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Tanzania Northern Circuit Safari (7 Days, 6 Nights)offered by supplier M20989 (read about supplier)
Tour Duration: 7 day(s)
Group Size: 2 - 15 people
Specialty Categories: National Parks Wildlife Viewing
Season: January - December
Airfare Included: No
Tour Customizable: Yes
Minimum Per Person Price: 3000 US Dollar (USD)
Maximum Per Person Price: 3999 US Dollar (USD)
We will hike, before rising, early in the morning on the sixth day to reach the summit, just in time to see a beautiful sunrise. Our guides have summited many times so you will be in good hands as we climb the "roof of Africa." Our expedition then leads to the safari part of our tour, in the Ngorongoro Crater, called the "eighth wonder of the world." This massive caldera is located right in the heart of the "Land of the Masai" in the Great Rift Valley.
Day 1: Arusha national park visit. You will be picked from Kilimanjaro international airport and being transferred to arusha national park for the game drive. Arusha national park is one of smaller parks of the northern circuit – where you will be able to see beautiful birds such as flamingoes in momela lakes, turacoes etc. also wild animals such as buffaloes, zebras, giraffes, baboons, black and white colobus monkeys etc.
It is only 55 kilometers drive from arusha town to Kilimanjaro international airport in which you arrive – and only 50 kilometers from the airport to Arusha national park. Your guide will be carrying lunches for you to have it in the park after your game drive. After game drive, you will be transferred to Ngorongoro conservation area authority via arusha town – Overnight at Ngorongoro wildlife lodge – Full board basis.
Day 2: Ngorongoro Crater. On this day you will depart from the hotel very early in the morning just after having taken a cup of coffee ready to descend into the Ngorongoro crater ready for your early gamedrive. The main feature of the NCA is the Ngorongoro Crater, a large, unbroken, unflooded volcanic caldera. The Crater, which formed when a giant volcano exploded and collapsed on itself some two to three million years ago, is 610 m (2,000 ft) deep and its floor covers 260 km2 (100 sq mi).
Estimates of the height of the original volcano range from fifteen to nineteen thousand feet (4500 to 5800 metres) high. Although thought of as "a natural enclosure" for a very wide variety of wildlife, up to 20% or more of the wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) and half the zebra (Equus burchelli) populations vacate the Crater in the wet season. However, an effect of this 'enclosure' situation means that the population of Ngorongoro lions is severely inbred, with many genetic problems passed from generation to generation.
This is due to the very small amount of new bloodlines that enter the local gene pool, with very few migrating male lions entering the crater from the outside. Animal populations in the crater include most of the species found in East Africa, but there are no impalas (Aepyceros melampus), topis (Damaliscus lunatus), oribis (Ourebia oribi), giraffes (Giraffa Camelopardalis), or crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus).
Your safari guide will be carrying well packed breakfast for you to have it in the crater- later after your gamedrive, you will drive back to the lodge for your late lunch- followed by a short rest thereafter you may join a nature work around the area for those who wish. Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro wildlife lodge – Full board basis.
Days 3-4: Serengeti N.P. After breakfast, leave Ngorongoro crater heading for the endless plains of Serengeti. En-route to the Serengeti, we will visit the historic site of Olduvai Gorge (The Cradle of Mankind) where the world famous archaeologist, Dr Leakey, discovered the remains of the early man.
After visiting the site and the small museum there, we proceed on to central Serengeti for lunch at the lodge.The Serengeti National Park is a large national park in Serengeti area, Tanzania. It is most famous for its annual migration of over one million and a half white bearded brindled) wildebeest and 200,000 zebras.
The Serengeti is Tanzania's oldest national park and remains the flagship of the country’s tourism industry, providing a major draw to the “Northern Safari Circuit”, encompassing Lake Manyara, Tarangire and Arusha national parks, as well as Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Later proceed to the lodge for your dinner and overnight at Seronera wildlife lodge - FB.
Day 5: Serengeti N.P – Lake Manyara N.P. In this day, you will depart from the Serengeti national park with game drive en route toward lake Manyara national park with a short stop to the maasai villages as well as Olduvai gorge for a short lecture.Lake Manyara is a shallow freshwater lake in Tanzania. Said by Ernest Hemingway to be the "loveliest lake... in Africa," it is also the home of a diverse set of landscapes and wildlife.
The name Manyara comes from the Maasai word emanyara, which is a euphorbia species of plant that is grown into a hedge around a family homestead (Euphorbia tirucalli). The name "is a Maasai description not for the lake, but in general for a lake shore region."Lake Manyara provides opportunities for ornithologists keen on viewing and observing over 300 migratory birds, including flamingo, Long-crested Eagle and Grey-headed Kingfisher. Arrival at Lake Manyara in evening hours. Dinner and overnight at Lake manyara hotel. FB.
Day 6: Lake Manyara N.P. A morning game drives within Lake Manyara national park. Of the 127 square miles (329 km2) of Lake Manyara National Park, the lake's alkaline waters cover approximately 89 square miles (231 km2). While most known for baboons, the lake and its environs is also home to herbivores such as hippos, impalas, elephants, wildebeests, buffalo, warthogs and giraffes.
Giant fig trees and mahogany seen in the groundwater forest immediately around the park gates draw nourishment from the underground springs replenished continuously from crater highlands directly above the Manyara basin. Leading away from the forest to the fringes of Lake Manyara are the flood plains. To the south are visible the acacia woodlands.
Leopards, although in abundance, are hard to get a glimpse of, just like the other elusive carnivores - the lions - of this park. Back to the lodge in the afternoon for your hot lunch- followed by a short rest, later your local guide joins you for a nature work around the area- Dinner and overnight at Lake Manyara hotel. FB.
Day 7: Lake Manyara – Arusha. After breakfast drive back to Arusha and stops for souvenirs then transfer to the airport for your flight back home.
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Airfare is not included in the tour price.
- $3999 per person based on 2 people on safari
- $3270 Per person based on 4 people on safari
- $3078 per person based on 6 people on safari.
- Transfer to the airport
- Park entrance fees
- Transportation in a private 4 x 4 vehicle, well prepared, especially for the observation of animal life.
- Visit the Olduvai Gorge (Oldupai)
- Bottled Mineral Water during the Safari, African coffee, tea – as well as most of non alcoholic drinks such as cocacola, fanta, sprites etc.
- English-speaking Driver Guide
- Crater service fee
- Visit to Maasai tribes in Ngorongoro conservation area.
- International flights or departure taxes
- Personal insurance
- Visa fees
- Vaccination costs
- All items of a personal nature and all alcoholic drinks,
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A little peace, and quiet, and love, and attention — they’re all any of us really want in life.
And maybe even more so when death is on the way.
For humans, hospice care is now big business, but the opportunity for sick and elderly dogs to die in peace and dignity isn’t always there.
And often, their last days are less than peaceful — especially for those whose owners, hoping to avoid the expense of veterinary care, abandon them to shelters or worse.
Seeing that happening too often — seeing them get abandoned at the time they need someone the most — a northern Michigan woman started the Silver Muzzle Cottage, a rescue and hospice for homeless old dogs.
The Detroit Free Press on Sunday took an in-depth look at the organization and the woman behind it, Kim Skarritt.
Silver Muzzle Cottage takes in dogs left behind either by owner choice, or by circumstances, as when a dog’s owner suddenly dies and no one else can care for it.
In two years, she has cared for more than 70 of them. It remains the only such hospice in the state, and one of the few in the country.
“They don’t ask for much when they’re really old,” said the 56-year-old former auto engineer. “They want to be loved and cared for, they want food and they just need a warm place to lay their head at night.”
Five years ago, Skarritt opened a dog boarding and fitness center called Bowsers by the Bay. Through that work, she noticed the pattern of elderly dogs being abandoned in their final days. After calling animal shelters throughout the state, she estimated there were about 900 senior dogs within 500 miles of Elk Rapids needing a home.
Skarritt researched the issue, finding many area shelters were taking in old dogs whose owners had surrendered them, sometimes just leaving them tied outside the shelters at night.
“I kept seeing these 14-year-old dogs and 13-year-old dogs in shelters and needing homes, and I’m going, ‘What is that? Who does that?'”
So she bought an empty storage building next door to her business and opened Silver Muzzle Cottage as a nonprofit rescue just for elderly dogs, which she defines as age 10 or older, or terminally ill but not suffering so much they need to be euthanized.
The Free Press described the inside of the rescue as a “big living room with couches, throw pillows, a fake fireplace with decorations atop the mantle, end tables with vases and a coffee table with a thick photo book about dogs atop it. It looks like a normal house, except there’s a bunch of dogs lounging on the couches like they own the place.”
The dogs aren’t caged at night, which means someone has to be there at all times. Skarritt moved into a small bare bones room adjacent to the living room and sleeps there at night.
About 100 rotating volunteers visit the dogs, take them for walks and car rides and pet and play with them.
Despite their old age, many get adopted — both by volunteers and by those among whom Skarritt works to spread the word about both the plight old dogs face, and the joys of having them around.
If you ask me, the world could use more places like this — for dogs and humans; places that aren’t about being poked, and prodded and prolonged but about being treated with some love, dignity and compassion when the end is near.
Silver Muzzle Cottage is at 201 Industrial Park, Elk Rapids, Mich., 49629. For information, call 231-264-8408, or visit the Silver Muzzle Cottage Facebook page.
(Photo from Silver Muzzle’s Facebook page)
Posted by John Woestendiek April 18th, 2017 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: abandoned, adopt, adoption, animals, compassion, death, dignity, dog, dogs, dying, elderly, elderly dogs, elk rapids, hospice, kim skarritt, michigan, old, old dogs, pets, rescue, sanctuary, shelters, silver muzzle cottage, surrendered
Video of a sled dog and a polar bear becoming buddies in northern Manitoba last weekend has gone viral, but it may not have been the stunning, pure and heartwarming moment in nature it was — and still is being — described as.
CBC reported yesterday that just days before the video, in a moment not captured on camera, a polar bear killed one of the rare sled dogs being raised on the same property.
And some officials are questioning whether the property owner, who runs a sled dog sanctuary on the land, might be illegally feeding the bears to lure them onto his property, which in turn draws tourists, which in turn supplement his income.
Initially, the videotaped moment was described as a warm and tender meeting between two species.
The video was shot and posted to YouTube by David De Meulles, a heavy-duty mechanic in Churchill, who moonlights as a tour guide for a friend, Brian Ladoon.
Ladoon operates the Mile 5 Dog Sanctuary in Churchill, where he cares for a rare breed of sled dog and supplements his income by allowing tours of the property, mostly by tourists interested in spotting polar bears.
On Saturday, De Meulles drove two clients out to Ladoon’s property in hopes of seeing some polar bears, and they watched as the polar bear approached the dog.
“I had no idea what was going to happen, and then sure enough he (the polar bear) started petting that dog, acted like he was a friend,” David De Meulles said. “I just so happened to catch a video of a lifetime.”
“I’ve known the bears to have somewhat friendly behavior with the dogs, but for a bear to pet like a human would pet a dog is just mind-blowing,” De Meulles initially told CBC.
“It was a beautiful sight to see, and I just can’t believe an animal that big would show that kind of heart toward another animal.”
But a few days later, CBC reported that a Manitoba Sustainable Development spokesperson confirmed that three polar bears had to be removed from Ladoon’s property the previous week after one of them killed a sled dog.
“Conservation officers had to immobilize a bear in that area last week and move it to the holding facility because it killed one of his dogs,” the spokesperson told CBC. “A mother and cub were also removed because there were allegations the bears were being fed and the females’ behavior was becoming a concern.”
Under Manitoba’s Endangered Species and Ecosystem Act, “No person shall kill, injure, possess, disturb or interfere with an endangered species, a threatened species, or an extirpated species that has been reintroduced.”
“The protection of polar bears is of utmost importance and interfering with their natural behavior will not be tolerated,” the spokesman added.
Other critics of Ladoon’s operation expressed concern about the dog in the video being chained — making it bait for a polar bear.
“The dog was chained up and they’re totally vulnerable,” said Ian Stirling, an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta. “Inuit (hunters) over the years in the high Arctic have told me that if you want a dog to act as a guard dog, you have to leave it off a chain. Because if it’s on a chain it knows it’s vulnerable and it won’t bark.”
The practice of feeding the bears also places the bears in danger, he added.
“Any situation that brings bears in to feed in an unnatural situation in association with human beings, I think, should not take place at all,” he said. It could lead the bears to equate the presence of humans and dogs with the availability of food and lead them to enter more populated areas.
“It’s basically a death sentence for the bears,” he said.
Ladoon, meanwhile, admits to caring for both the dogs and the bears, and indicated that whatever happens on his land is “nature’s will.”
Posted by John Woestendiek November 18th, 2016 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: animals, arctic, canada, chained, churchill, dog, dogs, friends, head, manitoba, natural, nature, pat, pets, polar bear, polar bear and dog, sanctuary, sled dog, species, tied, unnatural, video, youtube
Maybe it was some kind of turkey sixth sense that led Leon to leave wherever he was and hit the streets of Ventura County, California, when November rolled around.
Because we all know — and possibly turkeys do too — what day is coming up.
Leon was found wandering the streets earlier this month and taken to the local animal shelter. A Stockton-based rescue, Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary, pulled him from there, wanting to make sure he didn’t end up on someone’s Thanksgiving dinner table.
Sanctuary manager Christine Morrissey said it quickly became apparent that Leon expected something more than a turkey’s life. He loves to be picked up and carried, petted and kissed, and have his belly rubbed.
“He just took to people immediately,” she told THV11.
Morrissey said she doesn’t know if Leon escaped from a farm where he was being raised for slaughter, or if he was someone’s pet.
But, she noted, “He certainly is the age of a turkey that would be slaughtered for Thanksgiving dinner.”
Turkeys have more complex emotions than most people think, she said, but Leon seems one of a kind.
“For an animal to immediately trust us and want companionship, that is, definitely I would say, an unusual trait,” she said.
Morrissey is working on teaching him some tricks, trying to figure out how to get a leash or harness on him, and even contemplating whether he has the potential to become a therapy turkey.
Likely, he will end up alongside some cranberries on Thanksgiving — but not as an entree. They seem to be his favorite treat.
(Photo from Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary Facebook page)
Posted by John Woestendiek November 17th, 2016 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: affectionate, animals, belly rubs, california, dinner, dogs, harvest home animal sanctuary, leon, like a dog, pets, sanctuary, shelter, stockton, stray, thanksgiving, turkey, ventura county, wandering
Many of those 650 dogs and cats removed six weeks ago from an unlicensed shelter in Hoke County, North Carolina, will be available for adoption, starting this Friday.
In what sounds like it could be the mother of all adoption events, the ASPCA will make the dogs and cats available through the weekend at the temporary shelter in which the animals have been living in Sanford.
Adoption fees will be waived during the event, and each animal will have been micro-chipped, and spayed or neutered.
Adoption counselors, as well as behavioral and veterinary experts, will be staffing the event, and adoptions will take place between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Friday through Sunday at 2215 Nash St. in Sanford.
Those wanting to adopt a dog or cat should bring identification, proof of address and an appropriate-size carrier for the animal they adopt.
The ASPCA and Hoke County authorities seized nearly 700 dogs, cats, birds and horses in January from The Haven – Friends for Life shelter.
Its operators, Linden Spear and her husband, Stephen, were charged with four counts of animal cruelty and three counts of possession of a controlled substance, stemming from an animal medication not authorized on the property.
The Haven failed state inspections for more than a decade but was never shut down.
During the seizure, dozens of animals were found buried on the property. One dog and one cat had to be euthanized because of health problems.
Numerous animals were treated for emaciation, open wounds, ringworm, respiratory illnesses and other issues.
ASPCA officials said the raid at The Haven was the largest companion-animal raid they’ve conducted nationwide in the last 20 years.
(Photo: Courtesy of ASPCA)
Posted by John Woestendiek March 16th, 2016 under Muttsblog.
Tags: 600, adopt, adoptable, adoption, adoptions, animals, aspca, buried, cats, dead, department of agriculture, dog, dogs, fee, free, friends for life, hoke county, lindan spear, no fee, north carolina, pets, raeford, raid, remains, rescue, sanctuary, seized, shelter, sheriff, stephen spear, the haven, unlicensed, waived
Maybe that person or family is facing some hard economic times. Maybe the dog has become ill and getting him or her health care is beyond their means. Maybe they themselves have become unable to care for the dog.
I try, especially when details of the situation are scant, to give those humans the benefit of the doubt.
But I’m having an especially hard time withholding judgment on the Florida dog owners who surrendered their paralyzed 2-year-old cocker spaniel Sunday to Miami-Dade Animal Services, because — before leaving the shelter — they asked for the dog’s wheelchair back.
The owners said the dog, named Angie, had lost the use of her hind legs about two weeks earlier. They took her to a veterinarian, who prescribed oral medication and recommended further diagnostic procedures for the dog.
The owners said they were unable to afford the tests and decided to surrender Angie.
Then — for reasons I can only guess at — they said that, while they were leaving their dog there, they wanted Angie’s wheelchair back.
Perhaps it was a rental. Perhaps they had another dog back home that needed it. Perhaps some agency had provided it to them on a temporary basis.
I hope one of those is true, and that they aren’t trying to sell the device on eBay. That — dropping off their dog but taking home that dog’s only means of getting around, in hopes of making some profit — would lead me lose a bit of faith in my fellow man.
On a happier note, Angie’s plight quickly became a cause on social media, and she was scheduled to be sent from the shelter to a sanctuary yesterday.
As a new resident of Lovey Loaves, an animal sanctuary in Orlando, Angie will receive a new set of wheels and be whisked to Chickasaw Trail Animal Hospital, where her condition will be reviewed.
“We have had luck with past rescues in our care improving some or completely reversing paralysis using acupuncture, laser therapy, hydrotherapy, HBOT, etc… but it just depends on many factors, so we’ll have to see,” Lovey Loaves posted on its Facebook page.
“Even if she will not recover from her paralysis we know that she can still lead an extraordinary quality of life,” the post continued. “Were surrounded by wheelie dogs everyday (four in our own home!) We’ll get her a new set of wheels (we like Eddie’s Wheels for Pets) custom fit to her precise needs and measurements, and then she’ll roll with the best of them. Many many MANY folks offered to buy her a new set of wheels.”
The organization reported that it has already received enough donations to get the wheels, but contributions can still be made for Angie’s care.
Posted by John Woestendiek February 23rd, 2016 under Muttsblog.
Tags: angie, animal shelter, animals, cocker spaniel, disabilities, dog, dogs, lovey loaves, miami, paralyzed, pets, rescues, sanctuary, shelters, surrender, wheelchair
If you were to pick up Jung Myoung Sook, her 200 dogs and her ramshackle hillside compound and plop them down in rural America, she’d be consider a hoarder for sure.
But in South Korea, where the dogs she’s caring for might well have otherwise ended up as meals in homes and restaurants, she’s really more of a saint.
Her neighbors don’t always feel that way, but I do.
Jung, who was featured on NBC Nightly News last week, has had to pack up and relocate seven times in the more than 25 years she has been rescuing dogs, due to complaints from those living nearby.
Jung picks ups strays living on the street, and she has also bought dogs that were headed to be sold for their meat.
The AP article said all the dogs in the compound appeared to be healthy.
While a small minority of South Koreans eat dog meat, dogs are raised on farms for that purpose, and can be bought, slaughtered and butchered at open-air markets.
While it has been six years since I visited one there, while researching “DOG, INC.,” my book on dog cloning, I haven’t been able to get those images out of my head since.
Seeing Jung’s smiling face, and reading of her work, helps some.
“My babies aren’t hungry. They can play and live freely here,” said Jung, 61. “Some people talk about me, saying, ‘Why is that beggar-like middle-aged woman smiling all the time,’ but I just focus on feeding my babies. I’m happy and healthy.”
Posted by John Woestendiek February 9th, 2016 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: animals, cloning, cultural, culture, dog, dog meat, dogs, hoarder, hoarding, jung myoung sook, korea, markets, pets, rescue, sanctuary, shelter, south korea, strays
Authorities in Hoke County, N.C., yesterday unearthed the remains of 15 dogs on the grounds of a “no-kill” animal shelter from which 600 animals were seized this week.
A day after Hoke County deputies and the ASPCA raided The Haven — Friends for Life shelter near Raeford, authorities on Thursday dug up the remains of 15 dogs that had been buried on the property.
Shelters owners Stephen and Linden Spears were released on bond after appearing in court on charges of neglect and possession of a controlled substance, but authorities says more charges against them are possible.
They’ve been banned from returning to the shelter.
Representatives of the ASPCA continued to remove some of the more than 600 neglected animals from the shelter yesterday, taking them to a warehouse near Raleigh where they could be checked by veterinarians and cared for.
ASPCA officials called the raid the largest companion-animal raid they’ve conducted nationwide in the last 20 years.
More than 300 dogs, 250 cats, 40 horses and numerous farm animals were living at the 122-acre shelter in Raeford, the ASPCA said in a press release.
“What we found today at this facility — self-described as ‘North Carolina’s most successful no-kill shelter’ — is unacceptable,” said Tim Rickey, senior vice president of ASPCA Field Investigations and Response.
“This is one of the largest animal seizures the ASPCA has ever conducted in our 150 years as an organization,” he added. “We have a team of nearly 140 responders on the ground to remove and care for these hundreds of neglected animals who have clearly not been receiving adequate care. Our goal is to help them become healthy and ultimately find them homes.”
The ASPCA’s assistance was requested by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and the Hoke County Sheriff’s Office, which began an investigation into the shelter after receiving complaints about sick animals and unsanitary conditions.
The Haven was operating without a license for about a decade, according to the ASPCA, and past inspections by the state Department of Agriculture had deemed the facility “inadequate.”
The population at the facility has fluctuated over the years, reaching more than 1,000 animals.
According to the shelter’s Facebook page, it was often seeking donations to improve the shelter, and had recently launched a GoFundMe drive to build roofs over the outdoor pens where dogs were kept.
The seized dogs, cats and other animals will be held at an undisclosed location, and the ASPCA will continue to care for them until custody is determined by the court,
“The condition of these animals is pressing and required immediate attention,” said Hoke County Sheriff Hubert Peterkin. “In addition to protecting Hoke County citizens, law enforcement has an obligation to ensure the safety and well being of Hoke County animals at all times. We cannot and will not allow this type of mistreatment to continue any longer. All persons involved will be held accountable.”
No deceased animals were found on the property Wednesday, but yesterday investigators found at least 15 dead dogs and “dozens” of animals buried on the property, according to WRAL in Raleigh.
(Photos of shelter courtesy of ASPCA; photos of Spears family courtesy of Hoke sheriff’s department)
Posted by John Woestendiek January 29th, 2016 under Muttsblog.
Tags: 600, animals, aspca, buried, cats, dead, department of agriculture, dog, dogs, friends for life, hoke county, linden spears, north carolina, pets, raeford, raid, remains, rescue, sanctuary, seized, shelter, sheriff, stephen spears, the haven, unlicensed

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Abstract: The introduction of carbon greatly improves the high temperature performance of magnesia bricks. In order to explore the influence of carbon content on the fracture toughness and the fracture mechanism of magnesia-carbon bricks, two different carbon content (10wt% and 14wt%) magnesia-carbon bricks were investigated in this work. The fracture toughness and microstructure were characterized by fractal analysis of fracture surface and scanning electron microscope respectively. The results indicated that the strength of magnesia-carbon bricks was strengthened with the carbon content increasing. It was demonstrated that magnesia-carbon bricks with the higher carbon content presented higher fracture toughness as a consequence of lower apparent porosity and compact bonding between matrix and magnesia aggregates.
Abstract: The spherical indentation combined with acoustic emission was used to evaluate the local strength of glass, which is a nondestructive testing approach. However, stress time effect on the local strength of glass during spherical indentation has not been studied before. In the present work, stress time effect was investigated by examining the local strength of unstrengthened and strengthened glass at different loading rates. It is discovered that the local strength of glass increased greatly with the loading rate, which confirmed the time dependence of the fracture on glass. As a typical brittle material, the discreteness of strength date of glass measured by spherical indentation was also analyzed to evaluate the strength of glass correctly.
Abstract: Tensile bond strength is one of the most significant properties for structural silicone sealants used in the glass curtain walls. During the service process, aging of the silicone sealants shall be involved in comprehensive actions of environment factors, e.g. temperature, humidity, and ultraviolet light etc. In this study, artificial accelerated aging test was conducted to make clear the development of tensile bond strength, Shore hardness and elongation. The test results show that: (i) the specimens under damp-heat test have more degeneration than specimens under humidity-freeze test; (ii) the environment of high temperature and high humidity leads to the change of tensile bond, Shore hardness, elongation, and results in interfacial failure of samples.
Abstract: The residual stress on the surface of tempered glass is very important for its safe service and the quality control. In this study, the sphere indentation and grazing angle surface polarimetry are compared to evaluate the surface residual stress of tempered glass. The test results showed that the measured results are similar, but the data dispersion of the sphere indentation method is little larger. The main reason is stemmed from the different tested area, of which residual stress is a mean value measured by the grazing angle polarization method. Yet for the indentation method, the residual stress in the micro region of glass is more susceptible to the inhomogeneity of material itself. However, it is difficult to select the right multiple optical path difference for the grazing angle polarization method, and it is only applicable when inspecting the tin surface of tempered glass, as well as the tin surface examination instrument. Thus, as a nondestructive testing method, indentation method can be widely used to measure the surface residual stress of glass without being influenced by other factors.
Abstract: Alumina ceramics are widely used in the demanding high temperature applications in which the high temperature elastic moduli (EHT) is a key property for their reliability and safety. In this paper, the elastic modulus of alumina was determined by dynamic method (impulse excitation technique) and static tests (three-point bending test and four-point bending test). For the static tests, the relative method was applied to determine the accurate deflection measurement in the heating furnace. The measured results revealed that the modulus of alumina slowly decreased from RT to 1000 °C and rapidly decreased with the increasing temperatures from 1000 °C to 1300°C. The EHT evaluated by dynamic method were higher than that tested by static tests with the reason of that impulse excitation technique only applied small forces onto a sample such that defects activity is negligible. Also the resonant frequencies couldn’t be measured easily at high temperature, because the vibration signal emitted by the sample was weak. The static approaches combined with relative method were beyond the limit to high temperatures, and they can be also used to evaluate the ultra-high temperature modulus.
Abstract: With reference to the international standard ISO16000-9 and the national standard GB/T 31106-14, this paper has chosen leather seats as the research object in order to study the emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and total volatile organic compound (TVOC). The test results show that about 21 species of VOCs released from the leather seats were measured, including several types of aldehydes, ketones, aromatic hydrocarbon ,hydrocarbon, lipids and so on.This paper analysis the possible sources of volatile organic compounds in leather seats as well.
Abstract: The method of X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF) for the determination of MgO in magnesia refractories was introduced. The uncertainty of the MgO in refractory materials was analyzed by melting method of XRF. The measurement uncertainty was evaluated, and the related mathematical models was established. The uncertainty of synthetic standard was calculated by the evaluation of the uncertainty of each component standard. And eventually converted to the measurement results to expand the uncertainty. The effects of two melting methods on the uncertainty of magnesium oxide content were compared.
Abstract: A fast and accurate method for simultaneous determination of the content of fluorine and chlorine in inorganic thermal insulation materials by ion chromatography was developed. The samples were cut into pieces of weight less than 40mg, washed with water as the extractant, heated for 30 min and then centrifuged, filtered through a 0.22 μm microporous membrane, and the cation was removed using a SEP-H column. The solution was rinsed with 20/30 mM KOH as the mobile phase, separated by anion exchange column and then detected using a conductivity detector. The mass concentration of fluorine and chlorine in the range of 0.1-10mg/L was linearly related to their peak area, the detection limit of fluorine was 0.030mg/Land the detection limit of chlorine was 0.016mg/L. The relative standard deviations (n=6) of the three typical inorganic insulating materials (glass wool, rock wool and mineral wool) were less than 2.0% and the rate of recovery of fluoride and chloride ion was between 97% and 101%.The method had good accuracy and recovery rate. The absolute error of the measured value between ion chromatography and the national standard was less than 0.20%.The results showed that the method was suitable for the determination of the content of fluorine and chlorine in inorganic thermal insulation materials
Abstract: In this paper, we take Zr Kα line as the analysis object due to the existence of overlapping phenomenon, which the zirconium La line (0.607nm) and phosphorus Ka line (0.615nm), in phosphorus-containing zircon-refractory material. We discovered and calculated the critical thickness of glass fuse by the theoretical calculation method, and we verified the feasibility of the theory. By experiment we found that critical thickness of glass fuse can be reduced by adding additives in flux. Conventional thickness of glass fuse can reaches a critical thickness by adding 20% of calcium oxide (in the form of calcium carbonate was added) in flux. This method could also increase significantly the measurement sensitivity to guarantee good result.

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We are still fully virtual over here! I feel like I have been getting into a groove and things are going pretty well. Here is a lesson I did for kindergarten and first grade.
Repetition in art means to repeat something again and again.
If you have been making distance learning art lessons and have shared them on a website, please comment below! I am always looking for new ideas.

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Guitar Lessons Longton Staffordshire (ST3): You may imagine that booking lessons with a guitar instructor in Longton is a thing that only novices would need to do, but that could not be further from the truth. In fact, an experienced guitar tutor can be valuable for any standard of guitarist, to maybe find a way out of a playing rut or just help to improve their current technique.
It will take a significant amount of time and energy to learn to play a musical instrument and a guitar is no exception. It is certainly possible for you to learn guitar using only YouTube videos and books but having a professional guitar instructor handy will help you to attain your ambitions more rapidly.
Being shown how to accomplish chords and move your fingers in an effective style along the fret when you adjust between the chords is just one of several methods by which a specialist guitar instructor in Longton may help. In just a few short sessions you will realise that you are able to execute straightforward tunes, and as your self confidence and expertise grows you will find yourself eager for more.
If you are curious about what kind of guitar you ought to invest in, a competent guitar tutor should be glad to counsel you regarding this too. You may even be able to take a crack at different models of guitar prior to purchasing, with the instructor. You will also realise that nearly all instrument shops will allow you to play around with some guitars, so that you can find the ideal one before you get committed to investing in anything. They may even suggest names of guitar instructors to help you commence your new musical journey.
As you progress with the training you might want to try out other guitar genres and perhaps have a bash at bass guitar lessons, heavy metal guitar lessons, flamenco guitar lessons, jazz guitar lessons, funk guitar lessons, blues guitar lessons or classical guitar lessons, so as to discover a style which you most enjoy playing. Stepping into styles like this will give you a large repertoire of songs to choose from, and open the possibilities of your playing to a whole new level. However, you shouldn't make an effort to soar with the eagles before you can fly, and though it is crucial that you establish a style that suits you perfectly, mastering and being at ease in playing the fundamental chords and riffs is a necessity before progressing further.
When hunting for guitar lessons in Longton, it is better to pick a teacher who has a professional musical background. This is normally better than getting guitar lessons from a person who is self-taught. A person who is brilliant at guitar playing, will not automatically make a good guitar teacher. Testimonials by a local Longton music store should be beneficial in this instance.
To get a little knowledge of exactly how music works, whilst learning to play the guitar, it's going to be a big advantage to study a bit of music theory. Any effective guitar instructor should really walk you through the fundamentals of reading music to make certain you've got an understanding of the structure of a song. As an inexperienced guitarist this may be one of your worst worries, however, its not that complicated and the many benefits you can gain from achieving this are substantial.
You'll quickly be getting to grips with this remarkable musical instrument, once you have got yourself a really good guitar tutor in Longton. You need a teacher that is patient but firm and who ensures that you practice for at least half an hour each day. The key ingredient to this process is practice, practice, practice, and if you're asking "how long does it take to learn the guitar?", the answer will be, it depends upon how much you are ready to practice.
You'll surely discover that after taking these first steps to learn the guitar you will fire up a deep appreciation for music together with a lifetime passion for the guitar as an instrument.
Guitar lessons can be found in Longton and also nearby in: Forsbrook, Weston Coyney, Caverswall, Stoke-on-Trent, Florence, Adderley Green, Hanley, Dilhorne, Meir, Blythe Bridge, Cookshill, Bucknall, Clayton, Dresden, Trentham, Normacot, Fenton, Blurton, and in these postcodes PR4 5PB, PR4 5HN, PR4 5YS, PR4 5DB, PR4 5YN, PR4 5WL, PR4 5ZB, PR4 5NN, PR4 5DH, PR4 5EB. Local Longton guitar teachers will most likely have the telephone dialling code 01782 and the postcode ST3.
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Latest Staffordshire guitar and musical teaching postings: Mr and Mrs Smith need a guitar teacher in Mavesyn Ridware to teach their daughter the best way to read music. Mr Ernest Squires in Kings Bromley needs somebody who can help him get out of his guitar playing rut. In Wheaton Aston Ms Elise Rodgers needs a guitar teacher who can give her some acoustic guitar lessons. In Caverswall, Aaryan and Hareem Denton are in search of somebody who'll give acoustic guitar lessons to their daughter. In Pattingham, Azaan and Hadiya Hadfield are in search of a specialist to give guitar lessons to their son. Mr Josh Bloggs from Mavesyn Ridware wants somebody to teach his grandson the guitar. Mr and Mrs Millward need a guitar tutor in Longdon who can train their daughter to play a classical guitar. Mr and Mrs Savage need a guitar teacher in Brizlincote who can give some weekly banjo lessons to their grandson.
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People in the following Longton roads were recently in need of guitar lessons: Bank Close, Birkdale Avenue, Drumacre Lane West, Pope Lane, Thropps Lane West, Old School Drive, Aspendale Close, The Maltings, Hill Top, Chapel Walk, Woodside Avenue, Hambleton Close, Pendlebury Close, Eastfield Drive, Moorside Fold, Great Tunstead, Park Avenue, Barn Hey, Drumacre Lane East, Tarradale, Townfield Close, Osbert Croft, Sod Hall Lane, Meadoway, Tuson Croft, Aldon Grove, Dale Avenue, Hugh Barn Lane, Sandringham Park Drive, Mossway, and also in these nearby postcodes PR4 5PB, PR4 5HN, PR4 5YS, PR4 5DB, PR4 5YN, PR4 5WL, PR4 5ZB, PR4 5NN, PR4 5DH, PR4 5EB.
Further reading: How To Play Acoustic Guitar: The Ultimate Beginner Acoustic Guitar (Pauric Mather), The Ultimate Scale, Guitar For Dummies, The Advancing Guitarist (Mick Goodrick), Easy Guitar Tunes: 30 Fun and Easy Guitar Tunes for Beginners, Zen Guitar by Phillip Toshio Sudo, The First 100 Chords for Guitar by Joseph Alexander.
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Avian behaviour, the essentials (for veterinary nurses)
With the increased ownership of intelligent birds, animal care professionals are being sought after far more frequently to assist in dealing with troublesome parrots. From screaming to biting and feather plucking, our avian friends are the victims of numerous physical and mental troubles due to well meaning owners not providing the correct environment for their bird. As a result in many birds being given up for adoption and fall victim euthanasia as a result of their issues. With some relatively simple changes, we can better manage our avian friends. Bird behaviour - not as complicated as you might think.
In case you have missed this webinar, you have the opportunity to watch a recorded version here.
This webinar qualifies for one (1) hour of continuing education.
Tabatha Whitehead VN, TAA
With almost 20yrs experience in the veterinary industry, from general practice to speciality practice. Tabatha has spent the last 10yrs focusing on veterinary industry management. In 2015, Tabatha left full time practice management prior to accepting a role as a Nurse Educator with the Australian College of Veterinary Nursing and begin her own businesses. In addition, Tabatha immersed herself into avian nursing taking on a casual role at Brisbane Bird Vet. Through this experience and her love of parrots, Tabatha has developed a passion for bird behaviour and responsible parrot ownership.


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Score 500,000 points on the Lost Viking arcade machine.
Win 1000 1v1 Unranked or Ranked games as Terran.
Have 9 Terran units training simultaneously in an Unranked or Ranked game.
Complete all 29 Wings of Liberty campaign missions on Brutal difficulty.
Complete the “Left 2 Die” scenario before the fifth night on Brutal difficulty.

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Cincinnati Bathroom Remodel Done Right For You!
Are you looking to have your bathroom remodeled? Our services include, kitchen remodel & bathroom remodel planning, designing, and installations. We strive to exceed your expectations with our performances in every aspect of the remodel process. Our objective is to design a bathroom that you will love and one that will last for years to come in terms of timelessness design and durability. The testimonies you read here of our bathroom remodel and kitchen remodel performances are genuine experiences shared by non-bias customers.
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Aug. 2nd - Sept. 2nd, 2012
Birds is an exhibition of mixed media works by Mark Symczak. The subject of each piece, as the exhibition title reflects, is a fowl of one or another kind, but portrayed in a way that, while steeped in an emergent Folk Art sensibility, remains reflective of a style native to Symczak’s existing canon of works. The artist undertook these pieces as an experiment in abstract collage by revisiting an archive of monoprints that had amassed in his studio. In the process of cutting and composing, what resulted was neither exclusively abstract nor exclusively representational. Instead, axiomatic depictions of birds emerged, each enveloped by surprising splashes of painterly abstraction. While they are an embodiment of complexity and variety, the works also maintain a refreshing accessibility and demonstrate the artist’s sensitivity for coaxing out of disorder, something subtle, meditative and beautiful.
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By Gagandeep Ghuman
Published: Aug. 18, 2012
Long-time Squamish resident and freelance commercial artist, Jan Durocher, has been elected as the chair of the Squamish Arts Council (SAC).
The board held its meeting on Aug. 8th, a month after 13 members were elected in an emotionally charged meeting at the arts council building.
Toby Jaxon, Zoe Evamy, and Stan Matwychuk were elected as vice-chairs on the Aug.8th meeting.
Linda Bachman is the new secretary at the arts council, and Andrea Hoff is the new secretary.
Outgoing chair Krisztina Egyed stays on the board.
Andrea Hoff, Freda Hoff, Linda Bachman, Leilani Beckett, Breanna Wilson, Doreen Ramus, Martin Vseticka, and Martin Thorne were some other members who were elected to the SAC board on July 11.
Newly elected SAC Chair Jan Durocher said the organisation will strive to be inclusive.
“We have yet to do any strategic planning, but we will go back to the table and create a list of stakeholders.”
She said the new SAC is currently reviewing all information from the previous board to ensure it’s ‘current, accessible, and relevant’.
Egyed didn’t return calls or emails for comment.
Newly-elected vice-chair Zoe Evamy said she is ‘very excited’ about the arts council and the future of arts in Squamish.
“We have a strong board with great energy and willingness to collaborate,” she said.
SAC is planning on creating a community venue that would help the lay the foundation for arts advocacy.
This symposium, the details of which would be announced soon, is meant to being arts groups together.
“Art Groups that are not members will be invited to meet the new Board and discuss arts and culture in Squamish and beyond,” Evamy said.
Toby Jaxon, newly elected SAC vice-chair, said she is hoping to ‘push the doors wide open’ to invite more arts and culture groups to be active members on the team.
“You are definitely going to notice more of the Squamish Arts Council around this town.”


Applied Energy, Vol.249, 46-57, 2019
Agent-based restoration approach for reliability with load balancing on smart grids
Reliability and load balancing are essential techniques for smart grids that enable reliable electricity delivery to end customers. A smart grid needs configuration and restoration approaches that can react to blackouts in an economical way. However, the present approaches primarily focus on maximization of the restoration efficiency and the effect of function, while the trade-off between reliability and load balancing is usually ignored. In this paper, an agent-based approach is proposed to optimize the reliability of a system in the restoration process, considering load balancing as a constraint. A modified restoration strategy based on reinforcement learning, namely, the wolf pack algorithm (WPA), is proposed under the multi-agent framework and communication architecture. First, considering the constraints of the grid network and the dynamic load of the system, several types of agents are defined and abstracted to imitate physical entities. In addition, integrated with the WPA, the multi-agent system (MAS) is subsequently utilized to optimize the reliability of the system while considering the trade-off of load balancing. To verify the practicality of the approach, two cases based on a complex radial power network developed in Java are proposed. Ultimately, the sensitivity, effectiveness and expandability of the approach are analyzed.


MSNBC made history on Monday with groundbreaking news that will change the television landscape at large.
CNN reports that NBCUniversal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde announced that senior vice president Rashida Jones will become the new president of MSNBC, making her the first Black person in history to head a major cable network.
“Rashida knows and understands MSNBC, in part because it’s where she started when she first joined NBCU seven years ago,” Conde shared in an email to NBC News employees. “She knows that it is the people who work here that make it great, and she understands its culture. She also appreciates the impact and potential of the brand.”
NBC News reports Jones began her career at MSNBC in 2013 and rose through the ranks to become senior vice president for specials in 2017. Her portfolio was further expanded earlier this year after she she was put in charge of MSNBC’s daytime and weekend news schedule.
According to Conde, Jones has been integral in guiding MSNBC’s coverage of the pandemic, the social unrest and protests that broke out in June, and the 2020 election presidential debates — two of the most-watched in TV history.
She also helped out with influential network series “Justice for All” and “Climate in Crisis” as well as the team that prepped NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker for her role as moderator in the final 2020 presidential debate.
Jones will be taking over for Phil Griffin — the network’s president for the past 25 years — who will be stepping down from his role shortly following the President-elect’s inauguration in January.
“At MSNBC, Phil has built something remarkable,” Conde continued in his email. “He leaves the network in the best shape it has ever been.”
In his company memo, Conde revealed Griffin came to him shortly after the presidential election and shared he felt confident about his departure from the network stating “the time felt right to hang up my cleats.”
“We’ve been blessed with spectacular talent at every level,” Griffin wrote in an email to the company. “I admire the commitment, the camaraderie, the scrappiness, the pure love everyone has for this place. MSNBC is about humanity. The creativity, the compassion, the fact you all care so much. And that is what I will miss the most.”
Jones is set take over Griffin’s role starting Feb. 1, 2021.


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She attended the Viljandi Music School for Children and the Tallinn Secondary School of Music, where she studied piano and conducting. After graduating from the Secondary School of Music, she sang for four years in the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under the conductor Tõnu Kaljuste. In 1994 she went to the Musical University in Vienna to study classical vocals under Professor Gerhard Kahry. (1997) She has performed as a mezzo-soprano soloist on various occasions in the Vienna Volksopera and the Vienna Staatsopera. She has performed in such operas as Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rossini's La Cenerentola, Mozart's Don Giovanni and many others. Her performance in the Händel opera Orlando in February 2001 was especially popular. In addition to performing in opera houses, she also participated as a musical lead character in the award-winning film Les Lecons Ténébres - a joint production between the television channels France 3 and Arte.
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Class Notes: The West Volusia Beacon
The West Volusia Beacon, Tony Tussing:
"Stetson University has been named a “Voter Friendly Campus” for 2021-22 due to the efforts of a dedicated group of Stetson students and administrators. The designation comes from the Voter Friendly Campus Initiative, led by two national nonpartisan organizations, Campus Vote Project and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. Stetson was one of 234 colleges and universities across 37 states and the District of Columbia to be selected.
Stetson University recently hosted “A Community Remembrance: Marking One Year of COVID-19.” The virtual event allowed the community to reflect on all they have lost and experienced over the past year."
Read more from The West Volusia Beacon HERE.

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LVC graduate reminisces about time in Shanghai
A recent graduate of Lebanon Valley College was able to enjoy studying abroad in Shanghai while also interning for a Belgian beer company based in China.
That student is Sara Urner, 21, who is a 2015 graduate with a degree in English.
Urner is originally from Sullivan County and is now living in Lancaster. Since Feb. 8, she has been working in the Marketing Department at Haller Enterprises in Lititz.
“When Jill Russell in the Study Abroad Office first mentioned China, I said there no way I can do that,” Urner said.
Then after that she thought about it for a while, she came to see it as a great opportunity that she wanted to take advantage of.
Where Urner grew up in Sullivan County was very rural, with trees, farms and cows, and then in Shanghai, it was the total opposite with skyscrapers and concrete.
“There are no similarities whatsoever,” Urner said. “Going to one of the biggest cities in the world after living in Sullivan County was really crazy.”
While in Shanghai, she attended East China Normal University. Classes she took while there were elementary Mandarin, international marketing, cross-cultural communication and contemporary Chinese cinema.
In addition to the classes, Urner worked as an intern with the marketing department for Vandergeteen.
Vandergeteen was originally a Belgian company and was bought by the Chinese. The company now imports Belgian beers and chocolates into China.
Urner was able to do her study abroad program through a company called CAPA, who allowed her to do both her classes and internship for credit.
“That was so cool. I learned how to understand a foreign market and how to present the products in a way that would resonate with the Chinese,” Urner said.
Urner talked about the differences between the American and Chinese beer markets. The American beer market has a lot of variety, and the taste is a lot stronger.
“When you look at the Chinese market, there’s a lot of light beers that are watery and not a lot of hops, but you also see that in America, as well,” Urner said. “When I think of American beer, I think of the small breweries.”
According to Urner, the types of beer in the American market are starting to emerge in China, but at a slow rate.
“It’s growing slowly because the taste is just not there yet," Urner said. "They are not use to the taste of beer
In China, there is a popular brand called Snow Beer and there is another well-known one called Tsing Tao.
“You could get a liter bottle for nothing because it was so cheap. Then you would taste it, and it was not that great,” Urner said.
Besides beer, China has other more traditional liquors such as one called Baijiu and also rice wine.
Urner said that with Shanghai being a global city, there were many expat communities that populated different areas.
“You would walk down the street, and there would be Australian bars, French bars, German bars, so that was pretty cool to see, along with the more traditional neighborhoods,” Urner said.
For Vandergeteen, Urner also went to an international food and drink expo.
“It was in a building with huge rooms filled with food from all over the world,” Urner said. “Vandergeteen was in the Belgian area, along with other European countries.
There was also an American room, too.
“They had all of these samples for food like cheese, Tyson chicken, and I was so excited,” Urner said.
According to Urner, most Chinese adults are lactose intolerant, and there is not a lot of dairy in their cuisine in general.
“It’s really difficult to find cheese in China, which is something I never anticipated, “Urner said. “I love cheese so when I saw it, I realized it’s the little things you take for granted on a day-to-day basis.”
From living on the other side of the globe, Urner learned a lot about herself and also her personal values.
“Comparing all of the values in Chinese culture surrounding family and seeing how much parents mean to their children, I feel the same way,” Urner said.
Urner came back to her home in mid-December. Her transition back into American culture went smoothly, and she enjoyed the time being back at home. Once Urner got readjusted, she was then able to reminisce and think the people she met.
“It was easier once I got back home. Then we could exchange our American numbers and find each other on Facebook,” Urner said.

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How Indian MSMEs Can Prevent Cyberattacks
The pandemic has sent ripples across the economy and businesses all around the globe. Amongst the most impacted are the small and medium scale businesses as they face a financial crunch. With work from home being the new norm, medium scale enterprises are experiencing a spurt in cyberattacks and ransomware attacks since the lockdown, while the business environment is turning mobile. The digitization of work processes has made businesses seamless with data available everywhere. 30% of MSMEs have launched either a website or an e-commerce functionality. However, this has also made MSMEs attractive to cybercriminals.
A recent case of a cyberattack is that of a ransomware named `Dharma' which is an RaaS (Ransomware as a Service). Buyers or affiliates of Dharma, target companies by depending on a menu-driven `PowerShell' script that installs and launches the components required to spread ransomware across the target network. After the execution of the master script, it identifies it-self as `Toolbox' and launches the attack with the message, `Have fun, bro!' Amid the pandemic, the ransom demands have reached an average of 6.4 lakhs. A report from Sophos says that 82% of Indian organizations were hit by ransomware in the last six months, which is a 15% rise from 2017. To rectify the impact of each ransomware, Indian enterprises incurred expenses of approximately Rs. 8.02 crore.
MSMEs play a pivotal role in the development of India as they con-tribute 29.7% to GDP and 49.66% to Indian Exports. Therefore, having a robust cybersecurity strategy is more crucial than ever, especially during such trying times.
Network firewalls are for monitoring communications between company computers and outside sources. If a company wishes to restrict certain websites and IP addresses, it can do so using a network firewall
Why do MSMEs fall prey to cyberat-tacks?
Cybercriminals target MSMEs with the following techniques of attacks-
• Phishing emails
Cyberattackers are aware of the fact that MSMEs may not have a comprehensive security setup implemented with best practices. Also, to be efficient and agile in their functioning, MSMEs work with multiple third-party vendors and suppliers. They are the keepers of sensitive information but may not have the necessary cybersecurity measures to thwart an attack. A recent example is that of a famous delivery service provider, which suffered a data breach that leaked email addresses and phone numbers of its users. The attack happened as the servers of a third party that the delivery startup worked with were compromised.
Ways To Prevent Cyberattacks
As cyber assaults continue to exploit enterprises in the time of crisis, it's high time for MSMEs to review their existing cybersecurity strategy and boost its cyber resilience. Here are some ways
1. Implementing security log management system A security log management system collects data from various sources, such as network devices, servers, domain controllers, etc. into one centralized location. The data collected from the sources is analysed to detect threats and abnormalities in user behaviour. This helps in identifying security breaches and enables the enterprise to investigate alerts.
2. Deploying Firewall Security Deployment of firewalls restricts emails coming from malicious sources. There are two types of firewalls network and host. Net-work firewalls are for monitoring communications between company computers and outside sources. If a company wishes to restrict certain websites and IP addresses, it can do so using a network firewall. Host-based firewalls are for devices that are network connected but not protected by a network firewall. They can be useful for homes with multiple computers sharing the same network.
3. Data Backups It is wise for the enterprises safer to take backups of data in case of any cyber assault.
4. Employee Education - Many cyberattacks happen due to human error. It is necessary to educate employees about suspicious emails, data or access requests. MSMEs should create a company policy to mandate the usage of smart and complex passwords that are to be changed at an interval of three months. The passwords should not be the same across multiple platforms.
5. Making Payments Online The pandemic has seen an upsurge of online payments. MSMEs should en-sure that those online transactions are carried by authorized persons only. An additional layer of security can be implemented by doing a cross-check with the bank about inward/outward transactions and verifying details with suppliers.
6. Virtual Private Network Enterprises are adapting to working from home and stand a high chance of employees using unsecured networks. Using VPN connectivity adds a protective layer by encrypting the data transmitted from one device to another. Besides, only whitelisted IP addresses or device IDs should be allowed to access systems; this will restrict access to only authorized users.
In today's hyper-connected world, cybersecurity is a necessity, be it a large, medium, or small enterprise. MS-MEs may be more prone to cyberattacks as they typically have fewer resources dedicated to cybersecurity and the awareness of it. The implementation of robust cybersecurity measures will help MSMEs to be better prepared, take proactive actions to thwart cyberattacks, and stay ahead in their growth journey.


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Woldgate Students Work Wonders
Year 9 students at Woldgate School in Pocklington received their Archbishop of York Youth Trust’s Young Leaders’ Award today in a Special Awards Ceremony to celebrate their volunteering work in the local community.General • 20 October 2016
The YLA goes on the road...
The Archbishop of York Youth Trust this week will hold another regional Headteachers’ conference, travelling to the Wilson Carlile Centre in Sheffield on 20 October.General • 17 October 2016
What schools are saying
Have a look at some of the outstanding feedback we're getting about The Awards.


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The Boston Globe today took its turn today at examining the sales tax policy governing bundled cell phone transactions.
Reporter Michael Farrell's story is a fair recitation of the history of the policy. Farrell noted that one wireless seller, Sprint, is paying the difference in sales tax between the sales price of the phone and the retail or wholesale price on which the tax is actually computed, unlike other wireless sellers.
This blog has published numerous posts and comments on bundled cell phones, and welcomes Farrell's contribution to the discussion.
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Top priority: protecting the taxpayer and the Commonwealth’s revenue posted on Oct 8
With identity theft on the rise, the Massachusetts Department of Revenue is taking new steps to combat the problem and protect taxpayers. In some cases, this means asking taxpayers to take a quiz before getting their state refund check. DOR is teaming up with LexisNexis …Continue Reading Top priority: protecting the taxpayer and the Commonwealth’s revenue
Thinking about the next step in your career? posted on Oct 3
Dust off that resume! The Department of Revenue is holding a Diversity Career Fair and your next job could be right around the corner. DOR has a number of exciting employment opportunities now available and will have more openings throughout the year. Whether you’re looking …Continue Reading Thinking about the next step in your career?
Mission Accomplished posted on Sep 15
They are two dogs with a very unique trick. Meet Fillmore and Max, a canine pair trained specifically to sniff out tobacco. The Massachusetts Department of Revenue recently teamed up with Altria representatives and their tobacco sniffing dogs for a two-day tobacco drive in an …Continue Reading Mission Accomplished

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Fear not, IT Glue critics. Day hears you loud and clear when you gripe about the company online. “We get blown up on Reddit all the time about pricing and stuff like that,” he says.
IT Glue plans to do something about it too. Over the next quarter or so, the company will roll out 12 different policy changes aimed at showing channel pros that it’s a “customer first” vendor.
“When you’re starting out, it’s good to be rigid,” Day says. “Then as you scale, you realize you’ve got to start to look at the broader picture and how can we please more people. That’s kind of where we’re at.”
Though Day wouldn’t outline exactly what he has in store, he dropped a few hints. Partners that don’t like having to call an IT Glue salesperson when purchasing more licenses, for example, may be in for good news.
“We’ve realized that we’ve alienated a bunch of people that don’t like to buy that way for the price,” Day says.
Smaller partners may have reason to smile soon as well.
“There’s a broad population of MSP’s that we’ve alienated with the fact that we have a five-user minimum,” Day says, noting that the channel is filled with one-, two-, and three-person shops. “We’ve been looking closely at if there’s anything we can do to start to work with those people now that we’re at this scale.”
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CharTec, CloudJumper, Connect Booster, EventTracker, Liongard, and newcomer RocketCyber all used the recently concluded conference as a launching pad for news about new solutions and services.
Businesses looking for help with digital transformation are not taking an RFP, linear approach to purchasing, so stake out a specialty or niche and grow your influence from there.
Exhibits in the conference’s sprawling expo hall, including this IoT-enabled bus, provided concrete examples of the pre-packaged and outsourced offerings resellers can get from SYNNEX these days along with plain old hardware and software.
At the managed services vendor’s Navigate conference this week, CEO Michael George (pictured) walked attendees through what he contends is an inescapable set of both existential threats and massive opportunities for managed service providers
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Don’t you just love October! It’s the beginning of Fall, beautiful weather, holiday baking begins, it’s the beginning of fun Fall crafts, and most of all it’s the month of Halloween! It’s a great time to spend with family and friends and the kids. Have you been on a hay ride yet or gone to […]
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Get festive this year with a Tie-Dye Easter Egg Cake! Using colored cake batter and a cookie cutter you can make the best Easter cake ever! Making a tie-dye cake is really easy and your guest will be so impressed. Make one to match your Easter eggs…..now that’s getting festive!! All you need for this […]
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In the olden days, a tracking pixel was exactly that; a single real pixel. Ideally, it would be a 1px by 1px image of the same color as the background of whatever content you’re tracking. It could also be transparent.
The idea behind a tracking pixel is simple. You put it somewhere that you want to track, either the pageviews or something else reliant on loading the page. The user loads the page, and they load the tracking pixel. You then go into your server and see how many times people have downloaded your tracking pixel.
For example, you write an email newsletter and throw a couple of ads in. The owners of those ads want to see how many times their ads were seen, so they can determine metrics like click rates and conversion rates. You go to your server and run a query, and see that the pixel image has been downloaded by 15,000 unique IP addresses. That means you’ve put the newsletter in front of 15,000 people, and can report exactly that.
Now, there are all sorts of tracking pixels you can use these days. You can go the old fashioned route with the image, you can use code from various third parties, or you can use a script like the Facebook tracking pixel.
Thankfully, it’s a completely trivial process to actually create and install a pixel from Facebook. Any other system you choose to use will be at best exactly this complex, if not even simpler. If you’re using a non-Facebook pixel, it will work the same way, you just have to get your code from somewhere else.
I’ll be using the Facebook pixel as an example, but any other tracking pixel will work the same way, with only one variation; where you get the code. For example, if you want to be tracking AdWords conversions, you can use the Google Conversion Tag instead.
For Facebook tracking pixels, you need to determine your objective for the ads you want to run. What I’m talking about is the kind of objective you want that conversion to be. Here are a few examples.
There is one thing in common with all of these objectives; they have a page on your site that works as a confirmation page.
This is distinct from something like, for example, an affiliate link. When a user clicks an affiliate link, in order for you to be paid, they need to convert. However, the confirmation of that conversion is a page on the site of the affiliate you linked to. It’s not a page you control, so it’s not a page you can track. The best you can do is track the people clicking on the link and rely on data from the affiliate for which of those clicks convert. Unfortunately, you’ll be unable to use any of your own conversion pixels to track people here.
Once you have some idea of what your process will count as a conversion, you need to figure out where you’re going to place the conversion pixel code. You will generally want this code to be present only on pages that show up when a user successfully converts, but which are impossible to see if you haven’t converted.
For example, using the examples above:
There are essentially two requirements for this page. First, the page needs to be visible only to the people who convert, but not to anyone else. If anyone can browse to the page, you’re going to get false positives on your conversion. Second, the page needs to be able to be edited by you. You need to insert the code into it somehow, right? For now we’re just talking about the normal, basic html editing CMS. If you need help or can’t access the pages on your own, talk to your developer to have them add the code.
This process will vary from ad network to ad network.
On Facebook, you will need to go to the ads manager and click the drop-down arrow by your name. Find the “create ads” button and click it. Go to the menu – the three horizontal lines in the upper left – and click it. Find “Assets” and “pixels” under it, and click to create a new pixel. All you need to do is plug in a name and it will be created for you. You can then copy the pixel code into a .txt file, or email it to yourself or a developer email account.
For Google AdWords, you will need to have set up conversion tracking according to this link. Once that is set up, you need to go into your settings menu and find “Install your tag.” Determine whether the conversion is a click or a page load, selection the appropriate option, and click to save the instructions and tag. This will give you the code similar to what you get from Facebook for their tracking.
Other ad networks are going to hide their conversion tracking code in their own ways. You’ll have to consult with the documentation for whichever other networks you use to figure out their process.
Remember how back in step 2 you determined which page on your site is going to be the successful conversion page. Now you need to find where in your actual website that page is located. For example, if your successful conversion page is www.example.com/storefront/payment/thank-you.htm, you will have your root directory, a subfolder called storefront, a folder within it called payment, and a file inside that folder labeled thank-you.htm. This is an insanely simplistic idea of how the conversion process actually works, but it’s an idea of what you’re looking for.
On a WordPress, there are a ton of different plugins that give you various levels of functionality for tracking pixels. For example, you can use the Facebook Conversion Pixel plugin, the Insert Headers and Footers option, or anything else of your choice.
Now, the Facebook tracking pixel – the new version – is designed to go on every page of your site, and specific event code will go on your conversion page. The process will be no different for installing it, you just need to be aware of what specifically you’re adding to the page.
This step is actually going to have several sub-steps. At this point you know what file needs to have the code added, and you know what code needs to be added. Ideally, you have that code stored away in a text file somewhere, or at least pulled up in a web browser and ready to copy and paste. In any case, you need it accessible.
The first thing you need now is some way to download the file you need to change, and upload it again once it has been changed. This (traditionally) means using an FTP application. There are a lot of FTP clients out there, the earliest released in 1989. You really do have your pick. I like FileZilla myself, but SmartFTP, FireFTP, and WinSCP are all possible options. If you have a unique dev environment, you may need to talk to a developer to find out what they use and how to access your site. Of course, if you’re not able to access your site as it is, you’re probably not the one that should be adding this code in the first place.
Along with an FTP client, you need the username and password for your file server. Obviously, I don’t have access to those. You can usually find this information by logging in to your web host and finding their FTP settings. It won’t show you the password, but it will show you the username and protocol (FTP or SFTP) and will allow you to reset the password if necessary. If your host uses cPanel, you can find this in the FTP Accounts section under Files.
Now you need to use your FTP tool of choice – either your third party client, or even the file manager in cPanel – and browse to the location of the confirmation file you need to edit. Most of the time, this will be an htm or html file.
Download the file and save it locally on your computer, and then save a second copy of it as a backup. Keeping a backup is extremely important, in case you break something or install the code improperly. If you can’t fix the problem, you will need to restore from a backup. If you don’t have a backup, you suddenly end up needing a lot more time and support to fix your site. Backups are just good practice.
Now, different kinds of tracking code will require themselves to be placed in different locations. Facebook’s pixel, for example, wants to be right before the </head> tag in your file header. Google’s AdWords tracking wants to be in the <body> just below the opening tag, above the actual body content. Make sure you’re putting the code in the right place, or it might not run properly.
Now, save your file and open it up in a web browser – Edge, FireFox, Opera, Safari, Chrome, or what have you – and see if it looks good. If the page is obviously broken, you may not have pasted the code properly. Sometimes the page might rely on other local files to call data, like the CSS file, which will make the page look bad. Don’t worry about it if this is the case; uploading the file again will make it work fine.
Speaking of uploading, you need to go back to your FTP client and upload the changed file, overwriting the live file. This is why it’s important to have a backup; if something happens here, your website may not function properly, and you will need to replace the new file with the backup to maintain functionality while you figure out what went wrong.
Once the new version of the file is uploaded, your pixel should be active. Now all you need to do is move on to the last step.
There’s one more step before you can consider this process complete: all you need to do is test the pixel to make sure it works. This is even simpler than installing it; all you need to do is perform the action that the pixel is supposed to track. Then go into whatever ads system you’re using and see if the action was tracked. If so, success!
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The Article 28 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) states that every child has the right to a primary education, which should be free.
The Convention places a high value on education and states that young people should be encouraged to reach the highest level of education of which they are capable. Wealthy countries should help poorer countries achieve this right." (Article 28 of CRC)
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Giving Girls Back Their Right : Bridge Schools in Rural Andhra Pradesh
Bridge school centres and girls collectives are reshaping the future of a generation in rural Andhra Pradesh.
Jyoti’s Story of Courage, Determination
She continues to put in her best, in sports and studies and has started dreaming once again of a future for herself. She wants to put the past behind her and move on.
Giving Girls a Chance -- Today and Tomorrow
UNICEF with support from IKEA Social Initiative is implementing a child rights model in Andhra Pradesh that increases children’s, particularly girls, access to a rights-based and quality education.
Changing Children’s Destiny
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AWW SO CUTE! Johnny Depp Gives Parenting Advice On Nappies And Lack Of Sleep To A Pregnant Bar Manager During Surprise Visit!
Lauren Whittington, the manager at the Bridge Tavern pub in Newcastle, was taken by surprise as Johnny Depp visited the pub
Johnny Depp has been making it to the headlines for all the right reasons following the conclusion of his defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard.
The star actor surprised a fan/bar manager after he engaged himself in a conversation with her. Soon after he realized that the bar manager was pregnant, he shared important advice on parenthood.
Lauren Whittington, the manager at the Bridge Tavern pub in Newcastle, was in the middle of her shift when Johnny walked into the pub with musicians Sam Fender and Jeff Beck. The Pirates of the Caribbean star's surprise appearance was made just one hour before the verdict in the defamation suit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard was to be announced.
Whittington was ecstatic when she said, "None of us could believe it, he went unnoticed for maybe an hour before anyone realized it was him and Jeff Beck just sat eating Fish and Chips together in the corner."
She expressed joy and surprise as she continued, "His security came over and asked if there was any way we could get Sam Fender in without people ambushing him, so we shut off our upstairs terrace for them to go up there, they were really grateful and stayed for a couple of hours, with Sam staying long after Johnny and Jeff left."
Later she proceeded to click a few pictures with Depp before he administered some advice on parenthood and what it feels like.
She said, "He noticed I’m pregnant and was asking me how long I have left, then he was giving me some advice on nappies, lack of sleep, and the first few weeks of parenthood, saying it’ll be the greatest gift I ever receive and I won’t know love like it until I look into her eyes for the first time. He was also talking about his kids, who are grown up now, and how magical being a parent is."
Whittington continued narrating the unforgettable encounter she had with the star and said, "He left about an hour before the verdict and said he had a zoom call about it, so we wished him luck and thanked him for being so kind, and he thanked us for having him."
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