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How North Korea's Leader Gets His Luxury Cars
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WASHINGTON — The armored black limousines appear everywhere with Kim Jong-un, sleek Western chariots for the young dictator of North Korea.
Flown in from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang on a cargo plane, the sedans carried Mr. Kim through the streets of Singapore, Hanoi and Vladivostok during summit meetings with President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Sometimes a phalanx of bodyguards jogs beside them.
The cars are top-of-the-line Mercedes-Benzes — the Maybach S600 Pullman Guard and the Maybach S62, popular with world leaders and costing up to $ 1.6 million each. And Mr. Kim is using them in open defiance of United Nations sanctions intended to ban luxury goods from North Korea.
High-end Western goods are making their way to North Korea's elite through a complex system of port transfers, secret high-seas shipping and shadowy front companies, according to research by the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, a nonprofit Washington group that looks at smuggling networks, and an investigation by The New York Times.
The evasions point to potential limits of sanctions as a tool for the Trump administration to pressure Pyongyang into serious negotiations to end its nuclear weapons program. American officials say their only real leverage with North Korea is tough sanctions. During the failed summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, in February, Mr. Kim's main demand of Mr. Trump was to lift major sanctions, which have been tightened since late 2016.
At the request of President George W. Bush's administration, the United Nations imposed sanctions in 2006 to keep luxury goods out of North Korea.
But from 2015 to 2017, as many as 90 countries served as the sources of luxury goods for North Koreans, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Center for Advanced Defense Studies. Moreover, the networks and supply chains run through the territories of some United Nations Security Council member nations and American allies — China, Russia, Japan and South Korea among them.
Both President Xi Jinping of China and President Moon Jae-in of South Korea rode with Mr. Kim in Mercedes-Benz sedans on recent visits to Pyongyang.
For officials seeking to enforce the sanctions, it is important to track the smuggling of luxury goods — especially of rare items such as armored cars — because North Korea uses similar techniques to obtain dual-use technology for its nuclear weapons program, sanctions experts say. Analysts say North Korea continues to enrich uranium to increase its arsenal of an estimated 30 to 60 warheads.
"When it comes to sanctions evasions, North Korea relies on a sophisticated but small group of trusted individuals that move any goods required by the state, whether it's luxury goods or components for missiles, or whether it's arranging for trade of resources," Neil Watts, a maritime expert and former member of the United Nations panel on North Korea sanctions enforcement, said, speaking generally about patterns of illicit trade into the country.
The United Nations panel noted in its annual report this year the appearance of limousines made by Mercedes-Benz and Rolls-Royce in Pyongyang. Last October, in Pyongyang, Mr. Kim got out of a Rolls-Royce Phantom limousine to greet Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
The journey taken by a pair of armored Mercedes Maybach S600 sedans from Europe to East Asia illustrates how one of the luxury-goods transportation networks operated. The Center for Advanced Defense Studies and The Times traced their path through five countries using open-source material, including shipping records and satellite images.
Interviews with officials and business executives confirmed some of the details of the network. In February, South Korean officials seized a Russian-owned ship that had transported the cars.
The globe-spanning voyage began in the port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In June 2018, two sealed containers, each holding a Mercedes worth $ 500,000, were brought by truck into a shipping terminal, according to cargo tracking records. They were in the custody of China Cosco Shipping Corporation. It was unclear who had first purchased the cars. Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes, says Mercedes runs background checks on potential buyers of the vehicles to ensure the company is not selling to sanctions violators.
The cars traveled by ship for 41 days to Dalian, in northeast China. The containers were off-loaded after the ship's arrival on July 31. They remained in the port until Aug. 26. They were then put on a ship for Osaka, Japan. From there, they were put on a vessel for a three-day voyage to Busan, South Korea, where they arrived on Sept. 30.
Then came the most mysterious part of the passage. The containers were transferred within one day of arrival to the DN5505, a cargo ship sailing under the flag of Togo, a West African nation, and bound for the port of Nakhodka in the far east of Russia. At this point, the cars were consigned to Do Young Shipping, a company registered in the Marshall Islands that owns the DN5505 and one other ship, the Panama-flagged oil tanker Katrin.
Do Young's ownership is not clear from its registration but appears to be tied to a Russian businessman, Danil Kazachuk, documents and interviews show. Executives at Han Trade and AIP Korea, the South Korean shipping agencies that worked with the two ships, said Mr. Kazachuk was the ships' owner. Documents obtained by the Center for Advanced Defense Studies show Mr. Kazachuk was listed as the owner of the Katrin for about one month in 2018.
The ship with the cars, the DN5505, was originally called Xiang Jin, but it was renamed DN5505 and its ownership transferred from a Hong Kong-registered company to Do Young on July 27, just days before the two sedans arrived in Dalian.
After leaving Busan on Oct. 1 with the sedans, the ship went dark — its automatic identification system stopped transmitting a signal. That is common practice among ships evading sanctions.
The signal stayed off for 18 days. When it came back on again, the ship was in South Korean waters. Now it was on a return trip to Busan, but laden with 2,588 metric tons of coal, which it later unloaded in another South Korean port, Pohang. Customs records in South Korea showed that the ship had taken on the coal in Nakhodka, the report from the Center for Advanced Defense Studies said.
That port city is next to Vladivostok, where Mr. Kazachuk is based. Ship traffic data and shipping agency executives said the ship had reported Nakhodka as its destination after leaving Busan with the cars.
The center's report did not say with certainty what happened there with the sedans. But the researchers say the cars might have been flown from Russia to North Korea. On Oct. 7, three cargo jets from Air Koryo, North Korea's state-run airline, arrived in Vladivostok, according to a video online and flight tracking data. (That happened to be the same day Mr. Kim drove in a Rolls-Royce through Pyongyang to meet with Mr. Pompeo.)
It is rare for North Korean cargo planes to fly to Vladivostok. The jets are the exact same airplanes used to transport Mr. Kim's vehicles outside North Korea, according to tail numbers.
"Given the heavy lift cargo capacity of the planes and their role in transporting Kim Jong-un's armored limousines, it is possible that the cargo jets could have loaded the Mercedes," the report said.
Four months later, on Jan. 31, 2019, the same model of Mercedes drove through the streets of Pyongyang to the headquarters of the central committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, according to video footage analyzed by NK Pro. The sedans also appeared that day alongside Mr. Kim in a photo session with an art delegation.
In a telephone interview, Mr. Kazachuk acknowledged that he was responsible for the DN5505, but declined to give details about the shipment of the cars or say how or whether he had transferred them to North Korea.
"This is my company's business secret," he said. "Why do I need to tell everybody where I bought these cars and to whom I sold the cars?"
There is no evidence tying Mr. Kazachuk to the movement of military technology or goods to North Korea, but international sanctions experts say the Russian Far East is a common transit point for smuggled goods going to and from North Korea.
In February, the South Korean authorities seized the DN5505 and the Katrin in separate actions because of suspected sanctions violations. The DN5505 had docked in Pohang, South Korea, carrying more than 3,200 tons of coal after sailing from Nakhodka. Officials told employees of the South Korea shipping agency handling the ship that it was being investigated for carrying North Korean coal. The other ship, the Katrin, was accused of bringing petroleum products to North Korea.
Mr. Kazachuk said he as a shipowner was not responsible for what the ships carried. He also said the South Korean authorities were engaged in a "state racket" and might have planted evidence on the ships. "The South Korean police spit from a high bell tower on basic human rights," he said.
There is another tie between his ships and suspected sanctions violations. Last fall, when the DN5505 dropped off its shipment of coal in Pohang, on the return trip after having unloaded the two sedans, a company called Enermax Korea took possession of the coal.
The United Nations panel has been investigating Enermax, registered in South Korea, for sanctions violations.
The panel's 2019 report said Enermax appeared to be the final recipient of North Korean coal that was intended to be transferred in April 2018 in Indonesian waters by a North Korean-flagged ship, the Wise Honest, to a Russian cargo ship. The Indonesian authorities detained the Wise Honest around April 1.
Enermax had signed a contract to buy the coal from a Hong Kong-registered company, yet told the panel that it was buying Indonesian coal from someone who appeared to be a local broker in Indonesia.
The sales contract valued the coal at nearly $ 3 million.
In May, the United States announced it was seizing the Wise Honest.
In an interview, Enermax executives said the deal with the Indonesian broker fell apart and no money exchanged hands. They also said they had thought the coal delivered to South Korea by the DN5505 both last October — right after the Mercedes were unloaded — and this February was Russian in origin. They said Mr. Kazachuk had told them the coal was from Russia.
The South Korean authorities have seized at least six ships since late 2017 on suspicion of sanctions violations. Last month, it began scrapping the Katrin. Officials said the dismantling was done at the request of Mr. Kazachuk, who did not want to continue accruing docking fees for the seized ship.
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Q: WPF TextBox lostfocus as attached property I have a Grid with many TextBoxes and I want to call NotifyPropertyChanged()  method  to update some other controls everytime one of these TextBox-es changed the value = lost the focus (I don't want to use PropertyChanged as UpdateSourceTrigger)
This is what I can do:
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I need something like:
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A: TextBoxBase.LostFocus is, I suspect, the event you're looking for.
It's listed here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.primitives.textboxbase_events.aspx - but it's defined on UIElement - so you possibly want to try UIElement.LostFocus if the above doesn't work in markup.

A: Use the lost focus event
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Filter on textboxes ;)
private void OnTextBoxLostFocus(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
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If your properties are not changed, your Textboxes will not be updated however. You should consider mutating the data those other TextBoxes are bound to, instead of using LostFocus to update your model.
Good luck!

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Original members Mikey Watkins and Ross Formosa joined forces with vocalist Luke Short and drummer Aggy Nowicka to form the current line up following the release of their latest EP 'Echoes' in February 2021. The release gained critical acclaim from BBC Wales, numerous radio stations and the wider music industry and the lead track 'Echoes' is the band's biggest release to date with over 40k streams on Spotify alone.
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An enterprise search engine has two components: a front end and a back end. Both work together with the search index. The index is built statically for search speed, and is updated periodically. This is unlike a database where the indexes are updated in real time when data is changed or added.
Creating and updating the index.
Crawler – The crawler module reads and collects web pages and follows the links between them, starting with a list of initial URLs.
Document Processor – The document processor module processes web pages received from the crawler, as well as information received from databases through a 'database connector' and information from directories of files. The document processor takes the meaningful text from the documents, no matter the type or format, and adds whatever meaningful 'meta-data' it can determine, such as title or authors.
Indexer – The indexer module does the brute force work of creating and maintaining the index from the information it receives from the document processor.
Web server – The user's web browser fetches a web page from the web server that contains a search form. The user then enters a query and the web browser sends the request to the web server.
Query processor – The web server sends a request with the user's query to the query processor. The query processor properly formats the request and sends it to one (or more) search modules, collects the results and sends them to the web server for final formatting.
Search Engine – The search engine module receives the request from the query processor and does the actual searching inside the index that was created by the indexer.
Allow search engines to gather information from various sources (structured databases, unstructured documents on internal and remote servers, desktop computers) in your enterprise as well as the external web. Specialized connectors are available for almost every type of file format and application, and custom connectors can be designed as needed.
Build a customized ranking model that delivers content based on concepts, context, date, authority, completeness, geography, statistics, and quality. Tune each element to match your business needs.
Identify synonyms (search for "Great Britain" will include results for "England" as well), abbreviations, phrases, idioms, part of speech, and misspellings. Lemmatization matches regular and irregular grammatical forms. Type in 'goes,' and you can also find 'went.' Prefixes and suffixes can be disregarded, if needed. Certain words can be skipped. The system knows the difference between the 'wind that blows' and 'wind your watch.' Phonetic search allows you to find results based on phonetic similarities, especially useful for names. The system can recognize queries containing who, what, where, when, or why, and provide appropriate results.
Determine if a document has a negative or positive tone. Use this tool to monitor user groups, to analyze reviews of your products and services, or to follow press coverage of your business.
Each organization has specific guidelines for how it does business, and these guidelines can be implemented in an enterprise search solution. If you have, for example, two levels of advertisers who pay for placement, the higher level advertiser can be assigned to appear in a separate format on top of the results list. When customers have worked with you before, use business rules to determine which search results are most relevant to their specific needs.
Enterprise search needs to be fast, and it needs to be reliable. TNR Global designs your hardware specifications to meet speed requirements and to offer a failover option in case of power outages or server issues. Search engine architecture is scalable, and you can increase index capacity, indexing rate, and/or query processing speed as needed.
You can't manage what you don't measure. One of the most valuable tools in enterprise search is the ability to learn from the system and measure results. With benchmarking, you track how your users respond to the search engine, and how the search engine responds to them. Metrics include click counting, hardware performance, and quantity of data searched. You can track which queries return no results and then tweak synonyms or taxonomy to provide answers to these queries.
Security is a vital component for any enterprise application. With enterprise search, security guidelines apply both to the documents and to the user. Each set of documents can have its own security settings. You can restrict documents from the search engine, or allow the search engine to index the documents, but restrict access to certain groups of users. Security checks are performed when a set of results is queried and as the indexer crawls the data source.
Most people associate search with Google or Yahoo. But enterprise search is a different type of solution.
Word association – when someone says 'search', is your next thought 'Google?' How Google works: People who create public web sites design them to be found. Google indexes mostly homogeneous html pages that contain metadata and special tags. Moreover, the strength of Google's search engine is based, in large part, on an algorithm that tracks how sites are linked to other sites. In a simplified case, the more incoming links a page/site has, the higher the ranking in search results.
Enterprise information often resides in non-interconnected and even legacy systems, in a wide variety of file formats. Data is located in internal directories, emails, manuals, technical specifications, CMS (content management software), CRM (customer relationship management) software, and the list goes on (and on). Compare enterprise data to the html pages that Google searches. Where is the network of links? Where are the metadata tags that help Google find pages? In most cases, they don't exist.
When companies begin looking for a search solution, it is easy to become overwhelmed by the variety of software and vendor choices available, and the complexity of the technology. The benefits of enterprise search, however, are clear.
Don't make decisions in the dark. Find the answers you need from sales records, internal memos, research, financial reports, relevant industry web sites and more.
With enterprise search implemented on your external web site, customers are able to find answers to technical or sales questions easily, so they don't need to call. And when they do call, you spend less on call center costs when when your representatives are able to find information quickly.
With the rise of telecommuting and outsourcing, you may have workers in different time zones and on different continents. When your London office needs an answer, and it's 3:00 am in NY, calling the manager in NY may not be the best option. Wouldn't it be better if that answer was available through internal search?
Reduce the cost and the time invested in complying with government or industry regulations.
Advertiser driven? Subscription based? Retail transactions? Whether you profit by selling information, ads or bungee cords, enterprise search can help. With enterprise search, you can easily offer different levels of access for subscribers. Increase advertiser revenue by coordinating banner ads with customer data. Selling shoes? Have the search engine suggest a pair of matching socks. No matter what the business, customers want to find things quickly. As many as half of prospective customers will leave after two to three clicks if they can't find what they need. Implement enterprise search, make search easy, and turn prospects into sales.
Enterprise search has applications in a variety of areas and industries. Within a single enterprise, there may be many departments that can benefit from a customized enterprise search solution.
Start by contacting us. We will work with you to prepare a full analysis detailing how an improved enterprise search can benefit your organization. Our mission goes beyond a single implementation. We help companies grow, and we value long term business relationships.
TNR Global provides enterprise search implementation services throughout the entire implementation cycle.
We help evaluate different vendor options, audit existing solutions, implement new solutions, upgrade existing solutions, and provide ongoing support for implemented solutions.
We specialize in Lucene Solr development and implementations. We also have experience with other open source search systems: ElasticSearch for Big Data, SearchBlox, Sphinx, Hadoop, HBase, Lemur/Indri, Nutch, SWISH-E, and OpenFTS. Contact us for a free consultation.


Plenty of automotive repair shops are still using outdated auto shop software in order to run their business, or are simply resorting to pen and paper and their business are not fully integrated with modern technology even to do simple repairs such as a Lexus key replacement. A lot of shop owners feel like innovative technology is out of their reach. This is where Tekmetric comes in. The auto shop software that Tekmetric offers is a resource planning and management system that is designed by shop owners for shop owners in the automotive repair industry.
Using Tekmetric can greatly improve the efficiency of your business by helping streamline tasks and also improving the customer experience. The platform will help you keep all aspects of your business in a single place, making things easier and faster to access. From keeping track of repair orders to having an employee database, Tekmetric can improve overall productivity through an all-encompassing intuitive auto shop software solution.
Having too many repair orders pile up can become very intimidating and could probably result in making customers wait. That is not a good way of running a business, because you want to stay on top of your repair orders and get things done in a timely fashion. With Tekmetric you will be able to keep track of things and not let repair orders get out of control, as you will be able to stay up to date and get the cars back to the customers when they need them.
Speaking of customers, one great way to grow your business is by having repeat customers. Using Tekmetric you can track your customer base and you can communicate with them regularly. You will be able to add your customers to a mailing list, which can be a great way to retain them and keep them coming back.
A great way to remain relevant in your market and stay competitive is by offering competitive prices. Using the platform that Tekmetric offers you will be able to adjust and manage payments as you see fit, and this can be especially useful during certain times of the year when you notice that your competitors offer discounts. You can easily change your pricing using the software and stay on top of things. Tekmetric can also connect you with your local DMV. Once you are linked into the DMV you can turn your shop into an inspection station, which will help increase your business.
Having everything in one platform can end up saving you a lot of time. The auto shop software generates job profitability as well as labor costs, and you will get a streamlined approach from building a quote all the way to invoicing. You can also get instant access to parts as well as vendor information, which will save you a lot of time, given that you won't have to manually do inventory as often. You will be able to save money on forms, since everything is done electronically, and you can process reports instantly as well as manage your employees.
Launched in 2015 and based in Houston, Texas, Tekmetric aims to provide auto repair shops with a reliable and easy to use solution, with all the tools necessary to run the business efficiently. Shop owners can opt for a free trial in order to convince themselves of the many benefits that the platform has to offer. The free trial can be set up on the software's website, and there are no strings attached – no upfront payment, no agreement for future use. Tekmetric offers the engine and the fuel necessary to keep your auto shop running smoothly.


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Another somber report ranks workplace death, injury rates in the U.S.
The depressingly titled report Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect, released last month by the AFL-CIO offered another sobering look at the state of safety in U.S. workplaces.
The annual report, released this year on April 26, said that 5,190 American workers died on the job in 2016, an increase from 4,836 deaths the previous year. In addition, an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 died from occupational diseases, meaning approximately 150 workers died on the job each day from preventable, hazardous workplace conditions. The figures from 2016 were the most recent year available.
"We deserve to walk out the front door in the morning knowing we'll return home safe and healthy after a full day's work," said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. "It's a travesty that working people continue to lose their lives to corporate greed. The selfish and reckless decisions being made in boardrooms and in Washington are killing the very people who built this country. This is officially a national crisis, and it's only getting worse."
In Michigan, there were 162 workplace fatalities and 97,000 workplace-related injuries and illnesses in 2016. That was up from the previous year, when 134 workers were killed and 96,000 injured in 2015. The top causes of fatalities in Michigan were "transportation incidents" (50) and "assaults and violent acts" (37). The last time Michigan had as many on-the-job fatalities was in 2001, where there were 175.
Michigan ranked No. 21 among the states (lower is better) with a rate of 3.3 injuries per 100,000 workers, although it was still worse than the 2.9 nationwide rate. Our state's on-the-job fatality rate was 3.5 per 100,000 workers, a hair below the 3.6 national rate.
The report shows the highest workplace fatality rates are in Wyoming (12.3 per 100,000 workers), Alaska (10.6), Montana (7.9), South Dakota (7.5) and North Dakota (7.0). Connecticut's 1.6 fatality rate was the lowest in the nation.
Workplace violence is now the second-leading cause of workplace death, accounting for 866 workplace deaths, including 500 homicides. "Yet, even as deadly violence increases in the workplace, the Trump administration has sidelined a proposed OSHA workplace violence standard," the report said.
Other particulars from the report show that the construction, transportation and agriculture industries remain among the most dangerous. In 2016, 991 construction workers were killed—the highest total of any sector. Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting was the most dangerous industry sector, with a fatality rate of 23.2 per 100,000 workers.
Despite the higher numbers of death and injury, OSHA continues to face a desperate dearth of resources. Responsible for regulating 9 million workplaces, the agency's 764 federal inspectors would need 158 years to visit each site just once. "Yet, the administration has continued to enact an aggressive deregulatory agenda, gutting safety rules and proposing deep cuts to worker safety and health training," the AFL-CIO said.
That rate is better in Michigan, where 59 workplace safety and health inspectors would take 53 years to inspect each workplace once. But when it comes to serious violations of the OSH act, Michigan workplaces were penalized well below the national level, an average of $1,131. Nationwide, the average penalty was $2,633.
This marks the 27th year the AFL-CIO has produced a report on the state of safety and health protections for America's workers. It features state and national information on workplace fatalities, injuries, illnesses, the number and frequency of workplace inspections, penalties, funding, staffing and public employee coverage under the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
The report said President Trump's budget in both FY 2018 and FY 2019 targeted key worker safety and health programs, proposing to cut funding for coal mine enforcement and to eliminate OSHA's worker safety and health training program and the Chemical Safety Board and to slash the NIOSH job safety research budget by 40 percent.
"These are challenging times for working people and their unions, and the future prospects for safety and health protections are uncertain," the AFL-CIO said. "What is clear, however, is that the toll of workplace injury, disease and death remains too high. Workers in the United States need more safety and health protection, not less. More than four decades after the passage of the OSH Act, there is much more work to be done."


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With this letter we're marking two happy occasions: the New Year, and the silver anniversary of InfoBase Publishers. At the risk of blowing our own horn: we're 25.
In any industry 25 years would be a long time. But in our particular line of work—online publishing—25 years is pretty much the entire lifespan of the industry itself. When we launched on January 1st, 1996 there was no "online", at least not an online that was ready for our product. And so we bided our time, and we pressed a lot of CD-ROMs. It wasn't until 1999 that one of our big, big customers said that they loved our product, but they were making a push onto the Internet, and how much would it cost for us to provide access to all their operations worldwide? We submitted a WAG, and it turned out to be the right answer. That big, big customer is still with us, along with many, many others (both big and getting there). CD-ROMs have long since gone by the wayside. And here we are—more than 60 times bigger than when we closed out our inaugural year. Still innovating, and still independent. Very few of the peers who began the journey with us can say the same.
We began this quarter-century with two modules: Contracts and DM&A. Today there are fourteen. That's a lot of capability… and a lot of search screens. Recognizing that we might be overwhelming our subscribers with too much of a good thing, in 2005 we rolled out what might still be our most appreciated innovation: Sitewide Search. From a single field it searched all of DACIS—every module, and dozens of fields (and related fields) in each. Search results were presented in an orderly, module-by-module format. Even Google didn't do that.
Everyone liked Sitewide Search, and they liked it even more in 2008, when we figured out how to index the thing. Suddenly searches were executing in near-Google-esque speeds.
Today, I can't think of a better way to usher in our 25th year than with a redesign of Sitewide Search. It presents more information than ever before. The look is cleaner and in keeping with our evolving design paradigm. The new Sitewide Search also lets you know just how much heavy lifting it's doing—has been doing all along, in fact. Sometime during this, our 25th anniversary year, we'll be going over 100 million records of content in DACIS. The milestones are coming thick and fast.
We've added two new features to Sitewide Search. First, there's "& MORE", which extends your search requests to some of our favorite government sites:*
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) website
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) website - both GAO Reports and Protests
The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) website
The SBIR•STTR website
The Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR website
The USA.gov website
The UK's Companies House website
The Government of Canada website
Go ahead, give it a try. We think you're going to like this extension of the DACIS value proposition. If you have any suggestions for sites you'd like to see added to "& MORE", please let me know directly.
The second feature is more of a hack. Anywhere in DACIS, if you highlight any word or words… or any contract number… or any CAGE Code… pretty much anything—and then click the "Go" button next to Sitewide Search, it will automatically execute a search for that term. No copying, no pasting. DACIS is built around the idea of saving you time, and that extends to the little things. Who wouldn't want to shave off a few clicks from their busy days?
We're looking forward to bringing you many more innovations in 2021. And like many of you, I'm sure, we're more than happy to ring out 2020. Happy New Year!
* For the privacy minded among you, a note about how "& MORE" works. These are all public-access government websites. Search submissions from "& MORE" will be logged by these sites as having been submitted by our servers, not by you. Only if you click directly on a search result from the "& MORE" page will your interest in a search term be submitted to the government (as indeed it would have been if you had searched that site directly).


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Now I know, the very title of this post is immediately wrong: Batman doesn't kill; Assassin's do kill; Therefore Batman is not an assassin. Bear with me then, and think slightly differently. It is a gaming theory, and as such I mean Batman is one of the assassin's from Assassin's Creed: one of the descendents of the First Civilization from the Ubisoft series.
For my comparisons I'm going to break ALL the rules, and compare using Batman from the Arkham series as my main focus, with some reference to the comics for some of the out-there stuff, to one of the Assassins.
So, first thing is why the theory? Well, for a start, I love to make theories/stories/comparisons in games at all times. Right now, I'm playing through Assassin's Creed Unity (late to the game I know) and I keep thinking of things that seem very Batman-y to me. Such as the new murder mysteries, which seem like an attempt to copy the crime scene investigations from Arkham Origins. I then drew a few more parallels. Not enough for a conclusive answer, but enough to make you think – they way all theories should.
The most obvious thing is movement and style, the way that the assassins and batman tend to crouch to sneak around, use full body for attacks, flit from target to target landing punches. Of course, that is to be somewhat expected, as the assassins are all trained by masters, and batman was trained by numerous masters. These movements would be the best mays to move around, so it makes sense that they would learn similarly. The same could go for the prowling on the rooftops – it is the most effective way to get around unseen.
Consider then their eyesight and abilities. All of the assassins (or at least all that we are familiar with) have Eagle Vision, a near magical ability that lets them notice minute details, pick people out of crowds, even detect where people are through walls. A great ability to have. Then we look at Bruce Wayne, who seems to have a very similar skillset again. Granted, in this case it is explained through use of his mask, but what if there's more to it than that? In the games the assassins eagle vision varies a bit, as do other skills that come with them. It seems to me that the vision gets weaker as they go down the line. By Unity, Arno can only use his vision for a few seconds, and it has a much lower range than previous characters did. What then if Batman's eagle vision is just reduced to such a small amount than he needs the mask to assist, effectively making it equivalent to a pair of eye-glasses.
What is also seen in Unity is further extension of Arno's ability, as he seems to be able to sense and scope out areas, this being completely different to what any of the others had. Perhaps every assassin has a unique ability? That could explain batman's eidetic memory.
A little off the beaten track, but the assassins all seem to be predestined to their fate. Throughout the games we have witnessed many of them from a young age, often witnessing the death of parents, and then all end up being brought into the assassin brotherhood. This is not infallible, as Haytham Kenway became a Templar, but this might greater show the predestination, as his father was, and his son later became an assassin. Might it be then that Batman has felt a similar pull towards the brotherhood, but himself has broken it, deciding on his own creed, to never kill. I know that the League of Assassins in Gotham had Batman trained for a while before he turned his back on them. They may be a splinter cell, or just a different localised name for the brotherhood.
Furthering the predestination, and this is where I steal from the comics, we saw Flash rewrite history in Flashpoint, causing events such as Batman's origin to be changed. Instead of Bruce witnessing his fathers death, Thomas Wayne saw his son die, and this caused him to become Batman, only this one had no qualms with death or guns, and was happy to just kill those in his way. I know that's how the assassins play things out in the games whenever they're caught.
Final point would be the clothing. Not a huge amount to say really, but both assassins and Batman favour similar clothing choices, with the hood and long, draping cloaks. Could it be that Batman has chosen his to honour his assassin heritage?
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Parijat or Nyctanthes arbor-tristis is the night-flowering jasmine.

Parijat may also refer to:
Parijat (writer) (1937–1993), Nepalese writer
Parijaat tree, Kintoor, a sacred baobab tree in Kintoor, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Parijatham (disambiguation)
Paarijatham, a 2008 Malayalam soap opera

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About a year ago (summer 2016) I bought a motor with 89K miles on it. Definitely on the cusp of needing a top end. I paid big money for it, as the 95 electronics packages are now pushing $4K. My plan was to sit on it and see what happens. So September of 2017 I pulled it from storage in the lower shop and leaked it down.
The engine was pretty clean, a little seepage from the breather gasket which is pretty normal, otherwise dry.
One cyl had 8% the others were in the 2-3% range. I just got a set of 95 heads back from the machine shop so plan: Top end and reseal. What I found was leafy. Glad I took off the shroud!
That was Wednesday, September 13th. I disassembled the engine that night, down to the P&Cs. Motor went into a car on Sunday, the 17th, after a long, long Saturday. Fired right up. Exhaust went on on the 21st.Ended up with new exhaust guides, front rear and top re-seal. In the process, I strapped on a VRam intake and a happy crab RS exhaust.


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Health disparities disproportionately affect communities of color, other vulnerable and marginalized populations, as well as rural populations.
Diversity in the medical workforce improves our ability to interact with our communities and contributes to excellence in patient care, community interaction and service and decreases health disparities.
The foundation of health disparities research includes evaluation of the intersection of social, biologic, and environmental forces as well as justice and access to healthcare.
Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Center
The mission of this center is to promote the principles of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in the research of vulnerable populations, and increase the recruitment, retention and advancement of groups underrepresented in medicine.
This award is to assist highly qualified and meritorious URM trainees in their transition to the roles of clinician-scholar, physician-scientist, research-scientist, and principal investigator (PI) as newly appointed Assistant Professors.
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Faculty Spotlight: Rashmi Sharma
Dr. Sharma's research and clinical work is focused on understanding and addressing health inequities in the care of patients with serious illness.
Melanoma outcomes in ethnic groups and bias in skin tone representation in medical education
Drs. Ata Moshiri and Masaoki Kawasumi (Dermatology) are currently exploring outcomes in melanoma treatment and survival in different ethnic groups.
Dr. Moshiri is also working with medical students to evalutate photographs from dermatology textbooks and assess for bias in skin tone representation.
Identifying Disparities in the Pandemic: The Quest for Data
Socially disadvantaged populations bear the greatest burden of risk for transmission, morbidity, and mortality. However, in more than half of US cases, relevant race and ethnicity data are missing. Drs. Sarah Struthers and Sarah Sanghavi (Nephrology) are studying the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and COVID- 19, information required to contextualize identified racial and ethnic disparities.
Revise COVID-19 relief-fund decisions to target disparities
Race, ethnicity, poverty and other social determinants of health can dictate COVID-19 risk and outcomes. In communities with more racial and ethnic minorities and those living in poverty, individuals are infected at higher rates, and hospitalizations and deaths have been higher. Dr. Joshua Liao (General Internal Medicine) works on value- and systems-based interventions to improve the health of patients and populations.
Disparities in COVID-19 Testing and Infection Across Language Groups
Our researchers found that despite the availability of interpreter services across clinical locations, non–English-speaking patients in our health system were tested less frequently for COVID-19 and had significantly higher burden of infection. This excess risk was observed across multiple languages and in the 3 largest non–English-speaking groups—Spanish, Vietnamese, and Amharic—reflecting the larger immigrant communities in King County, WA. Dr. H. Nina Kim (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is lead author of the results, published in JAMA.
Addressing inequities in care for patients with limited-English proficiency and serious illness
Dr. Rashmi Sharma presents Medicine Grand Rounds to discuss the drivers of health disparities and inequities, demographic data for Limited-English Proficiency (LEP) population, and the literature on LEP status and health outcomes, and LEP status and outcomes for patients with serious illness and their families.
Achieving health equity in colorectal cancer screening
Dr. Rachel Issaka is a gastroenterologist and clinical researcher focused on decreasing the mortality associated with colorectal cancer, with a special focus on medically underserved populations. Screening can prevent colorectal cancer by detecting and simultaneously removing precancerous polyps, small lesions that over time can grow and become cancerous.
"Screening is a way to not only prevent disease but reduce racial and economic disparities. We need to close that gap so that every citizen can benefit from the advances in cancer care and prevention."
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Jackson Heart Study
Dr. Bessie Young has brought together a working group composed of national experts on Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) epidemiological research and biostatistics through the Jackson Heart Study. This Jackson Heart Study project is an important next step in advancing the nephrological and cardiovascular wellness of African Americans.
Jackson Heart Study website
Racial inequities in end-of-life healthcare
Dr. Crystal Brown (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) has been awarded a K23 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to investigate racial inequities in end-of-life healthcare.
Brown will determine how perceived discrimination affects communication and decision-making during serious illness.
Genetics of Alzheimer's disease in African Americans
Dr. Paul Crane (General Internal Medicine) and Eric Larson (Kaiser) lead the Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) study focused on late life brain functioning and dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Modern genetic studies require thousands of people, and no single study (including ACT) has sufficient numbers of African American participants on its own for adequately powered genetic work. ACT has partnered with many other studies across the country to specifically assess the genetics of Alzheimer's disease in African Americans.
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Expanding access to lifesaving AML treatments
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is one of the most common, and aggressive, types of blood cancer that strike adults. Dr. Johnnie Orozco is developing safer, more targeted therapies to treat people with AML, which will also help expand access to potential cures for underserved populations.
LatinX Diabetes Clinic
This clinic was established to decrease healthcare disparities in LatinX patients with diabetes, address cultural and linguistic barriers to high quality care, increase opportunities for medical trainees to understand the cultural and sociological aspects of the prevention and management of diabetes and its complications in this community, and improve the overall health of the LatinX community, regionally and nationally, through increased clinical and basic science research in the prevention and treatment of diabetes.
The clinic is led by Dr. Lorena Alarcon-Casas Wright (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrution), who says that her dream is to provide health services that incorporate psychosocial and cultural understanding as part of the treatment plan.
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Liver cancer disparities in American Indian/Alaska Native People
Led by Dr. George Ioannou, professor (Gastroenterology), researchers are studying ways to improve screening and early detection of liver cancer in American Indian/Alaska Native People. This effort is a collaboration between the University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and the Cherokee Nation Health Service.
Bias assessment for cognitive and other tests: differential item functioning (DIF) research
Item bias detection is an important area in assessment, to ensure that the measures reflect only the underlying factor intended by the items in aggregate and not construct-irrelevant factors that could bias test results.
Dr. Paul Crane (General Internal Medicine) and his research group have pioneered analysis techniques that can account for items with diferential item functioning (DIF), as opposed to removing items with DIF.
The DIF-related tools they have developed have been implemented in research studies of diverse populations across the country and around the world.
Equity in Health Care Payment, Delivery & Decisions
The Value & Systems Science Lab (VSSL) was created to transform data and ideas into actionable insight that improves health outcomes. To achieve that mission, the Lab recently added several new equity-focused projects to its portfolio of work evaluating how healthcare payment, delivery, and decisions come together to impact outcomes.
Addressing disparities in the response to patient harm
Experiencing harm from medical care is among the most difficult and challenging circumstances a patient can face. Racial bias, limited English proficiency, differing cultural norms, disability, or a lack of stable housing can make such harm even more traumatic for patients and their families. They may feel they are not heard or fear that "complaining" may affect their care, making them less likely to signal harm. Those who do seek to address harm may face obstacles, including implicit bias, power asymmetry, and the inability to obtain representation in litigation.
These disparities in respect, dignity, and accountability have serious implications for the individuals affected and for society as a whole.
Dr. Thomas H. Gallagher (Center for Scholarship in Patient Care Safety and Quality and the Collaborative for Accountability and Improvement) is collaborating with Marcia Rhodes and Tracy Deskin in UW Medicine's Clinical Risk Management Department, as well as Dr. Urmimala Sarkar at the University of California San Francisco and Michelle Mello at Stanford University, to develop a proposal using Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to adapt the Communication and Resolution Program (CRP) model to better support the needs of marginalized patients after care breakdowns.
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Addressing Health Disparities in Infectious Diseases
The 2020 Infectious Diseases Society of America (ISDA) Women of ID campaign has featured Dr. Anna Wald, professor and head (Allergy and Infectious Diseases), as one of five women honorees who are leading the way for future generations to come for addressing health disparities in infectious diseases.
Read her story


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Die Mesaoria, griechisch Μεσαορία ("zwischen den Bergen"), türkisch Mesarya Ovası, ist eine fruchtbare Schwemmland-Ebene auf der Mittelmeerinsel Zypern.

Nach seiner Entstehung vor etwa hundert Millionen Jahren bestand Zypern aus zwei Kalksteininseln. Für die Dauer von etwa siebzig Millionen Jahren war Zypern durch einen Meeresstreifen getrennt. Durch Vulkanausbrüche wurde dieser geschlossen, und das Troodos-Gebirge entstand.

Durch Erosion des weichen Vulkangesteins bildete sich die Mesaoria.

Weblinks
 "Beitrag zur Geologie von Cypern" von Gustav Hiessleitner 1955 (PDF-Datei; 1,36 MB)
 Geografie Zyperns
 cypnet.co.uk (in Englisch)

Landschaft in Asien
Geographie (Zypern)


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Carriera
Bemer ha iniziato la sua carriera come aerodinamico a Douglas Aircraft Company nel 1941, poi ha lavorato per RAND Corporation dal 1951, IBM dal 1957, e Honeywell dal 1974. Ha anche lavorato per UNIVAC.

Bemer è probabilmente il primo sostenitore del concetto di Software Factory.
Si è occupato inoltre della standardizzazione del codice ASCII e per tale motivo è spesso considerato il padre o l'ideatore di tale codice.

Ha contribuito al concetto di Time-sharing (condivisione del tempo) per gestire il multitasking e fin dal 1971 ha sollevato il problema del Millennium Bug, ossia la possibile mancanza di corretta rappresentazione dell'anno 2000 nei programmi abituati a trattare l'anno con due sole cifre.

Bemer morì nella sua casa a Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, nel 2004, all'età di 84 anni, dopo una lunga battaglia contro il cancro.

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Collegamenti esterni


I snapped this photo while I was on a lunch break. A healthy tomato squeezing up from a crack in the sidewalk, between a drain pipe and a building. It's over a foot tall now so it's been there for while.
Who said a tomato plant is fussy and difficult to grow; this tomato defies the genre. This one tough tomato takes on dirt, exhaust fumes and heat in stride. It definitely has a strong will to live. Someone may have gotten a salad but didn't like the tomato and threw it on the sidewalk (the NYC attitude). One little seed from that tomato had a will to live and found its way to survive and grow in a concrete forest, Manhattan, on its own. This is a tomato with guts. A tomato with ambition. A tomato not intimidated by the less decent the city has to offer. It will be really cool if it bears fruit.
It will need to be pollinated by a bumblebee or other pollinator capable of buzz pollination to bear fruit. Hope it survives!
I don't know about bumblebees in the city but many building rooftops in the city have honeybee hives on them. I've been checking on it every couple of days. Don't expect much, just curious how long it will last.


Venus is the ultimate planet in Kaliyuga , depending on the placement of Venus in your horoscope , This is the one of the best planet to give benefit results in this Kaliyuga. Venus is the planet which enhances the beauty, glamour and cost of an ordinary thing. For an example, water is ruled by Moon, but when Venus comes in contact with that water, that water is filled in a bottle with a brand (Bisleri) and we buy that water and spend 20 rs , sometime rs 50 in PVR cinemas . That is power of Venus. Venus has veto power for marriage and romance matters, even bad placed Venus can give marriage or love affairs it's dasha , antardasha or transit.
In this horoscope, Aquarius ascendant is rising , Venus is lord of 4th and 9th houses. Venus in 2nd house which is the house of its exaltation indicates person should be, moral, truth loving and famous for his grand deeds. H is fond of his family and enjoy all the family comforts and happy from the wealth point of view. In D-9 (Navamsa) Venus is placed is Sagittarius, which is enemy and fiery sign, generally it is not considered good for Venus but in ascendant chart , Sagittarius sign is falling is 11th house of gain , so definitely Venus has to give good results.
When he consulted, Jupiter-Venus period was going on , generally Astrologers say that Jupiter-Venus dasha is not good because Jupiter-Venus are enemy , but as per me it depends on individual horoscope, both planets are good for this ascendant , so his marriage and child birth , means addition to his family happened in this period as you can see exalted Venus is placed 2nd house of family , and during Venus Antardasha and Jupiter Dasha , these 2 major events happened .


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This three bedroom beach cottage has sparkling bay views, and is a short level walk from the beach. The spacious north facing deck is private to the street, and gets all the summer sea breezes and winter sun – the steps lead to the level backyard with established shrubs and shade-house. The home has sunny open plan living with reverse cycle air conditioning, tiled floors and glass sliding door to the deck. On the ground level there is a double lockup garage, laundry with 2nd shower and toilet, and a large studio/work-room with plenty of storage – ideal for the drum kit and hobbies. The perfect cosy beach home or investment – don't delay to inspect.


LipsigLawyers.com states that over the last decade, vaporizers, or electronic cigarettes have already become a $3.5 billion industry, drawing in many into a "safer" smoking community. However, that simply has not been the case as e-cigarette explosion victims are taking action by filing lawsuits for their suffering. Anyone who has suffered physical, emotional, or financial harm as a result of vaping can file a lawsuit.
Why Do E-Cigarettes Randomly Explode?
Fires or explosions caused by e-cigarettes are rare.
Twenty-five separate incidents of explosion and fire involving an e-cigarette were reported in the United States media between 2009 and August 2014.
Nine injuries and no deaths were associated with these 25 incidents.Two of the injuries were serious burns.
Most of the incidents occurred while the battery was charging.
The shape and construction of e-cigarettes can make them more likely than other products with lithium-ion batteries to behave like "flaming rockets" when a battery fails.
Lithium-ion batteries must be charged in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions.
Using power sources not approved by the manufacturer to recharge a lithium-ion battery can result in an explosion and fire.
So far, several class action lawsuits were filed against tobacco companies and in some cases, the stores that sold them the charging device. Three highly publicized class action lawsuits are listed below.
A 17-year-old whose e-cigarette exploded in his pocket while in class at Clovis East High School.
A Naples, Florida man named Evan Spahlinger, who suffered severe internal burns and was put into a medically induced coma after an e-cigarette exploded in his mouth, allegedly burning his mouth, face, throat, esophagus, and lungs, according to his attorney.
Vicente Garza, whose e-cigarette exploded in bed and wound up costing Mr. Garza his left index finger.
In January 2017, an e-cigarette exploded inside an Iowa man's mouth. The man was seriously injured when an e-cigarette exploded in his mouth – scorching his skin and knocking out seven of his teeth. Doctors had to remove chunks of plastic from his throat and lips.
Since they became available for purchase in 2007, e-cigarettes have become increasingly popular among teenagers and tobacco smokers trying to quit. Most states' minimum age for e-cigarette sales and other tobacco products is 18, though two states and 225 localities (such as Washington, D.C. and New York City) require buyers be 21 years old for all tobacco products.
Although it is not entirely known how frequently e-cigarette batteries are likely to explode, they still pose quite a serious risk for the user and should be handled with caution.
Tom Moverman established the Lipsig Lawyers Firm with Harry Lipsig and his partners in 1989; The firm's focus is in products liability, personal injury, construction accidents, car accidents and medical malpractice.