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The work of Janieta Eyre
Incarnations is a mid-career retrospective of Janieta Eyre's fantastic, carnivalesque work. Her hallmark self-portraits feature her twinned, flirting with the idea of morphous and multiple identities. Each completely unique photograph features shared iconography - pregnancy, menstruation, cheese graters, vegetables, farm animals, brocade dresses, and on more than one (or two) occasion, a framed copy of another one of her images.
Available everywhere beautiful books are sold, Incarnations is a tiny gem: full-colour glossy images are nestled between essays and poetry from some of Janieta's most daring contemporaries – Christian Bok, Lynn Crosbie, Richard Vaughan, David Dorenbaum, and Lori Waxman, all bound with paper over board. Below is a sneak peak between the covers, including part of the introduction by the book's editor Suzanne Zelazo, and if the spirit moves you, copies are available for sale here.
Sisters Sophie and Sarah, 2003
As an innovator and agitator, Janieta Eyre (1966-) has pioneered an integrative photographic aesthetic that pushes the boundaries of creative forms and subjectivity to confound ontological certainties. She deploys the currency of her own body not only to subvert gendered objectification, but also to challenge the extent to which we are imprisoned by own subjective projections and identifications.
The Mute Book #2, 2009
Although she is recognized primarily as a visual artist, narrative functions prominently in Eyre's photographs, creating highly nuanced image-texts. Her work underscores the fictional nature of autobiography and memory even as it highlights how the often limiting stories we tell ourselves about ourselves nevertheless retain a strong hold over self-understanding. Effecting a Bakhtinian dialogic, the heteroglossia of the photographs invokes a lineage of feminist experimentations in photography by artists such as Hannah Maynard, Suzy Lake, Francesca Woodman, and Cindy Sherman.
Making Babies, 2000
Eyre's work ruptures the very notion of mimesis even while performing its principles. Seeming to incarnate from the very material folds of her hand-sewn, carefully arranged costumes and backdrops, Eyre, as subject, enacts a living collage only to dissolve and eschew those representations in a plurality of becoming. Her experimentation with mimesis offers insightful theoretical observations of the gendered making and unmaking of language – visual, linguistic, and embodied forms of expression – to powerfully subversive ends.
From the manual of human dissection, 1999
Eyre's doublings, mirrored selves, and cloned configurations are not only uncanny in their own right; they also resonate specifically for me. As an identical twin, I have grappled my whole life with the complexity of mirrored relationality. In my experience, reflection can become recursive and therefore embodied. It creates a profound empathy which is enriching insofar as it opens up the possibility to identify with or even as an other, yet this preponderancy can also be horrifyingly claustrophobic.
Two pages from my diary, 2000
That is, the permeability of empathy – of feeling so entirely understood in an other – comes with the threat of flooding, a chaotic erasure of self. Rather than being a function of a kind of twinship telepathy, Eyre's work suggests that this dichotomy is a function of shared experiences such as we encounter in works of art that move us. The overt and highly sensitized use of her own body makes us feel as though we are experiencing what Eyre does in the creative moment, recognizing it in – and therefore potentially as – our own lived experience.

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Since the success of my first book on the Hollywood of the studio era I have enjoyed researching and compiling seven more along similar lines. Hollywood Warts ‘n’ All focused on the private lives and general trivia about the stars of yesteryear and on the efforts of studio trouble-shooters to maintain the squeaky clean images of their biggest money-earners. The book sold well enough to spawn a second volume.
Let’s Go To The Movies is a little different. In this volume I have researched the backgrounds of over 100 productions over several decades, the on-set problems; the relationships between the main players and the rest of the cast and crew, and anything at all that I found unusual or of interest along the way. I also offer my personal views on each film, its shortcomings and the gaffs. But I think that statement needs clarification. I am not an expert on movie-making nor have I ever professed to be. My views here (like those in my website) are merely my personal opinions, nothing more. No doubt many of you will disagree with some (or all) of them. That is your prerogative. I enjoy reading the views of others and I hope you do too.
A recent visitor to my free website, filmstarfacts.com admonished me for preferring Ronnie Howard over Stanley Kubrick as a director. I was informed in no uncertain terms that I had ‘lost all credibility’ with him. An interesting admonishment considering I had never sought his (or anyone’s) credibility in the first place. It is true that I prefer to watch a Howard film than a Kubrick one, but so what? My only expertise lies in identifying what pleases me. It is true that I enjoyed Apollo 13 far more than I did 2001: A Space Odyssey. And I would not mind betting that I am not alone in that regard. So, if you are expecting to find expert commentary and observations on the technical side of movie-making here; if you are looking for an intellectual appreciation of some obtuse hidden meaning or metaphor – then this book is not for you. If you are curious about a layman’s opinion of the entertainment value in a particular movie, well, that is what this volume offers.
The terrific reception afforded my most recent book, Hollywood: The Skeletons Are Out, inspired me to write this one. ‘Skeletons’ presented a unique collection of 1,200 direct quotes from actors and actresses (and a few directors) about other actors they either knew intimately or had worked with. I was particularly interested in candid, private comments, not the usual, ‘I’ve always admired so and so as an actor’. I wanted to uncover the real opinions stars had of one another. And to my delight I found there was no shortage of them. Indeed, as the years go by there seems to be an ever-increasing amount of ‘home-truths’ emerging from the ruins of the studio system, both in quotes and in general disclosure. If you enjoyed my previous books I feel sure you will be equally interested in Let’s Go To The Movies.

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Your favourite Hershey’s Soft Serve is back.
McDonald’s Singapore has announced that they will be bringing back the much-anticipated Hershey’s soft serves.
From 23 September, fans can look forward to the treats at McDonald’s including three types of Hershey’s Dessert Cones, Hot Fudge Sundae and the Hershey’s McFlurry.
Hershey’s Dessert Cones
The timeless treats you love now come with choc-a-lot of chocolate! Ready your taste buds for these heavenly Hershey’s desserts!
Allergen information: Hershey’s Cones contain milk, soybean, wheat, gluten and sulphites.
The Hershey’s Cones are available at $1.40 each.
Hershey’s Hot Fudge Sundae
There can never be too much chocolate. Indulge in Hershey’s soft-serve, glazed with hot fudge. It’s double the chocolate, twice the delight!
Allergen information: Hershey’s Hot Fudge Sundae contains milk and soybean.
The Hershey’s Hot Fudge Sundae is available for $2.40.
Swirl into a chocolate dream! Oreo® cookie bits, Hershey’s soft-serve and chocolate fudge come together in this rich, smooth delight.
Allergen information: Hershey’s McFlurry® contains milk, soybean and nuts.
The Hershey’s McFlurry® is available for $3.20.
Beat the heat with a Hershey’s treat!
Creamy, chocolatey, yummy! A Hershey’s McFlurry® is the perfect way to cool down and perk up your day!
It’s also too good not to share – so have a Hershey’s McFlurry® on us! Just look out for their special bus stop ads located in 3 locations. If you’re lucky enough, be the first few there and it’ll open up for you to redeem one. Quantities are limited. Spread the word!
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Get a packet of Hershey’s Crunchers Cookies ‘N’ Creme at FairPrice supermarket and add them as toppings on your ice cream for the extra kick!

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Antony Sweeney is the longest serving Hartlepool United player. First signed as a trainee he has now completed 11 seasons with the club and has made over 300 first- team appearances. Over the years he has been a great club servant, and has performed equally well despite being asked to play in a number of different midfield and defensive positions. A player who always displays a positive attitude, during 2010-11 he was outstanding in his preferred central-midfield role. Having more freedom to go forward, he was Hartlepool's top goalscorer with 14 goals in all competitions, including a hat-trick in Pools? 4-2 FA Cup victory over Yeovil Town. At the end of the season he was rewarded by winning both the Supporters' and Players' Player of the Year awards.
Ex-Liverpool defender Mark Lawrenson believes Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney is already in decline because he broke on to the
Leicester maintained their 100 per cent record in the Champions League with Tuesday's 1-0 win over Copenhagen and will reach
The latest gossip and rumours from the newspapers and online:The Mirror claim that former England manager ROY HODGSON has been
Every Premier League-winning side for the last seven years has had a player who scored 20 or more league goals.
The latest gossip and rumours from the newspapers and online: The Times claim that Chelsea manager Antonio Conte is
Tottenham take on Bayer Leverkusen on Tuesday in a crunch Champions League clash in Group E.


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Eurocopter to highlight its United Kingdom market leadership and extensive in-country footprint at the 2010 Farnborough International Airshow
Farnborough Air Show 2010
Eurocopter and its Eurocopter UK Ltd. subsidiary are represented on the Farnborough exhibit stand of parent company EADS (Booth G12, Hall 4), where an EC135 for the West Midlands Police is to be officially handed over to the customer on July 19.
Today, Eurocopter products are vital for the functioning of the United Kingdom, with 450 helicopters in operation with over 130 customers. They represent 70% of the country's emergency medical service (EMS) fleet, 75% of the police and law enforcement helicopter inventory, and approximately 80% of the offshore oil and gas fleet. Furthermore, they are widely used for pipeline and power line control, as well as for lighthouse maintenance and other important utility missions. Eurocopter's EC135 was the first helicopter used to establish offshore wind farm support in the country. Additionally, 100 Eurocopter helicopters provide significant transport and training capability to the UK military forces.
With its modern product line, Eurocopter has responded to the increasing security requirements of the British Isles and elsewhere by adapting its light twinengine helicopter family to meet the requirements of homeland security and emergency medical services operators. In the UK and Ireland, twinengine Eurocopter models have been used for police air support and EMS operations during the past 30 years - beginning with the BO105, AS355 and BK117, and followed by the EC135 and the EC145 since the mid 1990s.
The UK's corporate and private sectors have been traditionally strong and demanding markets, to which Eurocopter's large, welltailored product range - as well as the unique local customization capability at Eurocopter UK's Oxford headquarters - respond perfectly. More than 200 corporate and private helicopters in the UK and Ireland are Eurocopter products.
"With the largest overall helicopter fleet in the British Isles - delivering a vital contribution to the UK nation and its citizens each day - we are committed to serving our customers locally, and thus have expanded our onshore capabilities significantly in the past few years," said Markus Steinke, the Managing Director of Eurocopter UK. "In addition, we have begun to export madeinthe-UK Eurocopter solutions to the rest of the world, and further investments will increase our local presence even more."
Since 2008, Eurocopter UK's Oxford headquarters has been grown by 25,000 square feet of industrial surface. As a key element of the Eurocopter Group's logistical, industrial and technical supply chain, the Oxford base has expanded into pilot training with the opening of a Type Rating Training Organization for the EC120, AS350, EC130, AS355 N, EC135, EC145 and EC155, with CAA airworthiness certification granted one year ago.
The logistical services offered at Oxford are further refined with paperless spares ordering and individual customer performance reviews, as well as onsite support at RAF Benson. In addition, its MRO services have now separated maintenance flows for private/corporate customers and police/utility customers, guaranteeing quick turnaround times and dedicated expertise for the approximately 60 helicopters returning to Eurocopter UK regularly for maintenance, as well as for any other adhoc customer.
Based on its renowned design and customization capability accumulated over more than 30 years of experience, Eurocopter UK has become a Eurocopter Design/Completion & Retrofit Centre - creating solutions for all kinds of missions ranging from VIP, police, fire fighting, EMS and utility to military applications. To date, individual customizations and retrofits have been delivered to customers in 23 countries including in the Americas, the Middle East, Japan, China, South Africa, Norway, Italy, Spain and Poland.
A new purposebuilt 20,000sq.ft. logistics and technical support centre at Aberdeen, Scotland began providing stateof the art service support earlier this year for offshore helicopter operators in close proximity to their operations.
About Eurocopter UK Ltd.
Through its fullyowned subsidiary, Eurocopter UK Ltd., headquartered in Oxford and with additional bases in Dublin (Ireland), Belfast (Northern Ireland), Hawarden (Wales) and Aberdeen (Scotland), Eurocopter has a strong industrial footprint in the UK and enjoys a reputation for innovation, high quality and a strong customer service ethos. Having achieved in an exemplary performance in the customization, distribution and support of Eurocopter products for civil and public service customers during the past 30 years, Eurocopter UK also provides stateoftheart services to the oil & gas Industry and the UK armed forces. The Ministry of Defence utilizes 100 Eurocopter helicopters for transport, training and special forces missions, and has recently awarded the Puma Upgrade Programme to Eurocopter UK Ltd. With over 450 helicopters in service in the British Isles, Eurocopter is the leading supplier of helicopters to the United Kingdom.

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New in Retail: Siblings open jewelry store in Springdale
Preferred Jewelers, a company that offers high-end jewelry and watches at discount prices, opened Monday at 481 E. Kemper Road in Springdale.
The store is owned by sister and brothers Sandy Wolfson, Louis Dennis and Dave Dennis.
“Our concept is that customers come in, they look, and they leave as friends,” Dave Dennis said. “We want people to feel like this is their jewelry store.”
New in Retail: Spa opens in Rookwood Commons
For 29 years, Dennis and his siblings owned and ran Burlington Fine Jewelry, which was sold in the Burlington Coat Factory. They decided to open Preferred Jewelers because the company was going in a new direction.
“We wanted to get back to our roots, which was Cincinnati,” Dennis said. “Our family is here. We’re real comfortable in Cincinnati.”
Coincidentally, Preferred Jewelers is opening in Springdale Plaza – the same location where they started selling Burlington Fine Jewelry 29 years ago. Dennis said it will be a good spot for the company. There’s a Lowe’s Home Improvement, Bed Bath & Beyond and Tuesday Morning all located in the plaza.
Dennis said he and his siblings enjoy the jewelry business for a number of reasons. It’s a fun occupation where they can help make people happy. The owners don’t have any aspirations of opening more stores at this point. After all, they already did that with Burlington Fine Jewelry.
“We just want steady, on-going business,” Dennis said. “That would appease me to no end.”
Is your retail business opening or closing? Email me at firstname.lastname@example.org or tweet me at @emilieeaton.

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NEUSS, GERMANY—The profile extrusion industry recently began employing soft thermoplastic olefins for rigid window-seal components and refrigerator-seal applications, according to TPO producer Montell Polyolefins.
Montell is developing elastomeric and cross-linked modified products to provide TPOs with greater softness, better strength and heat resistance and improved density. Those products also will be commercialized for use in the profile extrusion sector shortly, said Marc Bormans, head of building and construction applications at Montell's research and development business support unit at Ottignies, Belgium.
TPOs are becoming an important part of the larger thermoplastic elastomer market, he said at Profiles '99 in Neuss. In 1997, TPO consumption in Europe was estimated at 218 million pounds, representing 26 percent of the region's TPE market.
Bormans said Montell's Catalloy process can make very soft TPOs by blending polypropylene with high levels of rubber — as much as 70 percent — in the polymerization reactor. The material, sold under the trade name Adflex, has different grades with varying properties and performance characteristics.
The company markets the Q100F grade for profile extrusion applications. It can be extruded on conventional equipment, including PVC extrusion lines, is easy to process at conditions similar to PP, has good adhesion to other polyolefins and retains mechanical properties at a range of temperatures, Bormans said.
To improve strength, heat resistance and recovery after deformation, polymers are cross-linked via chemicals, hydrogen bonding or ionics, he said.
``Cross-linked blends meet the softness and elastic recovery requirements for refrigerator- and window-seal applications,'' Bormans said.
To improve density, some applications require foamed TPOs, he added.

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Currently Living: Ontario
Member Since: 6/22/2010
My natural rural surroundings have been great inspiration. Born and raised in Canada, I enjoy nature walks and animals, flowers and water. Raising the kids and animals in farm country, we had open fields and farm landscape with many flower gardens to care for and I paint those memories.
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Claire is a member of Artists in Canada, CARFAC, Quest Art Gallery, Zephyr Art Gallery, and Saatchi online Gallery in the UK. Her work is represented by local art galleries and she has been featured on the cover and inside the Visual Language International Contemporary Art magazine in April 2014, Arti...


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Terminator Salvation ‘spoilers’ ahead…
Slashfilm got their hands on some pictures of Terminator Salvation toys from Playmates and they look rotten. Just cheap and bad, especially in a world where movie toys like these appeal not just to kids but to adults with adjustment issues. Maybe there’s another line of well-made T4 toys coming. If so, these toys will forever look like knock-offs of those toys, the kind of toys you got from Chinatown if your parents were poor or cheap or didn’t care about name brands. You know, Super Robot Force instead of Transformers, or Uncanny Super Warrior. In this case the Playmates toys look like Future Terminating Robot.
Also, for those of you who have not been paying attention (we’ve been reporting this info to you for over a year at this point), these toys fully reveal that Marcus, played by Sam Worthington, is a cyborg.
That figure on the left in the image below is the T600, which so impressed me on my set visit. In real life this sucker looks a lot creepier than he does here. And no, that is not his guncock. He’s holding that; it isn’t jutting from his hips the way it appears. For more pictures, visit Slashfilm.

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Junius Gaten was born February 28, 1900, in Smithdale, Mississippi. He was called “Red” because of his thick red hair. At age five, Gaten moved with his aunt to Chicago. He attended Haven Elementary School and Chicago’s oldest black church, Quinn Chapel A.M.E Church. At sixteen, Consumer’s Ice Company in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood hired him. His horses knew the route, which wound through the Black Belt and down integrated Grand Boulevard (now King Drive).
As “Iceman Red,” Gaten delivered ice to black activist Ida B. Wells and former black Congressman John Roy Lynch. He resisted and survived the violent Chicago Race Riot of 1919 and the Palmer House Riot of 1924. In the 1920s, Gaten frequented the Dreamland, Royal Garden, Sunset Café and Grand Café. Able to earn extra money by playing the piano for rent parties, Gaten was advised by businessman Jesse Binga to open an account in his Binga Bank. Running errands for Al Capone, he earned $10 dollar tips and Cuban cigars. Gaten knew the Gordon family of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and heard Marcus Garvey speak at Chicago’s Liberty Hall. He talked with Carter G. Woodson, who stayed with Gaten’s uncle during his frequent visits to Chicago. During the Depression, he was assigned to work in Haiti by the Works Progress Administration. “Washington Park Red” aired his political views publicly. He was a union man seeking better wages and equal rights.
Gaten was associated with the Communist Party in the 1940s, joining Margaret Burroughs and Ishmael Flory. In this context, he helped sponsor an appearance by Paul Robeson. Gaten retired more than thirty years ago as operations manager for the Jefferson Ice Company. He bought a house for himself and his late wife, and bought real estate in what is now called the Bronzeville community. In his later years, Gaten served as Sunday School Director at St. John Church - Baptist on Chicago’s southside.
Gaten lived to be 105 years old. He passed away on November 30, 2005.

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Apple was alerted about the MacOS Gatekeeper security flaw on 22 February, but the issue was not fixed despite promising action within 90 days, says researcher
Iranian military computer systems were struck in a cyber-attack by the US government in response to shooting down of a US drone. Should private sector also hack back if targetted in counter-response?
Hackers used leaked NSA tools and hijacked another hacking group's infrastructure to attack government organisations in the Middle East and beyond
The flaws could allow hackers to trigger a kernel panic in systems and throw them offline
Security researchers have discovered a variant of the Houdini malware in campaigns against financial institutions and their customers.
Critical vulnerability in Evernote Web Clipper for Chrome enables hackers to access to a victim's sensitive information; it directly impacts 3rd party services and is not limited to a person's Evernote account.
Three flaws in Microsoft NTLM proprietary authentication protocol could let attackers run remote code & authenticate on any Windows machine. NTLM difficult to eliminate so still poses a significant risk.
Malware looks for SD-WAN equipment, smart home controllers and wireless presentation devices
Worldwide attacks on RDP servers are happening now. A security researcher has discovered a botnet that has attempted to bruteforce access to over 1.5 million RDP servers around the world.
Despite arrest being made, the Carbanak cyber-criminal group appears to be in action, according to a new report published by Bitdefender, reporting an attempted takeover of an entire ATM network.


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Ne Me Quitte Pas is a tragicomic ode to failure. Set in a village on the edge of Belgium, Bob (Flemish) and Marcel (Walloon) share their solitude, sense of humor and carving for alcohol. They have agreed that suicide is the best way out if worse comes to worst. In that case, they have chosen the perfect spot to do so: under Bob’s tree of life.
Bob is a retired cowboy who loves his freedom and forest, while Marcel is trying to hold on to the family he is about to lose. Time passes slowly in the Wallonian countryside. Fortunately, there’s wood to be chopped, sticky flypaper to be hung and there are the occasional trips to the dentist. The remaining time is killed with drinking.
In direct cinema style we witness a Walloon carnival, a car accident and a failed attempt to find Bob’s son. Even Bob’s tree of life appears to have vanished. Despite all, the two men never indulge in selfpity. They stand strong together, until Marcel decides to stop drinking and Bob refuses to join him in rehab.
Length: 107 minutes
Language: Flemish, French
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Premiere: North American
Filmmaker Sabine Lubbe Bakker was born and raised in Antwerp, Belgium, studying in The Netherlands and Brazil. Her credits include the award-winning documentary, Shout (2010), Power to the People (2012), and Hotel Europe (2013). Her last film, Ne Me Quitte Pas (with co-director Niels van Koevorden), is premiering at the IDFA this year. Niels van Koevorden spent his childhood in Belgium and studied at the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam. His senior film, Lukomir – Six Months Off (2010), was rewarded with the VPRO documentary award for best graduation documentary; his second short documentary, By Her Side, won several awards as well. Ne Me Quitte Pas (in co-direction with Sabine Lubbe Bakker), is his first feature-length film.
From left: Niels van Koevorden, Sabine Lubbe Bakker
The Northside Festival is New York City’s largest and most accessible discovery festival. From June 12-19, 2014, hundreds of bands, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, innovators, and over 80,000 fans will converge on Brooklyn over eight days to witness an incredible showcase of what’s next in music, film, entrepreneurship and art.
For the fifth year in a row, Northside Film (June 16-19) is bringing you some of the best Brooklyn Premieres, documentaries, narratives and repertory picks at independent venues in North Brooklyn.


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It was a crucial victory for Everton as they managed to beat Arsenal, despite falling behind to an early Alexis Sanchez free kick. It was their first win in six Premier League matches, which has moved them up to 7th. Meanwhile, Arsenal have missed a great opportunity to move to the top of the table and they are now likely to lose ground on Chelsea, as the Blues have a trip to Sunderland on Wednesday and they are favourites to extend their winning run. Here are three things that we learnt from the match at Goodison Park:
Arsenal missed Shkodran Mustafi
Gabriel was by no means bad on Tuesday and was delivered a good individual performance, including a great challenge to prevent Romelu Lukaku in the second half. However, it was evident that Arsenal were clearly missing the injured Shkodran Mustafi. Both of the Everton goals were headers and were could have been better defended. The set piece marking was especially bad for Ashley Williams’ goal as he was allowed a free header. It could be that the players were uncertain of where they were supposed to be in the absence of Mustafi.
Laurent Koscielny is seen as the leader of the Arsenal defence, but on tonight’s performance, it looks like it is actually Mustafi that provides organisation to the back four. If Arsenal are to challenge for the title, they can’t give away cheap goals like they did against Everton. They need to defend as a unit and the attacking players need to take their share of the blame for the defeat tonight. Theo Walcott was too easily beaten by Leighton Baines in the build-up for the first goal, while the marking for the winner reflects poorly on Mesut Ozil. They didn’t give their all defensively on Tuesday and were punished for it.

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Herbs & Spices Print by Anna Bond of Rifle Paper Co.
“The process from sketch to final painting (with gouache) for the case cover of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I then scanned and edited colors as well…”
I love Rifle Paper Co. - these are the choices for the custom stationary. I'd like to be a cool mysterious #2 but I think I am a simple #16
OBSESSED with the @Anna Bond swan painting... hope it turns into something I can make my own!
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Coral Botanical - Illustrated Art Print by Anna Bond of Rifle Paper Co. Anna Bond does it again....so pretty
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Paul Zunno grew up in East Northport, Long Island. Zunno has written songs for other artists and his music can be heard on radio, television and film.
Paul Zunno held the distinct honor of playing lead guitar for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Wilson Pickett and toured throughout the United States, Europe and Australia with Pickett for seven years until Wilson's passing in 2006.
He performed on 'The Late Show with David Letterman' and in the Miramax film, 'Only the Strong Survive'; a movie about legendary soul singers.
Paul released Live At The Phoenix House in 2010. It captures Paul's fun live sets.
I will chat with Paul about his incredible career as we listen to tunes from the album.
Debbie Davies is an award-winning singer, songwriter, guitar player of extraordinary talent. A professional musician since the early 1980s, Debbie ranks among the top blues artists in the country. She has received ten nominations for Blues Music Awards, and in 1997 and 2010 won the award for Best Contemporary Female Blues Artist.
Debbie released After The Fall earlier this year on MC Records. The all-original CD also features songs written by Debbie’s long time drummer Don Castagno and a guest appearance by pianist Bruce Katz.
We will discuss her career and listen to some tunes.
The Blasters formed in 1979 in Downey, CA by Phil Arvin (vocals/guitar), Dave Alvin (guitar) John Bazz (bass) and Bll Bateman (drums).
Keith Wyatt has taken Dave's place in the band and this year they released Fun On A Saturday Night, a collection of wonderful rock and blues.
How does a band stay together this long? What are the guys looking to achive and where are they heading.
I will discuss this with Phil as we listen to their music.


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Wednesday December 11, 2013
Springfield (PA): Tom Kline has stepped down after three seasons as head coach.
Chester (PA): Chuck Crews will not return after four seasons as head coach.
Sylmar (CA): John Brazil has been named the full-time head coach after stepping in on an interim basis midway through the season.
Mountain View (UT): The school has hired Louis Wong as head coach. Wong led Timpview to four consecutive state titles from 2006-09.
Lake Elsinore (CA): Phil Cohen is the new head coach.
Shrewsbury (MA): Terry Walles is stepping down after leading the program for 16 years.
Sequoia (Redwood City, CA): Sequoia High School in Redwood City is looking for coaches for all levels, particularly offensive and defensive line. Please contact Rob Poulos at firstname.lastname@example.org and send resume.
Baraboo (WI): Head coach Jeff Ochsankehl has resigned from the head coaching job at Baraboo HS.
Bishop Monogue (NV): We hear that Paul Mills has been let go. Mills led the program to the playoffs in eight of the past nine seasons.
West Allis Central (WI): Head coach Dax Rodriguez is stepping down.
Hernando (FL): Former Springstead HS (FL) head coach Bill Vonada has been named head coach at Hernando HS.
La Canada (CA): James Sims will not return for a third season as the head coach at La Canada HS.
River Dell (NJ):River Dell (NJ) is looking for an opponent on either September 5/6 or September 26/27. River Dell has a record over the last 7 years of 69-12. The population of the school (9-12) is 1020 with just over 500 Boys. It is a New Jersey Group III school. If interested, please contact head coach DJ Nimphius at email@example.com.
The Dunham School (LA): Guy Mistretta has has resigned from the head coaching job.
Berea (SC): After four seasons at Seneca HS, Wayne Green has decided to return to Berea as the program's head coach. Green was the head coach at Berea HS from 1986-1999, compiling a 91-61 record.
Lakewood (OH): Ron Lewis has resigned from the head coaching job after six seasons.
The differences between being a head coach at the college and NFL level
Booker T. Washington (Pensacola, FL): Booker T. Washington HS, located in Pensacola, FL is looking for an assistant football coach certified in Math. Position closes 12/13/13. If interested please go to the Escambia County FL School District website and apply. You may contact me at firstname.lastname@example.org or 850-377-2899.
Florence (TX): Hardin-Simmons (D-III - TX) wide receivers coach Joey McQueen will be the new head coach at Florence.
Kearsley (MI): Former Lapeer West, Davison and University of Detroit-Jesuit head coach Jeff Putnam will lead the Hornets in 2014.
Norristown (PA): E.J. Smith has stepped down as head coach.
Baker County (FL): Head coach Ryan Sulkowski is stepping down. We hear that he will become the head coach at Coffee County Central (TN).
Southeast Raleigh (NC): Head coach Marvin Burke has resigned.
Huguenot (VA): Sources tell us that the head coaching job is open.
East Coweta (Sharpsburg, GA): Head coach Clint Wade has decided to step down.
Lake Norman Charter (NC): Head coach Bob McKay has resigned.
Marvin Ride (NC): Danny Bailey has stepped down from the head coaching job after one season.
Trabuco Hills (CA): Head coach Scott Orloff has been let go after four seasons.
West Scranton (PA): Head coach Joe Gerek is no longer with the program.


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Dinner in Virginia Beach
Hi there - going to VA Beach this weekend.
I have read to steer clear of the beach restaurants, but...are there any
Italian Restaurant on the beach that is good and reasonable.
And what about Seafood restaurants, same - good and reasonable and on the beach.
We have been to Chicks and like it, but it is about 20 min away from our hotel.
Staying at the la quinta on Pacific. Also, the seafood restaurant must have steamed snow crab legs.
I am probably too late..sorry. From the La Quinta you are very close to very good, tradtional steamed & fried seafod at SurfRider on Laskin Rd. For Italian IL Giardino on 11th or 9th St & Atlantic is good. Also Pasta e Pani & Aldo's at Hilltop further up Laskin Rd...oh, & Tautog's at the beach for seafood...24th St maybe?
Although it is not ocean front, Bella Monte is a good Italian restaurant on Laskin Road. They not only serve great food, but there is a wonderful deli, wine selection , and gift shop there. Prices are moderate and everything is not smothered in marinara sauce.

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There's a diet plan called the Mediterranean Diet program which happens to be generally depending on the truth that folks in countries like Greece, Spain, Italy and France have a lot less illnesses and weight problems problems than the United states, and several other international locations. There is certainly a great deal from which to choose on this diet program, nevertheless the main target is on healthful fats, like olive oil, fresh vegatables and fruits plus a constrained volume of fish and meat. As wine is thought that can help prevent coronary heart sickness, a small amount of money of it truly is often welcomed. Looking at the level of all-natural and delightful foodstuff you'll be able to decide on from together with the Mediterranean Eating plan, it really is unquestionably value hunting into Diet Hypnosis.
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College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science , Key Laboratory of Molecular and Nano Probes , Ministry of Education , Collaborative Innovation Center of Functionalized Probes for Chemical Imaging in Universities of Shandong , Institutes of Biomedical Sciences , Shandong Normal University , Jinan 250014 , People's Republic of China . Email: [Email]
Ozone (O3), one of the reactive oxygen species (ROS), is deeply involved in diseases including depression. However, the lack of appropriate in situ detection methods suitable for the complex biological context of brain impedes uncovering the exact relationship between depression and changes in the O3 level. Therefore, we developed a near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent probe (ACy7) for the direct visualization of O3 in mice brains. The specific cycloaddition reaction between O3 and the terminal double bond of the butenyl group extends the conjugation of the "pre-" heptamethine cyanine system, which emits NIR fluorescence of heptamethine cyanine. This makes the ACy7 specific, highly sensitive and able to deeply penetrate tissue. Using ACy7, we found that under glutamate stimulation, the O3 content in PC12 cells was significantly higher than that in control cells. By imaging analysis on the brains of mice, we revealed for the first time that the levels of O3 in mice with depression phenotypes were markedly higher than that in control mice. Intriguingly, experimental results unravelled that excess O3 promoted high expression of the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-8 (IL-8), which ultimately induced depression phenotypes. Our work demonstrates the pivotal role of elevated O3 in depression and provides a fresh entry point for exploring oxidative stress contributing to depression.

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In this review, I describe stimuli-responsive colloidal assemblies prepared from a rigid rod-like clay mineral called imogolite, and relate them to their structural characteristics. When combined with dicarboxylic acids, imogolite formed gels that exhibited keen thixotropy, and physical anisotropy via orientation of the imogolite particles after flowing and subsequent standing. Robust hydrogels were also obtained by in-situ polymerization of vinyl monomers in imogolite aqueous dispersion. Under strain, these hydrogels showed a reversible isotropic–anisotropic structural transition.
As a reinforcing filler for polymer composite materials, cellulose nanofiber (CNF) is a promising alternative to conventional fillers from the viewpoints of its low cost, low density, biodegradability, high stiffness, and safety. A promising strategy for the preparation of CNF-reinforced polymer composite materials involves in-situ nanofibrillation, in which as-received wood pulp fibers are nanofibrillated into CNFs during the melt-compounding process. To further streamline this process, in this study, we used low-molecular-weight polyols, such as glycerol and glucitol, as nanofibrillation-assisting plasticizers, since polyols are expected to migrate and plasticize into the spaces between cellulose microfibrils in wood cell walls and break down the wood pulp fibers into CNFs. Never-dried needle-leaf bleached kraft pulp (NBKP), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), and a diblock copolymer (BCP), were used as the CNF resource, polymer matrix, and dispersant,respectively. The isolated cellulose fibers produced by the in situ process had diameters of between 200 and 500 nm. Furthermore, under the optimized conditions, the prepared composite material exhibited superior mechanical properties, with a Youngʼs modulus and tensile strength of 3 GPa and 44 MPa, respectively, when produced with 10 wt% NBKP. These values correspond to a four-fold higher Youngʼs modulus and a two-fold higher tensile strength than neat HDPE. Finally, the plasticization effects of glucitol and urea are compared and discussed from the viewpoints of the mechanical properties against the degree of nanofibrillation. This study provides a potential approach for an industrial-scale process.
Plant fibers used for paper and textile are mainly composed of cellulose microfibers which are gathered in the form of hierarchical structures in the plant cell wall. The microfibers are often obtained in the form of pulp from wood, sisal, abaca, and bamboo. Cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) are able to separate from the microfibers. This paper reports that the microfibers are composed of lots of CNFs oriented parallel to the microfiber axis, using electron microscopes. The morphological properties of the microfibers mentioned above are almost retained after the chemical carbonization at a temperature of 800℃ using methane sulfonic acid (MSA) or Iodine (I2) as a catalyst for the carbonization. MSA is more effective for the carbonization than Iodine. CNFs added to bamboo papers are enhanced the mechanical and electrical properties of the bamboo papers in both of the case before and after the carbonization. CNFs obtained from wood pulp, so called, TEMPO oxidized CNFs, show a needle-like structure in nanometer-size after the chemical carbonization.
Air quality is particularly important to public health. Therefore, effective purification and filtration of indoor and outdoor air has become an urgent need. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been used in the field of gas adsorption because of their superior specific surface area and porosity. However, MOFs are generally presented in powder form, which is not conducive to practical application. In this study, to expand the practical application of MOFs, polystyrene (PS) was used as raw material to prepare PS/Co(AC)2 nanofiber membrane as the matrix material through electrostatic spinning. By soaking method, Co2+ in the nanofiber was coordinated with 2-methylimidazole (2MI) ligand in the soaking solution to make Zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67) grow on the nanofiber in situ, and ZIF-67@PS composite membrane was prepared. The results of this study showed that the formaldehyde adsorption and filtration properties of the ZIF-67@PS nanofiber membrane were significantly better than those of pure PS nanofiber membrane.
For eight types of knitted fabrics for summer garments and, for comparison, one type of winter garment fabric, subjective hand evaluations were performed under dry and wet conditions, and the fabricsʼ physical properties, such as their tensile strength, shear strength, and surface properties, were evaluated under dry conditions using the Kawabata evaluation system for fabrics (KES-FB). Three factors related to “pleasant, slippery dry feeling,” “smooth, flexible feeling,” and “cool feeling” were extracted following factor analysis of ratings obtained from the subjective hand evaluations. Each factor score exhibited a difference depending on the state of the sample (dry or wet) and the type of material in the fabric. For a plain knitted fabric consisting of 87% polyester and 13% polyurethane (Sample H), each factor score tended to be high under dry conditions. In comparison to other samples, Sample H exhibited higher slipperiness, smoothness, elasticity under shear deformation, tensile recovery, thermal conductivity, and maximum heat flux (qmax) for the contact temperature sensation indicated and lower shear rigidity. For all of the samples, except for the two evaluation description pairs “sticky-slippery” and “dislike-like,” the subjective evaluation values estimated from multiple regression analysis using measurements of physical properties and subjective hand evaluations were similar to the experimental subjective evaluation values for both dry and wet conditions. Hence, the fact that subjective hand evaluation results can be predicted from the objective measurements of physical properties indicate the possibility of practical implications of the fiber product design.
Sulfated heptakis-6-[4-(β-D-maltopyranosyloxymethyl)-1H-1, 2, 3- triazoyl-1-yl)-β-CD (6-O-maltosyl β-CD) was prepared by the sulfation of 6-O-maltosyl β-CD that had been synthesized by click reaction of acetylated 1-O-propagyl-β-D-maltoside with heptakis-6-azido β-CD and then deacetylation. Sulfated 6-O-glucosyl β-CD was also synthesized from 6-O-glucosyl β-CD. These sulfated β-CDs were found to have potent anti-HIV activity (EC50) of 1.3 and 27.9 µg/mL, respectively, however, sulfated β-CD had low anti-HIV activity,>200 µg/mL. The surface plasmon resonance against poly-L-lysine as a model of HIV surface glycoprotein gp 120 indicated that the apparent association- (ka) and dissociation-rate (kd) constants increased and decreased, respectively, ka=0.21×103, 6.24×103, 1.46×104 1/Ms and kd=6.70×10－4, 3.92×10－4, 3.03×10－4 1/s, by depending on the number of branched glucose units. The particle size of the sulfated β-CDs was 13.7 nm, 6.2 nm, and 3.3 nm,respectively, measured by dynamic light scattering. These results suggest that the particle size of the sulfated β-CDs also played an important role in the strength of anti-HIV activity. The highest anti-HIV activity of sulfated 6-O-maltosyl β-CD was expressed by the electrostatic interaction with HIV gp 120 putting on sulfated 6-O-maltosyl β-CD like a cap, because the particle size (13.7 nm) was somewhat larger than that of HIV gp 120 (8 to 10 nm).


Pothos or Philodendron Neon
The Pothos Neon is a very resistant plant, ideal for indoor and outdoor spaces.
Indoor plant about 12 cm high in 11 o 15 cm diameter pots.
Add a decorative planter in the color you like best: white, anthracite, dark green and brick red. Pots made of 100% recycled plastic.
High quality plant grown in local nurseries. We send them directly from the nursery to your home, without going through cold rooms.
Home delivery within 48h. CitySens guarantee: If the plant arrives damaged, we will replace it.
Pothos are one of the most popular indoor plants. Perhaps it has earned this popularity not only because of its purifying qualities, but above all, because of the elegance that marks its leaves and its ornamental qualities. A perfect plant for those who are not certainly skilled with gardening, but also for those who want to enjoy an undemanding plant in their home.
Its versatility has not gone unnoticed either: depending on the variety, the Pothos are capable of growing vertically (as a climber) but also downwards (hanging). A plant that allows us to play with its appearance as part of the decoration of our house.
The Epipremnum pinnatum ‘Neon’ is a tropical plant with intense green and yellow leaves that will be accentuated if it receives indirect light. This plant brings great beauty and has a powerful decorative effect. It belongs to the family of air purification plants.
Common name: Pothos Neon.
Scientific name: Epipremnum Pinnatum Neon.
CARE OF THE POTHOS
Hardy indoor plant.
Temperature: between 15 and 25ºC.
Light: minimum of 6h indirect light a day. Do not expose to direct sunlight.
Irrigation: 1 irrigation/week.
Nutrients: follow indications of CitySens nutrients.
Ambient humidity: high level of humidity.
Toxic plant for pets.
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Warranty: If you receive the plants in poor condition, we take care of the replacement within 5 days after purchase.
Me han llegado perfectas y sois preciosas. Enhorabuena por todo el proyecto que tenéis.
Quería comentaros que los potos llegaron en perfecto estado, sanos y muy bonitos.
¡Agradeceros la atención recibida, ya tenéis dos clientas más para futuras compras!
Todo esta cuidado al detalle
Están preciosas las plantas. Y me ha encantado la notita personalizada y escrita a mano. Ya nadie escribe a mano! Todo un detalle en tiempos de tanto chat y tanto ordenador
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Plants for toxic areas
I understand that mustard plants can be used to soak up toxins, such as
lead, from the soil. The plants are then destroyed and not composted of
course. It is alo my understanding that fruit in general does not
absorb toxins readily from the soil and thus can be planted safely in
What other plants can be used to absorb toxins, and what other plants
are safe to plant and eat from in such areas?
Jim Kocher-Hillmer, Pittsburgh PA USA


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The attack campaign was discovered and analyzed by researchers from security firm Kaspersky Lab and the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS) of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
Dubbed MiniDuke, the attack campaign used targeted email messages — a technique known as spear phishing — that carried malicious PDF files rigged with a recently patched exploit for Adobe Reader 9, 10 and 11.
The exploit was originally discovered in active attacks earlier this month by security researchers from FireEye and is capable of bypassing the sandbox protection in Adobe Reader 10 and 11. Adobe released security patches for the vulnerabilities targeted by the exploit on Feb. 20.
The new MiniDuke attacks use the same exploit identified by FireEye, but with some advanced modifications, said Costin Raiu, director of Kaspersky Lab’s global research and analysis team, on Wednesday. This could suggest that the attackers had access to the toolkit that was used to create the original exploit.
The malicious PDF files are rogue copies of reports with content relevant to the targeted organizations and include a report on the informal Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) seminar on human rights, a report on Ukraine’s NATO membership action plan, a report on Ukraine’s regional foreign policy and a report on the 2013 Armenian Economic Association, and more.
If the exploit is successful, the rogue PDF files install a piece of malware that’s encrypted with information gathered from the affected system. This encryption technique was also used in the Gauss cyber-espionage malware and prevents the malware from being analyzed on a different system, Raiu said. If run on a different computer, the malware will execute, but will not initiate its malicious functionality, he said.
Another interesting aspect of this threat is that it’s only 20KB in size and was written in Assembler, a method that’s rarely used today by malware creators. Its small size is also unusual when compared to the size of modern malware, Raiu said. This suggests that the programmers were “old-school,” he said.
The piece of malware installed during this first stage of the attack connects to specific Twitter accounts that contain encrypted commands pointing to four websites that act as command-and-control servers. These websites, which are hosted in the U.S., Germany, France and Switzerland, host encrypted GIF files that contain a second backdoor program.
The second backdoor is an update to the first and connects back to the command-and-control servers to download yet another backdoor program that’s uniquely designed for each victim. As of Wednesday, the command-and-control servers were hosting five different backdoor programs for five unique victims in Portugal, Ukraine, Germany and Belgium, Raiu said.These unique backdoor programs connect to different command-and-control servers in Panama or Turkey, and they allow the attackers to execute commands on the infected systems.
The people behind the MiniDuke cyber-espionage campaign have operated since at least April 2012, when one of the special Twitter accounts was first created, Raiu said. However, it’s possible that their activity was more subtle until recently, when they decided to take advantage of the new Adobe Reader exploit to compromise as many organizations as possible before the vulnerabilities get patched, he said.
The malware used in the new attacks is unique and hasn’t been seen before, so the group might have used different malware in the past, Raiu said. Judging by the wide range of targets and the global nature of the attacks, the attackers probably have a large agenda, he said.
MiniDuke victims include organizations from Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Montenegro, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom and the United States.
In the United States, a research institute, two pro-U.S. think tanks and a health care company have been affected by this attack, Raiu said without naming any of the victims.
The attack is not as sophisticated as Flame or Stuxnet, but is high-level nevertheless, Raiu said. There are no indications regarding where the attackers might operate from or what interests they might be serving.
That said, the backdoor coding style is reminiscent of a group of malware writers known as 29A, believed to be defunct since 2008. There’s a “666″ signature in the code and 29A is the hexadecimal representation of 666, Raiu said.
A “666″ value was also found in the malware used in the earlier attacks analyzed by FireEye, but that threat was different from MiniDuke, Raiu said. The question of whether the two attacks are related remains open.
News of this cyber-espionage campaign comes on the heels of renewed discussions about the Chinese cyber-espionage threat, particularly in the U.S., that were prompted by a recent report from security firm Mandiant. The report contains details about the years-long activity of a group of cyberattackers dubbed the Comment Crew that Mandiant believes to be a secret cyberunit of the Chinese Army. The Chinese government has dismissed the allegations, but the report was widely covered in the media.
Raiu said that none of the MiniDuke victims identified so far was from China, but declined to speculate on the significance of this fact. Last week security researchers from other companies identified targeted attacks that distributed the same PDF exploit masquerading as copies of the Mandiant report.
Those attacks installed malware that was clearly of Chinese origin, Raiu said. However, the way in which the exploit was used in those attacks was very crude and the malware was unsophisticated when compared to MiniDuke, he said.
Syria, China, Iran, Bahrain and Vietnam are flagrantly spying online, media watchdog RSF said, urging controls on the export of Internet surveillance tools to regimes clamping down on dissent.
Tuesday’s report entitled “Enemies of the Internet” also singled out five companies — Gamma, Trovicor, Hacking Team, Amesys and Blue Coat — that it branded “digital era mercenaries,” who were helping oppressive governments.
Syria’s estimated five million Internet users are subject to rampant state spying, Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF, Journalists without Borders) said in the report, which coincides with the World Day Against Cyber-Censorship.
Noting that 22 journalists and 18 Internet users had been jailed, it said the network was controlled by two entities including the Syrian Computer Society (SCG) founded by President Bashar al-Assad.
The SCG, it said, controlled Syria’s 3G infrastructure, while the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment (STE) controlled the majority of the fixed connections.
“When the government orders the blocking of a word, of an URL, or of a site, STE transmits the order to service providers,” it said, publishing a leaked 1999 bid invitation from STE to install a national Internet system in Syria.
The requirements include recording of online and offline activities, copying of all e-mail exchanges from within Syria, and the ability to detect, intercept and block any encrypted data.
Damascus beefed up its monitoring in 2011 “adding new technologies to its cyber-arsenal” including proxy Blue Coat servers, RSF said.
Iran meanwhile is in the process of creating a home-grown Internet system, citing a series of cyber attacks on its nuclear installations, RSF said.
“Applications and services such as email, search engines and social networks are proposed to be developed under government control,” to allow for “large-scale surveillance and the systematic elimination of dissent.”
Twenty Internet users were jailed and one had been killed in the past year, it said, warning against the use of Iranian virtual private networks as it “will be like throwing yourself into the lion’s jaws.”
But in terms of sheer numbers, the “Chinese Communist Party runs one of the world’s biggest digital empires, if not the biggest,” RSF said, adding that individuals and companies have to rent their broadband access from the Chinese state or a government-controlled company.
“The tools put in place to filter and monitor the Internet are collectively known as the Great Firewall of China. Begun in 2003, it allows for access to foreign sites to be filtered,” it said, and to block feeds and content deemed undesirable.
“The Chinese cyber-dissident Hu Jia and his wife Zeng Jinyang have had policemen stationed at the foot of their apartment building for months,” it said.
“China jails more people involved in news and information than any other country. Today 30 journalists and 69 netizens are in prison.”
Bahrain, which with an Internet penetration of 77 percent is one of the most connected states in the Middle East, has seen a dramatic increase in surveillance and news blackouts in the past three years, RSF said.
Vietnam’s network is shoddy in quality but under tight state control. Thirty-one Internet users are in prison and Internet cafes are tightly monitored with users obliged to show identity documents before using them.
RSF called for a ban on the sale of surveillance hardware and software to countries that flout basic fundamental rights and crack down on any opposition.
“The private sector cannot be expected to police itself. Legislators must intervene,” it said.
“The European Union and the United States have already banned the export of surveillance technology to Iran and Syria. This praiseworthy initiative should not be an isolated one.”
File photo shows an Iranian youth using a computer at an internet cafe in Iran’s Hamadan province. Syria, China, Iran, Bahrain and Vietnam are flagrantly spying online, media watchdog RSF said.
Graphic on a report about online spying compiled by Reporters Sans Frontiers, alleging that Syria, China, Iran, Bahrain and Vietnam are the worst state offenders for using Internet surveillance to crackdown on dissent.
Image taken on October 11, 2010 shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attending a press conference at al-Shaab palace in Damascus. Media watchdog RSF said Syria’s network was controlled by two entities, including the Syrian Computer Society founded by Assad.
Image provided by Zeng Jinyan shows her husband, Chinese dissident Hu Jia, at their home in Beijing on June 27, 2011. “The Chinese cyber-dissident Hu Jia and his wife Zeng Jinyang have had policemen stationed at the foot of their apartment building for months,” an RSF report said.
Image taken on January 15, 2013 shows a man reading the news on his laptop at a coffee shop in Hanoi, Vietnam. Vietnam’s network is shoddy in quality but under tight state control.
The United States has recently stepped up the rhetoric against China on cyber espionage, with President Barack Obama joined the chorus on Wednesday.
He complained billions of dollars could be lost due to theft of American corporate secrets, following warnings by Pentagon officials that cyber espionage could be a dire threat to America’s national security.
Washington’s allegations show it is rather impatient with rampant backdoor thefts in the digital world, but casting China as a specific culprit for the ubiquitous problem is unfair.
Computer hacking is an emerging threat to global security. Both China and the United States are victims of electronic assaults.
In 2012, more than 14 million computers in China were hijacked and controlled from foreign IP addresses, with more than 10 million of those being controlled from IP addresses in the U.S., according to CNCERT, China’s top Internet coordination center.
In fairness, that does not mean the hackers were American, or that Washington was supporting or condoning the digital attacks against China. With computer technologies evolving so fast, hackers can easily hide or change their IPs. That makes hackers anonymous and difficult to trace.
Using the same logic, any hasty accusation aimed at a specific country for cyber attacks is technologically flawed and politically inappropriate.
Blaming the attacks on Chinese hackers is a rash statement that lacks credible evidence, while picking on Beijing as backing such acts sounds like an insidious attempt to tarnish China’s image.
The Chinese government has launched dozens of campaigns against backdoor spying and malicious software, cutting off remote control by tens of millions of IP addresses.
To eradicate cyber crime on the borderless Internet is barely possible without transnational cooperation. In this new field, the United States and China share common interests.
China-U.S. relations are the most important bilateral relations on earth. Instead of trading barbs and taking aggressive steps against each other, the world’s biggest and second largest economies would do well to combine their efforts to build a safer virtual world.
Russian security services have the ability to monitor Skype communications, IT security experts said Thursday.
Ilya Sachkov, general director of the Group-IB computer security firm, said Russian security services have been able not only to eavesdrop on communications over Skype, but also to determine users’ locations “for a couple of years now,” Vedomosti reported.
“That’s why our company’s employees are prohibited from discussing work-related issues via Skype,” Sachkov said.
According to Peak Systems head Maxim Amm, when Microsoft bought Skype in May 2011, it fitted it out with a special technology for legal eavesdropping of online communications. The technology involved switching users to a special mode in which their messages are encrypted on a server where security agencies can decipher and read messages and voice conversations.
In the original Skype settings, messages were encrypted and thus impossible for third parties to read.
Another industry expert said that Microsoft provides monitoring capabilities for all secret services worldwide, not only Russian ones, Vedomosti reported.
Mikhail Pryanishnikov, the head of Microsoft’s Russian branch, said earlier that the company could legally give the Federal Security Service access to Skype’s source code.
Neither the Interior Ministry nor the Federal Security Service have commented on the news, but a source in the police said that “monitoring Skype cannot be considered an insurmountable task for Russian law enforcement agencies.”
Two experts on information security told Vedomosti that Russian security services do not always need a court decision to get access to private communications on Skype, and that in some cases they can eavesdrop “simply by request.”
Police say two women were videotaped inside of their own home.
The peeping tom in this case was crafty enough to break into the home and install a camera, but not smart enough to keep that camera from capturing video of himself, which is now in the hands of the Howard County Police Department.
The videos show the suspect walking through the womens’ home and eventually installing the camera inside of a closet.
He apparently kept it running, and went back into the condominium unit several times to retrieve the videos of the two women who live there, and move the camera to different locations.
Both of the victims are in their 20′s.
“I’m surprised but I guess I’m not completely shocked because i hear things like that. But it’s surprising that it’s here,” said Trish Kirsch, who has lived in The Villages of Montgomery Run condominium complex for 10 years.
Other residents say they’d heard about the high-tech peeping tom from a community watch e-mail.
“Some stranger had entered an apartment with two girls living there, and he videotaped their bedrooms,” said Tayseer Elbeshir.
Police say it started in June — and the man kept coming back until recently, when one of the women found the camera, and called police.
“There doesn’t appear to have been forced entry so we’re not sure how he gained access to the apartment, and he apparently did it multiple times,” said Sherry Llewellyn, a spokeswoman for the Howard County Police Department.
Each condominium in the complex is individually owned, and many of them are rented out; police have already checked maintenance people and contractors working in the area.
The locks on the womens’ door have been changed — but police have not been able to identify the man who managed to video-tape himself committing a crime, yet.
“It’s a beautiful area; it’s a beautiful quiet neighborhood,” Elbeshir said. “So something like this to happen is weird. It’s different.”
In some of those videos the man is wearing what might be a work uniform.
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A concrete truck headed toward Main Street in Madison on Friday morning crashed into the New Jersey Transit overpass at Kings Road and Green Village Road, apparently chipping the overpass and leaking hydraulic fluid near a storm drain.
The driver, 50-year-old Pine Bush, N.Y., resident Howard Fisher, was taken to Morristown Medical Center with minor injuries, police said.
The truck was traveling northbound on Green Village Road when the upper boom collided with the bridge around 10:40 a.m., damaging the pump and releasing hydraulic fluid, Madison Police Lt. Darren Dachisen said.
Fisher was cited for careless driving, Dachisen said.
A New Jersey Transit spokeswoman said rail service was not affected by the accident.
A lift on top of the truck, which belongs to Hudson Valley Concrete Pumping Inc. in Wallkill, N.Y., did not clear the overpass. Traffic was being detoured near the accident until DeFalco's Automotive & Towing removed the vehicle around noon.
The fluid was contained before any entered the storm drain, Fire Chief Lou DeRosa said.
A message was left with Hudson Valley Concrete Pumping on Friday afternoon.
The , , Police, and the Whippany Fire Department's Hazmat unit responded to the scene.


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The Turin Metro is a public transportation system that connects the city of Turin in Italy, with the neighboring city of Collegno.
The system is operated by the Turinese Transport Group and carries about 22 million passengers per year (2010 figures). The most resaltable is that this metro is operated with a Siemens patented system called VAL 208, which is used in very few cities.The abbreviations mean "light automatic vehicle" a fully automatic subway system on tires. All elements of the VAL system (trains, roads, security systems, platforms) have been designed exclusively for this system, so it does not support other types of metro nor metro with driver.
The only existing line to date, was opened in 2006 in time for the Olympic Games in Turin
Turin Metro Lines
The Turin Metro network consists of a single line, Line 1, which opened in 2006, of 13.2 km length and 21 stations.
This line runs from the Fermi station (Collegno) to Lingotto station, on a route that passes by the center of the city through the stations of Porta Nuova and Porta Susa
The stations are as follows: Fermi, Paradiso, Marche, Massaua, Pozzo Strada, Monte Grappa, Rívoli, Racconigi, Bernini, Principi d´Acaja, XVIII Diciembre, Porta Susa FS, Vinzaglio, Re Umberto, Porta Nuova FS, Marconi, Nizza, Dante, Carducci-Molinette, Spezia, Lingotto, and two more under construction for 2013, stations of Italia 61 and Bengassi.
In 2009 it was approved the construction of Line 2, and is scheduled to become operational in 2020-2022.
Porta Susa, Porta Nuova
Journey time from the start point of the system to the end of it, is only 23 minutes. 60 seconds on average between each station.
The metro is open Monday through Friday from 05:30 am to 23:50 pm, Saturday from 05:30 am to 01:30 am and on Sunday from 07:00 am to 23: 50 pm.
Every 2 minutes.
Fares and Tickets
The ticket prices are the same for the entire area of urban network operated by GTT.
- Single Urban Ticket: 1 €, valid during 70 minutes from its validation in the entire urban network for bus, trams and subway.
- 15 Urban Tickets Card: 15 single urban tickets for 13,50 €.
- Suburban Single Ticket: 1.30 € valid for 90 minutes from validation in the entire network of buses, trams of suburban area.
- Single Ticket Urban + Suburban; 1.70 € valid for 90 minutes from validation in the entire network of buses, trams and metros in urban and suburban area.
- 5 Single Urban+Suburban Tickets ; 6.50 €
- 1-Day ticket: ticket valid for day within the urban and suburban transport of GTT. It costs 5 €. Non transferable.
- 2-Days ticket: ticket valid for 2 days within the urban and suburban transport of GTT. It costs 7.50 €. Non transferable
- 3-Days ticket: ticket valid for 3 days within the urban and suburban transport of GTT. It costs 10.00 €. Non transferable
- Ticket Shopping, this is a valid ticket for 4 hours to move within the urban area. Valid from 09:00 to 20:00 horas. It costs 3 €
Sandro Pertini International Airport is located 16 km in north of the city center.
The train station is just a few meters of the terminal and is accessed from Departures via a covered walkway with a length of 150 meters.
Trains run between 05.00 am and 21.45 hours with the station towards Turin GTT Dora. Trains run between the Airport and the station of Turin GTT Dora every 30 minutes between 06:49 and 21:19 hours.The inverse service from the GTT Dora station to the Airport also has a periodicity of 30 minutes and runs between 05:03 am and 19:43 hours.Travel time is 19 minutes and the cost of a single ticket, (ticket "Trenibus") costs 3.70 € and enables to make use of not only the metro to Dora GTT but also the urban public transport of the GTT for 70 minutes.
There is also a shuttle bus service from the SADEM company that runs every 30-45 minutes.The service operates from the airport and the city between 05:00 am and 23:00 hours and from the city to the airport between 06 : 00 am and 24.00 hours. The journey takes about 40 minutes to Turin, with intermediate stops. Costs 6.5 €, 7.00 € if it is bought on board.

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I haven’t written a book review (or a blog article for that matter) in a while so I figured it was really time I fixed that. I read The Girl from Everywhere back in August, not really knowing what the story would be about, only that it was about pirates and time travel – something I am always up for.
Title: The Girl From Everywhere
Author: Heidi Heilig
Publication: February 2016
Genre: YA, Adventure
My rating: ★★★★☆
Nix has been raised on a pirate ship, traveling through time on an impossible quest to help her father save her own mother from death, an event that could alter her timeline and prevent her own birth. The Captain is obsessed with finding a 1686 map of Honolulu to achieve his goal, and to succeed, Nix and her shipmates have to go through time and space, both real and fictional. But does she really want to proceed with something that could make everything she knows disappears?
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS
(You have been warned, carry on at your own risk!)
I was definitely attracted by the premise of this book because it contained time-travel and as I said, I’m always up for that, and it didn’t disappoint, especially considering the ship could access pretty much anywhere as long as they had the proper map, which means they could also go to fictional places, something I didn’t expect and absolutely loved. Honestly it was really hard to put this book down. It has great twists and goes to great places, both story-wise and in ther characters’ journey. The only thing I didn’t like was the love triangle aspect of it, which is something I couldn’t honestly do without (especially because I would rather concentrate on all the adventures at hand).
That being said, I really like the main character Nix. She is facing a pretty hard dilemma but still helps her father even though she knows it might affect her entire life. The Captain is also a pretty complex and extremely well-made character which I really appreciated. The ship has a few other shipmates who are all unique and coming from different places. My personal favourite, of course, is the ever-charming Kash, but I also really liked Bee.
Another absolutely amazing aspect of this book is the fact that Nix has a mixed-race heritage, (her mother was Chinese and living in Honolulu, and her father is American) which is something she can suffer from, but was also (in my opinion) very well included into the story. The other members of the crew also come from various places around the globe, which makes it a very realistic pirate ship, and also manages to include rep that is very rare in fiction, again something I loved. For example Kashmir comes from Persia and also speaks a bunch of foreign language including French which was the direct way to my heart. When I’m reading, I love to see different things, and this book is the perfect example of that. I live for it and I can’t wait to pick up the sequel.
Before you ask, I didn’t really like Blake to be honest. His (sort of?) relationship with Nix felt forced. I liked however how cultured he was and all the things we got to learn through him. And I loved that this book mentioned historical and cultural elements I didn’t really know about, that was super interesting.
I feel a bit rusty writing this review, but I hope you enjoyed it anyway. If you have read the book as well, I would love to hear your opinion on it. If you haven’t, I definitely recommend it. And if you love time-travel, then what are you waiting for?


Sand were a two-album band from Portland Oregon, that forged a brief and unfortunate run during the early to mid 70’s, plus they also had a connection to 80’s band Quarterflash.
Written by: gdmonline
LABEL: Barnaby Records
SERIAL: BR 15006
CD REISSUE: Discogs Reissue List
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: USA
LINEUP: Jack Charles – lead vocals, lead guitar * Dan Ross – lead guitar, steel guitar, backing vocals * Rich Gooch – bass, backing vocals * Steve Williams – drums * Dan Wilson – rhythm and backing vocals
TRACK LISTING: 01 Who Ya Tryin’ To Fool * 02 Lovin’ You * 03 You * 04 Destined Road * 05 Mystery * 06 She * 07 Eagles Claw * 08 Lady Of Mine
Sand were a two-album band from Portland Oregon, that forged a brief and unfortunate run during the early to mid 70’s. They were old school country rock with comparisons to CSN&Y, America and The Eagles. The band were exceptional on the vocal harmony front, as their songs would testify.
Despite being signed and bought down to L.A to work with noted producer Ken Mansfield and then engineer Bill Schnee (Pablo Cruise and many others), Sand were snookered between a record label (Barnaby) that didn’t know a thing about the burgeoning blue-jean country-rock market, and a distribution company (MGM) that left their debut album on the vine to die a natural death, due to their own internal wrangling.
Listening to the songs on this LP really does wind the clock. From my childhood, I was quite familiar with bands and albums of this ilk. The Doobie Brothers, America, Bread, and to a lesser extent Steely Dan were all regular playthings on the family stereo.
Hearing Sand decades later would’ve made for great companion listening if I had access to the original LP. Sadly, I don’t recall seeing it in the second-hand bins around town, as I’m sure I would’ve picked it up just based on the cover and the gatefold packaging. Thank you MGM for a slack distribution job.
‘Who You Tryin’ To Fool’ is a great lead-off, with abundant vocal harmonies and ever-present steel guitar. Things take a poignant turn for the lush and pastoral, with the vista expanse of ‘You’ and the down-home folkiness of ‘Destined Road’.
Gotta love the hot pickin’ to ‘Mystery’, and I’m thinking overall, the Sand album is quite close to America‘s ‘Homecoming’ LP from the year before. If you remember ‘Ventura Highway’, then it’s of the same vintage.
The steel guitar is the standout feature on the sixth track ‘She’, and of course the trademark vocal harmonies. ‘Eagle Claw’ the penultimate track is my highlight of this eight-tracker, highly melodic and with some unusual turns courtesy of Dan Ross’ very effective steel guitar. The finale ‘Lady Of Mine’ takes the lead vocal into the clouds. Not quite the Vienna Boys Choir but you get the point.
Interestingly, the debut Sand LP was comprised on two single-sided LP discs. Released in a gatefold sleeve, this would fetch good money these days, that is if you can find a copy. Sand went onto to release a second independent and locally produced record ‘Head In The Sand’ in 1976. Sadly I don’t think either album has seen a digital reissue.
Also of note, Rick Gooch and Jack Meussdorffer (a.k.a Jack Charles) went on to join Marv and Rindy Ross in the 80’s hit band Quarterflash, best known for their huge 1981 hit single ‘Harden My Heart’.


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Case 39 has a feel that’s slightly reminiscent of The Ring and other similar movies, but there’s a reason behind this. Filmed in 2006, it’s taken this long for the movie to get a proper release date. Seeing Bradley Cooper in a starring role before he became famous is kind of weird, but that’s something I’m sure we can learn to accept. The movie is certainly an intriguing one and while I’m not a huge fan of horror films, I rather enjoy the premise for Case 39.
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Los Angeles Time’s columnist, Hector Tobar, chronicled his recent tour of historic South-Central Avenue in today’s paper. Referencing an old guide book known as “The Green Book”, he visited some of the avenue’s most famous spots:
Among these sites was the Historic Dunbar Hotel which played host to famous musicians like Count Bassie and Billie Holiday in the 1920s and 30s when Central Avenue was the jazz and blues hot spot of Los Angeles. I am happy to announce that, in partnership with developer Thomas Safran & Associates (developers of Rittenhouse Square located at 33rd and Central Avenue), the Dunbar Hotel and neighboring buildings, Sommerville I and II, are currently undergoing renovation and upgrades. The project, known as The Dunbar Village, includes the restoration of the historic Dunbar Hotel and the rehabilitation of 86 units of affordable housing that will be covenanted for 55 years. The building is being upgraded to Silver LEED, ensuring that it meets strict environmental building codes and is energy efficient. Additionally, the project will create 158 construction jobs and three permanent jobs. Construction is expected to start in the fall.
I am excited that this historic site will be brought back to life. It is a testament to the history and strength of the South Los Angeles community. Along with the string of successful new investments along the avenue, it is supporting our efforts to create a revitalized and reinvigorated Central Avenue that pays homage to the past and embraces the future.


In practice of modern metallurgical manufacture one of the perspective directions of improving the quality of metal rolling and the quality of the consumer properties, which are not demanding significant raw and power expenses, is the microalloying of steels.
As a microalloying it is accepted to understand an introduction of separate elements or their bridgings which residual contents does not exceed 0, 1% rendering significant influence on processes that are proceeding in metal and determining its phase makeup, the size of structural components, a structure and cleanliness of borders and frontier zones and, as a consequence, improvement of service properties of metal.
Alloying elements are capable to react with oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, arsenic and other impurity and to form the corresponding bridgings, allowing to neutralize their negative operations, that in the end result affects the improvement of service properties of metal.
An application of chemically active elements (V, Nb, B, Ti, Zr, Al, N, etc.) in a lumpy kind for out of oven microalloyings is ineffective. Recently the great spread has received a way of addition elements' introduction in metal as a powder wire with the corresponding weighing material.
Advantages of introduction alloying with the help of powder wire in comparison with the traditional ways of an alloy building:
— Higher level of assimilation of elements;
— An opportunity to obtain steels with strictly regulated contents of active elements;
— Reproducibility of results;
— An opportunity of a serial continuous casting teeming of various brands’ steel;
— Reception of stable mechanical properties;
— High technological and economic efficiency of process.


Novokuznetsk plant of heat exchange equipment is a young company with an innovative approach, founded in 2016. The main activity-design and production of radiators of cooling, oil coolers, intercoolers, heat exchangers, heaters.
One of the priorities is to ensure the smooth operation of equipment and reduce the cost of a potential buyer for the purchase of components included in the range produced by the plant.
In the production of radiators we use our own certified technology, developed in conjunction with the Siberian state Industrial University. The technology is certified and fully adapted to the harsh climatic conditions of operation of machines and equipment.
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Title: The Zombie Chasers
Author: John Kloepfer
Illustrated: Steve Wolfhard
May Contain Spoilers
This is one of the most popular MG books in the library network. I waited weeks and weeks to make it to the head of the line, and when a copy came in, I was told I could only have it for 2 weeks, instead of the usual three. Whoa! Then I realized a very sad fact – there aren’t a lot of books in this age bracket that are so appealing to boys.
The Zombie Chasers is a fun, action-packed read. When the zombie apocalypse catches Phoenix unawares, lumbering, rotting corpses take to the streets. Zack, upset after being humiliated by his sister and her friends, suffers further abuse when the meanest of the girls, Madison, eats the last piece of his birthday cake. The thought of enjoying that last, delightful slice of cake kept Zack going all day long, too!
Quicker than he can blink, everyone on the block, except for vain, bossy Madison, has turned into a murderous, brain-craving zombie. Now that last piece of cake is the last thing on Zack’s mind, and he is seriously worried about living through the night. With Madison and his best friend, Rice, by his side, Zack ventures into a nightmare to find someplace safe to hide.
This was a fun read. Full of comedic gore and sentences that occasionally caused me to cringe due to the tremendous “ick!” factor, I couldn’t put it down. Zack is a feisty guy, and he rises to the challenge of surviving a zombie infestation with wit and lots of snarky comments. He even proves to be quite gallant, by refusing to hurt his sister, even though she’s been turned into a zombie and she keeps trying to eat his brains. Madison turns out to be not so awful, even though she remains bossy and demanding to the last page. Rice, well, despite being a zombie “expert,” he’s a dweeb, and will remain one until the end of time.
Overflowing with humor and buckets of gore, The Zombie Chasers sets a blistering pace that never slows down. Steve Wolfhard’s illustrations give the story added depth, both by providing amusing drawings and giving a visual representation of tons of gloppy zombies. The book even has a zombie puppy! How cute is that?! My only disappointment with The Zombie Chasers is the non-ending, but, hey, at least the first chapter to the next installment of the series was included in the the back of the book. Wonder how long I’ll have to wait to be at the head of the line for that one?
Review copy obtained from the library


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Andrade wins Nashua's Ward 8 Democratic Versace Belt Real
"Silva was rejected last year by Ward 8 voters, and he shouldn't be surprised when they send him packing again this November."
mayoral candidate, Andrade served as Ward 8 alderman and an alderman at large in the 1980s and early '90s. He was also chairman of the Board of Aldermen for two years.
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Andrade will face former state Rep. Peter Silva, who ran unopposed in Tuesday's primary, in the Nov. 5 general election. The winner will succeed Democratic state Rep. Roland LaPlante, who resigned in February because of health issues.
"They're pretty close on the issues, pretty much the opposite of mine. I see it coming down to voter turnout," he said of Nov. 5.
Andrade said that while he's naturally pleased with the victory, he's also encouraged by the fact 377 Democrats voted while fewer than 150 Republicans turned out, casting 141 for Silva with a handful of write ins.
Silva said Tuesday night he had no preference over who he will face in November.
Andrade, who was joined by wife Tina, daughter Susan Mahoney and her husband and their children Tuesday night, lives at 10 Clydesdale Circle and has been a Nashua resident since 1976.
"We triple counted, and we may count again," Anderson told the dozen or so people present at the Bicentennial Elementary School, the polling place for Ward 8, which is Hillsborough County District 35.
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"I said then, 'it's going to be close. Very close,'" Andrade, the eventual winner by a razor thin 170 167 margin, said when Ward 8 moderator Gene Anderson announced the results Tuesday night.
"Looking at the numbers, more than twice as many Democrats voted as did Republicans," he said. "I think it's important that the Democrats hold this seat."
NASHUA It was still early on Tuesday when Ward 8 state representative candidate Carl Andrade made a prediction albeit a fairly safe one on the outcome of his special election race against fellow Ward 8 democrat Latha Mangipudi.
State Democratic party spokesman Harrell Kirstein echoed Andrade's sentiments.
that Bill O'Brien's right hand man and Tea Party pal Peter Silva does not return to Concord," Kirstein said in a statement Tuesday night.
Kirstein criticized Silva's record, predicting that, if elected, Silva "will work to limit access to affordable health care for women, interfere in the right of business and employees to freely negotiate and serve as a rubber stamp for the radical right wing ideological agenda."
"We both worked hard," Langipudi said.
Andrade said earlier that, with a low turnout expected for Tuesday's primary, he and volunteers did the "heavy lifting" of making voters aware of the race. He targeted voters who have registered as Democrats in the past with a campaign mailing, and also placed 100 signs around the ward.
Mangipudi, who congratulated Andrade with an embrace as their respective family members shook hands, said that given the fact poll workers already counted three times, she probably wouldn't seek an "official" recount.
As did Andrade, Mangipudi multi tasked while tending her sign and greeting voters.
Roughly 525, Gucci Belt Lion or just under 9 percent, of Ward 8's 5,981 registered voters turned out Tuesday.
"I talked to people, and made calls, a lot of calls, in between," she said.
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It is critical that manufacturers support manufacturing training programs; without qualified instructors, schools will be forced to close their manufacturing programs and, therefore, will not be able to produce employees! Please encourage recently retired manufacturer colleagues or other manufacturers looking for a part-time gig to consider teaching the next generation of talent.
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3 Premier League Teams To Never Have Won Any Title In History
Did you know that the Premier League has had fifty teams participate in it since its inception in 1992? There are 48 teams from England and two from Wales. These two clubs are Cardiff and Swansea, which have historically competed with England teams.
There have been seven Premier League champions since 1992, namely;
All the fifty teams have ever won silverware except these three.They are;
Southampton came within a whisker of winning the FA Cup last season before being knocked out by Leicester City.
They’ve made several finals, but the trophies have eluded them.
2. Brighton & Have Albion.
Have you ever heard of Brighton winning a trophy? No, I don’t think so.
This is simply a quiet Premier League team. Their stadium is called Amex Stadium, and they are sponsored by American Express.
3. Crystal Palace.
The eagles are another peaceful side.The London club has no trophies in their trophy cabinet.
The 2021/22 season is currently underway, and there is a very close race between three of England’s most stable teams this season
Manchester City currently leads the table with 44 points, slightly ahead of Liverpool (41 points) and Chelsea (38 points).
On Boxing Day, Manchester City will face Leicester City, while Liverpool will face Brentford.
The top three will remain as they are at the end of the season, according to the predicted table.
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FTC accuses Naver of undermining marketThe Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has started proceedings to take action over Naver’s alleged abuse of its position in the search market by giving preferential treatment to its services over its competitors.
The antitrust body sent a report on the alleged abuses to the portal operator on Monday, outlining measures such as correction orders and a fine. The notification is similar to a prosecutor’s indictment.
“Naver has used its position in the portal market to dismantle the market’s competitive order,” said an FTC official.
Naver is accused of abusing its position in the search market by placing its services at the top of search results. The company provides a wide range of services including shopping, real estate and video content. For example, products that can be bought through Naver Pay or are registered in Naver’s Smart Store service are listed above other search results. The FTC also found similar results for property listing searches and video content as Naver TV results received preferential search results over rivals like YouTube or Afreeca TV.
A spokesperson for Naver said it is still reviewing the FTC report.
The FTC fined Naver on similar grounds in 2008. Back then, the company was accused of using its position to force video service company Pandora from inserting advertisements on its videos.
However, the Supreme Court ruled in 2014 that the search portal and video streaming markets are separate and that Naver could not have exerted absolute influence on the video streaming market.
The antitrust body is also expected to take a similar measure against Google Korea for abusing its position through its Android operating system that led to discrimination against competitors. The FTC reportedly believes that Google Korea has forced game developers and publishers to release their products solely on the Google Play Store, which resulted in discrimination against other application stores such as One Store.
The FTC’s measure against Naver is the first time that the regulator has made a move on an ICT platform company since chairwoman Joh Sung-wook took office in September.
Joh has previously said that she will regulate unfair activities by platform companies such as Google, Apple and Naver.
The antitrust body launched a special team focused on abuses by ICT platform companies last Friday.
BY KIM KI-HWAN [firstname.lastname@example.org]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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