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Cracow — Several years ago, a bright young Polish law student in the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society (the crash course in Catholic social doctrine I lead here every July) asked one of my faculty colleagues, “Who is this ‘Father Popieluszko’ you and the other faculty keep talking about?” That a 25-year-old Pole, in 2010 or thereabouts, did not recognize the name of the martyr-priest of Solidarity, whose grave in the churchyard at St. Stanislaus Kostka in Warsaw had become a small piece of free Poland in the half-decade before the 1989 Communist crack-up, suggested that my colleagues and I were assuming far too much in terms of what our 21st-century students knew about the drama of the 20th century and the epic contest for the human future waged two generations ago between imperfect democracies and pluperfect tyrannies.
So, beginning the next year, and every year since, I’ve opened the three-week seminar with a 90-minute lecture on the Communist challenge to the civilization of the West, emphasizing the distortions in public and personal life that the Communist culture of the lie created, and stressing how dissident leaders like Vaclav Havel and Karol Wojtyla (who became Pope John Paul II) had proposed “living in the truth,” “living ‘as if’ one were free,” as the most effective strategic counter to the institutionalized mendacity of what was once pristinely called “late bureaucratic socialism.”
It was thus more than ironic that this year’s seminar concluded on July 17, just as word reached Cracow of the deaths of 295 innocent people in the shootdown over Ukraine of a Malaysia Airlines 777. We soon learned of the immediate response to this crime by Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin — the Big Lie: in this case, that the party responsible for this massacre was the Ukrainian government.
PREVARICATION ON STEROIDS
The Big Lie has been an integral tactic in Putin’s grand strategy for years, but the lying has achieved a particular virulence in these past nine months on the matter of Ukraine. Putin regularly lies about the history of the eastern Slavs in his attempts to cobble together a historical, and even spiritual, rationale for his attempts to re-create something resembling the old Soviet Union, the demise of which he has more than once described as a great geopolitical disaster. Putin’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, is a smoother, slicker version ofJoachim von Ribbentrop, the ex-Champagne salesman whose prevarications in 1938, prior to the Nazi absorption of the Sudetenland, had set the previous gold standard for shameless lying by the foreign minister of a major power. The current boldfaced and outrageous lying from the Kremlin is endlessly repeated by the Putin-controlled mass media in Russia, and even by senior officials of the Russian Orthodox Church.
And it has an effect. Here in Cracow, I met a very bright young Russian, with excellent language skills, obvious intelligence, and goodwill toward the United States, who nonetheless had swallowed the Kremlin line on Ukraine in toto and without reservation — a reminder, I remarked to others, of what things must have been like in the late 1930s when all those bright young people were marching at the Nuremberg rallies. Multiply that young Russian by a few tens of thousands, and you begin to understand the moral, cultural, and political wreckage that Putin will leave in his wake.
Grasping the reality of the Big Lie as an essential, not marginal, component of Putin’s strategy also helps clarify just who this man, now indisputably the greatest threat to peace and order in the post–Cold War world, is. One recent, learned analysis by an anti-Putin Russian intellectual, Vladimir Pastukhov, suggested that Putin is the last iteration of a classic pattern of Russian historical reinvention: a habit of creating an imagined past in order to buttress efforts to bludgeon one’s way toward an imagined future that would be the full flowering of that imagined past in the present. From what I know of Russian history, which is far less than Pastukhov knows, he has certainly identified a recurring bad habit among Russian tyrants of various sorts. But I do wonder if this doesn’t overanalyze Putin by a good stretch.
It’s true that Putin engages in historical revisionism in his quest to force a “New Russia” onto the world-historical stage. But this aspect of Putin’s rhetorical armamentarium strikes me as less a matter of developed ideology, of the Hitlerian or Leninist sort, than as something more analogous to a Mafia don’s appeal to putative loyalties embedded deep in Sicilian cultural memory when trying to get the other dons to do what he wants. In other words, think Don Corleone, not G. W. F. Hegel, when trying to understand Putin’s rhetorical m.o.
Peter the Great certainly had an “idea” of Russia, as, arguably, did Stalin. Putin’s “idea,” however, seems to me more a matter of intellectual superstructure (if you’ll permit the Marxist terminology), a carapace of faux-idealism over the actions of a man who deliberately sought employment in the KGB, who climbed the greasy pole within its slimy ranks, and who has now welded the persona of an amoral spook — to whom the Big Lie, especially when covering up murder, was a normal tactic of statecraft — to the persona of a kleptomaniacal Mafia don, who remains in power by helping his fellow kleptomaniacs (otherwise known as “oligarchs”) remain awash in wealth — even as the society he leads rots away under him.
NO SUBSTITUTE FOR REGIME CHANGE
The Kremlin’s instinctive Big Lie in the wake of the Malaysia Airlines massacre reinforced the intuition (subsequently verified by Ukrainian intelligence intercepts of conversation among “separatist” goons in the Donetsk region claiming credit for the shootdown) that these murders are ultimately to be laid to the account of a Russian government that has brazenly conducted a clandestine destabilization of Ukraine, using its own special forces, hired thugs and freelance murderers of various sorts, and local gangsters-for-hire. Now the ante has been raised, as the citizens of numerous countries have been killed, not in a crossfire for which “both sides” might reasonably be held to moral account, but by the instigating party to this lethal conflict, which is Russia.
Western leaders, if there are any these days, will note that the ante has been raised and will consider strengthening economic sanctions against Putin and his oligarchic Mafia, perhaps even ramping up Western military supplies to a hard-pressed Ukrainian government. The harder the sanctions bite, and the more Ukraine can be helped to defend itself, the better. But none of that will make strategic sense over the medium and long term if the West does not recognize that regime change in Moscow is the only serious answer to the threats to peace, security, freedom, and order in post–Cold War Europe posed by Vladimir Putin.
Containing Putin’s Russia is a first, necessary step. But it is a tactic, and the strategic goal must be to see Russia governed by leaders who are not KGB alumni sporting virtual-Mafia livery in the 21st century. That is the only change that will make Russia safe for the long-suffering (if now widely duped) Russian people. And that is the only change that will make Russia safe for the world.
The notion that the Russian war on Ukraine is, to borrow from Neville Chamberlain, “a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing” was destroyed on July 17, as a civilian airliner carrying 295 innocent parties was blown out of the Ukrainian sky by a surface-to-air missile. We know all too well who is finally responsible or this — the man with whom Angela Merkel was yukking it up at the World Cup final in Brazil five days ago; the man who recently thumbed his nose at the U.S. from 90 miles away while underwriting the Castro brothers’ island prison; the man of the Big Lie. And the conflict is not “far away.” That Malaysia Airlines flight originated in Amsterdam and was heading for Kuala Lumpur. It carried citizens of different countries, likely including Americans, whose political leaders must now recognize that the Russian war on Ukraine is, de facto, a war in the neighborhood.
And the war is not a mere “quarrel.” The Big Lie, married to new methods of irregular warfare, has now metastasized into a new form of lethality, with the long-blurred distinction between combatants and noncombatants obliterated. There is no safety in hiding from Putin. There is only safety, and honor, and justice, and a chance for peace in a Western strategy that aims at nothing less than democratic regime change in Russia.
— George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he holds the William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies.


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Alliance Medicorp to raise Rs.60 Crore from PE investors
Alliance Medicorp, a joint venture between Apollo Hospitals and Chennai-based medical technology company Trivitron Healthcare Pvt Ltd, is planning to raise around Rs 60 crore from private equity (PE) investors to fund its expansion plans.
Post-dilution, Apollo Hospitals would have around 51 per cent stake, Trivitron Healthcare would hold around 30-35 per cent stake and the rest would be with the investors.
Trivitron Healthcare, which is into manufacturing of medical technology products including imaging products, has recently announced a strategic investment in Mumbai-based Kiran Medical Systems Ltd, which manufactures image enhancement accessories and radiation protection products. The move is aimed at strengthening its operations in the medical imaging segment.
The strategic investment is a combination of cash and stock swap, and the agreement includes options for Trivitron to increase its shareholding over the next few years.
The total capital base of Rs 100 crore will be utilised for Medforts expansion plan for the next two years. Diabetes and eye-care centres will come up in Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka. Medfort is also setting up a centre in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.
Plans are also on to expand into Africa, South Asia and South East Asia.

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Central African Republic
In the Central African Republic, operations against the 3R armed group are ongoing. As we have mentioned in the past, these operations are [designed] to protect civilians and to allow freedom of movement in the areas where the armed group is active.
This weekend, UN peacekeepers encountered 3R elements in the Mambéré-Kadéï prefecture, in the country’s west, and forced the group to vacate the area.
They also repelled an attack in Gedze, in the neighbouring prefecture of Nana-Mambéré. Also, in this area, the UN Mission (MINUSCA) is currently undertaking a ground assessment, following an air operation.
Peacekeepers continue to reinforce their positions in the region to ensure the effective implementation of their mandate, particularly the protection of civilians.
The Mission also continues its engagement with the Guarantors of the Peace Agreement to facilitate dialogue between 3R leaders and the Government.
COVID-19 — Chad
I just wanted to share an update on what our country team is doing to address the COVID-19 pandemic in Chad, where there are nearly 900 confirmed cases and more than 70 deaths.
With the country planning to reopen, the UN team, led by Resident Coordinator Violet Kakyomya, is helping to boost the capacity of emergency health centres to treat potential new patients while also supporting the socioeconomic recovery.
On the health front, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) provided a tent to the national civil aviation authority to quarantine passengers. The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has supplied beds, respirators, and other supplies to health centres, while the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) organized communication campaigns on infection prevention.
The UN team is also supporting the most vulnerable people, including refugees. UNHCR dug two new wells to avoid crowding at water stations and donated sanitizing supplies to refugee camps. UNDP is training law enforcement officers to prevent the spread of infection at correctional facilities.
On schools, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, is training teachers on remote learning and has provided dozens of tents, GPS devices, and computers across the Lake Chad region.
An update on Bangladesh, which, according to our humanitarian friends, the country is experiencing what could be the longest flooding since 1988.
As of today, more than 2.4 million people across 18 districts have been impacted by the flooding, including 56,000 people who have been uprooted and are taking refuge in Government shelters. At least 54 people have reportedly been killed to date as a result.
The UN and our humanitarian partners are helping the Government respond to the situation by providing food, water purification facilities, hygiene and dignity kits, as well as emergency shelter supplies.
As we’ve mentioned before, the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) recently provided UN agencies with $5.2 million to help families most at risk.
Responding to the flood is complicated by the fact that these efforts are taking place as Bangladesh is also addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and recovering from Cyclone Amphan.


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Katherine Knierim, a graduate student at the University of Arkansas, together with Phil Hays of the geosciences department and the U.S. Geological Survey and Erik Pollock of the University of Arkansas Stable Isotope Laboratory, are conducting close examinations of carbon cycling in an Ozark cave. Caves “breathe” in the sense that air flows in and out as air pressure changes.
The researchers have found that carbon dioxide pressures vary with external temperatures and ground cover, indicating a possible link between the carbon found in rock formations in the caves and seasonal changes. They presented their findings at a recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
The movement of carbon in cave systems is controlled by the concentration of carbon dioxide. When conditions are right, this carbon can be deposited as layers in stalagmites, stalactites and soda straws. These layers resemble the rings found in trees, except that they can date back millions of years, hold information about cave conditions.
“People have been using these formations as paleoclimate records,” Hays said. However, researchers make an assumption when they do so.
“The problem is that you have to assume you are getting even carbon and oxygen isotope exchange,” Knierim said. Isotopes, or atoms of the same type but with slightly different weights, are found in plants, animals, organic matter and rocks. Different types of material have unique “signatures,” or proportions of a particular atom at a particular atomic weight.
By looking at carbon isotope ratios in cave topsoils, the cave atmosphere and the stream within the cave, Knierim and her colleagues will be able to determine the different contributions of carbon sources to the formations. This will help scientists develop more accurate paleoclimate conditions from cave formations.
A greater knowledge of how carbon cycles through cave systems also will help scientists develop better methods for watershed management.
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Tooth Whitening can be dangerous and should therefore always be carried out by a dental professional. It is illegal to provide tooth whitening treatments unless you are qualified to do so. If you are considering safe and effective tooth whitening, our Private Dentist in Liverpool can offer you a very safe and effective tooth whitening treatment. Please contact us to discuss your requirements further or to make an appointment.
A man was fined £5000 for falsely claiming to be a dentist and for offering illegal tooth whitening to members of the public.
Thomas Wilson, from Sheffield, was found guilty at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court of unlawfully using the title ‘dentist’ and holding himself out as being prepared to practise dentistry - in the form of tooth whitening - at Wow Teeth Whitening, 416B Sharrowvale Road in Sheffield. Thomas Wilson is not a qualified dental professional and is not registered with the General Dental Council meaning that he cannot legally call himself a dentist or perform the act of dentistry in the United Kingdom.
He was fined £2,500 for falsely claiming to be a dentist and £2,500 for illegal tooth whitening. He was also ordered to pay a £250 victim surcharge and pay the full costs of the General Dental Council’s legal process equalling £2,071.85.
The General Dental Council initiated an investigation into Wow Teeth Whitening, Sheffield after a series of complaints were received about an unregistered individual offering illegal tooth whitening.
Victoria Sheppard-Jones, Interim Head of the Illegal Practice team said: “The GDC’s role is to protect patients and work to maintain public confidence in the dental profession. Part of the way we achieve this is by regulating dental professionals and investigating and, where appropriate prosecuting, cases of illegal practice.
“To ensure patient safety, tooth whitening can only be carried out by dentists and dental care professionals who are registered with the GDC. The GDC investigates and where appropriate prosecutes those who carry out illegal dentistry, to ensure that members of the public are protected and not put at risk.”
The District Judge at the hearing said that the offence was “particularly serious” as Mr Wilson called himself a dentist and that the people seeking tooth whitening treatment from him were at “serious risk”. The District Judge added: “People who choose to have their teeth whitened need to be assured individuals are qualified and registered to do so.”

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Over the last decade I’ve reviewed quite a number of hand–held digital recorders, but I suspect that their market is shrinking fast, thanks to microphone manufacturers making recording attachments like the MV88 for iPhones and other mobiles.
Shure’s design comprises two microphone capsules housed in a single, rotating, cylindrical casing (with a hinge allowing it to be angled by as much as 90 degrees relative to the iOS device), an A–D conversion block, and a Lightning connector. The whole assembly is no more than 67mm long (including the connector) and can be stored in its own avocado–sized zip–up case, along with a foam windscreen. Any iPhone or iPad with a Lightning socket is compatible.
MOTIV is clearly designed so as not to scare novices, but still offers some impressive input adjustments that allow the user to change the shape of the mic’s polar response.
Controlling the mic is done via the ShurePlus MOTIV app, which the host device suggests acquiring from the App Store the instant the mic is attached. MOTIV is clearly designed so as not to scare novices, but still offers some impressive input adjustments that allow the user to change the shape of the mic’s polar response. This is possible because one of the MV88’s capsules produces a forward–facing cardioid polar pattern, while the other is turned on its side and produces a figure–of–eight shape. Different patterns are created by changing the relative levels of the two; the options available being:
- Mono cardioid.
- Mono bi–directional.
- Raw Mid–Sides.
It’s also possible to adjust the stereo setting from 60 to 135 degrees through a series of 15 degree steps, thereby very precisely controlling the stereo acceptance angle.
For setting/controlling levels, there’s a colour–graded stereo meter, a gain control slider, a simple on/off limiter, and a compressor that is increasingly applied when a fader is moved from Off towards Heavy. High–pass filtering is introduced when the Wind Reduction switch is turned on, and there’s a five–band graphic EQ.
To record with MOTIV, the user must head from the Settings page to the Record page, select the desired bit and sample rate combination (options include 16– or 24–bit, and 44.1 and 48 kHz), and press the red button. Once recorded, the file is ready for listening to or sending elsewhere via services like Dropbox.
Overall, the software is very well designed, but so too is the robust all–metal hardware. Even the thin grille that protects the capsules is able to withstand a hard squeeze between finger and thumb. The obvious weak point is the Lightning connector, but its metal construction means it is probably less likely to break than the iPhone/iPad socket it goes into.
iPhones and iPads are often used for filming, so being able to both angle and rotate the mic capsules to target the action is important. For example, in a situation where the voice of an interviewer has to be recorded, there is the option of aiming one node of the bidirectional capsule at the interviewer and the other at the subject.
The mic’s audio performance is roughly comparable to that of my Zoom H6, fitted with a MSH6 capsule, which I find sounds very respectable, nicely balanced and not lacking in the low end, like some competing products.
The MV88 is entering a market already populated by products like the Rode iXY Lightning and IK Multimedia’s iRig Mic Field, but its impressive build quality, flexible recording options and very solid sound performance should win it a good slice of the action.

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Nexon Group, the national cleaning, hygiene and healthcare product supplier, has expanded its Lincoln-based fleet with a pair of Iveco S-Way rigid trucks.
The Instinct Blue metallic fleet travels nationwide delivering cleaning and hygiene products, mainly heavy fluids, to healthcare providers and care home groups.
Supplied by North East Truck & Van, the two 19-tonne 4×2 rigid AT190S33/P vehicles were among the first batch of rigid Iveco S-Ways to reach UK customers.
‘Payload was our primary driver towards Iveco’
Nexon’s operations director, Stephen Green, said: “Payload was our primary driver towards Iveco, being able to take advantage of favourable running costs on 7.2-tonne Daily box vans, then the Hi-Matic gearbox caught our attention to improve driver comfort while reducing fuel costs and our emissions.
“With a model at every weight, it made sense to build our fleet around the same brand and now we run 16 vehicles, all Iveco from the Daily, through to the 12t Eurocargo and the new Iveco S-Way.”
He added: “We decided to climb up to S-Way in order to maximise carrying capacity with a large box body, while making sure that the drivers could have a large, modern and comfortable cab to night out in.
“We’re getting very good feedback on them already; they’re very smooth, comfortable and quiet on the move and the turning circle is excellent.”
Trucks feature a 28ft Dependable Bodies
The trucks feature a 28ft Dependable Bodies box body with a 1.5t Dhollandia column tail lift.
Upfront is a medium-high roof AT sleeper cab, which sits in the middle of the cab line-up, slightly lower than the largest and 200mm narrower at 2.3m wide.
This makes it easier to climb in and out of on multi-drop routes, and more suited to urban driving with a lower line-of-sight and smaller overall footprint.
The AT cab is identifiable as an S-Way, carrying over its distinctive and aerodynamic styling.
Run the Iveco S-Way trucks for four years
Nexon expects to run the Iveco S-Way trucks for four years, covering around 250,000km each.
The two new S-Ways employ the 8.7-litre Cursor 9 diesel engine, producing 330hp and 1,400Nm of torque through the 12-speed Hi-Tronix gearbox.
The S-Way comes with a comprehensive ‘Iveco On 3XL R&M’ package with a connection to the firm’s European control centre for the first two years as standard, and Nexon has extended this for the duration of the vehicles’ fleet tenure.
With the vehicles travelling across the UK, it is imperative that they maintain easy access to a network of workshops and assistance should it ever be required.
For this, IVECO is able to keep minds at rest with its dealer-operated Assistance Non-Stop service.
The Iveco S-Way is available from 18 to 44-tonnes as both rigid and tractor powered by diesel or class-leading natural gas powertrains.


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Maternal Obesity and Neck CircumferenceObese women are more likely to require general anaesthesia for an obstetric intervention than non-obese. Difficult tracheal intubation and oxygen desaturation is more common in pregnancy. Failed tracheal intubation has been associated with an increase in neck circumference (NC). We studied the relationship between maternal obesity and NC as pregnancy advanced in women attending a standard antenatal clinic. Of the 96 women recruited, 13.5% were obese. The mean NC was 36.8cm (SD 1.9) in the obese women compared with 31.5cm (SD 1.6) in women with a normal BMI (p<0.001) at 18-22 weeks gestation. In the obese women it increased on average by 1.5cm by 36-40 weeks compared with an increase of 1.6 cm in women with a normal BMI. The antenatal measurement of NC is a simple, inexpensive tool that is potentially useful for screening obese women who may benefit from an antenatal anaesthetic assessment.

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The Cardiology Fellowship program cultivates in trainees an attitude of scholarship and a dedication to continuing education throughout a professional career. It also encourages a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities at the highest level, adherence to ethical principles, and sensitivity to a diverse patient population and humanistic aspects of medicine.
The pulmonary critical care fellowship at Hackensack University Medical Center offers a comprehensive clinical experience in a large tertiary referral center for a 13 hospital network, close to New York city. With a nationally recognized heart and vascular hospital, a NCI designated Cancer Center and a trauma center, fellows receive one on one training in a fast-paced, high acuity clinical learning environment. The pulmonary experience offers training in diverse pulmonary pathology and the most advanced pulmonary interventions.
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Finnish atmospheric metal band Alase is set to release their long-awaited debut album Vastaus on June 7th 2019 via Inverse Records.
Their music is a melting pot of various genres, but the main focus is on the melody and atmosphere. There are a lot of influences outside metal music as well. Lately Alase has added more and more elements from post rock and progressive metal. Musically, Alase has similarities with bands like Katatonia, Swallow The Sun, A Perfect Circle, The Ocean and Pain Of Salvation, just to name a few.
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Guitarist/composer Janne Lunnas comments the single:”Vastaus song represents many sides of Alase musically. It leads into the more progressive side and also shows the familiar melodic spheres that Alase is well-known about.” Alase’s guitarists Mikko and Janne started to write music for the debut album Vastaus during spring 2017. Later, in the same year’s autumn drummer Janne Kusmin decided to part from Alase as his primary band Kalmah was getting to be more busy with their newest album and touring. Mikko and Janne decided that it is better to do the Vastaus album with session drummer and they were lucky to find the right man, Toni Paananen(Malpractice), to do the job.
After the composing of the songs was finalized around February 2018, it was time to book a studio for tracking the drums. Toni Paananen played the drum parts for all 8 songs during one weekend at Värähtely Creative studio in Vallila, Helsinki, where studio engineer Janne Storm handled the recording. Rest of the instruments and vocals by 6 different vocalists were recorded mostly in several home studios which took about 7 months to complete. Vastaus album has been mixed and mastered by Ari-Pekka Repo and vocals on the album are mixed and produced by Markus Hirvonen. Music on the album is produced by Janne Lunnas. All Alase lyrics are written by Anni Aho. All the graphics and trailer video related to the album and digital singles are made by Sakke Paavola.
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Markus Hirvonen (Noumena): Vastaus, Näkyvä & Riisuttu
Ville Nisunen (Vini): Binary Stars
Jani Ala-Hukkala (Callisto): Osa minua
Eemeli Bodde (Mors Subita): Screaming vocals on Vapaaksi merkitty
Sami Honkonen (Embreach): Clean vocals on Vapaaksi merkitty
Janne Lunnas: Choir/ambient vocals on Vastaus, Vaienneet & Haukka + screams on Näkyvä & Osa minua
Vielä – Vocals: Markus Hirvonen
On jatkettava – Growls: Ari Nieminen (Whorion, Dauntless and Hanging Garden), Clean vocals: Ville Saloranta, Screams: Janne Lunnas
Kidukset – Vocals: Mikko Kotamäki (Swallow The Sun), Backing vocals: Markus Hirvonen
Utopian hellimät – Vocals: Markus Hirvonen
Erehdykseni – Clean vocals: Juha Simola (Owler), Screams: Jouni Koskela (Clock Paradox & Abysmalia)
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For someone who identifies as LGBTQ, the question of how to come out to those around us can be a complex decision. As someone who spent 47 years as a “straight, married father from the suburbs,” it was even more confusing for me. Being a long-term staff member within the Froedtert & MCW health network, I was blessed (though not surprised) that my work family accepted my authentic self with warmth and understanding when I publicly came out in 2013. I love this organization for the people who work here and the passion we have for accepting and serving each other and our patients every day. But, could I come out to my own doctor? Would he judge me? Could I ask him tough questions? Would he know the answers? Should I just stay “in the closet,” medically?
I had a great relationship with my primary care physician, Mark Obermyer, MD, at the Springdale Health Center, and I had already come out to my family, friends and colleagues. I decided I owed it to myself to trust him and give myself the opportunity to truly be authentic. Let’s face it: some of the most difficult and confusing, yet important conversations can be between a person and their physician.
At my next physical, I told Dr. Obermyer who I really was. I told him about the journey out of the closet I had made in the past year, and said I hoped we could continue to partner related to my health and wellness. His response could not have been better. He honored my willingness to be honest and open with him and expressed that he was privileged to continue to provide me with the best care possible.
Over the past few years, we have had some great conversations about my health care needs and issues. He has always been very knowledgeable and proactive about consulting with his colleagues who specialize in issues related to unique LGBTQ health care needs. I have friends in the LGBTQ community who struggle to get their needs met with providers in other systems. Some even express receiving some unintended shame for who they are. It makes me feel that much luckier to be both a Froedtert Health staff member and a patient of the Froedtert & MCW health network. We all deserve to be accepted for who we are and treated with dignity and respect. I want everyone to know they can find those things here.
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An elevator is one of those technologies that truly seems to look different to a kid. There's a lot to capture the curiosity of a child's imagination. The buttons, inevitably, must be pushed, and their flickering lights add another layer of spectacle to the central, strange experience of rising up in the air and ending up somewhere higher than you began. To a child, it's like flying.
That's the point Roald Dahl tried to make in the children's classic, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, the sequel to the classic chocolate factory story; the elevator carries Mr. Wonka, Charlie, and his grandfather up and out of the factory - which is already a much stranger land than any office - and into a bizarre orbit through outer space.
And of course, the thing about fantasy and fiction is that it’s never as far away from us as we think. It's the same curious spark that gets great scientists and inventors to do what they do - creating and improving objects that end up forming a part of our everyday lives, like elevators.
Okay, so we're way past the invention of an elevator - but that doesn't mean we can forget about the small inventions that make our currently existing technology better.
Like the technology used by two European companies to make elevators smarter and sleeker.
Elevator systems are sold following a very similar business model to that of a video game console: the elevator itself, like an XBox or a PlayStation, is cheap. But video game companies make their money by selling you, well, the games. Elevator systems have historically collected the most revenue from buildings from maintenance costs - in other words, there's a lot of waste taken for granted in standard elevator systems, not just in cost but also in energy.
So, making the whole system streamlined and interconnected from day one can have major implications for companies tasked with outfitting their buildings with elevators.
"The thing about fantasy and fiction is that it's never as far away from us as we think. It's the same curious spark that gets great scientists and inventors to do what they do - creating and improving objects that end up forming a part of our everyday lives, like elevators."
Connecting a whole elevator system means linking up a number of both static and dynamic elements: the buttons both inside the elevator and on each floor; buildings with as many as 20 floors, nearly 600 wires, and that’s not even getting to what's inside each individual elevator cab. Inside the cab, there are lights to manage, emergency systems to think of, fans to keep running, and doors to open and close.
These days, wires are common - standard, even - but increasingly, as buildings head toward IP models, those wires may be disappearing. That's something Echelon has long been aware of, and an enormous part of developing the Industrial Internet of Things means bridging the way from extremely wired systems to more IP-tending ones.
But in the interim, it's possible to get away with using fewer wires than usual with some creative engineering: in fact, just two wires are required to network the elevator floor panels. And the system is already rigged up for remote control and autonomous upgrades. The i.LON® server from Echelon is capable of controlling the elevators from a far.
LonWorks® technology is used in some of these elevator systems, offering communications between these various linked systems, as well as an architecture called Pyxos. LonWorks uses a "flat" peer-to-peer architecture for allowing devices to communicate with one another, while Pyxos runs a "master-slave" architecture, meaning many devices report to one central controller. A new model involves using the two systems together for optimum control. Both systems individually have very high noise immunity, among other advantages, making them ideal for functioning in an elevator shaft, where a signal blockage would be a major snag.
In the end, the system is built for maximum efficiency and major cost savings - and it gets us closer to a world without maintenance at all. It eliminates the need to have a full time maintenance employee on duty at all times for the elevator, and even saves space and contributes to more energy-efficient buildings by eliminating the need for an elevator control office. It's just one step closer to the fantasy of that sleek glassy elevator spiraling right out of a skyscraper and into space.


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A Wal-Mart truck driver pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of death by auto and assault in the New Jersey Turnpike crash that killed one man and injured three others, including comedian and actor Tracy Morgan.
Kevin Roper, 35, was arraigned in Middlesex County, then released on $50,000 bail.
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The tragedy brought greater visibility to the truck driving industry's hours-of-service rules, which would be suspended in part for further study under a bill to be considered by the Senate next week.

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According to an unlikely hypothesis, the distillate obtained from marc was allegedly produced in Italy as early as the 5th century. However, there is documentary evidence that it was produced and exported to many countries in the 15th century. This makes grappa one of the oldest distillates, along with Armagnac and Cognac. During the First World War (1914-1918), grappa was distributed to soldiers in Italy to boost their morale and became an almost heroically glorified national drink after the Isonzo battles. In 1989, at the instigation of the Italian state, an EU regulation stipulated that the name "grappa" could only be used for marc spirits produced in Italy. Finally, in 2002, this was also allowed for the Italian-speaking areas of Switzerland. Various producers get around this by using fancy names such as Grapillon Grapin, Grappina, Grappinot, Grappo and Grappolo.
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I have no idea what her plans are after this, and the only way this could be a bad thing is if she decided she still wanted to run for office. If she wants to do some entertainment/newsy thing, go for it - I don't care. It would be easy to turn her off and ignore her - something I can't do while she's making (or, more likely, not making) huge decisions that will affect me and everyone I care about.
This Juneau Empire article did a great job, I think, of explaining some of the "ethical dilemna" Palin faced (or, again, didn't face) and is leaving us with. Basically, a great big mess. It really goes into the ethics complaints issues, and exposes all the PR lies about them from the Palin camp. Ironic that the BULK of the money the state is being made to pay on these "frivolous complaints" is from the complaint Palin filed against herself.
Palin's claims, from the article:
Those claims are contradicted by records released under the Alaska Public Records Law and interviews with administration and other sources. They show a pattern of the Palin administration using public resources and the state's ethics laws in an effort to block and discredit both frivolous and credible charges made against the governor.
Is this the "ethics reform" she was talking about accomplishing?
But as much as, yes, she's abanding the post with tons of unfinished business, and I STILL can't figure out what she was talking about on all her administration's "accomplished," I'm still glad she's leaving. It was pretty likely she was going to leave those things unaccomplished anyways.
From the other big newspapers around the state:
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner on the state vs. national access Palin's given, and her "open access" fail.
The Anchorage Daily News pondering some of the questions around why she's leaving. Might be because NOBODY believes the "Why can't you people believe it's totally atruistic?" defense Palin has given.


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“It has been a joy to have Karen Pittman play the smart and stunning Professor Nya Wallace on the first two seasons of And Just Like That…,” a Max spokesperson told ET in a statement. “As we have thoroughly enjoyed working with this dynamic actress, so too have others. Due to her commitments to two other streamer series, it has become apparent that filming three shows at once isn’t possible.”
“Due to the production realities, we are disappointed to announce that scheduling conflicts will not allow us to continue with this character as part of season 3 of And Just Like That…,” the statement continued. “Karen and Nya will be missed, and her Max family and fans will all be cheering her on in her other endeavors.”
In addition to AJLT, Pittman has roles on Apple TV+’s hit series, The Morning Show, and on Netflix’s upcoming show, Forever.
Pittman has yet to address her exit. When ET spoke to the actress at the Critics Choice Awards in January, she admitted to not knowing what was to come on the series.
“I haven’t heard anything about season 3,” she told ET at the time. “They’re keeping that very close, like, locked up. I think that’s good, because people love that show so much and that stuff just spills out in the craziest ways.”
She went on to praise John Corbett’s return as Aidan Shaw, and express love for her character’s storyline with Gary Dourdan’s Toussaint, noting, “We’ll see what happens.”
The news of Pittman’s exit comes the month after Variety reported that Sara Ramírez will not return their AJLT role of Ché Diaz. At the time, Max declined ET’s request for comment on the report.
Fans will have to wait until 2025 to see what Max has in store for the series’ third season.


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“Sensitive to public pressure, the government has built on early iterations of its proposals to include new measures addressing concerns raised during the consultation process over freedom of expression, democratic debate and online scams.
The initial release of the Online Harms White Paper in 2019 triggered a furore over the potential threat to freedom of speech, with campaigners fearing the proposals would have a chilling effect on public discourse as service providers self-censored rather than face swingeing regulatory penalties for breaches in relation to ill-defined harms. In response to such concerns, service providers will now be expected to have regard for the importance of protecting users’ rights to freedom of expression and for protecting users from unwarranted infringements of privacy when deciding on and implementing their safety policies and procedures.
Concern has been building for some time about the influence which the largest social media companies potentially wield over political debate and the electoral process. This was seen most starkly in the US during the recent Presidential election where some platforms may have felt like a political football in their own right. While there are only distant echoes of that here, the role which social media plays in UK democratic events has attracted attention and, in a nod to this, the government has proposed a new duty on category 1 providers to protect “content of democratic importance.” In what might euphemistically be described as opaque, the Bill defines such content as “content that is, or appears to be, specifically intended to contribute to democratic political debate in the United Kingdom…” Service providers affected may well be left scratching their heads about quite how they will be supposed to interpret and satisfy this obligation, and it is to hoped that the eventual Codes of Practice will provide some much needed clarity. Absent such guidance, the risk is that they will be condemned from all sides.
Erecting a further bulwark to protect the democratic process, the Bill’s new measures to protect journalists are sufficiently wide to cover online contributions by individuals to blogs and the like. Indeed, the press release issued by the government as the Bill was published trumpets that content produced by ‘citizen journalists’ will enjoy the same protection as their professional counterparts. Service providers must additionally offer a dedicated and expedited complaints procedure available to those who feel that journalistic content has been unfairly removed; where such complaints are upheld, the material must be swiftly reinstated.
Following a vocal campaign from consumer groups, industry bodies and Parliamentarians, the government appears to have capitulated to pressure to include measures bringing online scams within the scope of the Bill. E-commerce fraud is estimated to be up 179% over the last decade, with romance scams alone resulting in UK losses of £60 million in 2019/20; all service providers will be required to take measures against these illegal online scourges. Commentators have noted, though, that frauds committed via online advertising, cloned website and emails, however, will remain outside the Bill’s ambit, leaving many investors still vulnerable to the lure of sham investment frauds.
A Regulator with Teeth?
This ground-breaking regulatory regime will be enforced by a ‘beefed-up’ Office of Communications (“Ofcom”), which will wield an arsenal of new enforcement powers including fines and, in the last resort, business disruption measures. Penalties of up to £18m or 10% of annual global turnover (whichever is the greater) will be at the regulator’s disposal. Those calling for the senior management liability will, however, be disappointed; the Bill will not impose criminal liability on named senior managers of in-scope services, though the Secretary of State has reserved the power to introduce penalties on senior officers for failing to co-operate with Ofcom in the future. The government openly admits that the desire to attract inward investment to the UK by tech companies lies at the heart of its hesitation in this regard.
Given the severity of the threat, the legislation will also give Ofcom the power to require businesses to use technology that is highly accurate to identify and remove tightly defined categories of illegal material relating to child sexual exploitation and abuse on public and, where proportionate, private channels. This may raise concerns that the dominance of large service providers is being reinforced, with smaller service providers without deep pockets unable to afford the costs of such measures.”
This article was originally published by InfoSecurity on 18/05/2021. You can read the full version on their website.


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James Holst heads to Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin to fish salmon on Lake Michigan with Adam Rasmussen aboard the Salmon Depot!
WALLEYE TROLLING METHODS | Bottom Bouncers With Spinners Vs. Lead Core With Crank baits | S14 E23
This two part show includes tips on bottom bouncer fishing on Leech Lake as well as trolling Rapala crankbaits using lead core on Lake of The Woods for mid-to-late summer walleyes.
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This weeks episode takes us to Green Bay in search of post spawn walleyes with Paul Delaney of Late Eyes Sport Fishing.
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On this week’s show, James is back on open water, as he joins IDO Prostaff PJ Vick on the Fox River to troll for big walleyes at night!
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In what is quickly becoming a Roseberg family tradition our Fourth of July weekend was filled with friends, family, fireworks and Esox!? What started out 3 years ago with the…
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Join James Holst and Jordan Millette as they target coho salmon on Lake Superior out of Michigan.
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In Season 11 , Episode 2 we will follow James Holst and In-Depth Outdoors Pro Staff Pat McSharry to stay at Crawfords Camp on Whitefish Bay, Lake of the Woods.…
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The more time I spend as a parent the more I realize how much I appreciate my father. Beyond the values of hard work and caring for others that he…
A Mille Lacs Opener for the Ages
If you’ve been following the chatter over in our Mille Lacs forum I’m sure you already know that fishing on Mille Lacs this year has been very very good. This…
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Non-bards can learn ten steps of the twenty and they can learn five of the ten messages (Every odd rank is a new message) for any given instrument. They can gain the rank of a bardic apprentice on their instruments--the in-game equivalent of being a gifted amateur.
A bard with 4 Ranks in an instrument class can TUNE instruments of that class.
Being Adept and a rank 19 Journeyman is indiscernible except when an Adept plays a Master quality instrument. They are able to evoke the Adept tune out of it. Other less tangible differences are the bonuses to 1001, 1020, and 1030.
Each step or rank is when you get the "You feel a sense of accomplishment" message.
It takes as long to learn the last 5 steps as it did to learn the previous 15.
It doesn't hurt you to learn more than one instrument, but as a bard you may want to try to master one family first. This is because some songs receive a bonus if you are playing when you sing the song.
I don't think there is a limit of how much you can learn in one level but there is a possibility that you may learn a bit quicker as you age. I was fully mastered in the original 5 instrument families around the same time I reached 20th train (title). Most of that was done in the last few trains.
Total time played appears to be the basis of advancing from one step to another, which I will explain as best as I am able below.
First a few facts of my learning.
- I have mastered all six instrument family (Adept in all that is)
- It took me 7 or 8 months of practicing an average of 3 to 4 hours a day.
- Most of this was done with few or no other people in the area at the time.
- I played "complete" songs most of that time (until they ended on their own).
- I cycled through the different styles so that I ultimately played each one about the same amount of time.
Oh yes, don't forget to TUNE your instrument from time to time. This may affect your learning rate and will definitely affect which messages you get / songs you can play with an instrument. The quality of the instrument doesn't seem to matter. However, you will not be able to tune your instrument automatically.
Each complete song lasts between 5 and 5 1/2 minutes. Bear in mind I kept VERY good track of how many songs I completed and I did not count unfinished songs. Given this, you should expect to see advancement at approximately the following amounts of time played.
The difference between my quickest and slowest mastery was about 15hrs.
I seriously doubt anyone else has kept track of this learning as I have done, but it looks like there are definite steps involved. There is some variation but it does not seem at all random to me.
We can also control which message we play with an instrument now. Bards should be able to do this at any skill level. Non-bards can do so once they have advanced to their maximum skill level. You can use PLAY to get a quick description of the various options and syntax. For example, you can PLAY LUTE FAST 8. Trying to play a specific message when not skilled enough to play that particular message (or using an instrument that is out of tune) will just initiate playing using a random message.
I hope this helps. :)
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Apple announced back in June that it would offer a feature called Dashboard as part of its next version of Mac OS X. This new feature offers easy access to a variety of small applications called widgets - mall graphical applications that sit on the desktop and offer stock quotes, weather information, that sort of thing.
Arlo Rose, as master developer who once worked at Apple and now heads up a small company called Pixoria, has developed an application called Konfabulator for Mac OS X, which is remarkably similar to Dashboard in many ways. Konfabulator even uses the term widgets in the same context. When Apple announced its plans for Dashboard, Rose accused Apple of being a copycat, which was of course denied. Now, Arlo Rose has moved his Konfabulator over to Windows. Rose has said the new version will be available Monday.


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In Brazil, at least 19 people have been killed in landslides and flooding in Sao Paulo state. The flooding was caused by heavy rain. 500 families have lost their homes and governor Joao Doria has authorised 15 million reais in emergency aid.
Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau has tested positive for COVID-19. He will continue to work remotely.
Also in Canada, Ottowa police say that some of the trucks blocking the city will begin to leave. Truckers are protesting against compulsory vaccine rules and have blocked roads in Ottowa city centre since Friday.
Mali has asked the French ambassador to leave the country. On Friday, French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that Mali’s transitional government is “out of control”. Yesterday, Mali said these comments were “hostile and outrageous” and has given the French ambassador 72 hours to leave.
Ivory Coast is experiencing a shortage of rain. There has been no rain for two weeks in most of the cocoa farm regions, meaning that crops could be damaged.
Germany has failed to meet its target of vaccinating 80% of its population by the end of January. By yesterday, 75.8% of Germans had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. This is lower than countries including Italy, France and Spain.
Portugal’s Socialist party has won Sunday’s general election. Many people were surprised by the result, because the Socialists seemed to lose popularity in recent polls. Prime minister Antonio Costa plans to help Portugal’s economy recover from the effects of the pandemic.
In the United Kingdom, a report into parties that may have taken place at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s home and office during COVID-19 lockdown has been published. The report says that some of the behaviour in government is “difficult to justify”. The Prime Minister has said that he is sorry.
“Firstly I want to say sorry. And I’m sorry for the things we simply didn’t get right and also sorry for the way that this matter has been handled. And it’s no use saying that this or that was within the rules and it’s no use saying that people, were working hard. This pandemic was hard for everyone. We asked people across this country to make the most extraordinary sacrifices. Not to meet loved ones. Not to visit relatives before they died. And I understand the anger that people feel.
“But Mr. Speaker it isn’t enough to say sorry. This is a moment where we must look at ourselves in the mirror and we must learn. Mr. Speaker, I get it, and I will fix it.”
In Myanmar, seven people and two entities have received sanctions from the United States, Britain and Canada, one year after its military coup.
North Korea has tested a Hwasong-12 ballistic missile, the biggest nuclear missile to be launched since 2017.
And today is Lunar New Year. 2022 is the year of the Tiger. The tiger is known as a protector against evil spirits.
That’s your world news in 7 minutes. We are on social media: you can find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @send7podcast. I’m Juliet Martin, tomorrow you will be with Stephen Devincenzi. Have a great day.


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Private Aix En Provence and Marseille by Minivan
After meeting your driver/guide on the pier in Marseille, your private group of no more than eight guests will drive from the coast to the charming city of Aix en Provence, (Aix) approximately 50 minutes drive away. Along the way, your driver/guide will give you information about the area and the town you will be visiting. Aix was founded in 123 BC by the Romans, is the former medieval capital of Provence, and boasts elegant 16 - 18th century architecture, wide tree-lined boulevards, charming cafes, and shopping opportunities. You will soon see why it was a place of inspiration for artists such as Cezanne and writers including Hemingway.
Upon arrival, you will be dropped off next to the Rotonde Square, where the "Rotunda Fountain" erected in 1860 and the largest in the city, is located. From here, it is a short walk to the Cours Mirabeau, the city's "Main" street. You will have approximately 3 hours 30 minutes of free time during which you will be able to stroll through the Old Town and see such sites as the stunning 12th-century cathedral Saint-Sauveur, with architecture styles from the 5th to 17th century. The Hotel de Ville, a classical style building from the middle of the 17th century, overlooks the place de l'Hotel de Ville square, a wonderful place for watching the locals. At its side rises a clock-tower first built in 1510. Other buildings of note include the ornately decorated former Corn Exchange (17th century), the 1705 spa built near the remains of the ancient Roman baths of Sextius.
South of the Cours Mirabeau is the Quartier Mazarin. This residential district was constructed for the gentry of Aix in the last half of the 17th century and contains several notable grand townhouses. Here you can also find the church of Saint-Jean-de-Malte (13th century) and the Musee Granet, devoted to European painting and sculpture.
Aix is often referred to as the city of a thousand fountains, as you will begin to see as you walk down the Cours Mirabeau. During your stroll you may see the 17th century Fontaine des Quatre Dauphins (Fountain of the Four Dolphins) in the Quartier Mazarin, as well as other fountains of note in the Place d'Albertas and the Place des Trois-Ormeaux. Some date back to the Romans.
Nestled in between all this charming architecture are the markets, galleries, antique emporiums and cafes. During your free time, you may want to enjoy lunch (not included) at a cafe or restaurant of your choice. If you find one of the numerous markets taking place everyday in the center of the city, you may wish to just snack your way through it.
At the appointed time, you will meet your driver / guide and depart Aix, for the seaside city of Marseille. Here your driver will take you on a panoramic drive through the city. A 20 minute stop will be made at Notre-Dame de la Garde hill to either take a quick look at the basilica or to take pictures of the panoramic view over the city, harbor, Frioul islands and Castle. Your drive will continue on the Corniche Road along the sea shore, where the merchants and bourgeois from the 19th century showed off their wealth with magnificent houses with ostentatious decorations and features. A photo stop will also be made at Saint-Victor Abbey before going back to the cruise pier.
Please Note: Vehicles available for this tour accommodate up to 8 passengers maximum. Please book Private Aix En Provence and Marseille by Bus if you would like to book this tour by coach.
Reviewer: Deborah Burke
Excellent tour - pick up was good and on time and guide was very informative. Loved the city of Aix and seeing Marseille was all good.


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The Alpha Phi Phi Chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Honors Society recently held its annual initiation ceremony in the North Lounge of West Shore Community College’s Administrative & Conference Center.
A brief reception included speeches by the Chapter President, Jamie Dorman, and Chapter Advisor, Director of Library Services Renee Snodgrass. The keynote speaker was Professor Sean Henne. The reception was followed by the induction of 25 new members.
The newly inducted members are Leah Arambula, Roberta Cofer, Amber Cooper, Lisa Dibble, Jamie Dorman, Haley Ewing, Joseph Hendrian, Rachel Irwin, Cheyenne Kalfsbeek, Seth Kriz, Tomiann Martin, Ana McCallum, Emily McKenna, Sarah Meyer, Megan Moffitt, Samuel Nellis, Kaitlin Oleniczak, Emma Plummer, Sean Pollock, Kendra Schalow, Kendra Silsby, Hannah Stuck, Jessica Thompson, Brianna Walter, and Taylor Yeck.
During the ceremony Dorman said, “Being truly involved in an organization like PTK will set you apart from many other students. I firmly believe that taking charge of your education directly correlates to increased success both academically and as each of you begin to build a career.”
Phi Theta Kappa, the international honors society for two-year colleges, recognizes achievement, offers enrichment activities, provides the opportunity for community service, and gives students a chance to interact within a community of scholars.
Author: Thomas Hawley | Executive Director of College Relations


Twenty million people had their personal data leaked online through a misconfigured Equadorian database.
The breach was discovered by vpnMentor’s research team who scan ports for vulnerabilities in databases.
A staggering amount of information was freely available in plain text including the full names, gender, date and place of birth, home and email addresses, phone numbers, family members, and detailed employment information of individuals linked to national and taxpayer identification numbers.
Of the 20 million database entries, around 7 million were children.
Ecuador has a population of nearly 17 million people.
VpnMentor traced the 18GB database of highly sensitive information to a US-based server for an Ecuadorian analytics company called Novaestrat.
William Roberto G., president of Novaestrat, was detained by Ecuadorian authorities on Monday night.
The database even included an entry for Australian Wikileaks founder Julian Assange who lived in Ecuador’s London embassy between 2012 and April this year.
Database entry for Julian Assange. Source: vpnMentor
Authorities did not confirm whether or not the database had been illegally accessed before the vulnerability was fixed last week.
Professor of Cyber Security at Deakin University, Matt Warren, told Information Age the breach put Ecuadorians at significant risk of cyber crime.
“It’s certainly a major cyber safety issue,” he said. “There’s going to be issues around targeted scams and identity theft using this information.
“In certain breaches where your passwords or email addresses are disclosed, you can can change email addresses, change your password and add in two-factor authentication.
“But when it’s such personal info about where you live, work, and who your family members are — you can’t change that as easily.
“All of a sudden there’s a lot of info about Ecuador’s citizens that’s been released that simply cannot be changed.”
Warren thinks Australians are unlikely to find themselves on the receiving end of a data breach this size.
“Partly the reason for that is Australia’s model of Federation,” he said. “That means data about Australian citizens actually sits at the state level as well as federal level.
“We also have a national cyber security strategy that’s being updated and both federal and state governments are spending a lot of time and resources on appropriate security controls for public data.”
Initiatives like developing a data sharing framework also aim at mitigating the effects of a massive breach.
But the aims of legislation like the Identity Matching Services Bill that is currently before parliament may be a cause for concern.
“Part of why that bill’s going through is to make it easier for governments around the country to identify individuals,” Warren said.
“This raises the potential for that data to be stored in a single system which brings more security issues.”


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A bikepacking trip to Sun Tunnels, April 2019
When I first started taking photos, the results would be unpredictable and, on top of that, immutable after releasing the shutter. The entire process after that capture moment being a black box: take the film out of the camera, bring it to the camera store, where they develop the film and make prints, exposing themContinue reading “Photography Full Circle”
Some photography from a recent trip to Las Vegas and Hoover Dam.
My wife and I love visiting Torrey in central Utah. The town is small and unassuming, but close to fantastic natural beauty. Capitol Reef NP is much less visited than the better known national parks in the state. Even lesser known and lesser traveled areas like the San Rafael Swell, the Aquarius Plateau, and theContinue reading “Torrey and Capitol Reef”


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1.Jacksonville Veterinary Hospital.
131 Wilmington Hwy
I called Monday morning to get a late appointment, thinking it wouldn't be for several days, they could fit me in that evening. The woman on the phone was very nice. +I checked in for my appointment,
2.Coastal Cat Clinic
13 Doris Ave E
Wow, what a great place. Took my cat in because it kept sneezing grass out her nose and this time I couldn't see any grass but she was sneezing blood now. The office was nice and clean which is a must
3.Onslow Animal Hospital
10 Doris Ave E
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Great doctors and staff! We have brought our cats and dogs in for veterinary care (preventative annuals as well as for illnesses) and we board our profs next door at four seasons (same technicians).
4.Carolina Forest Animal Hospital
4225 Western Blvd
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Best Vet in Jacksonville!
5.Blue Ribbon Pet Care
501 Forest Grove Ave
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We got a day by day report when we returned from vacation and we could tell animals were well taken care of. Angie even spent time sitting on the couch with our dog after their walk.
6.Bayshore Animal Hospital, PLLC
615 College St
Welcome to Bayshore Animal Hospital, PLLC. We are conveniently located in Jacksonville, North Carolina. We provide comprehensive wellness, medical, dental, and emergency services for your pets. We wan
7.Animal Hospital of Onslow County
296 Doctors Drive
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The entire staff was amazing! We are new to the area and I called many vets in the area and the girls at the desk were the sweetest. We took our female dane to be spayed and they were great with her.
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- Important phone numbers, especially those of the the veterinary clinic, the animal hospital or emergency clinic, and the poison control center
- A book detailing pet first-aid steps
- Copy of medical records
- Nylon leash
- Muzzle (only use if pet is not vomiting and has no difficulty breathing)
- Absorbent gauze
- Nonlatex disposable gloves
- Nail clippers
- Digital thermometer
- Sterile saline solution
- Hydrogen peroxide (to induce vomiting only at the recommendation of a veterinarian
- Milk of magnesia (to absorb poison only at the recommendation of a veterinarian)
- Medical records
- The type or brand of food the pet eats
- Medication (including flea, tick, and heartworm medication).
- Fresh stool sample
- Vomit sample
- Video of the pet engaging in abnormal behavior
- Substance the pet may have ingested