For two months, there was no such thing as Swoozie's, the Atlanta-based paper and gift retailer. For several months prior to that -- when a liquidation sale that began in March emptied the stores of all merchandise and fixtures -- the company might as well as have ceased to exist.
President Kelly Plank-Dworkin, who always prided Swoozie's on building relationships with customers who walked in the door, said the liquidation was "devastating." Long-time customers coming in for housewarming gifts or wedding invitations didn't get the service they were used to.
"I couldn't even shop in the shopping center. It was very painful," she said. "Every day, I had to wake up and put one foot in front of the next, decide what to do."
What Plank-Dworkin did was work hard to save the store, which she described as her life. She separated the intellectual property -- Swoozie's name and concept -- from a bankruptcy filing. Just after the liquidation ended, it was sold at auction to the Colorado private equity firm Gart Capital.
Today, two Swoozie's stores have reopened in Atlanta along with five others across the South.
"It's sort of like a bad dream and I woke up," Plank-Dworkin said. "It's energizing."
The store, which first opened in 2001, was designed for the busy, socially engaged woman, Plank-Dworkin said. Because time was important to her, she wanted to create a place where customers could find gifts for cocktail parties and children's birthday parties in the same place. Swoozie's sells cards, wrapping paper and college-themed dinnerware for tailgating. Customers can also buy chenille stuffed animals and napkins with clever sayings.
Ken Gart, a partner at Gart Capital, said Swoozie's had come on his radar before it went bankrupt. He noticed the passion and enthusiasm that customers felt for what was then a 43-store chain.
In five years, Gart said, Swoozie's could have between 20 and 30 stores in the South. He questions, though, whether it can prosper in other parts of the country. In part, it was the acquisition of gift shop chain Blue Tulip out of bankruptcy in the Northeast that brought Swoozie's down.
The 2007 death of David Dworkin, the company's CEO and Plank-Dworkin's husband, and the general economic conditions beginning in 2008 all combined to push Swoozie's over the brink, Plank-Dworkin said.
Since a soft opening in the middle of August, the stores have performed at or above expectations, Gart said. A grand opening is scheduled for later in the month.
"Kelly has performed magic," Gart said. "She is the heart and soul of the business. I wouldn't have done it without her."
For her part, Plank-Dworkin said she was taken by surprise by the bankruptcy and, after the filing, never had any idea that Swoozie's would ever come back. It was concern for her employees and an outpouring of support from customers that made her try to save the chain.
At the reopened stores, many former employees have returned. And Plank-Dworkin said with the bankruptcy, she took the opportunity to reconsider the store more carefully, adding wider aisles for women pushing strollers and focusing more on customization, like on-the-spot printing.
Going forward, she said, the size of the chain doesn't matter as long as the brand can live on.
"We get a chance to be reborn," Plank-Dworkin said. "It means the world to me."
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CPS secrecy strains relations with City Council
November 1, 2009
By Tracy Idell Hamilton and Anton Caputo
San Antonio - Express-News
News last week that CPS Energy kept word of a massive cost-estimate increase to itself for more than a week has shaken the City Council's confidence so deeply that the utility now must make a Herculean effort to keep its nuclear expansion plans on track.
"A lot of us already had concerns," Councilman Justin Rodriguez said.
"I think it's fair to say this puts the entire project in jeopardy," he said, referring to the proposed addition of two nuclear reactors at the South Texas Project near Bay City.
Interim General Manager Steve Bartley insists CPS will win back the council's trust, and that he has always been a crusader at CPS for more openness.
But the damage from last week's debacle may have lasting repercussions. There are murmurs at City Hall about a management shake-up at CPS, and several council members are calling for more oversight of the city-owned utility.
To council members and others, a string of public flubs during the summer-long nuclear debate has exposed a closed culture at CPS more akin to that of a private corporation than a public power company.
Whether it was stumbling in its early community outreach efforts, the insistence on closed-door meetings with the council and its own board of trustees, or confusion over its recently proposed 9.5 percent base rate increase, CPS has frequently disappointed, several council members say
But none of these incidents has strained their relationship more than the recent failure to disclose the existence of a preliminary cost estimate from contractor Toshiba Inc. that is $4 billion higher than the utility wants.
That estimate, which Mayor Juliín Castro learned about Monday night, derailed the council's planned vote on Thursday to borrow $400 million for nuclear financing.
The vote now is expected to take place in January.
Bartley said the estimate is so preliminary as to be almost meaningless and should never have been publicly divulged. But the episode has shaken the faith of even some of the nuclear project's strongest proponents on the council.
"They told us all along it was $13 billion," said Councilwoman Elisa Chan, who noted the council did not even know there was a gap between Toshiba's estimate and CPS', much less the extent.
"This shows a lack of leadership. We're not talking about $400 million here - we're talking about $4 billion. They need to re-establish communication and trust before we can talk about spending any money at all."
A City Hall insider said Castro, out of public view, is livid that he did not learn of the cost estimate until an aide asked directly about it, and that he's fed up with the lack of timely and complete information.
In public, however, he's taking a more measured stance, in large part because Wall Street is watching.
"We need to maintain the integrity of the organization while correcting bureaucratic culture issues," Castro said Thursday. "But my confidence in the leadership has been tested."
Castro described CPS' culture as one "with a tendency toward less transparency than needs to be for a public utility, with less appreciation for the role of policymakers than there ought to be."
In interviews, a majority of the 11-member council said they're upset with the utility. And according to Castro, some have even suggested that a leadership change would be appropriate, but he disagrees.
"The general consensus is that there needs to be some changes," Councilman John Clamp said. "But we need to take a measured approach. I agree with the mayor."
Castro has asked board Chairwoman Aurora Geis for an internal investigation into last week's events. Depending on the results, the board could take disciplinary action, he said.
He also expressed disappointment that Bartley "seems more concerned that the information got out, than that material information that should have been disclosed to the board and council was not."
Promises of reform
Bartley has acknowledged that the utility has had communication and openness problems. He attributed this to a culture within the organization of managing problems internally.
"We take a lot of pride with that," he said.
He also promised the utility would do more to fully inform the board and council in the future.
"I have made a strong emphasis on my staff to make sure I am much better informed and we provide better information, more transparent information, to the council and to the board," he said. "We are in an ever-changing world that demands more accountability and more openness about major decisions like this that affect many people's lives."
This isn't the first time Bartley has uttered such words. He opened the utility's Oct. 5 work session with a lengthy statement promising that it would make an effort be more open and "err on the side of public disclosure."
This came after an open-meeting challenge from the San Antonio Express-News that caused the mayor to cancel a closed session between CPS and the council.
Just a week later, the utility was accused of muddying the rate increase issue by talking about a "5 percent bill increase" all summer, then letting the council know it would actually be voting for a 9.5 percent base rate increase.
In that case, Bartley has said, CPS was trying to simplify the issue for ratepayers by giving them the bottom line increase they would see on their bills.
Geis said she has had several discussions with Bartley about management sharing more information with the board since last week's revelations. However, she said she was not upset Bartley had not shared Toshiba's preliminary cost estimate with the trustees.
"The reality is that nothing has really changed, substantially changed," even though Toshiba has indicated this higher-than-expected cost estimate, she said. "It is not a given. It is nothing more than negotiation, and we had already given staff boundaries to negotiate in."
That's not the way it looks from City Hall.
"They have changed - substantially," said Councilman Reed Williams, a former oil-refinery executive viewed as an influential behind-the-scenes voice in the nuclear debate. "This is putting the genie back into the bottle."
Clamp and Councilwoman Jennifer Ramos are pushing for a council committee to more closely oversee the city's utilities, including CPS Energy.
Geis had not heard of the proposal but said such a committee could create complications with the rating agencies that judge the utility's credit worthiness.
"CPS Energy (and) the board of trustees has a very good governance model," she said. "I, too, am a public citizen who volunteers, and the amount of time that I take to engage in these conversations in the eight years I have been on the board of CPS Energy is about 20 to 30 hours a week. I cannot imagine how council is going to take that amount of time to immerse themselves in these issues as well."
Right now, the board consists of the mayor and four members who each represent a quadrant of the city. Serving for a maximum of two five-year terms, the board self-selects new members, who then are ratified by the council.
The growing strain between the utility and policymakers is apparent to outsiders, too.
The council "has to have timely knowledge to make adequate, reflective decisions," said Richard Gambitta, a political scientist at the University of Texas at San Antonio. "You shouldn't have to ask a specific question. There should be a flow of information."
Gambitta said an element of distrust has now entered the relationship, "a feeling of betrayal that is going to be very difficult to repair."
The perception that CPS is not responsive to the council is not new.
Clamp, one of six to vote against the utility's request for a 5 percent rate increase last year, said he was disappointed then - and now - with how utility officials offer up information.
"There is a bit of arrogance between their board and the City Council," he said.
The council has until January to decide whether it is willing to grant the debt and rate increase needed to continue the nuclear project.
Bartley insists the proposed expansion of the nuclear South Texas Project is still a "good long-term solution" to meet the city's future energy needs. "But the number has to come down significantly."
Bartley will lead a team to Japan next week to discuss the situation with Toshiba, the general contractor. Fluor Corp., an international company with headquarters in Irving, will do most of the construction.
David Crane, CEO of NRG Energy, a partner in the nuclear project, also is going.
Crane said his company has known about the Toshiba cost issue since this summer. He confirmed that the Japanese contractor had estimated the cost for its portion of the project at $12 billion, as opposed to the $8 billion that CPS and NRG had been working with.
Crane also said the gap has already been reduced, but he declined to say by how much.
CPS Energy has estimated that building two reactors outside Bay City will cost $13 billion. Roughly $3 billion is the cost of financing, leaving $10 billion for construction, engineering and other costs.
Despite the political firestorm, Bartley remains bullish on the project and the ability of his team to negotiate with Toshiba and bring it in on cost.
"I believe that we have a very, very talented professional group at CPS Energy, and I believe that they have served this community well over the years," he said.
"From my perspective, (Toshiba) clearly knows what our direction is, and they can choose to work with us and get the number down, or they know that we will pursue other alternatives."
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Here’s Where There’s $19 Trillion Up For Grabs
Try and imagine what $1 trillion looks like, in paper bills. It’s difficult, as it’s an almost unimaginable amount of money. After all, we’re familiar with billionaires and all the luxuries they can buy, but our society isn’t home to any trillionaires. Not yet, any way.
And if there was a trillion-dollar industry out there, without a doubt, entrepreneurs and business giants would be chomping at the bit to get in. Well, by some measurements it already exists, and not just for $1 trillion. It’s worth a completely mind-blowing $19 trillion, and it all has to do with the much-discussed Internet of Things, which we’re only starting to see show up in our daily lives.
The Internet of Everything is the ticket, according to a report released last year by Cisco. The Internet of Everything presents business opportunities totaling $19 trillion, which means that there is not only an unbelievable amount of money on the table, but that there is also an unbelievable amount of opportunity. Just like the Internet itself started a gold rush, which has helped create some of the world’s most valuable businesses like Google, Facebook, and Amazon, the advent of the Internet of Everything will provide a myriad of other opportunities to make not just billions, but trillions.
“As network connections spread throughout the world, many private- and public-sector leaders are asking: ‘Where can I find the next wave of value?'” the Cisco report reads. “Enter the Internet of Everything (IoE). IoE connects the unconnected with ever-smarter technology. It brings people together with process, data, and things. New capabilities are created along with richer experiences.”
What does that mean, in a nutshell?
According to Cisco, “Forward-thinking organizations have unprecedented opportunities.”
Essentially, what civilization is creeping up on is a world in which almost all of our products, including appliances like refrigerators and devices like smartphones and televisions, will be connected. Just how and when that will end up manifesting itself in the real world is unclear, but we’re definitely in the beginning stages of it. Think of smart TVs, advanced refrigerators, or Amazon Dash buttons — and these things are just the tip of the iceberg.
An article from SingularityHUB really helps put things in perspective. Not only can consumer products be fitted to be a part of the IoE, but so can business services. By creating an environment in which businesses know exactly what products or services consumers need, right when they need them, companies will be able to service demand before consumers likely even realize they had any needs. A handful of the ways this can be implemented, per SingularityHub, are in finding parking spots, turning on and off lighting fixtures, transportation, and even some certain aspects of health care.
Needless to say, it’s going to be a monumental shift. If it happens.
While it may seem like the IoE’s eventual takeover of society is a foregone conclusion, there are still numerous issues to solve, including whether this level of interconnectivity is something people even want. By simply putting a chip in every object imaginable, it leaves some serious security concerns unaddressed. What if hackers, for example, are somehow able to gain access to your refrigerator? While that seems like an unlikely or even ridiculous scenario, that is exactly the kind of thing that we could see happening, although it’s unclear what a malicious invader could actually do with your refrigerator.
Another potential negative that people could be exposing themselves to is a seemingly endless array of advertising. Imagine taking your clothes out of the washing machine, only to have your appliance show and tell you all about the newest offerings from Tide? Is that something you really want? It could be, but it’s possible we could see our household items turn into Facebook-like streams of advertising.
Consumers, unfortunately, may not get a say in what ultimately happens. Manufacturers will turn to the money. If it’s streaming in from advertisers, they’ll probably cater to it. The only thing that could stop that would be people dramatically shifting their purchase habits.
With as much as $19 trillion on the table, you can bet that companies are going to go after the pot. The IoE sounds cool on paper, but getting there may require some growing pains, and superconnectivity to everything in the house may not be all it’s cracked up to be.
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Hong Kong lesbian appeals to tycoon dad over dowry
- In 2012%2C dad offered %2465M to find a man to successfully woo daughter from partner
- Cecil Chao has now doubled offer
- Offer came after tycoon learned Gigi Chao had eloped with partner to France
HONG KONG (AP) — The daughter of a flamboyant Hong Kong tycoon whose offer of a massive dowry inspired a movie wrote an open letter on Wednesday asking him to accept who she is after he reportedly raised the price.
Cecil Chao made world headlines in 2012 when he tried to find a man who could successfully woo his daughter, Gigi Chao, away from her partner by offering offered 500 million Hong Kong dollars ($65 million), an offer that a Malaysian newspaper who interviewed him last week said he has doubled.
In a letter to her father published Wednesday by two Hong Kong newspapers, Gigi Chao said she knows it's "difficult for you to understand, let alone accept" how she could be romantically attracted to a woman.
The tycoon made his offer after he learned his daughter had eloped with her partner, Sean Eav, to France, where they had a church blessing in Paris. While Hong Kong decriminalized homosexuality in 1991, it does not legally recognize same-sex marriage.
Gigi Chao, 34, added that "it would mean the world to me if you could just not be so terrified of her, and treat her like a normal, dignified human being." She confirmed to the AP that she wrote the letter.
She added, "I will always forgive you for thinking the way you do, because I know you think you are acting in my best interests."
Sacha Baron Cohen, the actor behind "Borat," is reportedly working on a movie inspired by the tycoon's proposal, according to Hollywood trade publications.
Cecil Chao, who made his fortune as a Hong Kong property developer, has a reputation for being a playboy with a love for Rolls-Royces. He once claimed to have had 10,000 girlfriends but has never married. Gigi Chao is one of his three children by three different women.
The South China Morning Post, one of the papers that published the letter, reported last week that since her father went public with his offer, she has received "strange" phone calls from would-be suitors, and that most open by saying, "I want to be a billionaire!"


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Public transit. My favorite way to get from point A to point F. It’s inconvenient, noisy and the other passengers smell funny. Most people can’t stand the stench of normal like the one sitting next to me. He slumped over and bemoaned the state of the human condition. I just smile and roll my eyes because his weird is not as toxic as he wants to believe.
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dark and my memoirs whispered vampire and I pushed them a way. If only I was not quite dead, I would have an excuse for dwelling in dark places and shunning human contact.
The seconds crawl before I convince myself the light won’t hurt as much as it did yesterday. I flip on the light switch and my eyes burn and sting. Yeah, it still hurt just as much as it did yesterday.
UV is still asleep when I turn on his heat lamp but he starts awake at the faint click. He’ s paranoid that way. I tell him there will be no food til dinner time but he still swims towards the glass. Turtles are like dogs, they beg for food even when their not hungry.
A debate breaks out between myself and I over having a shower or breakfast. There’s no time for both. The shower wins, it always dose but the debate is ritual.

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“Have you ever got stuck in a dress?” seethed Bhavya*. Understandably so. After hours of scouring rack after rack, the 37-year-old had finally laid her hands on that peplum dress she wanted to wear. “According to the label it was meant to fit me like a glove,” she said, recounting that moment two summers ago of wriggling her arms, chest, hips into it. “I held my breath, pulled my stomach in but…” The “but” took her down an abyss far, far away from her fantasy wardrobe. “And I’m not even a plus size. Why do you think so many like me seek solace in boxy, sack-like clothes?” she rued.


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Former Arsenal man Emmanuel Petit admits Eddie Nketiah is a talented player, but he insists the Englishman cannot replace Gabriel Jesus.
Jesus was injured while playing for Brazil at the World Cup and will be sidelined for some months, handing a unique chance to Nketiah to become Arsenal’s first-choice striker.
However, the Englishman has hardly played all season and didn’t do so much to show he is ready during the midseason friendly games.
Speaking about the situation, Petit said via The Sun:
“Nketiah is a good player but he is still young. He is gaining experience all the time, but you can’t replace Jesus with Nketiah and expect the same results. It is too soon for him. If you put him in and expect that, that is not fair on the player, but his time will come.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
Nketiah was in terrific form at the end of last season, and we thought he would be the first choice in this campaign, but Arsenal landed Jesus.
He has played only in Europe and the Carabao Cup so far and has not done particularly badly.
Fans will hope he will even be better when he starts matches regularly as the club’s first-choice striker. But if he does not score enough goals by January, we probably should buy a new striker.
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This article is a continued article of Common Knowledge Points of CompTIA Security+ Part 1
Telnet: It is used for remote network management based on TCP port number 23.
OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol): It is an HTTP-based certificate revocation list replacement scheme for checking certificate status.
CRL (Certificate Revocation List): It is a list of certificates revoked before the expiration date.
PKI (Public Key Infrastructure): It is a system composed of CA, certificates, software, services, and other cryptographic components to ensure the authenticity and validity of data or entities.
X.509: It is a standard for formatting certificates. It uses the information provided in the CSR to define the structure of the certificate.
Secure Transport Layer Protocol (TLS): It is used to provide confidentiality and data integrity between two communicating applications.
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP): It is an application-layer control protocol that can be used to create, modify, or terminate multimedia sessions, such as Internet phone calls.
SCP: It is a Secure copy, which is used for remote file copying, and the entire copying process is encrypted. Data transmission uses SSH, and uses the same authentication method as SSH, providing the same security guarantee.
Split tunneling: It is a computer network concept that allows mobile users to use the same or different network connections to simultaneously access different security domains.
Banner grabbing: It is a technology used to obtain information about computer systems on the network and services running on its open ports.
Port 465 is used for the secure SMTP protocol. Port 993 is used for the secure IMAP protocol. Port 995 is used for the secure POP3 protocol. By allowing these ports you allow encrypted mail. Port 25 is used for SMTP and is not encrypted. Port is used for unencrypted POP3, and port 143 (or 220) is used for unencrypted IMAP.
Radius (remote authentication dial-up user service): It provides a standard protocol for centralized authentication and authorization services for remote users.
Kerberos: It is an authentication service based on a time-sensitive ticket-granting system.
Diameter: It is an authentication protocol that allows multiple connection types (such as wireless connections) to be used.
TACACS (Terminal Access Controller Access Control System): It provides a remote access protocol for centralized authentication and authorization services for remote users.
PAP (Password Authentication Protocol): It is very old and will not re-authenticate. In fact, it even sends the password in clear text, so it should not be used anymore.
SPAP (Shiva Password Authentication Protocol): It adds password encryption to PAP, but does not re-authenticate.
OAUTH (Open Authentication): It is a password-based authentication protocol, usually used in conjunction with OpenID.
SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language): It is an XML-based framework used to exchange security-related information between the client and the server.
NTLM (NTLAN Manager): It is a challenge-response authentication protocol created by Microsoft and used in their products. It was eventually replaced by NTLM v2. Microsoft networks now use Kerberos.
MAC (Mandatory Access Control): Users with lower privileges are not allowed to see data with higher privilege levels.
DAC (discretionary access control): Let each data owner configure its own security, and the object will be configured with a list of users allowed to access the object.
RBAC (Role-Based Access Control): It is a system that controls access based on the user's role.
ABAC (Attribute-Based Access Control): It is used to evaluate a set of attributes owned by each subject to determine whether access can be authorized.
TOTP: A time-based one-time password can only be used once, and is only valid for a short period of time after it is released.
DAMP: Database activity monitoring and prevention system will be the most effective choice. These systems work similarly to IPS but are dedicated to databases.
PIV: Personal identity verification is standardized FIPS 201 (Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 201), which is applicable to federal employees.
SSO (Single Sign-On): It is one of the most popular solutions for enterprise business integration. The definition of SSO is that in multiple application systems, users only need to log in once to access all mutually trusted application systems.
HMAC (Hash-based Message Authentication Code): It is a method of verifying the integrity and authenticity of a message by combining a cryptographic hash function (such as MD5 or SHA-1) with a key.
DAC: Discretionary access control allows data owners to set access control.
EFS (Encrypted File System): NTFS-based public key encryption in Microsoft Windows.
UAC: User account control prevents unauthorized applications from running.
Shibboleth: It is a middleware solution for identity verification and identity management. It uses SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) and runs on the Internet.
BIA (Business Impact Analysis): It is a systematic activity used to identify organizational risks and determine the impact on ongoing mission-critical businesses and processes.
PIA (Privacy Impact Assessment): It is a tool used to determine and analyze the risks to privacy in the life cycle of a program or system.
Extranet: This private network can provide access privileges to external parties, especially suppliers, partners, and specific customers.
Intranet: It is a private cloud that can only be accessed by the organization's own employees.
SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language): It is an XML-based framework for exchanging security-related information between the client and the server.
EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol): A wireless authentication protocol. Enables the system to use hardware-based identifiers (such as fingerprint scanners or smart card readers) for identity verification.
EAP-FAST: It is used when the strong password policy cannot be enforced and the certificate is not used. It consists of three stages: EAP-FAST authentication, establishing a secure channel, and client authentication.
CSR (Certificate Signing Request): It is a request sent by the applicant to the CA to apply for a digital identity certificate.
RC4: It is an example of stream encryption, which encrypts one bit of data at a time.
DHE: Use temporary keys to provide a secure key exchange.
ECDHE (Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral): It is an encryption protocol that uses temporary keys and elliptic curve encryption technology to provide a secure key exchange. It is usually used with TLS to provide perfect forward secrecy.
AES: It is a sub-series of the Rijndael code developed by Vincent Rijmen and Joan Daemen. Rijndael is a series of cipher sets with different keys and group lengths, supporting 128, 192, and 256-bit key sizes.


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MOSCOW, May 31. /TASS/. The May 28 trial launch of the newest Russian Tsirkon hypersonic missile was performed at a maximum distance; this job finalized the state trials for the product for surface naval carriers, a source in Russian military industrial complex told TASS.
"The launch of the Tsirkon at a maximum distance successfully finalized the program of state trials for surface naval carriers," the source said.
TASS has no official confirmation of this information yet.
On May 28, Russian Defense Ministry announced that Project 22350 frigate Admiral Gorshkov fired a Tsirkon missile from the Barents Sea at a naval target at the White Sea some 1,000 km away. According to the Ministry, the missile successfully hit the target, and the flight went as planned.
Earlier, a TASS source said that the NPO Mashinostroyeniya, the developer of the missile, is currently working on a coastal system for the Tsirkon missile.
The missile’s precise specifications are classified. On February 20, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin disclosed that the Tsirkon missile can reach Mach 9 speed and has range of over 1,000 km. On August 24, 2021, Russian Defense Ministry signed a contract on shipment of these missiles during the Army 2021 forum.


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The 2019 Apertura Liga MX quarterfinals get underway on Wednesday, headlined by a mouthwatering clash between reigning champion Tigres and Club America on Thursday evening. Here's a breakdown of each team and quarterfinal series:
Santos Laguna (1) vs. Monterrey (8)
If there is a team not to miss this liguilla, it is Santos Laguna. Throughout the 18 regular-season games, there were a total of 65 goals in games involving the Torreon club. Santos topped the table in terms of goals scored (40), but the 25 leaked at the other end is only worse than Morelia (26) of the teams that have made the postseason.
Guillermo Almada's arrival as head coach at the start of the season has impacted the team's style in a major way. Los Guerreros are the most vertical team in the league: The average possession sequence time was six seconds in the regular season, almost half that of possession-hungry Tigres (11.2 seconds). Santos press high, break quickly and move the ball forward at every opportunity; 41.8 percent of Santos Laguna's passes are forward (the highest in the league).
Central midfielder Fernando Gorriaran is arguably the signing of the season, recovering more balls per game (9.35) than any other player in the league this Apertura. Winger Brian Lozano can also make a claim to be the player of the Apertura, while Julio Furch is remarkably consistent in the goal-scoring department.
Jonathan Orozco's injury situation will be vital. The goalkeeper is excellent with his feet and at playing the sweeper-keeper that Almada desires, but the 33-year-old underwent adductor surgery earlier this month and his presence in the liguilla hasn't, as yet, been confirmed.
Santos' Achilles heel is that teams that beat their high press can expose the defense and find success -- hence the amount of goals conceded. Antonio Mohamed's Monterrey will have no issue with playing longer balls instead of risking playing out from the back.
Standard formation: 4-2-3-1/4-4-1-1. Almada has gradually shifted from playing two strikers (Furch and Adrian Lozano) to opting for a No. 10 in Diego Valdes.
Most important player: Gorriaran. The Uruguayan is going to have to pin the side together and is key in winning the ball back.
Soccer Power Index to win Apertura: 17 percent
SPI to advance vs. Monterrey: 53 percent
Santos Laguna wouldn't have wanted to face CONCACAF Champions League holder Monterrey at this stage of the playoffs. Los Rayados are an awkward side, full of talented individuals that have underachieved in the regular season.
Mohamed took over from Diego Alonso in early October and Monterrey hasn't lost since, but that disguises the fact that a home 1-1 draw versus Veracruz and other performances haven't exactly been convincing.
But this is now a huge few weeks for Monterrey, who will be featuring at the Club World Cup in Qatar starting Dec. 11. A meeting with Liverpool could await in the semifinals of that tournament, as well as domestic glory.
Analyzing Monterrey's style is slightly more difficult because of the change of manager, but Rayados sent in more crosses than any team in the playoffs (392) during the regular season and 41 percent (11) of the team's goals came from set pieces, with the likes of Nico Sanchez, Cesar Montes and Funes Mori dangerous in the air.
Against a Santos team that likes to attack, Mohamed is likely to be cautious, even in the first leg at home. And with individual match-winners like Rodolfo Pizarro, Dorlan Pabon and Jesus Gallardo, it's probably a wise strategy.
The loss of Funes Mori to injury is a major blow, but former Tottenham Hotspur striker Vincent Janssen is primed for a start in the biggest game since he arrived in Mexico.
Standard formation: 4-2-3-1. Mohamed has played around with how to harness the attacking talent he has at his disposal, even trying a five-player defense for a period against Club Tijuana, and so changes could be expected.
Most important player: Pizarro. The Mexico international has previously propelled Pachuca and Chivas to titles and has the ability to do the same at Rayados.
SPI to win the Apertura: 13 percent
SPI to advance vs. Santos Laguna: 47 percent
Leon (2) vs. Morelia (7)
If there was to be a team of 2019 so far in Liga MX, it would have to be Leon -- even if La Fiera did run out of steam in the 2019 Clausura final and lost to Tigres. Leon has won five more games in Liga MX this year than any other team (25 to Tigres' 20) and backed up its impressive Clausura with a second-place finish in the Apertura regular-season standings.
This time around, the possession-based team -- only Tigres had higher average possession per game -- is better placed than in the Clausura to make a run for the title, with Leo Ramos and Ismael Sosa increasing Nacho Ambriz's attacking options, both for the starting XI and off the bench. Even club legend Luis Montes has had to settle for a spot as a sub in recent weeks.
Like Santos, Leon is a team that attacks as its core philosophy, and while La Fiera scored 38 times in the regular season, it also leaked 23 goals.
Against Morelia, Leon is the favorite, but Monarcas have been a changed team since Pablo Guede took over on Aug. 20, replacing Javier Torrente. Since that date, Morelia has lost only three of 12 Liga MX games.
Standard formation: 4-4-2/4-4-1-1. Ambriz has been tending to play Sosa alongside Jose Juan Macias, although the Argentine often drops deeper.
Most important player: Macias. A charge for the title is helped greatly by an in-form striker, and while Macias is only 20, he's perfectly capable of impacting the postseason in Leon's favor.
SPI to win Apertura: 13 percent
SPI to advance vs. Morelia: 63 percent
Of all the teams in the playoffs, Morelia is the surprise package. But here's the thing: since Guede took over in August, no Liga MX side has won more games than the team from Michoacan (seven) and only Leon and Santos Laguna scored more goals.
While the likes of Pumas, Pachuca, Cruz Azul and Chivas all tripped up and failed to make the liguilla, Morelia has emerged as the dark horse with very little to lose. It certainly goes into the series against Leon as the underdog.
There is no star name in Morelia's squad and statistically it looks like a midtable side, but the players appear united. Under Guede, Monarcas are a dangerous proposition.
Standard formation: 4-1-3-2. Guede has options here, but the most probable formation is a diamond midfield with two strikers up top.
Most important player: Sebastian Sosa. The Uruguayan is a goalkeeper who divides opinions, but on his day his stop-stopping ability can help Morelia overcome teams that, on paper, are stronger.
SPI to win Apertura: 4 percent
SPI to advance vs. Leon: 37 percent
Tigres (3) vs. Club America (6)
The general consensus is that Tigres haven't been at their best this Apertura. Certainly, Santos Laguna and Leon have been a wrung above them on the Liga MX ladder. But even if Tigres drew too often (eight times), the Nuevo Leon club only suffered two losses all season and have been defeated just five times in 41 league games in 2019.
Tigres once again topped the possession-per-game stats (61 percent) and had more touches of the ball (12,068) than any other team, although only 29 percent of passes went forward, hinting at just how important looking after the ball is to coach Ricardo "Tuca" Ferretti.
The quarterfinal against Club America promises to be special, with Tigres in the hunt for their sixth title of the decade and Las Aguilas their fourth. A major blow for Tigres came with the news Monday that goalkeeper Nahuel Guzman is out of the series against America.
Standard formation: 4-4-1-1. This could easily change. Tigres' squad is mature, well drilled and Ferretti played three center-backs on Sunday against FC Juarez. The Brazilian also has the option of employing a 4-4-2.
Most important player: Andre-Pierre Gignac. The Frenchman isn't known as "Mr. Liguilla" for nothing.
SPI to win Apertura: 17 percent
SPI to advance vs. Club America: 51 percent
It's been a difficult season for Miguel Herrera and Club America. It started badly with the late sales of Agustin Marchesin, Mateus Uribe and Edson Alvarez to Europe and then gradually got worse with injuries to Nico Castillo, Giovani dos Santos, Emanuel Aguilera and Nicolas Benedetti. There have been rumors that the club hasn't been happy with Herrera's explosive touchline behavior -- he's been sent off three times this season -- but "Piojo" has done reasonably well in guiding his team to just three losses in 18 regular season games.
Las Aguilas have had a 19-day break since their last Liga MX game. Opinion is divided as to whether that means America will be fresh heading into the postseason or a little rusty. Certainly, the injuries have healed up, Castillo and Henry Martin are finding some form up front and America remains an elite Liga MX team despite its struggles this season.
Standard formation: 4-4-2. The option of playing Dos Santos or Roger Martinez behind Castillo or Martin is always there for Herrera, but given the form of the strikers, it'd be a shock if he didn't use both of them.
Most important player: Guillermo Ochoa. The 34-year-old goalkeeper returned from Europe to rejoin America for occasions like this liguilla and he's a big-game player.
SPI to win Apertura: 19 percent
SPI to advance vs. Tigres: 49 percent
Queretaro (4) vs. Necaxa (5)
Victor Manuel Vucetich's side hasn't garnered a lot of attention, but actually created more chances during the regular season than any other team in the liguilla. "Rey Midas" has once again created a balanced team that has surprised.
The loss of Colombian center-back Alexis Perez to long-term injury in October was a bitter blow for Vucetich, and he's still finding a way to compensate. The options are to employ Luis Romo alongside Jair Pereira, or bring in Spanish center-back Cadete and leave Romo in the holding role he has excelled in.
Standard formation: 4-3-1-2. Queretaro under Vuctich has been pretty consistent of late with three central midfielders shielding the defense and giving No. 10 Marcel Ruiz freedom to roam.
Most important player: Ake Loba. The 21-year-old from Ivory Coast comes into the liguilla off the back of two goals against Morelia last weekend and has the tools to do damage.
SPI to win Apertura: 9 percent
SPI to advance vs. Necaxa: 55 percent
The Aguascalientes team has done a fine job in selling on some of its best talent for a high profit margin, reinvesting the money and continuing to stay competitive.
A fifth-place finish in the regular season represents a job well done for Guillermo Vazquez and his players, but after the Clausura liguilla left a bad taste -- with Brian Fernandez leaving for Portland Timbers just before it began -- Necaxa will want a more positive showing this time. Hugo Gonzalez has been outstanding in goal, Cristian Calderon looks like being Mexico's future left-back and Mauro Quiroga has come into Liga MX to replace Fernandez and won the scoring title in his debut season.
Vazquez's team is pragmatic and patient, with only 46.3 percent average possession this season, which is the least among playoff teams. The aerial-duels-won percentage (55.9 percent) shows a team that can mix it physically and won't be overawed by Queretaro.
Standard formation: 4-4-2. Vazquez has the option of a 4-1-4-1 up his sleeve, but the Quiroga/Maxi Salas partnership is likely to be kept up front.
Most important player: Quiroga. The physical center-forward not only scores goals, but also brings others into the game with his back to goal and is a vital cog in how Necaxa plays.
SPI to win the Apertura: 7 percent
SPI to advance vs. Queretaro: 45 percent

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This Colt Military Model 1902 "U.S. Army" contract semi-automatic pistol was manufactured in 1902. This pistol is one of the key models required in any advanced Colt martial arms collection. This pistol eventually lead to the development and adoption of the Colt Model 1911 pistol. There were exactly 200 of this model manufactured, they were shipped on two different dates and serial number blocks on July 1902. This example was shipped in the first block of serial numbers as shipped to Springfield Armory in 15 July 1902, as noted on pages 42-47 in the excellent reference book "U.S. Military Automatic Pistols 1894-1920" by Meadows. It is correctly marked with the "U.S." on the left side trigger guard bow, with the U.S. Ordnance inspector initials "J.T.T." for Capt. John Thompson on the right side of the frame and the sub-inspector initials "R.A.C." for Rinaldo A. Carr on the upper trigger guard bow. It has the correct military style square end butt with the lanyard loop on the lower left rear side and sporting style round hammer spur. The left side of the slide is marked with Colt's two-line, two-block patent marking and address markings "BROWNING'S PATENT PAT' APRIL 20.1897" followed by "COLT'S PATENT FIREARMS MFG.CO./HARTFORD, CONN.U.S.A.", with the Rampant Colt logo stamped at the rear. The right side is marked "MODEL 1902" directly behind the slide checkering with "AUTOMATIC COLT/CALIBRE 38 RIMLESS SMOKELESS" behind the ejection port. The left side of the frame has the serial number stamped above the trigger guard bow. It is complete with the an original nickel plated magazine marked "PAT'D Sept 9. 1894" on the base plate. These pistols have a Colt high polish blue finish with checkered hard rubber grips with "Colt" at the top and the Rampant Colt logo in the center of the grip. The trigger, slide stop and rear sight have the niter blue finish. The hammer and lanyard loop are casehardened. The barrel is blue.
Very good with strong traces of the bright original high polish blue finish still remaining overall mostly in the protected areas of the frame, with the balance of the metal a mixed gray/brown patina finish in some areas. The grips are very good with distinct checkering and markings on both sides showing even honest wear across the tops of each grip panel. Mechanically excellent. This example will nicely fill that vacant slot in your U.S. military collection!
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Hemophilia | Hemophilia A | Hemophilia Treatment
Hemophilia is a congenital hereditary disorder. It is undoubtedly the most famous among genetically determined blood diseases.
Hemophilia is expressed in elevated bleeding. whether it is as a result of external, even the smallest damage, or internal bleeding in tissues, joint capsules, etc. Trauma that causes almost non-stop bleeding can be minor.
This blood disease has critical consequences for internal organs and joints. causing concomitant illnesses and deviations.
Causes of haemophilia
Scientists attribute hereditary components to the main reasons provoking the development of hemophilia. Genetically defective blood clotting is inherited from generation to generation.The carrier of the defective gene is exclusively the female organism.
The affected person with hemophilia is usually a man. In fairness, it is worth noting that there are scientifically described cases of hemophilia in women. Still, these cases are sporadic and happen when both parents of a sick girl are carriers of the damaged gene.
Passing the illness on to her youngsters, the female conductor herself remains healthy, her sons are doomed to hemophilia, and her daughters additionally turn out to be carriers of the hidden gene until they pass it on to their children. Therefore, there is only one way to interrupt the pathological chain, to use the slightly cruel advice of geneticists and carefully plan the birth of future offspring.
By the recommendations of modern geneticists, female carriers shouldn’t have children at all, and only sons. should be born in the families of males with hemophilia and healthy girls, pregnant girls are offered to undergo an artificial termination of being pregnant.
Currently, scientists have not but found a way to eliminate the cause of hemophilia. Today, unfortunately, it is not but possible, because it’s embedded in the human genetic code. A patient with hemophilia has no choice but to study to live with this disease and get used to the fact that his body needs particular precautions.
Disorders Caused by Hemophilia
Blood clotting is a complex biochemical process in which fibrinogen. The protein contained in plasma, modifications its structure. This occurs under the influence of various factors, among which the release of tissue thromboplastin is essential. Thromboplastin formation happens with the assistance of quite a few substances that are present in small portions within the blood. One of them, factor VIII, or antihemophilic factor (AGF), is absent or insufficiently current in these affected by hemophilia. The term hemophilia means, in fact, two diseases with the same symptoms, however different causes of occurrence.
There are two types of hemophilia, namely:
Hemophilia A, or classic hemophilia
Hemophilia B, or Christmas disease
Hemophilia C is a scarce species that mainly affects Jews.
The second kind is less common. Type A lacks factor VIII, while hemophilia B is referred to as factor IX, or plasma thromboplastin called Christmas factor. It is also essential for blood clotting, and it becomes nearly impossible in the absence of it.
The third type arises from the lack of factor XI. Due to the non-standard clinical image, not so long ago, this type was isolated separately and is not included in the kind of hemophilia.
What has acquired hemophilia?
Hemophilia is inherited. However, there have been cases when the manifestations of this disease were observed in adults who had not been sick earlier than and didn’t have sufferers within the household. Acquired hemophilia is all the time a type of type A.
In half of the cases, doctors have not been able to perceive the cause of the disease. In other circumstances, most cancers, sure medicines, and different objects that defy classification were triggered.
Signs, symptoms, diagnosis and clinical presentation of hemophilia
The clinical picture is characterized by an increased tendency of patients with blood loss. Already just a few days after birth, continuous bleeding may appear, which endangers the life of the newborn. But in some cases, hemophilia solely appears when the child starts running.
The mother and father could observe an increased tendency to bruising, and bleeding in the skin and mucous membranes after commonplace microtraumas. For example, light shocks, wounds, etc. which speaks of this blood disease.
At this age, nosebleeds or bleeding of the oral mucosa (teething) are also frequent. In older children, profuse bleeding follows after tooth extraction or tonsillectomy. These are the first indicators of hemophilia. Bleeding can also occur in internal organs such as the liver, spleen, intestines, kidneys, and brain.
In this case, they speak of hemophilic arthropathy or hemarthrosis. As a result of such intra-articular bleeding, particularly in the knee, there is a risk of destruction of bones and cartilage and a significant restriction of movements of the affected joint.
Hemophilia is a disease in which symptoms can differ in intensity. The severity of symptoms is proportional to the severity of the genetic defect. If this issue of blood clotting is absent, then the patient is in extreme danger. In severe cases, dying happens already in early childhood due to cerebral hemorrhage, too much blood loss after wounds. Or even as a result of blood accumulates in the neck, and this leads to suffocation.
The grown-up child is more and more aware that he’s sick, and learns to control his activity, if possible, to avoid accidents and injuries. If young patients survived early childhood. Then they can rightfully hope for long, lively life.
It is impossible to foresee more precisely how the disease will develop over time. For example, infections can further exacerbate bleeding tendencies. Sometimes you can observe a clinical course, which is characterized by the presence of several phases.
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There is a period when injuries cause only mild blood loss or even no bleeding; then again, there comes a time when extensive, practically unprovoked bleeding occurs. Those. Hemophilia and its symptoms can manifest in waves.
Different specialists diagnose Hemophilia – first of all, it’s necessary to visit a pediatrician who can prescribe a referral to a hematologist, neonatologist, genetics, etc. In case of concomitant complications and pathologies, it is necessary to contact the appropriate specialists. The diagnosis is made after a series of laboratory and genetic tests.
Signs of hemophilia
To clarify the diagnosis, tests may be required: determining the amount of fibrinogen, determination of the prothrombin index, commitment of thrombin time, definitions of mixed.
Couples who expect a baby and are at risk should consult with specialists and conduct relevant research from the beginning and throughout the pregnancy.
Hemophilia cannot be cured; a patient who suffers from this blood disease has to fight all his life with symptoms and caused pathologies. That is, hemophilia is an incurable disease.
It would be irresponsible not to explain to the parents of a kid with hemophilia how harmful it is. However, they should not assume that their child is lost. Today, even a person with this disease has the opportunity to guide an almost healthy life.
Replacement therapy is needed to control bleeding tendency. This means that the missing clotting factor must be replaced by external injection. This can be done by infusion of plasma or whole blood or concentrating on the issue (VIII or IX) itself.
The clotting factor must be administered as soon as possible when bleeding occurs. In some countries (USA, Scandinavia), many patients give themselves intravenous injections of plasma concentrate as soon as they notice the slightest bleeding.
Even before contacting the nearest specialized medical centre. Since it’s challenging to obtain a sufficient quantity of factor VIII, recently, there has been an active search for genetic engineering methods.
Another possibility is agents that directly stimulate the formation of factor VIII in the patient’s body.
The named therapeutic possibilities ensure the secure conduct of small (tooth extraction, etc.) and large surgical operations in people with hemophilia. Orthopaedic treatment can be necessary since all kinds of damage to bones or parts of joints are prevalent. They should be warned.
That is, hemophilia is an incurable illness.
It would be irresponsible not to explain to the parents of a child with hemophilia how dangerous this disease is. However, they must not think that their child is lost. Today, even those with this disease can guide an almost healthy life.
Also, correct physical and mental education is critical so that hemophiliacs do not become groups of rejected people in society because they cannot withstand everyday life.
Patients with hemophilia develop chronic arthropathy due to repeated bleeding in the joint cavity. This is the most important complication of this hereditary disease.
Most often, it affects one of the knees, sometimes both, and can significantly limit the patient’s motor ability. These symptoms can be improved through the systematic use of plasma concentrate, which will dramatically reduce the manifestations of bleeding in the joint.
But even today, many patients with hemophilia suffer from the so-called hemophilic joint. For some unfortunate patients, the only way to heal their malaise is synovectomy (removal of the joint’s synovium. The pathological change of which as a result of bleeding becomes the leading cause of hemophilic arthropathy. After such an intervention, some of the hemophiliacs were able to return to an almost healthy life after immobility.
In childhood, an informed choice of toys and activities can be extremely vital in preventing traumatic episodes. At school age, patients with hemophilia can, without particular exceptions, participate in the normal educational process. He should not withdraw from any of the activities of other children. He mustn’t feel inferior suffering from his illness so that he can lead an independent life later.
Throughout life, hemophiliacs adapt to their illness. He knows what restrictions she imposes, reckons with them, and accordingly plans his activities. Most often, people with hemophilia have intelligence above average.
Forecast and prevention of hemophilia
Long-term substitution therapy leads to isoimmunization, the formation of antibodies that block the procoagulant activity of the introduced factors, and the ineffectiveness of hemostatic treatment at usual doses.
In such cases, an affected person with hemophilia undergoes plasmapheresis, and immunosuppressants are prescribed. Since sufferers with hemophilia experience frequent transfusion of blood components, the risk of infection with HIV, hepatitis B, C and D, herpes, cytomegaly is not excluded.
Mild hemophilia does not affect life expectancy; with severe hemophilia, the prognosis worsens with massive bleeding caused by operations, trauma.
Prevention involves medical genetic counseling for married with a family history of hemophilia. Children with hemophilia must always have an individual passport with them, which indicates the type of illness, blood group, and Rh-affiliation.
They are shown a protective regime, prevention of injuries, dispensary supervision of a pediatrician, hematologist, pediatric dentist, pediatric orthopedist, and other specialists; observation in a specialized hemophilic centre.
Every year, World Hemophilia Day is celebrated under a new motto that focuses on a particular problem associated with this disease.
And although today, thanks to doctors and scientists’ efforts and international organizations to fight hemophilia, this disease is no longer a “death sentence” for a patient. It’s still impossible to stop there – this is what World Hemophilia Day reminds mankind of.
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Research presented at the 16th Annual Distillers Grains Symposium in St. Louis, Mo., clearly showed that industry interest is focused on oil content in DDGS and the impact of lower oil content on nutritional value. Agricultural researchers from a number of major universities presented data that indicated low oil DDGS has differing impacts, depending on the species.
Rate of oil removal
Dr. Robert Wisner, agricultural economist from Iowa State University, reported that currently near 60 percent of the ethanol plants in Iowa are removing corn oil from distillers grains products at the plant, and this number will increase to 70 percent by the end of the year. Most of the oil is going to bio-diesel production, but much of it (<50 percent) will end up in blended feed grade fats, which will eventually enter the feed industry (particularly the poultry industry). Dr. Wisner presented the following information (Table 1) about dietary ingredient replacement ratios for DDGS or DDGS in the diet of various livestock.
The current market use of distillers grains products is greatest with beef and followed by dairy, exports, swine and then poultry use. Poultry has shown the most rapid increase in market use over the past year, while cattle feed numbers have decreased. Primary export markets include Mexico, China and Canada with increased demand by Mexico and decreases in the China and Canadian markets. Overall production of distillers grains has capped at 40 million tons.
Use of low oil DDGS products
Several presentations were made that focused on the use of low oil DDGS products in beef, dairy, swine or poultry diets. Dr. Paul Walker, Illinois State University, presented research showing a decrease in oil content in Illinois derived DDGS going from an average of 10.5 to 6.7 percent. He reported the greatest efficiency of conversion in beef cattle when feeding 25 percent DDGS in the diet but the greatest economic efficiency when feeding 40-45 percent DDGS in the ration.
Low oil DDGS products were less efficient in beef rations, causing increased dry matter intake and average daily feed intake. He estimated the low oil DDGS products to have up to 25 percent less value in beef feedlot rations. Dr. Paul Kononoff, dairy extension specialist at the University of Nebraska, presented research data on the use of DDGS in dairy cows showing that dairy cows could safely be fed levels of DDGS as high as 30 percent of the ration with no negative effects on milk production. Dr. Kononoff emphasized balancing diets high in DDGS for total fiber/roughage content to prevent an imbalance of fatty acid production. Low oil DDGS in dairy cow rations was cost effective and could be more desirable than the high oil counterparts in dairy cattle.
Dr. Hans Stein, University of Illinois swine nutritionist, presented data on the efficiency of corn oil digestibility in pigs fed corn, DDGS, or corn oil. Graph 1 shows how separated corn oil is used much more efficiently than the oil still bound in whole corn, DDGS or high protein DDGS. This data is particularly noteworthy as the feed industry evaluates low oil DDGS products in monogastrics such as hogs and poultry.
DDGS in laying hen rations
Dr. Sheila E. Purdum, extension poultry specialist and professor at the University of Nebraska, presented the most recent research on the utilization of low oil DDGS products in laying hen rations. Three DDGS samples (Table 2) were tested: normal oil (11.2 percent), medium oil (7.30 percent), or low (5.62 percent) oil and compared to a diet with no DDGS.
Diets were formulated to contain 20 percent DDGS (Table 3: diets 2-4) and to be isocaloric and equal in protein to the control diets without DDGS. Medium and low oil DDGS products were formulated into the rations using the same metabolizable energy value as normal DDGS, even though researchers knew metabolizable energy was likely lower.
The diets used in this research had high metabolizable energy levels (Table 4) as indicated by gross energy analysis, calculated metabolizable energy was 2860 kcal/kg for the control and normal DDGS diets (Table 3). No adjustments were made in diet metabolizable energy for the medium or low oil DDGS diets. It was theorized that the low oil DDGS lowered overall dietary metabolizable energy intake by 6-10 kcal, thus not having an extreme effect on total energy available to the hen. Hens increased intake by about 2-2.4 grams/day on the medium and low oil diets, which was not significant (Table 5).
There were no significant effects between treatments with regards to daily egg production, feed intake, egg weight, and hen weight (Table 4) despite the reduction in dietary fat and gross energy due to the lower fat DDGS. Egg production dropped slightly with DDGS treatments, but this was not a significant decrease. Lower dietary metabolizable energy and intake did not significantly alter hen weight gain during this trial.
Need for communication
In summary, low oil DDGS products can hold a place in livestock and poultry rations, but have slightly less value as oil is taken out. Producers of low oil DDGS should not expect as high of economic value associated with low oil products compared to higher oil products in the livestock feed industry. It is very important that buyers and sellers communicate regularly about the oil content and potential impact on other nutrient levels in the DDGS product.
The availability of DDGS products for poultry and livestock will remain high as exports to countries such as China has leveled out and domestic ethanol production is steady.

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By Gary M. White, MD
Tinea pedis represents a fungal infection of the feet by a dermatophyte.
Fungal infection of the feet usually starts between the toes--often in the web spaces between the 3rd, 4th and 5th toes. From there, the infection can extend onto the toes and sole. At some point, the dermatophyte can extend to the tips of the toes and then invade the undersurface of the nail, causing onychomycosis. Alternatively, it may extend across the sole of the foot and eventually cause a moccasin-type distribution. Ultimately, it may spread to the dorsum of the foot, leg, groin or body. Some patients may have involvement of both feet and one hand, so called "two foot, one hand disease."
The morphology of tinea pedis may be eczematous, with redness and scale, or it may be microvesicular, like pompholyx. The source of the initial infection is usually not known, but public gym or showering facilities where the floor stays wet are usually full of dermatophytes.
The two main considerations for one or two red, scaly feet are tinea pedis and eczema. A KOH prep is usually the easiest way to distinguish the two. Clues that tinea is the cause include i) coexistent onychomycosis, ii) a moccasin distribution (redness and scale along the entire sole and extending up a cm onto the sides), and iii) involvement of the web spaces. Clues that eczema is the cause are i) failure to improve on a topical antifungal medication, ii) involvement of only the instep, and iii) an atopic background (e.g., allergies, hay fever, or asthma).
Rarely, an allergic contact dermatitis to an allergen in shoe wear (shoe dermatitis) may be the cause. In this case, topical antifungals are ineffective and topical steroids help but do not clear. Often, the dorsa of the feet are involved. Patch testing is needed to establish this diagnosis.
If the KOH is negative, but suspicion is high, apply a tape to the side of foot and ask the patient to reapply whenever it falls off. Have the patient return in 3 days for a high-quality sample given the new hot, humid environment [JAAD 2014 May].
The feet and the toe web spaces should be kept as dry as possible. Patients should remove footwear when possible. Zeasorb AF super absorbent powder may be routinely put into the shoes to both kill the fungus and keep things dry.
Topical terbinafine (OTC) has a quicker onset of action compared to clotrimazole and can lead to significant improvement in many patients after one week of BID therapy. Miconazole or clotrimazole are still good medications. Keeping the feet as dry as possible is also important. Patients should remove their shoes when home and may benefit from super absorbent powders (e.g., Zeasorb AF). If the patient wants a prescription, any of a variety of prescription antifungals are effective. Any fungal infection of the nails may lead to recurrence and should be treated (see onychomycosis). Many patients have a propensity to develop tinea pedis. These patients need to use an antifungal agent (e.g., terbinafine, clotrimazole, miconazole) 2-3 times per week long-term. A patient handout with suggestions for preventing onychoycosis is available and may be helpful here. Control, not cure, should be emphasized. One week of oral terbinafine 250 mg/day had the same efficacy as 4 weeks of clotrimazole 1% cream BID in one study [BJD 1998;139;675].
This case was unusual in that only the instep was involved, suggesting eczema. But KOH and culture proved it to be fungal.
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The judge said that the public has the right to know what happened to their beloved chief minister and that since she has passed away, anyone can raise a question if they find the death suspicious.
DMK Treasurer M K Stalin on Friday sought a comprehensive probe by a sitting HC judge into her death.
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University of California researchers working at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently unveiled a new theory explaining the strange coexistence of metallic and insulating phases in the crystals of a mineral called perovskite manganite. The theoretical framework they present could provide a basis for the engineering of nanoscale metallic and insulating phase patterns in manganites. Such phase patterns could be useful in the computer industry’s quest to miniaturize computer disk drive heads beyond their current size limitations.
In a paper published in the March 25 issue of the scientific journal Nature, Los Alamos scientists Ken Ahn, Turab Lookman and Alan Bishop theorize that the presence of metallic and insulating phases in perovskite manganite are strain-induced, caused by pressures applied to the mineral’s structure lattice during formation. Perovskite manganite, or manganite, is a steel-gray or black mineral that occurs as crystals of manganese ore. Perovskite refers to the cubic crystal form the manganite may take.
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