Lenovo has unveiled its best 1080p 240hz curved gaming monitor, the Legion R27fc-30, a top-tier 27-inch curved display designed for serious gamers and e-athletes.
This best 1080p 240hz monitor boasts a VA panel with a full HD resolution of 1920 x 1090 pixels and a remarkable maximum refresh rate of 280 Hz. To fully capitalize on its potential and attain the corresponding frame rates of around 280 fps, powerful gaming hardware is required, sometimes necessitating the use of processes like DLSS or FSR.
In terms of specifications, the Lenovo R27fc-30 240Hz FHD monitor delivers 350 cd/m² typical brightness, an ultra-fast 1 ms response time (gray to gray), 8-bit color depth, a high 3000:1 contrast ratio, and an immersive 1500 R curvature. It also offers impressive color accuracy, covering 99 percent of the sRGB spectrum and 90 percent of the DCI-P3 color space. Additionally, it maintains a typical power consumption of 24 watts.
The monitor’s feature set includes FreeSync Premium (as per the AMD database), G-Sync compatibility, HDR10 support, and integrated 3-watt speakers for a truly immersive audiovisual experience.
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What makes the Legion R27fc-30 even more appealing is its attractive price point. Priced at just $229.99, it’s being touted as one of the best 1080p 240Hz curved gaming monitors under $250 and is currently available on Amazon.com.
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Lenovo R27fc-30 specifications
- Display: 27-inch VA panel, Anti-glare
- Curvature: 1500R
- Max View Area: 597.9 x 336.3 mm
- Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FHD)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Pixel Pitch: 0.3114 x 0.3114 mm
- Pixel Per Inch: 82 dpi
- Brightness: 350 cd/m²
- Contrast Ratio: 3000:1 (Typical) / 3M:1 (Dynamic)
- View Angle (H / V): 178°, 178°
- Response Time: 0.5 ms (MPRT)
- Refresh Rate: 240Hz (Overclock to 280Hz)
- Color Gamut: 99% (sRGB), 90% (DCI-P3)
- Color Support: 16.7 Million
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- Features: HDR10, Gaming Console Support, Natural Low Blue Light, Lenovo Artery, NVIDIA G-SYNC Compatible, AMD FreeSync, 3-side NearEdgeless, Kensington Slot, 3-year limited warranty, Eyesafe 2.0
- Audio: 2x 3W Speakers
- Ports: 2x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4, 1x audio-out (3.5mm)
- VESA mount: 100 x 100mm
- Stand: Tilt (-5° to +22°), Swivel (30°), Pivot (-90° to +90°), Height adj. (135mm)
- Dimensions: 610.3 x 258.8 x 520.8 mm (with stand)
- Weight: 6.2 kg / 13.7 lbs (with stand)
In addition to this curved gaming monitor, Lenovo introduced the Legion R27q-30, another impressive offering in their lineup. This 27-inch gaming monitor features an IPS panel with a WQHD resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels, a maximum refresh rate of 180 Hz, and DisplayHDR-400 support. Priced at $297.70, it’s another option for gamers seeking high-quality visuals and smooth performance.


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Approximately eight days ago, guests and guides at nThambo Tree Camp awoke to a sound of scuffling, rallying howls and high-pitched twittering. Drowning out the chorus of morning birdsong, these alarmingly sounds meant one thing: the African wild dogs were in town. Camp manager Ingrid sent through a remarkable image of a mega-pack of wild dogs circling the waterhole in camp, with one of the chalets in the background. This is just one of many mind-blowing “wildlife in camp” scenes experienced at nThambo Tree Camp.
Shortly after the wild dog extravaganza, a herd of elephants descended upon the swimming pool at camp, and spend a considerable amount time jostling at the poolside for their place in the sun. There’s was trumpeting, slurping and a whole lot of comical behaviour from our grey giants. If you think the close-up, in camp sightings are a major drawcard, you should see the accommodation.
Located in the heart of the Big 5 Klaserie Private Nature Reserve, this established lodge comprises unique treehouse style accommodation on stilts. Chalets are built from sturdy canvas and wood under a thatched roof, and are raised on wooden stilts. Each treehouse style chalet has its own private wooden balcony overlooking the open bushveld, with views that extend all the way across to Drakensberg mountains in the distance.
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Just a few metres from the bar is the small splash pool (sometimes we refer to this as the ellie’s waterbowl), which is surrounded by an intimate wooden decking area with ultra-comfy sun loungers. Because the nThambo team prioritises the safari experience and are known for their hospitality, they often use the pool deck for private romantic dining sessions. Of course, this needs to be arranged prior.
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An experience at nThambo Tree Camp will provide you with a lifetime of safari adventure. It’s not hard to understand why guests return. nThambo leaves an indelible mark on the hearts of first-time visitors and seasoned safari goers. What are you waiting for? Come and stay with us. click here to look at live availability for nThambo Tree Camp.

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text: Hey guys. So, my little black cat Lola (4 years old) has been diagnosed with diabetes. Her blood glucose is all over the place... could use some advice. I have a spreadsheet for her that you can access here. Some background information: Lola is 4 years old and is a rescue cat; she was born on the streets but was rescued @ 2 months Severely asthmatic (diagnosed last summer; takes 3.75 mg prednisolone in the morning by mouth) 6 weeks after starting on 2.5 mg prednisolone, developed weak hind legs, severe dehydration, and changes in the liver and gallbladder consistent with cholangiohepatitis - prescribed antibiotics (4 weeks) and 1 mL of 50 mg/mL ursodiol oral suspension to prevent recurrence Developed rapid breathing in September and was diagnosed with pneumonia secondary to asthma; prescribed antibiotics and increased to 3.75 mg prednisolone Last week, developed abdominal distension and was found by X-ray to have eaten far too much (polyphagia); co-occurrence with increased urination (polyuria) prompted us to urinalysis with culture & sensitivity Culture was negative, but urine was found to have a great deal of sugar Blood tests performed; found dehydration, high blood sugar (24 mmol/L), and other changes consistent with feline diabetes mellitus Prescribed 1 unit ProZinc insulin every 12 hours Advised to do glucose curve at home after 7 consistent days of twice daily insulin My understanding is that it's generally a good idea (despite my vet saying it's not necessary) to test blood sugar before every insulin dose, so that's what I'm doing. Originally, my vet said to not give insulin when her blood sugar was less than 20 mmol/L until she could confirm the correct cutoff with an internal medicine specialist. After consulting with the specialist, she advised that I should give 1 unit of insulin if either 1), Lola eats at least half of a portion of wet food and her bG>8 mmol/L, 2) Lola eats only a little bit of wet food and her bG>12 mmol/L, or 3) Lola doesn't eat and her bG>14 mmol/L. For reference, I am feeding her twice daily before insulin with a high-protein, medium-fat, low-carb (8% dry matter) wet food and then leaving Purina DM dry food out during the day, which all of my cats eat now. There's a chance that her diabetes is caused by, or being worsened by, the prednisolone, which is known to cause insulin resistance. We are going to try to taper her down, but only after we have had her on insulin regularly for a little while. Anyways, how do her numbers look to you guys? Would you give different advice? Any advice is much appreciated!


[vbox-dev] [RFC] VGDrvCommonIoCtl: Add f32bit flag argument
Hans de Goede
hdegoede at redhat.com
Mon Aug 14 12:19:46 UTC 2017
On 14-08-17 13:43, Knut St. Osmundsen wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> the other platforms also have KPIs or similar constructs for figuring
> out whether the client process issuing the I/O controls is a 32-bit or
> 64-bit one. However, using the VBOXGUEST_IOCTL_FLAG set to 0 or 0x80 if
> 32-bit or 64-bit was a less complex (+faster(+safer)) way of deal with
> this. The host driver does this as well. I would like the structure of
> the two to be as similar as possible.
> I'm not very keen to adding linux specific clutter (f32Bit + #ifndef
> RT_OS_LINUX) to the common code just because you can do it differently
> only Linux. Sorry. Want minimal platform specific cruft in common
> code. Hope you understand.
OK and yes I understand.
> PS. I noticed in the Linux kernel RFC email thread that we've agreed to
> freeze the I/O control ABI. We cannot guarantee that's it's 100% frozen
> at this point, since the generic status code fix (getting rid of that
> ioctl non-zero return value) hasn't been done yet. I will see if I can
> squeeze it in later this week.
I had already decided to just live with the positive return for vbox
host status codes, but if you want this changed for other reasons, then yes
now would be the time to do that. But you don't have to do it just on
> On 2017-08-14 9:30 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> On 14-08-17 09:27, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Note to linux-kernel readers: This Cc-ed to linux-kernel because it is
>>> relevant for the "[RFC 0/2] Add Virtual Box vboxguest and vboxsf guest
>>> drivers to the mainline kernel" thread.
>>> Hi Michael, Knut,
>>> My first submission of the vboxguest driver for inclusion into
>>> the Linux kernel has lead to some questions about the use of the
>>> VBOXGUEST_IOCTL_FLAG to differentiate between 32 and 64 bit
>>> ioctls. Under Linux this is not necessary, as the driver already
>>> knows if it is serving a 32 bit compat or a regular ioctl.
>>> So I've come up with this patch to make VBOXGUEST_IOCTL_FLAG
>>> always 0 under Linux. I was hoping the f32bit flag could be
>>> used under more platforms so that it would actually be a cleanup,
>>> but it seems that Linux is the only platform with a compat_ioctl
>>> callback in its file-operations struct.
>>> Please let me know if you would be willing to merge this patch
>>> into upstream VirtualBox.
>> I've only tested this patch with Linux!
>> vbox-dev mailing list
>> vbox-dev at virtualbox.org
> vbox-dev mailing list
> vbox-dev at virtualbox.org
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Passengers of Jin Air exceed 1 million
By Yun Suh-young
Jin Air, a low-cost carrier of Korean Air, said Monday it has flown more than 1 million passengers since its launch in June 2008.
The budget airline started international flight services in 2009.
The Incheon-Bangkok route has been a major factor in achieving the mark, with 250,000 passengers using it so far. These fares account for 25 percent of those from international flights.
Jin Air swung to a surplus for the first time in 2010. It recorded 6.9 billion won in operating profit last year.
In celebration, the airline presented the millionth passenger with two free tickets for its Incheon-Yantai service which will begin on July 5. Yantai is in China’s northeastern province of Shandong. It is the 11th international route offered by Jin Air.
The 10th links Jeju and Taipei and was launched last week.


Winners of 2018 Nestlé Golden Chef’s Hat Award crowned
Hats off to NSW Metro chefs, Billy Fox and Matt Wills, for taking out the 2018 Nestlé Golden Chef’s Hat Award.
After days of competing at Fine Food Australia, the results were announced at a gala event on Wednesday September 12 with Fox and Wills being the undoubtable winners of this year's competition having been awarded gold medals for their main and dessert courses, silver for their entree course, and securing the Most Creative Use Nestlé Award.
The young chefs' main was of particular highlight for the judges, which paired Australian beef with mushroom-crusted porterhouse and Korean BBQ oxtail with orange and maple carrot, pea tart and scented sauce.
In a statement, the pair said, “We’re feeling great, this is so awesome and we couldn’t be happier.
"What an incredible achievement, we worked hard for a very long time for this.
"Practice makes perfect and we are proud to be bringing home the big hat trophy.”
As part of their prize, the National champions will take part in a career-boosting, culinary trip to Italy.
Executive Chef at Nestlé Professional, Mark Clayton says, “This competition consistently attracts some of the best and brightest young chefs in the culinary industry.
"I’m continually impressed with the passion and creativity they bring to the table.
"Billy and Matt worked hard for this and it showed. Their performance was outstanding.”
The Nestlé Golden Chef’s Hat Award is Australia's longest running cooking competition for young chefs.
The platform allows young and emerging talent to connect with their peers, learn new skills, and experience new opportunities to advance their careers.


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This film explores the ways in which the echoes of the Civil War still resonate in American society: from politics to economics, from civil rights to foreign policy, from individual to collective memory, and from South to North to West. It explores the nature of history itself, revealing how the past is truly prologue to the present.
A part of American history that has not really been addressed. This documentary offers some insight and goes a long way to fill in the blanks. ~Mike
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From floor markers to NHS ‘bonus hours’, supermarkets around the UK have adapted to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.
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Local Boy Scout leaders remain positive despite bankruptcy filing
Local leadership of the Boy Scouts of America said Tuesday area activities will continue for the foreseeable future in the wake of the national organization's filing for bankruptcy protection amid declining membership and a drumbeat of child sexual abuse allegations.
“We’ve known that this was a possibility for a while so we’ve been prepared to answer questions,” said Jeff Woolsey, Scouting executive and CEO for the Last Frontier Council, which directs Scouting in central, western and southwestern Oklahoma.
“Is it going to affect us here locally? No, it’s not. In the long-term, no one knows, but we are locally owned. All of our support comes from here and doesn't go to the national office. All of our troops are functioning as normal.”
After months of speculation and mounting civil litigation, the Chapter 11 filing by the Scouting organization's national body was unprecedented in both scope and complexity. It was filed in Delaware Bankruptcy Court overnight.
The exact effects on Boy Scouts' future operations are unknown, leading to speculation about the organization's odds for survival, the impact on local troops and how bankruptcy could change the dynamic for abuse survivors who have yet to come forward.
Some fear that at a minimum it will prevent survivors from naming their abuser in open court.
“They’re going into bankruptcy not because they don’t have the money,” said Tim Kosnoff, who has tried thousands of child abuse cases, including many against the Boy Scouts and Catholic Church. “They’re going into bankruptcy to hide ... a Mount Everest in dirty secrets.”
In court filings, the Boy Scouts said it faces 275 abuse lawsuits in state and federal courts around the country, plus another 1,400 potential claims.
In a statement, the organization said: "The BSA cares deeply about all victims of abuse and sincerely apologizes to anyone who was harmed during their time in Scouting."
"The BSA intends to use the Chapter 11 process to create a Victims Compensation Trust that would provide equitable compensation to victims."
The group said it paid $150 million in settlements and legal costs from 2017 to 2019.
The Last Frontier Council counts more than 12,000 youth and more than 4,000 volunteer Scouters and adults as part of its local organization.
Woolsey told The Oklahoman that leaders believe the victims, and they should be fairly compensated.
“We care for victims,” he said. “We’re outraged that any adult used our programs to harm a child and we just feel horrible that any child was harmed. The safety of the children involved and the safety of the adults involved — that's one of our highest priorities.
"It's too bad there are people in the world that will do this to children and it's too bad they will target organizations children are a part of, but it happened.”
The national organization said Scouting programs will continue "throughout this process and for many years to come. Local Councils are not filing for bankruptcy as they are legally separate and distinct organizations."
It is exactly that distinction that victims' attorneys say will form the core of the legal battle ahead over which assets Boy Scouts must use to pay legal settlements and which can be shielded. The primary debate, they say, will center on property owned by the 266 regional councils and local troops.
Reports of a potential bankruptcy first emerged at the end of 2018, with rumors that the nonprofit youth organization would follow in the footsteps of the Catholic Church, which has faced similar claims of abuse. But unlike the Catholic bankruptcy cases, in which more than 20 individual dioceses have filed for protection, the Boy Scouts’ case will play out on a national level.
Many saw the Scouts’ increase in annual membership fees in October, from $33 to $60, as evidence of financial trouble.
Then on Jan. 1, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — which for 100 years was among Boy Scouts’ largest partners — followed through on its plan to pull hundreds of thousands of Mormon youth out of Scouts in favor of its own youth program. That withdrawal caused an 18% drop in membership overnight, to fewer than 2 million.
But the nonprofit organization's chief financial concern, according to victims’ attorneys and bankruptcy experts, is rising liability from abuse lawsuits. The suits have led to battles with insurance carriers, who refused to pay out claims saying the Scouts failed to take effective preventive measures to stop the abuse. In 2018, Boy Scouts sued six of its carriers.
“The problem with Boy Scouts is they're caught in a vice grip of, on one hand, having insurance companies not paying on these claims that Boy Scouts have already settled, and second having dwindling economic resources on account of paying out money for sexual abuse settlements,” said attorney Paul Mones, who has tried dozens of high-profile cases against Boy Scouts.
The Scouting organization has been deeply mired in civil litigation since a landmark case in 2010 that resulted in $19.9 million in damages, the largest ever for a single individual against the Boy Scouts. That case triggered the release of more than 20,000 confidential documents, which became known as the “perversion files.”
Those records named more than 1,000 banned volunteers, revealing that the 100-year-old organization had kept track of suspected and known abusers and failed to consistently report them to police or inform parents or the public of the extent of the problem.
While the bankruptcy filing has long been viewed by some legal experts, and even victims’ attorneys, as the best and most likely course of action, it’s a controversial move for one of the country’s most influential youth organizations.
Boy Scouts currently faces hundreds, if not thousands, of abuse lawsuits. New allegations poured in as efforts to extend the civil statute of limitations for survivors of child sexual abuse gained momentum in recent years.
Thirty-eight states have amended their statute of limitations since 2002, with 10 eliminating a civil statute of limitations altogether and 16 reviving expired statutes, according to CHILD USA, a think tank focused on preventing child abuse and neglect.
New York's Child Victims Act opened a one-year window in August for lawsuits from child sexual abuse survivors previously barred by the statute of limitations. The day that window opened, hundreds of suits were filed. California, which passed one of the first pieces of legislation years ago, added another revival window beginning this year.
One reason lawmakers have pushed such legislation is public safety: The legislation gives victims a greater opportunity to publicly name their abusers, who may still be a threat to their communities.
Kosnoff said bankruptcy will largely thwart that public safety effort.
“Individuals will come forward but their avenue will be to file proof of claim in the bankruptcy which is completely confidential,” said Kosnoff, who with Abused in Scouting has filed two recent suits against Boy Scouts.
In their statement, the Scouts flipped that, saying, a settlement fund "is the best means of compensating victims in a way that is equitable and protects their identities."
USA Today writers Cara Kelly, Nathan Bomey and Lindsay Schnell along with The Oklahoman's Josh Dulaney contributed to this report.


I use two core ideas for teaching someone how to play a musical instrument…training beyond & limits/exhaustion. This is whether we are actively using the following language & ideas in actual sessions, or not.
Training & Jamming
We are building a music practice based on focused training & jamming. We repeat the train/jam practice cycle until they merge into a unified experience.
A Tone Alone
A Tone Alone is an experiment playing with only one tone, including fretted tones and harmonics. Make music with a single tone! This is a session in the CASi system (Chords, Arpeggios, Scales, integrated).


UK grime star Stormzy appeared on BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge and sang his own rendition of Kanye West’s “Ultralight Beam.” Before going into Stormzy’s performance, it is important to acknowledge the band and choir behind him. They do a fantastic job for what appears to be a live performance.
Anderson .Paak and Ty Dolla $ign add a west coast flavor to BJ the Chicago Kid’s hit single “Church.” Both California-born rapper chime in with great vocals that blend in nicely with BJ. Each artist featured in the West Coast Remix to “Church” gets one verse, starting with Ty$, followed by .Paak, and ending with BJ.
XXXTENTACION is making the rounds for his single “Look At Me!” which recently cracked the Billboard Hot 100, but the Florida-based artist first burst on the scene with “Vice City” in early 2014 when he was 17-years old.
Quavo, Offset, and Takeoff start 2017 on a hot streak with viral tracks and worldwide attention from the music industry and social media. What I expected to sound more like a compilation of generic trap songs was the exact opposite. Pre-released track, “T-Shirt,” showed how exotic Takeoff’s flow is, which is something we don’t get a lot from trap artists these days and certainly not from him in a while.


Two SpaceX ships have headed to sea to recover parts of Falcon 9 after the rocket’s fifth upgraded GPS III satellite launch for the US military.
On Tuesday, SpaceX confirmed that Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch GPS III Space Vehicle 06 (SV06) no earlier than (NET) 7:10 am EST (12:10 UTC) on Wednesday, January 18th. Built by Lockheed Martin for an average of $610 million each [PDF], the payload is the sixth of ten upgraded GPS III satellites and weighs around 4.35 tons (~9600 lb). Its eventual destination is a circular Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) around 20,200 kilometers (12,550 mi) above Earth’s surface, where it will join dozens of other GPS satellites.
If past trends continue, SpaceX’s two-stage Falcon 9 rocket will be tasked with launching GPS III SV06 to a transfer orbit measuring around 400 kilometers by 20,200 kilometers. The satellite will then use its own propulsion system and propellant to raise its perigee and enter a circular, operational orbit.
SpaceX will then attempt to recover Falcon 9’s reusable booster on drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas (ASOG), which will be stationed about 640 kilometers (~400 mi) northeast of the company’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station LC-40 launch pad. ASOG was towed to sea on Friday, January 13th. Used once before to launch four astronauts on SpaceX’s Crew-5 mission, Falcon 9 B1077 will reportedly launch GPS III SV06, becoming the second flight-proven rocket to launch a GPS III satellite.
770 kilometers (~460 mi) downrange, recovery ship Doug – which left port on January 15th – will try to fish Falcon 9’s GPS III SV06 payload fairing halves out of the ocean for reuse. Fairing recovery and reuse have quietly become almost as reliable and routine as Falcon booster recovery. SpaceX is still the only company or group to successfully reuse an orbital-class rocket’s fairing.
GPS III SV06 will be SpaceX’s fifth upgraded GPS satellite launch since December 2018. The mission is part of a block of four contracts that represent a minor revolution in US military launch procurement. During SpaceX’s first GPS III launch, the company was forced to expend an entire Falcon 9 rocket – likely out of an abundance of caution and at the request of the US Air Force. For its three subsequent GPS III launches, SpaceX was able to recover each Falcon 9 booster while still launching the payload to the same orbit as the first expendable mission.
Soon after that first success, SpaceX won a contract worth $290.5 million for three more GPS III launches. At some point, the US military reassessed the situation and decided that SpaceX’s reusable Falcon boosters were becoming reliable enough to safely launch military payloads. The Space Force ultimately renegotiated its contract with SpaceX to allow the company to launch GPS III SV05 and SV06 on reused Falcon 9 boosters, reducing the total cost to the taxpayer to $226.5 million.
After GPS III SV06, the Space Force only has one GPS III launch contract left – using a ULA Vulcan rocket that has yet to fly. The three remaining GPS III satellites still need launch contracts, and the first tranche of ten GPS III satellites will be followed by up to 22 GPS IIIF Follow On satellites that will also need launches. Given the company’s track record and lower prices, SpaceX will likely be tasked with launching a large portion of those future satellites throughout the 2020s and into the 2030s.
Tune in below around 6:55 am EST (11:55 UTC) to watch SpaceX’s fifth GPS III launch live.


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I would like to express my support for Chris Blackman’s campaign to become county commissioner for District 2 and give my reasons why:
Chris has a diverse background and education. When I first met her she was employed by Washington State Division of Children’s Services, more commonly referred to as Child Protective Services. She handled everything from families in poverty to families suffering from abuse or drug addiction. I was immediately impressed with her tenacity, energy and strong work ethic.
From there Chris moved into the school counseling field, helping children and families deal with issues that impacted their ability to receive an education and become successful adults. After that, Chris moved into special education teaching, again helping children and young adults attain their high school diplomas and work toward becoming successful adults.
Working in state bureaucracies isn’t easy. Often met with red tape, limited resources and excuses, Chris learned to navigate the system always advocating for those she served. She learned how to stretch a dollar and think of ways to work smarter. That experience gave Chris the benefit of understanding local issues affecting the citizens of Walla Walla County and how to ensure that services reached the right population.
It also gave her the knowledge of how to understand and apply very complex rules and laws. Chris has learned a lot about how different divisions of government oversee different areas of responsibility and how they work with one another toward the common goal of serving the people. This diverse background is what sets Chris apart from her opponent.
Chris is a great team member and team leader. She is innovative and very intelligent. She is an independent thinker, but listens to all sides of an issue. She’s not afraid to ask tough, pertinent questions, so that decisions are sound and logical. Her energy is endless and she’ll give all of that energy to Walla Walla County.
I have to admit bias in my support for Chris, but I believe if you talk to her and consider what she would bring to the Board of County Commissioners, you would reach the same conclusion.
Please vote for Chris Blackman for District 2 commissioner.
Barry D. Blackman

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Meet one of the founders of SFA and preserver of Southern food culture.
Hi, I'm Karen Barker and I am originally from Brooklyn. New York but now reside in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I'm a pastry chef and a former owner of the Magnolia Grill in Durham, North Carolina. SFA is important to Southern food for so many reasons. Of course it's the preservation The recording of, education, but most importantly, I think, Southern Foodways Alliance brings people together to a common table. It's sitting down and sharing meals together and that is just, it's a treasure to be able to do that. I think the recipes that are most important to the South are probably the ones that transcend generations. They're family recipes. They're not chef ranted recipes and not enough of them have been preserved. There's so many that seem to get lost through history. I think in order to tell a story about the South And using one pantry item I'd probably choose buttermilk. I personally couldn't abide by buttermilk until I moved to the south because I never really knew what true buttermilk was. I'm talking about full throttle, full fat, buttermilk. Not the insipid, just nasty stuff that you tend to get in most other regions of the country. You can't bake really well without buttermilk. My husband claims that the best snack in the world is cornbread crumbled up into a bowl of buttermilk. I finally learned to drink it by the glass.

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BUSHWICK — A man raped a woman earlier this month and forcibly touched another victim in separate incidents in Bushwick, according to the NYPD.
On April 6, the suspect approached a 37-year-old woman in the confines of the 83rd Precinct, which polices Bushwick, and placed an unknown object against her back, police said. He demanded money and rifled through her pockets, but when the victim said she didn't have any money, he raped her, cops say.
Back on February 1, the suspect pushed a 39-year-old woman to the ground and grabbed her buttocks and breasts over her clothing, on Woodbine Street, NYPD says. When the victim fought the suspect off, he fled the scene, police said.
Now cops are asking for the public's help in tracking the man down. He is described as being in his 20s, standing about 5-foot-9-inches tall, weighing about 165 pounds, police said. He was last seen wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt and black jeans, cops say.
To report any information regarding the crime, call Crime stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.


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Tohoku Quake caused Japan’s ‘great tsunami’ in 2011 which killed 20,000.
Kodiak Island residents need three weeks of supplies on hand.
In March of 2011 a 9.0 earthquake hit Japan causing massive damage and killing as many as 20,000 people. Much of that damage was caused by the great tsunami that flooded towns, farmlands and wide regions of the area.
Many people refer to the 2011 earthquake in Japan as the Fukushima Quake. Possibly because it caused the Fukushima nuclear power plant to melt down, which lead the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
Alaskans may remember that quake, which is correctly named Tohoku. Tsunami warnings were issued along Alaska’s coast. The video of the tsunami tearing through towns, going over breakwaters, and inundating vast swaths of farmland is hard to forget.
For those in Kodiak, the Tohoku quake brought an important lesson. The 100-foot tsunami evacuation zone isn’t high enough. Kodiak residents must plan to get well above 100 feet when a tsunami evacuation is ordered.
Elena Suleimani is a tsunami expert who drew the first evacuation map for Kodiak. She says Tohoku was an off-shore quake. And from it scientists learned a lot about how such quakes can create huge tsunamis.
“It’s not that the magnitude was unexpected. The magnitude of this kind happened before. But, the way that the seafloor moved during the earthquake was quite unexpected in the Japanese event.”
And how does that relate to Kodiak?
“And then scientists suggested that Alaska Aleutian Subduction Zone, close to Kodiak, has a very similar behavior and structure to the Japanese Subduction Zone. So that type of earthquake can easily happen here in Kodiak. The fact that we haven’t had that earthquake before doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen.
So this kind of earthquake can be here off-shore and can result in similar inundation zone.”
Suleimani was in Kodiak last week with fellow scientist Dmitry Nicolksy, from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. They are working with local planners and a map maker to update the Kodiak Evacuation Plan to reflect the latest science on how high a tsunami could reach.
Using computer modelling based on historical records, archeological records and new science about possible tsunamis around Kodiak Island, they will be able to predict how an incoming tsunami might flow and where the water would go. Then they will know how high on various streets and local landmarks a person would need to go to be safe.
Once that is known, they’ll calculate how long it takes a person to reach that point on foot. That bit of information can be life or death if a quake causes serious damage to Kodiak’s roads and infrastructure before the tsunami arrives.
Kodiak Fire Chief Jim Mullican is the Emergency Services Coordinator in the event of a widespread disaster.
“Worst case scenario, the road system is no longer drivable. So, you don’t want to just sprint through and think everything is OK in the dark. You know if you have flashlights, if you don’t you’re going to have to take your time getting out of the inundation zone.
Taking your time is a conceptual thing of what’s in front of me, what hazards do I have to get around? Did a car overturn? Is there a fire? Is there downed electrical cables? Remember we’re talking an earthquake here creating a lot of damage to our infrastructure.”
Speaking of damage to infrastructure. Mullican says Kodiak Island residents should have at least a two weeks’ supply of food, medicines and whatever they will need to survive until supplies can arrive on-island.
“We could lose our docks; we can lose the airport. So it comes down to what us as citizens ourselves can do to protect our families and prepare for this. And that will make the overall community response far better. Because we can help those who are truly in need. And then we have the community that can help support themselves for that period of time. And it takes the onus off of overwhelming the emergency services, the public services and stuff that we’re trying to provide.”
The city hopes to have the new evacuation maps ready to use by late spring. But you don’t need to wait to put together an evacuation and survival plan for your family or your business. Here are some helpful links.


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July, 2020: Recently, Governor Abbott slowed down Texas' Plan to re-open. Not unexpectedly, case numbers have continued to climb as more uninfected people interact those that may not know they are infected. This is often due to minimal symptoms or lack of symptoms. Given the highly infectious nature of COVID 19, the goal to open the economy will always have an inherent risk of exposure. Our clinic will continue with its goal of attaining best practices regarding cleaning and social distancing. ( Details of Governor Abbott's latest recommendations for Texas citizens and businesses can be viewed here:https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/coronavirus/opentexas.aspx#protocols )
The New Normal: ONTO Orthopedics and ONTO Motion/Orthopaedic Therapy are providing in person and telemedicine visits. Your safety is a top priority for us. In person visits will continue to be scheduled to minimize time in the waiting room and person to person contact. When you arrive at the clinic please call to notify our staff so that we can process your visit as quickly as possible while you wait in you your car.
Masks are Back in Style! Do to the uptick in corona infection counts in our community, we are now requiring that patients, family, and guests visiting the clinic in person wear masks: Various government and international health agencies have issued varying recommendations regarding the use of masks while in public and while in closed spaces. On the margin it is our view that mask use may decrease the risk of transmission of the COVID virus. While there is little evidence that the virus is readily transmissible outdoors, we are updating our policy to require wearing masks in our clinic. If you cannot obtain a mask and need one, we will attempt to provide you one when you arrive for your appointment.
What Will Happen Upon Arrival to Our Clinic:
You must wear a mask.
Your temperature will be checked.
You will be given hand sanitizer
PLEASE REMEMBER, KEEPING EACH OTHER HEALTHY IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT -- LET'S ALL DO OUR PART !
As always, we do appreciate your patience and understanding. And have a safe and healthy July 4th holiday.
Shawn A. Hayden MD and the Clinic Staff

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Showing 301 - 310 of 423 annotations tagged with the keyword "Pain"
In this five-stanza free verse poem the speaker, a physician, observes the patient, a young man dying of cancer and suffering pain in the arm he has lost to the disease. The patient watches television, and sees the fiftieth-anniversary commemoration of D Day, the Allied landing in France in World War II. The old soldiers, the war veterans, are enviable for the "honor" provided by the source of their losses and injuries, the sense of meaning that comes from winning a war, which is so unlike the arbitrary and passive suffering of cancer in which, as the speaker says, there's "no honor."
The patient has asked whether a scan would explain the pain in his phantom limb; the physician muses that a scan is the wrong place to look, not just because there is no arm to scan, but because what the cancer patient really lacks is a story which can make sense of and justify his misery. The veterans have such a story. Although they are aging and have suffered, the speaker longs to give his patient "their battles," the sense of significance and value (a story recognized by the whole world, as the TV broadcast indicates) which cancer lacks.
The poet plays with the "D's" of D Day: "deception, danger, death," are all inherent in the world, but seldom accessible to confrontation as they are in war (to this extent war is like the scan, making the sources of pain visible and so manageable). A fourth "D" is added, for "deliverance," implying that the "old men's stories" of battles and victory compensate for their suffering in a way that nothing can for the cancer patient.
En route to the way to the Trojan War, warrior Philoctetes, wielder of the bow of Heracles, is bitten by a poisonous snake at the shrine of the goddess Chryse. The infected wound becomes so painful that Philoctetes’s screams of agony repel the Greek commanders, who order Odysseus to leave him on the island of Lemnos. Ten years later (the time of the play’s opening scene), Odysseus returns to Lemnos with Neoptolemus, son of the now-dead Achilles, to retrieve Philoctetes’s bow. It has been prophesied that only with this bow can Troy be conquered.
Promising him glory and honor, Odysseus convinces Neoptolemus to win Philoctetes’s trust and take the bow. Philoctetes, delighted to see any human and especially another Greek, shares his story with Neoptolemus, begs him to take him back to Greece, and entrusts him with the bow when he is overcome by a spasm of pain.
Deeply moved by witnessing Philoctetes’s misery firsthand, Neoptolemus confesses the truth to him, but tries to persuade Philoctetes to accompany him to Troy. When Odysseus appears, Neoptolemus returns the bow, declaring that only with Philoctetes himself wielding it will the prophesy be fulfilled. He asks forgiveness, and invites Philoctetes to come back with him to be healed and then on to Troy to contribute to the battle. The only thing that ends Philoctetes’s refusal is the sudden appearance of Heracles, who announces that Philoctetes and Neoptolemus must join together to take Troy.
Daughter of a wealthy businessman, tall, beautiful Emily Stockwell Turner falls out of love with her stolid professor husband, Holman, halfway through their first semester at a small college for men in northern New England. She is lonely and miserable in this remote place. Encouraged by her confidante and fellow faculty wife, Miranda, she embarks on a secret affair with the college musician, Will Thomas.
Divorced and sexually experienced, Will initiates Emmy into the powerful romance of physical love. But their on-again, off-again relationship is fraught by its own secrecy, Holman's jealous suspicions, Will's infidelities, Emmy's lies, Miranda's disingenuous disinterest, and the not-so-irrational hatred that Freddy, Emmy's four-year old son, bears Will.
Emmy and Will take ever greater risks with their clandestine encounters; eventually they admit to being truly in love and she decides to join him in his move to New York City. But Holman falls ill and nearly loses his contract position at the University when he tries to kill a student demonstrator whom he wrongly suspects of being Emmy's lover. Emmy postpones her departure indefinitely, because Holman "needs" her more.
In a mountainous village in Spain, a man in the prime of his life has labored fifteen years constructing a museum of miniatures that no one has yet seen. Just before completing his project, the artist Gregorio has an accident and both his hands are terribly crushed by a piece of marble. There is little hope that he will ever regain complete use of his hands.
Gregorio is treated by the town's elderly physician, Dr. Xavia. The doctor narrates the story and also dreams about the contents of the mysterious museum. One day Dr. Xavia finds that the door to the museum is unlocked and has been open all along for anyone wanting to enter it. The doctor discovers that the three story building housing the museum contains a complete and perfect recreation of the village that he finds both familiar and strange.
Unmarried, fifty-four year-old Virginia Miner (Vinnie), a professor at Corinth who specializes in children's literature, is off to London for another research trip. Her work has been trashed by a Professor L. Zimmern of Columbia and she is hoping to produce an important new book about playground rhymes that will restore her reputation and confidence.
A 'pro' at long flights, her serenity is ruffled by her seatmate, a garrulous married man, Chuck Mumpson, of Tulsa who wishes to chat. She puts him off with difficulty. But the smoking and drinking Chuck is persistent. He could use help with a research trip of his own to trace his family history. Vinnie slowly becomes involved with his project, and then with him.
Meanwhile, her young colleague, Fred Turner, has left his wife, Roo, at home for his own sabbatical; they have quarreled. Soon, he consoles himself with the affections of Lady Rosemary Hadley. Quite by accident and with the encouragement of Chuck, Vinnie becomes an emissary for Fred's estranged wife in an improbable midnight walk on Hampstead Heath.
Just as she begins to think Chuck's affections have cooled, because of his silence of several days duration, she is visited by his daughter who describes his sudden death while climbing the stairs of a small town hall. When her publisher patronizes his memory, she realizes with surprise that he loved her and she loved him. She returns to her life in Corinth, solitary and unloved, but altered for having loved and been loved.
A woman lies in her bed, dying of cancer. Several family members have gathered in the room around her, including her son Bruno. From the age of 11 Bruno had wanted to be an artist, but had become a doctor instead because it was easier to make a living. "And medicine at one point--when he was nineteen or twenty--had seemed more humane than the humanities, more artful than art." Yet four years earlier, Bruno gave up his medical practice in Rome to devote his life to painting. But now he is back to medicine, helping to coordinate the efforts of his mother's physicians.
The dying woman sips an opium solution to ease her pain. She teases Bruno about the many times she had embarrassed him as a child, by acting funny or assertive or eccentric, behaving very differently from the other children's mothers. She would always make people laugh. Likewise, she was never confused about what she wanted. Even now, tipsy with opium, she remains in charge, a rock among the gathered family members, deflecting their sadness with her good humor.
The narrator's mother, having received "all the benefits of modern medicine," was still alive after 14 months. The son, himself a doctor, finally told her that she had cancer, after which she requested that she receive no treatment, other than pain control. Thus, her son provided her with a bottle of opium solution to use as needed. However, the other doctors continued their pretense that, if only she would take the "cure," she would get better.
She died six days later, "not slowly, like a train arriving at a station, but swiftly and convulsively, like a train derailing." She was buried without the priest's blessing because she hadn't been a practicing Catholic. However, the "ceremonies" of the craftsmen creating a masonry border around her grave, and of the stonecutter carving her headstone, were "last rites" more to her liking than the priest's prayers anyway, because she had never been fond of religion.
In this collection Richard Selzer brings together 25 stories from his previous books, along with two new stories, Avalanche (see this database) and "Angel, Tuning a Lute." The unifying theme is the world of medicine and healing, which Selzer explores with a keen eye and compassionate heart. These stories are firmly grounded in the foibles, suffering, and exultation of the human body.
In the Introduction Selzer sketches the path by which he became a surgeon-writer and he indicates the origin of some of the stories. Particularly interesting are the stories that do homage to literary and historical figures; for example, "Poe's Light-house," which grew out of a fragment Edgar Allan Poe wrote in his last delirium, and "The Black Swan," a re-writing of a Thomas Mann novella (Mann's The Black Swan is annotated in this database).
Likewise, the story of how "Avalanche" was written is an interesting tale in itself. Selzer's description of pruning the story from his journal reminds me of Michelangelo's comment that the sculpture already exists in the block of marble. The sculptor merely removes the unnecessary stone. The Doctor Stories contains many of Selzer's tales that have become part of the Literature and Medicine canon; these include, for example, "Tube Feeding," "Sarcophagus," Imelda, Mercy, Brute, and Four Appointments with the Discus Thrower. (See this database for annotations of the latter four.)
Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) is a beautiful, unattached psychiatrist whose business-like facade fails to conceal a natural empathy that draws men. For her, however, love is a mere epi-phenomenon, easy to explain and resist, until she meets Dr. Edwardes (Gregory Peck). The famous expert on the guilt complex has arrived to replace the retiring chief (Leo Carroll). Constance is smitten, and so, it seems, is he.
But soon, she realizes that Edwardes is "not well," that he is terrified of dark lines on white: fork marks on a tablecloth; threads in her robe. Worse, she discovers that Edwardes is not, in fact, Edwardes, but an amnesic physician of initials "J. B." who is convinced that he has murdered his analyst. Constance does the right thing by having him removed from work, but she refuses to believe he is a murderer. Wanting to protect her, he leaves. But she, intent on curing her lover, follows him on a journey to retrace his last movements. The task is to recover both a memory and a missing person.
They go skiing (dark lines on white) at a resort where the real Dr. Edwardes had sojourned with his patient-colleague. On a dangerous slope, J. B. suddenly remembers that Edwardes went over the cliff. The body is found, but it has a bullet in the back.
Now hiding from the police, the couple pose as newlyweds and flee to her old mentor in Rochester. Complete with accent and beard, Dr. Brulov (Michael Chekhov) is a delightful double of the recently deceased Sigmund Freud (1858-1939). It emerges that John Ballantine (Peck) never lost his childhood feelings of guilt over the accidental death of his little brother.
In a gruesome ten-second flashback, the tyke is abruptly impaled on a iron-spike fence. This ancient guilt was reactivated by his doctor’s demise and it was sublimated by the defense mechanism of an assumed identity to keep the dead man alive. An idle slip of the tongue reveals the murderer to be the jealous retiree. The killer threatens Constance and then makes a quick end by dispatching himself instead.
In the "free love" context of the nineteen-sixties, Harriet and David Lovatt are throwbacks to a more conservative, traditional, and family-oriented decade. Their life dream is to have a big house in the country filled with children, and it seems that they will succeed. After bearing four young children, however, Harriet is feeling the strain of years of childbearing, sleeplessness, money trouble, and her parents' and in-laws' disapproval of her fecundity.
Her fifth pregnancy is not only unplanned, but also unusually painful and disruptive. Harriet's doctor prescribes sedatives but finds nothing abnormal in her situation. When Ben is born, Harriet jokes that he is like "a troll or a goblin," but no one responds well to this unusually hairy and physically vigorous baby, who in turn does not respond to anything but his own desires and fears.
As he grows older, family pets and other children seem to be in physical danger. Health care professionals do not confirm the couple's conviction that Ben is not normal, but neither do they obstruct the decision to send Ben to a private institution, a removal that leaves the family temporarily happy until Harriet visits Ben and recognizes the institution for what it is, a place where all manner of "different" children are sent to live heavily medicated, physically restrained, and foreshortened lives away from families who do not want them.
Harriet brings Ben home, where he grows up amid what remains of the Lovatts' domestic fantasy, and finds community in a gang of thuggish older boys whom Harriet suspects are involved in various criminal acts. As the story closes, Ben has left home and Harriet imagines him in another country, "searching the faces in the crowd for another of his own kind" (133).

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Visa Unveils New Security Services to Prevent Payment Fraud
According to RL Prasad, Visa’s senior vice president of Payment System Risk, the company used information from breach investigations, law enforcement efforts and cyber intelligence to create enhanced security protocols for merchants, financial institutions and payment processors. These security features come at no additional cost.
One of the new security services is Visa Vital Signs, which identifies signs of fraud at ATMs. Visa also has a Payment Threats Lab, which merchants can use to test their payment processing for vulnerabilities.
Earlier this month, Visa celebrated 25 years of ecommerce payments. Visa processed the first ecommerce payment on August 11, 1994. In the updated security suite, Visa has a program to scan ecommerce websites for data skimming malware. This reduces the likelihood of data breaches that target payment information.
Perhaps the most valuable security enhancement is the Account Attack Intelligence. This notifies merchants and financial institutions about card-not-present (CNP) fraud. Hackers often use automatic generators to guess account numbers, security codes and expiration dates for cards, even if they do not have a physical card to reference. Visa can detect this automated testing and alert financial institutions before the fraudulent transactions occur.
Shortly after America adopted EMV chips in payment cards, there was a sharp spike in card-not-present fraud. This is partly because chip cards are hard to replicate, but an increase in online shopping has also played a role in CNP fraud. Visa’s efforts may help reduce the number of unauthorized online transactions in America.


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DULUTH, MN | SNOCROSS SEASON KICK-OFF
November 25-27, 2016 Spirit Mountain
Writing and Photos by: Crystal Wallem
The much anticipated Snocross season opener has come and gone, and what a great kick-off weekend it was! For starters, WE HAD SNOW, despite the tropical weather that proceeded the race weekend. Thanks to everyone at Spirit Mountain for pumping out enough snow for our ISOC crew to make a killer track out of. Take that, mother nature.
We started the weekend out right with some fierce battling going down as the Pro Am Women took the track.
Woodies Racing’s Jennifer Martel is thumb-to-bar as she blasts out of the corner and heads towards the uphill.
Kassie Thibodeau of Team Southside shows off her multi-colored skis as she goes 3-2 in her heats.
…annnd manages to pull off a 2nd place podium to finish off the night!
High fives all around!
Next brings us to the big event of the night; the fast-paced, intense Amsoil Dominator Cup, consisting of a series of head-to-head, single elimination, lap and a half battles.
Team LaVallee’s Kyle Pallin studies the track just before taking on Tucker Hibbert in the Dominator.
And we’re racing! Kyle and Tucker rocket through the night sky as they accelerate down the first stretch of the track. You can already tell it’s going to be a close battle.
Kyle and Tucker duke it out side by side through the FXR corner.
With the crowd going wild the entire time, FXR’s very own Kyle Pallin takes the win over Tucker Hibbert and advances to the next round. Tucker pays Kyle a congratulatory handshake for a solid victory.
On day two of racing, a brand spankin’ new class had its debut in the ISOC series; Snowbikes! These snowmobile-dirtbike hybrids are quite the site as they soar through the sky with one less ski than we’re used to seeing. Some might argue that the best part of the weekend was taking in that sweet smell of the bikes’ burning race gas that filled the air while they were on the track… mm mm mmm!
David Fischer hanging out on his Husky, enjoying that Superior view.
You may recognize this cat from years prior racing Pro Open on his Arctic Cat, but this year Cody Thomsen decided to lose a ski and try out his luck on a Snowbike.
The future of Snocross having a little pow-wow before making their way to the starting line.
Everyone’s happy to see Justin Broberg back on his Arctic Cat, making his first appearance as a Woodies Racing rider!
Hentges Racing’s Petter Narsa flashes us the back of his crisp, new FXR jersey.
Pro Am Plus 30 rider, Bobby LePage, looking back at the pack as he takes the win in his second round.
Pro Lite rider, Martin Moland, showing off to the crowd.
It isn’t the weekend unless you’re getting a little sideways. Andrew Carlson showing us how it’s done.
We know we aren’t the only ones excited to see Kody Kamm back on the track after being out due to injury for the majority of last season.
FXR riders flooded the podium this weekend, making us proud!
Carson Alread with a celebratory fist pump as he clinches the win in his Sport Lite final.
Niklas Gronlund took the 3rd spot and joined Carson on the podium.
This bright face, sporting even brighter gear, was all smiles on the podium for the Transition 8-10 final. Cameron Cole proudly clenches his 2nd place plaque.
FXR sweeps the JR 16-17 podium with Eric Downs in 1st, Carson Alread in 2nd, and Niklas Gronlund in 3rd.
Milt (owner at FXR Racing) looks on proudly, waiting to congratulate the victors!
Milt joins Ryley Bester and crew to help celebrate Ryley’s 1st place finish in his Sport final.
Aki Pihlaja, hailing from Finland, made his debut as Boss Racing’s Pro Lite rider.
Aki starts off his American career with a 2nd place podium finish!
Iceman waves the checkered flags, and night two of racing is in the books.
What was supposed to be day three of racing turned into a morning of playing the waiting game as mother nature reared her ugly head and blanketed the track with heavy fog. After a 3 hour fog delay, for the safety of the riders and track workers, the call was made to cancel the races for Sunday. ISOC will discuss whether or not these races will be made up during an event in the future.
We’ll see you all in Winter Park, Colorado in a couple of weeks!

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LACRAMIOARA STRATULAT, MARIA GEBA, DANIELA SALAJAN VILLAGE FROM MUSCEL BY ION MARINESCU VALSAN STATE OF CONSERVATION AND THE CHROMATIC PALETTE Ion Marinescu Vâlsan (1865 - 1936) was a Romanian painter belonging to the modern Romanian art from the beginning of the 20th century. Many of the paintings painted by him have picturesque landscapes in his native town, Malureni, Arges County. He was influencedby Nicolae Grigorescu. Village from Muscel painting, by Ion Marinescu Vâlsan, was examined by several non-invasive techniques (Vis, UV & grazing light examination, IR reflectography, optical microscopy and X-rays fluorescence spectrometry) to obtain information on its chromatic palette and state of conservation. Zinc white, Lead white, Prussian blue, Cinnabar, Chrome yellow, Yellow ochre, Red ochre, Viridian and Burnt umber were used as the pigments, while the preparation layer is from Chalk, Zinc white, Lead white, identified by XRF analysis.
Keywords: oil painting on canvas, VIS, UV & grazing light examination, IR reflectography, optical microscopy(OM), X-rays fluorescence spectrometry (XRF)

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Man of letters, philosopher, and politician, the Marquis de Sade is one of the most controversial figures since the eighteenth century, but recently psychology, theater, cinema, and literary criticism have shed new light on his life and works. Lacoste Castle in the South of France, one of the properties of the Sade family, became the refuge of the Marquis between periods of incarceration. Thanks to the Sade family opening its archives for the first time, historian Jean-Pascal Hesse examines Sade’s story through previously unpublished documents and imagery and walks in the Marquis’ footsteps in his beloved château.
Originally from the region of Lacoste, historian Jean-Pascal Hesse is the author of a number of books, including Pierre Cardin: 60 Years of Innovation (2010), Maxim’s: Mirror of Parisian Life (2011), and The Palais Bulles (2012), all in close collaboration with Pierre Cardin and published by Assouline. He also serves on the Paris city council, and directs cultural events for the mayor of the 16th arrondissement.
- About Assouline Publishing:
Since its beginnings in 1994, Assouline has been dedicated to creating books that are as informational as they are beautiful works of art. The respect for the product and the process of creation is evident in every facet – the traditional technique of hand-binding covers, the imagery that transports the reader to another place and time, the luxurious thickness of each page. The passion and the attention to detail are like that of an haute couture atelier.
Known worldwide for bringing luxury to the publishing industry, Assouline produces one-of-a-kind books on fashion, art, architecture, photography, design, and travel, weaving a story of L’Art de Vivre with every publication. The Ultimate Collection is the epitome of the Assouline brand as it offers an unparalleled standard of excellence in the 21st century. Each book from the collection pays homage to the time-honored craft of bookbinding and pictures are individually hand-tipped, a process which requires cutting, gluing, and placing each photo onto the page. This level of craftsmanship yields the highest quality books in the world, truly pieces of art in their own right.


MOSCOW – Japan hopes the Russian government will decide by December whether it will choose China or Japan as the primary buyer of Siberian oil, according to Assistant Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shotaro Yachi.
That is when Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov is scheduled to visit Japan.
Yachi, in Moscow for talks on long-term overall ties between the two countries, said Wednesday he raised the pipeline issue in separate meetings with Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov and other high-ranking officials.
The decision involves building an overland oil pipeline across Siberia for oil shipments. Japan wants a pipeline that links Siberian oil fields to the nearest Russian port to Japan, while the Chinese want the pipeline to go to China.
Japan has proposed building a 3,700-km pipeline to carry crude from Angarsk near Lake Baikal in Siberia to Nakhodka on the Sea of Japan.
China proposed linking Angarsk and Daqing, an inland city in Heilongjiang Province, about halfway between Angarsk and Nakhodka.
Yachi said he has “a feeling” that the Russian government is considering first building a pipeline to Nakhodka.
Moscow had indicated it was leaning toward the Chinese position, but recent Russian media reports said the government will put off the route decision until next August.
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'He's not interested in me anymore...'
I am 29 and my husband is 32. We have been married for two years. For the first six months of our marriage, he was caring and went out of his way to please me...
I am 29 and my husband is 32. We have been married for two years. For the first six months of our marriage, he was caring and went out of his way to please me. Gradually he stopped bothering about me as he was tied up with work. Later, he even stopped interacting with me even though we stay in the same house. He leaves home in the morning and returns late night. It is as if we are no longer husband and wife. I am there to do all the household chores for him. I stay with my in-laws, but they are old and have their set of medical problems. I have tried to talk to my hubby, but he laughs off my fears. Has he found someone else in his life? I am confused by his behaviour. I wonder what went wrong?
You need to express your fears and apprehensions to your husband. If he laughs it off, you have to explain to him that it is no laughing matter. May be your hubby is too tied up at the workplace and has too much to handle which is leaving him with not much time at home. Either way it is important that he tells you what is going on. He is married to you and he owes you an explanation about his changed behavior.
I've been in a relationship for the past three years. Everything is going fine, except for his sister. I feel she does not like me. Whenever I am around, she barely talks to me. I have asked my guy about her behaviour, but he tells me she takes a while to open up and strike a conversation with others. I do not get good vibes from her.
Believe what your guy is telling you. Some people take time to open up and make friends. His sister may be an introvert, so what you find odd is the way she is. It does not mean that she does not like you. Give her time to be comfortable with you.
Diana will solve it!
Write to Diana at firstname.lastname@example.org, or fax her on 24112009. You can also post letters to Dear Diana, Mid Day, Peninsula Centre, Dr S S Rao Road, opp Mahatma Gandhi Hospital, Parel, Mumbai 400012

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It’s exactly 170 years since Baron Haussmann began his radical transformation of Paris, and the city is marking the occasion with a wide range of lectures and events. Although he had his critics, Haussmann had an enormous impact on Paris, perhaps more than any other individual in history. Surely this anniversary year is a moment to pay tribute to his work.
It’s difficult to overstate how different the city was before his era. The roads in mid-19th century Paris were narrow and dark, travel through the city was difficult and living conditions for most Parisians were grim. The cholera epidemic of 1832 had hit the city especially hard. When Louis Napoléon Bonaparte returned from exile in London in 1852, one of his very first priorities was to oversee vast improvements in the capital.
So, in 1853, just a year after declaring himself Emperor, Napoléon III engaged Georges-Eugène Haussmann as his chief planner and, having been so impressed with London, explained his vision: “Let’s make this city beautiful and improve the life of its citizens.” He wanted rid of the crowded little streets, which, as he commented “lack air and daylight”; he wanted wide new avenues to open up the city. Soon 80,000 workers were engaged to make it all happen.
Haussmann certainly had his critics, some objecting to the costs involved, others to the demolition of parts of medieval Paris. But, between 1853 and 1870, the year of his resignation, he transformed the French capital, enlarging it, modernizing its infra-structure, and adding many stunning new avenues, parks, squares and public buildings. Now 170 years on, it’s easy to get lost in the detail, but here are 10 fundamental changes made as Haussmann, following his Emperor’s instructions, sought to “beautify” Paris.
1. Enlarging the city
Napoléon III annexed whole new areas to the city of Paris – including Montmartre, Passy and Belleville – added eight arrondissements, making a total of 20, as is still the case today. These new Parisians brought in extra taxes which helped with the costs being incurred, for example for the wide new roads needed to connect up all the different areas of the city.
2. New avenues, new boulevards and squares
Haussmann oversaw the building of the grande croisée, ensuring easy east-west travel through the city via the Rue de Rivoli and the Boulevard Saint Antoine, which crossed over a north-south axis of two new boulevards named after Strasbourg and Sébastopol. Countless more avenues were built, opening up the city and providing clear routes to the new railway stations like the Gare du Nord and the Gare Saint-Lazare. The area around the Arc de Triomphe was completely redesigned, creating the Étoile of 12 avenues radiating out from the center and a number of imposing new squares also emerged, including the Place du Château d’Eau, now the Place de la République.
3. The restoration of Île de la Cité
Here in the heart of Paris, many of the old streets and neighborhoods were destroyed, so that wider roads could be built. But some ancient treasures were preserved and renovated. The square in front of Notre-Dame was enlarged and the cathedral spire – a casualty of the revolution – was restored. Careful maintenance work was done on the Sainte Chapelle, the Conciergerie and the Palais de Justice, and the imposing new Préfecture de Police was built.
4. New water and sewage systems
Cannily, Haussmann realized that building so many new roads was an excellent opportunity to modernize and extend the pipes and sewers underneath. The engineer Eugène Belgrand was appointed in 1855 and he was to spend the next 15 years transforming the city’s water supply, enlarging the underground pipe system sixfold, to ensure that the water supply would meet needs of a fast-growing population. Four times as many homes now had access to running water, and public health was further vastly improved by the installation of new sewer tunnels under the boulevards.
5. Lighting up Paris
Haussmann oversaw the creation of a company, Compagnie parisienne d’éclairage et de chauffage par le gaz, to provide enough gas for heating and lighting the city. Thanks to this new enterprise, streets, courtyards and the staircases of new buildings could all be made safer by the introduction of gas lamps. When the new Opera Garnier opened in 1875, Haussmann was no longer in charge, but the gorgeously lit-up building so admired by Parisians and visitors alike still owed him a great debt.
6. Four new parks
Haussmann made sure that each corner of Paris had access to a huge new park, developed on the authority of Napoleon III himself. West of the city, the Bois de Boulogne was created and to the east, the Bois de Vincennes. To the north there would be the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont and to the south, the Parc Montsouris. Thousands were employed to add water features and grottos and to plant lawns, flowers and thousands of trees, all of which meant that Parisians had access to open spaces for walking and relaxation.
7. City center parks and garden squares
Existing parks such as the Parc Monceau and the Jardin du Luxembourg were redesigned and many more trees planted. Each of the 20 arrondissements had four quartiers and it was Haussmann’s dream that all 80 should have their own neighborhood park or square. He himself created 24 new squares, ranging from the Square du Temple in the 3rd arrondissement, a family park with a pond, adventure playground and plenty of benches, to the Square Louis XVI, created in 1865 around the Chapelle Expiatoire where the remains of Louis and Marie Antoinette lie. Each square is unique, and each helps fulfill Haussmann’s intention that no one in Paris should be more than 10 minutes’ walk from somewhere to relax outside.
8. Buildings: the grand and the less grand
Some of the city’s grandest buildings were conceived as part of Haussmann’s plans, most prominently the Opéra, which he commissioned Charles Garnier to design. It was begun in 1862, although not finished until 1875, after Haussmann had ‘retired.’ He oversaw other grand projects, such as the renovation of Les Halles, and also many less prestigious, but very useful ones: town halls, schools and hospitals in the new arrondissements for example.
9. Street furniture
It was Haussmann who first introduced the Colonne Morris to Parisian streets, the cylindrical advertising columns still seen all over the city today. And he was nothing if not practical. The wonderfully named chalet de nécessité, or public toilet in plainer English, which was built near the Champs Élysées, was also his idea. Necessary, yes, but also beautiful, for the sculptor Émile Guadrier was commissioned to create its decorated façade.
10. Haussmann’s grand apartment buildings
Who doesn’t love the graceful apartment buildings with which Haussmann lined the new avenues and boulevards? Their beauty was very much by design: elegant proportions, suitable for the wide roads in which they stood, and a harmony dictated by quite a number of “rules.” The buildings in a street were to be of the same height and all fashioned from the same local stone. They would typically be six floors high, plus a garret, and uniformity was further enforced by the design of the balconies, which had to be perfectly aligned all across the façade.
The use made of each floor was not left to the owners either. The ground floor was for shops or the concierge’s apartment. The second floor, known as the “noble” floor, was for fine apartments suitable for aristocrats or other well-off people who would pay a premium not to have too many sets of stairs to climb. Here, the ceilings would be higher and each front room would have a balcony. Further up were more floors of cheaper apartments, with a balcony spanning the width of the building on the fifth floor. The garret rooms, which would have dormer windows, were for servants’ quarters.
Surely even those who felt nostalgic for the parts of old Paris which disappeared under Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s modernization of the city had to admit that he created much that was beautiful, yet also very practical. Napoléon III showed his personal recognition of all that was being achieved when he awarded his master-planner the honorary title of “Baron” in 1857. Today, there are still multiple reasons to admire the way Haussmann fulfilled Napoléon III’s instruction to “embellir la ville,” to make the city beautiful.
Lead photo credit : Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809-1891). Author unknown. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Wikimedia Commons


(Undated) - Here are some things you need to know regarding the Coronavirus situation.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has suggested that indoor sporting events restrict crowds. To that end, the Mid-American Conference Basketball Tournament, and the Ohio High School Athletic Association's boys and girls basketball tournaments will allow admission only by players, coaches, necessary staff, and immediate families of players.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court is making plans to conduct as much business as possible either over the phone, or online. Unless told otherwise, you are still to show up for court hearings and trials.
Ohio State University, John Carroll University, Case Western Reserve University, The University of Akron, and Kent State University are among schools that have told students that face-to-face classroom instruction will be replaced by online instruction.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has told all 88 county Boards of Election that polling places in senior citizen living facilities must be moved for next week's primary election. 36 of those are in Cuyahoga County. Those whose will have new voting locations will be notified by postcard.
Playhouse Square says its events will continue as scheduled.
Cuyahoga County has opened an Emergency Operations Center and Joint Information Center. This is to enhance the county's ability to support and manage county-level disaster response and recovery efforts.
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Mary Paulson-Ellis, Creative Conversations, University of Glasgow, Monday 30th October, 2017
Novelist Mary Paulson-Ellis
Monday 30 October, 2017
1 – 2 PM University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Free & Open to the Public
Mary Paulson-Ellis is an Edinburgh-based writer and University of Glasgow Creative Writing MLitt alumna whose debut novel The Other Mrs Walker was Waterstone’s Scottish Book of the Month in March 2017 and was a recipient of the Amazon Rising Star Award.
Her short stories, non-fiction and other tall tales have been published in a variety of anthologies and magazines including the Guardian Weekend Magazine, New Writing Scotland, Gutter and The Herald.
She was awarded Glasgow’s inaugural Curtis Brown Prize for Fiction in 2009, the Maverick Award from the Tom McGrath Trust in 2011 and the Literature Works First Page Prize in 2013.
She is a Hawthornden and a Brownsbank Fellow and a member of writers collective 26.
Books by featured authors will be for sale in John Smiths bookshop.
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Ohio woman gets 90 days in jail for faking cancer
An Ohio woman will spend 90 days in jail after faking having cancer and accepting money raised to help her.
The 38-year-old Michelle Mundy on Tuesday was also sentenced to two years of probation and was ordered to pay back nearly $6,000 she received in donations.
The Dayton Daily News reports Mundy in court said she didn't fake being ill because she wanted money. Instead, she said, she was "searching for affection."
Mundy pleaded guilty to a theft charge. Her attorney didn't return a request for comment.
Mundy's false cancer claims began to unravel when her co-workers attempted to visit her at the hospital where she was allegedly receiving treatment, but she was not there. Mundy resigned the next day and turned herself in to authorities a month later.


My recollection is that party identification remained fairly steady in the 1995-2005 period; Rasmussen's numbers suggest it has changed more since mid-2005. Let's look at it quarter by quarter.
The Democrats' edge in the 2004 election quarter was 39 percent to 37 percent, not much different from the 37 percent to 37 percent party identification in the 2004 exit poll.
It's one indication, and there were others, that Republican turnout efforts were more successful than Democratic turnout efforts. Party ID for both parties seems to have declined slightly after the election quarter, as the intensity of partisan feeling died down. Republicans continue to trail Democrats by about the same 1 percent to 3 percent up through March 2006.
Then in the third quarter, with the increased intensity of the fighting in Iraq, the Democratic edge grows. Republican Party identification sinks from 34 percent to about 31 or 32 percent, while Democratic Party identification rises to about 37 or 38 percent.
Rasmussen spotlights the June 2007 result, which I've shown separately, as perhaps a turning point. What we may be seeing here is some discontent with the performance of the Democratic Congress at a time when the job ratings of Congress as a whole (and of both parties in Congress) is very low.
But Republicans are still in worse shape than they were in October 2004-March 2006, while Democrats are in about the same shape they were in April 2005-March 2006.
Republicans may have an opportunity to raise Republican Party ID back up to 2004 levels. Rasmussen notes that Republican Party ID increased during a time when most Republicans in Congress were fighting the Bush-supported immigration bill.
There may be some more rallying to Republicans with the commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence and with the forthcoming battles between Bush and the Democratic Congress over spending. But it's too soon to say that Republicans have definitely turned a corner.
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San Diego, October 9, 2013— Vistage Chairs Olga Artemenko and Ray Saleeby have recently launched a new chief executive group in the central and northern New Jersey market. The Vistage Group will meet monthly to discuss business issues, share expertise, and provide one another confidential help to achieve their goals. Artemenko and Saleeby join nearly 400 Vistage Chairs who lead local area groups, which total more than 17,000 members in 15 countries.
Vistage Best Practice Chair Bob Duncan applauded their success: “I am delighted to see Ray and Olga combine their talents to create a really unique and special group for their members. Both of these fine individuals have passion for the mission, a lifetime of accomplishment and a spirit of collegiality that when combined are certain to create a member experience that will be second to none. Ray and Olga embody the spirit of giving that is at the core of every successful Chair. Congratulations to a great team!
Olga Artemenko is president and CEO of CCI Pharm, a global pharmaceutical company. She is a dynamic leader and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in international business dealing with Eastern Europe and Russia with astute negotiation skills in multiple languages. Twenty years ago, Olga entered the US and several years later in 1994 she founded and successfully led Collective Consulting International, Inc (CCI), an international consulting company delivering over $100MM in sales value in an 18-year period. Artemenko holds a BA (Honor of Excellence) and Master in Communication (Cum Laude) from Kyiv National Linguistic University in the Ukraine. In the USA she completed postgraduate studies in economics at Princeton University.
Raymond Saleeby has been a successful CEO or Managing Partner at market leading companies for two decades, from major corporations to major consulting firms to new entrepreneurial ventures. In addition to his CEO experience, he led the strategic planning and sales efforts at many companies, was selected as “Top 50 People in Energy IT”, was a Division President at EDS, a Principal at Booz Allen & Hamilton, Managing Partner at AT&T Solutions and served as a CEO Coach to numerous business leaders. He has been on numerous Boards and was an advisor to a King. Saleeby is a licensed marine engineer with a Bachelors of Engineering from SUNY Maritime College and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from NYU Graduate School of Business.
about Vistage International
Founded in 1957 and headquartered in San Diego, California, Vistage assembles and facilitates private advisory boards for CEOs, senior executives and business owners. Vistage members participate in monthly, Chair-led private advisory board meetings. More than 17,000 members in 15 countries also have access to one-to-one executive coaching, expert speakers, and our global network of business leaders.
Leo Bottary Vistage International

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