and what it means to tone. Fuck all that. I tell people to go tour for 15 to 20 years and then tell me how important having a heavy guitar is to you!”
Following the classic Gibson-style ingredients, the mahogany back here is one piece, likewise the neck. The Tier 3 maple top has quite thick cream-coloured edge binding and an inner black/white/black purfling, plus quite a classic but not overdone figure toned down here by the satin nitro finish.
The neck is raked back in classic style, and while the unbound headstock has a lesser back-angle, it still looks very old-school with that classy understated logo on a black ebony facing with Doug’s signature truss rod cover.
Fret wire is medium gauge, immaculately installed as you’d expect, on the Gibson-like 305mm (12-inch) cambered, bound Macassar ebony ’board. We’ve said it before and have to say it again: Knaggs makes exceptionally good guitars.
If you’re looking for flaws, good luck. The dual-humbucker layout with its shoulder-mounted pickup selector is par for the course, though where we’d usually find a bridge pickup tone control there is a momentary action kill switch (you can order it with a standard tone control if you prefer).
The double-black ’bucker at the neck is Duncan’s classic SH-2N Jazz (described as a “bright, vintage-output humbucker, which stays clear even under extreme distortion”); the bridge is a lesser-known Duncan Custom Shop pickup, a zebra-coiled ’78.
“As an EVH fanatic/devotee/disciple/worshipper, I had to have one,” enthuses Doug. “Honestly, it was more the concept of the pickup that interested me - a clone of the pickup Seymour rewound for EVH back in 1978. A PAF supposedly from an old ES-335. I was a Duncan JB player for years!
“I’m really savvy with that pickup,” he continues. “When I got my first Knaggs, it came with a much lower-output ’59. My intention was to immediately swap it for my usual JB, but I was enjoying it so much with the ’59: clarity, open sounding… all the usual benefits of lower-output pickups. So now I’m in love with PAF-type pickups.
“The thing I liked about the ’78 was that it was basically a great PAF with a little more output. I had found that the lack of output in the ’59, and other PAF-type pickups, to be a little too gentle - not pushing the amps hard enough for me. My range as a player goes from straight-ahead blues all the way through classic rock, hard rock through heavy metal.
“The ’78, as a low-medium output pickup, lets me comfortably cover all that on guitar. And it does a fantastic Van Halen! So if you can forget that it’s a EVH pickup, you’ll just have a high-quality PAF with just a little more ‘poop’ on it. Very versatile.”
Feel & Sounds
There’s an elegant simplicity to this guitar that belies the craft. The guitar disappears: its good weight, the full rounded depth of the neck, the classic, relatively small fret wire, the resonance, a full, luscious acoustic ring and sustain, the switch and control placement…
It feels like a guitar you’ve played all your life, a road-buddy that’s never let you down. Warming up our test rig with our ’57 Les Paul Junior, we’re reminded of the Kenai’s heritage, not least its big rounded neck profile, although the DR slightly expands it (and it’s fractionally bigger in the higher positions than an older Knaggs we have with its ’59 profile).
Whatever, it feels like a big neck and like the sounds it helps to produce… well, ‘meaty’ springs to mind. Continuing with a 2017 Les Paul Standard, we’re bang up to date in terms of single-cut tone, but plug in the Knaggs and we’re treated to a single-cut voice that’s hugely organic, more muscular with a clarity combined with a thumpingly huge-sounding, resonant midrange grind and fat low-end. It simply sounds huge. Did we say that already?
But it’s far from a one-trick pony. Pull back the volumes and the Jazz creates a surprisingly rootsy Americana voice that - mixed with the ’78 - is springy, expressive and almost single coil-like. While it excels at Doug’s signature AC/DC/Van Halen crunch, rolling the volume back also summons up plenty of single-cut greats: cleaner Peter Green through Mick Ronson’s Spiders-era edgy rhythm and plenty more besides.
It’s a guitar that allows you to suggest styles, not the other way around. Like we said, it feels and sounds like a guitar we’ve had for years. The truth is, with time and playing, it’ll only get better.
We’re constantly criticised for writing about elitist high-end instruments, and while sometimes it is very difficult to justify an instrument’s cost, that’s not the case here. Elsewhere in this issue we look at lower-cost single-cuts that are perfectly valid, yet none of those capture the muscular power of this one on full tilt.
Kill switch aside (and that’s optional), there are no bells or whistles: its calling card is the vast experience of its maker, married with intelligent twists such as the body’s geometry, that unique bridge design, its top-drawer materials all presented - by design - in this workingman’s blue collar vibe.

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Kent State/Cambodia Incursion Protest – 5/10/1970
Kent State/Cambodia Incursion Protest, Washington, D.C.: A week after the Kent State shootings, on May 4, 100,000 anti-war demonstrators converged on Washington, D.C. to protest the shooting of the students in Ohio and the Nixon administration’s incursion into Cambodia. Even though the demonstration was quickly put together, protesters were still able to bring out thousands to march in the Capital. It was an almost spontaneous response to the events of the previous week. Police ringed the White House with buses to block the demonstrators from getting too close to the executive mansion. Early in the morning before the march, Nixon met with protesters briefly at the Lincoln Memorial but nothing was resolved and the protest went on as planned.
I was living in Park Slope Brooklyn NY the night before the protest. I was with a group of my friends and old college buddies having an intense discussion about the May 4th shooting at Kent State. When the news came out about the protest we decided to drive all night to get to Georgetown University in Washington DC. We arose early the next morning May 10th and joined the march to the National Mall where the anti-war speakers were congregating.


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The Waldenses in the New World
Date Published: 1990
Edition: Second printing
Book Id: 24946
309pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good. The edges of the covers are lightly rubbed and bumped. There is a 6 inch ripple in the cloth of the rear cover. The pages are clean and bright.
This was originally published in 1941. Covers South American colonies, Mormons and the Waldenses, and Waldenses in New York City.

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Linux /boot and its architecture!
- 1.1. Overview
- 1.2. The Root Directory
- 1.3. /bin
- 1.4. /boot
- 1.5. /dev
- 1.6. /etc
- 1.7. /home
- 1.8. /initrd
- 1.9. /lib
- 1.10. /lost+found
- 1.11. /media
- 1.12. /mnt
- 1.13. /opt
- 1.14. /proc
- 1.15. /root
- 1.16. /sbin
- 1.17. /usr
- 1.18. /var
- 1.19. /srv
- 1.20. /tm
- 2. Glossary
Additional Linux Resources
Here is a list of resources for learning Linux:
Resources for System Administrators
Linux System Admin Guide- What is Linux Operating System and how it works
Linux System Admin Guide- What are Directory Tree and Filesystem Hierarchy in Linux
Linux System Admin Guide- Introduction to Linux File Systems for System Admins
Linux System Admin Guide- Overview of Linux Virtual Memory and Disk Buffer Cache
Linux System Admin Guide- Best Practices for Monitoring Linux Systems
Linux System Admin Guide- Best Practices for Performing Linux Boots and Shutdowns
Linux System Admin Guide- Best Practices for Making and Managing Backup Operations
Resources for Linux Kernel Programmers
How Linux Operating System Memory Management works
Comprehensive Review of Linux Kernel Operating System Processes
Comprehensive Review of Linux File System Architecture and Management
What are mechanisms behind Linux Kernel task management
How Linux Kernel Sources and Functions work
Comprehensive look at how Linux Data Structures work
Hands-on Linux classes
- Linux shell and bash scripting via hybrid training
- Hands-on Linux programming for system administration via hybrid training
- Live and self-paced SQL coding and database management
- Introduction to Linux OS
- Intro to Linux Bash Scripting
- Advance Linux Bash Scripting
- Linux Management for System Admins
- Essential Linux Commands in 6 Hours by Hands-on Exercises
- Linux Bash & Shell Scripts in 6 Hour by Hands-on Exercises
Linux Operating System Distributions
This directory contains everything required for the boot process except for configuration files not needed at boot time (the most notable of those being those that belong to the GRUB boot-loader) and the map installer. Thus, the /boot directory stores data that is used before the kernel begins executing user-mode programs. This may include redundant (back-up) master boot records, sector/system map files, the kernel and other important boot files and data that is not directly edited by hand. Programs necessary to arrange for the boot loader to be able to boot a file are placed in /sbin. Configuration files for boot loaders are placed in /etc. The system kernel is located in either / or /boot (or as under Debian in /boot but is actually a symbolically linked at / in accordance with the FSSTND).
- Backup master boot record.
- This is installed as the basic boot sector. In the case of most modern distributions it is actually a symbolic link to one of four files /boot/boot-bmp.b, /boot/boot-menu.b, /boot/boot-text.b, /boot/boot-compat.b which allow a user to change the boot-up schema so that it utilises a splash screen, a simple menu, a text based interface or a minimal boot loader to ensure compatibility respectively. In each case re-installation of lilo is necessary in order to complete the changes. To change the actual ‘boot-logo’ you can either use utilities such as fblogo or the more refined bootsplash.
- Used to boot non-Linux operating systems.
- Installed kernel configuration. This file is most useful when compiling kernels on other systems or device modules. Below is a small sample of what the contents of the file looks like.
CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_MICROCODE=m CONFIG_X86_MSR=m CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y CONFIG_MTRR=y CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG=m CONFIG_I2O=m CONFIG_ARCNET_ETH=y CONFIG_FMV18X=m CONFIG_HPLAN_PLUS=m CONFIG_ETH16I=m CONFIG_NE2000=m CONFIG_HISAX_HFC_PCI=y CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_AVMB1_C4=m CONFIG_USB_RIO500=m CONFIG_QUOTA=y CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=m CONFIG_ADFS_FS=m CONFIG_AFFS_FS=m CONFIG_HFS_FS=m CONFIG_FAT_FS=y CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS=m CONFIG_FBCON_VGA=m CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y CONFIG_SOUND=m CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI=m CONFIG_AEDSP16=m
As you can see, it’s rather simplistic. The line begins with the configuration option and whether it’s configured as part of the kernel, as a module or not at all. Lines beginning with a # symbol are comments and are not interpreted during processing.
- Used to boot to the 0S/2 operating system.
- Contains the location of the kernel.
- /boot/vmlinuz, /boot/vmlinuz-kernel-version
- Normally the kernel or symbolic link to the kernel.
- This subdirectory contains the GRUB configuration files including boot-up images and sounds. GRUB is the GNU GRand Unified Bootloader, a project which intends to solve all bootup problems once and for all. One of the most interesting features, is that you don’t have to install a new partition or kernel, you can change all parameters at boot time via the GRUB Console, since it knows about the filesystems.
- Maps devices in /dev to those used by grub. For example, (/dev/fd0) is represented by /dev/fd0 and (hd0, 4) is referenced by /dev/hda5.
- /boot/grub/grub.conf, /boot/grub/menu.lst
- Grub configuration file.
- Grub boot-up welcome message.
- Grub boot-up background image.


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Description: Rous Memorial Hospital (Centre Block)
Date Listed: 10 March 1970
English Heritage Building ID: 275720
OS Grid Reference: TL6476063435
OS Grid Coordinates: 564760, 263435
Latitude/Longitude: 52.2444, 0.4118
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TL 6463 NEWMARKET VICARAGE ROAD
7/160 Rous Memorial
(Formerly listed as
Main Block of
Dwellings. Formerly almshouses,1878; the central block of a
group of 3 detached ranges forming an open court. In the Queen
Anne Revival style; 2 storeys and attics, 5 windows. Red brick,
the central 3 bays set slightly forward; 4 flat pilasters beneath
a dentil cornice and pediment within which are 3 trinagular
panels of elaborately carved terracotta. Plaintiled roof with
flat lead roofed casement dormers; gable chimneys. A central
clock turret with clocks on 4 square wooden framed faces, and
lead cupola with weathervane. Small-pane sash windows with
segmental pediments of carved brick at 1st floor level and flat
arches at ground floor, all windows having carved brick aprons.
A flat roofed 1-storey bay flanking the entrance. Gabled porch
of red brick with elliptical arch and pediment with a cartouche
and foliage of carved brick. The mid C20 extensions at either
end are not of special interest.
Listing NGR: TL6476063435
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.

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"Sometimes, all it takes is one person to believe in a child to change the course of their life"
- Mary MacCracken
About this Quote
This quote by Mary MacCracken speaks to the power of belief and assistance. It suggests that a bachelor's belief in a child can have an extensive impact on their life. This belief can be expressed in lots of methods, such as offering emotional assistance, using assistance, and offering resources. It can likewise be revealed through encouragement and favorable support. This belief can assist a child to establish self-confidence, durability, and a sense of function. It can also assist them to get rid of barriers and reach their goals. Eventually, this quote stresses the value of thinking in a kid and the possible it needs to change their life for the much better.
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures"

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Organizers hoping to draw 20,000 people to South Haven for this week's Waterfront Film Festival
A cast of thousands
Photos by Joe Rondone / HP staff Moore Theatre employee Jim Porter paints the marquee at the Michigan Theatre on Tuesday in South Haven, in preparation for the Waterfront Film Festival.
Waterfront Film Festival intern Devin Stevens works on laminating festival passes Tuesday at the festivalÕs downtown South Haven office.
Moore Theatre employee Jim Porter paints the marquee Tuesday at the Michigan Theatre in South, in preparation for the Waterfront Film Festival.
Posted: Sunday, June 9, 2013 6:00 am
SOUTH HAVEN - Establishing crane shot: A bustling summer resort town along Lake Michigan is seen from above, and the camera slowly moves down to take in the action.
Voice-over narration begins: South Haven, Michigan, is the site of the 15th Waterfront Film Festival taking place next week, with as many as 20,000 people expected to attend.
Or, use your
Sunday, June 9, 2013 6:00 am.


I'm having a mild case of Neural Vapor Lock.
Got a system with a DVI-I dual link card, and need to display on 2 VGA monitors in extended mode.
DVI to VGA adapter to 1 monitor works good.
My question -- do I need a DVI Y-cable with VGA adapters to the monitors, or can I just get a VGA Y-cable and use the single DVI/VGA I already have plugged into the card?
Or will either way work?
Rez will probably be not over 1024 x 768.
I don't need links, just which will work.


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City of Yakima’s Alternate Halloween Activity Schedule Announced
Too old to trick-or-treat? Looking for something different for your youngsters? The City of Yakima’s Parks and Recreation Department has a number of different activities planned around Halloween this year.
Friday (Oct. 27) 6-10 p.m. -- Halloween Dance and costume contest at Harman Center. Open to all ages with prizes donated from local businesses. DJ'd music and refreshments will be provided. Cost: $3/person and $4/couple
Sunday (Oct. 29) 5:30 p.m. -- Halloween Egg Hunt (kids 10 and under) at Franklin Park. (Must be PRE-REGISTERED to participate! Deadline is Thursday, October 26th). Each kid gets a free bag for their treats and eggs. Cost: $5 for city residents, $8 for those outside city limits
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Users with this climb on their wishlist are:
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Extremely annoyed not to get the onsight but just awesome moves and keeps coming!
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Nice consolation after falling off La Zone.
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The adventures of a Ragnar Lothbrok: the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the saga of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods: legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.
Who will rise? (Season 5)
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Did You Know?
The women in the opening credits are supposed to be the 9 daughters of Rán, the personifications of the waves. The title sequence is supposed to show the separation of a viking from the living, with the ornaments of his life (gold and weapons) floating down around him. During the shot of the rolling thunder there is a single frame showing Hel Lokisdottir: the goddess of death. See more
The story says thunder comes from Thor smashing his hammer to the anvil; is invented for the show. in Norse mythology, lightning and the sound of thunder comes from Thor driving his chariot over the sky pulled by two goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, and throwing his hammer about. See more
What are you so afraid of? It's only death!
Referenced in Portlandia: Breaking Up
If I Had A Heart
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Our temperature-rise metal doors are designed to delay and limit heat transfer generated from a fire. The cores demonstrate superior performance in protecting the areas that are not yet exposed to the fire by slowing the transmission of heat. These heat-retardant capabilities allow for safe evacuation during a fire. In accordance to temperature rise standards, the unexposed door surface will reach a maximum temperature of 250°F during the initial 30 minutes of a fire and 450°F after 60 minutes. Our standard fire rated metal doors are 1 ¾” thick and are available in 16, 18, and 20 gauge galvannealed steel.
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|Heraldry of the World |
Wappen der Welt
Civic heraldry of Germany
The arms show a canting beaver (Biber), which already appeard on the local seals from the 16th century. The arms showed the beaver in black on a golden field until 1957 when the above arms were granted (see below for the old arms). The new colours are those of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen. The village belonged to the counts since 1267 and they granted the city rights in 1312.
Literature : Stadler, 1964-1971, 8 volumes; Hessisches Wappenbuch, 1956.


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The full range of medical imaging technologies, from macroscopic to microscopic, including molecular imaging, has become a core component of a large number of diagnostic procedures and therapeutic interventions in current clinical practice, as well as medical and biological research.
The vast majority of these procedures use digital image processing for the mathematical calculation of task-optimised images or visualisations from imaging device raw data. These images help physicians make a diagnosis or guide them when performing an intervention.
Understanding the function of the central nervous system is the key to the diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases, such as the various types of dementia, epilepsy, palsies and attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorders.
Special variants of these techniques have been developed, such as:
- Blood Oxygen Level-Dependent (BOLD) fMRI, for the non-invasive display of cerebral correlatives of cognitive function – for studying schizophrenia, for example
- Manganese-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MEMRI) for the early detection of brain ischemia
- Electroencephalography-correlated functional fMRI (EEG-fMRI) for localising epileptiform discharges in the brain
Even if the clinical value of these new imaging methods still needs further research, these methods provide fascinating tools for neuroscience and for the more accurate and early diagnosis of neurological diseases. A broad palette of digital image processing methods is required, including the geometric matching of images from different imaging modalities, mathematical correction of imaging artefacts, and 3D reconstructions and visualisation.
Imaging and image processing have gained increasing attention as ways of improving the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. For example, imaging technologies are helping improve the prevention of atherosclerosis, a systemic and, in many cases, severe illness, which is the cause of death for many Europeans.
Traditional risk factors such as lipid disorders and arterial hypertension do not reflect the pathophysiologic progression in an individual patient.
Medical imaging modalities and image processing methods displaying the morphology and function of the heart and blood vessels allow an assessment of preclinical data, which represent validated surrogate parameters of the atherosclerotic process and predictive information that goes beyond traditional risk factors.
At the same time, the concept of primary and secondary preventive strategies becomes feasible.
As far as interventions are concerned, a shift towards minimally invasive procedures has taken place as a result of recent advances in medical imaging and surgery techniques, which might ultimately result in completely endoscopic heart surgery.
A great variety of imaging technologies and image processing algorithms and systems have been developed to improve the diagnosis of tumours and the assessment of treatment outcomes in cancer patients. These include:
- Multimodal imaging of brain tumours with PET-CT
- Staging of gastrointestinal tumours using 3D endoscopic ultrasound
- Computer-aided diagnosis for lung and breast cancer
- High-quality liver tumour diagnostics using MRI and CT
- Skin surface microscopy for melanoma diagnosis
- In vivo autofluorescence spectroscopy for oral cancer
- Image-processing enhanced single-photon emission CT
- PET and PET-CT for the evaluation of colorectal carcinoma
- Virtual coloscopy generated by image processing from CT or MRI data for the early detection of colorectal cancer
The combination of functional and morphological imaging – PET and MRI for brain tumours, for example – which became possible with advances in image processing and the development of sophisticated co-registration methods show unexpected potential for improvements in diagnostics.
During the past decade, so-called Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) has become a major research area in medical imaging, diagnostic radiology and some other medical specialties, such as dermatology. The core goal of CAD is to provide a computer output as a second opinion to support the physician in image interpretation by improving the accuracy and consistency of radiological diagnosis and also by reducing the image reading time.
Possible applications for CAD in radiology include detecting and classifying lung nodules on digital chest radiographs, detecting nodules in low-dose CT, distinguishing between benign and malignant nodules in high-resolution CT, distinguishing between benign and malignant lesions, quantitative analysis of diffuse lung diseases on high-resolution CT, and detecting intracranial aneurysms in magnetic resonance angiography.
Because CAD can be applied to all imaging modalities, all locations and all kinds of examinations, it is likely that this exciting facet of digital image processing will have a major impact on medical imaging and diagnostics in the next few decades.
IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY
The technological revolution in imaging in recent decades has transformed the way image-guided radiation therapy is performed. Morphological imaging – radiography, CT and MRI – has greatly improved accuracy in defining target structures such as malignant neoplasms.
Together with the 3D image registration methods developed by image processing research – which allow the geometrical matching of datasets from different modalities (the matching of a CT with an MRI of the same patient, for example) – it has laid the foundation for modern 3D-based radiation treatment.
Currently, due to advances in molecular biology, for example, the treatment-planning paradigm in radiation therapy for tumours is beginning to shift towards a more biological and molecular approach, and the functional imaging of physiological processes in tumours has become more practical.
For example, the co-registration of planning CT and glucose PET is of special interest in the radiation treatment of non-small cell lung cancer. Patients can greatly benefit from a lower radiation dose in healthy tissue.
The use of intraoperative navigation in surgical procedures, based on preoperatively acquired radiological or nuclear medicine images, has been established for a growing number of interventions – for example in neurological, oral and craniomaxillofacial, otolaryngological and breast surgery.
A navigation system tracks the position and orientation of the surgical instruments, and, based on this data, the image-guidance system calculates and displays the instrument’s position in the preoperatively acquired image data, either on a screen or directly on a head-mounted display worn by the surgeon. Massive exploitation of digital image processing methodologies lies behind these new technologies, which have moved surgery towards a new minimalist paradigm.
Meanwhile, patients have benefited from:
- More accurate, minimally invasive surgical interventions, such as microneurosurgery, neuroendoscopy and stereotactic neurosurgery, which cause minimal damage to a patient’s healthy tissue
- Accurate realisation of complex craniofacial interventions, such as the correction of jawbone malformations or deficiencies
- Percutaneous image-guided biopsy techniques
- Image-guided therapies, such as radiofrequency ablation or cryoablation therapy for the treatment of breast disease
- Dental implantology procedures
- Arthroscopy of the temporomandibular joint, osteotomies and other interventions
Recently published results indicate that the medical benefits of the latest imaging technology are likely to outweigh the costs of the technology, with few exceptions.
CELL AND MOLECULAR-GENETIC IMAGING
Many imaging techniques have been developed or are currently under development in the field of cell biology and molecular genetic research for:
- The quantitative imaging of protein interactions in cell nuclei by means of fluorescence resonance energy transfer and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy
- The investigation of bacterial surfaces using atomic force microscopy, displaying real-time cellular dynamical processes
- In vivo molecular-genetic imaging using a multi-modality nuclear and optical imaging combination – the development of automated analysis tools for images of this type is a major challenge
The recent developments in medical imaging and image processing presented in this article are just a few of the innovations that have been made. Some of these technologies have proved themselves and have improved patient care. The majority of new technologies, however, need further evaluation in large and controlled clinical trials to establish their medical and economic benefits.
To further push innovation, medical image processing research and development will have to meet the challenge of inventing more sophisticated and universal algorithms for the robust automatic recognition of image content, based on computer-represented domain knowledge and better validation procedures.
Major trends towards better screening, the earlier detection of health threats, individualised planning, less invasive therapeutic procedures will gain momentum from the widespread adoption of the latest image-processing methods.


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I’m going to be giving a reading this Thursday in the BSFA Vector’s Solidarity Salon! I’m on at 8:45, following Chinelo Onwualu at 8:15. The Facebook event page is here, and I’ll provide a link to the video after the event.
I’ll be reading “The Little Car Dreams of Gasoline,” which is my first published self-driving car story, and is a stand-alone prequel to my novel Driving Ambition.
With my guidebook to “The Robots of Death” recently out, and everyone playing the Penguin Classics Cover Generator game, I couldn’t resist this mashup:
My book gets the nod from We Are Cult! Pull quote:
“Though very few points in the series’ history are as highly regarded as The Robots of Death, Fiona Moore’s newly released Black Archive volume about the story – the 43rd in the series – nonetheless offers a fresh and compelling analysis.”
Read it here.
What the title says. Order it here.
It’s not quite out yet, but my monograph on Doctor Who: The Robots of Death for The Black Archive is now available for pre-order (and will be out on 4 May). It features chapters on Expressionist design; the literary roots of the story in Asimov, Herbert, Simak and others; themes of class and power in the SF writing of Chris Boucher; the history of colour-blind casting in British television; and the Voc robots’ afterlives in comics, audio plays and theatre. In short, if you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll love it! Click the link to get your copy.
Just to let you know that we’re now in the last 5 days of the story bundle. It won’t be around forever, so if you want to buy my novel Driving Ambition plus a ton of other great books for the price of a trade paperback, go here while you still can.
My short story “The Stepford App” is in the final issue of Mad Scientist Journal. Fans of Driving Ambition might want to know that, although it’s a stand-alone piece about the perils of looking for love in an age of AI, it’s also a prequel which explains Liz’s allusion to her former job as a chatbot. Buy a print or e-book at the link.


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The Surprising Benefits of Probiotics: What You Need to Know
Probiotics are live microorganisms that benefit the health of the digestive system. They come in the form of supplements or foods that naturally contain them, such as yogurt and kefir. While probiotics are often associated with digestive health, their benefits extend far beyond that. In this article, we will explore the surprising benefits of probiotics and what you need to know about incorporating them into your diet.
1. Improved Digestive Health
The most well-known benefit of probiotics is improved digestive health. They help to maintain the balance of beneficial bacteria in the gut, which aids in digestion and prevents digestive disorders such as diarrhea, constipation, and inflammatory bowel disease. Probiotics can also boost the body’s immune system, which can further promote digestive health.
2. Reduced Risk of Allergies
Probiotics have been shown to help reduce the risk of developing allergies, particularly in children. They do this by regulating the immune system and reducing inflammation, which is a key factor in the development of allergies. Probiotics may also reduce the severity of existing allergies, such as hay fever and eczema.
3. Mental Health Benefits
Probiotics have been found to have mental health benefits, particularly in reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression. The gut and the brain are closely connected, and research suggests that the gut microbiome (the collection of microorganisms in the gut) can have a significant impact on mental health. By improving the balance of beneficial bacteria in the gut, probiotics may be able to improve mental health as well.
4. Improved Heart Health
Probiotics may also have benefits for heart health. Research has shown that certain strains of probiotics can help to reduce LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels and blood pressure, both of which are risk factors for heart disease. Probiotics may also reduce inflammation in the body, which can contribute to heart disease.
5. Improved Skin Health
The health of the gut microbiome has also been linked to the health of the skin. Probiotics may help to improve the skin’s barrier function, which can reduce the risk of skin conditions such as acne and eczema. They may also reduce inflammation in the skin, which can contribute to aging and other skin concerns.
How to Incorporate Probiotics into Your Diet
Probiotic-rich foods include yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, kimchi, and kombucha. You can also find probiotic supplements at health food stores and pharmacies. When choosing a probiotic supplement, look for one that contains a variety of strains and a high number of colony-forming units (CFUs). You should also look for a brand that has been tested and certified by a third-party organization, such as the International Probiotics Association.
It’s important to note that probiotics are not a cure-all and should not be relied upon as the sole treatment for any health condition. However, incorporating probiotics into your diet can have a number of benefits for overall health and wellbeing.

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Omega Paw Cat Scratch Box
Cats love digging their claws into this catnip treated cardboard scratcher. They can use this on its own, or use as a refill for the Scratch Box Everest (sold separately).
- Cat scratch box
- Cardboard treated with catnip oil
- Made with renewable sources
- 100% Recyclable
- Scratch box is reversible for extended use.

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The Indian Ocean was the final battleground for Nelson's navy and France. At stake was Britain's commercial lifeline to India - and its strategic capacity to wage war in Europe.In one fatal season, the natural order of maritime power since Trafalgar was destroyed. In bringing home Bengali saltpeter for the peninsular campaign with military and civilian passengers, Britain lost 14 of her great "Indiamen", either sunk or taken by enemy frigates. Many hundreds of lives were lost, and the East India Company was shaken to its foundations. The focus of these disasters, military and meteorological, was a tiny French outpost in mid-ocean: the island known as Mauritius.This is the story of that season. It brings together the terrifying ordeal of men, women, and children caught at sea in hurricanes and those who survived to take up the battle to drive the French from the Eastern seas. Mauritius must be taken at any cost!More
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Wood working might be a intriguing interest. The gorgeous stuff you can create is unlimited. No matter if you favor to make attractive goods or object that are efficient, woodworking gives something for everybody. Should you be looking to gain access to carpentry then follow this advice to obtain started on earth of carpentry.
You can use adhesive tape to trap unwanted fasten. If you would like stop oozing adhesive unsightly stains together important joints, attempt clamping sections jointly without having to use any glue. You merely put tape on your joints, and after that reduces together it using a razor-sharp blade. Independent your pieces, then use fasten. Afterward, clamp them to each other once again. Your stick will ooze out the tape instead of the wood. You can remove the tape prior to your fasten dries out.
Stair gates are very important units for you to use. Clamp these gauges for the carpenter’s square you might have and make certain they’re complementing as much as the stairway jacks manage and increase. Afterward the notches could be labeled. In the event you put them about the same tongue of your respective carpenter’s square, the mix you could make will certainly be a fantastic round saw crosscut guide.
Make the most of several instruments rather than looking to do your focus on only one. A jig, a table saw, a bandsaw and a lathe all have their own individual uses. It is important that you know what all these instruments do and you make use of them properly while getting the work accomplished.
Be secure when you start off in woodwork. Put on the proper protective apparel, including goggles. You might truly feel goofy, but you are working with razor-sharp tools and splintering hardwood. These are generally stuff that can induce important accidents to even the most expert woodworker. So be secure, and make certain all that is around you are safe as well.
There are many instruments employed for woodwork, but you may not want the expense associated with acquiring them. Evaluate your project and find out if there can be even more sensible means to fix this price. You might find that the less expensive device can present you with exactly the same end result as a few of the pricey versions.
Recycle hardwood when you are able. Also you can seek out very good wooden to reuse from businesses that may have lots of scraps, like development or flooring businesses. You not just protecting lots of shrubs when using re-cycled timber inside your assignments. You happen to be also preserving some cash.
Be sure you will find no spots of adhesive on the timber before continuing to finish your project. The places will show up as less heavy areas after the accomplish has become employed. You should use nutrient mood of naptha to fully take away all remnants of adhesive through the wooden. You may even have the capacity to remove the stick by sanding the wood.
Choose the right gloves for each carpentry job. If you require okay motor unit skills, you should utilize a lot more present day, hi-tech hand protection of any thin, great, solid, adaptable materials. When performing much more coarse carpentry jobs in frosty, humid conditions, use pigskin gloves that insulate properly and deflect moisture out of your epidermis.
As you can see, woodworking gives one thing for everyone who is interested in obtaining into the industry of creating hand made things. The chances are countless. You may make stuff as simple as a compact birdhouse or perhaps a complex dollhouse. All it takes is some wooden, some equipment and creativity.


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Blood Ties Bundle (Mills & Boon eBook Bundles)
When ER doctor Carrie Ames is attacked in the morgue one night by a reanimated corpse, it's the beginning of a whole new ",life", for her. As she discovers what she has become, she enters the world of mythic creatures of the night and is plunged into a monumental struggle between those who would restrain the powers of vampires and those who aspire to dominate mankind. Enter the spine-tingling realm of Jennifer Armintrout's Blood Ties and be swept up in heartstopping thrills and dark passions. Bundle includes Blood Ties Book One: The Turning, Blood Ties Book Two: Possession, Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes and Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night.
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Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo.Kansas receiver Christian Matthews (12) gathers the team in the huddle following the Kansas Spring Game on Saturday, April 30, 2011 at Kivisto Field.
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During Kansas University senior Christian Matthews’ first three seasons in Lawrence, the 6-foot-1, 192-pound wide receiver enjoyed back-to-back big spring games and believed each time that the strong showing in the annual scrimmage was a sign of things to come. It wasn’t. By Matt Tait


The project, started by an 18-year-old Web developer, was aimed to raise awareness about carelessly sharing information on Facebook. The site is broken down into four columns: Who wants to get fired? Who’s hung over? Who’s taking drugs? Who’s got a new phone number?
CNN spoke with the site’s creator, Callum Haywood, who lives in England:
I was very shocked at exactly what people reveal in their public Facebook posts, which is one of the reasons I started the site. If there were no relevant data to prove the point, then the website probably wouldn’t exist … I created the website to make people aware of the issues that it creates when they post such information on Facebook without any privacy settings enabled. The people featured on the site are most likely not aware that what they post as “public” can be seen by absolutely anybody, and that Facebook will happily give away this information to other websites via its graph API.
The site also examines Foursquare and Facebook check-ins, showing how when you share on Facebook that you’re at a ballgame or a bar or on vacation, it’s not just your close circle of friends that reads it — but the public at large (unless you’ve adjusted your security settings).
We know what you’re doing… follows in the footsteps of sites such as Confused.com and Please Rob Me, which posts public check-ins. So far, nearly 8,000 people have liked it on Facebook, and more than 2,900 have tweeted it.
Readers: What steps do you take to protect your identity when you’re on Facebook?
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The Quilting Arts Idea Book: Inspiration & Techniques for Art Quilting
If you think this is going to be a traditional quilting book with calico fabrics in patchwork patterns, you are in for a wonderful surprise. This is a book chock full of art projects that use some quilting techniques. It is divided into six sections. Make it Colorful! covers dyeing, painting, printing, and more. Mix it Up! discusses mixed media quilting techniques. Take a Break! is a tutorial on hand stitching. Take a Field Trip! takes readers from a sketchbook to art quilting projects. Make New Friends! has group projects. Make it Now! has creative projects to share and trade. Each section contains four to six projects. Each project has an overview and photograph followed by a materials list and step-by-step instructions with tips, safety notes, instructional photographs, and more. These are challenging projects, but the results are perfectly charming and will be most satisfying to complete. Some use really unexpected and unusual materials such as used tea bags or metal foil. Anyone interested in fabric art or in adding artistic touches to quilting projects will fall in love with this enchanting book.
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The Libyan Interior Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday that it had arrested the individuals involved in abusing Egyptian workers - as shown in many videos posted on social media - and they were placed under interrogation before being sent to the Public Prosecutor's Office for further legal action.
The Interior Ministry said judicial apparatus personnel apprehended the individuals Tuesday after recognizing the area where the abuse acts were taped.
The Ministry said it had identified the Egyptian workers, saying they are all now in good condition and going about their days freely and adding that they would be asked to deliver statements to the police about the abuses they had suffered to ensure justice is served against the abusers.
"Libyan and Egyptian people have historic ties and individual acts cannot wipe history away. Politics tensions between countries cannot be translated to abuse and violations against the peoples of those countries." The statement reads.
After a video was posted on social media of a group of Egyptian workers being abused, the Interior Ministry said last Sunday it had started investigating the incident to detain the perpetrators.


SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Apple Inc. AAPL, +1.36% on Wednesday reported a fiscal first-quarter profit of $1.61 billion, or $1.78 a share, on revenue of $10.17 billion. During the same period a year ago, Apple earned $1.58 billion, or $1.76 a share, on revenue of $9.6 billion. The results beat the estimates of analysts surveyed by FactSet Research, who forecast Apple to earn $1.29 a share on $10.16 billion in revenue for what is typically the company's busiest business period of the year. The company didn't give any more comments about the health of Chief Executive Steve Jobs, who is taking a medical leave from Apple until late June.
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Hidden amidst the rugged desert canyons and mountains, Petra was once a lively trading center and the capital of the Nabatean Empire between 400 B.C. and A.D. 106. Many traders would often pass by the area, carrying with them textiles, spices, and incense from various regions. The city flourished as its people, the Nabataeans, procured precious water which helped increase the locality’s population. Even so, Petra was lost to the Western world for some time before its discovery back in 1812. Archaeologists are still trying to discover clues to this mysterious city’s past and who decided to carve it.
Overwatch has steadily been increasing their arena maps with three new locations taken from the other areas of Dorado, Eichenwalde, and the Temple of Anubis. Petra would make a great addition to this type of Overwatch map for its narrow pathways and large treasury room. You could easily have a large 3v3 confrontation in the treasury or slink back and hunt foes during 1v1 sessions.


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january 2: we are eager
It’s complete madness and hubris to bring a new life into the world. What authority do we have to create? To call a life into existence? Living is much too fraught with heartache and hopelessness to bring forth life flippantly. Making a person seems not so much like taking a risk as giving a risk to another.
And yet! He will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground (Isaiah 30:23). From beginning to end, it’s not in our hands. The Lord is the Creator. We create, too, but only because he does. If he withheld his creative power, no new life would come into being and all existing life would shrivel up instantly.
Oh, Jesus knows how fraught with heartache and hopelessness this life can be. He also knows how full of beauty and delight it is! Meteor showers! Slimy black slugs! Plant propogation! What wonder! Backrubs and family breakfasts! What intimacy! Without existence, we’d never know any of that.
And that’s why, though I think we’re mad, I’m also eager for the life Dan and I have been given to bring into the world. We get the privilege of introducing this person to life: to Breathe Owl Breathe and ripe peaches and Lisbeth Zwerger. We get to show this person the soft, spreading moss that clings to the north side of tree trunks. We get to share molten chocolate lava cake. We get to read The Little House and From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and sing lullabies that always bring sleep.
Dan and I will also get to discover so much anew. The curiosity of this person, his or her creativity and character, will introduce us to things we’ve maybe never known or noticed. New songs, new books, new constellations, new creatures, new kinds of love.
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Binance suspended LUNA/BUSD and UST/BUSD on its spot trading platform following the halting of the Terra blockchain.
Global cryptocurrency exchange Binance has suspended trading pairs with Terra ecosystem’s cryptocurrencies, LUNA and TerraUSD (UST), on its platform following the major crash of the algorithmic stablecoin.
Binance confirmed the move on May 13, with spot trading for LUNA/BUSD and UST/BUSD trading pairs being suspended. It’s not clear when the withdrawals for LUNA and UST will continue, as the crypto exchange simply stated that it will wait for the issues with the Terra network to be solved.
It is the latest move by the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume following one of the most significant black swan events to hit the space since the inception of Bitcoin (BTC) in 2009.
Binance Futures delisted coin-margined LUNA perpetual contracts on Thursday despite plans to salvage the floundering LUNA and UST. Terra blockchain validators were forced to take the network offline on May 12 in an effort to stem potential governance attacks following the crash of the network’s LUNA token.
Related: Untethered: Here’s everything you need to know about TerraUSD, Tether and other stablecoins
Terra’s LUNA and its algorithmic stablecoin Terra USD suffered a dramatic crash on May 10, as UST lost its $1 peg. The system was designed to automatically maintain its peg to the U.S. dollar – with the failure leading to a systematic devaluing of UST while LUNA tokens began to be minted at an unprecedented rate.
The crash was cataclysmic, as the value of LUNA sunk 95% in the space within the matter of days. Terra founder Do Kwon released a short-term roadmap to try and revive the ecosystem. The proposal entailed burning $1.4 billion UST while staking 240 million LUNA tokens in an effort to stem the devaluation of the UST $1 peg.
This article is developing and will be updated as new info is available.

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Webinar: 5 Easy Ways to QA Your Site
Quality Assurance is usually a scary term but it doesn't have to be. In this previously recorded webinar, I'll walk you through five easy steps you can do (and tools you can use) to turn out a better product (web site).
This talk does tie in with Drupal but you don't have to be a Drupal expert. This session should be useful for content admins, themers, developers and just about anybody who has to work on a web site.


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This week, War Rocket Ajax is proud to welcome one of the funniest creators in comics, Michael Kupperman to the show to talk about his new graphic novel, Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1910 - 2010! And you can listen to the whole show right here at ComicsAlliance!War Rocket Ajax v.2, #10: Lurking In An Alley with Michael Kupperman
Awesome: Tales Designed to Thrizzle creator Michael Kupperman's next project, Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1910-2010, will be out from Fantagraphics soon.
Manga: Japanese fans who attend Fullmetal Alchemist: Milos no Sei-Naru Hoshi on July 2 will get an exclusive copy of Fullmetal Alchemist vol. 11.5 by Hiromu Arakawa. Nice!
Just a week ago Charlie Sheen was but a beloved imp whose amusingly anarchic adventures were documented only in the pages and websites of the most culturally inconsequential tabloid news sources. But within the
The bizarro world humor of "Tales Designed to Thrizzle" and "Snake 'n Bacon" creator Michael Kupperman has made its way into "The New Yorker" plenty of times before via his editorial cartoons, but as will not surprise you at all if you are a fan of Kupperman, some of his work proved to be -- well, maybe a little too Kuppermany for "a certain monocled, top-hatted magazine," as he put it.
He recently posted a whole slew of those rejected "New Yorker" strips via his Twitpic account, including thwa
-- This "Cheap Thrills" print from artist Drew Friedman rocks: Janis Joplin meets Robert Crumb at a fictitious gathering backstage at the Filmore.
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Pablo Larraín’s latest film borrows from film and folklore history to reimagine Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet as a blood-sucking vampire.
Ed Lachman ASC was enlisted to help Chilean director Pablo Larraín exact his revenge on Pinochet, using El Conde to metaphorise the eternal damage Pinochet inflicted on multiple generations of Chilean people by presenting the deceased dictator as a near-immortal monster.
A detailed and unique process was undergone by the twice Oscar-nominated cinematographer to visually reference the great vampire films of cinema’s history, whilst also presenting the real harrowing nuances of Pinochet’s personality in an abstracted, monochromatic manner.
What initially drew Lachman to the project was the darkly comedic script and how it reimagined the horrors of Pinochet’s reign. “The use of the vampire genre that we used was a way of telling the story of the crimes against the Chilean people. Pinochet was never really tried for his crimes. Pablo used him as a vampire to show that he lives on, he never paid the consequences to the people who suffered or were exploited by him.”
A natural artistic choice was to shoot in black-and-white as an ode to the early days of on-screen vampires, notably Carl Dreyer’s Vampyr. ARRI made a LF monochromatic camera specifically for the project, arriving ten days prior to the first days of shooting in Chile. “They were coming out with the ALEXA 35 so I never thought they would be able to do it,” Lachman muses, “we only tested it for one day and then I had to convince Pablo to use it, and he was excited, but then we had to talk to the production about bringing in a monochromatic camera from Germany, when we had already rented an LF from Congo films in Colombia, but they agreed to it because of our enthusiasm and Pablo’s desire.”
Coupled with this, Lachman used rehoused Baltar lenses from 1938 to enforce the cinematic look: “I merged glass of a later period with the Baltar glass and made a set called the Ultra Baltars.” These Ultra Baltars, a term coined by Lachman, were also used by his long-time friend Darius Khondji ASC AFC on Armageddon Time and were designed by Zero Optics.
Completing the camera package of what Lachman describes as the “best marriage of any film I could have”, was the DP’s very own EL Zone System. This was key in achieving the visual language of the film, which was inspired by the aforementioned Vamypr, as well as F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise and the work of Josef von Sternberg. Lachman is particularly fond of these films due to “the physicality of the light and the textures in the sets that support the themes of the story.”
Black-and-white was essential to El Conde as it presents Larraín’s reimagined world of Pinochet as an abstraction of reality. “We as a viewer, unless you’re colourblind, don’t see in black-and-white. So, it creates a distance to what we’re looking at.” Lachman referenced many photographers who primarily shoot in black-and-white to reinforce the story the pair were telling. These included another Chilean Sergio Larraín (no relation to Pablo) and his 1959 stills of London, as well as Fan Ho, Alexia Titarenko, Maury Sullivan, and Robert Frank.
Having not shot monochromatically for a while, Lachman was gleefully reminded of its simplicity: “I kind of forgot about the joy of shooting in black-and-white. When you shoot in colour, you’re dealing with colour temperature, and you always have to adjust due to the intensity of the light. With black-and-white, even if it was late and I was losing light, yes, I had the polar filter, but it’s only about contrast.”
This allows for an excellent use of shadows within El Conde, a staple feature of many iconic vampire films throughout history. There’s a tangiblilty to Lachman’s lighting choices and a richness to the textures achieved, a physicality accentuated by some practically achieved flying sequences. “We had a crane where the operator sat in a chair suspended by cable and was at the end of a 120ft crane and is actually moving through the air. This gave a certain validity to the feeling of flight.”


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Super Hero Dance Bumblebee Dancing Robot Music & Light
Regular price £9.98
Dancing Hero Bumblebee Robot music, lighting, singing & eyes flashing.
Must have for all Bumblebee fans! and robotic movement lovers. The figure has LED lights and sound feature that does not only for figure collections but could dance for your amusement!
- Product name: Sound and Light Dance Bumblebee
- Material: ABS
- Product size: 19*15*10cm
- Package size: 20.2*13*10cm
- Power source: 3 AA Batteries (not included)
- Features: Dance, Music, Sound
- Hands and feet swingable: Yes
- Luminous part: Eyes, Hands, Chest
- Switch function:
- All lights turn on without dancing
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In this book, artfully put together by Zentangle founders, Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas, we bring light to one specific approach to drawing with the Zentangle Method. By using a system of creating tangles we call, "Reticula and Fragments," we can explore practically infinite possibilities of creating different tangles and tangleations. Take a closer look to see how this seemingly complex system of pattern drawing can be broken down into simple steps and offer a practically infinite bank of tangled possibilities. This book contains over 600 examples of "Reticula and Fragments" drawn by Certified Zentangle Teachers (CZTs) from around the world that were created at a gathering in Rhode Island, USA, in 2016. We trust that these examples will inspire you to explore the countless creative combinations Zentangle's "Reticula and Fragments" approach has to offer. All profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Zentangle Foundation. The Zentangle Foundation helps make the Zentangle Method accessible to more people across the globe by offering scholarships for Zentangle teacher training, supporting studies of the benefits of the Zentangle Method, and to supporting Zentangle outreach to underserved communities worldwide.
When you shop here you help support my Youtube channel, I want to keep giving quality lessons every week. your support helps with the cost of filming, and will also ensure that the lessons stay free.
We also carry the best tangle supplies you can find, pens, paper, and downloadable templates. All at a price you can afford.
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I am an Artist, Librarian, founder of Inkidoodles,
I love teaching, drawing, and Zentangle®. In October of 2010 I attended Zentangle® Certification in Whitinsville MA at the home of Zentangle.com, the highlight of my art and teaching career. I am a CZT#4, I teach classes every week on Tuesdays at 1:00pm at the Uintah County Library. I am available for lectures/workshops on this art form and how it can change your life. even if you say I have no “Artistic Talent” you can do Zentangle. Take a class and see what I mean.
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The Acura RLX concept impressed us at the New York Auto Show. With L.A. on the horizon, the brand has prepared to unveil the production version of its new flagship sedan. It will get a 3.5-liter V-6 and all-wheel steer system, significant upgrades from the current RL model. It won't, however, feature any drastic upgrade in styling...which may be the biggest fault out the starting blocks.
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Southam Agricutural Service stock a full range of new farm machinery. The main brands we deal in are Kuhn, Hardi,Teagle and Twose. Below is a gallery of a small part of the machiney we supply. Any enquires can be made by calling us on 01926 813426 and asking for sales.
TWY 340 post driver.
- Swing round post driver to operate 180 degrees to either side or behind the tractor.
- 200 Kg tapered weight.
- 3 meter mast.
- Telescopic boom to move mast in or out.
- Adjusted post retaining calliper.
All Oxdale log splitters are designed, tested and built in Britain.
- Cuts wood with easy use.
- Splits logs up to 18 inches tall no limit to width of the log.
- Suitable to be mounted on any tractor, runs off the tractors hydraulics.
Price From: £540
Kuhn fertiliser spreaders adapt to all kinds of work. Spreading fertiliser across open fields, along field edges and marginal zones, late fertilisation and application to special crops.
- Precise material flow.
- GPS control ready.
- Accurate spreading with all types of fertilizers.
- Two coupling heights make it easy to attach to different tractors.
Same functions as the TM400 but the big base log splitter triples the size of the working base.
The saw bench comes equipped with a PTO shaft and 700mm tipped blade.
- Capable of cutting through logs up to 12 inches in diameter.
- Large diameter balanced saw blade for smooth running and efficient cutting.
- Swinging cradle.
- Safety emergency stop lever.

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Marchant & Son: EXHIBITION OF CHINESE CERAMICS TANG TO QING. London, 2014. 127 pp. Colour plates throughout, a number full page. 2 foldouts. 30x21 cm. Cloth.
Dealer's catalogue showing a fine selection of 58 Chinese ceramics dating from the Tang to the Qing dynasties. The majority of the objects dating from the Qing dynasty. All well-illustrated and described.
Available, as of: 20/05/2019
Was item 458 in printed List 195.
Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com.