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With only a couple of days to go until I leave Chamonix for good, it seemed only right to do some of the tourist things that I’ve never got round to doing in my almost 9 years here, plus some of the old favourites that I will never get tired of. August is by far the busiest time of year in Chamonix, with wall to wall people lining the already crowded pedestrian streets and a permanent line of cars trying to park in the town centre. These last 2 weeks of the summer are especially busy with the world famous ultra marathon ‘Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc’ looming; there are runners literally everywhere and the town is absolutely at capacity, but every now and again you just have to brave the crowds and even embrace the overwhelming busy-ness of it, because people come here for a reason. It’s amazing! Some of my highlights over the last couple of weeks:
The endlessly spectacular Aiguille de Midi:
If you ever get bored of the views from the top of here, there’s something wrong with you…
The tramway du Mont Blanc and hiking up to the Tête Rousse mountain hut This is the start of the classic route up to Mont Blanc and a path well travelled by many thousands of people. A beautiful day out:
The Lac D’Emosson funicular
An incredible 3 part ride from the tiny Swiss town of Le Châtelard up to the Emosson dam and reservoir. Two incredibly steep funicular railway rides with a beautifully quaint and spectacular open air train ride in between. Absolutely worth a visit.
Having visitors is a perfect opportunity to reflect on what you love about a place and why you choose to live there as it forces you to come up with a suitable itinerary that will entertain, occupy and create lasting memories for your guests. Or maybe it’s just me who thinks that visiting guests need their visit planned out step by step? Others may just choose to wing it but the thought of people flying over to visit, and me having nothing planned for them, fills me with horror! What if they have a rubbish time?! What if it’s your fault?! Maybe it depends on the type of visitor, or maybe it’s my love of organisation…! But whatever the reasons, recent visiting family forced me to consider all manner of things such as; where have they already been? What’s the weather going to be like? What can we do in the rain? How much will it cost? How much time have we got? What would they like to do? Do I need to book in advance? What will we eat? What is there to do?! …… And the list goes on and on.
The first few times people visit, it’s easy. You tick off all the main attractions, the cable cars, the famous walks, the viewpoints etc, but once they start arriving for their 4th, 5th, 6th visit, that’s when you start to scratch around for activities and destinations they haven’t already seen. It’s fine when you live there all the time, if it rains you just stay indoors and potter around, but visitors need a holiday, it needs to be a worthwhile visit.
So I’ve decided to compile a small list of activities and excursions I would recommend for non-skiing, non-climbing visitors to do when in Chamonix, all based on my own experience and the reactions of real-life visitors.
* Take the cable car up to the Aiguille de Midi – the 2nd highest cable car in the World! Look up to the highest mountain in the Alps and look across to tumbling glaciers in both France and Italy.
* Take the historic rack and pinion railway up to Montenvers to see the famous Mer de Glace and visit the ice caves.
* Hike up to the magnificent Lac Blanc, either starting from ground level or by taking the Flegere cable car to give a significant head start!
* Take the cable car up to the Plan de l’Aiguille and hike across the high mountain pass to the Montenvers railway station before taking the train down.
* Either snowshoe or walk up to the Vielles Luges restaurant in Les Houches for lunch or just a vin chaud and a bit of people/mountain watching.
* Book a table at the Cremerie in the woods of Argentiere and hike up with head torches for a memorable alpine meal in wonderful, cosy surroundings.
* Drive up to Plaine Joux, facing Mont Blanc, for a perfect view of the whole mountain range, then take a gentle stroll through the forest to the lake before heading back to watch the parapenters literally running off the side of the mountain…
* Spend the day in nearby Annecy, have lunch in the sun or take a swim/hire a pedalo in the beautiful lake.
* Drive through the Mont Blanc tunnel and pop out in Italy to spend the day in a different country eating delicious, cheap Italian food!
* Jump in the car and head off to explore beautiful central Switzerland – Interlaken and the surrounding area at 3 hours drive is well worth a visit.
These are only but a small handful of the things you can do whilst spending some time in the French Alps. If you enjoy the outdoors and appreciate stunning natural scenery then you will never be bored in a place like this, you just need to be willing to alter plans at the last minute as the weather has a knack of hindering even the best laid plans!
Following the lack of snow in the Alps, the last week has seen its fair share of rain, but as dreary as that is to look at out of your window, rain in the valley means snow in the mountains (yippee!) Earlier this week saw a few days of miserable, grey rain, but when the clouds finally lifted they revealed the majestic Aiguille de Midi as it is very rarely seen; the towering sides too sheer to hold snow except in the event of a heavy snowfall combined with very strong winds. I am truly pleased to have captured it in its brief moment of pure white, a very special view, and out of my living room window too!
October has provided us with some amazing weather here recently, and one day last week it was a perfect day for a trail run in the mountains. The run ended up at the mid-station lift of the Aiguille de Midi cable car, the highest one in Europe and whilst this is a beautiful spot on its own, I had a free afternoon so decided I might as well head on up the lift to the very top, always breathtaking and worth a visit no matter how many times you’re been up there. Being almost 3000 metres higher than the town, I was pretty cold in my running kit! But I took my time wandering around the various viewing platforms taking photos and generally admiring Mont Blanc and its stunning neighbours! Looking up I was thrilled to learn that I had timed my visit well as teetering on the edge of one of the highest points I spotted a tiny figure in white wearing the distinctive outfit of a wingsuiter. He was geared up and ready to jump, from a height of 3842 metres.
I quickly flicked my camera on to burst mode and managed to capture the whole jump. After stitching the photos together I am pretty happy with the following astonishing sequence as he descended. You can see near the bottom that he’s just starting to move out away from the rock face, he then plateaued and I watched him fly across the valley at the most incredible speed until he became so small that he dropped out of sight.
As a sport this seems to be becoming more and more popular and I have absolutely no idea why! The thought of jumping in to nothing, a total void, especially that close to a rock face, chills me to my very bones. It’s something I can confidently say that I’ll never ever do, but I can understand that to the adrenaline junkies out there it’s as close to flying like a bird mankind will ever get.

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The lives of 3,700 South African women could be saved each year if the Department of Health makes the HPV vaccine available to the public sector – a move this department is seriously considering, according to the minister of health’s talk at the recent Stop Cervical Cancer in Africa Conference, held in Cape Town.
Two vaccines against the human papillomavirus (HPV) – the virus which causes over 80% of cases of cervical cancer – were registered in South Africa last year and are currently available in the private sector.
However, cervical cancer is often associated with poverty – as it is the women who cannot afford to go for regular Pap smears who are most burdened by the disease. Priced at around R1,350 and R2,100 respectively for the three doses required, the vaccine is out of reach for those who need it the most – the poor.
Introducing the HPV vaccine as part of the vaccine bouquet provided by the state will save thousands of lives a year and reduce morbidity in tens of thousands more.
“The Department of Health is seriously considering introducing two vaccines in the public sector to prevent new cases of cervical cancer,” reads a DoH statement. “It [the department] has to find the resources needed for the introduction of these vaccines.”
“In South Africa our constitution guarantees everyone the right to access to health, including reproductive health services,” said Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, South Africa’s minister of health, but also acknowledged the financial and human resource challenges facing the country’s healthcare system.
First lady Tobeka Madiba Zuma added her voice to this campaign: “I have learnt that in South Africa the vast majority of patients that are diagnosed with cervical cancer are presented at an advanced stage of the disease.
“Some of the obstacles include missed screening opportunities, lack of knowledge about screening, lack of transport, inadequate medical infrastructure, low socioeconomic background, misconceptions about cancer. This is especially true for women from the rural areas where the delivery of health care services is still a major challenge in Africa,” she said.
SA’s screening policy
Compared to other developing countries, South Africa has a progressive policy on cervical cancer screening that offers three Pap smears for all women in the public health sector at the ages of 30, 40 and 50. This however, does not translate into a successful reproductive health service as the uptake is very low, and only around 22% of South African women make use of these Pap smear services.
In 2004, South Africa set itself a target of screening 70% of women 30 year and older within a period of 10 years – this translates to nearly 6 million women. But by June 2009 – almost midway to the envisioned target for 2014 – the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) has handled just over 2 million screenings.
According to Motsoaledi, the reason for this low coverage includes increasing financial and personnel constraints, and a lack of awareness by women for the need for screening.
“We acknowledge that we have to strengthen our cervical cancer screening programme,” Motsoaledi admitted.
The DoH is also planning to review the National Cancer Control Programme before the end of the year. This review will provide the department with a clear direction on improvements that are needed to achieve optimal quality.
The Department also needs an effective National Cancer Registry. Regulations to strengthen reporting are being finalised. This is a useful tool for planning and budgeting for activities that are aimed at the prevention and treatment of cancers. – (Wilma Stassen, Health24, August 2009)
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Cake is a food worthy of exaltation, which is why cake stands are so very important. Not only do they lift the dessert to its proper place on high, but they make it easier to get to by providing an easily leveraged point of entry to the base of the cake. If you don’t make a lot of cakes, however, you might not have one.
That’s okay, because I’m sure you have a plate and a bowl which, as Food52 points out, is all you need to create a pretty little serving place for your cake. Just take a sturdy bowl (or large bowl-like mug or small aesthetically pleasing colander), flip it over, and place a pretty plate on top. Boom, instant cake stand. For small cakes or cupcakes, you can even use saucers and tea cups, though if a cake is that small, you can probably just serve it directly in your hand.

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Good news: New CEO at RIM, which needed new leadership like I need a Bloody Mary on New Year’s Day. Bad news? It’s business at usual:
RIM Chief Executive Thorsten Heins joined the company’s chairman of the board, Barb Stymiest, in a conference call with investors on Monday morning. It was the first chance for investors to hear from RIM’s new CEO, who took over on Sunday after co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie resigned.
Heins told analysts and investors that he is not pursuing strategic options for RIM like a sale of the company or a split. He also indicated he is focused on RIM’s current strategy, which involves the struggling PlayBook, a tablet that cost the company $485 million from unsold inventory last year.
Analyst Mike Abramsky with RBC Capital Markets said Heins seemed upbeat and optimistic about his new role at RIM. But he also said that RIM’s recent struggles have been a result of “process execution” and marketing, as opposed to product innovation.
Yes, introducing the world’s only tablet that couldn’t work your calendars or your email certainly had the virtue of never having been tried — but I still wouldn’t call that an innovation.
Fact is, RIM has failed on all counts, and had better start getting innovative in a hurry if it’s to survive.

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The Surprising and Secretive Jerry Net Worth Revealed: What You Need to Know
Have you ever heard of Jerry? No, not the character from the famous show, Tom and Jerry, but the man who has been able to keep his net worth quite secretive. Well, you are in the right place because we are about to reveal the surprising and secretive Jerry Net Worth.
Jerry, a mysterious but interesting figure, has been the talk of the town for years. Let’s delve deeper to learn more about his background, before revealing his net worth.
Who is Jerry?
Jerry is a man who seems to be quite mysterious as little is known about him. He prefers to keep his life private, but we know he’s involved in several businesses and investments.
According to sources, Jerry is a self-made entrepreneur. He started his journey with nothing but hard work and dedication which have helped him achieve great success in life.
In spite of his somewhat secretive nature, Jerry has been a topic of discussion on various platforms. Most people are curious to know about his probable sources of income.
What is Jerry’s Net Worth?
Until now, Jerry’s net worth was quite difficult to ascertain, but we finally have the exclusive scoop. Sources indicate that the Jerry Net Worth is estimated to be around $8.3 billion.
Yes, you read that right! Jerry has been able to build a massive fortune, quite an amazing feat for someone who likes to keep things very private.
How did Jerry amass such wealth?
Jerry’s various sources of income have contributed to his significant wealth. Some of the businesses that he’s involved in include real estate, technology, and healthcare industries.
He is a smart investor who has made strategic investments in booming industries such as fintech, biotech and has generated significant returns. Jerry has also been involved in philanthropic activities, making significant donations to various causes.
What is the Source of Jerry’s Wealth?
The sources of Jerry’s wealth are varied and numerous. It is evident that he has made several smart investments that have generated significant returns.
Jerry has been instrumental in investing in technology and healthcare startups, which he now owns. Additionally, he has invested in the real estate industry and owns several luxurious properties around the world.
Moreover, Jerry is known to be a generous philanthropist, donating millions of dollars to numerous charities and causes.
What are Jerry’s Investments?
Jerry has made several smart investments over the years. He has invested in companies that are now considered to be big players in the industry. Some of his investments include:
– Healthcare startups
– Biotech firms
– Fintech industry
– Real estate
Jerry’s investment strategy is simple, yet effective, investing in industries poised for growth and profitability.
How does Jerry’s Net Worth Compare to Other Billionaires?
Jerry’s net worth places him amongst the elite class of billionaires. With a net worth of $8.3 billion, he ranks amongst some of the most prominent individuals in the world.
He may not be a household name like Bill Gates or Elon Musk, but he has still been able to amass a significant fortune and make a substantial impact in the business world.
Is Jerry Involved in Philanthropic Activities?
Yes, Jerry is well-known for his philanthropic activities, and he is considered to be an avid philanthropist. Over the years, he has donated millions of dollars to various charities and causes.
Jerry’s generous philanthropic activities have helped to improve the lives of many people around the world. Therefore, he is not only known for his wealth, but also for his willingness to give back.
1. Who is Jerry?
Jerry is a self-made entrepreneur who has become successful through hard work and dedication. Despite being a private individual, he is involved in various industries, such as healthcare, real estate, and technology.
2. What is Jerry’s estimated net worth?
Sources indicate that Jerry’s net worth is approximately $8.3 billion.
3. How did Jerry amass his wealth?
Jerry has made smart investments in various industries, including real estate, healthcare startups, fintech, and biotech. His investments have generated significant returns that contributed to his net worth.
4. What is the source of Jerry’s wealth?
Jerry’s wealth sources are varied and include real estate, technology, healthcare industries, and philanthropy.
5. What is Jerry’s Investment strategy?
Jerry’s investment strategy includes investing in industries poised for growth and profitability, such as healthcare, biotech, fintech, and real estate.
6. How does Jerry’s net worth compare to other billionaires?
Jerry’s net worth places him amongst the elite class of billionaires, ranking him amongst some of the most prominent individuals in the world.
7. Is Jerry involved in philanthropic activities?
Yes, Jerry is a well-known philanthropist and has donated millions of dollars to various charities and causes.
Jerry’s net worth may appear surprising to many, and his secretive nature has only added to his intrigue. With a net worth of $8.3 billion, Jerry has become one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world.
He has achieved great success through his smart investment strategies in various industries, such as real estate, healthcare, biotech, and fintech. His philanthropic activities have also helped to make a significant impact and give back to society.
Despite his success, Jerry has kept his life private and low-key, adding to the mystery that surrounds him. Nevertheless, Jerry’s accomplishments continue to be an inspiration to many people. So, if Jerry can achieve great success, so can you.

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Half the world’s population depends on rice to survive. But, rice crops are releasing massive amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas. Now, a group of researchers has unveiled a genetically modified super rice that has more starch, yet releases a fraction of the harmful methane.
Laboratory Equipment’s scientist of the week is Charles Carter from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He and a team provided direct evidence for how primordial proteins developed the ability to accelerate the central chemical reaction necessary to synthesize proteins, allowing life not long after Earth was created.
According to researchers, teeth are of particular interest for the measurement of chemical exposure in fetal and childhood development. They provide a chronological record of exposure from their microchemical composition in relation to defined growth lines, like the rings in a tree trunk.
Giant stars die a violent death. After a life of several million years, they collapse into themselves and then explode in what is known as a supernova. How these stars explode remains a mystery. However, recent work may bring some answers to this astronomical question.
Stem cells hold great potential for addressing a variety of conditions from spinal cord injuries to cancer, but they can be difficult to control. Now, scientists are reporting a new way to mimic the body’s natural approach to programming these cells.
Automakers are looking for ways to improve their fleets’ average fuel efficiency, and scientists may have a new way to help them. Researchers are reporting the development of a material that could convert engine heat that’s otherwise wasted into electrical energy to help keep a car running— and reduce the need for fuels.
R&D Magazine has announced the Finalists for the 53rd annual R&D 100 Awards, which honor the 100 most innovative technologies and services of the past year. This year’s winners will be presented with their honors at the annual black-tie awards dinner on November 13, 2015 at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Solanezumab is a drug that held great hope for treating Alzheimer’s disease, but was declared ineffective in beating the disease three years ago. Now, a new trial is claiming it can slow the progress of the disease– if it is given early enough to patients.
Researchers analyzed the results of 17 observational studies and found that habitual consumption of sugar sweetened drinks was positively associated with incidence of type 2 diabetes, independently of obesity status.
In biology and medicine, we often need to detect biological molecules. Scientists have chemically tweaked the enzyme responsible for the light of fireflies to make it "sniff out" target biological molecules and give out a light signal. The result is a cheap, simple and highly accurate detection system that can change the face of the field.
Electronic cigarettes or “e-cigs” have been touted as a tool smokers can use to wean themselves off of traditional cigarettes, which many believe are more harmful than their “e” counterparts. But because e-cig liquid also contains nicotine and emits carcinogens, is that perception really true?
Researchers say the key to new technologies designed to reduce accidents caused by sleepy or text-happy drivers is to watch the car, not its driver. If their research can be adapted for new cars, fatigue, a major cause of severe accidents, could be managed.
Dark matter keeps galaxies, stars, our solar system and our bodies intact. Yet no one has been able to observe it, and it has often been regarded as a totally new exotic form of matter. A new theory says dark matter acts remarkably similar to subatomic particles known to science since the 1930s.
Putting action behind his revolutionary words, Pope Francis called a meeting of the leaders of the world’s largest cities and states, asking for their help to change the world’s course on climate change.
A bionic eye implant to treat a common cause of blindness in the elderly was implanted for the first time in Great Britain, according to the developer of the device. So far, the results appear inconclusive– but there is hope it could treat others in the future, according to the company.

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Tim’s putting in fencing to protect his vegetables from muntjac deer.
Andrew Tokeley chats with Ken Crowther about sowing onions and leeks.
Our allotment man Tim is harvesting all the different types of tomatoes he has grown this year.
Our regular allotment correspondent, Tim, is pleased with how his beetroots have picked up after recent rain.
World Radio Gardening’s allotment man Tim, takes us on a musical tour of his allotment during a busy period for him.

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Community Health for Asian Americans
Community Health for Asian Americans is a substance abuse treatment center based at 3727 Sunset Lane in Antioch, CA. Community Health for Asian Americans can be reached at 925-778-1667.
The primary treatment approaches at this program include Individual Addiction Counseling, Group Mental Health and Addiction Therapy, Behavioral Therapy. The facility also offers their services in different settings, including Outpatient Drug Addiction Recovery.
Lastly, Community Health for Asian Americans accepts different payment types, including Medicaid Coverage.
We can help you find the right treatment facility that best fits your overall needs and financial requirements.

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text: SHEBOYGAN FALLS, WI (WHBL) - The issue of covering costs for not installing sidewalks along Pine Street in the Town of Sheboygan Falls remains unresolved between the town and City of Sheboygan Falls. Last month the town board acted to remove the project from the Non-Motorized grant program following opposition from street residents. During the board’s meeting Monday evening, Sheboygan Falls Mayor Randy Meyer said that decision will cost around $35,000 for the state DOT to restock project supplies. He did ask if the town would assist the city in paying for this, but Town Chairman Steven Bauer said their records do not show any agreement signed by the town with the city regarding the project. Thus, the board took no action towards helping with restocking costs.

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It’s no surprise the save gas and park anywhere qualities of motorcycles might be highlighted now with today’s pricey gas and traffic congestion but, as this ad shows, Harley Davidson was promoting those same ideas over 50 years ago. Once again, a selection from The Kneeslider research library shows how motorcycles answered the same needs back then.
Like the ad says:
“Parking lot full? Don’t give it a second thought …
It cuts through tied up traffic … handles with the greatest of ease … and averages up to 80 miles per gallon of gas.”
I guess some things about motorcycles will always be appealing.
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Kate Monroe, Helen Lam, Arnon Rosenthal, Seung-Joo Lee, Francesca Avogadri-Connors, and William Monteith
- Alector LLC; San Francisco, CA (US)
The present disclosure is generally directed to compositions that include antibodies, e.g., monoclonal, chimeric, humanized antibodies, antibody fragments, etc. that specifically bind on or more epitopes within a Siglec-7 protein, e.g., human Siglec-7 or a mammalian Siglec-7, and use of such compositions in preventing, reducing risk, or treating an individual in need thereof.
CovalX Technology Used
To determine the binding affinity of the Siglec-7 antibodies, they were tested with 15-mer or 25-mer peptides that spanned the entire human Siglec-7 or a reference Siglec-7 antibody. Using shotgun mutagenesis with an alanine-scanning library for the siglec-7 protein, the epitopes of anti-siglec-7 antibodies were mapped.
In order to identify conformational epitopes, a MALDI mass spectrometer that had been modified with a CovalX HM3 detection system was used. Antibody/antigen complexes were created by mixing equimolar solutions of Siglec-7 antigen and antibody (4 μΜ in 5 μ? each). 1 μ? of this complex was mixed with 1 μ? of matrix (recrystallized sinapic acid ( 10 mg/ml) in acetonitrile/water (1:1, v/v) with 0.1% TFA) from the CovalX K200 MALDI kit. 1 μ? of this final mixture was spotted on a MALDI plate, allowed to crystallize at room temperature and analyzed on a mass spectrometer. Following this analysis to determine the molecular weights of the antigen, antibody and complex, the potential competition of the conformational binding of the epitope with unstructured CIq peptides from proteolysis was analyzed. 25 μ? of the Siglec-7 ECD antigen (10 μM concentration) was digested with 5 μM immobilized pepsin and then incubated for 30 minutes at room temperature. The incubated samples were centrifuged and the supernatant was removed to allow for proteolysis to finish with high-mass MALDI. 5 μ? of the proteolysis generated antigen peptides were mixed with 5 μ? of antibodies (8 μM) before being incubated for 6 hours at 37 °C. 5 μ? of the incubated mixture was mixed with 5 μ? of the intact Siglec-7 antigen (4 μM) to create a final mixture of Siglec-7 (2 μM)/ antibody (2 μM)/ Siglec-7 antigen peptides (2.5 μM). The data from this high-mass MALDI analysis was analyzed using the CovalX Complex Tracker software.

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Library’s summer program honors everyday heroes
Published 9:00 am Saturday, May 23, 2015
The Summer Reading Program of the Elizabethton/Carter County Public Library will not just teach reading skills this summer; it will also honor a wide variety of everyday heroes.
The program begins June 2 and will focus on a different type of everyday hero for each of the eight weeks of the program.
“We are going to look at all the different local, everyday heroes who are in Carter County,” Children’s Librarian Ashlee Williams said. “We are going to celebrate our local heroes.”
Some of the special guests will include local police officers, firefighters, EMTs, doctors and veterinarians. Other participants are still being finalized.
Because the program is open to children of all ages, the youngsters can choose whether they want to be active readers or to have the book read to them. Each time a reader finishes a book, they will note it on their log at the library. At the end of the summer, they will have a record of the books they finished.
Williams said attendance has remained steady each year for the summer reading program with an average of around 400 children sign up each year. Several summer school and day care programs also participate.
The program will meet at 10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Tuesdays. The preschool group will continue to meet on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.
A teen program is also planned which will likely start later in the summer in July or August, Williams said.
For more information, call the library at 547-6360.


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American ace rapper has just dropped brand new visuals to his music video featuring Logic which is titled ISIS.
Joyner Lucas has been working on his new studio album ADHD for a quite sometime. But it seems he’s finally ready to drop it.
Earlier this month, Joyner dropped th visuals to his controversial song ‘Devil’s Work‘ where he paid tributes to some fallen musical icons and wished death on some of the people he doesn’t like.
Joyner Lucas just debuted ‘ISIS’ which is again a controversial song where he and Logic are dressed in U.S. Military uniforms,trying to shoot suspected islamic terrorists
Joyner Lucas will be releasing his ADHD album independently through his new distribution company named Tully.
Watch the video below:

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text: Everyone worked so hard on the Studio Sitges project that we had to finish off this stage in style. We came up with the idea of a Mexican party and it really rocked from the very start. First we needed to let everyone know about it. No problem - everyone wanted in. The guys on the site posed for the Mexican wrestling style poster and it took off from there. The food, the drink and, best of all, the company were a great climax to the time spent working together at Studio Sitges.

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Situated on the beach in Dorado, Golden Sands Villas is close to Dorado Del Mar. Additional regional attractions include Puerta de San Juan and La Fortaleza - Palacio de Santa Catalina.
Golden Sands Villas has a golf course, an outdoor pool, and a fitness facility. Dining options at this beach hotel include a poolside bar. Additional amenities include a casino, a children's pool, and an arcade/game room. This is a smoke-free property.
Rooms open to balconies. The 65 air-conditioned guestrooms at Golden Sands Villas include safes and coffee/tea makers. Televisions are equipped with cable channels. All accommodations provide desks and phones with voice mail; free local calls are offered (restrictions may apply). Bathrooms offer showers, makeup/shaving mirrors, hair dryers, and complimentary toiletries. In-room microwaves and refrigerators are provided. Additional amenities include irons/ironing boards and ceiling fans. Housekeeping is offered daily.

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For Latinx working in retail, being stuck in a low-paying job without much opportunity for promotion is pretty much the norm.
Martha Hernandez is working to change that. She's the founder of madeBOS, a mobile platform that helps employees of large retailers manage their career paths, and that helps employers reduce turnover.
Unlike traditional applicant tracking systems and processes, madeBOS drives access to talent capital by understanding the user's talents and passion and providing options of careers they don't know of, madeBOS says on its Facebook page.
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To all fans of the show, I have an idea for a fan film to ADJL. Would anyone like to help make it happen? Let me know and we can all work together, maybe it can help revive the series.
Do you have any ideas on the plot of the film?
Jake and his friends are older and battle surviving Huntsclan and how they came to be.
Oh wow! Wait, so the Hunstclan comes back to existence?
No, they are ones who secretly survived Rose's wish and went into hiding. I read a fanfic about how that might possible.
Ohhhhh, how nice! Three things.
One: That sounds like a great idea!
Two: I would be interested in making a poster for your film.
And three: Could you give me the link to that fanfiction, lol?
Thank you, but I need help in making it real.
I don't know how to make a link, sorry.
What do you think?


Shopping-Bargains.com joins with two other local dotcoms to produce a 30 second television spot to air in our community for 3 months.
Shopping-Bargains.com, StarkvilleEATS.com and StarkvilleNOW.com are jointly airing a 30 second commercial in the Starkville market. This television spot was produced by Broadcast Media Group in conjunction with Longboat Studios and provides three 10 seconds featurettes.
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Venn, a new esports television network takes on mainstream television, launches with a majority of its hosts as people of color: Cash Nasty; Dgon; Dumbfoundead; Emily Mei; Emily Simon; Erin Ashley Simon; Evan Raynday; Jimmy Wong; and TheSushiDragon. The live, daily, 24-hour network launched at Vista Studios in Los Angeles to positive reception as the Washington Post proclaims, “Venn is sleek and well-produced.”
The network sits at the intersection of gaming and entertainment, partnering with different media platforms, and creates a smooth viewing experience for a generation of consumers that have grown up with easy access to digital technologies, including Vizio and Twitter.
Rishi Chadha, head of gaming content partnerships at Twitter, said “Bringing round the clock gaming content to our audience for the first time needed the right partner, and Venn celebration of diverse digital pop culture and personalities is a natural fit.”
Vizio 2021 SmartCast TV product line, includes distribution of Venn. “With Venn’s 24/7 gaming television channel, all our users can access the latest gaming, pop culture, and esports content right from the Vizio home screen,” said Katherine Pond, vice president of business development at Vizio.
Venn’s current lineup of shows featuring hosts of color include:
- The Download, featuring Dgon, Erin Ashley Simon and Jimmy Wong
- Looking for Gains, featuring Cash Nasty
- Venn Arcade Live, featuring Dgon, Emily Mei and Raynday
- “The Sushi Dragon Show” and “The Sushi Dragon After Party”, featuring TheSushiDragon


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Control of attention is the ultimate individual power. People who can do that are not prisoners of the stimuli around them. They can choose from the patterns in the world and lengthen their time horizons. This individual power leads to others. It leads to self-control, the ability to formulate strategies in order to resist impulses. If forced to choose, we would all rather our children be poor with self-control than rich without it.
Fortunately, Mike Elgan called it to my attention in a column entitled “Work Ethic 2.0: Attention Control“. And, like me, Elgan reacts much more strongly to Brooks’s comment about control of attention than to anything he actually says about Gladwell’s book.
But Elgan’s concern is with what he sees as the “distraction virus” of the internet in general, and of social media in particular. I don’t dispute his observations, but I have a different take on Brooks’s point.
“I can think. I can wait. I can fast.”
“I believe, that’s everything!”
What’s new is that attention is becoming a currency to rival the tangible goods we’ve usually thought of as scarce and valuable. But, as Brooks and Elgan note, it differs from money in its far more subjective nature.
A growing economy revolving around something money can’t buy, and which is subject to the vicissitudes of individual control. That certainly makes things interesting.

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MLB.com’s Jonathan Mayo now reports that the second player the Pirates are sending to the Yankees in the A.J. Burnett trade is young outfielder Exicardo Cayones. That means the Yankees will be getting Cayones and reliever Diego Moreno, and the Pirates will take on $13 million of Burnett’s salary.
I wrote about Moreno here. Cayones’ case is somewhat similar, in that his numbers look interesting, but it was clear from the Pirates’ behavior that they just didn’t think much of him. Cayones held his own in the Gulf Coast League as an 18-year-old in 2010, but the Pirates only gave him 11 games in State College in 2011. He was terrible there, and the Pirates had him spend the rest of the year back in the GCL. If they’d liked him more, they probably would have let him continue to struggle, or they would have sent him to West Virginia to start the year anyway. Time will tell whether the Pirates’ evaluations of Cayones and Moreno are correct, but they clearly don’t think they’re giving up very much here.


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The crusty comedian is known for his independent thinking--such as when he lost his show on ABC after calling the 9-11 hijackers courageous. That independent streak extends to medicine. On his HBO show, as documented by the quack-busting doctor-blogger David Gorski, Maher has disputed the "germ theory" of disease, claiming that flu shots don't work and toxicity is to blame for poor health. He has also said that that HIV doesn't cause AIDS.


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Are Weight-loss Surgery patients at greater risk for the Covid-19 Virus? Bariatric patients, both pre and post-op surgery, are definitely at risk. We have a 40% Obesity rate in America. With that comes serious health risks. Some comorbidities are diabetes, high blood pressure, shortness of breath, sleep apnea, and much more!
Let's face it; I can go into deep depth about all the Covid-19 facts, numbers, and predictions. But, I am choosing to write about what I feel will be beneficial to you at this crucial time. Panic and fear are not suitable for anyone.
COVID-19 is a Disease, Not a Virus
The actual Virus is technically named SARS-CoV-2
At this time, there is 'NO' immunity to it.
The way your body develops immunity to a virus is you have to be exposed. Only then do you build antibodies and have the ability to ward it off. The below is an excellent 📹 video for you:
Bariatric Weight loss surgeries will be canceled ❌because they are deemed 'Elective Procedures.'
CURRENT Weight loss Surgery Patients (1-12 months)
If you are at goal weight, but malnourished, start taking 💊 Vitamins ASAP
If you have low iron and low vitamin D, take your supplements.
If you are protein deficient, get more protein through food or shakes.
NEW Weight loss Surgery Patients: (1-3 months)
If you are newly post-op, sip, sip, sip, and get vitamins in as best as you can.
VETERAN Weight loss Surgery Patients: (1-20 years)
If you are a veteran and doing well, keep following your routine. Help others who need your guidance and tips.
✋ Please watch this video on hand washing, sanitizers, and cleaners. It's astonishing how many people don't know how to properly wash their hands. Now you do :) You are one step ahead!
What can you do RIGHT NOW with the Virus hype and fear?
If you are not taking your Vitamins, start now.
Meditate, Journal, Yoga, and any stress relief (lifetime has free online classes)
Help others (keeping within social distancing perimeters and ppe)
Do that one thing you have been putting off that you can do from home
Take an online course. Online courses are being offered for free. Linked in, etc.
Create a schedule for your day at home to keep things moving
Help our healthcare providers and friends by making masks and calling to see if you are able to help (Using your social distancing smarts, of course.)
FACTS NOT FEAR
(These are the statics at the time of writing this) Please visit CDC for current numbers
🌍Global confirmed cases: 438,789; total deaths: 19,675; total recovered: 111,895 (JHU)
🇺🇸U.S. confirmed cases: 55,243; total deaths: 802: total recovered: 354 (JHU)
🏆Olympics postponed about one year, Japan's prime minister says
💰Politicians have reached a deal on $2 trillion economic package
🇻🇳China to lift quarantine restrictions in Wuhan, where the coronavirus crisis began
📹 This is a COVID-19 recap from Dr. OZ and Jimmy's weird hand washing ways!
In Conclusion, YES Bariatric patients are at a greater risk for COVID-19. Follow the steps ABOVE to help yourself as much as you can.
📓 Please Comment below if you have helpful ideas for others in our Community. We would love to hear from you during this time as we work on flattening the curve.

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Red Lobster - Muncie
We enjoyed our New Year's Eve dinner here. We wanted seafood and it was very good except for the crab legs. We ordered an extra side of them which was $22 and only received two clusters and one was missing the claw. Our waitress was excellent and the restaurant was nice and clean.
They do NOT honor OpenTable reservations. We booked via OpenTable as we normally do in our “home” city. We arrived 15 minutes before the reservation to “check-in” and were told the wait was one hour! We explained we used open table and followed their directions and they said there were people in line before us and it would be unfair to let us “cut the line.” We then proceeded to explain how OpenTable works and why it benefits restaurants and customers, just to be told that’s now how it works at their Red Lobster.
They should be revoked from OpenTable.
First time at a Red Lobster in over 25 years. Great update to the restaurant and menu. Server was superb. Wait time for seating was long but most didn’t seem to mind.


The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new warning: be careful when mailing checks.
The USPS reported a recent surge in attacks on letter carriers and mail fraud, stating that 305 mail carriers were robbed in the first half of fiscal-year 2023, compared with 412 last year. Many of the USPS’s thefts occurred when mail was taken from its flagship blue collection boxes — a recent series of thefts in Wisconsin led to more than 900 stolen checks.
“As crime rises, so do the threats against our public servants,” said Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer Louis DeJoy. “The men and women of the Postal Service are walking our nation’s streets every day to fulfil our mission of delivering mail and packages to the American people. Every Postal employee deserves to work in safety and to be free from targeting by criminals seeking to access the public’s mail.”
In response, the USPS is adding more than 12,000 high security blue collection boxes nationwide, as well as replacing 49,000 electronic locks for their Arrow and Modified Arrow Lock (MAL) Keys, which some robberies have targeted with the intent to steal mail.
One of the most common types of check fraud is what’s known as “check washing,” where a criminal steals the check from the mail and proceeds to change the payee’s name on the check and, additionally, the amount of money. This process sometimes involves using chemicals to erase the original payee’s name on the check.
Stealing mail is a federal crime and could lead to up to five years in prison. Additionally, altering checks can be a felony charge if it’s over a certain amount, but it depends which state the crime occurs in. Postal Inspectors retrieve over $1 billion in counterfeit checks and money orders every year.
Banks issued roughly 680,000 reports of check fraud to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, also known as FinCEN, last year. That’s up from 350,000 reports in 2021. Meanwhile the U.S. Postal Inspection Service reported roughly 300,000 complaints of mail theft in 2021, more than double the prior year’s total.
Over the past few decades, check usage in the U.S. has declined as many Americans have opted to pay for services via a money transfer or with a debit or credit card. Americans wrote roughly 3.4 billion checks in 2022, down from nearly 19 billion checks in 1990, according to the Federal Reserve.
What should people do to further protect themselves against check fraud? Multiple experts say just go straight to the post office.
“If you are choosing to mail a check, it is always recommended that you use a secure mail drop such as inside a post office versus an unsecured public-facing mailbox,” Caitlin Driscoll of the Better Business Bureau told CBS Pittsburgh.
“If you need to mail a check, do not put a check in your residential mailbox and raise the flag to notify the postman. Drop off checks inside a post office if you have to,” Todd Robertson with Argo Data, a financial data provider, told the AP.
From the archives (January 2023): More than half of Americans who make $100,000 say they live paycheck to paycheck, survey says
Here are other things the USPS said last month that customers can do to protect themselves against mail fraud:
- Don’t let incoming or outgoing mail sit in your mailbox. You can significantly reduce the chance of being victimized by simply removing your mail from your mailbox every day.
- Sign up for Informed Delivery and get daily digest emails that preview your mail and packages scheduled to arrive soon.
- Become involved and engaged in your neighborhood via neighborhood watches and local social media groups to spread awareness and share information.
- Keep an eye out for your letter carrier. If you see something that looks suspicious, or you see someone following your carrier, call 911.


On the final play of regulation, Tavien Goffigan hauled in Chris Price's desperation heave into the end zone for a 45-yard game-winning touchdown Wednesday night, helping the No. 7 Landstown (4-0) escape with a 20-14 victory at Princess Anne.
The score was set up when Princess Anne turned the ball over on downs, failing to convert on fourth and 17.
Luqman Haskett totaled 221 yards with two scores to lead the Eagles' offene. He rushed for 127 yards, including a 35-yard touchdown in the third quarter. He also caught two passes for 94 yards, including a 71-yard touchdown in the first quarter.
Landstown extended its regular-season Beach District winning streak to 17 games.
"Resiliency is built into this program," Landstown head coach Tommy Reamon said.
For Princess Anne, Joshua Hollins returned a fumble 58 yards for a score in the second quarter, and Chantz Baylor scored on a 11-yard run in the fourth to tie the game.
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Award-winning musician Björk and legendary broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough have admired each other's work for years but this is the first time they have discussed their mutual love of music and the natural world on screen. In this remarkable documentary, Björk explores our unique relationship with music and discovers how technology might transform the way we engage with it in the future. At the heart of the film is Biophilia, Björk's cutting-edge music project that explores where nature, music and technology meet. David Attenborough explains how music exists in the natural world and speaks about his own passion for music. Author and professor of neurology and psychiatry Oliver Sacks explains the extraordinary and beneficial effects music has on our brains and explains why performing and engaging with music is something all of us should take more seriously.
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By OLALEKAN BILESANMI
Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed says fear of death to coronavirus was always on his mind after he tested positive to the disease and isolated because it has no definite cure or vaccine. Mohammed has since recovered and tested negative.
The isolation experience, according to him, is one he would never wish such for anybody.
“It is a very traumatic experience for one to know that you are infected by a disease for which there is no vaccine, presumably. I thought I was going to die, but certainly I had a very strong will to live. I was put on certain medication by my doctor, that is antibiotics and malaria drugs,” he said during a TV programme.
Muhammed tested to the virus March 24 shortly after he returned from Lagos.
The governor was reported to have contacted the virus from a son of former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, whom he met in an aircraft during a flight from Lagos to Abuja. He was discharged April 9.
However, Mohammed said that even after he was discharged, the fear of the virus was still on his mind even though he never manifested any symptoms of the disease throughout his self isolation period.
“I never had any manifestation of the symptoms all the period that I was there (in isolation), but I was under severe suspense that it might come any time,” he said. (Vanguard)
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Kangaroo expert wins dance competition for scientists
Drag queens and ballet as an expression of different kangaroo personalities? Sounds crazy. But a researcher in Australia has used it to win a coveted dance competition.
An Australian kangaroo researcher has won a global dance competition for scientists with a strange video.
Weliton Menário Costa, an Australian National University (ANU) PhD student in Canberra, was named the overall winner of the “Dance Your PhD Contest 2024” after he impressed the jury with his highly creative and bizarre dance entry “Kangaroo Time (Club Edit)”, the university announced and cheered: “From the Kangaroo Whisperer a global dance sensation.” “Dance Your PhD” is a worldwide competition that has been held since 2008. Scientists should express their research results through dance.
The queer biologist known under the name WELI, who is also a singer-songwriter, combines a funky beat and cool lyrics with drag queens and Brazilian dancers in the colorful video. It’s also about different kangaroo personalities. The final product was “both entertaining and educational,” it said. WELI, who himself has Brazilian roots, is both the leading actor and director. He cleverly illustrated various personality traits of kangaroos using dance styles, wrote the ANU.
Song on Spotify and on the radio
WELI moved from his hometown to Canberra in 2017 to do his doctorate on animal behavior. He spent three years studying the behavioral differences of a group of more than 300 eastern gray kangaroos in Victoria. “We found that kangaroos like to socialize in groups, but prefer smaller social circles,” he explained. “And like humans, kangaroo personalities manifest early in life.” Among other things, siblings among marsupials often showed similar temperaments.
The variety of dances, from classical ballet to twerking to Brazilian dance moves, reflected the range of Kangaroo personalities across the spectrum, “from bolder types to more timid specimens,” it said. In the video there is also jumping – based on the marsupials.
The accompanying song has now been accessed thousands of times on Spotify and played in clubs and radio stations. “For me, winning this competition is the equivalent of winning the Eurovision Song Contest,” said the happy winner. “I think it shows not only the incredible power of the research being carried out here in Australia, but also how creative we are as a nation – even we scientists!”


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Although a loan provider trying to make use of the security choice wouldn’t be expected to make a capability to repay dedication, it might nevertheless have to use screening that is various, including confirming the consumerвЂ™s income and borrowing history and reporting the mortgage to all or any commercially available reporting systems. In addition, the buyer could n’t have any other outstanding covered loans with any loan provider, rollovers will be capped at two followed closely by a mandatory 60-day cooling-off period for extra loans of any sort through the loan provider or its affiliate, the mortgage could perhaps not end in the consumerвЂ™s receipt of greater than six covered short-term loans from any loan provider in a rolling 12-month duration, and following the loan term ends, the buyer cannot have been around in financial obligation for longer than ninety days into the aggregate within a rolling 12-month duration.
For covered longer-term loans, loan providers will have to choose from:
Prevention option. Before generally making a completely amortizing covered longer-term loan, a loan provider would need to make simply the exact same capability to repay dedication that might be necessary for short-term loans, within the term for the longer-term loan. To give the word of a covered longer-term loan or refinance a loan that leads to a fresh covered longer-term loan (like the refinance of that loan through the exact same loan provider or its affiliate which is not a covered loan), if particular conditions occur that indicate the buyer ended up being having trouble repaying the pre-existing loan (such as for instance a standard regarding the existing loan), the lending company would also need confirmed proof that there have been a modification of circumstances that shows the customer has the capacity to repay the extended or loan that is new. Covered longer-term loans with balloon re re payments are addressed just like short-term loans.
Protection choice. The CFPB is considering two alternate approaches for a loan provider which will make a longer-term loan without determining the consumerвЂ™s ability to settle. Under either approach, the mortgage term must are priced between a the least 45 times to no more than half a year and fully amortize with at the very least two repayments.
- The approach that is first in line with the nationwide Credit Union AdministrationвЂ™s system for payday alternate loans, with additional demands imposed because of the CFPB https://badcreditloanshelp.net/payday-loans-oh/alliance/. The NCUA system would restrict the loanвЂ™s terms to (a) a major number of for around $200 and never significantly more than $1,000, and b that is( an annualized interest of no more than 28% and a software cost of less than $20, showing the specific cost of processing the application form. Underneath the NCUAвЂ™s screening needs, the financial institution will have to utilize minimum underwriting standards and validate the consumerвЂ™s income. The CFPB would require also the lending company to confirm the consumerвЂ™s borrowing history and report utilization of the loan to all the relevant commercially available reporting systems and would prohibit the lending company from making the mortgage in the event that customer has virtually any outstanding covered loan or even the mortgage would end in the buyer having significantly more than two such loans during a rolling period that is six-month. A lender that holds a consumerвЂ™s deposit account would not be allowed to fully sweep the account to a negative balance, set off from the consumerвЂ™s account to collect on the loan in the event of delinquency, or close the account in the event of delinquency or default under this alternative.
- The approach that is second each periodic re re payment to 5 per cent associated with the consumerвЂ™s anticipated gross earnings within the re payment duration. No prepayment charge might be charged. The lending company would also need to validate the consumerвЂ™s income and borrowing history and report utilization of the loan to all or any applicable commercially available reporting systems. In addition, the buyer should never have any kind of outstanding covered loans or have actually defaulted on a covered loan in the previous year plus the loan cannot end up in the customer being with debt on a lot more than two such loans in just a rolling 12-month duration.
Limitations on collection methods. For all covered short-term and longer-term loans, loan providers could be at the mercy of the restrictions that are following
- Advance notice of account access. a lender could be needed to provide three business days advance notice before trying to get re payment through any method accessing a merchant account, including ACH entries, post-dated signature checks, RCCs, and re payments tell you the debit systems. The notice will have to consist of information like the date associated with the re re payment demand, re payment channel, re re payment quantity (separated by principal, interest and costs), and staying balance that is loan. Notice by e-mail would be permitted generally.
- Limit on collection efforts. If two consecutive tries to gather funds from a consumerвЂ™s account made through any channel are came back for insufficient funds, the lender wouldn’t be permitted to make any more tries to gather through the account unless the buyer offered a brand new authorization.

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George Gordon Byron (aka Lord Byron) died 1824. The English poet who was a leading figure of Romantic period. His life featured aristocratic excesses, huge debts, numerous love affairs, and self-imposed exile. Read Byron's major works
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A native of Maine, Paul Doiron is a registered Maine Guide and lives by a trout stream with his wife, Kristen Lindquist.
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Pizza delivery driver robbed at gunpoint in ColumbiaPosted on 10 November 2017 at 11:29am
COLUMBIA - An armed suspect robbed a Papa John's Pizza delivery driver Thursday night, according to police.
Officers responded to the Papa John's Pizza at 1400 Forum Blvd. around 10 p.m. to investigate an armed robbery that happened in the 1900 block of Jackson Street.
Officers said a driver was leaving his car around 9:30 p.m. when someone approached him, displayed a gun and then took money from him. The driver was not injured.
The suspect is a man around 5 feet 8 inches tall and 150 pounds. He was last seen wearing dark colored pants, a dark colored sweater with a hood and dark colored shoes.
Police ask anyone with information about the robbery to call the Columbia Police Department at 573-874-7652, or call CrimeStoppers at 573-875-8477 to remain anonymous.
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A handful of Nextel Cup teams plan to expand their fleet next year. Hall of Fame Racing wants to go from one car to two, Penske Racing from two to three and Richard Childress Racing from three to four. Effective in 2009, no team owner can field more than four cars.
DEI makes changes
Dale Earnhardt Inc. reassigned Tony Eury Sr. from crew chief on rookie Paul Menards Chevrolet to company director of R&D. Team engineer Dave Charpentier is Menards new crew chief.
New truck engine
NASCAR is working with engine builder Carl Wagner on a lower-cost spec motor for the Craftsman Truck Series next year. Brett Bodine, the NASCAR R&D Center director of cost research, hopes the move will make the series more affordable.
NASCAR docked Penske Racing driver Kurt Busch 100 driver points, fined him $100,000 and put him on probation through Dec. 31 for aggressive and unsafe driving on pit road during the June 4 race at Dover, Del.


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How to identify fleas, flea eggs, and flea bites on pets and humans.
Fleas can be found in your house or on your pet around the year. But, flea season usually peaks during the hot days of summer. More than 2,200 species and sub-species of fleas have been identified, but only a small number of these affect cats and dogs.
Fleas are external parasites that suck on the blood of mammals and birds. Usually, animals are their primary source of blood, but fleas can also feed on human blood. Fleas are reddish-brown in color.
Fleas differ in their host preference, their vector ability, and their degree of association with human beings. So, you need to know which species of fleas are present to choose a defense mode and suitable control methods.
Estimates say that there are about 200 genera and 1,100 species of fleas in the entire world. Another report notes that 69 genera and 318 species and subspecies were described in North America north of Mexico in 1966. There are possibly a thousand other flea species that still await discovery and description. Of the known flea species, 95 percent use mammals as their hosts, and the other 5 percent use birds.
If you see your pet scratching themselves more frequently and with greater urgency than usual, then it may be time to check them over to ensure that there are no fleas are present. If your pet has fleas, it’s likely fleas are already present inside your house, too.
What Do Fleas Look Like?
Fleas are small, wingless insects about 2-4 mm in length with laterally compressed bodies. Fleas are incredibly tiny, which makes it difficult to notice them around your house until a large infestation is underway. The fleas’ armored bodies make it almost impossible to crush them, which helps them hide in your carpet undetected. It is also possible for fleas to hide unnoticed in upholstery.
Your pet may bring these parasites into your home. Fleas have flat bodies and strong legs, which enables them to jump long distances. They can easily move from one person or animal to another.
Fortunately, human beings will likely come across only a few flea species as pests or vectors of diseases. Still, individuals concerned with flea control should identify the common fleas that attack humans, pets, and domestic rodents.
What Do Fleas Look Like to the Human Eye?
Adult fleas are visible to the human eye, but they are fast and can easily hide in your pet’s fur. They are usually brown or reddish-brown and have six legs.
To identify if an insect is a flea, you should first observe its head and thorax and determine which of the three groups the flea belongs: those with genal and pronotal combs present, those with only the pronotal combs present, or those with genal and pronotal combs absent.
The front legs of a flea are abnormally short compared to the long back legs – structured to make them one of the best jumpers in the animal kingdom. Fleas have a rubbery resin called resilin. Resilin creates a hinge where the back legs attach to the thorax. It is these resilin pads that are compressed and released when the flea crouches to jump. The energy in the resilin pads is transferred to the leg making for a spectacular leap.
A flea’s barbed stylets penetrate the host’s skin, while a long needle-like tube called the epipharynx forms a drinking tube. A flea’s mouth and guts are equipped with a pump, making it easy for them to pull blood from the host to its body.
What Does Flea Dirt Look Like?
Use a flea comb on your pet to separate the fur so you can inspect the skin. You will likely notice small, dark specks on the skin – fleas are typically brown, black, or reddish. If you see one of these dark dots move, it is probably a flea on your pet. These pests are small insects with six long legs, making it easy for them to jump from one host to another. And a single female flea can lay up to 50 eggs in a day. This problem must be tackled right away, considering that these factors make spreading easy for fleas.
As you check your pet, you will notice “flea dirt,” another term for flea excrement. Flea dirt turns reddish-brown after coming in contact with water, the red hue on a speck coming from the blood that flea had consumed.
Another telltale sign of flea infestation a flea bite on the skin of your pet. Flea bites will leave the area of the skin red and inflamed. Fleas are specifically likely to attack your pet’s hind legs, belly, neck, and ears.
What Do Fleas Look Like on Cats and Dogs?
Ctenocephalides felis and C. canis are the two flea species that attack cats and dogs. Both species occur in the United States. Cat fleas are more abundant and are generally more distributed than dog fleas. A cat flea’s head is twice as long as high as the dog flea’s head. And, the front margins of the heads of these two species of fleas have different shapes.
In most cat fleas, the first and second teeth of the genal comb are approximately similar in length. However, you will find that in a typical dog flea, the first tooth is shorter than the second. While you will find one stout bristle in a cat flea, a dog flea has two stout bristles between the long postmedian apical hair on the hind margin of the hind tibia.
These species are usually found inside of homes, underneath houses, or in yards. This is because fleas prefer locations in which dust and debris accumulate. These fleas will attack cats and dogs, and various other mammals such as raccoons and rats. Fleas can even cause severe and painful bites on human beings, especially during the summer. Under favorable conditions, one generation of cat fleas requires 2 to 4 days for the eggs, 8 to 24 days for the larvae, and 5 to 7 days for the pupae – meaning a cat flea grows from egg to adult in 15-35 days, depending on the conditions of their environment.
What Do Fleas Look Like on Humans?
Pules irritans, another species of fleas, is found in the warmer parts of the world. In the United States, these fleas are found on the Pacific Coast, Middle West, and South. This flea species can attack humans and is often responsible for causing dermatitis or allergy due to flea bites. A pest infestation is particularly likely in homes, barns, barnyards, and their surrounding premises. The second species of Pulex (P. Simulans) occurs in Central and Southwestern United States and Central and South America.
Additionally, the human flea attacks a wide variety of hosts, including swine and dogs. On farms, severe infestations of fleas have been noticed in hogpens. These insects are known to survive for weeks or months, even after the hogs were carried off to the market. These fleas were even collected in areas far away from human habitation, particularly on animals like coyotes, prairie dogs, ground squirrels, and burrowing owls.
In one scientific experiment, scientists infected the human flea with the plague. They observed that the fleas were indeed capable of transmitting the bacteria in the laboratory.
The human flea is distinguished from other fleas common in the United States by the absence of the pronotal and genal combs and lack of an internal rod-like thickening on the mesopleuron. Unlike other species, the human flea has an ocular bristle inserted beneath the eye.
What Do Flea Eggs Look Like?
Adult fleas will deposit eggs on a mammal’s hair coat, including the coats of any pets in your house; eggs on the hair coat of mammals quickly fall off and contaminate the environment. Or, the flea will lay eggs directly into the surrounding environment. Eggs are small (-0.5 mm), ovular, and pearly white. However, they are not always easy to identify.
Flea eggs are easy to confuse with dandruff, but there are telltale differences between the two. Dandruff appears in flat flakes in irregular shapes, while flea eggs are uniformly oval-shaped. Dandruff will stick to the pet’s fur and be hard to remove, but flea eggs are more slippery and can move from one place to another quickly.
Flea eggs hatch out into larvae that go on to live in the cracks and crevices of rugs, upholstery, carpets, blankets, floors, sand, earth. The larvae around flea pupae loosely spin a cocoon, which encases the flea pupae. Female fleas produce relatively large and sticky eggs, white in color, at a rate of about 10 to 25 in a day.
Flea eggs are also different from “flea dirt”- the digested blood that adult fleas leave as waste. This looks similar to flecks of pepper, whereas flea eggs look like salt grains. Flea dirt clumps easily and sticks to the fur of the pet. Like flea eggs, flea dirt is a signal of a flea infestation on your pet.
What is the Life Cycle of a Flea?
A female flea drops her eggs indiscriminately among host fur, feathers, or directly onto the floor. In warm situations, her eggs hatch in about two to three days. The resulting flea larvae are small, legless, and worm-like. They have short antennae, mandibulate mouthparts, and rigid hairs along the body.
The larvae will hatch after 1 to 12 days, this depending on the temperature and humidity of the environment. Larvae feed on the blood from flea species, the organic debris, and the flea eggs present in their environment. Like locations with lots of shade, larvae prefer habitats that are cold and undisturbed.
Larvae will not develop in bright sunshine areas. They actively avoid light by burrowing deep into carpet fibers and organic debris. Flea larvae will molt twice, then develop into pupae in their protected environment. Moisture level in the air is of prime importance for larvae growth, and larvae typically fail to grow where the relative humidity is less than 50 percent.
In optimal environmental conditions (27 degrees Celsius and 80 percent humidity), adult fleas will begin to emerge from the pupae after approximately five days. But, pre-emerged adults can remain quiescent for weeks or months until they find a favorable environment, one that indicates the presence of a host.
After the adult fleas emerge, they need to feed within days. Fleas locate their possible hosts using visual and thermal cues. Under typical conditions, the entire flea cycle will complete in three to eight weeks.
The females will start to produce eggs within 2o to 24 hours of her initial feeding. A female flea will likely lay several hundred eggs over her approximately 50 to 100-day life span. Numerous future fleas may be developing in an environment simultaneously, no matter how many flea eggs you manage to kill.
Adult fleas will survive off the host for a short period. Some sources say that adult fleas can live up to two weeks if they do not find a new host; others state that fleas can live for two months or longer without a host.
What Do Flea Bites Look Like?
The degree of itchiness and discomfort an animal feels from flea bite allergy varies because some are allergic to fleas while others are not. Flea bite allergy, which is also called flea allergy dermatitis, flea bite dermatosis, or flea bite hypersensitivity, is a common skin condition in cats and dogs. Flea bite irritation commonly occurs when animals are allergic to one or more proteins in the flea’s saliva.
Nonallergic animals may develop mild itchiness at the flea bite site, usually only for a brief period. However, animals with flea bite allergies will develop itchiness in parts of the body away from the flea bite site. The intensity of itchiness tends to progressively worsen with continued exposure to fleas, leading to hair loss and other animal skin problems.
Even just one or two flea bites weekly may trigger and perpetuate an allergic reaction and uncontrollable itching. Animals of every age can develop a flea bite allergy, but this allergy is most common in animals between the ages of one and five. This occurs most often in the summer. But, in tropical or sub-tropical areas, allergic reactions may occur year-round since warm weather favors heightened flea production.
Evidence of adult fleas includes finding “flea dirt” (brown-black specks consisting of flea excrement containing digested blood) and flea eggs (white specks) on affected pets or other pets in the household. However, animals with an active flea bite allergy may actually have no fleas on their body at the time of examination. Often, fleas come dislodged through the pet’s excessive chewing and licking of the skin. To diagnose a flea bite allergy, your vet will conduct an intradermal skin test and a blood test.
What Do Fleas Look Like on a Dog?
For a dog, flea bite allergy symptoms are identifiable by scratching on the animal’s skin. The dog may experience additional damage to the skin if the allergy is more severe. The intensity of scratching can range from mild to severe and can worsen as the dog ages. The areas most often affected by the allergy are on the animal’s lower back, tail, head, hind legs, and belly.
In severe cases, the allergy may affect the pet’s entire body. The affected skin is very itchy and may show small bumps, abrasions, scratches, scabs, redness, and hair loss. Bacteria may also infect the inflamed skin.
Some dogs may develop a “hot spot” lesion (acute moist dermatitis), which is the skin most affected by the allergy. The dog’s excessive scratching, chewing, and licking of that particular area causes this patch of very inflamed, moist, hairless skin. The animal’s coat may thicken or darken from excessive scratching and chewing.
What Do Fleas Look Like on Cats?
Symptoms of flea bite allergy vary in cats. Cats may have a skin lesion pattern similar to the type in dogs detailed above. The allergy may develop small bumps and scabs around the head, neck, and belly (military dermatitis). Some cats may generate a small, round, reddish-yellow plaque (eosinophilic plaque or granuloma) on the groin area, abdomen, or the inside part of the hind legs.
The skin affected by the allergy will be very itchy. The cats may lick or chew this area excessively, which can cause hair loss. Some cats will have an asymmetric loss of hair on their mid-to-lower back and the hind legs, with no other sign of skin irritation (symmetric alopecia). Cat owners might mistake this chewing and licking of the cats’ skin as their normal grooming behavior, but the most common sign of flea bite allergy is the loss of hair from excessive licking on an area of the skin.
What Does Flea Bite Look Like on a Human?
The human flea is an annoying pest in several parts of the world. Contact with or the inhalation of larval exuviae can cause allergic reactions in humans. The females of chigoe invade human skin tissue, especially the skin of feet and toes. These render painful lesions that are prone to severe secondary lesions. Other fleas are intermediary hosts of tapeworm that can parasitize humans. Fleas are also vectors of the causative agents of several important zoonotic diseases such as murine typhus and plague.
Cat fleas cause a large variety of flea bites in humans as well. The cat flea is an unrelenting biter that attacks the ankle and toes, although it can affect other parts of the body. Women tend to be more affected by flea bites than men, suggesting a hormonal correlation between this species and humans.
The closely related P. simulans infests households and causes dermatitis in Northwestern America. Several other flea species bite humans, such as the dog flea, the sticktight flea, the northern rat flea, and several species of Xenopsylla, including the Oriental rat flea. The squirrel flea, Orchopeas howardi, and some bird fleas belonging to the genus Ceratophyllus, including the European chicken flea, occasionally bite humans as well.
Households harboring pets or domestic rodents and the members of nearby premises are susceptible to flea bites. Cat fleas and dog fleas will readily bite humans, particularly when flea populations are large or when pets are temporarily removed. Rodents in households can also carry fleas that will bite humans.
Fleas typically abandon dead hosts. If domestic rats die in wall voids or basements, the fleas will seek out a human host instead. Flea bites represent occupational hazards in many farms, barns, rabbit hatches, and poultry operations. The fleas in such cases may come directly from livestock or other animals attracted to food supplies.
Flea bites in humans
Flea bite dermatitis occurs in humans who have become hypersensitive to flea saliva. In sensitive individuals, flea bite sites typically develop into papules, causing a form of widespread urticaria, often with associated wheals, especially in children.
Skin scaling, hardening, and discoloration may occur in humans in severe cases. In adults, the extremities (hands and legs) are more susceptible to flea bites. In children, the entire body may become affected. Other symptoms of a flea bite in humans include rash, breaking out in hives, or swelling around the bite.
If you are allergic to fleas, your immune system may overreact to a flea bite and release an increased histamine amount. This can cause a severe allergic reaction called anaphylaxis. Anaphylaxis symptoms include intense itching, a rash or hives in various parts of the body, shortness of breath or wheezing, or swelling of the face, hands, mouth, or lips.
You must treat anaphylaxis immediately, or it can be life-threatening. Take Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) or an epinephrine injection (EpiPen) if you are having difficulty breathing.
With repeated exposure to flea bites, the hyposensitization may reduce the severity of dermatitis without any medical intervention. Corticosteroids and or desensitizing antigens can be administered to hypersensitive individuals to relieve their symptoms.
People may also become sensitized to flea feces and exoskeleton particles upon inhaling them through house dust or direct contact. Experts recognize adult fleas as the prime source of these allergens, but airborne larval exuviae are also associated with causing asthmatic symptoms in humans. Relief from these allergies may be achieved by administering a course of desensitizing antigens to the patient.
Through preventative measures, you can control fleas. You must consider several factors in eliminating fleas: elimination of adult fleas from pets, eliminating adult fleas from the environment, and preventative measures that will thwart re-infestation. The latter can reduce re-exposure or routine prophylactic treatment to kill adult fleas in the environment.

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The Herbesteiner surname is derived from the German word "Herbst," meaning autumn. It has been suggested that the surname may have originally been used by people whose main work occurred during the fall harvest. For example, Herbster, most likely meant "grape harvester."
Early Origins of the Herbesteiner family
The surname Herbesteiner was first found in Bavaria
, where the name was anciently associated with the tribal conflicts of the area. Early records include a Marquart Herbst, in Würzburg in 1220 and a Nitsche Herbist, on record in Liegnitz in 1372. They branched into many houses, and their contributions were sought by many leaders in their search for power.
Early History of the Herbesteiner family
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Herbesteiner Spelling Variations
of this family name include: Herbst, Herbest, Herbster, Harpster, Herbstheiner, Herbestheim, Herbstman, Erbst, Erbest, Herbestman, Herbestmann, Erbestmann, Herbstmann, Herbsteiner and many more.
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Migration of the Herbesteiner family to the New World and Oceana
Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Michael Harpster, who came to Philadelphia in 1741; Andreas Herbst, who settled in America sometime between 1775 and 1781; Aloise Herbst, who settled in New York in 1845.

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How Much Is Your Engine Worth?
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They say "money makes the world go 'round." Which is so true when it comes to racing. As your appetite for speed increases, your bank account correspondingly decreases. Every competitor will agree that drag racing is not a cheap thrill, building a race car can easily put you in the poor house. Performance enthusiasts spend thousands of dollars trying to get their vehicles down the track in record time. A fully-built turbocharged engine alone can cost as much as $10,000. And unlike car manufacturers, this high-performance powerplant does not come with a five-year, 50,000-mile warranty. Since none of us have a money tree growing in the backyard, protecting our investment should be of prime concern. To some degree, racers invest some money in gauges to monitor engine vitals. Oil pressure, water temperature, tach, boost pressure, exhaust gas temperature (EGT) etc. to name a few of the more widely used gauges. Yet, the most important vital signal of all usually gets ignored-the air/fuel ratio. Some might contest an exhaust temperature gauge gives you an idea whether the engine is running rich or lean from the temperature of the exhaust, which is true. However, the accuracy of measuring air/fuel ratio with an EGT gauge is almost as accurate as measuring the weight of a connecting rod for balancing purposes on the bathroom scale. Lean air/fuel mixtures can occur from a faulty fuel pump, clogged fuel lines, bad injectors, poor programming, etc. Running a lean air/fuel mixture under a full load can destroy an engine within seconds, depending on the severity of the lean mixture. Lean mixtures can destroy pistons, connecting rods, valves, block sleeves, combustion chambers, etc. totaling to hundreds probably thousands of dollars, not to mention the time and effort of a rebuild.
Today a number of companies are marketing monitoring devices to monitor air/fuel ratios. Some cost $100 while others cost as much as $5000. Most $100 units utilize the factory oxygen sensor to monitor the air/fuel ratio. Relying on one of these meters to monitor air/fuel ratios on your $10,000 engine is not too great of an idea. The stock computer monitors air/fuel ratios through voltage readings from the oxygen sensor. Stock oxygen sensors have a very narrow band of voltage reading, which is not ideal to use as a sensor for the air/fuel monitor. An air/fuel monitor is only as accurate as the oxygen sensor used. For optimum air/fuel readings a wide-band oxygen sensor has to be utilized. Unfortunately, due to the exclusivity of wide-band O2 sensors they have been known to cost a pretty penny or two. Unlike O2 sensors found in production vehicles, wide-band units are capable of reading a more accurate and broader voltage output from the sensor. Air/fuel monitoring devices that utilize a wide-band O2 sensor like the Motec meter can easily run upwards of $3000.
Blitz USA of Anaheim, California has noticed the need for an affordable and accurate air/fuel monitoring meter for the serious performance enthusiast. Blitz's A/F Analyzer ranks among the best in air/fuel meters yet with an affordable price tag. Each A/F Analyzer comes with a fast microprocessor box and its own heated wide-band O2 sensor for unparalleled performance. The five-wire wide-band O2 sensor offers a very wide range voltage readings which gives it greater resolution compared to stockers. This enables the unit to more accurately monitor air/fuel ratios from 10.0/1 to 16.0/1. The A/F Analyzer air/fuel readout is displayed on Blitz's Full Auto Turbo Timer (FATT) LCD screen. A warning mode is also incorporated into the unit to alert for lean conditions. The user is able of preset the air/fuel ratio that will trigger the warning alarm. An audible beep will sound off and the LCD display will turn from green to red warning the tuner or driver of the unsafe air/fuel ratio. Considering most racers are keeping their eyes on the track the sound will immediately signal the driver to let off the gas pedal preventing the engine from blowing up. Blitz's FATT meter can also be used as a turbo timer and voltage display meter. The FATT meter automatically calculates and adjusts the time needed to properly cool down the turbo. Battery voltage warning for high and low voltage is also incorporated into the unit. The user sets high and low warning modes to signal a voltage spike or excessive draw.
It's hard to over emphasize the importance of a good air/fuel meter, especially when it comes to tuning high-performance pressurized powerplants. Not only will running a safe air/fuel ratio save the engine but also increase horsepower by ensuring the mixture is burned efficiently, releasing the maximum amount of power. There is only one way to prevent a lean mixture from destroying your powerplant and that is constant monitoring of the air/fuel ratio. Blitz offers the chance to purchase some high-tech insurance for that high-dollar powerplant. So the question remains "how much is your engine worth?"
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Discover the heart of Mexico at ancient Teotihuacan and the historic Basilica of Guadalupe and Mantle of Juan Diego. Enjoy lunch at a traditional restaurant and relax with hotel pickup and drop-off.
Our Top Experiences and Tours in Mexico:If youʻre booking your trip to Mexico last minute, we have you covered. Below are some of the top tours and experiences!
- Discover the Teotihuacan archaeological complex and learn about its importance
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DescriptionEscape Mexico City and discover the cultures that founded it. Choose your closest pickup location and explore the State of Mexico. Learn incredible facts about the cities and sacred sites that thrived before Spanish influence. Your experience begins with a stroll through the Plaza de las Tres Culturas. Visit the church of Santiago de Tlatelolco, contemplate the ruins of a pre-Hispanic city, and see the monument in honor of the student movement of 1968. Continue your experience at the Guadalupe Basilica complex and climb the sacred hill of Tepeyac, the place where the Virgin Mary appeared to the Indian Juan Diego. Head to the Chapel of the Roses and enjoy a sweeping view of Mexico City. During your visit to the religious complex, admire the Chapel of the Indians, the Chapel of the Pocito, and the modern basilica, the place where the sacred blanket of Juan Diego is kept. To finish off your experience, head to the State of Mexico and discover the archaeological complex of Teotihuacan. Explore the archaeological zone and learn about the important history of this significant pre-Hispanic city. In Teotihuacan, you'll have time for lunch at a traditional restaurant, where you can enjoy a variety of typical dishes of the region (costs not included). This activity also includes a visit to a handicraft center, where you can optionally taste liquors of the region (cactus and prickly pear) and try the traditional drink known as pulque.
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Des Moines County's newest lake, Big Hollow, is a paddler's paradise. 90 acres of standing timber inundated by the 178-acre lake offer paddlers opportunities to go where no larger craft can. Top it off with great scenery and high-quality fishing and paddlers could spend entire weekends exploring.
Managed by Iowa DNR and USFWS Just north in adjacent Louisa County, Lake Odessa offers great paddling and is well worth the drive. Part of the Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge, there are endless possibilities to see a variety of wildlife.
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A state-designated water trail, the Iowa River is accessible from adjacent Louisa County and places as far upstream as Iowa City.
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At the meeting, Wu accepted an invitation from Chu to serve as one of the campaign headquarters’ honorary heads, along with former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), former KMT chairwoman Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) and former KMT chairman Wu Po-hsiung (吳伯雄), Chu said.
Wu and Chu agreed that the campaign and KMT headquarters should work as one to promote Han and its legislative candidates, he said.
On the local level, all 15 KMT mayors and county commissioners must lead the party’s election campaigns in their areas and collaborate with the 19 KMT local council heads and local party chapters, he added.
Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕) has agreed to head Han’s Taichung campaign headquarters and is expected to formally assume the position on Friday, Chu said.
While New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜) has repeatedly avoided questions about whether he is to head Han’s New Taipei City campaign headquarters, Chu said that Hou has already made it clear that all 4 million of the city’s residents should be considered the head of the campaign headquarters, adding that Hou would help the KMT’s candidates.
“Each city or county might have a different approach and we respect the local leader’s decision,” Chu said.
Asked about a rumor that the party is running low on funds for the election, Chu said that “although the KMT is not what it used to be,” party members would do their best to win the elections.
It is estimated that about 10 KMT legislative candidates face a difficult race in their constituencies, Chu said, adding: “We will spend most of our energy and time stabilizing the situation in those areas in the near future.”
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