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Remember also that when it comes to lighting, the different types of light fixtures are quite versatile and can adapt to suit different lighting requirements. For instance, using adjustable lights means that you can highlight different objects by simply repositioning the light source from the lamp. Similarly, decorative table lamps can be used not only as an ornamental object but can provide background lighting for performing tasks as well as being a light source for other objects displayed on the table.
Main Living Room Lighting Options- The main light fixture should offer a large amount of light. This is usually an overhead fixture, though some designers are moving away from this traditional solution. In addition to being the primary light source, this fixture should add aesthetic appeal to the room because it will be a focal point. Choose something inviting, bold, or creative according to your room decor and taste, but let it be something inherently decorative. Many homeowners enjoy installing chandeliers or pendant and hanging fixtures in the living and sitting room for this reason.
Living Room Lamps- Having a variety of lamps around the room is an easy way to create a sit-down, relaxed atmosphere. When you're ready to kick back for the evening, switch off overhead lights and turn on these living room lamps for some calm time. Floor and table lamps are also great because they offer a portable lighting solution, which means you can move them to a different area if more light is needed for a specific task.
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Even amid a recent spike in COVID-19’s ever-fluctuating caseload across Colorado, it is important to remember that there not only is light at the end of the tunnel — but also a need for jobs when we get there. We were reminded of that by a report in Friday’s Gazette about an alarming resurgence in unemployment claims in the state.
Yes, Coloradans are worried — about their economic security as well as about catching COVID. The priority for our policy makers at this point should be to balance the two worries amid a persistent but well-worn pandemic.
Certainly, our elected leaders must continue taking steps to contain the hospitalization rate for the minority of COVID cases — still sizable — that turn serious in any given week. We don’t want our state’s hospitals or other health care infrastructure any more overburdened than is already the case. Plenty of intensive care units and emergency rooms already are inundated.
Yet, the steps taken to curb COVID must be thoughtful and focused — more so than up to this point — to avoid any more collateral damage to an economy that has been reeling ever since last spring’s lockdown.
As noted in The Gazette’s report, 17,130 unemployment claims were filed with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment during the last week of November. It is the highest number of claims since May and a sharp increase over claims filed in more recent months. Before November, regular claims hadn’t exceeded the 7,000s since July. And unemployment claims specific to the pandemic are rising even more steeply, hitting 14,242 in the week ending Nov. 28 — nearly double the previous week’s 7,369 and more than triple the 4,188 claims from the week before. It’s the highest number of pandemic claims since June 13.
To restate the obvious, most of that joblessness isn’t caused directly by the virus itself. To be sure, shopping, dining, travel and other activities all have felt the effects of shifting behavior by consumers who aim to avoid catching COVID. But most of the job losses are caused by state and local restrictions imposed on commercial and other activities.
The latest surge in unemployment is no doubt fueled significantly by the renewed ban on indoor dining at restaurants in the state’s more populous counties. Those counties recently ranked in the “red zone” of the state’s revised COVID “dial” for determining how much to limit the public’s activities based on the number of COVID cases.
The state’s restaurant industry, already on life support since last spring, has been pushing back. Operators in the industry contend they are being unfairly singled out and that their role in spreading the virus has been overstated.
“This feels like an especially difficult blow considering there is little evidence tying dining to surging cases,” Colorado Restaurant Association President Sonia Riggs recently told Colorado Politics. “Most spread is happening in private gatherings.”
Public health officials not surprisingly disagree. In Denver, for example, the health department says about a quarter of the outbreaks it was able to track in recent weeks were at restaurants. Nevertheless, the actual numbers were quite low. The restaurant outbreaks tallied by the department amounted to only single digits in most weeks — a drop in the bucket of all new COVID cases turning up in any given week in Denver. The same is no doubt true statewide.
Despite the low numbers traced to eateries, those that can’t afford to set up heated dining outdoors, or rely only on takeout, are shuttered for now. And their employees are left wondering how to pay for next month’s rent or even groceries.
Do eateries, where all staff are masked, really pose more of a risk of transmitting COVID than standing in line — even a socially distanced line — to pay for groceries at your neighborhood supermarket? Or, at a your favorite big-box store?
Is the crackdown on restaurants one of the steps to curb COVID — that in fact is a serious overstep? And it’s just one example. Could the rigid capacity restrictions on, say, health clubs or houses of worship or other gathering places be relaxed to allow for more realistic use of such spaces without substantially increasing the risk to users, who will be masked anyway?
The public health officials who urge sweeping measures to stem any epidemic are generally highly competent, tirelessly dedicated — and hyper-focused on the malady of the moment. It is not their job — nor should it be — to navigate society toward a resurrection of economic life.
That is the job of our elected leadership. Which is why that leadership must place input from public health advisers in perspective — and temper it with a healthy dose of reality.


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Arson charges have been filed against a homeowner who set her house on fire late Saturday, Aug. 25.
Alecia Laurel Hanson, 27, of New Prague, allegedly used lighter fluid to set the house on fire. Police discovered the fire after they had been called to the residence, at 105 North Pershing Avenue, to check on a depressed female.
While firefighters were battling the fire, Hansen returned to the residence and gave a statement to officers admitting to a history of depression and to using charcoal lighter fluid to set the house on fire.

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According to various reports, Ladbrokes has opted to exit the three markets in order to undertake legal and regulatory reviews of igaming frameworks in Europe.
The bookmaker said that as of October 1, customers in the three European counties will no longer be able to bet or deposit funds in their accounts, but will be able to withdraw any remaining funds for one month after the initial shutdown date.
Last month, Ladbrokes confirmed in an email to Canadian customers that it was withdrawing from the national market due to concerns over a regulatory clampdown in the country.
The withdrawals come shortly before the introduction of new licensing conditions in the UK.
Under new regulations, operators wishing to take bets from customers in the UK must obtain a new licence from the national regulatory body.
The new conditions also state that operators must disclose financial information about international markets that generate more than 3% of total revenue.
The new UK system was due to come into effect on October 1, but has now been delayed until next November 1 following an ultimately unsuccessful legal challenge by the Gibraltar Betting and Gaming Association.

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Programmed death 1 (PD-1) and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA-4) are immune checkpoints that are expressed on the surface of antigen-presenting cells in the initiator and effector phase of T-cell activation respectively. They are responsible for “switching off” the T-cell. Inhibition of these checkpoints allows for overexpression of the immune system. The mechanism of defeating tumour cells can be understood by the three E’s of immunoediting.1 This over activity of the immune system may result in effects on normal body tissues, which is possibly how toxicities arise, although the exact mechanism is largely unknown.2
The incidence of grade 3 or 4 immune-related adverse events (irAEs) is higher with CTLA-4 blockers, whereas and PD-1 inhibitors appear to have better tolerability.3–5 The grade of irAEs varies according to the dose of drug administered to patients, where smaller doses of drug are used, side effects are similar but are less frequent.6 The combination of PD-1 inhibitor with a CTLA-4 inhibitor was recently approved in melanoma, however more adverse reactions were seen when the two drugs were used together especially grade 3 or 4 irAEs (55%),7 although greater overall response rates were seen.7–9 The incidence of irAEs can vary with tumour type and between different classes of drugs.
The most frequent irAEs are seen in the gastrointestinal (35%) and dermatological (44%) systems.6 The incidence of hepatic and endocrine system involvement follows with about 5–6%. Other systems less commonly affected are neurological, ophthalmologic, pulmonary, renal, haematological, cardiovascular, respiratory and musculoskeletal.,2,6,8
irAEs usually develop within 6–12 weeks of initial dosing and resolve within 12 weeks of onset, but may appear after the first dose.10,11It is also a postulation that the more severe the adverse event is, it correlates with a better response to treatment.3,9,12
When managed correctly, promptly and with close monitoring, most irAEs are reversible.2,6,12 In general, the optimal management of irAEs includes early recognition – by far being the most important, proper assessment of severity so that the choice of therapy, either supportive or immunosuppressive, can be quickly and correctly implemented. Mild irAEs can be observed and treated symptomatically with supportive care. As a guide, moderate irAEs, usually require stopping the offending agent implementing oral corticosteroid therapy and restarting therapy once symptoms have resolved. Severe irAEs warrant permanent discontinuation of the drug, hospitalisation and high-dose intravenous corticosteroids, with slow weaning. In very severe cases other immunosuppressive agents such as infliximab or mycophenolate mofetil may be warranted.13
Dermatological immune-related adverse events
These can occur after the initial dose of treatment and can be ongoing. Rashes are frequently maculopapular and mild.3,8,10,12 Rash and generalised pruritus can occur in up to 50% of patients with CTLA-4 inhibitors and 37% with PD-1 inhibitors.10 Symptomatic treatments for grade 1 rash; such as topical corticosteroid creams can be used. Oral antihistamines can be used if pruritus is severe.8 Rare cases of serious skin reactions such as Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis have been reported.5,10,14 A moderate rash is usually non-localised and covers more than 50% of the skin surface area and the recommendation is to omit the offending agent. If there is no improvement within a week, it usually requires topical or oral corticosteroids at a dose of 1 mg/kg/day. The drug can be resumed immune related symptoms become mild. Dose reductions are not usually advocated. When high dose corticosteroid therapy is used, once symptoms are controlled, tapering of the steroids should occur over a one-month period at least.13
Of note, the development of vitiligo may be associated with clinical benefit. Although it occurs in a small percentage of patients undergoing immunotherapy, there is a clear survival benefit in patients who develop vitiligo during treatment.14,15
Gastrointestinal immune-related adverse events
Side effects can occur anywhere along the gastrointestinal tract, ranging from mucositis, aphthous ulcers, gastritis and abdominal pain. More commonly diarrhoea related to colitis can be observed and patients can also have blood or mucus in their stool. In severe conditions perforation can occur and lead to death and must be excluded in patients with symptoms of peritonitis.2,10 Other infectious causes of diarrhoea must be excluded for instance Clostridium difficile infection in severe cases.3,8,10
A colonoscopy can be considered in patients with severe symptoms or if the cause is unclear.8,10 Mild symptoms can be treated symptomatically with rehydration, replacing electrolyte losses and loperamide.2,3,13 Grade 2 irAEs require the immunotherapy agent to be omitted. If symptoms are ongoing for more than one week, there should be an immediate commencement of oral corticosteroid therapy at a dose of 1 mg/kg/ day. When symptoms are resolved, the drug can be recommenced.2,3,10,13
Severe or life-threatening colitis is a serious complication as well as symptoms consistent with perforation, ileus or fever. High dose intravenous corticosteroids commenced at a starting dose of 2 mg/ kg/day is recommended.10,13 If symptoms persist, a single dose of immunosuppressive infliximab therapy at 5 mg/kg must be considered unless there is a contraindication.10,13 The dose of infliximab can be repeated after two weeks if symptoms persist.8,10 Mycophenolate mofetil can also be considered.10,16
Hepatic immune-related adverse events
It is important to remember that liver toxicity can occur in the absence of clinical symptoms. A baseline liver functions test (LFT) should be taken.10,13 When derangements occur, other infectious causes, medicinal use by patients and disease progression must be excluded. These should be investigated appropriately.10,13 Severe hepatotoxicity requires permanent discontinuation of the immunotherapy drug, commencement of high dose intravenous corticosteroids and monitoring until LFT returns to baseline. If LFT derangement is significant or refractory to steroid treatment, alternative immunosuppressive therapy such as mycophenolate mofetil must be considered.13 Other hepatotoxic agents can be avoided. A liver biopsy is indicated where aetiology is unclear.10
Endocrine immune-related adverse events
Symptoms are nonspecific such as fatigue, headache, mental state changes or dizziness from hypotension.10,13 The most common abnormalities of the endocrine system are hypophysitis and hypothyroidism.8,10 Workup should include screening for thyroid abnormalities and baseline thyroid function tests are also recommended. Pituitary hormones, if thyroid functions are normal, are indicated. Primary adrenal and primary pituitary insufficiency can be differentiated with an early morning cortisol assay.3,8,10 Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be obtained to visualise the pituitary gland to confirm the diagnosis of hypophysitis.3,10 MRI findings can be non-specific but can show a general enlargement of the pituitary gland.17,18In a review, about 85% of patients had pituitary gland abnormality on MRI.19 A retrospective analysis also postulated that radiological findings of irAEs could also be associated with a better clinical response.11
Treatment usually requires replacement of thyroid hormone and in mild cases of adrenal insufficiency, oral corticosteroid replacement therapy can be used.13 Adrenal insufficiency or crisis is a medical emergency. This warrants hospitalisation and high dose intravenous corticosteroids with mineralocorticoid activity. Infection or sepsis should be excluded. A consultation with an endocrinologist is needed to ascertain if long-term hormone replacement is required.8,10,13
Pulmonary immune-related adverse events Pulmonary irAEs are more common with PD-1 blockers, although the incidence is <1% and presents far later into treatment phase.10 In patients with new respiratory symptoms, infection or disease progression should be excluded before diagnosing immune related pneumonitis. A bronchoscopy and biopsy can be done in patients where aetiology is unsure.8,10
Ophthalmological immune-related adverse events
Episcleritis, conjunctivitis and uveitis has been described, and according to severity, topical steroids or systemic steroids can be utilised.3,18
Neurological immune-related adverse events
Sensory symptoms and motor symptoms can be experienced. Other irAEs such as posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome, aseptic meningitis, enteric neuropathy, and transverse myelitis have been described. Cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome have also been noted on numerous occasions. In our opinion it is worthwhile to consult a neurologist to assist with diagnosis, differentiating between paraneoplastic phenomenon and treatment implementation. Individual cases may warrant plasmapheresis or intravenous immunoglobulin.3,8 Although immunosuppressive therapy or drug omission suffices in most cases.13
Haematological immune-related adverse events
Red cell aplasia, neutropenia, acquired haemophilia A, thrombocytopenia have all been described.3,8 Recently cases of haemolytic-uraemic syndrome occurring in patients receiving ipilimumab have been reported.20 All these haematological complications can be managed effectively with immunosuppressive therapy.
Others less frequent irAEs include pancreatitis, asymptomatic raise in amylase and lipase, renal insufficiency and nephritis.
When managing a patient with suspected irAEs, each case should be individualised. A thorough workup of each side effect should be done to ascertain whether or not there is truly an irAE. Most importantly, a high index of suspicion of irAEs must always be kept in mind. Although most irAEs are self-limiting, in severe cases if treatment is not given promptly and correctly, it can be associated with life-threatening complications and death. Early recognition and aggressive treatment with immunosuppressive agents is vital to prevent morbidity and mortality.

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text: Located in the heart of the city, Tune Hotel – Downtown Kuala Lumpur is close to the famous Petronas Twin Towers. Transport options are abundant with the Sultan Ismail LRT station and the Medan Tuanku monorail station within walking distance. These trains can take you to shopping havens such as the Bukit Bintang area, Changkat, Pavilion Shopping Complex, LowYat Plaza, Sungei Wang, Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, and many more. A free bus service is also available to take you around the city center. There’s also a wide range of eating, shopping, and sightseeing experiences at the nearby Asian Heritage Row, Chinatown, and Central Market. Within the hotel, there’s a café, 24-hour ATM, and convenience store. Stay with Tune Hotel – Downtown Kuala Lumpur to get the best out of Kuala Lumpur.

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omfg so today I saw a man and a woman holding hands in public, i mean i don’t have anything against heterosexuality but don’t flaunt it in front of me, think of the kids omfg
So please, just stop it. Stop telling girls contradictory things. Stop telling them that they’re worthless if they’re not sexy, beautiful and willing and then shaming them into believing that if they were raped, it must have been their fault for dressing like sluts. Stop telling them they have to be high-achieving and independent and not rely on a man and then hating them for any freedom they manage to hold on to. Stop teaching young women to hate themselves. Stop it.
Because let me tell you something else about young women today. I’m going to say it slowly and clearly so it doesn’t get forgotten quite so fast. Young women today are brilliant.
They. Are. Brilliant.

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3rd meeting on the non-accepted provisions of the European Social Charter
Thursday, November 7, 2019, the third meeting on the non-accepted provisions of the European Social Charter (revised) organised by the Department of the European Social Charter, DGI, Council of Europe and the Ministry of Labour and Social Justice of Romania took place. The participants to the event included representatives of General Inspectorate for Immigration, Ministry for National Education, Ministry for Regional Development and Public Administration, National Employment Agency, and representatives of trade unions. IRDO representatives saw the event as an opportunity to stay informed on the analysis and assessment of the non-accepted provisions of the European Social Charter.
Mr. Francois Vandamme, Vice-president of the European Committee of Social Rights, stated that Romania is an active partner even if it has not ratified all provisions of the Charter. According to the last Report of the Committee (2015) and following the conclusions of the meeting, Romania fulfils the necessary criteria to adopt many of the unratified articles. Currently, 15 articles have not been or have been partially ratified by the Romanian state. Moreover, Romania has not ratified the Collective Complaints Procedure, provided by the 1995 Additional Protocol to the European Social Charter. The Committee concluded that more information is needed regarding the legislative framework for several articles, such as article 23 - the right of elderly persons to social protection, article 30 - the right to protection against poverty and social exclusion, and article 31 - the right to housing.
Regarding article 23, which offers a broad perspective on human rights, it was mentioned that one impediment for ratification is that the article does not have any paragraphs. Considering the broadness of the article, it may be difficult for authorities to fulfil all requirements. The Committee also observed a lack of provisions referring to the participation of the elderly and age discrimination. At the same time, the committee underlined the importance to respect the dignity of elders and the necessity to introduce programmes on mental health, considering that depression is widespread among this age category, especially among the ones that live alone.
On article 30, Committee expressed concerns on the risk of poverty in Romania, which, according to Eurostat Data, is one of the highest at European level, and there is a high percentage of people facing severe deprivation (20%) despite the broad social assistance regulation framework. Committee also stressed the need to evaluate the risk of poverty after the social transfers to assess their efficiency.
Regarding article 31, Committee representatives highlighted the need to respect minimum standards for housing and living conditions, and to provide legal protection and remedies. Regarding homeless persons, the Committee notes that there is a need to come up with actions to prevent homelessness, but also to ensure the right to shelter for these persons, while respecting human dignity and providing minimal sanitary and health standards. At the same time, access to housing or shelter should not be discriminatory.
Committee remarked positive aspects as well, considering that in some cases, Romanian legal provisions exceed the standards of the European Social Charter (revised). Besides, the Committee highlighted the importance of an existing legal framework and the need to ensure appropriate implementation of laws.


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Guest blog by Michael Wade
When I decided to run (then proceeded to dedicate my life to training for and finishing) the Ghost Train 100 late last October I didn’t realize the price I’d be paying to do so. Oh sure, I knew it would be difficult to complete and I knew it would take me some time to recover. But I never imagined I’d be sitting here (almost 7 months later) still dealing with the aftermath of that one race.
Come to find out, in order to achieve the goal of finishing my first 100 mile race, I’d unknowingly made a deal with the Devil… and he’s taken nearly everything!
In the weeks immediately following the race, I enjoyed my requisite rest days. Taking one whole week off, then slowly coming back. Low-mileage, low intensity. Lots of “off” days. Just basking in the glow of my accomplishment. Eventually, as the calendar turned from December to January, I started ramping up my miles with thoughts of the coming years races dancing in my head. And the result was one bad workout after another.
I struggled through long runs. I struggled through tempo runs. I struggled through snowshoe runs. And, I struggled through gym sessions. In reviewing my log book the words “slow”, “tired”, dead legs” and “blah” showed up repeatedly from January through March. But, what was more alarming, was my DESIRE to run had almost completely evaporated. I had ZERO motivation. And it showed. Every time I tied the laces.
At the time, I passed it off as a bad case of the “winter blues”. And, with the kind of winter we had, who could blame me? I figured once the trails opened up, and I could run on something other than asphalt, the “drive” would return and I’d be as good as new. I wasn’t injured and I wasn’t sick, so I just kept plugging away. 60 miles per week. Week after week. Like everything would work itself out. It didn’t. In fact, it just got worse.
March ended with a remarkably bad run at the Eastern States 20. I started off at what I thought was a conservative pace of 7:15 per mile and by halfway I was struggling to maintain 8:00 – with some miles pushing 9:00 towards the end. My “bread and butter” of finishing strong, a tactic that had served me so well during the previous year of running ultras, had completely abandoned me. And it felt like I was passed by nearly everyone in the race!
I finished in a personal worst time of 2:32:56 (7:39 pace). More than 5 minutes slower than the first time I had run it (when I had no idea what I was doing) and more than 20 minutes slower than my best time there. Again, I passed it off as a “bad” day at the asphalt office and looked forward with great anticipation to my next race. A 50k on the trails. Finally!
I had run the TARC Spring Classic 50k for the first time last year, and had a very good day. Despite the rain, and muddy conditions, I was able to crack the 4:30 barrier and set a new 50k PR in the process. This year, I knew I wasn’t in that kind of shape, but I hoped I wouldn’t be too far off. Boy was I wrong! The first two 10k laps went just fine and then the wheels started to come off. Badly.
I struggled home in 5:26:21 (9:54 pace) almost an HOUR slower than the previous year! I was having some foot pain, the course was a bit longer than in 2014 and it was warm out. So, I had plenty of reasons not to push the panic button. But, the results of this race certainly did give me pause. Just not enough to cause me to make any changes in my training. In fact, I amplified it by adding track workouts. That would get me into shape! Or so I thought.
Well, let me tell you, slow 800’s, 400’s that make you dizzy and mile repeats that leave you gasping for breath was certainly no way to prepare me for my next “race” – the Pineland Farms 25k. Based on the results of my previous two races on the year, I came into this one with the bar set very, VERY low. However, I still somehow managed to find a way to trip over that damned thing and land flat on my face.
I started the first 5k segment very slowly and then proceeded to run each of the next four segments even slower than the previous one – with the final 5k taking a glacial 50:00 (five oh) minutes. That’s more than 16 minutes per mile! Yes it was hot, yes I was dehydrated, but something was definitely wrong with me. I crossed the finish line on Sunday in a 37 1/2 minute personal worst time of 2:41:36 (10:24 pace) and I haven’t run a step since.
I’ve decided this week that enough is enough! No more passing things off. Bad running (and worse racing) has dealt too many blows to my psyche this year and I won’t be running again until I FEEL like running again. Who knows how long it will take. A week? A month? More? I really don’t know. All I know is I’ve never felt this way before, and I definitely don’t like it. Not one bit.
Over the winter I put on a little weight. Not a ton, but enough. I ate because it felt like I was “missing something”. I assumed it was calories and continued to eat until I felt satisfied. Only, I never did feel satisfied. Just full. It didn’t dawn on me until this week (and everything I’ve been through) that the something I was “missing” was rest.
I’ve always known that I’m a “tired” eater. Rather than rest (because with four kids I usually can’t) I choose to eat in order to get give myself the energy to get through the day. And that’s what I’ve been doing. My body was telling me (and has been telling me since December) that it’s tired and what I’ve been doing is feeding it and telling it to “Shut up and keep going!” Well, I guess it’s telling me who’s boss. And now, I’m finally listening.
So, as I sit here “resting” and pondering my next move, a larger question remains… Would I do it all over again given the chance? Would I forsake everything I had in the world of running for the opportunity to finish my first 100 mile race?
And the answer to that question is an unequivocal YES.
I just would have asked to look at the fine print before signing on that dotted line.
Follow Michael Wade regularly on his blog Rock n Runner.

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"The Love of America is on Move:" Victimization, Cold War Consensus, and the Hungarian Revolution, 1956-1957Krueger, Rita; Goedde, Petra, 1964-; Goedde, Petra, 1964- (Temple University. Libraries, 2014)On November 4, 1956, Soviet forces brutally suppressed the Hungarian Revolution in Budapest. Although Nikita Khrushchev had attempted to "repair" the Soviet Union's image by denouncing Stalin's crimes, the Soviet invasion of Hungary damaged the Soviet Union's legitimacy in the international community. This thesis examines the popular and religious press' coverage of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. By publishing anticommunist editorials and letters to the editor, the popular press furthered the phenomenon known as Cold War Consensus. Historians have looked at Cold War Consensus as a conscious political project created by a number of individuals and institutions. This thesis emphasizes the role of the popular and religious press as agents in the solidification of the Cold War Consensus. Most notable was the popular and religious press' use of the victimization narrative. By portraying the Hungarian freedom fighters as victims of the Soviet system, the popular and religious press condemned the Soviet Union's actions while extolling "American values" such as democracy, freedom, and charity. The popular and religious press' treatment of Soviet brutality also built a sensationalized image of Hungarian refugees. The emphasis on Soviet savagery and narrative centered on incoming Hungarian refugees as heroes strengthened anticommunist rhetoric that was typical during the 1950s.

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You already know that eating well, exercising, taking your medications, and tracking your blood glucose are essential to staying healthy when you have diabetes. Now, a slew of products can make doing those activities easier—and in some instances, less painful. Here’s a look at seven must-have diabetes products.

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It's been over two years since Jennifer Garner announced her split from Ben Affleck, but the 45-year-old actress recently admitted she's not ready to date again. In an interview with news.com.au, Jennifer said she hasn't been on a date since the breakup despite her friends' best efforts.
Jennifer said, "People want to set me up and I am just like, 'No thank you!'" Jennifer candidly admitted that she did not envision herself being single at this point in her life. "I would not have chosen this life for myself or for my kids. I would not choose to be single or be in this position. It's something that we are working through," she said. Adding, "I haven't been on a date and I am not interested in dating."
That being said, Jennifer maintains a close relationship with Ben and they plan on spending the holidays together with their three children. "We will all be together for Thanksgiving. I love Ben," she said. "We will be together with our kids and give them a special Christmas. We get along really well and it's not an issue. We are friends; we can manage it."


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The acute effects of aerobic exercise on sleep in patients with depression: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
DiscussionThis trial will add new information to the body of knowledge concerning the treatment of insomnia in patients with depression. Thereby, the results will inform decision makers on the utility of acute aerobic exercise.Trial registrationClinicaltrials.gov,NCT03673397. Protocol version 1 registered on 17 September 2018.
The sensory nerve was recently identified as being involved in regulation of bone mass accrual. We previously discovered that prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) secreted by osteoblasts could activate sensory nerve EP4 receptor to promote bone formation by inhibiting sympathetic activity. However, the fundamental units of bone formation are active osteoblasts, which originate from mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSCs). Here, we found that after sensory denervation, knockout of the EP4 receptor in sensory nerves, or knockout of COX-2 in osteoblasts, could significantly promote adipogenesis and inhibit osteogenesis in adult mice. Furthe...
CONCLUSION: Children with NB reported significantly more problematic behaviors compared to children without NB. Children with specific personality profile demonstrated higher tendency for problematic behavior irrespective of the frequency of NB. Therefore, accompanying personality profiles should be considered when assessing behavioral problems in children with NB. PMID: 32450625 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Authors: Chung S, Cho SW, Jo MW, Youn S, Lee J, Sim CS Abstract OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to estimate the progress of insomnia prevalence and incidence over the past several years. Also, this study compared survival rates between individuals with and without insomnia. METHODS: The National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort (NHIS-NSC) from 2002-2013 was used for this study. Prevalent cases of insomnia were defined using ICD-10 codes F51.0 or G47.0, or a prescription of sedatives. Cox's proportional hazard analysis was conducted to compare survival rates between insomnia patients and peop...
CONCLUSION: The prevalence of psychiatric disorders among NKD was quite higher than in the general population of South Korea. PMID: 32450622 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Amita Sehgal, whose pioneering discoveries of mechanisms that regulate circadian rhythms and sleep have deepened scientists ’ understanding of behavioral cycles, metabolism and healthy aging, has been named the 2020 recipient of the Switzer Prize awarded by the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.“I am deeply honored to be selected and to be among the distinguished group of scientists who received this influential prize before me,” said Sehgal, who is the John Herr Musser Professor of Neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the C...
CONCLUSION: Lung function abnormalities, psychological impairment and reduced exercise capacity were common in SARS and MERS survivors. Clinicians should anticipate and investigate similar long-term outcomes in COVID-19 survivors. PMID: 32449782 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
A new study looking at hundreds of LGBTQ youth who died by suicide finds that many were bullied before their death, adding to a growing body of evidence showing how bullying can result in deadly consequences.
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Compared to other comparable Harnesses this one seems cheaply made. Fabric is not well padded and is flimsy. Straps were not comfortable for my dogs. I worried they could slip out of this harness or that the strap connections would break if they were frightened and pulled to hard. Not worth returning, so I'll donate them to a Rescue Group. Only product purchased so far on Chewy that I felt was inferior.
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November 5, 2015
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This is a good product. The dog can see out of the window and feels secure in the car. She seems very comfortable.
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University of Missouri quadruples storage and slashes backup times.
When the University of Missouri quadrupled storage capacity by upgrading its storage area network in the summer of 2006, IT Associate Director Randy Wiemer looked forward to the performance boost the seven-figure upgrade would bring the Columbia campus. But he worried about the drag the extra data he could store would have on his backups, especially Exchange.
Along with the new hardware, he needed a better way to do backups. So he re-engineered the backup of his Exchange environment, using snapshots that take a point-in-time image of the Exchange environment that can be used to quickly restore the environment while making the process more efficient and easier to manage. He also took advantage of using different tiers of storage disks, a strategy that storage vendors call information lifecycle management (ILM).
“What we were doing before was a streaming backup and it was taking four hours to back up,” Wiemer says. “We quadrupled the amount of data we’re holding, and I couldn’t quadruple the hours it took and do streaming for 16 hours. We had to step up and use snapshotting that builds a clone of all the changes from the last close. Now we can do that and back up in 90 minutes.”
In a streaming backup, each page of Exchange’s database is read in turn and the checksum integrity of the pages and transaction log files is checked before they are backed up. Wiemer switched to the Volume Shadow Copy Services in Windows Server, which lets other applications help back up and restore databases.
“Exchange is a database,” he says. “As soon as you turn it on, you have to back up the whole thing. With snapshots of clone data, we’re letting the SAN do most of the work.”
Send in the Clones
Missouri clones its backups between EMC Clariion CX700 SANs. It uses EMC SnapView software to capture point-in-time, full-copy clones of production Exchange data on Fibre Channel drives. The cloning lets the university back up data without disrupting users and provides disaster recovery. Once a night, EMC SAN Copy archives the clones on less expensive SATA disks for further data protection coverage.
Of about 200 terabytes of SAN capacity, Wiemer says he devotes about 8TB to Exchange.
“We have a fairly sophisticated backup and disaster recovery strategy that involves multiple tiers of disks,” Wiemer says. “We were doing DR before, but not quite as sophisticated. We were using MirrorView. When we’d write a backup, we’d mirror it to the SAN in the other building. Now we’re using snapshots, making clones, and doing SAN copies to get clones to the other side.”
Wiemer doesn’t use tape at all for Exchange backups.
“We use tape for 1,000-plus servers in the data center, but no tape in our e-mail environment,” he says. “We could never meet our recovery times if we had to restore from tape.”
More and more institutions are discovering that, especially as disk-based backup technologies such as snapshots, continuous data protection and data de-duplication catch on.
“Backup and recovery of data is more reliable with disk-based data protection architectures,” says Lauren Whitehouse, an analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, Mass. “Disk also speeds backup and recovery.”
Whitehouse says Exchange environments are inherently difficult to back up because most organizations that value e-mail as mission-critical need to have the capability to quickly recover both the entire environment as a whole as well as individual mailboxes and items within the mailboxes such as messages, contacts, journal entries or appointments. Ensuring this granular recovery capability traditionally has required a two-step backup cycle. This complex process ensures quick, reliable restores but requires more resources, budget dollars and hours in the day than most universities can devote.
At the University of Missouri, more than 50,000 students, faculty, researchers and administrators use Exchange to collaborate and communicate more effectively, putting strain on a heavily trafficked network. “It’s a mission-critical application that has to be running all the time,” Wiemer says of Exchange.
He says that since the upgrade, “We’ve been able to increase employee mailbox quotas by 500 percent and double student mailbox quotas. Our users are enjoying faster, more reliable access to their e-mail regardless of the time of day or night.”
He hasn’t had a major crash since the upgrade, but Wiemer says he has no doubt he could recover quickly.
“We’ve been running Exchange 10 years,” he says. “We’ve had to do recoveries and we know how painful it is. Before it was painful to do a rehearsal, but now it’s quite easy to do that training exercise.”
At a Glance
Location: Columbia, Mo. (main campus)
Founded: 1839 as the first public university west of the Mississippi River and the first state university in the Louisiana Purchase territory
Enrollment: 63,000 students in the university’s four- campus system
Size: 19,517 total acreage; 1,358-acre main campus is a designated botanic garden with more than 5,000 trees and 650 varieties of plants.
Consolidation Simplifies Management
University of Missouri IT Associate Director Randy Wiemer has found over the years that centralizing IT functions makes it easier to manage technology throughout larger campuses.
That lesson was reinforced when Missouri upgraded its storage last year to new EMC Clariion CX arrays.
“By consolidating servers and storage, there is less to manage, and best practices — like remote replication for disaster recovery, archiving and backups — can be more easily managed and deployed,” says Bob Madaio, senior marketing manager at EMC. “This is so important primarily to reduce TCO [total cost of ownership] of the environment and reduce chances for error.”
Missouri’s IT department took responsibility away from individual departments several years ago and centralized Exchange in the data center. Further consolidation by EMC reduces the amount of equipment that needs to be monitored and maintained.
Wiemer describes the level of centralization of IT functions at Missouri as “more so than most universities, less than most corporations. E-mail is one of those things we do one at a time in one place. Back in the ’90s, we had what most schools had, which is e-mail chaos with every department running its own thing. In the late ’90s, we deployed Exchange across the entire university.”


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Building a precision rifle on a custom action can offer a number of advantages. In addition to custom features such as heavier tangs, specialized extractors, one piece bolts and upgraded bolt stops, there can be a significant labor savings. Starting with a custom made action, the gunsmith can focus on chambering and threading the barrel, without having to worry about blueprinting the action.
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bolt bore raceway is wire EDM’ed with the rails to ensure exact tolerances are held
rails have an anti-bind rail for smooth operation when cycling across ejection port cut out
bolt is spiral fluted and clearance through bolt bore is held to .004 -.006
bolt handle is straight with a black knurled tactical knob and black bolt shroud
action has a standard Remington 700 magazine cut out
includes one-piece 20 MOA Picatinny rail with four 8-40 mounting screws and two 1/8 dowel pins to ensure rigid mounting
recoil lug is surface ground and pinned
front and rear of action is the same diameter to provide for greater rigidity
the .223 uses a Sako style extractor, .308 and larger use an M-16 style extractor
bolt stop is on non firing side above stock line
When discussing caliber selection, we initially thought about chambering it in .223 Ackley Improved but later decided against it. Settling on .223 Remington since we were considering competing in some mid-range F-class matches in the target rifle division which only allows rifles chambered in .223 and .308.
It is worth noting that this build moved along significantly faster then those we have completed on a factory 700. The ability to move straight into threading and chambering the barrel is a huge time saver. If you are looking at building a precision rifle, the price tag associated with a custom action may cause you to initially look away. However, if you factor in the cost of the tooling and the parts needed to end up with a similar end result from a standard Remington 700 action, you will find that the price isn’t too far off the mark.
We ordered the following supplies from Brownells to complete this project:
- Blackheart International custom bolt action receiver
- Bartlein 22 caliber heavy varmint barrel blank 1:8 twist
- Manson .223 live pilot finish reamer
- 3/8″ High-speed steel turning kit
- 1/2″ High-speed steel threading tool
- Starrett dial indicator
- 60 degree center gauge
- .223 Remington “go” and “no go” gauge set
- Accuracy International 2.0 AICS folding stock
- Accuracy International AICS .223 magazines
- Spuhr Unimount scope mount
- Nightforce NXS 5.5-22x56mm rifle scope
All lathe work is conducted on a Grizzly 4003G lathe with a Bald Eagle spider attached to the faceplate.
The following documents the process we used to build our custom .223 bolt action rifle, it is for informational purposes only and should not be considered instructional advise. If you haven’t chambered a barrel before, make sure an experienced gunsmith checks your work.
The BHI 223 custom short action- it’s pretty cool looking- isn’t it?
The bolt body is one piece of stainless steel and is helically fluted.
The BHI action uses a Sako extractor with a plunger ejector.
For this rifle we selected a Bartlein barrel blank with a heavy varmint profile.
The barrel is run through the lathe’s headstock and secured with spiders on both ends. A Pacific Tool and Gauge (PTG) grizzly rod, with the appropriately sized bushing is placed into the bore.
The bore is dialed, initially using the .001″ dial indicator, and followed with the .0001″ indicator. Our total indicator runout (TIR) was less then .0001″ in this case. Note the set up we use. The plumb bob pretensions the grizzly rod.
Using high-speed steel insert cutters, the tenon shoulder is cut to accept the recoil lug provided with the action.
The barrel tenon is coated with layout fluid and then the end of the tenon is chamfered, a stop cut is made for the threads, and the inside corner of the tenon’s shoulder is undercut so the recoil lug sits flush.
A 60 degree center gauge is used to align the HSS threading tool. The compound is set to 29.5 degrees and the lathe is set to cut 16 teeth per inch.
After a light pass is made with the threading tool, a thread gauge is used to ensure the threads are cut at the right pitch.
The threads are then cut to depth on the lathe.
The BHI action requires a .720 diameter bolt nose recess (we normally cut a .705″ on a standard Remington action). The recess is cut with a high- speed steel boring bar.
With a little bit of anti seize compound on the barrel threads (you don’t want two stainless steel parts sticking together), the recoil lug, action and bolt are test fit. The we remove the ejector and firing pin from the bolt prior to test fitting. Note: the recoil lug pin is not needed at this point, since the relative alignment of the lug does not matter right now.
A Manson, .223 Remington live pilot finish reamer will be used to chamber this barrel. Unlike other manufacturers, who secure pilots with a set screw, Manson uses an E-clip. We find this method preferable. A Lambeth-Kiff reamer stop is attached to the base of the reamer and the “go” gauge is held next to it. The stop is set to limit the chamber depth short of final depth of cut.
The reamer is secured in a floating reamer holder. The reamer is coated in a generous amount of Viper’s Venom cutting oil and is slowing advanced .025″ into the barrel. The lathe is then stopped, the reamer retracted, cleaned, lubricated, and reinserted a few thousandths short of the previous cut. This process is repeated until the reamer stop hits the end of the barrel blank.
An action, lug and bolt are screwed into placed with the .223 Remington “go'” gauge in place. A feeler gauge is used to measure the remaining space along the tenon. The reamer stop is then retracted half of this dimension. and the process repeated until the action can be screwed all the way in with the “go” gauge in place.
With the action secured, the handle should fall on the “go” gauge.
The handle should not close with the “no-go” gauge in place.
The barrel is cut to length and dialed-in on the lathe. A boring bar is used to cut a recessed crown.
The barrel is secured in a barrel vise. A Surgeon action wrench, held in a torque wrench, tightens the action into place. Note: A small amount of anti-seize compound is placed on the threads prior to final assembly to prevent galling of stainless steel parts. Headspace is verified once this is completed.
Using a guide we stamp the caliber into the side of the barrel.
For the stock selection, an Accuracy International AICS 2.0 chassis system was selected. The AICS has an aluminum chassis surrounded by plastic skins. The advantage of this system is that it eliminates variables with stock bedding or inletting. The receiver sits in a V shaped bed, secured by the action screws. Additionally, the wide barrel channel allows the user to easily remove the barrel as needed. This would be a good choice for a switch barrel application.
Unfortunately, the lug supplied with the action is too long for the AICS stock we plan on using. Notice that the action is rocking on the lug and won’t sit in the chassis. We have encountered this with Holland lugs on AICS stocks as well. In the past, we have cut the lugs, this time we decided to increase the depth of the lug cut in the AICS chassis.
The chassis is squared up in the milling machine vise.
A 1/4″ end mill and a little bit of aluminum cutting fluid make short work of deepening the lug cut.
Note the lug no longer contacts the bottom of the lug cut.
The trigger needs to be installed on the action. We have a Timney on back order, so we installed a Remington factory trigger for the time being. The bolt release on the trigger can be removed since it is no longer needed. Since this is only temporarily on this rifle, we left it on.
The barreled action is secured with two action screws. We use a torque driver to ensure they are properly secured.
The side panels of the AICS stocks are reattached.
The scope base is held on with two dowel pins as well as 4, 8-40 screws.
Here is a close up view of one of the two pins. These pins are pressed into the action and base, providing additional strength.
We selected Spuhr rings to mount our optic. The Spuhr system uses a once piece design, that has 6 mils of elevation built into it.
Spuhr includes a scope leveling wedge with their rings. The wedge slips into a mating surface on the mount.
The wedge then runs against the bottom of the scope, ensuring that the scope is perfectly level.
With a Nightforce NXS 5.5-22×56 scope mounted, we headed to the range for the rifle’s debut. All shooting was done from the prone position, with a Harris bi-pod and a rear bag. Ammunition consisted of factory Federal Gold Medal 69 grain HP and Asym 75 grain OTM.
The straight bolt handle and helical flutes give this rifle a slick appearance.
The 28″ barrel is quite long, velocity of Federal 69 grain Gold Medal was 2920 fps and Asym 75 was 2887 fps.
Off to a good start with factory Federal 69 grain Gold Medal.
The rifle shot well. The selection of heavy parts resulted in a heavy rifle with almost no perceived recoil. It felt like shooting a 22. Initial accuracy results seemed promising, with both factory loads shooting well below 1 MOA. The bolt cycled and function well. Unfortunately, the .223 AICS magazines we ordered still haven’t arrived and we are stuck loading single rounds.
Moving forward, the barrel will likely be cut and crowned to a shorter configuration; primarily because, the overall length of the rifle prevents its easy storage in our safe.
Federal Gold Medal 69 OTM. .451″ at 100 yards.
Federal Gold Medal 69 OTM. .387″ at 100 yards.
Update: July 8, 2013: We cut and crowned the barrel to 24″. Fired six groups of Federal Gold Medal 69 SMK. Range conditions were 95F, with 15 MPH half value winds. Groups were .461, .631, .387, .422, .648 and .410″ respectively from a bipod and rear bag. Average group size was .493″.
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MAN – With the WVSSAC’s realignment coming up soon Man High School is sitting on the fence.
Man, which has been a Class A school for many years going back to the 2000s, is currently in the “border regions” as far as enrollment is concerned.
Depending on where the SSAC sets its cutoff figures for Class A and Class AA schools, the Hillbillies may have enough students to go back to Double-A.
Man’s Harvey Arms, who coaches the school’s football and boys’ basketball teams, said it’s a possibility.
“We were just talking about that at school the other day. I guess it really will depend on where they set the cutoff line,” Arms said. “We have picked up some students this year. If the count was now we would be right up there and be very close. The cutoff line will change, too. It’s not a sure thing but it’s a possibility that we could go back to Double-A.”
Man competed as a Class AA school for a large chunk of the 1990s and into the early 2000s. Declining enrollment then dropped MHS to Single-A status.
Man has had much success at the Class A level over the last decade or so.
Man High School has won three state championships since it was a Class A school.
The Man baseball team captured the 2014 Class A state baseball championship with a 12-10 victory over Clarksburg Notre Dame. It was the school’s first state championship of any kind in boys’ athletics.
The Man softball squad brought home back-to-back Class A state titles in 2008 and 2009 and nearly won a third straight championship in 2010 but fell to South Harrison in the Class A state title game at Vienna.
Back in 2009, Coach Arms’ own football team marched all the way to the Super Six in Wheeling as Man fell in the Class A state championship game to Weirton Madonna at Wheeling Island Stadium.
Man has seen improvement to its athletic facilities, chiefly its football stadium, as George A. Queen Memorial Field received a major upgrade with the installation of Field Turf this summer and in recent years, a new home grandstand and a new locker room building.
Arms said he really has no preference as far as Man’s classification status. The current 2015-16 school year would be the last in the old realignment. The new realignment would kick in for the 2016-17 school year.
“It really doesn’t make any difference,” Arms said. “You play sports and you have got to compete wherever you are. The only tough thing is that you’ve got a schedule set for one class now. But the good thing for us is that about half of our games in football are already against Double-A teams. It’s sometimes hard to flip that schedule to get the Double-A teams back on it.”
Other area and regional schools could also be on the move.
Class AAA Logan High School is also teetering on the 3A/2A border and could drop to Double-A.
Tolsia, a member of the Cardinal Conference and a 2A school, might go back to Single-A.
Class AA Herbert Hoover, another member of the Cardinal, could go back up to Triple-A as Hoover is one of the largest 2A schools in the state.
Other schools are also sitting on the fence.
If either Tolsia or Herbert Hoover change classifications, they would, presumably have to leave the Cardinal Conference, which is traditionally exclusive to just Double-A schools.
If Man goes back up to 2A would the Billies be interested in joining the league?
The conference will likely be searching for new members if either the Rebels or Huskies or both leave. In 2012, the Cardinal lost Point Pleasant when the Big Blacks went up to 3A. The league lost Logan and Winfield in 2008 after the Cats and Generals went back up.
“That’s a possibility I guess,” Arms said about joining the league. “I don’t know. But back in the early 90s when they formed the Cardinal Conference Man tried to get in but couldn’t.”
Man would make geographic sense in the Cardinal Conference, and with the four-laned Route 10 from Logan to Man hopefully set to be finished soon, there would be improved roads to get there.
In the early 90s, Man was even a Class AAA school and played in the Mountain State Athletic Conference.
(Paul Adkins is the Sports Editor of the Logan Banner. He can be reached at 304-752-6950 ext. 1730, by email at [email protected] or on Twitter @PAdkinsBanner).

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Bill Radke: There’s some welcome news for the U.S. taxpayer this morning. Reports indicate the government’s big financial bailout program actually might not be nearly as costly as we thought. We get more from Marketplace’s Ashley Milne-Tyte, who joins us live also, and also from New York. Good morning.
Ashley Milne-Tyte: Hi, Bill!
Radke: So why the smaller bailout price tag?
Milne-Tyte: Well basically, the banks have a lot to do with it. They’re repaying government funds a lot faster than anyone expected. Big financial institutions like JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs they’ve all repaid their bailout funds. Bank of America just announced it’s planning to do the same thing. So that just leaves Citibank waiting in the wings. And so Treasury lent $370 billion in bailout money to companies that hit trouble during the initial financial crisis, and reports say it now expects to get back most of that — all but $42 billion of that.
Radke: So is that to say that our big banks are on the mend?
Milne-Tyte: Well not everyone thinks so. I spoke to Christopher Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics a bit earlier and asked him if this was good news.
Christopher Whalen: Well no, it’s mostly public relations’ spin by the White House and the Treasury. You have to remember that the Fed has manipulated the securities market to such an extent that the banks look pretty good.
He says the Fed’s effectively been subsidising the banks — I mean, there’ve been very low interest rates, the Fed’s bought a lot of those problematic mortgage-backed securities so the banks don’t have to write down losses on those. So he says when the Fed starts unwinding some of the policies it’s using now, we could be looking at a very sobering picture.
Radke: So as for those paid-back funds, how’s the government planning to use that money?
Milne-Tyte: Well, there’s talk of them using some of those funds to pay for a jobs program, and we could hear more about that in a speech the president’s making tomorrow.
Radke: Marketplace’s Ashley Milne-Tyte. Thank you.
Milne-Tyte: You’re welcome.
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|A299.35 ct slightly yellowish partial octahedron and a colorless 112.61 ct type IIa diamond. Photo by Robert Weldon/GIA; courtesy of Gem Diamonds Ltd.|
For Mazvi Maharasoa, CEO of Letseng Diamonds, a partner in the mine, that diamond and the three 450 ct-plus diamonds that have been found there since are more than a promise—they are a source of national pride and a promise realized.
“This mine is unique, producing the highest average value diamonds ($2,043 per ct, against the global average of $106 per ct) in the world,” she says. “Lesotho is a dot on the map to some people, but these diamonds have brought us recognition.”
The mine is also one of the world’s largest sources of highly coveted type IIa diamonds. Normally, such stones comprise about 2% of diamonds recovered worldwide, but at Letseng, they are about one-quarter of the output.
Touring the mine, located about 3,100 meters (just over 10,000 feet) high in rugged mountain country, Maharasoa notes, “This mine came from nothing in 2000. Now we have 1,500 employees (and) a mine that gives our country 70% of its corporate tax revenue and 60% of our country’s foreign exchange earnings.”
Maharasoa was born in the capital city of Maseru and earned a degree in international and commercial law from the University of Buckinghamshire, north of London. She returned to Lesotho as legal advisor to the Ministry of Natural Resources.
“This is when I became acquainted with the diamond area,” she says, adding that negotiations over changes in the diamond laws and a new contract to restart Letseng were part of her work.
Restarting production at the mine was a challenge. The kimberlite was discovered in 1957 by South African geologist Peter Nixon deep in the Maluti Mountains, amid farming villages and shepherd huts where it seemed that time had stood still for a millennium. It wasn’t until the following year that two South African prospectors, Keith Whitlock and Jack Scott, set out in search of diamonds. They endured extreme cold and blizzards and returned with about 1,800 cts of diamonds.
For several years, the government allowed artisanal miners to file claims and work the site, but in 1968, it invited the mining giant RTZ (now Rio Tinto) to prospect the area. The company worked to develop the mine for four years but determined that the grade of the ore (less than two cts per 100tons) was too low to mine profitably.
The site sat fallow for almost 20 years. Several companies leased it but couldn’t find a way to make a profit. Political instability in Maseru did not help, especially when it exploded into violence in 1998, which destroyed much of the capital and several surrounding towns.
When peace was restored the following year, the factions formed a unified government, which decided to restart Letseng to get funds flowing into the national treasury. It created the Letseng Diamond Company to acquire the mining lease from the South African gold mining firm that had held it for several years. It took five years to resume small-scale production—less than 40,000 cts per year.
By 2004, Maharasoa had become an executive with the Central Bank of Lesotho, which was working with the government on a deal for Gem Diamonds to acquire a 70% interest in the mine. “The (kimberlite) pipes at the mine were never properly explored, so there was a lot of work to do,” she says. “And even now, (there is) still a lot of work remaining.”
The Lesotho Promise turned up shortly after Gem Diamonds resumed mining operations in 2006. The company sold it for $12.4 million to Safdico, the South African polishing firm majority-owned by London-based jeweler Laurence Graff.
Graff’s cutters spent a year working on the Lesotho Promise. While potentially D-color, it was dappled with black inclusions, making the planning process look more like a battle map, according to a video Graff produced about cutting the diamond.
Twenty-six GIA-graded D-color Flawless diamonds were cut from it, the largest of them a 76.41 ct pear shape graduating down to a 0.55 ct round brilliant. Graff inscribed serial numbers on each of them to indicate their origin. All 26 diamonds were used to design a necklace with a total weight of 223 cts.
By the time Maharasoa joined Letseng in 2009 as CEO, the company had unearthed the 493 ct Letseng Legacy (2007) that Graff/Safdico purchased for $10 million and the 478 ct Light of Letseng (2008), which yielded the 102.79 ct Graff Constellation (2009), which was graded by GIA and according to Graff is the largest known D-Flawless round brilliant diamond.
Shortly after her arrival, the company announced that it had found two colorless diamonds weighing 196 and 184 cts. In September 2014, the company sold a 198 ct potentially D-Flawless diamond at its Antwerp sale for $10.6 million. These finds have helped seal Letseng’s global reputation as a supplier of large, fine diamonds. Mining here remains challenging, Maharasoa says.
“It is the world’s highest active diamond mine, so the weather is extremely volatile, going down to –25°C in winter,” she says. “We have to maintain our part of the road that not only supplies us with access to and from the mine, but links the town of Mokhotlong to the north of us.” Supplying the mine with food, fuel and equipment is no small logistical matter, either.
“We use 1.5 million liters of fuel each month, which all has to come by truck,” Maharasoa says. “And then there’s the challenge of getting our 50-ton Caterpillar mining trucks up the mountains to our site.”
Despite these demands, Gem Diamonds has more than doubled the mine’s production in five years to about 100,000 cts a year.
“Letseng has a long life ahead,” Maharasoa says. “We have established a goal that Lesotho’s diamonds, now supplying about 7.5% of our country’s GDP, can achieve 15% within a few years.”
Note: The above post is reprinted from materials provided by Gemological Institute of America Inc. The original article was written by Russell Shor and Robert Weldon.


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Easy Halloween Veggie Tray — Frankenstein
sugar snap peas
or other green produce item
or other orange produce item
or other black produce item
mini cucumbers work the best
On a tray or plate, arrange snap peas to create the base layer and Frankenstein’s head.
Arrange sliced Mini Sweet Cucumbers to create the eyes and nose.
Arrange black olives to create hair, mouth and eyeballs.
Place carrots near the bottom of Frankensteins head to create his bolts.
Delicious as-is, or serve with a healthy dip such as yogurt ranch, hummus or guacamole.


By Cristal Rivera of Madera South High School
Mostly excerpts of columnists published in The Madera Tribune.
Legislative leaders and Gov.
Assuming that we’re still around after Dec.
Ahh, the warm scent of spicy gingerbread baking in the oven!
Pickin’ nits. Maybe, but I try not to do any shopping this time of year in a store that doesn’t at least have one sign that says Merry Christmas.


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NEWS: Wild announces schedule
Regular season single-game tickets will go on sale Sept. 12. Pre-season tickets will go on sale Aug. 22. For more information please contact the Minnesota Wild at (651) 222-WILD (9453). The Wild's 2009-10 television schedule is expected to be released later this summer.
– The National Hockey League’s (NHL) Minnesota Wild today announced its 2009-10 preseason schedule will consist of seven games, including four road contests and three home games at Xcel Energy Center. The Wild will play a home-and-home series against the Chicago Blackhawks, Columbus Blue Jackets and St. Louis Blues and play at the Philadelphia Flyers.
Minnesota opens its preseason schedule at St. Louis on Tuesday, Sept. 15. The club then hosts Columbus on Sept. 18 and Chicago on Sept. 20 at Xcel Energy Center. The Wild plays at the Blue Jackets Sept. 21 and hosts the Blues Sept. 24 before playing road games against the Blackhawks Sept. 25 and the Flyers Sept. 29. The Wild went 5-2-0 in preseason action last season and owns a 33-19-6 all-time mark in preseason matches.
All games will be broadcast on WCCO Radio (830 AM) the Minnesota Wild’s official radio flagship station. Single game tickets for Wild preseason games at Xcel Energy Center will go on sale August 22. Regular season single game tickets will go on sale Sept. 12. For more information please contact the Minnesota Wild at (651) 222-WILD (9453).