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European Bank Targeted in Massive Packet-Based DDoS AttackAkamai Describes Unusual Approach Taken in This Incident
A massive distributed denial-of-service attack generating 809 million packets per second was recently directed against a large European bank, according to the security firm Akamai.
Akamai researchers call the incident a strong indicator that DDoS attacks are still an important attack vector for cybercriminals and should remain a top security concern for companies.
The previous known record for this type of DDoS attack is 500 million packets per second in a January 2019 incident, according to Imperva.
In the European bank incident, which was launched against an Akamai customer that the company didn’t identify, analysts were surprised at how fast the attack scaled, jumping from a normal traffic level of 418 GB per second to 809 million packets per second in just two minutes, with the entire attack lasting for less than 10 minutes, according to the report.
Akamai helped the bank mitigate the attack, so there was no disruption to the bank's network or services and no damage to its infrastructure, says Roger Barranco, vice president of Akamai's global security operations.
One unusual aspect of this attack was the botnet army used against the bank's network appeared to be new. Akamai notes that over 96% of the IP addresses utilized against the bank had not been used in other recent attacks.
"We had observed a number of different attack vectors coming from the 3.8% of remaining source IPs, both matching the single attack vector seen in this attack and aligned to others. In this case, most of the source IPs could be identified within large internet service providers via autonomous system lookups, which is indicative of compromised end-user machines," Thomas Emmons, a principal product architect with Akamai, notes in the report.
PPS vs. BPS
In the bank incident, the attackers used a packet per second, or PPS, method instead of the more commonly used bits per second, or BPS, method.
In the BPS approach, the attacker's goal is to overwhelm the inbound internet pipeline, sending more traffic to a circuit than it’s designed to handle, according to the report.
Akamai believes the attackers went with a PPS attack to overwhelm the target's DDoS mitigation systems via a high PPS load.
A PPS attack is designed to overwhelm a network's gear and applications in the customer’s data center or cloud environment, the report notes. A PPS attack exhausts the resources of the gear, rather than the capability of the circuits – as in a BPS attack.
"One way to think about the difference in DDoS attack types is to imagine a grocery store checkout,” Emmons explains. “A high-bandwidth attack, measured in bps, is like a thousand people showing up in line, each one with a full cart ready to check out. However, a PPS-based attack is more like a million people showing up, each to buy a pack of gum. In both cases, the final result is a service or network that cannot handle the traffic thrown at it."
The European bank DDoS attack used packets of just 1 byte, each sent with a massive increase in the number of source IP addresses, the report notes.
"The number of source IPs that registered traffic to the customer destination increased substantially during the attack, indicating that it was highly distributed in nature. We saw upward of 600x the number of source IPs per minute, compared to what we normally observe for this customer destination," according to the Akamai report.
Past DDoS Attacks
The largest DDoS attack ever recorded struck Amazon Web Services in February. The company's infrastructure was hit with a 2.3 TB per second - or 20.6 million requests per second - assault, according Amazon, which posted a report about the incident.
Earlier in June, Akamai reported a DDoS attack of 385 million packets per second launched against an internet service provider that used nine attack vectors and multiple botnet attack tools, according to a company blog.
The massive Mirai DDoS attacks took down large portions of the internet in October 2016 by taking advantage of vulnerabilities in hundreds of thousands of compromised internet of things devices (see: Mirai Botnet Pummels Internet DNS in Unprecedented Attack).


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Heather Stegmaier Maslonek competes in the JP Enterprises PCC Area 5 Championship “Who’s down with PCC Match” in April 2018. (Photo: USPSA via Facebook)
The United States Practical Shooting Association said more and more competitors are jumping into pistol caliber carbines, as the shooting organization has seen a significant upswing in the number of PCC match participants.
PCC, or pistol caliber carbines, were allowed into USPSA competitions in June 2016 earning their own competitive division in which long gun shooters could compete. Currently, the PCC division allows competitors to utilize a pistol caliber cartridge — 9mm, .357 Sig, .40 S&W, 10mm and .45 ACP — with a maximum velocity of 1,600 feet-per-second.
Just a few years, the PCC division is a popular one says Jake Martens, Director of Media and Events for USPSA. Martens told Guns.com that competition shooting, in general, is seeing a spike in interest and that interest bleeds over to the PCC division. Martens said the PCC division is seeing more shooters join the sport and he credits the growth to the way in which USPSA is organized with dynamic, fast-paced shooting environments that really allow shooters to see what they’re made of.
“Competition shooting is growing. A lot of people enter the sport to push themselves. Also, there is now a generation coming up that grew up on video games like Call of Duty and they want to go out there and have that real life fun safely,” Martens said. “USPSA offers exciting courses of fires and a match nearly every day of the week. Shooters can test their skills.”
A new Syntech inspired PCC rifle that coincides with Federal’s launch of Syntech PCC ammunition. (Photo: Jacki Billings/Guns.com)
With a range of accessory options allowed in USPSA shooting, shooters can add just about any accessory they want onto their build and run it alongside other competitors. USPSA rules state PCC guns must be shot with a shoulder stock attached, meaning braces and similar devices are not legal by USPSA standards. Short Barreled Rifles and barrels are allowed with compensators, flash hiders and muzzle brakes also permitted for use during matches. Rounding out the equipment do’s and don’ts, the USPSA allows optical sights, laser and flashlight use. USPSA also does not restrict magazine capacity.
USPSA currently boasts 32,000 members in over 400 affiliated clubs in the U.S. Its numbers make it the largest practical shooting organization in the country and the second largest region within its governing body, the International Practical Shooting Confederation.
For more information on how to join USPSA or find a PCC match near you, head over to the USPSA website.

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Unzipped ............an UNCENSORED documentary exploring this man's creative process and influences/ offers a fairly interesting perspective of fashion and couture as well as entertaining :p antics.....the following articles protain................ The Advocate
Author/s: Brendan Lemon
Issue: Nov 24, 1998
Some of Mizrahi's greatest achievements, however, went little mentioned by postmortem analysts: his designs for the stage. For his amigo-around-town, choreographer Mark Morris, he has created bright, fanciful work. Mizrahi's costumes for Morris's June staging of the Rameau opera Platee were, to use the overworked fashion term, "genius," and Mizrahi will be designing for Morris again on two upcoming projects, including a work commissioned by the San Francisco Ballet.
"I go to rehearsal and I think, `How are they ever going to wear anything?'" Mizrahi says. "The partnering and all is so violent. They're on their knees one second and they're spinning. They do penche arabesque and every seam just rips in my head.".￼ more... An Interview with Isaac Mizrahi
By Jayne Margetts
DIRECTOR Douglas Keeve and the flamboyant and dramatic "Whiz Kid, Wonder Boy and Seventh Avenue's Darling" fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi share much more than a love hate, personal and professional relationship. The Odd Couple of the fashion world who oscillate between frenetic pure admiration and scathing criticism of each other have captured the heart of not only the glossy fashion world but also the cinematic domain with the soon-to-be released intimate and revelationary documentary Unzipped. more...
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This paper presents our investigation in designing a hub and strut kit that interfaces to a 3D graphics application. FlexM is a prototype in progress of a flexible physical interface for manipulating and building 3D geometry. Using the FlexM hub and strut components, designers can build and explore 3D geometry with the ease of a toy and the power of a computer. The hubs transmit the model's topology and geometry to the computer, where the model is rendered on the screen in real time.
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Love Stories & Glove Story
Four short stories of love (and loss) followed by “Glove Story,” an unusual and entertaining work by Oren Shkedy, choreographed by renowned Israeli choreographer Dana Ruttenberg exploring the notion of personal space and its boundaries.
Co-presented by The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Friday, November 7, 2014 | 7:00 pmBrava Theater Center, 2781 24th Street, San Francisco
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Choreographer: Stephanie Salts What if your shoes could tell your story for you?
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Choreographer: William Lü
View Trailer “Still” tells a story about love, longing, and loss. Disjointed dialogues, empty embraces, and opposing desires impede the young man’s waking hours as he struggles to come to terms with their reality.
Director: Andrew Morgan
Choreographer: Kent Boyd
View Trailer A story about You and Me, before and after love.
Director: Harm Weistra
Choreographer: Fernando Dominguez
View Trailer “Intrinsic Moral Evil” seems to be a tale of identity and coming of age. But above all, the dancers play a game with the viewer’s perception: is it a memory, a dream? Is it about losing friendship? The layered story invites the audience to make its own interpretation.
Director: Oren Shkedy
Choreographer: Dana Ruttenberg
View Trailer “Glove Story” explores the notion of personal space and the all-too-often invasion into it. What are the psychological, physical and social repercussions of treating borders as mere suggestions? This question echoes more strongly in the political climate of the Middle East and of our times.

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I have just finished my first PGCE placement. It was at Buntingford in the distant north of Hertfordshire. I had to set off at 7:30 each morning to allow an hour for the commute. Sometimes that was plenty of time, sometimes, congestion around an accident meant it was a narrow squeak.
Both my favourite and my least favourite section of the journey was the single lane road between Baldock and Buntingford. It could be magical with dawn’s rosy fingers filtering between autumn gold trees or it could be lethal with clinging fog. The route felt as if it had been selected by somebody who craved more excitement in their life. It was a complete switchback of ninety degree bends and blind rises.
I had three driver’s prayers – that I didn’t hit any of the local wildlife; that I didn’t end up with the point where I’d failed to negotiate the corner and slewed off the road marked by a dozen bunches of flowers; that it didn’t snow.
How did I do?
No snow, stayed on the road, even at corners, avoided the deer, avoided the farmer’s dog in the mioddle of the road… hit the pheasant, but it was pretty much a case of kami kazi. Only regret – the road was too dangerous to stop and pick it up.

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Recorded for launch by Melbourne author Clare Strahan
Never Look Desperate is Sedaris meets Fleabag, a tragi-comedy romance set in Melbourne 2023. It features: cremation bling, pineapple underwear, grief and vaccinated cruise ships. The central characters Bernard, Goldie and Minh are everything TED Talks tell you not to be.
The story tackles the absurdity of despair in a recovering world, the liberation from isolation and the wild frontier of middle-aged Tinder.

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Are you always helping someone else at your expense? I did this for many years (without realizing it).
Thinking back, I was receiving good advice. “Latifah, pay yourself first.” “Latifah, charity begins at home.” However, it went in one ear and out the other. I was too busy being busy.
When you’re exploring, trying to learn about yourself, life and people, your view of what’s important can be clouded.
However, once you have a few life lessons under your belt, you can reset your priorities. You can even begin to take an eagle eye view of you, your family and all the things that concern you.
While it’s great to offer your talent and expertise. It’s equally admirable to decide who deserves your time and attention.
As you create a lifestyle for yourself, ensure you put yourself on your calendar.
- If you have a family, ensure that your business or your job doesn’t overshadow the time you invest with your family.
- If you volunteer, whether it be church or anywhere else, always put time with yourself and your family first.
You want to set boundaries to create a healthy lifestyle. That way you’re not continously giving, while others are continuously taking.
Respite and reprieve – learn the words!
Maybe you haven’t had a lot of lived experience. You can set yourself on a great path by having intentional quiet time. Turn the phone off; disengage from social media; have your pencil and pad ready to record your thoughts and anything God whispers to you.
That’s how you do it!

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George Shinn had more days like Monday during his tenure as majority owner of the New Orleans Hornets than he did any other kind of days.
He had more times when he literally or figuratively put his money where his mouth was — and Monday, the 69-year-old cancer survivor gave a $500,000 check to the Salvation Army from his foundation — than he had days when the goal or direction of his franchise appeared questionable.
So if you’re looking for a sledgehammer to be taken to his work and bile to be spewed at the mention of his name upon his return visit to New Orleans, keep looking.
As owner of the New Orleans Hornets, Shinn put in work to field a winning team, gave beyond his means to put the Hornets in position to be competitive.
I’m not sure more than that can be asked of a franchise owner.
“It’s been quite a situation,” Shinn said. “I enjoyed it. I’ve always enjoyed the Hornets and being involved. It’s been a great experience.
“I knew when I first got into this franchise — we paid $32.5 million for this franchise — and when we got to the point I made the decision to sell, the NBA bought it back for $300 million. From a financial standpoint, I knew I was going to be all right. But I knew that as you build debt you’re going to take away from money that you could (borrow), and we continued to build our debt to try to build the team.”
Reportedly, he accumulated long-term debt to the tune of $111 million.
Not all of it was player-related, of course. The Hornets never stacked max-money players like Miami and the Lakers, the payroll never threatened to top Dallas’ or Boston’s. But considering Shinn’s wealth — or lack thereof, compared to the members of the fraternity to which he belonged — New Orleans was a fairly-compensated outfit during his watch.
The Hornets have had max players past (Baron Davis) and present (Chris Paul), have paid well for other standout players years ago (Jamal Mashburn) and currently (David West, Emeka Okafor), and have spent unwisely more than a few times.
Given that Shinn never passed himself off as a Jerry Jones — he never pretended to know more about player evaluation than did the people he paid to know such matters, even though sometimes there’s no way he would’ve been more off base than them — he couldn’t be blamed for the groceries bought for the meal. Or even the meal itself.
All he did was pay for the ingredients, year in and year out.
“There were some mistakes made, sure,” he said. “Everybody makes mistakes, and we made mistakes — but I think the best decision we made was to come back to New Orleans.”
From Oklahoma City, that is, after a two-year relocation was forced by Hurricane Katrina, and it’s that episode for which there’s no pass for Shinn.
Yes, he paid players according to scale and often beyond, the latter group including Peja Stojakovic, James Posey and Morris Peterson. And, yes, he remains a colossus in terms of charitable acts and donations. He didn’t have to give away half a million bucks Monday, and the franchise always has made its presence felt.
But the flirtation with OKC wasn’t a small blip.
Rumors that the franchise wanted to relocate, while New Orleans fought to not sink in the aftermath of Katrina and everyone needed to climb aboard and help paddle, were damaging. More than rejection, the prevailing feeling was of abandonment. And whether or not the franchise economically could be viable — a legitimate deliberation for which the jury remains out — wasn’t a soothing excuse.
At that time, all New Orleans wanted was for its two franchises (the Saints were rumored to be angling to make San Antonio home) to try like hell to make it work, same as it expected of its returning citizens.
That far and away trumped the pre-Katrina mistake of hiring Tim Floyd as coach, not because Floyd wasn’t knowledgeable but because as the coach with the worst winning percentage in NBA history, he simply wasn’t the prudent choice for a veteran team that was touted as a title contender. He didn’t have the juice to command the locker room.
But if those were the two major lows under Shinn, they’re overshadowed by the rest.
The main responsibility of an owner is to spend the necessary funds to make his team relevant. Shinn did that.
Sure, it would’ve been wonderful if his personnel people more often had spent his money wisely, but at least he gave them what they needed to be successful.
“It’s been quite a traumatic experience for me,” Shinn said of selling the Hornets to the NBA.
By the way, a $350 million offer was on the table from Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and was rejected by Shinn because he said the goal is to find a buyer who will keep the team in New Orleans.
“I’ve had ups and downs in my career with the Hornets, and I was just so determined not to turn it loose,” he said. “I just got back to my roots and got close to the Lord (after being diagnosed with cancer). It’s time for me to move on and do some positive things for the Lord. I really am committed to do that. The majority of the monies that I get from this transaction will go back into my foundation to do service to serve the Lord. That’s just the way I’m going to do it.
“It’s hard to describe. I tried to explain it like ... I’ve been through a divorce. When you get to a point and things split, it’s kind of hard. It takes a little time before you can get back and even speak to that person you divorced with, let alone come back and sit down and watch her cook or watch her shoot hoops, or whatever.”
Whether Shinn ever watches her, he did right by her when he was in New Orleans. What he spent, relative to his worth, said he was serious about winning.
It’s hard to hammer a guy who was willing to try.

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Black screen but still working?
A friend of mine give me is old iphone 3gs telling me that is dead. The glass is broken bad and nothing on the LCD screen. Back home i just plug it in the computer and surprise Itune recognise the divice and everything was there. If i plug the iphone on the dock station on my radio it says connect but impossible to start the music. With the usb cable on my car radio it says connect and if i make a search i see song name but when i press play nothing happen.
Unplugged the divice and start playing with it (trying to touch the icon by memories) but nothing happen, no sound, no back light excepte when i put the lock button on it vibe like normal (well it is normal ??? never got an iphone before).
Firs of all did i need all the screew in place to make the divice working normally ??? ( no screw holding the lcd screen to the digital glass and no screw on each side of the dock connector he lost those)
and second ..do you thing that if i change the lcd screen and the digital glass and the speeker / home frame it will work again normaly ??? or i only wast money and time. (because right now theres no speeker install cuz he take it out and lost it)
Finaly got all the piece and replace them and all works fine ..........well almost.


The report reached the following six major conclusions:
-- HHS's vigorous efforts have laid a foundation for progress in the adoption of electronic health records, including through projects launched by ONC, and through the issuance of the 2011 "meaningful use" rules under HITECH.
-- In analyzing the path forward, PCAST concluded that achievement of the President's goals requires significantly accelerated progress toward the robust exchange of health information. The initial approach to meaningful use has focused on driving physicians to adopt EHR systems rather than on developing capabilities for broader sharing of patient data. Though the rule expresses an intent to require more robust exchange of health information among providers at later stages of meaningful use, its initial requirements that EHR systems communicate with each other are very modest.
-- There's a need to establish a "universal exchange language" that enables health IT data to be shared across institutions and to create the infrastructure that allows physicians and patients to assemble a patient's data across institutional boundaries, which adhere to privacy safeguards. Federal leadership is needed to create this infrastructure.
-- Creating the required capabilities for a "universal exchange language" is technically feasible, as demonstrated by technology frameworks with demonstrated success in other sectors of the economy. PCAST recommends using "tagged data elements," which breaks down information into units of data that are accompanied by a mandatory "metadata tag" that describes the attributes, provenance, and required security protections of the data. Universal exchange languages for metadata-tagged data, called "extensible markup languages" are widely and successfully used.
-- ONC should move rapidly to ensure the development of these capabilities; and ONC and CMS should focus meaningful use guidelines for 2013 and 2015 on the more comprehensive ability to exchange healthcare information. ONC should push for an evolutionary transition from traditional EHRs to a tagged data element model, along with a more rapid transition for the more limited purpose of data exchange by means of a universal exchange language.
-- Finally, as CMS leadership already understands, CMS will require major modernization and restructuring of its IT platforms and staff expertise to be able to engage in sophisticated exchange of health information and to drive major progress in health IT.


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Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced New York governor making headlines in the US this week for being linked to a prostitution ring, is perhaps best known for his aggressive takedown of unethical Wall Street firms during his days as attorney general. But the former prosecutor also played a big role in cleaning up the high-tech and network industries.
Here's a look back at some of Spitzer's documented higher-profile tech industry efforts:
- In 2006, Spitzer was among a slew of attorneys general filing a joint antitrust lawsuit against seven dynamic RAM makers over alleged price fixing. Spitzer said at the time that the alleged conspiracy added at least US$1 billion to the cost of the memory chips.
- Spitzer in 2005 and 2006 went after alleged spyware companies Intermix Media and Direct Revenue. Both companies disputed Spitzer's charges, though both companies' names also came up in a class action lawsuit filed in 2006 by an antispyware activist and lawyer named Ben Edelman, who accused Yahoo of placing advertisements on spyware-vendor and "low-quality" sites. By the way, Spitzer in 2003, helped to get Yahoo to change its marketing policy after getting slapped for telemarketing and e-mail campaigns directed at people who had asked not to be contacted.
- In late 2005, Spitzer investigated Sony BMG Music Entertainment's use of extended copy protection software, which used a special "rootkit" cloaking technique to disguise its presence on a PC, and is extremely difficult to remove. It was also considered a security risk by many computer experts and was treated as spyware by many security vendors. After weeks of unrelenting criticism over its use of the software, Sony eventually announced plans to pull XCP CDs from store shelves and launched a program to allow its customers to exchange their music for CDs that did not have the copy-protection software installed. Meanwhile, columnist Scott Bradner predicted at the time that Sony's digital rights management settlement would help usher Spitzer into the governor's mansion.
- In light of high profile data breaches, New York in 2005 pushed through a law requiring companies to notify their customers whenever private information has been compromised. The state's Information Security Breach and Notification Act required businesses and state agencies to inform New York residents "whose unencrypted personal information may have been acquired by an unauthorized person," according to the text of the legislation.

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Warning that Britain was facing unfair “pensions apartheid” between the public and private sectors, the Prime Minister suggested that a more flexible approach to retirement age could help end the divide.
He urged state employees to show the same “work ethic” as the private sector in being prepared to carry on longer.
And he said he would “love the idea” of people who retire later getting a bigger state pension income.
His remarks raised the prospect of millions of workers labouring on well into their seventies to pay for their retirements.
They came as public-sector union Unite signalled that further mass strikes against Government pension reforms were a “real possibility”.
The union announced a ballot of 100,000 NHS staff with a recommendation they reject the proposals.
But in the public sector, we have quite a cut-off and a very expensive pensions system
Mr Cameron spoke out during a summit for Britain and Nordic-Baltic nations in the Swedish capital Stockholm. He pointed to radical reforms introduced in Norway that allow workers to choose when to start drawing the state pension with higher payments for those that work the longest.
Talking of “a lot of resistance” to change in the public-sector in Britain, he added: “We think we are making some progress, otherwise we could end up with quite an apartheid system where people in the private sector have this flexible ethic – they go on working, they change the way they work.
“But in the public sector, we have quite a cut-off and a very expensive pensions system.”
Pensions expert Dr Ros Altmann said: “It is certainly the case that the current system isn’t sustainable and needs to be changed.
“However, in Norway and Sweden there is less difference in life expectancy in different parts of the country.
“A similar system here could end up benefiting the better off who live in areas like the South-east.”
Argentina should be in no doubt Britain will “defend the Falkland Islands properly”, Mr Cameron said yesterday. He sent a clear signal that the Government will do whatever is necessary to guarantee the islanders’ rights.

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I was super excited today when I checked on a cage that has three conures in it to find out one of the females laid an egg (hopefully the first of several)!
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I recently purchased a breeding pair (Proven) of Black Capped Conures. They, as expected, are far from friendly (quite wild) but have decided not to enter breeding mode at all.
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so as some of you may know , i visited the pet shop today , and instead of a conure , blue fronted amazon , or eclectus , i fell inlove with a chattering lory
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i am trying to breed my alexandrines 4 years old and they are in a large cage please can some one tell me on how to setup and breed them birds.
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For fatigue, one of the most prevalent subjective symptoms in MS patients, methylphenidate, modafinil, and amantadine are commonly prescribed. Substantial evidence supporting their efficacy is however lacking. In the randomised crossover TRIUMPHANT-MS trial, none of these 3 agents was superior to placebo in improving MS-related fatigue, but they did cause more adverse events .
The TRIUMPHANT-MS trial compared the efficacy of twice-daily oral methylphenidate, modafinil, and amantadine against each other and placebo. Eligible patients had MS-related fatigue with a Modified Fatigue Impact Scale (MFIS) score of >33. EDSS score at the time of screening ranged from 0.0 to 7.0. A total of 141 adult patients received 1 of 4 treatment sequences:
- amantadine, placebo, modafinil, methylphenidate;
- placebo, methylphenidate, amantadine, modafinil;
- modafinil, amantadine, methylphenidate, placebo; or
- methylphenidate, modafinil, placebo, amantadine.
Each medication was titrated over 4 weeks to the participants’ highest tolerated dose or pre-defined highest dose. Each intervention was given up to 6 weeks, with a 2-week washout period between treatments. The primary outcome measure was the MFIS score in week 5, when the highest tolerated dose was used.
The estimated mean value of the MFIS total score at baseline was 51.3. In week 5 of treatment, the MFIS total score was 41.2 with amantadine, 39.0 with modafinil, 38.7 with methylphenidate, and 40.7 with placebo (P=0.20 for overall medication effect). In the subgroup of patients with a higher baseline daytime sleepiness (Epworth Sleepiness Scale) score, both modafinil and methylphenidate were superior to placebo in improving MFIS score (-4.1 for both interventions).
In the amantadine, modafinil, and methylphenidate groups, 38.6%, 40.0% and 39.5% of participants reported adverse events, respectively, versus 30.6% in the placebo group. The authors concluded that these agents should not be used indiscriminately for the treatment of MS-related fatigue.
- Nourbakhsh B, et al. Randomized Trial of Amantadine, Modafinil and, Methylphenidate for Multiple Sclerosis Fatigue. MSVirtual 2020, Abstract PS13.03.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Log Cabin Loonies
Are you following along with the crazy mini log cabin makers over at Julie's? These log cabins are made with 1" strips - cutting instructions here.
I had a pile of gold scraps that needed to become little log cabins. Aren't they pretty?
Some of these are leftover scraps from Angel Solstice, and the Superbowl mystery, and a few tiny pieces from Save the Bees.
But really I'm supposed to be working on sewing up my green scraps this month for the RSC. So I made a concerted effort to sew up some green scraps. Dark green is not my favourite ... I don't know why. I always seem to be forcing myself to add some dark green to quilting projects. I added in some plaids hoping that would help me like these blocks more, but nope I still don't like them.
However, when dark green is put beside some of my favourite colours, it magically improves!
Here they are on the design wall...the first 16 log cabin loony blocks sewn together in groups of 4 .
Wow I love this project! It's definitely one of the RSC projects that will carry over into 2019.
Linking up to the Log Cabin Loonies and Sew Fresh Quilts.
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It's interesting how hard it is to sew with a color we don't really like. It's also interesting how that color improves when incorporated with colors we do like.
Love your little log cabins! What a fun project for your rainbow scrap challenge!
Really neat log cabins--My LCL runner is in my drawer waiting patiently for me to come up with borders--my own personal "bugaboo" hugs, julierose
Wonderful little log cabins, Kathy!
Another stellar RSC project!
BTW, the dark green looks grand to me. :)
It's so fun seeing all these tiny little log cabin blocks. It's tempting me more and more to join in!
I love log cabins and your gold ones are wonderful. I agree it is hard to sew with colors we don't like. I decided to follow mother nature and everything goes and really really do love my scrappy quilts best!
I love your blocks...super fun to make them part of a rainbow quilt!
These look great!
I find those little logs addictive no matter what the color!
Beautiful blocks. Amazingly, I've never made any log cabin blocks. I love yours. So that definitely has to go on the list as a RSC project for the future.
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May 21, 2020
Fauquier COVID-19 case total rises 10 to 261
Virginia Department of Health statistics as of Thursday morning.
Thursday morning COVID-19 update from the Virginia Department of Health:
• Where: Piedmont Urgent Care, 493 Blackwell Road, Warrenton
• When: 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily
• Criteria: Fever and/or symptoms of respiratory illness.
• Process: Patients who meet screening criteria will remain in their vehicles while healthcare professionals collect samples with swabs.
• Organizers: Rappahannock-Rapidan Health District and local partners, including medical practices, Fauquier Health, the free clinic, PATH Foundation and local government.
• 261 total cases in Fauquier County since the pandemic began — up 10 since Wednesday.
• 34,137 Virginia cases — up 1,229 since Wednesday. The total includes 32,428 confirmed and 1,709 “probable” infections.
• 1,099 deaths statewide — up 25 since Wednesday.
Statewide hospitalizations for COVID-19 during the pandemic totaled at 4,093 as of Thursday, up 114 from Wednesday.
State hospitals housed 1,491 infected patients as of Thursday morning, down 45 from Wednesday, the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association reported.
Healthcare providers and laboratories report statistics to the state as of 5 p.m. each day. The health department updates its report the following morning.
Twenty infected Fauquier patients have been hospitalized and five have died since the pandemic started.
In the Rappahannock-Rapidan Health District, which includes Fauquier:
• 526 cases and five deaths in Culpeper.
• 73 infections in Orange.
• 27 in and one death in Madison.
• 12 in Rappahannock.
The district has 11 COVID-19 deaths, and 70 infected patients have been hospitalized during the pandemic.
Cases elsewhere in Virginia:
• 8,580 in Fairfax County — up 417 since Wednesday.
• Prince William County, 4,183.
• Arlington County, 1,763.
• Loudoun County, 1,700.
• City of Alexandria, 1,627.
• Henrico County, 1,339.
• Chesterfield County, 1,132.
• City of Richmond, 888.
• City of Manassas, 743.
• Accomack County, 709.
• City of Harrisonburg, 695.
• Virginia Beach, 584.
• Stafford County, 540.
• Buckingham County, 438.
• Rockingham County, 434.
• City of Chesapeake, 412.
• City of Norfolk, 377.
• Spotsylvania County, 366.
• Shenandoah County, 355.
• City of Suffolk, 278.
• Richmond County, 263.
• City of Portsmouth, 245.
• Frederick County, 245.
• Hanover County, 244.
• James City County (including Williamsburg), 232.
• City of Manassas Park, 223.
• City of Newport News, 215.
• Northampton County, 206.
• Mecklenburg County, 185.
• City of Hampton, 167.
• Page County, 166.
• Albemarle County, 142.
• Southampton County, 138.
• City of Roanoke, 135.
• Isle of Wight County, 121.
• City of Winchester, 110.
Nationwide as of Thursday morning:
• 1,551,853 cases.
• 93,439 deaths.
• 294,312 have recovered.
• 12.64 million tests conducted.
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Linda Ward · May 23, 2020 at 11:48 am
The human body is an amazing self-sufficient system, thank goodness we don't have to plug ourselves into an outlet to keep running. That being said, without proper nutrition and care that system will malfunction and there is where the problems start.
Sometimes it has to doing with a compromised immune system from previous illness or poor health due to lifestyle and/or circumstances, or when a vector that we have no immunity to (like COVID-19) comes along that causes sickness and death.
We are fortunate that we have insurance and are able to see a doctor when needed, not everyone can afford to do that. Then there are the people that go to the doctor for everything. I was raised on a farm where we only went to the doctor for broken bones, most vaccinations though I don't remember them, medical emergencies beyond my Mom's care.
In a perfect world we would all be healthy. Our world is far from perfect.
badelectronics · May 23, 2020 at 9:59 am
@Linda: Thank you for seeing your doctor, that's my point.
And I disagree with this: "While the human body is a perfectly engineered organic system..."
If the system was perfectly engineered, why is anyone suffering from COVID-19 infection or any other infection for that matter?
Linda Ward · May 22, 2020 at 8:04 pm
Rover 530 - I agree, we will continue to protect ourselves therefore protecting others. I'm rooting for that vaccine to be found and supplied to everyone as soon as safely possible.
badelectronics _ My husband and I recently had our annual physicals done, and we both had low Vitamin D levels which can happen during the colder months. Our doctor recommended a supplement but no more then 4000 IUs a day. We will be retested at the end of Summer to see if we are on track with more exposure to the sun, and can stop until mid-winter again if needed.
"Research has shown that vitamin D plays an important role in maintaining health in the gastrointestinal tract. Higher levels of vitamin D reduce susceptibility to inflammatory bowel disease and Crohn’s disease, gut and lung infections in animals and people, osteoporosis in adults. In the immune system, vitamin D acts to improve your ability to fight infections and to reduce inflammation."
I agree drinking copious amounts of water is not always good, unless you are trying to flush out toxins and/or bring down a fever (where electrolytes come up), yet you have to be careful you are not also flushing out nutrients or overwhelming the system.
Rover 530 · May 22, 2020 at 4:53 pm
While the human body is a perfectly engineered organic system, the natural defense mechanisms can only do so much. there are a lot of things out there the human body cannot protect against. COVID-19 is one of them at the present. That may change, however, as people who are infected develop antibodies after recovering from the disease and a workable vaccine is eventually developed. None of what has been mentioned in this string will do much good until a vaccine is real except for social distancing, personal and home hygiene, self-quarantine and wearing masks.
badelectronics · May 22, 2020 at 11:25 am
@Linda: Then I recommend that people talk to their doctor, and for their kids, their pediatrician. Pushing fluids, especially on someone that does not need them in the for of water can lead to serious health complications. Hyponatremia comes to mind. Nebulous musings such as "Vitamin d helps" is as useful as eating freeze dries cat turds, which was my point.
Linda Ward · May 21, 2020 at 10:37 pm
Bad electronics - It is important to build up or keep the immune system at its optimum levels. I have no idea if what SaveFauquier is suggesting would help with Covid-19, yet can't hurt.
Much better then injecting disinfectants or gargling with bleach for sure. The person who recommended that advice should definitively not be heeded.
badelectronics · May 21, 2020 at 8:25 pm
I don't know if I speak for anyone else here, but I think that Savefauquiercounty2019 might try and take dehydrated cat urine pills on the off chance that they might help defeat covid-19.
Savefauquiercounty2019 · May 21, 2020 at 3:57 pm
Please remember babies under 6 months old do not have much of an immune system. Children get sick 4 to 5 times a year until the 4th or 5th grade. When you get I'll, your b cell retains the memory. And it is those b cells that come out to help them fight the illness,often you won't see any symptoms. Our body is equipped for the fight with lymph nodes, adenoids, tonsils, white blood cells. Your intestines and liver are awesome too in helping the fight. Take care of your child's intestine and liver by staying away from processed foods as much as possible. The liver purges out toxins, drinking water helps it. Consider giving your children and loved ones bromelain. It is an anti inflammatory. If your child gets sick give expectorants, thin seceretions by pushing fluids and using humidifier air. Home made juice popsicles are a nice alternative. Vitamin d helps. God bless. Building your child's immunity is hard work but we'll worth your efforts that can improve their quality of life.
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We’ve a Halloween extravaganza today – and I’m not much of Halloween guy, either. Oh, I like it fine, but I don’t build my life around it. Not to say others do, but you know what I mean; some people really, really love Halloween. If I had a party to go to – an adult party, that is, not something with Poohs and princesses running around – I would like to go in costume, but only if I could maintain character all night long. Go as the Phantom of the Opera, and spend the night raging at people who failed to recognize my genius. Then again: the only thing worse than people who don’t truly inhabit their characters are the ones who do, and insist on being somber zombies who won’t enter into conversation but just stand there moaning, staring into space. So, where do you work? Mrgggghhhooo ooaaahhhmmmm. Okay, whatever.
I do have a neighborhood party tomorrow; perhaps I’ll hook up a fake computer terminal chomping on my rear and go as The Newspaper Industry. Hah! Hah! Because the internet’s killing us, you see, and –
Anyway. Today we have a threefold Halloween treat. There’s a Diner, below. There’s a spoooooky story from “Quiet, Please” – the episode regarded as the best of the lot, “The Thing on the Fourbleboard.” I finally listened to it last weekend, and it gave me prickly hackles. Pay close attention to the end; it turns and turns and turns around. AND there’s the weekly buzz.mn video, which is Halloween-themed as well, of course.
(One of the bleatchat comments today apologized for not hitting the buzz, because the links often went to the Strib site, and the person didn’t want to register. I understand; I don’t like to register either. You can always apply for a seven-day pass – you needn’t give your name or email. And the posts aren’t always Strib links; sometimes I’m just writing mini-columns about matters with local hooks but wider implications, to really saturate the endeavor with unearned pretension.)
Today was spent shooting & editing, although I shot down to the office for confabs and emails; also got some fine old 30s and 40s Halloween photos from the Strib archives, and they’ll be up at buzz.mn tomorrow. No password required! Took (G)Nat to choir – the same drill every Tuesday. Pizza first, choir later. At least they disconnected the TV, which was always playing some brain-softening cartoon that turned all the kids into dead-eyed banality-reception units. Last week someone had turned the television to a PBS financial show, and the kids reacted like vampires shown a cross made out of a saint’s femurs; it had the most unusual effect. They did something else. For the last few weeks (G)Nat and friends have been playing outside in the church courtyard anyway. That’s where she played when she went to preschool. She says she remembers it, but I think she says that just for my benefit.
While they played I worked on the buzz.mn movie – did a rough cut on the laptop. Usually I read, but I’m between books.
Did someone say book?
Sorry; there’ll be a lot of this in the next few weeks.
Tuesday used to be merry happy slight relaxation day, since I had no columns due the next day. Hah! What a lotus-eater I was. Now Tuesday night is crammed and jammed. Anyway. Since it’s Halloween, let’s get to the fun. First: as is our tradition, some posters.
This movie scared me horribly when I was a kid. I didn’t see much of it. I didn’t have to see much. It had Vincent Price, which meant Bad Things were imminent – even though they never really happened, if you thought about it, but c’mon, he was Vincent Price (note: next week Bleat Radio Theater will feature VP; he plays The Saint. That’s right: the role Roger Moore made famous on TV.) It was the blade. The swinging blade. The swinging blade that lowered with each stroke. It never occurred to me why anyone would install such a device in their basement, but I suppose deli-shaved meats were hard to come by in olden times. It's Poe's Pit-Pendulum Panavision Plosive-packed Price-Picture! Radio announcers must have hated this one.
Ugh. The Ritz Brothers plus a guy in a rented fur-suit: the invention of "negative integers" was probably a result of accountants figuring out a way to describe the opening day box office. Note how Bela gets fourth billing:
Sometimes I think I'd like to live in the Fifties, but then I realize: if I lived in the Forties, I could enjoy a world that had posters like this:
And then I could live in the Fifties after that. Win-win. On the other hand:
Cool poster, but I was never a Bud and Lou fan. Aside from the famous routine. That's genius. This? Eh.
This movie was released in 1948. "Quiet, Please" ran from 47 to 49. Here you go for Halloween: Ernest Chappell reading the words of Wyllis Cooper.
Done? It has a wikipedia entry.
And now here's your Diner. MP3 here; iTunes here. One of the Bleatchat comments asked why there's no longer any embedded art, and I'm afraid the answer reflects poorly on your host: I just haven't felt like putting in an extra half-hour on it. Later, perhaps. Time is dear these days - this one took a little longer than expected, as you'll hear:
Finally, for all the parents of very small children who miss Rolie Polie Olie on the Disney channel: pumpykins!
You can have your Great Pumpkin. Spooky Ookie is real.
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I used to love these growing up. We would have these for dinner with bacon and maple syrup. Pure comfort food from my childhood.
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- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1 cup sweet corn
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons canola oil
- combine 1 cup milk, butter, and corn in small saucepan over medium heat. When the butter has melted, remove the pan from the heat and let the mixture cool to lukewarm.
- Sift dry ingredients onto waxed paper.
- In large bowl, beat the eggs until they are well mixed. Add the milk mixture, then gently stir the flour mixture, mixing until it is moistened and thoroughly combined.
- Add remaining milk if the batter is thicker than cake batter.
- Brush large heavy skillet or griddle with the oil, and place it over medium-high heat.
- When a drop of water sizzles in the pan, pour the batter, 1/4 cup for each pancake into the skillet.
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- Flip the cakes and cook for about 30 seconds on the other side.
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These were so good! I had them for dinner tonite all on their own (well-with a drop of maple syrup) and thoroughly enjoyed them. I melted the butter with the milk & corn in the microwave in the bowl I wanted to mix the batter in. I then mixed in the blended dry ingredients and then the beaten eggs. The batter was perfect and so were the pancakes. Made for Top Favorites of 2009 Cookbook Tag-Feb'10.Reply

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Glamorous lady Samantha is currently busy with the shooting of ‘Manam’ and V.V.Vinayak’s film. the actress has been juggling through these roles . A song shoot was wrapped up today from Autonagar Surya and once song remains to be shot. The film is heading for a December release.
On the other hand, V.V.Vinayak is busy with the launch of the Bellamkonda boy.The movie is currently being shot in and around Hyderabad.
Samantha will soon be seen in ‘Autonagar Surya’, Bellamkonda’s untitled project as well as NTR’s film with Kandireega Vasu. The actress will be taking a short break in Telugu, as she has a number of Tamil films lined up next year.
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Miss Martha Jane Jewell, 25, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Jewell, widely-known residents of Clinton, KY, was in the Owensboro City Hospital today. She had a badly shattered ankle, and both of her legs, from her heels to her hips, were lacerated from the effects of a dynamite blast believed to have been intended for her fiancé, Louis Adams Birk, in front of the home of his mother, Mrs. George Birk, at Island early the previous morning, Monday, March 25, 1935.
Miss Jewell had been spending the weekend with Mrs. Birk, and got into Louis’ car to drive a short distance to see a young woman before returning to Clinton. Louis had assisted Miss Jewell into the car and was standing within five feet of the car when Miss Jewell turned the ignition switch on the car and stepped on the starter. What followed was a terrific explosion, heard three miles away. Louis said he was stunned, not knowing what had happened, and thought that lightning had struck. Looking at the car, and finding it partly demolished, he sprang toward it and opened the door. “Miss Jewell fell out into my arms,” he said. Louis carried her into the house.
As Island native Euleen Rector Rickard relayed to me, she and her family lived near the Birk home, which was across East Main Street from Island Baptist Church. Euleen was 12 years old, and recalls hearing the blast, and she and her parents running to the churchyard, where they saw people running and crying. They went no further than the churchyard, as many had gathered around, and her parents said they did not need any more people getting involved, so they returned to their home. Later when they went by the church, they saw that some car parts had been blown into the wall of the church, damaging the weather boarding, and some parts had flown into and broken up the picket fence that surrounded the Birk’s yard.
When the blast occurred, Mrs. Ethel Ferguson was driving by, and she stopped to help. As there was no physician available in Island, and because the backwater was up due to the Green River overflowing—making ambulance transport from Livermore impossible—Miss Jewell was placed into Mrs. Ferguson’s car, and she was taken to the railroad, where she was transferred to a handcar and taken by rail to Livermore. There an ambulance met them and took her on to the Owensboro Hospital, where she was admitted.
Sheriff “Mont” Johnson of Calhoun was notified of the explosion and went to Island to investigate. He found that old telephone wires had been placed around the motor and attached to a spark plug, so that when an attempt was made to start the motor, a cap was set off that would discharge the sticks of dynamite that had been placed beneath the floorboard. Part of the hood was found behind the Birk house, and another part at the church. Windows in the church were broken by the blast, and a large section of the fence was torn away near where Louis Birk had been standing. Mrs. Birk reported that several windows in homes nearby were broken, as well.
Louis and Miss Jewell had driven to Owensboro on Sunday afternoon, the day before the explosion, returning to Island late in the evening. At that time Louis parked his car in front of his mother’s house. Sheriff Johnson felt certain that a deliberate attempt was made to kill Mr. Louis Birk and possibly both him and his fiancée, as it was generally known they were leaving for Clinton on Monday. Mr. Birk had been a sales representative for Bradas and Gheens, of Louisville, for nine years.
In addition to a movement in Island to raise a $250 reward, McLean County officials were preparing to request that both the Fiscal Court and Gov. Ruby Laffoon offer rewards for the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for the blast. “Sensational developments” were expected in the case. The day following the blast, Island Mayor C.C. Stroud stated that so far as he knew, there had been no developments in the “dynamite outrage.” Mayor Stroud was a brother-in-law of Louis Birk and had lived at the home of Mr. Birk’s mother until about 10 days before the blast. It was later reported that Mrs. Stroud had recently been residing in Owensboro; she soon, thereafter, filed for divorce.
As part of the investigation, an effort was being made to check recent dynamite purchases by residents of the Island community, and a part of the hood of the damaged car was taken to Owensboro, in order that it might be examined for fingerprints. Owensboro P.D. fingerprint expert, William Vogel, uncovered two prints: one on the edge of the hood cover; the other on the “lifter” of the hood. Photographic copies were made.
In raising their $250 reward, the town of Island offered $25, and Mayor C.C. Stroud offered another $25. Mr. H. Kirtley stated he would add $50, and other citizens were expected to “subscribe similar amounts.” The Fiscal Court did, indeed, request Gov. Laffoon offer a reward, and the county planned to match any reward the governor might post.
It was suggested by Sheriff Johnson, William Vollman, Asst. Chief of Police, and Patrolman Vogel, the fingerprint expert, that Mayor Stroud have his fingerprints taken, to which he agreed. Mr. Birk’s fingerprints had previously been taken. Photographs of the fingerprints secured from the car’s hood were forwarded to Washington for comparison. Less than a week later the fingerprint expert was notified by Director John Edgar Hoover of the FBI at Washington, D.C. that the photographs of the fingerprints taken off the hood of Louis Birk’s car were too indistinct and fragmentary to be of value for comparison with other fingerprints submitted.
Martha Jane Jewell remained a patient at Owensboro City Hospital until April 20, 1935--nearly four weeks after the explosion--before being released to return to her home in Clinton, KY. She and Louis Birk were married a month later in Clinton.
So who was responsible for the crime, and who was the intended victim? Louis Birk and Miss Jewell remained married until his passing in 1970. Did he have enemies? The company that Louis was a sales representative for--Bradas and Gheens--was a candy company. Perhaps the Hershey Company was attempting to get rid of some competitors?--as my husband, Tim Sheppard, suggested. Or was it, perhaps, Mayor Stroud, getting back at his wife who was divorcing him, by injuring her brother and his fiancée? It’s also possible the crime was committed by someone else. Although the bombing was talked about for a long time, and was reported about in newspapers from Nebraska to Delaware to Miami, Florida (and everywhere in-between), the crime was never solved.
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Robert De Niro, Sr. Paintings and Drawings 1960-1993. For their first exhibition as the exclusive representatives of the Estate of Robert De Niro, Sr., DC Moore Gallery is presenting a dynamic group of his figure paintings, landscapes, still lifes, and charcoal drawings from 1960-1993.
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The stupidest thing you can do in your life is look at what anyone is doing on social media and compare it to your life.
If that’s your philosophy in life then sorry but you’re going to die of depression.
Social media is an artificial construct on which we all live the lives we want irrespective of reality.
Just look at Blessing Okoro’s recent humiliation for posting someone else’s house as hers, or Afia Schwar some years back who was suffering in her marriage but came online every day to praise her hubby Abrokwah and claim other ladies are jealous of her.
This same social media has put pressure on these our celebrities to pretend to live a certain class of life which does not correspond to the reality of our dead industries, forcing some of them into the ashawo business to fund their lifestyles.
Actress Ama K. Abebrese has exposed most of her fellow celebs and these so-called ‘slay queens’ over the kind of lives they actually live in comparison to what is displayed on social media.
According to her, don’t worry yourself when you see someone in expensive dresses or shoes because most at times they are simply rented and would be returned immediately after use.
“I know some ladies who borrow shoes and clothes to take pictures on social media and return them when they are done with what they wanted to use them for,” she said.
Ama K. also cautioned against uploading erotic photos and videos online, warning that something like that can follow you all your life.
“You can be having fun today but in some years to come when you want to take up a job, that is when your videos or whatever you did will be played back to you.
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If you still haven’t tuned to ‘Mental Manadhil’ – A.R.Rahman’s latest track from O Kadhal Kanmani – you’re perhaps missing the initial stages of what promises to be a huge musical treat from Kollywood’s favourite combination of Mani Ratnam and the Mozart of Madras.
At 12 midnight yesterday, thousands of fans across the world waited with bated breath for a whiff of the magic. That’s when ‘Mental Manadhil’ hit; a super fun, groovy track from the combination. One that has grown and matured, just like the fans, since the time of Roja.
The song has such a catchy hook-line, something that’s most important these days. With easy-to-hum words such as ‘Mana Mana’ and ‘Laka Laka’, it could well go on to become the ‘Yaakai Thiri’ of our times. Of course, there are some negatives as well – the starting beats does sound like the ones used in the ‘Ahaah Tamilama’ song, and the lyric is a tad pedestrian (‘Naetru Enbadhu Indru Illai...’ is, surely, a discovery!) – but once it grows on you, it’s highly addictive.
It’s well known that Rahman reserves his best for this filmmaker, and it’s not hard to understand why. They think alike, they’ve grown up together and approach a subject with the same sensibility. If it’s a romance, like the unforgettable Alaipayuthe was, it’s about colourful, young music, and if it’s a biopic, like Guru was, the music is more defined and structured.
So, what is it about this filmmaker that brings out the musical best of Rahman? The answer seems to lie in this statement. “He’s my guru. He wants something not seen, not heard, and makes me think differently,” Rahman said during the promotions of Kadal, their earlier film together. It is this challenge to think out-of-the-box that makes the composer delivers his best in such compositions. It is also the same challenge that listeners face – which is why first-time listeners might initially scoff at ‘Mental Manadhil’, only to secretly hum it after a few listens.
The two might have matured but that doesn’t stop them from having fun. For one, they have written the lyrics of the recently-released single, while Vairamuthu has penned the rest of the album. And, Rahman the singer seems to have brought out the college kid in him in the rendition... isn’t the uber-stylish pronunciation of ‘Taka Taka Taka’ in the latest song proof enough?
A lot of Rahmaniacs had a common complaint a few years ago – that the composer had given Tamil cinema a raw deal by opting for many international projects. This seems to have reached his ears – with several exciting projects last year, including Kaaviya Thalaivayan and I, we now have nothing to rant about. The future, too, is exciting – there’s the music Vikram Kumar’s 24 with Suriya to forward to. It’s a new, interesting combination that offers a lot of musical possibilities.
For now, it is tripping on ‘Mental Manadhil’. And waiting for the rest of the tracks of the album.
The surge of new composers in Kollywood is heartening; Santhosh Narayanan stands out, with many describing him as the ‘Hans Zimmer of Tamil cinema’. That may well be true, but give us the Mozart of Madras any day.


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Estebanico Azemmouri, a Moroccan man, landed in the United States of America in 1527, and Antonio Bishallany who immigrated from Lebanon became the first member of a community today known as “Arab Americans.” This is the story of Arab Americans’ beginning in America – and the origins of their quest for fair representation.
While estimates vary, Arab Americans make up about three million members of the U.S. population. Arab immigrants came to the United States in four waves from Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt, but also from Morocco, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Yemen, Tunisia, Algeria, many Gulf countries, and Libya. The first wave was made up of mostly Lebanese and Syrians, who worked largely as grocers and peddlers throughout the Northeast and Midwest. Arab immigration really took off at the start of the twentieth century, as Detroit’s exploding auto industry drew immigrants from all over the world. The Third Wave, which lasted until 1990, witnessed escape from the war in Lebanon and poverty in Egypt, Morocco, and Yemen. The current Fourth Wave comprises refugees from Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, and Syria.
Early Arabs in America had to identify as “White” in order to gain access to American citizenship. In 1915, George Dow was granted naturalization rights by the Georgia Court of Appeals, which considered “the inhabitants of … Syria, to be classed as white persons.” In 1977, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued Directive 15 officially classifying “White” those who descend from Europe, and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The inclusion of Arab ancestries in the Census Bureau was not without problems such as defining the boundaries of the Middle East and North Africa – and whether a (negative) geographic colonial label should be used in reference to the region.
For the next twenty years, the Arab American community engaged in internal and external debates around how the community should be defined, where we draw boundaries, and whether to impose a pan-Arab identity on peoples who hail from 22 different countries and multiple ethnicities across the Arab world. In its 1997 revisions of the race guidelines, OMB decided that further research was needed and closed the case. The lack of accurate data on the community over the last 15 years has constituted a serious threat to Arab Americans’ health, education, employment, housing, and civil rights.
Quest for Recognition
In 2010, members of the Arab-American community launched the “Check it right; you ain’t White!” campaign to change how they are classified in the Census. A coalition was formed under the leadership of the Arab American Institute (AAI), and the group authored a historical letter to the Census Bureau requesting a MENA box on the Census form. The Bureau responded by publishing a notice in the Federal Register, which received an unprecedented number of favorable responses. In December 2014, the Bureau announced its intention to test creating a MENA category for inclusion in the 2020 Census. The move was a historic endeavor that could have produced much-needed data on MENA communities, their needs, and their contributions. However, OMB halted all efforts in December 2018 citing the need for further research without further explanation. The community is continuing to work through the various local, state, and federal political and legal channels to make representation a reality.
Commitment to Public Service
Without having a specific MENA category to check on official forms, Arab Americans did not identify with any of the five races. Instead, many of them checked the “Some Other Race” category when provided. It is also difficult to capture the community’s contributions to public service or to improve the recruitment, retention, and promotion rates of Arab Americans. As an underrepresented and undercounted group, Arab Americans continue to work with a coalition of recognized U.S. government employee groups to raise awareness about issues of representation in the government and identify tangible ways forward that will create a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable workforce that celebrates our diverse backgrounds and experiences. Such critical efforts will not only strengthen our policy-making process but enhance our national security as well.
Arab Americans in Foreign Affairs
An estimated 12 percent of Arab Americans are employed in federal, state, or local governments, according to the Census Bureau. The Arab Americans in Foreign Affairs Agencies (AAIFAA) employee affinity group was created to support the promotion, protection, and utilization of Arab Americans – and advance the cultural, linguistic, personal, and professional assets Arab Americans bring in foreign affairs and in support of the American people. Similar to other ethnic- and minority-based employee associations, AAIFAA serves as a resource of relevant ideas and experiences that can be shared among Arab American communities and those with an interest or experience in the Arab world throughout the interagency community. AAIFAA has over 400 Civil Service, Foreign Service, contractors, and other members across the federal foreign affairs community serving in various capacities in Washington and at diplomatic posts. And though not all AAIFAA members identify as Arab Americans, AAIFAA works towards advancing diversity and inclusion in the foreign service.
This past month, Arab Americans celebrated a rich heritage, including contributions to foreign policy and international development. They follow in the footsteps of great diplomats such as Ambassador Philip Habib and Susan Ziadeh, and notable negotiators like Special Envoy George Mitchell. As in the past, Arab Americans continue to answer the call of duty and lead America’s foreign policy through diplomacy and advocacy, as well as foreign assistance. Personally, delivering development and humanitarian assistance from the American People has been a great honor in my career at USAID.
About the Author: Dr. Rita Stephan currently serves as the Regional Coordinator for Religious and Ethnic Minorities at the USAID Middle East Bureau. Previously she was The Director of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) at Near East Affairs Bureau, the Deputy Director for Analytics at the Executive Secretary Office, and the MENA survey statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau.


It's been two years in the making, but Smartfish has finally released its opus into the world: the Engage keyboard. It's been known as the Pro:Motion and ErgoMotion over the years, but now it's got a new moniker, a classy all-black look, and a $150 pricetag.
Outside of the tilted design and large palm rests, the keyboard has an internal motor that moves the position of the two halves of the keyboard based on your typing frequency. The periodic position adjustments help fight off fatigue, an approach developed in conjunction with The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. We'll try to play around with the keyboard at CES -- last year's prototype wasn't terribly impressive -- but if it's anything as good as theSmartfish Whirl Mini Notebook Laser Mouse, we might have a new carpal tunnel warrior in our arsenal.