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Experience a taste of English heritage and a Yorkshire welcome
Escape to self-catering cottages in our award-winning, historic, warm, comfortable and quirky barn conversion.
Indulge in 21st Century pampering and beauty treatments. Temporarily closed.
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"Rooms were beautiful and the breakfast was WOW!" Nov 2019
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INSPECTORS have lavished praise on pupils and staff at a Stevenston school and nursery.
An HMI team visited St John’s in November and were impressed by the quality of care and support from staff to ensure all children’s needs were met.
They found pupils were well behaved, polite and keen to learn.
Staff worked well together and were committed to improving the school. There was a welcoming and inclusive ethos based on school values.
Headteacher Liz Miller provided strong leadership in overseeing support for children who need help with learning, including literacy.
Inspectors said they were confident the school would continue to improve as staff were keen to embrace new ideas and change.
They highlighted only three areas of improvement which they insisted the school was well placed to meet. They said the school should improve children’s experiences in the nursery to better meet their needs; continue to develop effective approaches for assessing, tracking and recording children’s progress and achievements; build on the positive start to the curriculum and further improve learning and achievement.
They were satisfied that no further visits in connection with the inspection were necessary.

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Distance from Iraq to Turkey
Distance from Iraq to Turkey is 991 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 616 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Iraq and Turkey is 991 km= 616 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Iraq to Turkey, It takes 1.1 hours to arrive.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||33° 13´ 23.4840'' N |
43° 40´ 45.4440'' E
Map of Iraq
Iraq Distances to Countries
|Distance from Iraq to Turks and Caicos Islands||10,850 km|
|Distance from Greece to Iraq||2,061 km|
|Distance from Albania to Iraq||2,253 km|
|GPS Coordinates||38° 57´ 49.5000'' N |
35° 14´ 35.9520'' E
Map of Turkey
Turkey Distances to Countries
|Distance from Guyana to Turkey||10,027 km|
|Distance from Angola to Turkey||5,862 km|
|Distance from Dominican Republic to Turkey||9,967 km|


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Ashbury - Poem by AHO Speaks
A drive past; lost and yet I found it.
Windows of colour and so appealing
I stopped and entered to find sounds so revealing.
Voices from an upper room singing to God
Rejoicing, moving and with the Lord.
How magnificant to see beauty and hear the sound
Next to a pretty lady to the seat I was bound.
Song after song came forth from them
Needed to get close to satisfy my yen.
So close I wanted to reach out and touch
Singing so beautiful and I wanted so much.
Black their faces like the ebony of pearls
Full of life and love; these boys and girls.
Two attarctive boys with their Mother I saw
Unbelievable love and beauty; she held my awe.
The youngest a governor or senator I said
The older to love and protect; as the Kennedy's now dead.
They are this nations future and part of its scene
Live long lives and contribute; to all peoples dreams.
04-27-06 Aho Speaks
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Still I Rise
The Road Not Taken
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Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?
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Sound estate management includes creating financial and healthcare documents. Here's an inside look.
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How long are we looking at for a Brexit Extension?
EU members are due to meet today to discuss what length of Brexit extension to offer Britain. It is rumoured that the majority of member states favour a three month extension. Johnson has stated he would allow further time for Members of Parliament to debate the deal if they agreed to a general election on 12th December.
Boris has said in the event of a delay until January he will call an election, this may not come to fruition however as it is unlikely to get enough MPs to back an election.
Will there be a general election before Christmas?
Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn wants a no deal taken off the table before agreeing to an election, the problem you then create is that a no deal scenario is the only ammunition for negotiations.
France would favour a shorter delay and have said a delay will only be approved if there is a purpose to that delay. Boris would also prefer a shorter delay until mid-November.
The lack of clarity surrounding Brexit and the potential of a general election does have the potential to weaken the Pound. Historically, a general election weakens the currency in question due to the political instability. Short term Euro buyers may wish to consider taking advantage of current levels while we still sit close to a six month high.
During unpredictable times you may wish to be in contact with a currency specialist who can provide the latest currency updates. Foreign Currency Direct PLC has specialised in foreign exchange for over 19 years and we are authorised as an e-money institution by the FCA. If you already use a provider, I can perform a comparison within minutes, to give you an indication of the potential saving you could make by using Foreign Currency Direct for your international currency transfers.


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Are you ready to Deck-ade the Halls? Fat Quarter Shop is celebrating 10 years of fabric-loving fun with a FREE quilt along. Join us in celebrating 10 years with 10 blocks and 10 fabrics as we sew an unforgettable Christmas quilt! The whole quilt is pieced, so we welcome quilters of any skill level to join in!
The first FREE downloadable PDF is available and contains everything you need to know for what you’ll need to get started! We have kits and backing sets available using Aspen Frost by BasicGrey for Moda Fabrics, but if you want to create your Deck-ade the Halls Quilt in a different color scheme, download the fabric requirements and get picking!
For more information about the Deck-ade the Halls Quilt and Fat Quarter Shop's 10 year anniversary, watch our introductory video! Kimberly and Jocelyn discuss the program, the inspiration behind the quilt and give you plenty of information about fabric requirements.
Will you be joining in on the celebration? Get the first download here and be sure to check back two weeks from today, when we will post the pattern on our Deck-ade the Halls page and a video tutorial for the gingerbread blocks.
We want to end with a big, huge thanks to our wonderful customers who have made this momentous occasion possible! We have had 10 wonderful years as your online quilt shop of choice, and this is just a small way to say THANKS from the bottom of our hearts. Here’s to the next 10 years!

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A few weeks ago, the sun set on the bottom of the world, not to rise again for six months. Temperatures at the pole are now around minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit. By the depths of winter in July, they will have crept toward 90 below, and even colder. The already super-thin, ultra-dry air will have shed a few more wisps of water vapor.
In short, conditions are becoming ideal--at least for the increasing number of physicists and astronomers who go to the end of the Earth for their research.
The National Science Foundation's polar outpost has become an astrophysical hot spot chiefly because it is the one place on the planet where certain kinds of radiation can be observed through the atmosphere. Many intriguing celestial objects can be seen only in non-visible light. Such light--infrared, millimeter and microwave, whose wavelengths are 100 to 10,000 times longer than the wavelengths your eyes see--are effectively filtered out by warmer or denser air.
Sometimes an object's visible light gets swallowed en route to Earth by intervening cosmic dust; only the longest wavelengths penetrate the haze. (For exactly the same reason, sunlight is red at dawn and sunset, when the rays have to travel farthest through the atmosphere; only the longest orange and red wavelengths remain unscattered.) That is the case for newborn stars in their gas-clotted "stellar nurseries," or for things near the center of our galaxy.
Unfortunately, those long wavelengths--including telltale radiation from clouds of atomic carbon, which is essential to understanding the physics of star formation--are easily absorbed or scrambled nearly everywhere in the Earth's comparatively warm and restive atmosphere, whose incessant stirring makes stars appear to twinkle. Ditto for the cosmic microwave background signals left over from the earliest years after the Big Bang. Scientists observe that radiation to study the shape and distribution of matter in the primordial universe.
At the pole, however--with an elevation of 9,300 feet, an air density about two-thirds of Washington's, and the coldest sky in the world--atmospheric and heat interference is minimal.
For measuring long-wavelength radiation, "the worst day here is better than the best day at Mauna Kea," Hawaii, home of the big Keck telescope, said Robert Lowenstein of the University of Chicago, who heads the Advanced Telescopes Project at the pole station. "A small telescope here can do things a telescope five times larger would do in temperate latitudes."
So the NSF's collaborative Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica (CARA) supports three long-wave telescopes in the "dark sector" away from the half-buried, 160-foot-wide geodesic dome of the main pole station.
For example, with even a 24-inch-diameter telescope such as SPIREX (South Pole Infrared Explorer), "you can see into our galactic center," said astronomer Al Fowler, and study the structure of other galaxies as well. "Another important area is star formation. You have to be able to look into the cloud to see the protostars. Do they just form from dust or some kind of cataclysm?" ("In a sense, we are stellar pediatricians," said Roopesh Ojha of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who works on the nearby AST/RO telescope.)
Ironically, as cold as the pole is, the telescope detectors have to be vastly colder--only a few degrees above absolute zero--to eliminate thermal "noise." Much of the equipment is highly automated, and data are sent back to the United States via satellite, but a few scientists, such as Ojha, spend the entire sunless winter here tending the gear.
The most exotic instrument at the pole, however, works day or night, summer or winter. It is an entirely new kind of telescope called AMANDA (for Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array). Scientists hope to use it to identify distant sources of ferociously high energy, such as "active" galactic centers or mysterious gamma-ray "bursters." Those entities also give off all sorts of radiation, as well as various charged particles. But the former gets absorbed in interstellar dust, and the latter can curve as they pass through various magnetic fields, making it hard to determine their point of origin.
So instead of gathering photons (the units of light or other electromagnetic radiation collected by conventional telescopes), AMANDA is designed to detect neutrinos. "It's the first telescope since Galileo that is really different," said physicist Steven W. Barwick of the University of California at Irvine.
Wraithlike, nearly massless neutrinos, produced by numerous high-energy processes such as nuclear fusion and streaming through everything in space, interact only very rarely with ordinary matter. Several million billion of them are shooting through your body every second, as little affected by their surroundings as "a bullet through a rainstorm," according to University of Wisconsin physicist and AMANDA collaborator Francis Halzen.
But every once in a while one of them bangs squarely into a particle in some atom's nucleus. This produces a fat cousin of the electron called a muon that flies off at high speed in the same direction as the original neutrino, and gives off bright blue light as it does. That light--Cerenkov radiation, the photon equivalent of a sonic boom--is a distinctive sign of a neutrino smashup.
AMANDA records them using about 400 downward-looking light detectors buried over a mile deep in the polar ice. At that depth, the pressure is so great that even tiny air bubbles (which could scatter the Cerenkov photons) have been squeezed out of the ice, and it is extremely clear. Nor are there any of the biological light sources that plagued earlier neutrino detectors using sea water.
Of course, there are a lot of neutrinos out there--about 100 million times as many as all the protons and neutrons in the universe--and plenty of them collide with atoms in the atmosphere, producing a constant drizzle of muons. So to weed out only the highest energy neutrinos that definitely come from distant cosmic sources, AMANDA needs an absolutely huge filter. Fortunately, one is conveniently available: the Earth itself. AMANDA looks straight down through the center of the planet. Virtually any muons coming from that direction must be the cosmic variety, which carry about a million times as much energy as the humdrum atmospheric neutrinos.
After drilling holes--some more than a mile deep--with jets of boiling water, the AMANDA team lowered 10 strings of light detectors into the ice on cables. After a day or so, they were frozen in place. By tracking the path of Cerenkov light through this array, AMANDA scientists reported earlier this year that they can determine the direction of an incoming neutrino within a couple of degrees. With this proof of principle in hand, they hope eventually to expand the detector to an "ice cube" grid 1 kilometer on a side to improve data volume and accuracy.
"Timing is everything," said Barwick. "We have to know everything to the nanosecond. That's one of the reasons that you can't do this experiment anywhere else, because the temperature elsewhere changes all the time. And so do the lengths of the cables," thanks to thermal expansion and contraction. "But here the ice is always the same: minus 50 Celsius."
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CAPTION: AMANDA researchers examine an optical module before lowering it into the transparent Anarctic ice.


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Ukrainian Army units shell Donetsk Republic in first hours of newceasefireWorld June 24, 5:19
Politician says Russia vs Mexico football game will be interesting to watchSport June 23, 21:11
Kyrgyz president sees revival of relations with Russia as major result of his tenureWorld June 23, 20:49
Ex-premier says initiative to impeach Poroshenko stems from Ukraine’s economy collapseWorld June 23, 20:20
This week in photos: Confederations Cup opening and summer solstice celebrationsSociety & Culture June 23, 19:11
Turkish ambassador to Russia: Moscow and Ankara to join efforts in war on terrorWorld June 23, 18:45
Ukraine’s finance ministry files appeal to London Court against Russia in $3 bln debt caseBusiness & Economy June 23, 18:42
Ukrainian society tired of Poroshenko’s policy — expertRussian Politics & Diplomacy June 23, 17:58
Deutsche Welle sees Russian international broadcasters as threat to European ideasWorld June 23, 17:34
KIEV, December 01, (TAR-TASS). Ukrainian opposition activists in about 300 cars are trying to get to the presidential residence Mezhgorye in the settlement of Novye Petrovtsy outside Kiev, according to accounts posted in social networks on Sunday.
They were stopped by four buses with Berkut riot police near Novye Petrovtsy. Opposition activists however say they are not going to change their plans.


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FAQ about Buses from Gandhinagar to Somnath
How many buses are running between Gandhinagar to Somnath on the daily basis?
9 buses are running between Gandhinagar to Somnath.
What is the ticket price for different types of buses on the Gandhinagar to Somnath bus route?
The minimum fare for Non AC bus is ₹218, AC bus is ₹631, Sleeper bus is ₹631 on Gandhinagar to Somnath bus route.
How many seats are available for different types of buses on the Gandhinagar Somnath bus route?
227 seats for Non AC, 37 seats for AC buses are available for today’s booking.
When does the first Gandhinagar to Somnath bus leaves for the day?
The first bus for Gandhinagar to Somnath bus route leaves at 16:20. It is a nonac bus and fare for this bus is ₹218.
When does the last bus leaves for Somnath from Gandhinagar?
The last bus for Gandhinagar to Somnath route leaves at 21:45. The ticket price for this nonac bus is ₹520.
Who are the popular operators on the Gandhinagar to Somnath bus route?
Top operators on the Gandhinagar to Somnath bus route are GSRTC , Shree Hari Travels , Patel Tours And Travels and Mahasagar Travels .
How many buses are GPS enabled?
Total 4 buses are GPS enabled on this route so that anyone can track his bus.
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- Junagadh Gate
The gate is the main entry point to the holy city. This is supposedly built many centuries back by and has a hint of......
- Somnath Temple
The temple houses one of the revered 12 Jyotirlingas. Legend has it that this temple was built by the Moon God for the Lord Shiva for getting rid of......
- Panch Pandav Gufa (Cave)
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Soggy start to a chilly Melbourne Cup Day
Cup Day is underway in Melbourne and it's feeling a bit nippy trackside.
Early celebrations were dampened as showers swept across Melbourne this morning. Some suburbs picked up 5mm of rain before 9am, while rain gauges near Flemington Racecourse registered about 2-3mm.
Fortunately for those attending the race, conditions will be drier in Melbourne this afternoon, although it's going to be noticeably cold.
Fresh southerly winds are making it feel a few degrees colder than it actually is today. Temperatures of 13 to 14 degrees early this afternoon were feeling more like 11 to 12 degrees as southerly winds gusted to around 30km/h.
Melbourne is forecast to reach a top of 16 degrees this afternoon, which would make this the coldest Melbourne cup day since 2006. However, wind chill will ensure that most of the afternoon feels a couple of degrees colder than this.
If the temperature fails to reach 15 degrees this will be Melbourne's coldest Cup Day in 22 years.
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Light trucks are killing more pedestrians than ever while keeping their drivers and passengers safer. Is it time to reframe safety regulations?
Despite improvements in efficiency, writes Lloyd Alter in Treehugger, SUVs and pickups still "kill at three times the rate of cars." John F. Saylor's report "The Road to Transport Justice: Reframing Auto Safety in the SUV" assesses safety issues in the design of light trucks and suggests avenues for improvement.
One major problem, Saylor argues, is that safety regulations are designed for "the person who buys the car and is inside, not the person outside." Features that might increase safety for SUV drivers and passengers can also prove deadlier to others. "[I]n a crash between a light truck and a car, car occupants are six times as likely to die than those in the light truck." As light trucks gained popularity, the number of traffic fatalities for people outside of vehicles grew. "Their greater mass and tall, blunt front ends direct greater impact forces to heads and chests; as a result, NHTSA [National Highway Traffic Safety Administration] researchers found that pedestrians are up to three times more likely to be killed when struck by a light truck. This increased risk has led to an incredible 81% increase in pedestrian fatalities involving SUVs between 2009 and 2016."
Meanwhile, the NHTSA "has been increasingly drawn to auto-safety solutions that impose the least burdens on occupants and owners and have a consumer product focus, including recalls covered at manufacturer expense, the NCAP consumer information program, and a growing focus on education efforts to modify pedestrian behavior." This safety crisis also "disproportionately affects women and low-income drivers, who tend to be in older, smaller cars, whereas the SUVs and pickups are more often driven by white men."
Saylor argues that we need "Transportation Justice—a new vision of auto safety where 'the alarming disparate impacts that these externalized dangers create for women, low-income people and people of color demand urgent intervention to ensure that our transportation system does not compound existing inequalities.'" The Biden administration, with its focus on road safety and equity, could present an opportunity to act on vehicle safety measures and "bring NHTSA’s rulemaking in line with transportation justice principles."
Pennsylvania Mall Conversion Bill Passes House
If passed, the bill would promote the adaptive reuse of defunct commercial buildings.
World's Largest Wildlife Overpass In the Works in Los Angeles County
Caltrans will soon close half of the 101 Freeway in order to continue construction of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing near Agoura Hills in Los Angeles County.
U.S. Supreme Court: California's Impact Fees May Violate Takings Clause
A California property owner took El Dorado County to state court after paying a traffic impact fee he felt was exorbitant. He lost in trial court, appellate court, and the California Supreme Court denied review. Then the U.S. Supreme Court acted.
New York’s Deadliest Neighborhoods for Pedestrians
Pedestrian deaths rose last year, but remain below pre-2020 levels.
Eviction Looms for Low-Income Tenants as Rent Debt Rises
Nonprofit housing operators across the country face almost $10 billion in rent debt.
Brightline West Breaks Ground
The high-speed rail line will link Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area.
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Want to see hundreds of Christmas characters, and give to a good cause at the same time?
Stop by 83 Tolman Ave. in Leominster for the "Holiday Magic by Tyler" display by Tyler Yalian. It's open daily to walk through from 5-9 p.m. And, through Sunday, Dec. 10, new, unwrapped toys will be accepted for Toys for Tots. Yalian hopes to surpass last year's mark of 306 toys that were collected.
For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/Holidaymagicbytyler.


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Dark blue and grey lacrosse equipment scattered the sideline in front of the Marriotts Ridge fans Wednesday afternoon at Mustang Stadium at Stevenson University in Owings Mills. Next to the stray sticks, helmets and gloves, the Mustangs posed for a team photo even before receiving their medals or 2A state championship trophy. It was their first time there, so forgive them for jumping the protocol.
All settled in with wide grins, Marriotts Ridge coach Tony Incontrera had a request for his winning squad: “Soak it in, boys. Soak it in.”
“There’s only a few teams that get to finish the year with a win, so it’s an opportunity that everybody shoots for. You really want to embrace it and embrace that moment,” said Incontrera, who improved to 63-37 at the helm. “It’s a moment you work for from March 1 until now, and for these guys it started last June. So yeah, I definitely wanted them to soak it in because they earned it. That’s where we wanted to be.”
The Mustangs had reason to celebrate, considering the complete team effort they put forth against Hereford, winners of a state-record nine titles, 13 straight regional crowns and 16 consecutive games, in an 8-6 victory for their first-ever state championship in their only appearance. Brett Gladstone scored a game-high three goals to lead a methodical offense that went on a 5-0 run to start the second half, but the difference ultimately was the defense.
Sophomore Patrick Greene played Bulls star JD Nozemack one-on-one for about three quarters and held the 60-plus-goal-scorer to two goals, and the rest of the unit executed the game plan of slowing them down and preventing transition opportunities.
“The game plan defensively was to not let [Nozemack] get the ball,” Incontrera said. “As much as we could, we did not want him getting the ball. I don’t have the exact numbers, but it seems like he accounts for 80 or 90 percent of their goals. He’s all over the stat sheet.”
Said Greene: “It really shut down their offense, that the ball wasn’t going through [Nozemack]. That was one of the keys to the game.”
It was a similar plan Marriotts Ridge had against Glenelg during their meeting in the sectional final on May 15. Both the Bulls and Gladiators are at their best in transition and playing fast, and Hereford coach Sal Picataggi, who watched that game from the stands, said he knew the Mustangs would be a tough team to matchup against.
“I think preparing for Hereford is very much similar to preparing for Glenelg, and I think we left a few out there today, but we did a really good job at slowing down the pace of play,” Incontrera said. “... We just knew if we were very patient and deliberate on offense, gaps were going to open up.”
Cole Gibbons scored for Hereford (16-3) just 51 seconds into the contest, but Marriotts Ridge (17-2) answered with goals by Gladstone and Logan Frank (two goals) on assists from Luke Ingersoll (three assists) and led, 2-1, after the first quarter. The Bulls lacked possession throughout the first half but managed to score two of the three goals in the second quarter, and the two teams headed into the locker room deadlocked at three.
Incontrera said the message at the break was that this was it. They had only 24 minutes left to play together as a team.
“Our game plan didn’t change, what we were doing on offense didn’t change, it was just we have 24 minutes left,” he said. “There is no tomorrow, so let’s just go all out.”
Marriotts Ridge took the message to heart. It dominated the third quarter, during which Gladstone, Frank and Troy Hettinger found the back of the net to take a 6-3 advantage. Peter Geier (two goals, assists) and Gladstone scored early in the fourth quarter to cap the 5-0 run that extended the lead to 8-3 with 7 minutes, 42 seconds remaining.
That was a big enough cushion for the Mustangs to hold on and win their 11th straight game. Hereford scored twice in two minutes, cutting the deficit to 8-5, and then again in the final minute, but it was too little too late against that defense and junior goalie Colin Kelley.
“They had a great game plan. All the credit goes to that team over there that won. They just executed everything they wanted to do perfectly,” Picataggi said. “... They’re a ball-control team, they’re patient, methodical, solid defense, has a kid who wins faceoffs, good kid in goal, and that’ll win you a lot of games, and today it won this one.”
Marriotts Ridge lost in the sectional finals during each of the last three seasons. This spring, it needed a double-overtime win against the rival Gladiators to get over the hump, and both Ingersoll and Hettinger agreed that the key to the playoff run was the confidence everyone gained from that victory.
“I thought the confidence from the Glenelg game, that we could keep rolling, and we got to this game and had confidence,” Ingersoll said. “Some people were doubting us, but I knew as a team we’d stick together and pull through, and the feeling of getting a win and ending my career and my senior year with a win is insane. It’s a great feeling.”
Marriotts Ridge (17-2) — 8, Hereford (16-3) — 6
Goals: MR — Brett Gladstone 3, Peter Geier 2, Logan Frank 2, Troy Hettinger; H — JD Nozemack 2, Troy Tuveson, Grafton Griffey, Will Reott, Cole Gibbons
Assists: MR — Luke Ingersoll 3, Geier, Hettinger; H — Jake Baldwin, Jake Furman
Saves: MR — Colin Kelley 6; H — John Talbott 7
Halftime: 3-3, tie


It’s been over a week since Terra UST de-pegged, triggering a massive market drawdown.
UST’s market cap plummeted from $18.7 billion to $1.15 billion at writing. Similarly, the Terra LUNA token dropped from $21 billion to $236 million at its lowest point on May 13. The event was a wake-up call for investors who were blindsided by the severity of the losses, the repercussions of which will be felt years from now.
Previously, the UK had expressed interest in recognizing stablecoins, even proposing greater legacy integration. But now, the mere mention of them is enough to make anyone nervous. Has anything changed?
How Terra UST maintains price stability
The first sign of trouble came on May 9 as UST broke its 1:1 peg with the dollar. Unlike other stablecoins such as Tether, UST maintains its peg through an algorithmic process that moderates supply and demand in conjunction with the LUNA token.
If UST demand is high and the supply is low, the UST price increases. Likewise, the UST price decreases when demand is low, and supply is high.
Controlling this process and tying UST close to its $1 peg, the Terra ecosystem operates through the interaction of two pools of UST and LUNA. By minting one while burning an equivalent value in the other, the pools contract and expand in proportion to one another.
“To maintain the price of Terra, the Luna supply pool adds to or subtracts from Terra’s supply. Users burn Luna to mint Terra and burn Terra to mint Luna, all incentivized by the protocol’s algorithmic market module.”
When the UST price is too high relative to $1, the protocol incentivizes users to mint UST and burn LUNA. The added UST supply makes the UST pool bigger and drops its price. This action also contracts the LUNA supply and acts as a mechanism to increase the LUNA price.
The opposite situation is when the UST price is too low relative to $1, this means there is more supply than the demand. The protocol incentivizes users to mint LUNA and burns UST in this instance. The contracting UST supply increases scarcity and pushes the price higher towards the peg price. At the same time, the LUNA price drops due to the additional supply available.
Underpinning this is the market module that incentivizes users to perform the appropriate action by supplying arbitrage opportunities. Through the Terra Station Wallet, users can perform market swaps to mint and burn tokens accordingly and profit in doing so.
Recap on Terra UST stablecoin disaster
Weeks before, UST had climbed to the third-biggest stablecoin by market cap ranking. A significant factor behind this was the generous staking rewards on offer, with up to 20% available to token holders.
However, to move towards sustainability, Anchor Protocol, Terra’s lending and borrowing platform, had begun discussions to implement ‘a semi-dynamic earn rate.’ This proposed increasing or decreasing the interest rate, in increments of 1.5%, based on Anchor’s reserves increasing or decreasing by 5%, respectively.
Word soon spread that the generous staking rate may not be available for much longer, triggering an exodus of users. On Friday, May 6, Anchor had approximately 14 billion UST on deposit. By Sunday, May 8, this had dropped to 11.8 billion UST.
After the Sunday, a near-vertical drop in deposits occurred as users took flight.
At the time, no one knew what was about to unfold. However, @0xHamz noted a 25 basis point drop in the UST peg price on the exchange and labeled the event non-sensical.
It means there's a bunch of supply in a place that doesn't make sense
Therefore that supply needs to exit to a place that make sense or swap into something else
– Deposit UST into Anchor
– Swap UST for USDT/USDC
— 0xHamZ (@0xHamz) May 7, 2022
UST flight soon spread, putting more downward pressure on the token. One investor dumped over 85 million UST on Curve for USDC. This accelerated the de-peg with seemingly no one absorbing the supply to rebalance the pool.
Rumors exist that the collapse resulted from an orchestrated attack to bring down the Terra ecosystem. While possible, it’s equally probable that the likelihood of falling rates triggered an exodus of users leading to a cascade of more users leaving.
The world took stock over the following days as UST and LUNA sunk further into the abyss.
In the immediate aftermath, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called for new regulations to oversee stablecoins. She added that her department was actively working on a report of the incident.
Soon after, US Securities and Exchange Commission Hester Peirce reiterated Yellen’s call, adding that the events at Terra have accelerated the work towards bringing stablecoin regulation.
Although not explicitly stated by Yellen or Peirce, the general mood towards stablecoins, algorithmic or not, had soured significantly, at least from the standpoint of US authorities.
Commenting on the situation, Massachusetts Representative Jake Auchincloss proposed stablecoins be federally audited, come under the oversight of a federal bureau, such as the Comptroller of the Currency, show proof of 90-day liquid reserves (although this would be irrelevant for algorithmic stablecoins, and have insurance for customers.
Similarly, the Bank of France Governor, Francois Villeroy de Galhau, said crypto-assets threaten legacy finance if they are not regulated and made interoperable across all jurisdictions. In response, EU lawmakers propose hastening the rollout of an EU central bank digital currency.
The UK sets itself apart from the herd
Last month, UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced plans to turn the UK into a cryptoasset technology hub. This entails a raft of pro-crypto reforms such as recognizing stablecoins as a valid payment method, financial sandboxing, development of an industry body to interface with government, and re-examining tax rules.
Seemingly unfazed by the Terra turmoil, the UK has recently signaled its intent to press ahead with pro-crypto legislation, specifically, recognizing stablecoins as a means of payment under the Financial Services and Markets Bill.
However, a Ministry of Finance spokesperson said the proposed legislation does not cover algorithmic stablecoins.
The UK Treasury said the above reforms would foster opportunities for growth while, at the same time, allowing for financial stability as the nascent digital asset market develops.
Clear divergence is taking place
Although the US and EU have taken the Terra collapse as an opportunity to get heavy-handed, the UK is going the other way and embracing the opportunity being presented.
This signifies a clear divergence in policy, which is set to end in one way only – capital flight to crypto-friendly jurisdictions.
Moreover, this divergence will become more apparent over the coming months as nations “pick a side.” The question is, who will join the UK?
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9 Colum. J. Eur. L. 241 (2003)
Gabrielle S. Friedman. Law Clerk to the Hon. Gerard E. Lynch, U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New York.
James Q. Whitman. Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law, Yale University.
Workplace “harassment” is now regarded as an evil in every western country. But exactly what class of persons is threatened by “harassment”? And exactly what evil does the law forbidding “harassment” aim to combat? The best-known, and internationally most influential, use of the term “harassment” comes from American law. In the American conception, “harassment” is a form of discrimination, a way of tormenting members of minority and other disadvantaged groups seeking upward social mobility through work. Laws forbidding such harassment first appeared as a way of protecting racial minorities in the United States.’ But today the law’s most frequently discussed target is sexual harassment, harassment inflicted upon people (most especially upon women) on account of sex. This American law of harassment has had a stunning international influence, at least on paper. The American example has inspired the passage of statutes all over the world — not least in continental Europe where, prodded by the European Union, every country now has law forbidding harassment on the basis of sex.
Nevertheless, the truth is that most continental lawyers have never been terribly comfortable with the American concept of harassment. Sexual harassment in particular has had a rocky reception. Cases of sexual harassment have probably never been very actively pursued. Moreover, Europeans have never really accepted the doctrinal theory according to which sexual harassment is a form of discrimination. Although continental statutes often declare sexual harassment to be a form of discrimination against women, continental lawyers have always tended to focus on a rather different formula: the “dignity of women. Moreover, if the American model of harassment law has always been weak in continental Europe, it has started to get a lot weaker over the last few years. Indeed, as we want to report in this essay, continental harassment law is in the midst of a transformation. Instead of condemning the discriminatory harassment of particular protected groups in the American way, continental law is increasingly condemning employee harassment. To the question, what class of persons is threatened by harassment?, continental law today increasingly gives the answer: not just women, not just minorities, but employees in general. At the same time, the continental tendency to speak of “dignity” rather than of “discrimination” is being reaffirmed and deepened. To the question, what evil does the law of harassment aim to combat?, continental law increasingly gives the answer: not discrimination, but violations of individual dignity.
The latest sign of the shift came in France, where the Penal Code was amended as of January 2002. Where the French Penal Code used to include only a paragraph criminalizing sexual harassment, it now includes a paragraph criminalizing “moral” harassment — criminalizing all forms of harassment that can impair “the rights or the dignity” of any employee. This French shift is only the most recent example ofsomething that is sweeping the continent. Like France, all continental countries continue to maintain some prohibition on sexual, and usually racial, harassment. But these forms of discriminatory harassment are no longer the only target of continental law, nor even the main target. On the contrary, the prohibition on racial and sexual harassment is only one part, and a decreasingly important part, of the continental law forbidding workplace harassment more generally. It is becoming common coin, in continental law, that employers must be forbidden to harass their employees — to shout at them or humiliate them — and that they must be forbidden to harass all of their employees. Nor are employers the only target. Continental law is also concerned with the way employees treat each other: It is also becoming commoncoin that employees must be forbidden to harass their co-workers as well.
This movement is driving continental law in a very different direction from American. In particular, as we want to show, the continental movement against employee harassment is beginning to submerge the movement against sexual harassment: Sexual harassment, in the eyes of most contemporary European observers, is becoming simply one variety of employee harassment — and not necessarily the most important variety either. This is not because the law of employee harassment is always consciously conceived as a competitor to the law of sexual harassment. Often the shift is simply a defacto one, from a focus on women, to a focus on workers generally. But the shift is tking place. Protection for workers is beginning to swamp protection for women in continental Europe.
Our aim is to explain why this is happening, and to assess its significance for our understanding of the nature and dynamic of “harassment” law. In effect, there are now two paradigms for harassment law in the western world: an American anti-discrimination aradigm and a Continental dignity paradigm. In principle these two paradigms should not be mutually exclusive. It ought to be possible both to condemn discrimination and to further individual dignity. Yet the Continental experience suggests that it may be difficult for these two paradigms to coexist. This is troubling indeed for those American scholars, ourselves among them, who believe that harassment law should be about the protection of dignity. We may not be able to pursue the goals of dignity without sacrificing some or all of the goals of anti-discrimination.
The Continental experience also suggests some lessons about the transplantation of legal institutions. The idea of attacking “harassment” through law was imported into the continental countries from the United States; but that does not mean that American ways of doing things have been accepted in places like Germany and France. Once a legal institution like harassment law has lodged in foreign legal soil, it can flower into almost unrecognizable forms. This may bode ill for the effort to bring American-style feminism to other parts of the world. In particular, European feminists who imagine that they are importing the American law of sexual harassment into their countries may discover that their import disturbs the local legal ecology in wholly unanticipated ways. also always targeted harassment on the basis of race. Nevertheless, it is sexual harassment that today commands the lion’s share of attention both in the law and in popular culture, and we are going to focus on it, too, in describing the growing contrast between American and European regimes. For our comparative purposes, two aspects of American sexual harassment law deserve emphasis. First, American sexual harassment law is law against discrimination, modeled in an obvious way on the campaign against racial discrimination. Second, American sexual harassment litigation focuses primarily on hiring, termination, and advancement, rather than on the terms and conditions of continued employment.
The analysis of sexual harassment as a problem of discrimination follows from the statutory language of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it “an unlawful employment practice for an employer … to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex or national origin.” Nevertheless, it has never been wholly uncontroversial. There have always been commentators who thought that calling sexual harassment a form of sex discrimination was odd. After all, “discrimination,” as American law conceives of it, means putting obstacles in the way of people seeking to gain employment and advancement — tripping up people who want, in the words of the Supreme Court, to be “allowed to work and make a living.” Yet “harassment,” in the ordinary sense of the term, involves a different sort of harm. It involves subjecting people to “ridicule and insult,” in ways that are painful and injurious regardless of whether the victims succeed in their pursuit of a good job. This has led commentators like Anita Bernstein and Rosa Ehrenreich to argue that sexual harassment law should address the evils of dignitary harms as well as, or instead of, the evils of discriminatory harms. Other commentators see other problems with the anti-discrimination paradigm as well. In particular, they are distressed by any requirement of showing discriminatory intent.” Nevertheless, “discrimination” remains the focus of American law.
American law also shows a distinct focus on problems of hiring, termination and advancement, rather than on problems of the terms and conditions of stable employment. This is a point that is especially important for comparative purposes. American law tends to presuppose a relatively fluid job market, in which employees seemed to elicit only lip-service in Europe.’ To be sure, the letter of European law spoke, and speaks, of “discrimination,” just as the letter of American law could be said to speak, if only obliquely, of “dignity.” But one cannot read the law by the letter while omitting the emphases, and the emphases already differed much by the mid-1990s.

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Garnett Bruce’s body of work includes directing at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Washington National Opera, Dallas Opera and his European opera debut staging Turandot for the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples among many others.
From 2008 to 2011 he was the artistic adviser and principal stage director for Opera Omaha, where he led a cycle of the Mozart-Da Ponte operas. He began directing for the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in 2004, receiving a faculty appointment in 2006. He was on staff at the Aspen Music Festival and School from 1993 and joined the faculty from 1997 until 2019. In 2022 he joins the faculty of University of Texas at Austin’s Butler School of Music as Lecturer in Opera Studies and Stage Director.
Born in Washington, D.C., Bruce was a choirboy at Washington National Cathedral and holds degrees in English and drama from Tufts University. After internships with Hal Prince and Leonard Bernstein in the early 1990’s, he joined the staffs of The Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, The Dallas Opera, and Opera Colorado. His award-winning production of La Cenerentola for Kansas City has traveled to Austin, Orlando, and Madison. Known especially for his large-scale work of the standard repertoire, he has created stagings of Turandot, Carmen, Tosca, Aida, Pagliacci, and La bohème that have been seen coast to coast.
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Highlights: Walking on top of a glacier is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. When you take a Mendenhall Glacier Helicopter Tour, you will experience breathtaking views and learn all about the history, formation, and future of this famous glacier. From start to finish, this tour is first rate and will leave you wanting to experience more of the Alaskan wilderness.
What’s Missing: The excursion is a bit short, in its entirety less than three hours. You only get about 30 minutes of dedicated time on the glacier. With the weather we had, we could have spent all evening on the glacier but that would have cost a small fortune. The time goes by very quickly as you walk around the glacier grabbing photos of the surroundings.
Main Takeaway: A Mendenhall Glacier Helicopter Tour is a must do if you are traveling to Juneau. Depending on the time of year, you can do this excursion with a dog sled ride as well. Unfortunately, we were traveling later in the cruise season, so the dog camp was closed. The excursion is a bit pricey, but the photos and the memories you will have of the entire trip are surely worth the hefty price tag.
Mendenhall Glacier Helicopter Tour and Guided Walk
A Few Pre-Cruise Hiccups
Five months prior to our cruise, we had booked a helicopter ride and dog sled excursion through the cruise line. So, we were surprised that three weeks prior to the trip, we received an email indicating that our tour had been cancelled.
After multiple phone calls to the cruise line and some local tour operators, we discovered that due to recent weather and the time of year, the dog camps were closing early for the season. We were now left with limited options as most similar tours were sold out. However, we were eventually able to get on a Mendenhall Glacier Helicopter Tour through the cruise line after a few phone calls, even though the website indicated the tour was no longer available. Thus, we ended up doing the Mendenhall Glacier by Helicopter and Guided Walk tour.
No Headaches Tendering to Juneau
Booking the tour with the cruise line definitely had a benefit in Juneau due to tendering at the port. We had read on the boards that tendering on this ship in this particular port was a nightmare, with long wait times and many disgruntled cruisers. The last thing we wanted to do was miss a private shore excursion.
On Celebrity Solstice, there were dedicated tenders for passengers who booked excursions through the ship. Hallelujah. Our tickets indicated we should arrive at the main theater for a set time. After waiting about ten minutes, we took a short walk to the tender station, and we were off. From the time our number was called to when we were walking on solid ground was probably 15 minutes. Being on land, we were that much closer to our Mendenhall Glacier Helicopter Tour.
Weighing In Before You Board
Getting off the tender, there were quite a few tour operators. After finding our assigned guide for the Mendenhall Glacier by Helicopter and Guided Walk, we began the check in process. We were asked to complete cards with some information, including our weight. This is done for safety reasons as they have to distribute the weight on the helicopters in a certain way, but we can see how some people might be uneasy about providing this information.
After disclosing these intimate details, we waited another 10 minutes or so for the remaining passengers. I took this opportunity to snap a few photos of the ship in the harbor. Once our bus driver called us, we were boarded and on our way to the Juneau International Airport.
Safety Check and a Second Weigh In
We arrived at the Airport in probably twenty minutes time. On the drive over, you can start to see the Mendenhall Glacier as it is literally right on the edge of the city. You can also catch a glimpse of the Mendenhall Lake and the Mendenhall National Park which offers a variety of excursions from hiking to kayaking sure to be a good time as well.
Once at the airport, a relatively short safety video detailing the safety procedures and equipment was shown. Then, we were instructed to stow all our belongings in the storage bins. No bags are allowed. NO BAGS. Basically, if it couldn’t fit in your pocket, you couldn’t bring it on the helicopter. This is why I am so glad our brand new Sony RX-100 is a high tech POCKET camera.
Once all our items were stored away, it was time to gear up with our special glacier walking boots. These boots are provided by the company and strap on over your shoes. Your shoes could still get wet, so it is still recommended to wear some sort of waterproof shoe or boot.
During this time, we were informed that our bus driver forgot to hand in those cards with our weight. Great, now some teenage bus driver in Alaska can black mail us. Again, we were asked to record our weight so they could distribute us appropriately into the helicopters during our Mendenhall Glacier Helicopter Tour.
3, 2, 1, Ignition and Take off
After some kind of mathematical calculation, we were organized into small groups, of no more than 6, and given an exact seat location when entering the chopper. We were instructed to sit in the back, behind the pilot. We were led outside to the helipad to await the return of our vehicles. Here, we were able to see the returning helicopters coming over the horizon. It is picture time! I wanted to make sure I captured as much footage of our Mendenhall Glacier Helicopter Tour as possible!
After the fellow travelers from the tour before us departed, we were called over to board the craft. Neither one of us had ever been in a helicopter, so we were also a bit nervous. The Princess is the thrill seeker, not me! Once onboard, it was a quick intro from our pilot, some short safety reminders, seat belts and headphones, and TAKE-OFF.
The take-off was nothing like we expected. It was very smooth, and the change in altitude was not noticeable, at least on the way up. It really just felt like we were floating, but still a great opportunity to get some amazing aerial photos of Juneau.
As we made our way over the snow capped mountains, we could see our first glimpse of the Mendenhall Glacier from the air. Passing the camera back and forth between the Princess and I, we were now in full force picture and video taking mode for the remainder of the Mendenhall Glacier Helicopter Tour.
Glacier Guided Walk
Before long, we made our decent to the glacier. We were ready to get off the helicopter and explore. Those first few steps on the ice were definitely more slippery than expected. While you have glacier boots donned, it is still difficult to walk as the surface is pretty uneven, not to mention ICE. We were waved over to our “base camp” where we met our tour guides.
Our group was led by college-aged girl. She took us on a guided walk around a small area of the glacier giving us a bit of history, some facts, and pointing out unique features. The Mendenhall Glacier is twelve miles long and over 2,200 feet deep. The glacier is retreating, melting off the equivalent of an Olympic-sized swimming pool every minute. Even though the glacier is shifting down toward the city, it is actually retreating due to the melting process. This is how the Mendenhall Lake has formed in the past 50 years or so.
We moved like a herd to the various locations on the glacier, taking numerous pictures along the way. The guide did advise everyone to STOP when attempting to take a picture, as walking on ice while looking through a camera lens could be difficult and dangerous. After all, there are large cracks that go some 165 feet down, so she did not want any of us falling in.
Our guide pointed out the north and south sides of the glacier, as well as the little rivers of running water that have formed within the glacier. This runoff, once it makes its way through the 2000+ feet of ice, will eventually make its way into the lake. Saving the best for last, we came upon a huge crevasse, where you can truly admire the beauty and rich colors of the ice. Apparently, the ice in the glacier is so dense that it reflects light of all wavelengths except blue. Who knew?
After the short 15-20 minute walk, basically in a small circle, we were given a few minutes to explore, take pictures, etc. We were sure to grab one of the guides to take some pictures of us with the beautiful landscapes in the background.
Quick, Get to the Chopper
We finished up taking pictures and were called to line up near the base camp as the helicopters, with more cruisers, approached the glacier. Once the new set of glacier walkers were lead off the helicopters, we were escorted back to our old seats. Now, since we were heading south, I attempted to get some photos of the lake and surrounding areas. Though it turned out that the sun glare did not allow for great photo opportunities on the return trip.
The ride to the airport felt like it went by very quickly. Our long awaited Mendenhall Glacier Helicopter Tour was all over! It was still amazing, but as we landed and saw the next bunch of people ready to head to the glacier, it made us want to stay onboard and do it all over again.
Back in the “hanger”, we returned our ice shoes and grabbed our bags. The weather seemed much warmer now that we were off the glacier, so we stuffed our coats into our bag. Our bus arrived 10 minutes later, giving us time for bathroom breaks and some browsing of the gift shop. The bus ride back to the port was full of everyone discussing how much fun the Mendenhall Glacier Helicopter Tour had been.
Approaching Juneau, the passengers were joking around about who would buy rounds at the Red Dog Saloon. We never made it inside, so not sure if anyone on our excursion got stuck with a large bar tab. Dropped off at the pier about three hours after the tour started, we decided to walk around the port area for a bit. But, walking around these tourist traps was no match for the Mendenhall Glacier by Helicopter and Guided Walk we just completed.
Looking for other options for shore excursions in Juneau? Check out our best things to do in Juneau, Alaska on a cruise.
Have you visited Juneau, Alaska on a cruise? Have you taken the Mendenhall Glacier Helicopter Tour? Drop us an anchor below to let us know what you love to do when visiting Juneau.


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With the addition of the fish fillets, the pan temperature drops; compensate for the heat loss by keeping the heat on medium-high for 30 seconds after adding them. If cooking two or three fillets instead of the full recipe of four, use a 10-inch skillet and medium-high heat for both preheating the pan and cooking the salmon. For heightened sesame flavor, rub the fish fillets with Asian sesame oil instead of canola or vegetable.
1. Heat a 12-inch heavy-bottomed skillet for 3 minutes over high heat. Spread sesame seeds in a pie plate. Rub salmon fillets with 2 teaspoons canola or vegetable oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper, then press flesh sides of fillets in sesame seeds to coat.
2. Add remaining oil to pan; swirl to coat. When oil shimmers (but does not smoke) add fillets skin side down and cook, without moving fillets, until pan regains lost heat, about 30 seconds. Reduce heat to medium-high; continue to cook until skin side is well browned and bottom half of fillets turns opaque, 4 1/2 minutes. Turn fillets and cook, without moving them, until they are no longer translucent on the exterior and are firm, but not hard, when gently squeezed: 3 minutes for medium-rare and 3 1/2 minutes for medium. Remove fillets from pan, being careful not to break sesame crust; let stand 1 minute. Pat with paper towel to absorb excess fat on surface, if desired. Serve immediately.
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|Total Fat 65.5g||87 %|
|Saturated Fat 13.6g||68 %|
|Monounsaturated Fat 20.5g|
|Polyunsanturated Fat 20.3g|
|Cholesterol 217.8mg||67 %|
|Sodium 254mg||9 %|
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In an alert this week, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says there has been a 270% increase in CEO phishing scams, which it claims have cost organizations more than $2.3 billion in financial losses since 2013.
Typical CEO phishing scams are orchestrated by an attacker who masquerades as a company's CEO in an attempt to trick an unaware employee into wiring money to a fraudulent bank account. "Unlike traditional phishing scams, spoofed emails used in CEO fraud schemes rarely set off spam traps because these are targeted phishing scams that are not mass e-mailed," says Krebs on Security. Attackers will frequently combine the social engineering typical of phishing attempts with knowledge of "the target organization's relationships, activities, interests and travel and/or purchasing plans."
Over the past year, several high-scale phishing attacks have been reported. The toy manufacturer Mattel disclosed a $3 million loss to an attacker impersonating its CEO, while the tech company Ubiquiti reported a $46.7 million loss in a single quarter to a similar phishing scheme.
The FBI advises that affected organizations contact their bank immediately and "request that they contact the financial institution where the fraudulent transfer was sent." Organizations are also advised to "file a complaint — regardless of dollar loss — the the IC3." Preventative security steps, such as two-factor authentication and additional procedural steps to verifying a transfer, are also encouraged.
"Educating employees so that they are less likely to fall for these scams won’t block all social engineering attacks, but it should help," Krebs on Security writes. "Remember, the attackers are constantly testing users’ security awareness."
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In Thailand, thousands of anti-government protesters have gathered in Bangkok to mark one year since a deadly military crackdown ended their two-month demonstration. The protesters are calling for justice for the 91 people killed in Thailand's worst street clashes in decades.
Thailand's Red Shirt protesters on Thursday were back occupying the upscale commercial district they took over a year ago.
But, unlike those demonstrations that lasted from March to May, the thousands of red- dressed protesters say they will only stay one day.
Last year protesters were calling for a new election and equal treatment for their leaders. But after weeks of protests in central Bangkok, the military moved in to end the demonstrations and fought pitched battles with armed elements supporting the Red Shirts.
Wichien, 30, is an engineer from Bangkok. He says he was among those protesters who took refuge in a Buddhist temple to escape the fighting. He says he witnessed soldiers firing their guns into the temple, killing several unarmed civilians.
He says the killers should be arrested and sent to jail so the 91 people who were killed will not have died for nothing. But as of now, he says, no killers have been arrested.
Several of those who died were members of the security forces, and some victims over the two months of protests died in explosions police said were the work of the Red Shirts.
The Thai government says it is investigating the deaths and will punish those found responsible. But rights groups say authorities trying to investigate the matter are meeting resistance from the military.
This month Human Rights Watch reported that despite evidence that soldiers in some cases targeted civilians, and fired indiscriminately on crowds, none have been charged.
Hundreds of Red Shirt protesters were arrested following the crackdown. Most were released because of a lack of evidence. But more than 100 Red Shirt members remain in jail, and some face terrorism charges for their role in the protest.
Thursday's rally comes ahead of planned July 3rd nationwide elections that are expected to be closely contested between the Puea Thai Party, which is supported by the Red Shirts, and the ruling Democrat Party.
The Puea Thai Party is backed by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who despite being twice popularly elected, was ousted in a 2006 military coup. He has lived in exile since a Thai court found him guilty of corruption charges in 2008.
Thaksin and his supporters maintain that traditional elites in Bangkok backed by the military have long conspired against them.
Successive governments aligned with Thaksin were removed by controversial court orders that cleared the way for Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's Democrats to take power.
This week Thaksin's younger sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, was appointed Puea Thai's leading candidate for prime minister.


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In the C.I. Guide to Publishing Children's Books, I profile some editors in a chapter about editors and what they do. The following are additional profiles, intended to supplement the material in the book. They can also be read on their own.
- Margaret McElderry, noted editor, now retired.
- Arianne Lewin, senior editor at Hyperion Books for Children
- More to come
Resources with editor profiles and interviews: Here are some other resources:
- The Cynsation's List of Interviews with Editors and Publishers: this is extremely comprehensive.
- Class of 2k10: Short interviews with agents and editors about 2010 releases from the debut authors in this group.
- Interviews at The Purple Crayon
- Robin Friedman's Interviews: quite a few of these are several years old, but the editors are still active.
- Additional suggestions appreciated...
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FAO ranked Indonesia among 10 world’s fish producing countries. Fish farming cultivation contributes to 25 percent of total fish production. But since 2005 this sector has remained stagnant due to clean water problem.
The condition urged three students of UGM to make an innovation on clean water for fish cultivation. The students, Muhammad Nabil Satria Faradis and Fajar Sidik Abdullah – Mechanical Engineering students and Untarini Febrian Ramadhani, Management student, have developed the microbubble generator (MBG) technology. The research is being submitted to a competition held by USAID.
“The technology enables dissolved oxygen in water to increase due to the size of bubble which is much smaller than that produced from regular aerator,” Nabil told journalists on Wednesday (4/5) at Aquaculture Lab, Fisheries Department, Faculty of Agriculture UGM.
Nabil explained the MBG was developed in a simple circuit, consisting of two components, pump and pipe. This can improve the quality of water in the pond, hence supporting fish growth. “The fish will get longer, heavier while the number of dead fish reduces,” he said.
Fajar added the technology made the oxygen distribution better because bubbles can be produced from the bottom of the pond. “Tests showed that this technology application can improve water quality and distribute oxygen in the pond optimally. This can be applied to areas lacking in water,” he said.
The research has been done at the Aquaculture Lab, involving Mechanical and Industrial Department, Chemical Engineering Department, Fisheries Department, and Centre for Energy Studies UGM.
Untarini expected that the innovation would help increase production up to 50% annually, thus improving farmers’ prosperity.
“Currently, we’re improving this technology. We plan to use solar panel in the future for power generator as well as Android based app development to control the tool,” she said.
Head of Centre for Energy Studies also supervisor of the team, Dr. Deendarlianto, said the research was their first testing for fishery uses. The Centre is one of the pioneers and frontier knowledge of Microbubble research.
“The MGB currently is in the process for patent registration. It is planned to be produced in mass in the future to increase fish production,” he said.

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Heat triggers the problem by making the plastic brittle. But, the root problem is lack of support. That wide area between the cluster hump and passenger airbag doesn't have enough support ribs to keep the plastic from flexing. The left and right ~25% of the dash doesn't have enough area to flex so the cracks form where the flexing part meets the non-flexing part: On the left side of the gauge cluster and on the left front corner of the passenger airbag. Sure, more cracks develop elsewhere but these are pretty much guaranteed. I think the dash has been revised to include more ribs/webbing for the center area. It may or may not have a new part number.


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Mississauga based RnB artist, Dru Grange has been busy recording. “Been Waiting” is his most recent single. With multiple studio albums, numerous nominations and awards already under the belt, Dru takes inspiration from the 90s RnB scene and aims to give listeners a nostalgic feel. We had the great opportunity to interview Dru, so check it out:
The response on social media for “Been Waiting” seems to have been overall positive. What are your thoughts on how well the single stuck out to fans?
Well “Been Waiting” is still very new but the response has been amazing. Fans never expected me to combine 90s RnB with the tropical vibes of today but the marriage has worked great!
Is this the direction in which we can expect your music to be going?
Yes “Been waiting” is a bit of a preview of what the album will sound like for the mid to uptempo tracks, but the slower more intimate songs are a lot edgier than people have heard from me in the past. For example, I have a song called “LIKE I DO” it’s very sensual and may even offend some people but that’s the chance a true artist has to take to fully express myself.
As a musician, importance is often put on by artists to changing their sound and even you have said you have reinvented yourself. How do you manage to do so, while ensuring your goal of keeping 90’s RnB alive?
Every song I write has a bit of 90s RnB in it no matter what I do. I don’t even have to think about it, it naturally happens because that’s what I was raised on. But the reinvention happens through maturing as an artist and going through different experiences. Listening to what’s out there and seeing where you can fill a void.
Do you think this is what sets you apart in the genre?
This sets me apart because I’m not following a wave, I have always stayed in my lane and never just followed a new sound blindly.
Are you planning on releasing any more singles this year?
I hope to release another single before the end of 2017, so look out for it.
What about a new album; is that in the works?
The next album will be my 3rd solo release and that will be released in 2018 entitled REBIRTH.
What do you hope to accomplish with your music going forward?
I wanna connect with new fans internationally and really spread my sound. Show people that real RnB ain’t dead.
Will there be a tour before 2017 is over? If so, where do you hope to tour?
Stay tuned for tour dates as I am scheduling them soon, both in Canada and the US.
Is there anything else you would like to say to your fans?
DRU is back and ready to give his fans what they’ve been waiting for, quality inventive RnB with real passion and emotion something RnB is really lacking right now. I plan to release 2 new EPs in early 2018 so stay tuned!
I’m an aspiring entertainment journalist from Fredericton, New Brunswick, and a 2017 graduate from St. Thomas University with majors in Journalism and Psychology.
Aside from psychology, my passion has always been for music and storytelling. It is my dream to be in the industry, and music journalism seems to be the perfect fit. Along with a bit of photography dabbling, I think I’m pretty well on on my way.
When I’m not working, I’m listening to music, finding new artists to love, playing Dungeons and Dragons, or playing with my cats.

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Bulldozers are visible during excavations near Ramat Shlomo, a Jewish settlement, in the eastern part of Jerusalem in September 2017. (Agency Mahmoud Ibrahema – Anadolu)
The Knesset (the Israeli parliament) approved the second and third readings of legislation that will allow the expansion of the Jewish settlement in the Silvan area in East Jerusalem, located south of the Al-Aqsa mosque, to continue.
Both readings were approved on Monday evening 63 – 41.
The law allows news units to be built in an area that has recently been called a “national park”.
The initiative is led by the settlement group Elad, which is known for promoting the confiscation of Palestinian property in East Jerusalem to make way for the construction of Jewish settlements.
Palestinians accuse the Israeli authorities of seizing Palestinian land in and around Jerusalem under the pretext of creating “national parks” before transferring it to the ownership of settlement groups.
Jerusalem remains at the center of a ten-year Middle East conflict, and the Palestinians hope that East Jerusalem, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967, will one day become the capital of a Palestinian state.
International law continues to regard East Jerusalem, along with the entire West Bank, as “occupied territories” and regards all construction of Jewish settlements there as illegal.
At the beginning of last year, US President Donald Trump condemned from all over the Arab and Muslim world when he announced his decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.


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Arnold Laven1922 — 2009 Age: 87 years old
Arnold Laven was an American film and television director and producer. He was one of the founders and principals of the American film and television production company Levy-Gardner-Laven. Laven was a producer of, among other things, the long-running western television series The Rifleman and The Big Valley. He also directed motion pictures, including Without Warning!, The Rack, The Monster That Challenged the World, Geronimo, Rough Night in Jericho, and Sam Whiskey. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Laven directed dozens of episodes of television series, including episodes of Mannix, The A-Team, Hill Street Blues, The Six Million Dollar Man, Fantasy Island, The Rockford Files and CHiPs.
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A shire man replaying an old mix tape that he recorded in 1983 was the only person in the entire world to listen to the song Safety Dance by Canadian band Men Without Hats over the past 24 hours.
“Our research indicates that Engadine man Shane Windsor-Smith is the only person anywhere in the world who had reason to hear the electropop ditty that enjoyed considerable chart success back in its day”, reported Gavin Payola from the Australian Recording Artists Airplay Association. “From what we’ve heard, he was digging around in his mum and dad’s back shed looking for an old photo album and came across a shoebox full of his old mix tapes, including one labelled ‘Best 45s’ which contained the song.”
The ARAAA’s list of least played songs is topped by the 1984 recording Take It Back by The Pookah Makes Three, which hasn’t been heard by anyone in the world since the video clip was played on You Tube in July 2011 by Stanmore woman Jane Bubbleskirt during a late night trawl of her favourite 1980s singles. Second place belongs to Big Girls by the band Electric Pandas, last listened to in May 2014 by a truckie playing a 2CD collection called “The Eighties Explosion” that he bought at a service station just outside of Narrabri.
“I’m chuffed that someone listened to our song and I hope he enjoyed it,” said Men Without Hats lead singer Ivan Doroschuk when we called him to report the listening. “You might be interested to know that the video clip was a fairly accurate portrayal of how I live my life. Anyway, thanks for calling, I have to get back to prancing around in a field with a midget while dressed up in medieval costume.”


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Graner Receives 10-Year Sentence for Iraq Abuses
Army Spc. Charles Graner is sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the abuse of inmates at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Graner, one of several U.S. soldiers charged in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, has been portrayed as the catalyst of the abuses.
Graner, who was convicted Friday of multiple counts of abuse, testifed that he was ordered to "soften up" detainees for interrogators.
NPR's Jackie Northam reports.
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Here's the result!
I'm really pleased with it :)
Now I know what you're thinking; it shouldn't have taken me so long to put together something with relatively simple beads. You see, I'm obsessive about colour and order. The beads had to be made in exactly the right shades, ensuring a smooth gradient through the spectrum. Then there's the size - for this to turn out the way I'd pictured it, the beads had to be a uniform size... but I've never been great with sizing beads. It's why I don't make many sets - I usually have to make twice as many beads as end up in the finished set, just to get consistent sizes!
I thought that this project might give me a chance to practice and gradually get the hang of evenly-sized beads but try as I might, it just wouldn't happen. I knew I'd have to give in and use a bead roller. I do prefer shaping glass by hand (well, not exactly "by hand" - that'd hurt! You know what I mean :) ) but in this case I realised it wasn't going to happen.
Boy am I glad I did give in! After taking some advice from a friend, I bought a bead roller from Howaco Glass (who offer a very friendly, personal and quick service), waited a few days for it to arrive, sat and looked at it for a couple more days (I often do this with a new piece of kit... like I'm letting it settle in before bothering it) and finally gave it a go.
The result was I made my necklace in two days with only one attempt per colour! Each bead is about 16.5mm in diameter and 9.5mm hole-to-hole.
I now have lots of similar ideas branching from this one. I'm currently working on an etched version as well as other necklaces, bracelets and bead sets in similar gradient style but limited to "palettes" (hot reds and oranges, cool greens and blues, etc.). I'm going to try different sizes and shapes too.
The positive side-effect of making this piece is that I've started having ideas again just as "beadmaker's block" was setting in.
Now I just have to work out what to do with all the beads I made before I invested in the bead roller...
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Although the pistol was developed mostly as a cavalry arm that was necessarily used one-handed in order to leave the other free to control the steed, it had on occasion been grasped in both hands, probably from the beginning.
However, there is more to the Weaver than holding the pistol in both hands.
Normally the weak-side foot is slightly advanced so that the supporting arm elbow can be bent while the firing arm is fully extended, or nearly so.
The supporting hand pulls back against the firing hand to set up isometric tension that controls muzzle flip and tends to return the pistol to the original line of sight after each shot.
By Finn Aagaard Some years ago, Big Bear Lake, a southern California ski resort town, put on a *'Miners' Days" extravaganza for the commendable purpose of attracting its share of summer tourists.
Among the major activities was a "Leatherslap" fast-draw contest, organized by a retired colonel of Marines, John Dean Cooper, always known as -Jeff." Decrying the blanks commonly used in"fast draw" matches—Cooper held even then that the purpose in shooting is to hit the target—he decided on man-on-man bouts using paper silhouette targets at about 7 yds.
Though paper targets made it difficult to determine the match winner, the Leatherslap was a huge success, so much so that it became first an annual and then a monthly event, and the Bear Valley Gunslingers and later the South West Combat Pistol League were formed to run it.
In that first Leatherslap, single-action "cowboy" and double-action police revolvers predominated.
Only Cooper and Hugh Carpenter were eccentric enough to use the 1911 Colt .45 auto pistol.
All held their guns with one hand, naturally, and most employed point or hip-shooting, though Cooper says he did use the sights.
The next year a deputy sheriff named Jack Weaver shocked everyone by winning decisively while holding his revolver in both hands, and handgunning was changed forever.
Weaver was far from being the first pistolero to use both hands.


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OnePlus 8T Concept announced: A phone with a color-shifting back panel
- OnePlus announced a new smartphone today: the OnePlus 8T Concept.
- The phone is mostly just a OnePlus 8T, but it features a color-changing back panel.
- As with the OnePlus Concept One from last year, the company has no intentions of selling this device commercially.
Late last year, OnePlus surprised us with the announcement of a new smartphone it called the OnePlus Concept One. It featured an electrochromic glass panel covering the rear camera. This allowed the glass to obscure the camera lenses when not in use and then reveal them when needed.
Now, OnePlus is revealing its second “Concept” device in the OnePlus 8T Concept. This time, the entire back panel uses something OnePlus calls “Electronic Color, Material, and Finish,” or ECMF for short. Like the Concept One, this allows the back of the phone to change depending on certain circumstances.
Unfortunately, just like the Concept One, the 8T Concept will not be available for consumers to buy. Instead, it exists only as a publicized prototype to show how OnePlus could potentially use this technology in future products.
OnePlus 8T Concept: Some interesting use cases
With the Concept One, the actions you could do with the electrochromic glass were pretty binary: on or off. With the ECMF feature of the 8T Concept, though, there’s a whole range of potential use cases.
The ECMF film uses mmWave technology to create low-latency interactions with the phone itself. In the video above, you see how this could allow the entire panel to change when you get a phone call or other notification. In another use case example, OnePlus shows how you could perform breathing exercises with the rear-facing camera of the OnePlus 8T Concept focused on you, and the back panel would swell and dissipate to match your rhythm. This would, in theory, allow the phone to be a kind of health monitor.
Outside of the back panel and mmWave connectivity, though, the phone is really just the same 8T launched earlier this year. Since it exists only as a concept, for now, it’s unclear how or when this technology would ever make it to a commercial device.
Earlier this year, OnePlus brought the Concept One to CES 2020. However, since CES is happening virtually in 2021, it’s unclear if or how the press will get a look at it. It’s possible OnePlus could send sample devices around, but we have no confirmation on that yet.


Xiaomi Mi 6 is already late and fans just can’t wait to see the phone being launched officially. As we near the release date of the device, which should be somewhere around mid-April, more and more leaks and rumors about the Xiaomi Mi 6 have started to come in. We have already seen the Mi 6 renders that show off the dual cameras, as well as a blurred image of the flagship with the same setup. Now, we finally have a good look at the Xiaomi Mi 6’s back in good clarity. In case you are wondering, it’s the same image as yesterday, but this one is much clearer than before.
Yes, this is the first time we are seeing the Mi 6 in such clarity and the phone definitely has taken a familiar design language as other Xiaomi Mi branded phones. There’s the curved back as well as dual cameras on top. From the back, the phone reminds me of the Xiaomi Mi Note which was announced a couple of years back. We have one more image of the phone, which is once again clear, but a bit confusing. The phone below shows the dual tone flash on the right, while the one above has the flash to the left. Now, if you remember, the first image that we saw related to the phone was the leaked Xiaomi Mi 6 case and it had an opening for the flash before the dual cameras. So, the picture above could be the real deal.
Now apart from these two conflicting images of the Mi 6, we have also got what looks like the front panel of the device.
Now, there’s something interesting about this Xiaomi Mi 6 front panel. The one who leaked this image also revealed that the phone comes with a special cut out on the top, for what looks like an iris sensor. Now remember, it’s not easy to get quick results with iris recognition, which is why Samsung Galaxy S8 is said to add a facial recognition feature. So, it remains to be seen whether Xiaomi decides to add an iris sensor on its important Xiaomi Mi 6 flagship. Well, if you are curious, below is an image of what looks like a teaser from Xiaomi about Iris recognition. Remember, this is not an official teaser, just a leak.
Now, finally, we have some images of the ‘about section’ of the phone. The screen seems to confirm it’s the Xiaomi Mi 6 with MIUI 8. What’s interesting about this screenshot is that it’s showing 8GB of RAM on board and 64GB of storage. So, is it time for 8GB RAM to become mainstream on phones, starting with the Mi 6? Can’t say yet. It’s always best if you take these leaks with a pinch of salt.
Another thing you notice is that there is no additional sensor on top of this phone. Unlike what the leaked Mi 6 front panel revealed.
To be honest, at this moment, it’s very hard to confirm what’s true and what’s not. Dual cameras seem to be the only constant among these leaks. So, maybe we can say that the Mi 6 will come with two cameras at the back. But even their placement is disputable at this moment.
Overall, today’s series of Xiaomi Mi 6 leaks were rather confusing.


Tempe, AZ has set some ambitious goals to meet in the upcoming years – starting within the next 17 to be exact. Expanding on its 2014 goal to use renewable energy only in 20% of its buildings by 2025, the City Council recently voted to be at 100% by 2025. According to Tempe sources, they are at approximately 10% of their initial 20% goal. They also approved the lofty goal of being at a complete carbon neutrality by the year 2050 – only 20 years after they intend to be a city run completely with green energy.
The Tempe City Council has quite the spokesperson on the issue with Councilwoman Lauren Kuby taking the helm of the measure. She points out that the United Nations has released studies on the issue, and that according to the UN, cities are a leader in creating the pollution and the current carbon footprint. Cities put out approximately 70% of the waste that contributes to the issue. Following that logic, she and the Tempe City Council feel that cities should be leaders in at least minimizing if not reducing that damage. “Cities are about 70 percent of the problem when it comes to carbon emissions,” Kuby said. “Cities need to be 70 percent of the solution.”
Tempe has used solar panels to get to 10% of their buildings to renewable energy status. Though it is likely that the continued use of solar panels will allow them to hit their initial goal of 20%, it is unlikely that they can achieve much more then that without looking into and developing more of the renewable solar and even hydro-powered utility providers. Since renewable energy is still growing and developing, the way that Tempe will start integrating it into more and more of its buildings is hard to foresee. Kuby seems confident that the city will be able to keep up with the technology and their goals within the budget they have already set for the goals.
Tempe has been successful so far by understanding the basics of going green. They understand that before switching the buildings to renewable energy sources, they have to first make the buildings as energy efficient as possible. In order to sustain the renewable energy effectiveness on the outside world, that first step is vital. Once the buildings are as energy efficient as possible, then they can be powered with solar panels, hydro-power – some form of renewable energy. Going with basics first has enable Tempe to be on top of the green movement.
Councilwoman Kuby also points out that it is not just a victory for the renewable energy/going green factions. The project will bring more jobs to the area as they transition into clean energy systems. Also, switching to renewable energy will attract bigger companies, bring more industries to the area and help to bring better and more affordable energy to all Tempe residents. Kuby and the City Council are also quick to point out that reducing the pollution in the air will only benefit everyone in the Tempe area, especially children.
Kuby is adamant in stating that Tempe’s plans are not a list of must-dos, or a map to follow implicitly. They understand that by setting these goals, they are simply agreeing to a shared vision for the city and striving to meet those goals in the quickest and best ways possible.


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Florida added more than 8,400 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, as the state's virus-related death toll increased by over 160.
The 8,408 new confirmed COVID-19 cases brought Florida's total to 1,676,171 since the outbreak began, according to figures released by the state's department of health. It marked the fourth straight day the state has reported fewer than 10,000 new cases.
Another 160 virus-related deaths among Florida residents were reported Wednesday, bringing the total to 25,833. An additional 416 non-resident deaths have been confirmed in the state to-date, nine more than were reported on Tuesday. Most of the newly confirmed deaths occurred days or weeks earlier.
The positivity rate for new cases in the state was 10.19% in Wednesday's department of health coronavirus report, after four straight days below 10%.
The positivity rate for all cases, including people who have already been tested, was 12.79%, up from Tuesday's rate of 11.56%.
In South Florida, Miami-Dade County reached 364,123 cases Wednesday, an increase of 1,522 since Tuesday, along with 4,768 COVID-related deaths, a single-day increase of nine.
In Broward County, there were 168,653 total COVID-19 cases reported, a daily increase of 653, along with 2,062 virus-related deaths, 12 more than Tuesday's total.
Palm Beach County had 103,862 cases and 2,139 virus-related deaths Wednesday, while Monroe County had 5,218 cases and 40 deaths.
Florida's daily vaccine report showed about 1,290,000 people have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination since the state started administering the vaccine in mid-December. Just under 204,000 have received the second booster shot.

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