Lawrence man stole car, bike in days preceding gun threat at bar, affidavits allege
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A man’s threat to shoot up a Lawrence bar was preceded by a series of thefts over the span of a few days, according to allegations in court documents.
Domanick James Hall, 21, of Lawrence, was arrested on suspicion of threatening a man with a gun in the early hours of June 26 at Jazzhaus, 926 Massachusetts St. Hall now has a number of cases pending against him in Douglas County District Court, altogether including six felony charges and a handful of misdemeanors.
The Journal-World requested and recently received police affidavits supporting Hall’s arrest in the alleged gun threat and three additional cases. He has since been charged in a fifth.
Chronologically by when the alleged crimes occurred, here is how Hall’s charges came about, as described in the arrest affidavits. Allegations in affidavits have not been proved in court.
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Around 3 a.m. Sunday, June 24, a Lawrence police officer was called to the 1300 block of West 24th Street for a reported accident in which the driver left the scene. On arrival, the officer wrote, he observed a damaged Kia Forte sitting off to the north of the road.
In that area, West 24th Street makes a 90-degree curve to become Naismith Drive, just south of Clinton Parkway. The officer wrote that he believes the vehicle was westbound when it left the road to the south, struck a guardrail, came back across the road and ran off the road to the north, striking a tree.
The officer wrote that while on scene, Hall spoke with officers, first saying he was walking home from a nearby gas station. Hall denied that he had driven the vehicle but he knew who it belonged to, and he kept asking what officers were going to do with the car.
Officers were later called to a location that is redacted in court documents, regarding a man asleep in a doorway. They found Hall, who then told them he was driving the Kia but the accident wasn’t his fault — someone in a black car had cut him off, causing him to swerve, the affidavit says.
Around 5 a.m., the Kia’s owner reported that the car and his phone were missing. The owner said he had brought Hall to his home after a party around 11 p.m. the night before and was going to allow him to stay the night; when he woke up, he realized his phone, his car and Hall were gone.
It’s not entirely clear from the redacted affidavit, but other people who it appears were also in the home told police they were missing various possessions, including cash and phones.
According to the affidavit, Hall had one of the phones on his person. He told police he’d taken it because he thought it was a phone that had been stolen from him previously.
Hall, after agreeing to waive his right to an attorney and answer questions from police, said he was not going to keep the vehicle; he was using it to go to the gas station and then was coming back, the affidavit says. He said he took the vehicle’s owner’s phone — not the one he said he believed was his — to make a call and to get directions to the gas station.
Hall then told officers his head hurt from the accident, and he was transported to an area hospital, according to the affidavit.
Hall was charged in July with three misdemeanors in that case: two counts of criminal deprivation of property for alleged “intent to temporarily deprive” the owner of the Kia and his phone. Hall was also charged with driving without a license.
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The next day — Monday, June 24 — a woman’s bike was stolen from her garage, at a home about half a mile north of Sixth Street off Monterey Way.
She reported to police the following day that she had surveillance footage showing a man coming into the garage while her husband was home and riding away on the bicycle. Charges allege that there were also two minors inside the home at the time.
On viewing the surveillance, officers identified the suspect as Hall, according to the affidavit. In an interview with Hall a couple of weeks later, Hall again agreed to waive his right to an attorney and answered questions from police.
“Hall advised he was tired of walking and observed the bicycle so he decided to take the bicycle,” the affidavit alleges.
Asked where the bicycle was currently, Hall reportedly told police he would not give the name of the person who had it because he’s “not a ‘snitch.'”
“He advised what he had done was dumb and that he ‘probably’ should not have done it (the burglary),” the affidavit says.
In that case, Hall was charged in July with his highest-level felony, aggravated burglary, and misdemeanor theft.
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A couple of days later — around 2 a.m. Wednesday, June 26 — Hall was arrested for allegedly threatening someone with a gun after he was removed from Jazzhaus and not allowed to re-enter.
Hall, 20 at the time, was reportedly involved in a disturbance on the back patio of the business with some others younger than 21. A bar employee then asked the group to leave. The others left through the back alley, but Hall allegedly ran through the bar and out the front door.
As he was preventing Hall from re-entering the bar, the employee told police, Hall said someone had been “popping off” at him. Hall then allegedly lifted up his shirt to reveal a silver handgun in his right pants pocket and told the employee, “I don’t want to shoot up the bar.”
The employee, described as “visibly shaken” in the affidavit, said he considered this a threat, and it made him concerned for his safety and for the patrons of the business.
Police reportedly found Hall a block north and detained him in handcuffs. This time Hall — unarmed — did invoke his right to an attorney and was not interviewed, the affidavit says.
Officers reportedly spoke with some of the group Hall was with that evening, including a few 16-year-olds.
One woman told police that in the back patio disturbance, a car had pulled up in the alley behind the bar, and an occupant had gotten out and called Hall a crude euphemism for a wimp. She told police Hall lifted his shirt to show the gun and responded, “Who’s a (wimp)?” She said the occupants of the car started running up the back stairs of the business toward Hall and he ran back inside.
One of the 16-year-olds, a girl, reportedly told police that Hall had told her that he was a felon and could not have a gun. She said she had watched Hall place the gun under a plant in the patio area of another business in the 1000 block of Massachusetts Street. That’s where they found a pistol, police allege.
Hall was arrested and later charged with aggravated assault, a felony, in Douglas County District Court. Though there is a prior criminal case involving a man by the same name as Hall, the circumstances of that case were not immediately apparent from online court records. He is not listed in the Kansas Department of Corrections registry.
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Since his arrest June 26, Hall has been charged with four counts of a level-5 felony, aggravated battery against a law enforcement officer, spanning two alleged incidents.
In the first, Hall reportedly spat on a corrections officer while in custody in the maximum security pod on July 19.
In the second, the circumstances are unclear, but charges allege that Hall had physical contact with another three law enforcement officers on July 26.
Assistant to the Douglas County District Attorney Cheryl Wright Kunard said via email Friday that Hall is scheduled for arraignment in the alleged aggravated assault and bicycle theft cases, as well as appearances in his three other cases, on Wednesday, Sept. 11.
According to online records, Hall was being held in Douglas County Jail as of Sunday. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office declined to release Hall’s booking photo, citing as the reason that the record is not required to be disclosed under the Kansas Open Records Act.
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1. Visiting Donostia-San Sebastián and Wroclaw, European capitals of culture 2016
As every year, since 1985, the European Commission designates a capital of culture to celebrate the diversity of Europe, what we share, what we have in common and to promote innovation and regeneration of the cities chosen as Capitals. For 2016, Donostia-San Sebastián and Wroclaw have been chosen as capitals of culture. So, why don’t you take a break and go for a cultural visit through Spain and Poland? The two cities will held exhibitions, conferences and various events all over the year. A wonderful occasion to discover new perspectives on Europe.
2. Don De Lillo, Zero K, and many other books
The New Year has started and everyone lists the books for 2016. Among the many novels that will be published this year, I will suggest the 17th novel by Don De Lillo, American writer and author of Underworld. Check out also the new novels by Julian Barnes and Jonathan Safran Foer (Here I am). For a more complete list and suggestions, visit The Guardian.
3. Go to the cinema!
Also 2016 will be the year of superheroes and adventures! If you like these kind of movies, you will enjoy the new movies by Marvel. And of course, Ghostbusters! Among the movies that will be released in 2016, there are notable titles, such as Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the story of a journalist in Afghanistan; Alice through the Looking-Glass, the sequel of Alice in Wonderland; Ave Cesare!, the new movie by the Coen brothers; Go and find your favourite movie for 2016 here.
4. Just play some music!
Whatever kind of music you like, there are some albums everyone is waiting for. For example, the new work by David Bowie, Blackstar, which will be released in January. However, 2016 is also the year of the return of Lady Gaga! For grunge lovers, in 2016 Pearl Jam and Soundgarden will release their new albums. Of course, the best thing is to go to the concert and enjoy the new songs of your favourite artist! So, let’s wait for the big festivals in Summer. Check out the releases for 2016 here.
5. Exhibitions around the world
It is difficult to list the exhibitions for 2016, just check constantly the info page of the museums and galleries around your city or in your country. However, here are some of the most interesting exhibitions around Europe. First of all, if you are in London go to Madame Tussauds for the Star Wars Experience and meet all the protagonists, then go to the British Library and homage Lewis Carroll and his masterpiece Alice in Wonderland. If you are in Italy and you love literature and Renaissance, visit Ferrara, the old medieval city which this year will homage Ariosto and his poem Orlando Furioso. Moreover, Bologna will host the exhibition of Obey, master of the street art. Paris instead will held exhibitions on Warhol and Picasso, plus a retrospective on the cinematography of Scorsese while Berlin reopens its Berlinische Galerie with an architecture exhibition “Radically Modern”.
Remember also that in 2016 London will celebrate forty years of punk with events all around the city, starting with the Resolution Festival at the legendary 100 Club! Moreover, the City of London invited all the old and young punks to celebrate the anniversary with events created by themselves! For all the information visit punk.london.
So, don’t waste time and start to culture-up yourself!

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Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Vol.104, No.19, 8339-8349, 2020
The hydrophobicity of an amino acid residue in a flexible loop of KP-43 protease alters activity toward a macromolecule substrate
KP-43, a 43-kDa alkaline serine protease, is resistant to chemical oxidants and surfactants, making it suitable for use in laundry detergents. An amino acid residue at position 195, in a unique flexible loop that binds a Ca(2+)ion, dramatically affects the proteolytic activity and thermal stability of KP-43. In the present study, we obtained 20 variants with substitutions at position 195 and investigated how these residues affect hydrolytic activity toward a macromolecular substrate (casein) and a synthetic tetra-peptide (AAPL). At pH 10, the variant with the highest caseinolytic activity, Tyr195Gln, exhibited 4.4-fold higher activity than the variant with the lowest caseinolytic activity, Tyr195Trp. A significant negative correlation was observed between the hydrophobicity of the residue at position 195 and caseinolytic activity at pH 8-10. At pH 7, the correlation became weak; at pH 6, the correlation reversed to positive. Unlike casein, in the case of hydrolysis of AAPL, no correlation was observed at pH 10 or pH 6. Because the amino acid residue at position 195 is located on the protein surface and considered sufficiently far from the active cleft, the variation in caseinolytic activity between the 20 variants was attributed to changes in interaction efficiency with different states of casein at different pH values. To improve the enzymatic activity, we propose substituting amino acid residues on the protein surface to change the efficiency of interaction with the macromolecular substrates.

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May 24, 2021
A cyber catastrophe hits, and yet there’s no sound. In many cases no one notices any interruption or damage for weeks or even months. Meanwhile, the financial losses mount.
The intangible nature of cyberattacks is what makes these events so concerning to both the businesses facing the threats as well as the insurance carriers helping them mitigate the financial consequences. But for insurance carriers there is the added concern of potential accumulations. How can they understand their exposure and potential loss to such an unknown, evolving area?
Fortunately, there are now more ways to assign a dollar value to cyber risk exposure, such as with Kovrr’s open framework Cyber Risk Accumulation Zones (CRIMZON™). This paper discusses how to use the CRIMZON™ framework to better analyze the aggregations of risk within insurance portfolios and, further, how to use this to optimize your portfolio.
CRIMZON™ help insurers analyze cyber accumulations, similar to how property insurers might use geographic zones. By placing limits within CRIMZON and summing them up, insurers can then understand the full amount of their exposure. Yet cyber risks are multidimensional in nature and not limited to any one geography, therefore CRIMZON group organizations together based on the following three factors:
The framework uses country-level data worldwide and state-level granularity in the U.S.
Organizations are grouped based on the SIC classification system with additional options for more granularity.
3. Entity Size
Commonly used revenue bands are applied to group companies of similar sizes together.
These factors are used because companies that share these characteristics tend to experience similar cyber events. In many cases, these similarities are caused by the companies using the same technologies or third-party service providers, e.g., two large telecom companies in the U.S. may be more likely to use the same vendors than a large telecom company in the U.S. and a small professional services firm in France. Using the same vendor results in an exposure to the same cyber event trigger.
Using this framework to assess portfolio exposure helps insurers move from catastrophic, what-if thinking, to a more clear-cut assessment of realistic exposure. Carriers can run simulations based on cyber events affecting the top technologies and services per CRIMZON.
For example, technologies and third-party services related to hosting and email are often the same amongst companies within a specific zone. Any disruption in these areas can cause issues such as business interruption and data loss, which can lead to reputational damage, recovery costs, legal fees, etc. Insurers need to fully understand these types of exposures, and analyzing them in the context of CRIMZON can help them better understand how to de-risk their portfolios, set underwriting risk appetite limits, buy appropriate reinsurance/retro, improve their use of capital and provide more clarity to regulators.
For carriers trying to understand portfolio exposures, using CRIMZON can help understand where to place policy limits. However, not every company fits neatly into specific CRIMZON.
Small and mid-size businesses typically fit easily into a zone based on the three dimensions of industry, geography and size. Yet a large enterprise might not be able to fit within clear classifications. Even if a big conglomerate operates entirely in one country, which is often not the case, it could easily operate across multiple industries. And even though the corporation itself is large, it could have subsidiaries of varying sizes. These ambiguities pose challenges for insurers deciding which CRIMZON to place large enterprises in.
That said, there are several approaches to labeling the exposure for analysis purposes. The first, most straightforward option is to decide which are the most important factors (e.g. choosing the primary country a conglomerate operates in) and placing the entire exposure in one CRIMZON.
A slightly more sophisticated approach is to take the largest components that an insurance carrier considers to be important, which might mean the exposure falls within two or three CRIMZON — a vast improvement over the dozens or even hundreds of others they might technically fall into. At the other end of the spectrum, there is a complete map of the large corporation and a granular description of how a loss can emerge and develop within that full map.
It is important to keep in mind the principles of materiality and proportionality when making decisions about aggregations: an insurance carrier with a portfolio specialized in SME business accepting incidental exposures to large companies may well choose a simple approach and place the entire risk from bigger corporations in one CRIMZON.
Another carrier, however, might underwrite a book where larger corporations are the majority; in this case it would be very important to be careful and distinguish each subsidiary individually, and maybe go as far as mapping some form of correlation between CRIMZON arising simply by the presence of constituent parts of different organizations across multiple zones.
For example, consider the following configuration, where three entities are spread across five different CRIMZON. Not one entity is present on all five, but there is one zone where all three are present. [Figures refer to fictional revenues.]
An insurance company with a well-spread portfolio, where these are the only three large enterprises, might want to place each entity in the CRIMZON attracting the largest revenue. Doing this would place each entity in a different zone. A more sophisticated carrier might decide to spread their exposure to each of these using just the top two CRIMZON by revenue, but doing this would ignore the obvious correlation in CRIMZON 3, which is where Entity 1 has the lowest revenue. There is no right answer, and sometimes it is appropriate to sensitivity test different approaches (if possible). The importance of accounting for the correlation in CRIMZON 3 depends on materiality and proportionality.
Suppose an insurance professional wants to assess the exposure arising from three $10 million policies, one for each of the entities in the example above. One possibility is to pick the CRIMZON that seems most relevant for each, as mentioned above. But when looking at the three entities as spanning across multiple zones, then there is more to it. Each entity can either have the limit duplicated by placing the $10 million in each zone, or the limit could be distributed. The latter can then take more and more complex forms, where the sum of the single contributions might or might not equal $10 million depending on how an organization assesses the risk in each individual zone.
Following the discussion above, consider three cases. Placing the $10 million in one zone for each entity provides a distribution of exposures that looks like $10 million in three different zones. Duplicating the limit across the top two zones by revenue shows an accumulation of $10 million in each zone except the third zone, where the accumulation is $20 million.
As seen below, distributing the limit according to revenues instead of duplicating provides a more nuanced picture, where the third zone remains the highest accumulation but others are similarly exposed.
All three methods are approximations, each with its pros and cons. Picking only one box per company, leaving others unaccounted for — even if the risk seems lower in these other zones — will in essence cause some exposure to be neglected. In the example above, for instance, the $10 million limit could be placed according to the correlation and thus on CRIMZON 3 for all entities, or according to revenues and thus in three different zones.
Distributing the limit across the CRIMZON could still cause some understatement, but it could be a good approach for insurance carriers with diverse portfolios. Duplicating limits would be the most conservative approach, but it creates an overstatement, since the full limit would not actually be paid out across each zone. That said, it could be a good approach for portfolios with conglomerates who account for only a small portion of the overall limit, as it creates some leeway.
Going a step further, it’s important to recognize that using sub-limits could help give a clearer picture of exposures, rather than just the full sum of policy limits. For example, a $10 million cyber policy may have a $5 million sub-limit for ransom. When accounting for ransomware risk across CRIMZON, it is therefore more appropriate to use the smaller sub-limit, rather than overstating the exposure.
Once the limits have been accounted for, the question of the probable maximum loss needs to be addressed. Cyber systemic events are not confined in space in the same way natural catastrophes are, and thus it would not be correct to assume the maximum accumulation by CRIMZON to be a good proxy for PML.
After placing limits across CRIMZON, exposure managers and other risk professionals can use impact-based modeling to assess how cyber events and cyber catastrophes would specifically affect their portfolios. Impact-based modeling means focusing the modeling effort on the various impacts that a cyber event can have, either by defining accumulations strategies (e.g., looking at full limits assuming a ransomware attack) or developing a deterministic scenario.
Insurance practitioners have been using deterministic scenarios as a tool to manage exposures for a significant length of time. A deterministic scenario usually starts from an evolution of some sort of limit accumulation framework. For example, a simple way to look at Hurricane Katrina is to apply a percentage to the full limit exposure in New Orleans.
Stochastic models have not fully replaced nor have they removed the need for deterministic scenarios, mainly because it is much easier to understand and validate a deterministic computation but also because a stochastic catalog is in essence a collection of deterministic events. CRIMZON can be used to describe the footprint of real-life cyber events. As such, the framework presents itself rather naturally to support the definition of deterministic scenarios and from that the description of a full stochastic event set.
Before assessing liability, it helps to clarify what might trigger a claim. Importantly, what a business defines as a cyber event or cyber catastrophe isn’t necessarily the same as how an insurer would classify these situations, as it depends on the language and coverage within a policy.
For Kovrr’s modeling methodology, a cyber event is defined using the CIA triad model of availability, confidentiality and integrity. If something affects data in one of these three ways, or has the fourth element of ransom (or potential for ransom), then that would be considered a cyber event.
When cyber events get taken to a more extreme level, then they could enter the realm of cyber catastrophes. Kovrr defines these catastrophes as:
As an insurance professional assesses what might be considered a cyber event or a catastrophe, they can begin to calculate how these different occurrences could affect exposure. Not all events would trigger the same losses, so it’s worthwhile to model multiple scenarios. One starting point could be assessing the losses associated with the lack of data availability, which then could trigger a business interruption element of some policies. And if that data was confidential and compromised, that could trigger another liability.
Getting an idea of these different impacts and their likelihood enables calculation of the probable maximum loss (PML) for a cyber event.
To fully understand cyber PMLs, it can help to consider what this modeling looks like in relation to property insurance.
Before catastrophe models existed, property insurers traditionally used CRESTA zones as a way to accumulate limits, similar to how cyber insurers can use CRIMZON. Yet in property, the CRESTA zones were designed in such a way as to assume that a natural catastrophe event would affect only one CRESTA. And if the event did affect multiple CRESTA, there would likely be a center.
For example, in an earthquake, the likelihood of damage, and therefore exposure, can be assumed to decrease alongside distance from the epicenter. If an examined area is within 50 kilometers of the epicenter, the PML might be estimated at, say, 20-30% of aggregate limits. But the further away from the center, the more the PML goes down.
However, in cyber, there is generally no center, and events typically affect multiple clusters (CRIMZON). Even in a situation where a cyberattack is self-propagating, there will typically be more than one instance of originating attack, as hackers try to find ways into multiple companies at once. The event will then go on from there and will not be limited by geography.
Yet no matter how viral the attack or how popular an affected service provider may be, an event will still only affect a finite number of CRIMZON, and not all companies within those zones will likely be affected. Eventually, attacks end, and with proper planning through the use of this framework, insurers can cap their risk by estimating ahead of time where they have the most exposure.
That’s why putting the same PML across an entire portfolio can be risky. Instead, insurers may be better off putting different PMLs on specific CRIMZON.
Readers familiar with research by Kovrr on CRIMZON will remember the main focus being the hazard. Companies within the same CRIMZON tend to use similar technologies and service providers, which creates natural pockets of potential accumulations. However, there is another aspect of cyber risk that CRIMZON help to describe: the footprint of a cyber catastrophe.
Using the framework enables the description of the footprint of an event in terms of a list of CRIMZON, each associated with a local intensity describing how many entities were affected and what the average damage was. Kovrr published materials using this framework on two recent real-life examples: SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange.
To assess PML risk across CRIMZON, arguably the most efficient and effective way is to first look at the limits assigned to key CRIMZON, ranking them from highest to lowest. That will then provide an idea of where the biggest concerns are in terms of maximum exposure. So modeling a 30% PML in a zone with the highest limit could represent more of a liability than a 50% PML in a lower-limit zone.
From there, it’s important to consider the interconnectedness of CRIMZON to fully understand a realistic PML across an entire portfolio. While attacks generally do not have a center and can easily spread to disparate geographies, there are certainly patterns within attacks.
Consider a portfolio spread across 1,000 CRIMZON with a total limit of $20 billion, so that, on average, each CRIMZON attracts a $20 million limit (setting aside the number of policies, attachment points and any considerations given by the presence of large enterprises spanning across multiple CRIMZON).
As shown by previous events, cyber catastrophes will spread following a pattern of infection along major communication channels across CRIMZON. In practical terms this means this hypothetical portfolio will most likely see a pattern of damage arising from scores of CRIMZON. The exact number can be a matter of debate, but common sense dictates there will be at least some agreement on a range, most likely informed by some form of modeling. Kovrr’s cyber catastrophe model, for instance, can help stakeholders in this respect. For example, suppose this hypothetical portfolio will most likely see a catastrophe unfolding across 100 CRIMZON. But which zones should be selected?
Practitioners are often tempted to answer that last question in terms of absolute hazard, therefore looking for those CRIMZON which are most likely to generate a loss. While this approach has its merits, it could be a daunting task and effectively require a lot more energy and resources than materiality and proportionality would allow. Best practices suggest to look for exposures first, thus summing all the limits by CRIMZON and ranking the list of zones by limit exposed in descending order. The top 100 selected in this way will provide a good place to start even if less directly related to a hazard.
Once the CRIMZON have been selected, the next step is to define a PML in each of them. This is usually defined as a percentage to apply to the total limit, but it could be slightly more sophisticated and be defined, for instance, as a percentage to be applied to the sum of limit and attachment point (for excess business) or to a pre-defined estimated maximum loss. For simplicity’s sake, the discussion here will be kept to a PML in the sense of a percentage to be applied to the sum of all limits.
When defining PMLs, some basic relativities are obvious. For instance, medical records are more likely to attract bigger liabilities than retail customer records. Other relativities will arise from specific portfolio considerations, but even in the absence of any information or opinion about possible severity, it is realistic to assume the level of damage will not exceed a predefined maximum percentage, with the maximum depending once again on the shape of the portfolio.
For instance, the sum of all exposures across the 100 zones isolated so far will almost certainly amount to more than 10% of all the exposure. However, this can be because the majority of the policies are in these zones, or because all the biggest limits exist in these zones. In the former case a lower percentage can be applied, because the number of businesses suffering a loss in each zone is likely to be low, but in the latter case, with fewer policies and higher limits, a higher percentage is more appropriate.
Looking at the average case, when the total is exactly 10% of the exposures, which suggests a very well balanced portfolio, a PML of 50% across all 100 zones would generate a loss of $1 billion, for which the hypothetical portfolio looks reasonably conservative.
The CRIMZON framework allows exposure managers to make sense of cyber risk, regardless of the size and complexity of the portfolio analysed. It can be a very powerful tool for those portfolios where cyber is not very material, requiring only a few data points per insured and only superficial knowledge of the hazard. But where materiality is a factor the CRIMZON framework allows for increasing levels of sophistication, from more complex aggregate accumulations to deterministic scenarios to stochastic models.
Ultimately carriers need to determine how much capital to allocate to cyber and steer their underwriting practices so that capital is deployed efficiently. The simplest example of capital allocation is aggregation of exposures, and the simplest example of portfolio optimization is setting aggregate caps by CRIMZON.
Carriers can take clear actions to optimise the composition of their portfolio. For example, once a specific CRIMZON is identified as attracting too much risk in comparison to others, there are two possible ways to remedy: underwrite more in other zones to balance the risk, or reduce the exposure in that particular zone by making policy renewals less attractive.
For natural hazards, where geography plays an important role in shaping the possible loss events, it is easy to understand the diversification effect of having a balanced set of exposures across different accumulation zones. It is intuitively not possible to lose all the policy limits in the book at once, save for such extreme scenarios like a meteorite strike. Some practitioners however have been wondering in the past whether cyber could be the exception, noting how events seemed to have no boundaries. Using the CRIMZON framework it becomes again intuitive to understand the diversification effect, noting how big events have affected in the past a large but limited number of zones and only in a few of these (if any) a large number of businesses.
Event reports by Kovrr on SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange have demonstrated how carriers can use the CRIMZON framework not only in a generic accumulation scenario, but also to respond to real world events. This in turn can give confidence around building deterministic events using the framework, and eventually a full stochastic catalog based on the same approach.
Exposure managers can then take advantage of this newfound confidence to validate cyber models using their own intuition, and in turn build systems and processes around a view of risk they truly own. Adopting the CRIMZON framework can therefore lead to better conversations with regulators, shifting the focus from hypothetical reoccurrences of past events (like the NotPetya as if) to realistic potential losses threatening a portfolio here and now. The benefit of such a shift can include everything from a lower regulatory burden all the way to a lower capital load.
Another potential benefit is determining reinsurance needs and negotiating terms with reinsurers, not only because a better understanding of the risk leads to a better estimate of the downside, but also because more clarity on how losses are expected to unfold may well lead to a higher level of contract certainty. Reinsurers using the framework might be willing to provide capacity for specific CRIMZON or exclude specific others.
Altogether, using CRIMZON provides a more accurate picture of an insurer’s true exposure, not only for the internal benefit of knowing this information but also in terms of potentially cutting expenses and growing revenue.
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Lopresti AL, Jacka FN. DIET AND BIPOLAR DISORDER: A REVIEW OF ITS RELATIONSHIP AND POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC MECHANISMS OF ACTION. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 01 December 2015;21(12):733–739. DOI: 10.1089/acm.2015.0125

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Wish upon is the latest upcoming horror movie and its official trailers were out 5 months ago! Trailer indeed promises some nice horror effects but seems that its not that likes by the viewers and hence rated only 4.6/10 on IMDB. According to the available trailers the story revolves around a girl who finds a magical box with supernatural powers but with a big cost! Woosh.. Cost? well you need to watch the movie to reveal that suspense. Check Wish upon trailer and leave your comments. You can also download wish upon SRT subtitles/transcripts in english to improve your viewing experience.


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By Haryana Bureau
In Haryana, the External Development Charges (EDC) received against any license granted in a development plan area would be utilised for provision of external development works in the said development plan area. A proposal to this effect has been approved by the Chief Minister, Manohar Lal.
The EDC received by Town and Country Planning Department under the Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975, was sent to the headquarters. Thereafter, this amount was utilised by Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran for completion of various development works in different cities. It was brought to the notice of the Chief Minister that sometimes this system causes discrimination in a particular area where people deposits more EDC through licenses.
Following the directions of the Chief Minister, the officers have prepared a draft of the amendment in the rules to bring further transparency. Now, separate bank accounts would be opened in all cities in which the EDC collected would be deposited and spent on development of the cities.
As per the amendment, the Director or any other government agency or local authority receiving EDC would maintain a town-wise account statement of the receipts. The EDC received against any specific project in a given town would be utilised for provision of external development of the respective town alone. In case, the amount is received against EDC by any government agency or local authority other than the Director, it would be the responsibility of such government agency or local authority to maintain town-wise account statement for the amount received by them. Such account statement would be updated on monthly basis and hosted on the website for the purpose of the information of all concerned.


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There’s a lot to love about calzones — and very little (if anything) to dislike about them. That’s why those of us here at National Today are going to celebrate National Calzone Day on November 1 by stuffing a calzone with our favorite pizza toppings and then stuffing ourselves with the results. Of course, since a calzone is actually a folded pizza, those toppings are not really toppings so much as stuffings. Anyway, stuffing is the key — and stuffed we will be — on National Calzone Day. Join us on this most tasty of holidays for some honest-to-goodness goodness.
National Calzone Day timeline
Calzones were invented in Naples, Italy — supposedly as a way to serve people a pizza they could walk around with.
It's the first documented use of the word "calzone" to refer to "a baked or fried turnover of pizza dough stuffed with various fillings.
Calzones have become wildly popular in recent years, perhaps due to the influence of television shows, such as "Seinfeld" and "Parks and Recreation," both of which have featured storylines about calzones.
National Calzone Day Activities
Make one, bake one, and eat one
It's easy to celebrate food-related holidays and observances. Let your stomach do the talking. And then it's time to eat!
Hold a calzone party
Have friends and family members over, sit around the dining room table, and have each person build their favorite calzone. Then have a baking party and stuff yourselves silly.
Learn a few new recipes
We all have our favorite recipes. But part of the fun of National Calzone Day is learning about the many different varieties. Try something new!
3 Reasons We're Going Calzone Crazy
What's in a name? What's in your calzone?
The word "calzone" comes from the Italian word for "pants" or "stockings.
This calzone has room for many fillings
According to Guinness, the largest calzone ever made weighed 212 pounds. It was baked in 2014 by Rulli's Italian Restaurant in Middlebury, Indiana.
Calzones are loaded with calories
Calzones typically have the same amount of pizza dough as a regular pizza. In fact, one whole calzone can contain more than 2,000 calories.
Why We Love National Calzone Day
Calzones are ridiculously delicious
Even the most "typical" calzone is overflowing with tasty goodness: salted bread baked to a crisp, golden perfection on the outside (warm and chewy on the inside), and stuffed with meats, cheeses, and veggies.
Calzones are handy
Science tells us that calzones are not only delicious, but efficient. That's because calzones, folded as they are, feature a lower surface-to-volume ratio than regular pizzas, resulting in better heat retention.
Calzones are flexible
Not only do they hold together nicely — what with all that bendy dough — calzones are also flexible in that you can put just about whatever you want inside.
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Updated March 3rd, 2024 at 22:26 IST
SHOCKING: Car Dangles on Edge of Masssive Crater After Road Collapses In Lucknow
In the aftermath of incessant rainfall across Uttar Pradesh, a shocking video emerged showing road cave-in incident in Lucknow.
Lucknow: In the aftermath of incessant rainfall across Uttar Pradesh, a shocking video emerged showing road cave-in incident in Sector-4 of Lucknow's Vikasnagar. A huge crater, big enough for a small car to sink in, was spotted with a car getting stuck on its edge.
The heavy rainfall have not only disrupted the farm activities but also the traffic movement in the city.
The incident of road cave in put the PWD and Urban Development Department contractors in trouble. As per reports, this is the second time when road collapse incident occured in the area in past few months.
The incident unfolded as the road appeared to sink, creating a several feet deep pit in Uttar Pradesh's capital city. The sinkhole resulted in a car getting stuck in its clutches.
Onlookers and passersby gathered at the incident site, pooling their efforts to evacuate the stranded vehicle.
Local residents also registered their frustration, citing a recurrent pattern of such accidents on the same stretch of road following heavy rainfall.
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Balluff is pleased to release a new line of M18 Factor 1 inductive sensors for use in the automotive tier supplier market. This portfolio provides extended detection ranges to enhance survivability of sensors in part loading applications, and is available with optional long and short housing form factors. With the addition of these new Factor 1 sensors, Balluff expands its broad product line of problem solving sensor solutions designed for harsh welding applications. This is extremely valuable to tier suppliers as the trend toward automotive light-weighting has increased the use of new metal varieties, aluminum structures and multi-metal assemblies.
"The new M18 Factor 1 sensors provide more flexibility in welding applications where longer sensing ranges are needed or when a customer is working with non-ferrous materials," says Shawn Day, Product Marketing Manager for Object Detection, "and a common application includes mig welding where ferrous or non-ferrous material is used." The new M18 Factor 1 sensors are available with weld spatter resistant coatings and weld-field immune circuitry for maximum protection in hostile welding environments.
The new generation of Factor 1 sensors offer the additional features below:
- Extended ranges for ferrous and non-ferrous materials
- IP68 for harsh application environments
- Weld Spatter resistant coating
- Expanded temperature rating (-40…+85°)
About Balluff Inc.: Balluff Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Balluff GmbH, Neuhausen, Germany, is a leading manufacturer of a wide range of inductive, photoelectric, vision, capacitive and magnetic sensors as well as linear position transducers, RFID systems, and networking products. Balluff products for OEM and factory floor solutions are used to control, regulate, automate, assemble, position, and monitor manufacturing, assembly, and packaging sequences for industries including: metalworking, automotive, plastics, material handling, wood processing, aerospace, alternative energy, medical, electrical, and electronics.


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I watched this film with Noshi, who told me it was really great, and I still had it on my immense backlog, past monday.
And I love it!
The tale goes about a young islander princess, Moana, who finds a legendary stone in the ocean. She has always been attracted to the wide open waters, while the rule of the island keeps her land bound. Until her grandmother convinces her otherwise, while the island seems to get infected by a strange disease.
Together with the (rather idiotic) rooster He-He, she sets out in the wide seas to look for the legendary demi-god Maui, and to bring the stone back to the place he actually stole it from ages ago.
I liked this film because Moana isn`t the typical Disney princess, and this is a film of courage, but also of incredible stubborness. Another great thing about it is that the movie tells a story not really much heard in the Western world, as it is based on an islander legend from the Pacific ocean.
And if that all fails to convince you to watch this Disney movie...
IT HAS AN ARMY OF KILLER COCONUTS!!!!
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A University of Texas program is denying that a new program treats masculinity as a “mental health” problem.
The Austin-based school’s Counseling and Mental Health Center came under fire for asking male students to “take control over their gender identity and develop a healthy sense of masculinity.”
PJ Media reported the story but the school says any suggestion the school views masculinity as a problem is “not accurate”.
In a release, the school said the MasculinUT program was designed to bring more men “to the table to address interpersonal violence, sexual assault and other issues”.
The school added the confusion that masculinity was being treated as a mental issue came from the unit being housed in the school’s Counseling and Mental Health Center.
MasculinUT said PJ Media — who first reported the story — blew off an interview and did not include the school’s response to the claims.
“It has become clear that some of the communication and discussion surrounding MasculinUT did not convey this fully or clearly,” the school added.
Much of the PJ Media report was misleading and taken out of context, MasculinUT said.

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Performance in the Eastern European region has been weak over the past year, with the MSCI Eastern E...
Performance in the Eastern European region has been weak over the past year, with the MSCI Eastern European Index down 10.88% in dollar terms over the year to 10 August.
Charles Heenan, portfolio manager at First State Investments, says: 'A combination of weakness in the region, slowing growth and problems of corporate governance, all mean people are not willing to invest in the region at present.'
Heenan says companies in Eastern Europe still do not look after minority shareholders, which are often taken advantage of. He says the laws are slowly being tightened up and examined but remain a turn-off for investing in the region.
Financials are still the sector of choice in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic as they ready themselves for convergence into the EU, according to Andrew Elder, manager of the Aberdeen Frontiers fund.
Elder says he prefers this sector on a long-term convergence story as all three countries prepare themselves to enter the EU in early 2005. He believes the changes the economies have to go through to be accepted in the EU, such as privatisation and re-structuring to get them in line with the Western free market, will benefit their economies.
He adds that there has been a lot of corporate activity in the financial sectors of these countries ' Polish bank Peko was bought by the Italian bank Unicreditor, for example, and Czech bank Komercini was recently bought by the French bank SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale.
Hungarian pharmaceuticals have also been strong as a sector, according to Heenan, with Gedeon Richter and Egis two of the strongest performers in the region. In its second-quarter report, he says, sales growth for Gedeon exceeded all market expectations by at least 20%, driven by 45% export sales growth in Russia.
Year to 14 August 2001, Egis is up 10.24% in dollar terms while Gedeon has risen by 2.81% over the same time period.
Heenan says it has been difficult to find quality companies in Eastern Europe, such as those that demonstrate strong experienced management, strong barriers to entry and honest and proper treatment of foreign shareholders.
However, he believes Gedeon has strong management, is trustworthy, entrepreneurial and has a strong distribution in Russia, as yet a fairly untapped area, so it is in a good position.
Heenan says telecoms still remain the weakest sector in the region. TPSA is down some 55% in US dollar terms over the year to 14 August 2001, while Netia, a small telecom operator in Poland, is down more than 90% over the same period. Elder says although telecoms are becoming more attractive than they were, he does not see any catalyst for re-ratings in the sector and so remains negative on them.
Steve Bates, head of the emerging markets desk at JP Morgan Fleming Asset Management, says three stories dominated the Eastern European markets in July: the slowdown of the US economy, the debt crisis in Argentina and Turkey with its potential contagion towards other emerging markets, and a weakening of the oil price combined with the subsequent actions taken by Opec.
• Hungarian pharmas performing well.
• Three countries to enter EU in 2005.
• Low inflation/strong exports aided Hungary.
What made financial headlines over the weekend?
To promote 'long-term investment'
Switching 'hard and expensive'
Smaller funds still packing a punch

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Where to see dolphins in the wild on your summer holiday this year
While there are some fantastic zoos and aquariums around the north west, there’s nothing quite like the thrill of seeing an animal in its natural habitat.
Dolphins are often spotted along the Welsh coastline – perfect for those of us nipping across the border for our summer holidays this year.
Cardigan Bay in West Wales is home to the UK’s biggest population of dolphins, but there are boat trips leaving from up and down the coast where you might see these amazing creatures in the wild, Wales Online has reported.
Bottlenose dolphins are the most likely to come and say hello, but there are also smaller harbour porpoises to look out for.
Very lucky tourists might even spot a humpback whale, or the even rarer orca, with a small group of eight killer whales living off the west coast.
These are the boat trips in the prime locations to give you the best chance of seeing a dolphin this summer.
Bay to Remember – Cardigan Bay – £26 – £50
Departing from Gwbert, this one and a half hour tour claims to see dolphins or porpoises (or both) 80 per cent of the time.
There is also the option of an hour tour at a cheaper price of £26, with 50 per cent chance of seeing dolphins, or upgrading to a two hour tour for £50 for an almost certain 95 per cent chance of getting lucky.
Children’s prices are also available.
All the tours start by heading to Cardigan Island and Mwnt, where the resident bottlenose dolphins tend to feed.
They then head down to the coast by Pembrokeshire National Park where there is a good chance of seeing seals on the isolated beaches.
Here you will also have a short tour of the caves as the boats are small enough to glide through.
Seacoast Safaris – Anglesey – from £32
These 80-minute cruises offer a guided tour of the seas around Anglesey with facts about local history and the wildlife.
The boats are small cruise boats and run along the Menai Strait which means they will only run if the weather is calm enough, so bear this in mind when booking.
If you sail during breeding season, meaning April to August, you should see puffins on Puffin Island.
You may also come across dolphins, porpoises, seals, and rare seabirds including razorbills, guillemots and kittiwakes.
The cruises are also dog-friendly.
Gower Coast Adventures – Swansea – currently running whole boat charter from £500
Gower Coast Adventures are only offering charter rentals during 2021 due to Covid-19.
The waters around the Gower Peninsula are home to dolphins, porpoises, seals and seabirds.
The trip will take you around to Worms Head island which is a prime location for Atlantic wildlife.
The two-hour trips depart from Oxwich Bay and even take small to medium sized dogs.
The professional crew will tell you stories about everything from the wildlife to local history like prehistoric bone caves and tales of smugglers.
Dolphin Spotting Boat Trips – New Quay – from £15
These boat trips are on the cheaper end of the scale, ranging from £15 to £25, with lower prices for children.
The boats depart from New Quay village and takes you along Birds Rock, The Caves, Cwmtydu and Seals Bay.
The knowledgeable crew will tell you about the conservation area and take you to the best places to spot the resident dolphins, porpoises and seals.
You have the option of one, one-and-a-half or two-hour trips.
Voyages of Discovery – Pembrokeshire – from £62
These two-and-a-half hour boat tours take you on a voyage to see dolphins and sometimes whales.
The tours start by taking you to Grassholm Island, home to the fourth largest Gannet colony in the world.
Sightings on the trips have even included the rarer missos dolphin, mike and fin whales, and leatherback turtles.
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Some seemingly marginal projects may grow into unexpected international success. One of these was the development of the Cactus anti-aircraft system, which was ordered from the French company Thomson by the South African government. Although it was a foreign order, the system gradually came under the designation Crotale into the armament of the French Armed Forces.
Originally a foreign order, a relatively successful anti-aircraft system emerged, which has found a number of customers around the world. But over the years, significant progress has been made in the field of electronics and miniaturization. Therefore, it was appropriate to develop a more modern version, corresponding to current requirements. Before that, let's look at an upgrade made in China.
During the Cold War, the British Army needed to defend itself against Warsaw Pact aircraft. In the 1960s, the development of a successful short-range system was launched to defend the bases and areas of troop concentration. The whole world knows this system under the name Rapier.
In the last part, we described the development and basic variants of the British Rapier system. However, the British constantly paid attention to improving its capabilities and tried to sell the system to foreign customers. They were successful in both of these activities.


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Marketing Raises: What You Need to Know
September 23, 2022
A 100-lawyer firm in one of the nation’s largest markets announced Raises that it was going to finally be distributing raises to its associates, but only if they reached certain billable hour goals.
Some are calling this new initiative brilliant, while others say it’s a recipe for disaster that could result in disgruntled associates and unhappy clients. What do you think? Are associate raises at your firm handed out based on billable hours? If so, what requirements do you have to meet to earn them?
Avoid the Treadmill
We may be living in an era of automation, but some experts believe that salary growth is still possible. David Talmage, a Principal at Keller Graduate School of Management said:
I don’t think we’re on a treadmill from a long-term perspective. He believes there will be more opportunities for those willing to innovate.
Advancements in technology might streamline work processes, but it’s also possible that automation and AI might leave people with more time for creative pursuits. Some say a skills gap has developed which means some workers are opting out because the changing environment just doesn’t fit them. And many seem okay with this – for now.
Why Lawyers in Partnership Track Care About Marketing Raises
You may have read the news recently about how elite law firms are finally handing out market raises. The only catch is that you need to be billing over 1,300 hours per year to qualify.
For those who are not yet in the partnership track at their firm and aren’t even close to qualifying for a marketing raise, all this news might feel a little irrelevant, but there’s some good news for you too!
The Am Law 100 has also taken note of how much work associates do and how integral they are in generating revenue, so they’re now announcing when lawyers will receive Raises partner-track funding if they keep on hitting the billable hour requirements each year. This way, they don’t have just one group competing with one another.
When You Might Get a Raise
In 2018, the salary difference between firms ranked 90th and 100th on the Am Law 100 was just under $2,000. Yet in 2016, it was nearly $10,000. How come?
New labor regulations were enacted in 2018 that required employers of a certain size to offer a one-time market adjustment payment (MAP) if they didn’t give their Raises employees a raise.
With associate attorneys billing an average of over $600 per hour and exceeding the amount needed for MAPs with clients who paid them what they were worth, many companies decided it would be easier to pay up than shell out compensatory time off.
How to Get a Raise
If you’re already at the top of your firm, or you aren’t expecting a raise from your employer anytime soon, fear not. There are a few ways to get around this barrier and make some extra cash on the side. One is by boosting your billable hours (which will hopefully be recognized by your boss!).
If you don’t feel like putting in more hours Raises of work than what’s required of you, one other way would be to increase the amount of business that goes through your pipeline. A great way to do this is by starting an additional project that relates to what you specialize in at work.
Recent Trends in Partner Compensation
For lawyers, the range in partner compensation is also influenced by factors such as geography and firm size. A large proportion of salaries at Am Law 100 firms with more than 450 attorneys were either $1,200,000 or $2,400,000 per year in 2016. This compares with a median salary of $974,350 for firms employing 11-250 attorneys and a median salary of $770,000 for firms employing 251-450 attorneys.
In contrast to the Am Law 100’s approach that exclusively ties senior partner compensation to profitability performance, most other law firms Raise primarily use fixed compensation scales without linking payments directly to performance (with some exceptions). Fixed compensation scales usually start at a relatively low level and gradually increase with years of service.
New Normal Comp For Partners?
In a refreshing departure from past norms, top firms such as Kirkland & Ellis and Paul Weiss have now instituted market-rate comp structures for their associates.
The new salary structure is already in place at New York firm Shearman & Sterling, where associates are billed out on a 1.6 multiplier that reflects the cost of an associate’s work relative to an equity partner’s work, according to Law360. We felt that this was the right time for us to revisit our compensation system because it has been years since we did so, said George Cerise Jr., chairman of the firm. But let’s be clear here:
these salary increases don’t make up for what has been lost in unpaid Raises hours and penalties throughout the past two decades.
So, Do I Still Want That Promotion?
It’s not always worth it to get that promotion if you have questions about whether your raise will pay off. It takes some time for a new associate, who starts at a market salary, or the average salary for their firm and location, order to make as much money as someone who is promoted before them.
If you’re still looking for confirmation of this trend in law firms – consult your list of Am Law 100 Firm Hiring Dossiers. It’s estimated that those of the top twenty firms are spending 5% less on associate salaries than they were last year.
The New Bottom Line (and Why It Doesn’t Exist)
It was sad when law firms decided to start paying only those associates who billed over 1,600 hours and got 200 billable hours in bonuses, but at least the cut-off line for a nice chunk of market raise money existed. Now that PWC hand out raises as long as you just hit the base Raises the level of 960 billable hours, there’s no bottom for how much it takes to get rewarded with some cash.
The go-to advice has been, to bill what you can, but there’s never been more incentive for people to put in their 40 (or 50) hour work weeks and stay below the 960 mark. And this isn’t just limited to law firms — all employees are feeling pressured by employer expectations while benefits continue to dwindle.
Keep browsing Law Scribd for more updates.

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The Grand Veloce is Fusion vehicle in Crash of Cars.
Though inconspicuous, it excels in many areas otherwise not suggested.
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Grand Veloce has very high top speed, stability and acceleration, exceeding that of most other vehicles.
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As with most fast vehicles, Grand Veloce' speed is its sole advantage. It has more health than most other vehicles with the same stats such as Speed and its stability reduces the likelihood of getting stuck. It is therefore superior to the majority of them, and can be adapted with highly aggressive strategies of hunting down opponents or passive strategies that few will ever catch up
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- The Grand Veloce is based on the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport.
- The name appears to be broken French for the phrase "Super-Speed", referring to its manufacturer being headquartered in France.
- Disregarding power-ups and temporary speed boost abilities, the Grand Veloce is tied with the Speed and Speed 2.0 for the fastest cars in the game.
- When the player listens closely, the sound of its engines rumbling can be heard.
- The Grand Veloce also appears in one of NotDoppler's games (Renegade Racing Flash Version) dubbed as "Legendary".

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Wednesday's Wooster comprehensive planning meeting did not set in stone anything on which the committee had been working.
"Let me underline that 52 times," said Sandy McKew, consultant to the city on the project. "We are at the beginning point, we are not zoning, this doesn't change zoning or the city (codes)."
What those city, government and business leaders in attendance at the first of three public meetings saw was the "presentation of concept areas" in relation to Wooster's image as seen by potential developers, businesses and the average citizen.
And the image out there, according to McKew, "is that Wooster appears hodge-podgey."
Though not without some areas of concern, the comprehensive planning committee's presentation appears to bring like areas of the city closer together while allowing for unique character in the 14 "districts" that encompass Wooster. "We hope to preserve a creative center ... and layer the city out," said committee chairman Ken Suchan.
Suchan said the meeting was an update on the plan the group had been working on for the last year. That plan includes "basically a redeveloped city core," a regional service and retail area, a highway service area, a hospital area, an industrial expansion area, a College of Wooster residential area, an outer village suburban district and a suburban conservation development district, a rural residential section and a multi-family expansion district.
No one district or area of the city is slated to be developed first, McKew said. "There is no time frame."
"It is a short-term land-use policy for the city," Suchan said. "It has a time frame of 10 to 15 years. Other things will happen (later)."
The city's core includes Founder's Settlement, Historic Core, Mansion Row and Beall Avenue districts. The primary goals behind all four include making the area pedestrian friendly, preserving current retail business (first floor only) and architecture while attracting specialty retailers to help blend the areas together, from Liberty Street to The College of Wooster. Also mentioned in that key downtown cluster was committing housing to office space on Mansion Row, adding upper level apartment housing to Historic Core space and keeping the average lot size to an acre or less.
"We want to maintain the fabric of downtown," Suchan said.
Not far from there are the hospital (Beall Ave.), college residential and Portage Road/Ohio 585 areas. Their common goal -- attracting small specialty retail stores, maintaining single-family dwellings and increasing pedestrian walkways. Denying expansion of big box, or large, retailers and limiting housing to four units per acre, without adding multi-housing units, is a second common thread between them.
That is due to the area's nonexistent developable acreage, according to the commission.
On the other hand, the Regional Service and Retail Center -- a.k.a. the north end -- has 127 undeveloped acres that has led the committee to suggest a minimum lot size of two acres. The maximum building size recommended is 100,000 square feet, approximately "the size of a Wal-Mart," according to Suchan. "Since that area is (developed) we should use it for what it is."
A Highway Service and Hospitality district also is "what it is," which is a row from Cleveland Road to Madisonburg and U.S. 30 to exit point such as Madison Hill. That means maintaining auto dealerships, insurance offices, hotels and restaurants on lots of two to eight acres as less than 60 acres remain undeveloped.
The Industrial Expansion/Office District and Outer Village Suburban districts have the land to spare, said the committee's report. The report stated a "substantial amount" exists east of Ohio 83 and 3, with the difference between the districts coming in lot sizes. The Industrial District, which mainly covers the north end, is to be split into land tracts of 10 to 30 and 70-plus acres while the OVS is to be single-family dwellings of 0.25 to one acre.
The Outer Suburban Conservation and Rural Residential districts also are to have single-family dwellings, of one to two and three-five acre lots, respectively, with no further expansion of mobile home parks along and restrictive development criteria in general. Restricting those areas, plus the Multifamily District, in terms of housing drew the ire of some in attendance.
"There is land (in the single-family Milltown Road area) that is going to get developed within a year for multi-family housing," said Ted Bogner, president of Bogner Construction. Bogner said he has land in the Outer Suburban area he plans to eventually develop.
"I don't want to be in conflict with the city," Bogner said. "But that would put me in conflict" by limiting his development options.
Wooster attorney J. Douglas Drushal said restricting housing generally was not a good idea.
"We do not have enough affordable housing in the area," said Drushal, who said supply-and-demand will decide what type of housing will come into the area.
As McKew said, the districts and recommendations are merely guidelines for the city, not iron-clad regulations.
"We want to hear if we are wrong," Suchan said. He will get his chance at today's noon public meeting, and a final opportunity June 13 at Wooster High School's Large Lecture Room.


ROCKFORD — Miracle Mile will host its next meeting from 8 to 9 a.m. Sept. 19 in the Veterans Room at Don Carter Lanes, 4007 E. State St.
Guest speaker Scott Capovilla, zoning and land use administrator with the city of Rockford, will share information on the city's requirements on parking lot and landscape improvements. Capovilla also will bring a list of recommended plants that tolerate drought and road salt.
Free. For information: 815-323-0395.


Recently, Calgary chose to implement new bylaws mandating businesses to enforce vaccine passports. This has caused something of an uproar in Alberta.
The owner of a restaurant called Without Papers Pizza has decided to make public their decision not to abide by the new rule.
Concerns have grown over this new bylaw, with some Calgarians fearing that is more than just a health measure, but rather a decision by local politicians to force businesses to medically segregate their customers.
For the owner of Without Papers Pizza, the decision was easy: they had no interest in segregating their clientele.


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As reported by the Associate Press, a judge in California recently awarded an iPhone user with $850 in a small claims case against AT&T’s throttling of the “unlimited” data allotment on their iPhone plans. The judge established that the carrier was guilty of said charges and that the grandfathered unlimited data user was to be awarded with $850 as a means of compensating for the lost transmission speeds. The user was apparently throttled after using 1.5 GB to 2 GB of data, which was wrong of AT&T because they even offer a 3 GB data plan to users right now. More coverage after the break.
Pro-tem Judge Russell Nadel found in favor of Matt Spaccarelli in Ventura Superior Court in Simi Valley. Spaccarelli filed a small claims case against AT&T last month, arguing the communications giant unfairly slows speeds on his iPhone 4′s unlimited data plan…Nadel’s ruling could pave the way for others to follow suit. AT&T has some 17 million customers with “unlimited data” plans that can be subject to throttling, representing just under half of the company’s smartphone users.
AT&T was then asked to comment, their reply was as follows:
“This is a small claims matter. We are evaluating next steps, including appeal. But at the end of the day, our contract governs our relationship with our customers.”
The carrier could appeal to the judge’s decision since they “argued in court that his employer has the right to modify or cancel customers’ contracts if their data usage adversely affects the network,” according to the AP.
A grandfathered iPhone user from San Diego, California previously reported that AT&T had been throttling his data when he was only 137.59 MB over the 2 GB cap. The video below will give you some insight on how bad this throttling really is.

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Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries
The Civil Rights Movement
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Civil Rights in South Carolina
Analyze the movement for civil rights in South Carolina, including the impact of the landmark court cases Elmore v. Rice and Briggs v. Elliot; civil rights leaders Septima Poinsette Clark, Modjeska Monteith Simkins, and Matthew J. Perry; the South Carolina school equalization effort and other resistance to school integration; peaceful efforts to integrate beginning with colleges and demonstrations in South Carolina such as the Friendship Nine and the Orangeburg Massacre.
Based on evidence provided, how did most white South Carolinians react to the 1954 Brown v. Board decision and school integration?

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As IG warns govs, LG chairmen, political parties
BY KINGSLEY OMONOBI
ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN and the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, were among major political parties that, yesterday, boycotted the all-inclusive meeting with chairmen of registered political parties in Nigeria, summoned by the Inspector General of Police, Mr Hafiz Ringim, towards achieving the objectives of a violence free 2011 general elections.
The boycott occurred just as the Inspector General warned state governors, local government chairmen and political parties not to give any form of assistance either in the area of finance or otherwise to Police Commands or Police Commissioners in a bid to ensure that no police command was compromised during the April elections.
He, however, disclosed that the Federal Government provided the Police with all the required funding it needed to take care of its officers and men in terms of allowances, logistics, training and other needs about three months ago, adding that by the beginning of next week, Force Headquarters would begin distribution of these logistics requirements.
Purpose of meeting
His words: “The purpose of this meeting is not only to appraise how far we have gone in our preparations but to look at the way forward. The need to have a free, fair and rancour-free election cannot be over emphasized. Africa is watching, the world is watching us. Only last week, we received delegation from the International Republican Institute, the European Union has come to see what we are doing to have free and fair election.
“The Police cannot achieve this feat without your cooperation. Indeed, a lot of you have expressed doubt and misgivings about the police remaining apolitical during past elections. I want to reassure you that in this election, not a single Policeman shall engage himself or herself on anything that is partisan. The directive of the Federal Government is that all security agencies shall discharge their functions without being partisan.
“Towards this end, government has directed the release of funds for training, logistics, allowances, equipment to the Police. The office of the National Security Adviser shall disburse funding to other security agencies with regards to their roles.
“Let me, therefore, warn Police Commands and Police Commissioners that no Policeman should approach any government in the states, local governments or political parties in the state for any assistance be it finance or otherwise with regards to prosecution of the elections.
At the meeting were only a handful including representatives of CPC, Garba Mohammed, former Deputy Governor of Bauchi State; Iheanacho Ogujiofor, APGA; Chudi Chukwuani of NDP; Edozie Madu, CDC; Emmanuel Mok, NTP, Sam Nkire, PPA; Emma Okereke, National Liberation Party, Chris Nwegbu, NNDP, Stanley Ekuelem, NPC and Frank Oluofa.
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- Antibiotics Unveiled as Potential Life Extenders Aiding Healthier Aging
- NK Cells: Unveiling a Multifaceted Medical Marvel for Stroke Recovery and Beyond
- Japan’s Shift to Regular COVID-19 Vaccination for Elderly
- Active Monitoring vs. Surgery for Moderate Cervical Lesions
- Probiotics Linked to Immune Suppression and Tumor Growth
- FDA Investigates T-Cell Malignancy Risk in CAR-T Cell Therapy
Avatinib is approved for cytosis and Continuous relief more than 3 years!
Avatinib is approved for cytosis and Continuous relief more than 3 years! Avatinib is approved for the treatment of cytosis! Continuous relief for more than 3 years!
Avatinib has brought significant clinical benefits to SM patients, and it is expected to change the precision treatment model of this disease and benefit more SM patients.
Recently, the US FDA announced that it has approved Avapritinib (Avapritinib, trade name: Ayvakit) as a new indication for the treatment of adult patients with advanced systemic mastocytosis (SM), including aggressive SM (ASM). ), SM (SM-AHN) and mast cell leukemia (MCL) with hematological tumors.
This is the first approved targeted therapy for patients with advanced SM, which aims to effectively and selectively inhibit the KIT tyrosine kinase (the core driver of the disease) carrying the D816V mutation.
Mastocytosis (SM) is a rare blood system disease, mainly driven by the KITD 816V mutation.
The uncontrolled proliferation and activation of mast cells can cause extensive damage to multiple organ systems in patients with SM. The disease can occur at any age, and the clinical manifestations vary.
Late SM subtypes include ASM, SM-AHN and MCL. Among them, the median overall survival of ASM patients is about 3.5 years, SM-AHN is about 2 years, and MCL patients are less than half a year.
Even with a variety of symptomatic treatments, debilitating symptoms such as allergic reactions, maculopapular rash, itching, diarrhea, brain fog, fatigue, and bone pain continue to exist in all types of SM, resulting in limited work and daily activities of patients. Faced with both physical and mental pressure.
Previously, there was no approved therapy that can selectively inhibit the KIT D816V mutation, and new treatment options are urgently needed to solve these life-threatening complications.
▌Broad-spectrum KIT/PDGFRA inhibitor: avatinib
Avatinib is a kinase inhibitor (KIT), which can selectively and accurately inhibit KIT and PDGFRα mutant kinases, and has a broad inhibitory effect.
Currently, two indications have been approved by the FDA:
① Adult patients with unresectable or metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) carrying PDGFRA exon 18, including PDGFRA D842V mutation.
② Adults with advanced SM, including ASM, SM-AHN and MCL, and PDGFRα D842V.
In March of this year, Avatinib was approved by the National Food and Drug Administration (NMPA) for the indication of Avatinib: for the treatment of platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFRα) exon 18 mutations (including PDGFRα D842V mutations) ) In adult patients with unresectable or metastatic GIST.
▌The effect is long-lasting, and the clinical trials are amazing!
This FDA approval is based on positive data from the Phase 1 EXPLORER trial and the Phase 2 PATHFINDER trial.
The results show that:
- Avatinib has shown long-lasting clinical efficacy in advanced SM patients with different disease subtypes, regardless of previous treatment.
- At a median follow-up period of 11.6 months, the total response rate (ORR) of 53 evaluable patients was 57%, and the complete response/hematological complete response rate (CR/CRh) was 28%. The median duration of remission was more than three years (38.3 months).
It should be noted that affatinib is not recommended for advanced SM patients with low platelet counts (less than 50,000/μL).
Patients with advanced systemic mastocytosis usually have some life-threatening complications or debilitating symptoms that change their ability to perform daily activities.
And avatinib has brought significant clinical benefits to SM patients, which is expected to change the precision treatment model of this disease and benefit more SM patients.
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Why music causes emotions in our mind? They are just sound waves interpreted by our brain? But what causes it to trigger emotions? Do scientists have an answer for this yet?
Farm salmon pose clear reproductive threat to wild gene pools
Study finds herbivores can offset loss of plant biodiversity in grassland
Spread of antibiotic resistance understood by unravelling bacterial secretion system

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There might be a situation when you are about to reverse a car and get by vehicles behind; you get stuck in the bulk of vehicles or parking, and your vision is limited only to the front view, and you cannot see the rearview. The solution to your problem is the reverse camera that releases your stress and gets the full live coverage of the camera on the connected tablet.
But how to connect a reverse camera to a tablet? We have the solution to your problem. We have provided you with a guide for connecting a reverse camera to a tablet so that you will drive fear-free in the future.
The reverse also called the backup, or rearview camera can be connected to a tablet using a DSLR controller, switching to a live view mode, or using wireless technology. When followed step by step, all these methods establish a solid connection between the reverse camera and the tablet. Follow the methods discussed below:
How to Connect a Reverse Camera to a Tablet via Live-View Mode?
You can connect a reverse camera to your tablet without a DSLR controller. You might be thinking, how? It’s Simple. All you have to do is install an app that supports live view input and follow the guide below;
- Connect one end of the USB cable to the camera slot and an OTG adapter to your tablet.
- Also, Connect to another end of the USB cable.
- Now restart your camera and switch it to live view mode.
- Once you have selected the live view mode, your camera starts to view the live streaming.
- You can adjust the camera at any position and extend the USB cable length.
How to Connect a Reverse Camera to a Tablet via DSLR Controller?
To connect a reverse camera to a tablet, follow the below-given steps:
- Ensure that your Android tablet is compatible with the DSLR controller; if it does not show compatibility, don’t worry; the camera can still be controlled using the app but only allows you to use some features.
- Download and install a DSLR controller on your device.
- After downloading, connect the USB OTG to your device and the USB cable from the camera to the tablet.
- Once you have established the connection between all, turn on the camera.
- The app would turn on automatically, showing actual footage.
How to Connect a Reverse Camera to Tablet Wirelessly?
You can also connect a reverse camera to a tablet wirelessly in the following ways;
- Some of the cameras allow you to establish a connection using Wifi.
- While for some cameras, you need to have a strong 3G or 4G connection.
Benefits of Connecting a Reverse Camera to a Tablet
The reverse camera is an outstanding invention that allows you get to benefit in many ways; some of the benefits that you get by connecting the reverse camera to your tablet are below:
Provide greater visibility
The reverse camera gives you an idea about obstacles behind your car, permitting hassle-free parking and car reversing. Nowadays, reverse camera has become so vital that they are readily available and convenient for auto electrical technicians to install.
Significantly Reduce Accidents
Per a reported survey, more accidents happen while you reverse your car because you cannot see the backup view. With the use of reverse cameras, accidents have been reduced by a significant level. With excellent visibility, you can see an obstacle before the car’s collision.
Ensure Convenient Parking
Reverse cameras allow you to park your car more conveniently, as parking a car is not easy when there is a jampacked, and when you have to do a reverse turnover, it is much more difficult. But with the rear camera, the stress of reversing your vehicle is reduced and you perform driving more securely even if you are handling heavy vehicles.
Help you to Save Money
Suppose you are a seasonal driver who owns an expensive, bulky car. Driving that car may be uncomfortable. You want to avoid experiencing minor damage to the vehicle, which can cause significant breakthroughs.
In this situation, you will need a reversing camera that makes driving timely by letting you know about the barriers behind your car and saving the cost you would have to pay to repair a vehicle.
A reverse camera is a great innovation, and reversing the vehicle is a breeze when connected to a tablet in your car. Connection of the reverse camera with the tablet is simple and can be made using a DSLR controller, wireless technology, and live view mode that is discussed above. To remain stress-free and wish for a hassle-free drive, ensure that you have carefully read the article.


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She took the stage for a tribute to John Singleton, Doris Day, Peggy Lipton, and more at tonight’s ceremony
The look and language of pop this decade took notes from queer users on the microblogging site.
October 15 2019
The rising pop star's sophomore album goes for experimental radio hits that are full of anhedonic drama. It's ambitious and nuanced, though calculating in ways that dull its impact.


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Icahn buying up Time Warner shares: sources
[NEW YORK] Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn is building an equity stake in Time Warner Inc, people familiar with the matter said on Monday, in a move that could lead to a major shake-up of the media conglomerate.
Mr Icahn's intentions when it comes to Time Warner are not yet known, the people said, asking not to be named because the matter was private. Time Warner declined to comment.
Time Warner, the owner of cable channels HBO, TNT, TBS and Cartoon Network, said in November that ratings for its key domestic entertainment networks had dropped more than expected. Its shares have fallen around 30 per cent since last July.
The New York Post said on Sunday that Mr Icahn was believed to be buying up Time Warner shares and "will take another run at the company," citing anonymous sources.
Mr Icahn waged an unsuccessful break-up campaign against Time Warner in 2006, when current CEO Jeffery Bewkes was the No 2 executive at the company. In 2014, Time Warner snubbed a takeover offer from Twenty-First Century Fox Inc that valued it at US$85 per share.
Time Warner shares closed at US$69.66 on Monday.
The company also has other activist investors in the stock. Corvex Management, whose founder Keith Meister worked for Mr Icahn in 2006, owns 3.7 per cent of Time Warner shares as of Sept 30, Thomson Reuters data show.
Jana Partners and Greenlight Capital each own around 4 per cent of the stock, the data shows. As of Sept 30, Icahn was not a Time Warner investor, according to the data.


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Auckland is one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in but NZ's biggest city is being outstripped by its Australian cousins, a study has found.
The City of Sails ranked as the 19th most expensive city to live in the annual Worldwide Cost of Living survey released this week by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
The position was lower than 15th in the last study - but as it is a comparison study, Auckland's cost of living may have accelerated, just not as fast as in other cities.
Economist Intelligence Unit spokeswoman Trisha Suresh said there had been a gradual increase in day-to-day expenses for Aucklanders in recent years.
"Basic everyday goods and staples such as butter and bread, meat and basic household supplies such as laundry detergent and soap have seen a 50-90 per cent increase in prices when compared to five years ago."
The biannual survey looks at prices of various products - including food and drink, clothing, household supplies, home rent, transport and utility bills - from scores of cities around the world.
The two most expensive places to live are Tokyo and Osaka in Japan.
Sydney is third most expensive and Melbourne is just as expensive as Oslo, in Norway, which ranked fourth equal.
The inclusion of the two Australian cities is attributed to the strong economic growth happening in the country which has supported inflation and currency swings, making it more expensive.
Ms Suresh said that despite the cost, Aucklanders enjoyed a high standard of living - coming in at 10th place out of 140 cities surveyed recently.
"A more 'liveable' city attracts visitors, businesses and tourists, adding to the vibrancy and growth. It is no surprise that the bottom few cities - ie, the cheapest to live in - are for many reasons cities expats prefer not to live in," she said.
"When more people and businesses want to come, prices are inadvertently pushed up.
"But it also means cities are becoming more international and important on the global stage. We see this happening in many cities in Asia-Pacific, underlining a shift in influence and importance from West to East."
Darryl Evans, chief executive of the Mangere Budgeting Service, said the biggest issue for his clients was increasing rental prices.
"We are seeing a lot of tenancies end due to rental arrears. And we are seeing a lot of families overcrowding the houses by bringing in extended family or friends. We are seeing up to three families living in one dwelling."
Families in Mangere were relocating further afield, such as Pokeno. But associated costs such as higher petrol consumption meant that often groceries were cut back on.
"It's the food bill that you can slash depending on what you've got left over, if you've got anything left over."
While many families would like to move outside Greater Auckland, they had to stay where the jobs were.
Most expensive cities to live in
4 = Oslo
4 = Melbourne
additional reporting: Nicholas Jones.

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A one-year ban has been imposed on sure agricultural produce, meals and uncooked supplies from countries which have sanctioned Russia. An order on financial measures to guard the nation’s safety has been signed by President Putin.
The decree “on the use of specific economic measures” has been signed in response to sanctions imposed on Russia by numerous states over the Ukrainian disaster, the Kremlin mentioned on its web site.
While the legislation comes into pressure instantly, the federal government has been tasked to provide you with a concrete checklist of imports to be banned.
The decree orders the Cabinet to take measures to offer a steadiness on product markets and stop fast value development. The authorities has additionally to hitch efforts with producers, companies and retail retailer chains to extend the Russian items provide.
Meanwhile, ministers are already drafting a listing of merchandise that could possibly be affected by the ban and it may be prepared already on Thursday, Natalia Timakova, a press-secretary for PM Dmitry Medvedev advised Vedomosti newspaper.
The register of the banned or restricted merchandise can be versatile, a supply within the authorities advised Vedomosti day by day. It will embrace totally different sorts of greens, fruit, and meat. However, wine and child meals will “definitely” not come underneath sanctions, the supply added. According to a different authorities official, cheeses, meat, and dairy merchandise are these most certainly be affected by the ban.
Last week, the European Union authorized a brand new (the harshest thus far) spherical of sanctions towards Russia along with steps taken earlier. The bundle focused monetary, vitality and protection sectors of the Russian economic system. The so-called sectorial sanctions hit 5 Russian banks, together with the nation’s largest, Sberbank. The banks have been banned from elevating capital on the EU’s capital markets. Also, the EU launched an embargo on the import and export of arms and associated materials to and from Russia.
Speaking on Tuesday, forward of signing the decree, Putin pressured that Moscow’s response needs to be “cautious.” “Obviously we need to do it cautiously in order to support domestic manufacturers, but not hurt consumers,” he mentioned.
Putin described the political instruments of stress getting used towards the Russian economic system as unacceptable and added that they go towards worldwide guidelines and norms.
A day earlier, Medvedev mentioned that Moscow would think about attainable responses to EU sanctions towards Russian airways.
Vedomosti day by day has been reporting Russia would restrict European flights to Asia that cross Siberia, in response to EU sanctions that induced Aeroflot subsidiary, Dobrolet, to droop flights on Monday. However, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov mentioned Wednesday the report was a baseless rumor.
The Russian Retailers’ Association gave an assurance that the ban on agricultural imports will solely have an effect on the premium market section, and bizarre clients is not going to really feel the influence. The group’s govt director, Andrey Karpov advised RIA Novosti that the affiliation will now rethink the pool of international suppliers and enhance the variety of Russian distributors.
At the identical time, Russia’s import limitations is not going to change the European Union’s stance on Ukraine, the EU ambassador to Moscow, Vygaudas Ušackas, advised RIA Novosti.


Diagnostics Tools For Chromebooks
There is a wide spectrum of diagnostics tools, from standalone jaltest software
packages to firmware-based power-on self-tests, to hardware LEDs. Some are designed to examine a single computer, while others are designed to stress a system by running tests simultaneously or in a sequential order. Some tools even operate when power is off, so that you can use them even when your computer is not working. Other diagnostics tools require the operating system to be running in order to function properly.
When you have installed the Chromebook jaltest diagnostics
Tool, you'll see a screen with the name "Diagnostics." Click the tool's icon in the taskbar, then select "Settings." Choose About Chrome OS and then click "Diagnostics." From there, you can see the hardware on your device. In some cases, you may also need to manually update your operating system. For example, if your Chromebook is running an older version of Windows, you can download a newer version of the operating system by going to Settings and selecting "Update" - or click the button and choose "Upgrade".
A similar process is used to test the configuration of your pods. The diagnostics tool can run a number of tests simultaneously to find issues and recommend solutions. When the diagnostics tool runs, it will also check the configuration files of the pods and check for DNS. It will also check the credentials of the default service account, but only if the configuration files exist on the pods. A pod that runs diagnostics may skip a few diagnostics if it cannot find any configuration files.
The Diagnostics Tool is available for download on the Automation Cloud. The Diagnostics Tool can be run from the Command Prompt or from Windows PowerShell. Both tools use the same arguments. The diagnostics tool is also available for use on a remote computer. In both cases, you can send the diagnostics information directly to the technical support team. You can also save your favourite collectors as profiles. You can collect diagnostics information from the Studio, Robot, Activities, Orchestrator, and more.
The price of a car diagnostics tool depends on several factors, including the effectiveness and speed of analysis. It is important to consider whether you want a universal diagnostics tool, or a device designed for a particular model of vehicle. The efficiency of troubleshooting is also an important factor. When buying a diagnostics tool, make sure that it can delete error codes after analysis. If you want to purchase one for your office, make sure that it meets the minimum system requirements.
Windows has a built-in diagnostics tool to test RAM modules. This tool can rival most PC diagnostics tools in terms of speed and accuracy. To use the Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool, you simply press the Windows Logo + W key combination to launch it. Then, select the Advanced Analysis tab and choose the crash file you wish to analyze. Then click on the Start button. After that, you can browse through the results and save a copy of the results. This post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis
will help you understand the topic even better.