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Addictive disorders comprise a spectrum of illnesses marked by compulsive participation in rewarding stimuli, even in the face of negative outcomes. Substance abuse, alcohol abuse disorder, and gambling disorders are among the most common. These disorders have substantial effects on communities, families, and society as a whole in addition to having an impact on the individual. This investigation dives into the intricacies of addictive disorders, illuminating their underlying causes, social implications, and therapeutic modalities.
Substance Abuse Disorders
Substance use disorders, sometimes referred to as substance abuse disorders are a collection of illnesses marked by problematic substance-use behaviors that cause substantial impairment or discomfort. These substances could be illegal narcotics, prescription pharmaceuticals, or alcohol. It is understood that environmental, biological, and psychological variables interact intricately to cause SUDs.
There are several criteria used to identify substance abuse disorders. Among these requirements are:
When a person struggles to regulate their substance use, they may take more substances or for a greater duration of time than they had planned. They might be determined to reduce or control their substance usage, but their attempts may have been fruitless.
Using drugs or alcohol can cause social issues such as not meeting important responsibilities at home, at work, or in school. This may entail putting off taking care of obligations or avoiding social and leisure activities.
Using drugs continuously even after realizing they’re harming one’s body or mind. This could entail utilizing drugs in physically risky circumstances, including when operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
When a substance is used less or stopped, withdrawal symptoms of substance abuse occur and sensitivity to the substance develops, requiring more to have the same effect.
Addiction to substances can have detrimental effects on a person’s relationships, career, health, and general quality of life. They may also result in a higher possibility of accidents and injuries, mental health issues like anxiety and depression, cardiovascular issues, liver illness, and other medical concerns.
Alcohol Abuse Disorder
Alcoholism, also referred to as alcohol abuse disorder, is defined by excessive and obsessive alcohol usage despite its detrimental effects. It causes harm to millions of people globally, including psychological, social, and physical effects. Long-term alcohol misuse can lead to brain damage, liver illness, and an elevated risk of aggression and accidents. Treatment attempts are further complicated by the fact that it frequently co-occurs with other forms of mental illness like anxiety and depression.
Therapy, medicine, and support groups are frequently used in conjunction with the treatment of alcohol addiction disorders. Behavioral therapies, such as Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), assist people in identifying and altering negative behavioral patterns. Support networks like Alcoholism abuse offer peer assistance and support for sustaining sobriety, while medications like naltrexone can help reduce cravings and prevent relapse.
Gambling disorder is categorized as an addiction to behavior and is characterized by recurring and persistent gambling activity that causes substantial suffering or impairment. Its withdrawal symptoms, tolerance, and cravings are comparable to those of chemical addictions. Relationship problems, psychological anguish, and financial loss can all be brought on by problem gambling.
The number of online gambling sites has increased, which has made gambling disorders more common and challenging to manage. Impulsive behaviors are common in people with gambling disorders, and they may also co-occur with other mental health issues including depression or drug addiction.
A multifaceted approach is used in the treatment of gambling disorder, involving groups for support, financial counseling, and psychotherapy. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) assists people in recognizing and disputing false ideas about gambling, creating coping mechanisms, and controlling triggers. While assistance clubs like Gamblers Anonymous offer a sense of family and accountability, financial counseling helps with debt resolution and the restoration of financial stability.
A person who may be more likely to develop addictive tendencies or habits is referred to as having an “addictive personality” in common language. Despite being a widely used word, it is not a recognized mental health diagnosis in and of itself. Rather, it usually refers to a confluence of learned behaviors, contextual circumstances, genetic predispositions, and personality features that can increase an individual’s risk of addiction.
The following traits are frequently linked to an “addictive personality“:
- Impulsivity: The propensity to follow one’s immediate impulses or desires without thinking through the repercussions.
- Sensation-seeking: Looking for unusual, thrilling, or powerful encounters.
- Taking risks: Taking part in dangerous activities without fully weighing the possible negative consequences.
- Inability to control stress: Relying on drugs or other unhealthy habits as a coping method to get through stressful situations or unpleasant feelings.
- Low confidence: Feeling inadequate or undeserving might cause someone to turn to addictive habits in an attempt to find comfort or recognition.
- Having trouble limiting or controlling one’s substance use or participation in specific behaviors is referred to as difficulty with moderation.
- Genetic predisposition: Due to genetic factors, there is a higher chance of experiencing addictive behaviors in individuals with a family heritage of addiction.
It’s crucial to remember that while having these characteristics may make you more likely to become addicted, not everyone who possesses them will become addicted. Furthermore, addiction is a multifaceted problem impacted by environmental, psychological, and biological variables. For anyone experiencing addictive behaviors, getting professional assistance from a mental health professional or alcoholism specialist is essential, even if they don’t think of themselves as having an “addictive personality.”
Substance abuse, addiction to alcohol, and gambling disorders are examples of addictive disorders that provide serious difficulties for people, families, and society as a whole. These are complicated problems resulting from a confluence of psychological, environmental, and genetic elements. A thorough strategy is necessary for effective treatment, one that addresses the co-occurring mental health disorders as well as the underlying causes of the addictive behavior.
We can lessen the effects of addictive disorders and assist people on their path to recovery and well-being by raising awareness, supporting preventative initiatives, and enhancing access to evidence-based treatment. Healthcare experts, legislators, and communities must work together to solve this complex public health issue and promote a culture in which people can live fulfilling lives free from the chains of addiction.

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Orange County Register timeline
The Orange County Register has gone through a major expansion since co-owners Aaron Kushner and Eric Spitz and their 2100 Trust LLC bought the newspaper.
July 25, 2012: 2100 Trust LLC buys Freedom Communications Inc., owner of the Register.
Oct. 1, 2012: Register's expanded, standalone Business section debuts.
Nov. 29, 2012: The Register begins conversion of 26 weeklies to expanded broadsheet format.
May 6, 2013: The Current in Newport Beach and Costa Mesa launches as a five-day-a-week publication.
July 22: The Irvine World News becomes a five-day daily.
Aug. 19: The Long Beach Register debuts as a five-day daily.
Thursday: Freedom announces the purchase of The Press-Enterprise in Riverside.
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The Kardashians reveal special Christmas card
Los Angeles: Socialite Kim Kardashian and her family members have showcased their much-awaited annual Christmas card, featuring the famous family.
The family has been photographed by David LaChappelle.
The card features Kim, her sisters Khloe and Kourtney, step-sisters Kylie and Kendall and mother Kris Jenner. The entire family is dressed in black.
"I loved working with David LaChapelle. It was amazing and it was so much fun," eonline.com quoted Kris as saying.
In the card, Kim is seen standing on a staircase, while Khloe lounges on a chair in a sparkly black dress with Kourtney`s son Mason in front of her.
Kourtney, meanwhile, is standing near Khloe, holding her daughter Penelope, who wore a cream, flowy dress for the occasion.
Kylie and Kendall stand atop some of the dollar bills, with Kendall in a high-cut dress and Kylie giving a smouldering look in back of her.
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Okay, folks. Who here is a huge fan of the Hillstone Restaurants Kale Salad with Peanut Dressing? Um, I am seriously obsessed. It’s the best salad of all time. Naturally, I had to recreate my own Kale and Mint Salad with ‘Peanut’ Vinaigrette in my own kitchen and make it even healthier than the original version.
I use almond butter instead of peanut butter and coconut aminos instead of soy sauce and, of course, no added sugar. I also just went to Whole Foods and bought one of their clean, “naked” rotisserie chicken to make this salad easy as ever to throw together.
This ‘peanut’ (or almond) vinaigrette is a game-changer. Once you make this Kale and Mint Salad with ‘Peanut’ Vinaigrette, you’ll understand that it’s pretty easy to sip on as a cocktail it’s so dang good!
Check out my Satisfying Salads Round-Up for more salad inspiration.
Want to save even more time on this recipe? Skip this dressing and use my SideDish Creamy Sesame Dressing instead!
Kale and Mint Salad with 'Peanut' Vinaigrette
For the Salad:
- 1 bunch green kale
- 1/4 cup freshly chopped mint
- 1/2 cup chopped cashews
- 1 rotisserie chicken skin removed and meat pulled apart into bite-sized pieces
- 1 tbsp. toasted sesame seeds
For the Almond-Vinaigrette:
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tsp. freshly grated ginger
- 1 tsp. toasted sesame oil
- 2 tbsp. *creamy* almond or cashew butter
- 2 tbsp. rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp. lime juice
- 1 tsp. chili oil optional, or sub 1/4 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes
- 2 tbsp. coconut aminos
- salt and pepper to taste
- In a food processor or blender, combine all of the Almond-Vinaigrette ingredients and blend to combine. Set aside.
- Remove kale leaves from the stem, then, finely slice the kale into thin strips.
- Place sliced kale in a bowl with the rotisserie chicken meat, mint, cashews, and toasted sesame seeds. Pour 'peanut' vinaigrette over the salad and toss to coat.
- Serve and enjoy!
CJanuary 4, 2023 at 2:08 am
This is truly the best salad. I make it all the time, and it honestly might be my favorite dinner right now. Thanks for all the awesome recipes! 10/10
RachelApril 14, 2022 at 8:19 pm
Is this salad still yummy without the chicken? Thinking of using this as a side and the main dish already has meat in it.
AlexApril 18, 2022 at 3:47 pm
Carol BrandSeptember 13, 2021 at 12:35 am
This was first served to me by a friend… casual mid-week, last minute invite. She has your cookbook. I have since made this many times over, not only for my own dinner (eating it now), but I served it at dinner parties and BBQs all summer long. Everytime I make it, someone asks for the recipe.
LisaJuly 29, 2021 at 6:28 pm
Should the cashews be raw or the roasted ones?
AlexJuly 30, 2021 at 7:59 pm
Either work, I do prefer roasted!
CammyMarch 16, 2021 at 5:25 pm
Can you substitute liquid aminos for the coconut aminos? It’s just what I have on hand 🙂
AlexMarch 17, 2021 at 12:57 pm
I am not a huge fan of subbing in liquid aminos for coconut aminos– as I find they have a very different flavor.
KatherineJanuary 14, 2021 at 6:40 pm
This recipe is SO good. My favorite activity is eating lunch out and this salad had me eating at home 2 days in a row!
Kelly UOctober 10, 2017 at 5:41 pm
SO GOOD. Love this dressing.
AlexOctober 10, 2017 at 9:35 pm
Thank you, Kelly!!! It’s my current obsession.
AngelicaSeptember 21, 2017 at 6:54 am
Yum!! I cannot wait to make this!!! ?
AlexSeptember 21, 2017 at 8:59 pm
Katie MSeptember 20, 2017 at 4:04 pm
I order this salad at Charleston’s every time! I always think I’m going to try something different, nope, it’s that good!!! Looking forward to making this whole 30 version! Thanks!
AlexSeptember 20, 2017 at 7:57 pm
It’s just the best!!!!
LaurenSeptember 19, 2017 at 11:47 pm
Do you think this would work well as a pasta sauce?
AlexSeptember 20, 2017 at 7:57 pm
If you did it over soba noodles, YES! for sure!
Katie | FashionFrugality.comSeptember 18, 2017 at 9:29 pm
This dressing sounds AMAZING! Cannot wait to make this this week! I had a peanut dressing years ago at a restaurant and adored it but have never been able to find anything like it. This sounds spot on and can only be that much more delicious with the almond butter. Thank you!
AlexSeptember 19, 2017 at 12:09 pm
It’s SO yummy you’re going to just love it!!! 🙂
AmberSeptember 18, 2017 at 6:40 pm
Since the original dressing is a peanut vinaigrette, what about subbing the almond butter for sunflower butter? I don’t love almond butter.
AlexSeptember 18, 2017 at 9:03 pm
Yes, Sunflower butter will work, also! If you aren’t an almond butter fan, I might suggest trying Crazy Richards almond butter for cooking if you haven’t yet. It’s my favorite. But either way, sunflower butter is a great sub.

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When your animal will certainly be riding in the freight hold of an airplane, you have to be specific that you understand the problems in which it will certainly be. This paper, plus your key and also various other taking a trip documents for the individuals taking a trip are needed for your trip.
The schedule of papers online, along with the convenience of obtaining a fast ticket substitute if needed, takes an excellent offer of inconvenience out of your traveling strategies. Rapid tickets as well as papers for your pet pal assurances that the 2 of you will certainly appreciate a stress-free getaway and also see great deals of various points.
When attempting to determine what is the finest family pet traveling provider for our pet dog, we have to have them in mind.
Going using vehicle is the most basic pet travel approach to take a trip with your pet dog. The animal has actually most likely taken a trip in your vehicle prior to, which makes it a little bit much less difficult for them.
When flying and also you are bringing along a family pet, there are specific points you will certainly require to do for the airline company to enable your animal to fly. For much shorter trips (typically much less than 6 hrs) airline companies will certainly allow the animal to join you in the cabin, however the pet crate that the animal is in have to be able to fit under the seat in front of you. In enhancement, a family pet provider that conforms with airline company laws is needed if you are to have your pet dog in the cabin.
The cage that your animal is going to take a trip in has to be completely huge in order for them to relocate around within without constraint, as well as it has actually to be built of strong plastic. To make sure the secure taking a trip of your family pet, there are licensed cages that might be gotten on-line.
When flying as well as you are bringing along a family pet, there are specific points you will certainly require to do for the airline company to enable your animal to fly. For much shorter trips (normally much less than 6 hrs) airline companies will certainly allow the pet dog to join you in the cabin, however the pet crate that the family pet is in should be able to fit under the seat in front of you. In enhancement, a pet dog service provider that abides with airline company guidelines is needed if you are to have your family pet in the cabin. Of program not, that is why pet traveling service providers make it simple for us to take our family pets with us.
Family pet traveling providers enable us to take every participant of the household on a journey. Of program not, that is why pet traveling providers make it very easy for us to take our family pets with us.
You desire your family pet to be comfy. Would certainly you desire to be positioned in something that is uneasy and also tough for a journey with the family members.
When attempting to determine what is the very best pet dog traveling service provider for our pet dog, we need to have them in mind. Due to the fact that the dimension of the pet dog is a significant element when selecting the ideal provider, this is essential. We wish to ensure that we obtain a provider that will certainly permit our family pet to be able to move rather easily.
We likewise desire to make certain that the provider has sufficient air flow for our pet dog. We desire to make certain that our animals have lots of accessibility to fresh air to take a breath and also not obtain over warmed.
When looking for the best pet dog traveling service provider there are particular points that we require to take into consideration and also our family pet is just one of the greatest points that ought to get on our minds.

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- February 6, 2015
- Posted by: Tony Lehrman
- Category: Arizona Health Insurance
If you haven’t yet purchased a health insurance plan, your time may be running out. The Obamacare open enrollment period — the time in which anyone can sign up for the health insurance plan of their choice — will end on February 15. That gives you just about one more week to act.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona, United HealthCare, Health Net and most all other health insurance carriers will not allow you to buy one of their plans after open enrollment closes unless you have what the government calls an SEP, or Special Enrollment Period. SEPs include moving, getting married, losing group coverage, divorce and several other events. If you simply wait until open enrollment is over and don’t have an SEP, you may have to wait until January 2016 to get on a health insurance plan.
There are some health insurance companies here in Arizona that will sell a policy to you at any time during the year, but their plans are not available in the entire state of Arizona, so these plans may not be an option for you.
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The MFAA has weighed in on the credit reform for small business debate, announcing its stance against the federal government’s plan to tighten credit availability for small to medium enterprises (SMEs).
The federal treasury’s green paper indicated plans to tighten credit availability for SMEs, and has called for public submissions in response.
MFAA chief executive Phil Naylor said the peak industry body did not support the government’s proposal, as there was no evidence that legislative reform was required in the SME credit sector.
“The [National Consumer Credit Protection] NCCP Act legislates against irresponsible lending practices, particularly in relation to the residential sector where there has been some evidence of poor lending practices at the margin,” Mr Naylor said yesterday.
“However, when it comes to lenders and brokers and small business credit, there has been no such evidence.”
According to Mr Naylor, lending to small businesses requires greater scrutiny by lenders and brokers and should therefore be treated differently to residential mortgages.
“We are concerned regulation would restrict the availability of credit to small businesses which will be of significant detriment,” he said.
More than 1,000 of the MFAA’s members are involved in small business lending, according to Mr Naylor.
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Companies that develop mutual learning opportunities reap the most results from artificial intelligence.
Although more than half of organizations are piloting or deploying artificial intelligence in their business operations, less than one in 10 are using it to generate significant financial benefits, according to MIT Sloan Management Review's new report. What's the difference between organizations that are seeing results with AI and those that aren't? The study, Expanding AI's Impact With Organizational Learning, suggests that mutual learning between humans and AI is the key.
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What does interactive learning between humans and AI look like? According to the report, it involves "combining multiple teaching and learning methods to take advantage of humans' and machines' distinctive strengths and weaknesses," using feedback and interactions to enable them "to understand the other's logic and reasoning."
For example, managers should be able to take an AI recommendation, explore it, and gain new insight regarding their business unit's strategy or operations. And AI should be able to take human feedback on its recommendations as input and use it to influence future suggestions.
One important step talent development professionals can take to foster feedback loops is persuading business leaders to see learning as a competitive advantage and employees to view it as a way of life. The report advises that "learning with AI entails significant, and sometimes uncomfortable, change" to organizational structures, processes, and behaviors, which a learning culture is highly useful for navigating. What's more, a strong learning culture can support the effectiveness of formal training on key knowledge and skills needed to interact with AI, such as understanding data-driven insights and using emerging technologies responsibly.


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Eddy County Sheriff denies influence from National Rifle Association in opposing gun bills
Eddy County Sheriff Mark Cage denied accusations from gun control advocates that he and other New Mexico sheriffs were influenced by the National Rifle Association earlier this year in opposing state gun control laws passed during the last legislative session.
Brady, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit gun control group obtained emails through public records requests which allegedly showed the New Mexico Sheriff's Association (NMSA) received "extensive help" from the NRA in campaigning against recently-passed State gun regulations.
"The documents Brady acquired reveal that the NRA was actively involved in the NMSA’s efforts in drafting the Declaration; recruiting sheriffs to lobby state and political politicians to oppose the (gun violence prevention) bills and to adopt so-called Second Amendment Sanctuary Resolutions; and encouraging sheriffs to not enforce state laws," read the Brady report.
"The NRA’s traditional mantra of 'enforce the current laws in existence' rings hollow alongside this systematic campaign to encourage law enforcement not to enforce laws that it does not like."
Cage said Brady's efforts were politically biased.
“Brady is a politically motivated group. They did this Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA) request, it was a fishing expedition,” said Cage who serves as the sergeant at arms for the New Mexico Sheriffs Association.
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“They had no reason for this, except for political motivation trying to smear us and it’s offensive to me. They want to prove some Russian collusion with the NRA that we’re involved in. Like we sheriffs can’t think for ourselves? It’s insulting.”
Brady requested the emails after several New Mexico county commissions and some city councils passed resolutions declaring their communities Second Amendment "sanctuaries" and vowing to not enforce State guns laws.
Eddy County and the City of Carlsbad declared such resolutions earlier this year.
Twenty-nine out of 33 New Mexico sheriffs, including Cage, said they also would not enforce the gun control laws approved this year by the Legislature.
Senate Bill 8 was passed by the Legislature and required background checks on nearly all firearms sales in the state, while SB 328 was also passed to restrict sales of firearms to those convicted of domestic violence offenses.
The laws passed the Legislature and were signed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, and take effect in July
Lujan Grisham questioned the motivation of the sheriffs and opponents to the bills, citing a greater need for gun safety and regulations.
"I’m not daunted by obstacles, whether it’s NRA propaganda, rogue sheriffs throwing a childish pity party or bad-faith critics. Legislative leaders and I will continue to fight the scourge of gun violence in our communities. #nmleg #nmpol #SB8," she tweeted in February.
Miranda Viscoli, co-president of New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence who worked with Brady on the request said the New Mexico Sheriff’s Association acted on instruction from the NRA and publicized falsities to advance the NRA's interests.
“The NRA was giving them talking points and these talking points were incorrect,” she said.
“They were writing op-eds for them. They were helping them to gin up this notion of a Second Amendment Sanctuary City and if the people with guns and law enforcement can pick and chose the laws they intend to acknowledge and enforce we no longer live in the democracy we love and cherish so dearly.”
Cage said he’s used data from the NRA, FBI and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for research on multiple issues, including guns.
“The NRA has no influence over me. They are a good resource for information just like the CDC and FBI,” he said.
“I utilize them when I’m forming my opinion when I’m formulating my talking points. I don’t need an organization to write talking points for me. I don’t have to do that."
Cage said New Mexico was unduly "targeted" by Brady's requests.
“It was a waste of people’s money is what it is. They’re sticking their nose in our business in New Mexico," he said. "They’re a D.C. group, I don’t understand why they need to target New Mexico sheriffs, except the fact we may be interfering with their agenda.”
Viscoli said 1,600 pages of documents obtained by Brady showed the two sides worked together.
“It became clear fast they were involved in this together,” she said. “The public records report is pretty clear. There were emails sent back-and-forth from the NRA to the sheriffs and the sheriffs responding.”
NM Second Amendment Sanctuary Counties
- Valencia County
- Sandoval County
- Eddy County
- Chaves County
- Otero County
- Lincoln County
- Quay County
- Union County
- Socorro County
- San Juan County
- Catron County
- Curry County
- Hidalgo County
- Sierra County
- Grant County
- Torrance County
- Rio Arriba County
- De Baca County
- Roosevelt County
- Harding County
- Luna County
- McKinley County
- Cibola County
- Mora County
- Lea County
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Sometimes I struggle to stay on track when an event comes up. It doesn’t even have to be a big event-if there are snacks, I will partake.
I had been doing really good so far this year, eating clean and working out daily so when my monthly book club meeting was coming up, I started looking for a healthier dish to bring. (It helped that a fellow member vowed to stay on track with me at the meeting. I need all the support I can get!)
I decided on a Greek layer dip and it was amazing! We ate almost all of it! Even the girls who weren’t watching their food intake raved about it! So here’s the recipe…
- 1-10 oz container of garlic hummus
- 1 cup plain Greek yogurt (mmmm protein)
- 1T dried dill
- 1T lemon juice
- 1/2 cup grape tomatoes-quartered
- 1/2 cup chopped cucumber
- 1/3 cup chopped lala maya olives
- 1/3 cup goat cheese
- Parsley for garnish
First, mix the Greek yogurt, dill and lemon juice together and set aside.
Spread garlic hummus on the bottom of an 8×8 dish then dollop the Greek yogurt mix on top and spread even to form the second layer. Then top with everything else, sprinkling parsley on the top to garnish.
I served it with cucumber slices (and also brought pita chips for everyone else) Between my dip and the delicious low carb pinwheels that my dieting-partner-in-crime brought, it was easy to stay on track. I’ll be bringing this to many a party from now on!
See the nice little layers? And the cute scribble on my cutting board from my child.
Seven of us devoured this!
My family loves Mexican food and it’s something that they’ve missed while I’ve been on my healthy journey. So today I decided to make a healthy enchilada casserole. It was a huge hit and will be working its way into my monthly meal rotations! It makes 8 servings and each serving is equal to 1 red, 1 yellow, 1 blue and 1/4 green if you use salsa or 1 orange if you use enchilada sauce for the containers.
What you need:
- 1 pound chicken breasts
- 1 jar of salsa verde or green enchilada sauce (about 2 cups)
- 1 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 14 small corn tortillas
- 1 cup shredded cheese (really you could use less but for measuring containers, this made things equal)
- Olive oil spray
- Hot sauce to taste
I put the chicken breasts in the crockpot with the salsa verde on low for 6 hours.
Then shredded the chicken with a fork and added the Greek yogurt and mixed well.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and spray a 11×7 or 9×13 pan with the olive oil spray.
Layer 6 tortillas on the bottom of the pan
Top with 1/2 of the chicken/salsa mixture and then some cheese.
Then repeat those steps.
Take the remaining 2 tortillas and tear them into strips, add them to the top and sprinkle the remaining cheese. (I used some grated cotija cheese for topping and included it in my “cup-o-cheese”
Then bake for about 15 minutes or until the cheese is slightly brown and bubbly.
Top with some hot sauce or additional salsa and enjoy!

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Follow your upper radiator hose to top of engine, find (2) bolts to remove ,your thermostat is located right under this, but bfore you start , purchase a new one, with anew gasket, remove the bolts, a little coolant will spill out, no big deal, clean off old gasket, put in new thermostat, just like the way the old one was, install gasket, replace rad hose w/bolts, that you should have cleaned the bolt threads, tighten bolts equally down, tight is tight, too tights broke. get it. good luck
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To replace the serpentine belt on a V6 3800 you must jack up the motor and remove a motor mount. You must then use a breaker bar with a socket (13/64") and pull it toward the front of the car to release the belt tensioner. Put the new belt on, tighten it, put the mount back on, and lower the jack.
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You'll need to remove screws that are by the door handle, arm rest, under door and side of door and then gently pull back on the panel as there will also be retaining clips attached and you don't want to break them. You'll need to lift the door panel upwards in order to get it off the window ledge. If needed, you can pull back the weather seal (can't reuse it, but it's not that important) and you will be able to access everything inside the door
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By early 1944, Allied submarines, particularly American submarines, were doing to the Japanese what German U Boat captains could only dream of. No cargo ship flying the Rising Sun was safe anywhere in the Pacific. Moreover, American industry was pumping out new ships faster than crews could be trained to man them. There were enough aircraft carriers that fast carrier “strike groups” were raiding islands and shipping all throughout the Central and South Pacific. Inefficiencies in Japanese industry meant they simply could not keep up with the losses, much less innovate and upgrade their current ship types. Finally, their “Outer Defensive Ring” was under siege and penetrated in a few places: The “Japanese Pearl Harbor”, the Truk lagoon in the Caroline Islands, was a beacon for submarines. And most of its ships and port facilities were destroyed in Operation Hailstone, a concerted air and naval attack to destroy shipping there on 16 February. Heeding the lessons of Tarawa, Nimitz made short work of the Japanese garrisons in the Marshall Islands. The Japanese 28th Army was in process of being destroyed in Burma. Australian, Kiwi and American troops under MacArthur were steadily marching across New Guinea. Landings and land based airpower on New Britain, Bougainville and New Georgia had already isolated and neutralized Rabaul, unbeknownst to the soldiers and Marines fighting toward it from Cape Gloucester. And MacArthur wasn’t even attempting to hide preparations for landings along the north coast of New Guinea and in the Admiralty Islands to its northeast. The Japanese had to fall back; Bushido be damned.
As early as September, 1943, the Japanese Imperial Headquarters considered the withdrawal to a smaller perimeter in the Pacific but the admirals did not want to lose face in front of their bitter rivals, the generals of the Imperial Japanese Army. Their new perimeter would start in Burma, where they would hold the line against Slim’s 14th Army, then attack into India and cut the Ledo/Burma road that supplied the Chinese. The rest of the perimeter would extend to Singapore, the strategically and economically important Dutch East Indies, Dutch New Guinea, the Philippines, and finally the Palau, Marianna, and Bonin Islands. There the Allies were to be stopped.
For a few months they discretely “redeployed” capital ships under the guise of preparing for a massive counterattack. By January 1944, they had no choice but to strip the forward bases of anything that could be used. Everything to the south and east of this line was to be abandoned. But the submarine threat and the lack of industrial output meant that there was only room for irreplaceable equipment, not troops. The remaining garrisons were told they would receive no more support and they were on their own. On 22 February 1944, the last convoy left Rabaul, once the most important Japanese base in the South Pacific, taking with it the last of its vital equipment, and never to return.
300,000 isolated Japanese soldiers, sailors and marines were abandoned to their fate, and left to fight or starve to death
In July 1932, Chancellor Franz von Papen dissolved the German parliament, or Reichstag, and called for new elections in November, hoping to reduce the National Socialist majority. As Papen predicted, at the polls on 6 November 1932, Adolf’s Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers’ Party lost seats to the Nationalists, and the Social Democrats lost seats to the Communists. The Nazi’s voting bloc of Nationalists, National Socialists, Social Fascists, and Anti-Comintern Social Democrat defectors that elected the Nazi Party to the most seats in the Reichstag in 1931 and 32 was breaking down and had seemingly culminated. However, the Communists, on orders from Moscow, refused to work with the Social Democrats who in turn refused to work with Nazi’s. The National Socialists had by far the most seats, but not enough to form a government. Since no one party in the German parliament could form a majority government President Hindenburg was urged to continue governing through emergency decrees until a new electoral system that included an upper house was devised.
Franz von Papen, the most historically important person you’ve never heard of, had other ideas.
At the end of January, von Papen, formerly of the Catholic Center Party but opportunistically turned Nationalist after they picked up Center Party seats, co-opted the National Socialists to form a government. For seven months Germany lacked a government at the height of the Depression. This alliance gave the Nationalists and National Socialists a slim majority in parliament, but just enough to form a government exclusive of the other parties, and with von Papen the puppetmaster of the upstart Nazis.
Hindenburg, a monarchist, would still be president and Von Papen, as the minority member would be Vice Chancellor. Papen, a nobleman, convinced Hindenburg that the Nazis could be controlled if the low born Hitler was made part of the government. Hitler, a former laborer, starving artist and corporal in the Great War, was thought to be susceptible to manipulation when confronted daily with the problems of governance, and would seek assistance from his political and administrative betters. On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor. But Hitler wasn’t interested in sharing power with the Nationalists. One of his first acts was to dissolve the Reichstag and announce a new election in March, an election he was sure would bring majority power to his National Socialists.
However, on the night of 27 February 1933, just a month after Hitler became Chancellor, the German Reichstag building, where the parliament met, caught fire in an obvious arson attempt. Before the Berlin Fire Department could put out the fire, the building was gutted. A member of the Dutch Communist Party, Marinus van der Lubbe, was caught at the scene. Hitler, Josef Goebbels his propaganda minister, and Herman Goering, a cabinet minister charged with forming the secret police (the eventual Gestapo) immediately denounced the Communists and declared the attack the first act of a Communist revolution. The next day, President Hindenburg issued the Reichstag Fire Decree to preempt the suspected Communist putsch.
With no parliament, the President had emergency dictatorial powers according to the Weimar Constitution and the Reichstag Fire Decree suspended virtually all civil liberties in Germany. The freedoms of speech, assembly, press, privacy, association and habeas corpus were all suspended indefinitely. The National Socialists immediately mobilized and shut down any newspaper and radio station not friendly to the Nazis. Tens of thousands of Communists and political adversaries were arrested and the Communist party banned in the March election.
After mass voter fraud, suppression, and intimidation stemming from the provisos in Reichstag Fire Decree, the National Socialists won a majority in Reichstag that March. The first act of the new democratically elected majority in the German parliament was to pass the Enabling Act. The Enabling Act was an amendment to the Weimar Constitution which allowed the German cabinet, in effect Hitler himself, to enact laws without consent of the Reichstag. On 23 March 1933, the elderly President Hindenburg signed the Enabling Act into law which made Chancellor Adolf Hitler a legal dictator.
In the space of just two months, the National Socialists, with just a simple majority, went from a powerful, but still minority party, to the majority party with sole lawmaking and executive powers. The Nationalists were intimidated into dissolving their party in June 1933, and all other political parties were banned that November. By the end of 1933, Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists had complete control of Germany.
While Hitler and the National Socialists consolidated power, Marinus van der Lubbe and several other Communists were put on trial for the Reichstag Fire. A court in Leipzig determined that van der Lubbe acted alone and he was executed in 1934 for his role in the Reichstag Fire.
Though no definitive “smoking gun” was ever found implicating the National Socialists in the Reichstag fire, a mountain of circumstantial evidence did, most of which was found from captured German documents in the Soviet Archive after the fall of Soviet Communism in 1990. Though we will probably never know exactly what happened, the generally accepted theory is that van der Lubbe, a lifelong unstable pyromaniac who had recently firebombed several buildings, did plan, and maybe even attempted to destroy the Reichstag building. Goering through his spies learned of the plan and Goebbels ordered Ernst Rahm of the SA to carry out a parallel plan. After Rahm’s SA team started the fire and escaped, van der Lubbe was arranged to be in the area (or was even possibly setting his own arson) and picked up as the culprit. His own planning was used as evidence against him. The SA team, and Rahm himself, were killed in The Night of the Long Knives in 1934, erasing any future witnesses of Nazi complicity in the fire.
The invasion of Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands finally exposed the Japanese shortfalls in naval and land based aviation to American intelligence officials. Additionally, the increasingly one sided air battles over Rabaul after the invasion of Bougainville proved that the quality of Japanese airpower was in serious decline. To ensure adequate numbers to face the American fighter sweeps over Rabaul, the Japanese were required to “rob Peter to pay Paul” to feed the defense of the South Pacific. Squadrons were transferred from far flung Japanese possessions, including the Gilberts and Marshalls, and sent to Rabaul. The nearly nonexistent Japanese air response to the invasion of Kwajalein convinced Admiral Nimitz to push up the timetable in the Central Pacific, and more specifically the invasion of Eniwetok. However, Eniwetok was within striking distance of the Japanese main naval base in Central Pacific: the Truk Atoll in the Caroline Islands. The “Gibraltar of the Pacific” was essentially a sunken mountain range surrounded by coral reefs and has, by far, the best natural lagoon in the Central Pacific. Its 50 by 30 mile sheltered anchorage has so far in the war allowed the Japanese to strike Pearl Harbor and conduct continuous operations in the South Pacific.
Like Rabaul for Allied planners, Truk was The Lair of the Boogeyman from which All Bad Things Emerged.
Nimitz needed to neutralize Truk. His plan for the Central Pacific involved a future invasion, but the operation to secure the Marshalls meant something had to be done immediately.
By the beginning of 1944, American industry produced enough new aircraft carriers to allow the formation of fast carrier “strike groups”. These strike groups raided Japanese held airfields, anchorages and shipping all throughout the Central and South Pacific. Nimitz formed the largest such strike group so far in the war, Task Force 58 under Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher of five fleet carriers, six light carriers, and seven new fast battleships with accompanying cruisers and destroyers as escorts.
Task Force 58 was a massive force, nearly double the Japanese strength against Pearl Harbor just two years before, but it was still headed for Truk. The idea of willingly sailing aircraft carriers into range of major land based airpower was still alien and unthinkable to most carrier admirals. (The only reason the Japanese did it at Pearl Harbor was because they hadn’t declared war yet. Even at Midway, the main threat was still the island, all the way up until four of their carriers were sunk.) And Truk was the biggest Japanese base outside of Japan. On 15 February when Mitscher announced over the loudspeaker their destination for Operation Hailstone, one of his pilots said, “I nearly jumped overboard.”
However, as early as October 1943, the Japanese recognized they could no longer hold the outer perimeter of the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, and settled on a smaller more easily defensible perimeter to gather strength for a counter attack. They withdrew most of the capital ships from Truk back to the Palaus, so few of the juicy targets remained. The mighty Yamato and Musashi had spent almost 18 months at Truk and had only recently departed. Nevertheless, the withdrawal to the inner perimeter meant that much of the shipping form the outer bases went to Truk first, a major transit point, before heading west. Mitscher’s raid caught the lagoon without capital ships, but filled with arguably more important transport and cargo ships that the Japanese could ill afford to spare.
On the morning of 17 February 1944, Task Force 58 approached Truk behind a storm front and struck the airfields first just as the Japanese did on the morning of the 7th of December 1941. American surprise was complete. Japanese pilots were mostly on shore leave, but the 90 or so Mitsubishi “Zeros” that went up were promptly shot down. By 1944, the Zero was outclassed in almost every category by the new American Hellfighters and Corsairs, and due to fuel and training shortfalls, American pilots had hundreds of more hours in the air than their Japanese counterparts. By the afternoon, any Japanese air response was non-existent, and the Mitscher’s dive and torpedo bombers attacked Truk’s lagoon and shore facilities with impunity. They only had to worry about a few manually controlled anti-aircraft guns and these were quickly dispatched once they revealed their positions.
Unlike Nagumo’s raid at Pearl Harbor, Mitscher didn’t withdraw after two strikes, but launched 13 separate strikes against Truk. Even Mitscher’s boss, Adm Ray Spruance, wanted to get in on the action. He took tactical command of the battleships New Jersey and Iowa and some escorts to chase down fleeing Japanese ships that managed to escape the lagoon. Only darkness ceased Operation Hailstone.
And it was in the darkness that the Japanese managed to strike back: a single torpedo from a “Kate” night bomber penetrated the screen and struck the carrier Intrepid.
For the loss of about 25 planes, most whose pilots were rescued and about 40 personnel, mostly from the Intrepid, Mitscher sunk five cruisers, four destroyers, and almost forty support, transport and cargo ships, including the all-important fleet oilers, and damaged many more. His fliers either shot down or destroyed on the ground almost 250 planes, and over 4500 Japanese personnel were killed, and twice that number wounded, most of whom could not be evacuated.
The destruction of the Truk anchorage convinced Nimitz that it could be bypassed and that an invasion was unnecessary. In the space of just 12 hours, the mightiest Japanese naval base outside of the home islands went from being the focus of all American operations in the Pacific to a tiny and obscure footnote in most Pacific War history books.
In 529 CE, during the darkest days of the so called “Dark Ages”, Benedict of Nursia established a small monastery on the site of an old temple to the god Apollo outside of the Roman village of Cassium. He wanted to take his small religious community in a new direction, and created a monastic rule for his followers based on order, balance, and moderation. The Benedictine Rule for Catholic monks spread throughout Europe. Their manuscripts and dedication to education went far in preserving the light of Western civilization during the numerous and successive barbarian invasions of Europe.
1415 years later, the Abbey at Monte Cassino took on a sinister visage to the Allies, in particular the remnant of the remnant of the US II Corps. Since the capture of San Pietro in December 1943, there was nowhere on the battlefield that you couldn’t look up and see the Abbey. During the meat grinder at San Pietro, the massacres crossing the Rapido River, the carnage swept slopes of Monte Cairo and Castle Hill, the brutal house to house fighting in Cassino, and a hundred other bloody engagements where the Allies were slaughtered, there was only one constant: the Abbey. Like a cackling mad god surveying his vicious handiwork, it loomed over the bloody hills and valleys of the Gustav Line. The American soldier wanted the Abbey obliterated.
Lt Gen Bernard Freyberg, the commander of the recently arrived New Zealand Corps, agreed. His Kiwis, Brits and Indians were next in line to feed the Beast in the shadow of the monastery. The II Corps staff was convinced the Germans had occupied the stout walls of the Abbey, or were at least using it for observation. And that is exactly what they briefed the New Zealand Corps’ staff during the relief in place. On 12 February 1944, Freyberg formally requested the Abbey be smashed by heavy bombers with “blockbusting” bombs. Gen Mark Clark disagreed based on the recommendation the II Corps commander, MG Keyes, who said, “They’ve been looking so long (at the Abbey), they’re seeing things.” No concrete evidence has ever been uncovered that the Abbey was ever occupied by the Germans before the 14th of February.
Field Marshall Kesselring specifically ordered that the Abbey was not to be so in any form, and made sure Hitler, the Allies and the Vatican knew that. Lieut Gen Viettinghoff, the German Tenth Army commander, ruthlessly enforced the edict and knew that the military crest of Monte Cassino was just as advantageous anyway. But British Field Marshall Harold Alexander, the CinC of the Allies in the Mediterranean, overruled Clark. Alexander wanted to give the bomber enthusiasts a chance to show what they could do in support of ground operations in Italy.
On the 13th, the Allies dropped leaflets on the Abbey telling the monks to leave. The Abbot knew there were no Germans in the monastery and thought the Allies were doing this to protect them from the ground fighting and stray rounds, so there was no sense of haste. Additionally there were over a thousand Italian refugees in the monastery, and they would take days to organize for movement north through the German lines.
Two days later on 15 February 1944, 300 Allied bombers and 100 fighter bombers destroyed the Abbey. The German Minister of Propaganda Jozef Goebbels immediately exploited the act and broadcast the news around the world. Most of the monks and civilians were killed. Vietinghoff immediately ordered the remains of the Abbey occupied. The elite German paratroopers of the 1st Fallshchirmjaeger Division turned the ruins into an impregnable fortress, exactly what the Allies accused them of doing in the first place. For the Allies, the future battles around Monte Cassino just became exponentially more difficult.
The disintegration of the Chinese Empire under Qing Dynasty and the construction of the Trans-Siberian railroad allowed Imperial Russia to coerce the use the warm water Port Arthur on the Manchurian Liaodong Peninsula. The newly expansionist Imperial Japan, fresh from a massive and rapid technological, military, and industrial revolution during the Meiji Restoration, negotiated with Imperial Russia for a free hand in Korea while the Russians occupied Manchuria. The Russians had no respect for the upstart Japanese and even welcomed war with them as a way of reconsolidating Tsar Nicolas II rule. However, Russia was confident the Japanese would not declare war or attack because Russia was vastly superior to the Japanese in every conceivable strategic and tactical category, even 4000 miles away on the Pacific coast.
On the night of 8 February 1904, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the Russian Pacific Fleet’s base at Port Arthur initiating the Russo Japanese War. Japanese destroyers struck the brightly lit and minimally manned Russian cruisers and battleships in outer harbor with a new weapon, the motorized torpedo. The new torpedoes were unreliable and inaccurate, and only three hit their targets and detonated. Fortunately for the Japanese, they severely damaged the Russian’s two largest battleships and Japanese battleships finished what the small Japanese destroyers started. The remaining Russian ships retreated to Port Arthur’s inner harbor under the protective guns of its landside fortifications. The Battle of Port Arthur relinquished Russian naval superiority in the Pacific to the Japanese. The Japanese invaded Korea the next day, and finally declared war on Russia two days later on 10 February 1904.
The Japanese, with air dropped torpedoes, would repeat the maneuver much more effectively 37 years later at Pearl Harbor.

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SpineGuard has secured approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its new DSG (dynamic surgical guidance) integration module for making pedicle screws smart.
The firm’s module can be used in combination with Zavation’s spinal fusion system to make advanced pedicle screws.
DSG-enabled screw, which is a combination of bipolar sensor and pedicle screw, eliminates the use of k-wire in minimally invasive surgery.
The technology will provide surgeons with real-time guidance, as well as enables to insert the screw directly into a vertebra without drilling a pilot hole.
Based on the analysis of the local electrical conductivity, the DSG sensor can differentiate various tissue types, including cancellous bone, cortical bone, blood and soft tissues.
According to the company, real-time feedback allows the surgeon to change tissue type based on an audio signal varying in pitch and cadence.
Other DSG-enabled SmartScrew, which was co-developed with Neuro France Implants, is currently in alpha launch in Europe.
SpineGuard CEO and co-founder Pierre Jérôme said: “This FDA clearance will allow US spine surgeons to insert pedicle screws ‘with a DSG enabled device’ not only in just one step but also with confidence, hence further securing and streamlining the most commonly performed instrumented spinal procedure, fusion.
“We are thrilled to immediately begin supplying Zavation, our US partner, with our DSG integration module and look forward to working with our combined networks for the introduction of the first DSG-enabled pedicle screw in the US market.”
SpineGuard co-founder, CTO and US general manager Stéphane Bette said: “DSG enabled devices offer a new paradigm to pedicle screw manufacturers who wish to differentiate their products from the rank-and-file screws in the market today.”
Image: DSG-enabled smart screw system. Photo: courtesy of SpineGuard.


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I'm being cared for by: First State Animal Center and SPCA
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Facts about Bear
Breed: Dutch Shepherd Mix
Size: Large 61-100 lbs (28-45 kg)
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I am already neutered and not good with kids.
This almost 2 year old Dutch Shepherd mix is in search of his forever home. Meet Bear! He is shy, yet friendly. He has a loving personality. He enjoys a good romp around the yard or a nice long walk. He does get protective of his toys, so we receommend no small children. This nice boy is sure to tug on your heart strings. Don't shop, Adopt!
Our Mission is to prevent cruelty and suffering to animals, rescue the trapped or injured, provide emergency medical treatment and temporary housing to the homeless animals, and to reduce pet over population through various spay/neuter and education programs. FSAC-SPCA is committed to place unwanted pets into happy, healthy homes and to educate the public about responsible pet guardianship.
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San Francisco, June 12 : A hacking group called 'Pink Drainer' has been impersonating journalists in phishing attacks in order to compromise Discord and Twitter accounts and steal cryptocurrency.
According to anti-scam platform ScamSniffer analysts, Pink Drainer was able to compromise the accounts of 1,932 victims and steal about $3 million in digital assets on the Mainnet, Arbitrum, BNB, Polygon, Optimism, and other blockchains. Metamate AI Chatbot Launched for Meta Employees: Tech Giant Rolls Out New Artificial Intelligence-Powered Chatbot Trained on Internal Data.
The threat actor was captured by ScamSniffer's on-chain monitoring bots after stealing $3,27,000 in NFTs from a single person, reports BleepingComputer. Recent targets are believed to include OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, American DJ Steve Aoki, and Starknet, among others.
Moreover, the report showed that the hacking group compromises accounts through social engineering, in which threat actors impersonate journalists from popular media outlets such as Cointelegraph and Decrypt to conduct phoney interviews with victims.
After gaining the trust of their victims, threat actors inform them that they must perform a KYC (know your customer) validation to prove their identity, directing them to websites used to steal Discord authentication tokens.
By intercepting the two-factor authentication code or stealing Discord tokens, attackers are able to hijack accounts without knowing users' credentials or having access to two-factor authentication codes, the report said.
To gain complete control of the account, the attackers installed themselves as administrators and removed all other administrators, allowing them to steal digital assets and sensitive information without being interrupted.
Meanwhile, Atomic Wallet, a mobile and desktop crypto wallet allowing users to store various cryptocurrencies, has experienced a security breach and lost over $35 million in crypto assets since June 2.
ZachXBT, an on-chain investigator, has been collecting transactions of funds stolen from Atomic Wallet victims and claimed that over $35 million in cryptocurrency has been stolen as a result of this compromise.
(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Jun 12, 2023 02:20 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).


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As we know, the source raw material of hot rolled steel coils and wire rod is iron ore.
● First, in the context of increased losses of steel enterprises, the steel industry production cuts continue to advance, iron ore demand downward trend is obvious;
● Second, the last four weeks China's imports of ore arrivals grew significantly up to 14.6%, the port sources of sufficient goods led to continued low prices;
● Third, iron ore to the end of the library, once again open the pace of accumulation, supply pressure began to appear;
● Fourth, global commodities by the Federal Reserve to fight inflation to accelerate the pace of interest rate hikes super negative factors, in addition to energy and some niche resource products such as new energy-related metals or ore and other varieties, most industrial raw material prices fell sharply.
If domestic steel production maintain the current level, especially hot rolled, cold rolled, wire rod and others steel plates and coils, in August-September steel demand seasonal pick-up at the same time inventory and fall to a relatively low position, the market may then have a wave of rebound market.


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Background and aims Urinary tract infections in infants are important because of the severity and sequel potential. The aim of the study was to analyse the etiologic, clinical, demographic and evolutionary aspects of the urinary tract infections in infants admitted in Paediatric Clinic from Oradea during 5 years.
Methods We performed a retrospective study on a sample of 56 infants admitted in Paediatric Clinic from Oradea during 2012–2016 and diagnosticated with urinary tract infections. There were performed a complete anamnesis, clinic examination, laboratory tests, imagistic investigations. All the medical documentation of the patients was thorough studied.
Results From the 56 infants with urinary tract infections, 46 were full-term born, 10 were prematures. The predominance was at males: 34, 22 were females. Depending on the age-it had been noticed 11 newborns, 18 had between 1–3 months, 10 between 3–6 months and 17: 6–12 months. The aetiology of urinary tract infections was dominated by E.Coli and Klebsiella-77%. Comorbidityes were present in 49 situations. Most frequent was anemia-21 cases, dyspepsia 13 situations, malnutrition 5 infants, prolonged jaundice 3 subjects, other in 5 cases. Chronic renal failure was detected in one case. Recurrences appeared in 34% from the patients. Vesico-ureteral reflux was diagnosticated in 9 infants, urinary tract and renal abnormalities were detected in 17 situations. Surgical treatment was performed in 5 situations.
Conclusions The early diagnosis and treatment of the urinary tract infections in infants have an important role in reducing complications and the risk of renal scarring.
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BAE Systems has submitted a proposal for the Army’s new Mobile Protected Firepower based on the M8 mobile gun system originally pitched in 1996 as a replacement for the M551 Sheridan light tank.
March 1 was the deadline to submit proposals for the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the MPF program that seeks a relatively light, highly mobile armored vehicle with hefty firepower to accompany infantry brigade combat teams into hostile territory.
BAE’s newly built tracked vehicle sports a 105mm cannon, which is at the lower end of the Army’s published lethality requirements for MPF. It is currently going through internal testing until the vehicle is delivered to the Army on April 2 for additional government testing as a part of the bid assessment process.
“Our MPF vehicle is the result of more than 30 years of research and development to build a rapidly deployable, light combat vehicle designed specifically to support the light infantry,” said Jim Miller, director of Business Development at BAE Systems’ Combat Vehicles business. “Our offering integrates the most modern technologies into a non-developmental design based on development, testing, and lessons learned from our portfolio of combat vehicle programs.”
The M8 was developed by United Defense – since bought by BAE – in the early 1990s and offered to the Army in 1996 as a replacement for the M551 Sheridan light tank used by airborne forces. The program was canceled a year later and the mission ultimately was taken up by the M1128 Mobile Gun System, which is essentially a 105mm tank cannon mounted on a Stryker wheeled fighting vehicle.
BAE said it based its MPF on work the Army already did with the M8, but made improvements to it by adding modern technologies. A head-on photo of the prototype betrays few details about how the vehicle is equipped other than four racks of four smoke grenade launchers mounted to the turret, a gunner/commander sight on the turret to the right of the cannon and a central driver’s sight beneath the turret.
The M8 was designed to operate with a crew of three: commander, gunner and driver.
“Our solution is built around the IBCT’s needs and the evolving threats they face,” Miller said. “It is as deployable as the IBCT’s other equipment and is easily sustained and maintained with assets already organic to the IBCT. Our infantry fights in close terrain, urban areas, and remote locations, so a smaller, lightweight vehicle that still provides superior protection and lethality was essential to the design of our MPF offering.”
Science Applications International Corp. [SAIC] on Oct. 5 threw its hat in the ring as a contender for the MPF program. Its vehicle is based on ST Kinetics’ Next Generation Armored Fighting Vehicle (NGAFV) chassis and CMI’s Cockerill Series 3105 turret currently in production.
Two vehicles in early fiscal 2019 will progress into EMD and produce 12 pre-production vehicles apiece. All EMD testing, including pre-production testing and a soldier vehicle assessment, should be complete within 42 months of EMD contract award.
The Army expects to take delivery of industry prototypes within 14 months after the FY ’19 contract award, and will get them into the hands of an evaluation unit four months after delivery.
Funding for the program includes $176 million for EMD in fiscal 2019, $311 million in fiscal 2020, $360 million in fiscal 2021 and $376 million in fiscal 2022.
Low-rate initial production (LRIP) option one has a ceiling price of $378 million for 26 vehicles, for a unit price of $14.5 million. LRIP option two should not exceed $311 million for 28 vehicles, for a unit price of $11.1 million, according to the RFP.
The contractor whose system best meets the evaluation criteria will be awarded the LRIP option(s). Only one EMD contractor will be selected for LRIP. The LRIP options include a total of 54 vehicles. LRIP also includes the retrofit of eight EMD vehicles. The Army plans to equip its first unit with MPF vehicles in 2025 and eventually purchase 504 units.


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In response to an escalating threat landscape, Google has launched its Cybersecurity Certificate in Australia, aiming to address the nation's shortfall of approximately 40,000 skilled cybersecurity practitioners. Google’s Senior Director Threat Analysis Group, Shane Huntley, expressed the urgency of this initiative, highlighting that cyber attacks are of prime concern for Australian businesses. He noted that the Australian Cyber Security Centre reported over 94,000 instances of cybercrime during the financial year 2022-23, marking a frightening 23% increase from the preceding year, reminding us that this places crucial infrastructure, such as government institutions and hospitals, at a significantly higher risk.
The nationally launched Google Cybersecurity Certificate provides affordable career paths along with local partnerships in fields like data analytics, IT support, and business intelligence. The certificate forms part of Google's Digital Future Initiative: a $1 billion investment in promoting a stronger digital presence for all Australians. This investment addresses the increasingly evident need to cultivate a highly skilled cybersecurity workforce, with the certificate being expertly developed and taught by Google's own cybersecurity professionals.
The program serves as a gateway to entry-level jobs in cybersecurity, requiring no prior experience and promising learners industry readiness in less than six months. Google hopes to lend impetus to job creation and enable a larger pool of Australians to fill the gaping number of cyber roles. Lucinda Longcroft, Director of Government Affairs & Public Policy, Google Australia and New Zealand, extended the conversation highlighting an opportunity to increase industry diversity. CSVs, female, Indigenous, elder, and youth workers remain largely underrepresented in the Australian cybersecurity section where the median salary is AUD$107,000, she informed.
To bridge this gap and bring more diverse talent into cybersecurity, organisations such as Generation Australia and ACS are lending their support. They will help connect communities with the Google Cybersecurity Certificate course, offer free scholarships for increased accessibility, and also accompany learners with support for professional coaching, networking opportunities, and job search assistance. Google’s Career Certificates were first introduced in Australia in 2022. Since then, as Huntley reports, more than 4,500 people have benefited from these certificates, with a striking 80% of graduates reporting a positive career impact within half a year of completion. Moreover, 35% of these graduates were either unemployed or underemployed when they started with the certificate program.
The Google Cybersecurity Certificate equips learners to identify common risks, threats, and vulnerabilities, providing them with hands-on experience of industry-standard tools, including Python and Linux. This will prepare learners for the industry-leading certification for cybersecurity roles; the CompTIA Security+ exam. Completing both will earn learners a dual credential, improving their hireability.
Coinciding with this, the Google Career Certificates Employer Consortium was established in 2022, aimed at collaborating with relevant partners to close skills gaps and connect Australians with in-demand jobs. Members of this consortium, which include household names like Accenture and Australia Post, consider applicants who have earned these certificates for entry-level positions. To ensure that certificate graduates match the expectations of employers with open entry-level roles, the cybersecurity teams of several consortium members beta tested the program content and provided vital feedback.
We are reminded of the immediacy of this issue, with cybercrime reportedly costing Australia up to $42 billion in the past financial year. Google remains committed to strengthening partnerships with government, businesses, NGOs, academia, and others, forging a workforce furnished with the necessary expertise to offer resilience against cyber attacks and foster a safer Australia.


According to Astronomy Magazine, NASA has announced a name for the replacement to the space shuttle:
As the space shuttle Discovery prepared for launch Friday, NASA announced the name of its replacement. The Crew Launch Vehicle, which will ferry astronauts to Earth orbit as early as 2011, is now called Ares I. The monstrous heavy-lift rocket, designed to loft cargo headed for the Moon later in the decade, is called Ares V.
Ares, the Greek word for Mars, is a nod to the agency’s vision of one day sending astronauts to the Red Planet. The numerical designations salute the Apollo-era Saturn I and Saturn V rockets, the first large U.S. launchers specifically designed for human spaceflight.
Ares. That’s way better than CLV. And I like the “I” and “V” designations in salute to the Saturn that took us to the moon, my favorite of all rockets. Pictures and more details at astronomy.com.


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New FDA-approved trial aims to improve cerebral palsy symptoms
When a pregnant woman delivers a child, she must trust in her physician and other medical professionals to provide appropriate and timely care, particularly when emergencies arise. Unfortunately, the quality of care provided is not always up to par. In the worst-case scenarios, negligent doctors can cause severe harm to newborns, sometimes resulting in birth injuries.
Cerebral palsy is a group of disorders that can be caused by a complicated labor and delivery. When the infant's brain is deprived of oxygen during a lengthy labor and delivery, cerebral palsy may result. Children with cerebral palsy can suffer from a variety of symptoms, including many affecting coordination and movement:
- Stiff muscles
- Problems with muscle coordination
- Difficulty walking
- Delays in motor skills and speech development
Cerebral palsy can also lead to vision and hearing problems, seizures and intellectual disabilities.
The FDA has approved a clinical trial to combat these sometimes-debilitating symptoms. The participants in the study are all children with cerebral palsy whose parents stored their umbilical cord blood after giving birth. In total, 40 children will participate in the study. The children will all receive infusions of stem cells from the cord blood stored by their parents at birth.
A child from Detroit has been chosen as one of the participants. The boy's symptoms include tremors, muscle spasms and he is unable to hold his head up on his own. When he was born, his parents decided to store the umbilical cord blood, a practice that was not particularly common at the time.
Now, because of his parents' foresight, he is able to participate in the study that does not require long hours in surgery or a painful recovery period. The researchers are hopeful that the treatment will improve symptoms for these children.Cerebral palsy often requires many different types of treatments
Children who have been diagnosed with cerebral palsy typically undergo a wide variety of treatments in an effort to lessen their symptoms and improve their quality of life. For instance, children may be treated by doctors in a number of specialty areas, including:
- Occupational, physical and speech therapy
- Mental health
In addition, cerebral palsy patients may need medication to improve their ability to move and manage pain. In some cases, surgery may be necessary, particularly in cases where the child suffers from severe muscle tightness.
If your child suffers from cerebral palsy due to physician malpractice, consulting with a skilled personal injury attorney will ensure your child's rights are protected.

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