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Father releases photos of bullied daughter moments from death on day she would have turned 18
A father has published photos showing his daughter minutes before she died to raise awareness of cyber-bullying and mental illness. Adrian Derbyshire posted pictures of Julia hooked up to drips and machines in hospital to mark what would have been her 18th birthday. Julia was 16 when Mr Derbyshire found…
Why JonBenét's Mother Always Carried A Blue Dress With Her After The Girl's Death
Twelve years after the tragic 1996 death of 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey ― and 12 years after being the subjects of intense scrutiny from the police and the public ― her parents, John and Patsy, were formally exonerated by the Boulder, Colo., district attorney. Patsy died of ovarian cancer before the…
Trump Social Media Death Threats Get 'Serious' Attention From Feds
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Death threats in recent months against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, especially at the time of his trip to Mexico to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, are being taken seriously by the US Secret Service (USSS) and other The…
UK 'hacker' Lauri Love fears death in US prison
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A British man wanted in the US for allegedly hacking into government computers says he fears dying in jail if he is extradited. Lauri Love, who has Asperger's syndrome, worries he will be sentenced to up to 99 years. "If The…
22 Year Old 'Thief' Beaten To Death After He Disclosed Dalit Identity
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A 22-year-old Dalit man visiting a local fair was killed in what appears to be a caste-based crime. Avaneesh was at the Bhootnath Mela in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri district on Tuesday when the incident took place. According to reports, The…
Love Will Be The Death Of Us
Notes On The End Of My Marriage Author's note: This is a sincere attempt to learn the end of a relationship, a final love letter, of sorts. Some of the names have been changed and my former partner has consented its publication. 8.2011 — The Beginning There is no easy…
The Death of a Diplomat: Kang Sok Ju
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans On October 4, 2002, Kang Sok Ju participated in a historically ambiguous but relatively significant official interaction between the US and DPRK governments. At the DPRK Foreign Ministry building in Pyongyang, a delegation led by Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly…
Inspector O and the River of Death
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans "I'm surprised." Inspector O looked up from his newspaper. "Your hair isn't even mussed." He made it sound like an indictment. I stood in for a moment wondering what this might portend before sitting down on the bench. The park was…
Former NYPD Officer Peter Liang Won't Spend a Day in Prison for Akai Gurley's Death
There's no dispute over whether former NYPD officer Peter Liang shot and killed Akai Gurley in a darkened Brooklyn stairwell in November of 2014. But after a jury found him guilty on charges of manslaughter in a high-profile trial, a judge reduced the charge to criminally negligent homicide on Tuesday,…
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Holloway is accused of driving her Oldsmobile onto a Strip sidewalk Sunday, killing one and injuring dozens of others. Photo Facebook 1004411555_strip_folo-dec_3.jpg Police investigate the scene on the Las Vegas Strip outside Paris Las Vegas on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015, after a car plowed into pedestrians on the sidewalk, killing one person and injuring 37 people, six critically. Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @rookie__rae 1004411555_strip_folo-dec_4.jpg Lakeisha Holloway is shown in a photo from her Facebook page. Holloway is accused of driving her Oldsmobile onto a Strip sidewalk Sunday, killing one and injuring dozens of others. Photo Facebook 1004398647_strip_crash_1_14_0.jpg Police investigate the scene of an accident on the Strip in Las Vegas that left one person dead and 37 injured after a car plowed into a group of pedestrians on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. 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Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @rookie__rae STRIP20FATAL20PHOTOS15A.JPG Police investigate the scene of a crash on the Strip in Las Vegas that left one person dead and 37 injured after a car plowed into a group of pedestrians Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @rookie__rae) STRIP20FATAL20PHOTOS16.JPG Police investigate the scene of a crash on the Strip in Las Vegas that left one person dead and 37 injured after a car plowed into a group of pedestrians Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @rookie__rae) STRIP20FATAL20PHOTOS13.JPG Bystanders watch as police investigate the scene of a crash on the Strip in Las Vegas that left one person dead and 37 injured after a car plowed into a group of pedestrians the evening of Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @rookie__rae STRIP20FATAL20PHOTOS18.JPG Police investigate the scene of a crash on the Strip in Las Vegas that left one person dead and 37 injured after a car plowed into a group of pedestrians Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @rookie__rae) STRIP20FATAL20PHOTOS12.JPG Bystanders watch as police investigate the scene of a crash on the Strip in Las Vegas that left one person dead and 37 injured after a car plowed into a group of pedestrians the evening of Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @rookie__rae STRIP20FATAL20PHOTOS1720copy.jpg Police investigate the scene of a crash on the Strip in Las Vegas that left one person dead and 37 injured after a car plowed into a group of pedestrians Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @rookie__rae) stripfatalone.jpg Police investigate the scene of a crash on the Strip in Las Vegas that left one person dead and 37 injured after a car plowed into a group of pedestrians Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @rookie__rae) STRIP20FATAL20PHOTOS03.JPG Metro Capt. Peter Bofelli briefs the media about a crash on the Strip in Las Vegas that left one person dead and 37 injured after a car plowed into a group of pedestrians the evening of Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @rookie__rae STRIP20FATAL20PHOTOS06.JPG Metro Deputy Chief Brett Zimmerman briefs the media about a crash on the Strip in Las Vegas that left one person dead and 37 injured after a car plowed into a group of pedestrians the evening of Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @rookie__rae STRIP20FATAL20PHOTOS01.JPG Police investigate the scene of a crash on the Strip in Las Vegas that left one person dead and 37 injured after a car plowed into a group of pedestrians the evening of Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @rookie__rae STRIP20FATAL20PHOTOS07.JPG Police Lt. Dan McGrath briefs the media about a crash on the Strip in Las Vegas that left one person dead and 37 injured after a car plowed into a group of pedestrians the evening of Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @rookie__rae imagevideo Related links Car plows into pedestrians near Planet Hollywood, killing one, injuring 37 — VIDEO Arrest report, sheriff provide details of Strip crash that left 1 dead, dozens injured By Kimberly De La Cruz and David Ferrara Las Vegas Review-Journal Lakeisha Holloway's path to the Strip seems to have passed out of homelessness and back again. And now the woman accused of driving her Oldsmobile onto a busy sidewalk Sunday, killing one and injuring dozens of others, faces a murder charge. On Tuesday, the Clark County district attorney's office charged Holloway, 24, with one count each of murder with a deadly weapon; child abuse, neglect, or endangerment; and leaving the scene of an accident. Her first court appearance is scheduled for 8 a.m. today, the office said in a Tuesday morning news release. Not long ago, Holloway had seemed to be turning her life around. CNN reported an Oregon nonprofit organization gave Holloway a role model award in 2012. But on surveillance video taken Sunday,a source close to the investigation said, Holloway is seen driving her Oldsmobile along the Strip, creeping along with the flow of traffic, before suddenly accelerating and turning right onto the sidewalk in front of Planet Hollywood Resort. Pedestrians headed south scattered, but many of those walking north never saw Holloway's car, as they were struck from behind. Holloway drove through the crosswalk in front of Paris Las Vegas and careened into a light pole. Jessica Valenzuela was trapped under the Oldsmobile for at least 200 yards as pedestrians ran alongside, banging on the car and trying to get Holloway to stop, the source said. Valenzuela, 32, of Buckeye, Ariz., died at University Medical Center. The Clark County coroner's office did not determine the cause and manner of her death Tuesday. A crowdfunding campaign set up for Valenzuela described her as a wife and mother of three and had already raised more than $33,800 as of 4 p.m. Tuesday. Thirty-five people were injured in the crash, three of whom had critical head injuries, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said. Most of the injured were taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center and UMC. Some of them were college athletes who had come to compete in the Wartburg Desert Duals wrestling tournament held annually in Las Vegas. Two of the teams, Pacific University of Oregon, and Delaware Valley University, pulled out of the competition Monday as four Pacific team members were injured and five Delaware Valley athletes were reported injured. Holloway told police that she remembered a body bouncing off her windshield, breaking it. She told police she was not on drugs or alcohol, according to the arrest report. Blood samples were taken from Holloway, and although she did not demonstrate signs of being under the influence of alcohol when she was arrested, she may have been on stimulants, the report said. Authorities are expecting results of Holloway's drug test to be returned soon. Holloway's lawyer, Deputy Public Defender Scott Coffee, said that her status at the jail "speaks to her mental state." Of the allegations, he said "everybody realizes this is a tragic event," but declined to comment further. As of Tuesday evening, two people remained in critical condition and three others were listed as serious, UMC spokeswoman Danita Cohen said. Metro officer Michael Rodriguez said Holloway is in medically restricted custody at the Clark County Detention Center, which could mean she is injured, needs medical attention or is suicidal. There is no designated "suicide watch," Rodriguez said, and if someone in custody showed signs of being suicidal, "we would not disclose that." Holloway was taken into custody Sunday without incident at the Tuscany, where Lombardo on Monday said she left her daughter in the car and told a valet to call the police because she had hit several people on the Strip. The 3-year-old child, who wasn't hurt in the crash, was taken from the Tuscany, on the corner of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane, and into state custody at Child Haven, Lombardo said. "Generally speaking, when a child comes into our custody, we make contact with the parent, if available, to determine if there are relatives or 'fictive kin' (people who have a relationship with the child) who may be appropriate for the child's placement," Clark County spokesman Erik Pappa wrote in an email Tuesday. When asked whether the girl remained in state custody Tuesday, Pappa said he "can't confirm much of anything." It is unclear whether she has been placed with family, but Lombardo said officials were working to find her father. Las Vegas police are framing the incident as intentional. Lombardo said police do not know Holloway's motive. Holloway's fortunes seemed brighter not long ago, according to CNN. The nonprofit Portland Opportunities Industrial Center gave Holloway its C.A.R.E. Role Model Award in 2012. The center helps at-risk youth with education and career training. In a center video for that year, Holloway said she'd been homeless in high school, put out of the house during her high school freshman year by her mother. Holloway said her grades and attendance suffered, and by the end of that school year, her GPA was 1.41. But she turned things around. "I beat the odds and was the first of my family and my circle to graduate high school," she said, adding that she graduated with a 3.4 GPA and $17,000 in scholarship money. Holloway said she was also the first in her family to go to college. Later, she landed a job at the U.S. Forest Service. "Boy, did I come a long ways," Holloway said on the video. "I was a scared little girl who knew that there was more to life outside of crime, drug addiction, lower income, alcoholism, being undereducated — all of which I grew up being familiar with." Las Vegas police don't think Sunday's crash was an act of terrorism, but Lombardo said they can't rule it out fully until they know more about Holloway. A national background check turned up no prior arrests for her. Investigators determined that Holloway has been in Las Vegas for about a week, living in her car with her daughter. Holloway told police that security guards ran her off everywhere she stopped to get some sleep in her car. She ended up on the Strip, "a place she did not want to be," and wouldn't explain why she drove onto the sidewalk, according to the arrest record. In the release announcing the charges, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson expressed sympathy for the victims and their families. "This is a horrendous and inexcusable act that has needlessly and tragically impacted countless lives," he wrote. "I am confident that, as the investigation unfolds, we will be filing many more charges against Ms. Holloway." — Contact Kimberly De La Cruz at kdelacruz@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0381. Find her on Twitter: @KimberlyinLV. Contact reporter David Ferrara at dferrara@reviewjournal.com or 702-380-1039. 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To MIPS or not to MIPS? That is the Question.
It's time for a new acronym. You might not have heard of an organization called MedPAC, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. MedPAC has a lot of influence and no power. Or maybe it's the other way around. It is an independent US federal body established by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. This is ironic because the Balanced Budget Act created the Medicare Part B Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) reimbursement formula that was going to necessitate a 25% reduction in physician payment in 2015. The SGR was the looming catastrophe that caused Congress to enact the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, or MACRA. Contained within MACRA is the Merit Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) to which most physicians who take Medicare became subject in 2016. Are you still with me? MIPS is the latest and biggest step by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in moving physician payment away from volume based payment to . . .something else, hopefully better but that's not certain.
MedPAC is a 17 member commission appointed by the Comptroller General of the United States to serve a 3 year, possibly renewable, term. It's a part time job but an important one- to advise Congress on issues affecting the Medicare program. Their mandate includes advising the US Congress on payments to the practitioners (and the private health plans) participating in Medicare. However, they can evaluate just about any issue that affects Medicare. MedPAC produces two major reports to Congress each year, one of which will be submitted this coming March.
Last Thursday (Jan. 11) MedPAC recommend replacing the MIPS with a voluntary program that would live back in the good old, fee-for-service Medicare world that would let doctors form groups that could earn bonuses if they perform well on population-based measures. Apparently not all 17 of the commissioners supported this recommendation.
I think there's a little irony in the fact that the Balanced Budget Act that created the MedPAC also created the SGR that created the crisis that necessitated MIPS which the MedPAC has now recommended be replaced with . . . .uh . . .doctors volunteering to do a really good job.
I agree with every word of criticism MedPAC had for the "quality" aspect of MIPS. I am neck deep in my own 2017 MIPS quality measure submission, and am reviewing the quality measure programming for next year in my role as the Executive Director of the U.S. Wound Registry. I'm reviewing the quality analytics of several hundred of my wound care colleagues who are using the USWR to effect bonus money under MIPS. I can tell you every darn thing that is wrong about the way this system is designed-assuming you actually wanted to measure quality instead of proving that people who got through medical school are good at taking tests.
For starters, the current trend in quality measurement is toward "population" measures. Doctors do not treat populations. They treat individual people. Next, there are specific activities that define whether I did my specific job with any given patient. As a wound care practitioner, these activities and interventions are completely different than the activities that define whether the cardiologist downstairs did his job, or the hand surgeon next door did his. The idea that all three of us can measure a patient's BMI, inform them that they are obese, recommend that they stop smoking, and get the nurses to record the details of their medications – and then say that's a fair assessment of the quality of our completely different specialty practices is ridiculous in the extreme. I don't know what kind of expert started this canard but we all know that it's ridiculous. We do not need measures that are LESS specific to what each of us do. We need measures that are more specific. Assuming, of course, that you actually want to measure what we do, or how our patients do.
The US Wound Registry was able to keep 10 of the 21 wound and hyperbaric quality measures we once had approved by CMS as part of the USWR. We were also able to add a new quality measure in 2018, Patient Reported Nutritional Screening. I'd like to replay (more or less faithfully) a conversation I had with the group at CMS that decides which measures the Qualified Clinical Data Registries get to keep.
First, you need to know the Kafkaesque logic behind whether a measure is rejected. Remember that doctors are monetarily incentivized to report the measures on which they have the highest score. That's how you get bonus money. However, CMS then evaluates the passing rate of the QCDR measure and if the scores on a measure are too high, CMS rejects the measure using the logic that it isn't needed anymore because there is no "gap in practice." The problem is that lots of people fail the measure – specifically, the ones who didn't report it- because that's the way the program rules are designed.
Last year the handful of wonderful wound care practitioners who reported the measures for arterial screening, venous compression and diabetic foot ulcer off-loading had very high scores on them. As a result, CMS said they were going to reject all 3 of those measures this year. I actually started crying on the phone. Yes, it was extremely embarrassing. However, in my defense CMS scheduled the conference call to discuss the measures in the middle of my Monday clinic (I did not get to pick a time that worked for me) and I had very sick patients and the place was chaos and I was standing in my office with CMS people telling me that we did not need off-loading of DFUs or compression of VLUs or arterial screening – and suddenly I felt like my life had been wasted- and I lost it.
I told them that I could show them the low scores of all the people who didn't report the measure because their scores were low. Their answer was that I ought to MAKE them report low scores. I said, "WAIT- you hold the Mad Hatter's tea party and invite me to it. You make the rules. I am just Alice. I am not the Queen of Hearts. I can't make anyone do anything. They get bonus money for reporting high scores. Until the day dawns that we report a suite of measures that are actually relevant to our practices, we pick the measures we score the highest on. It's crazy but that's the way it works. You guys make the rules. Do you actually not understand the way this works?" Yes, I said that, almost word for word.
MedPAC is right about some things. This is ridiculous system that does not measure quality. Most of the work on the MIPS measures is done by nurses. It measures whether you have enough staff and whether your office has repeatable processes, but not whether you provide quality care.
Are you wondering what happened?
Bonus money is tied to where you are in relation to the class! So, you need some of your colleagues to do badly because that increases the chances that you will be in one of the top deciles! Ironically, allowing physicians to "pick their pace" again in 2018 means that the practitioners who do go after bonus money are actually more likely to get it- but only if they are using "non-MIPS" measures inside a QCDR like the USWR.
The problem with the standard MIPS measures is that no one reports them unless they have a practically perfect score. That means if you miss, for example, BMI screening on one patient in your practice, you could drop 2 deciles. However, if you report the arterial screening measure in the USWR QCDR, you could do a merely decent job and end up at the head of the class.
It IS the Mad Hatter's tea party. The problem is that we can't have it both ways. As practitioners, we can't say we want to get paid for quality, and then just have a system you can totally game. That's what this is. We complain because it's stupid and doesn't measure quality, but if anyone actually came up with a plan to measure quality… there would be a lot of screaming, because no one really wants to be held to a standard.
I will give you one specific example, and that is the USWR venous compression measure. That measure requires that a patient with an active venous ulcer is put in "adequate" compression. We define "adequate" as a system that has published evidence to demonstrate that it can heal venous ulcers. But every day, clinicians call Customer Care and complain about the fact that when they use one layer of tubular bandage they don't pass the compression measure, or that anti-embolism stockings or ACE bandages or don't pass the measure. WHY IS THIS SO HARD? There are so many great products on the market that work to heal venous ulcers. CAN YOU NOT JUST PICK ONE OF THOSE?
And for the record, it would be very helpful if the companies that make those excellent compression products would fund the analysis we need to do to demonstrate (yet again) that providers who USE adequate products are more likely to heal venous ulcers than those who do not. That would lower my blood pressure. Because currently, my blood pressure cannot pass the "controlling high blood pressure measure." AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
And not enough in my retirement account.
Than fly to other payment programs that we know not of?
That no one, it seems, can make any useful decisions at all.


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'Rambo 5' Rumored Title is 'Rambo: Last Blood'; Filming This Fall?
Sylvester Stallone was the "winner" of the Falling Star title in our 2014 Summer Movie Awards - and not without fair reason, either. Fact of the matter is, Sly's last four movies - Bullet to the Head, Escape Plan, Grudge Match, and The Expendables 3 - have all performed well below expectations at the U.S. box office. Even the third Expendables and its action star-packed cast have only been able to muster $37 million in ticket sales here in the States so far (and no, as our Rob Keyes pointed out, piracy was not the reason).
Now we're hearing talk that Rambo 5 will become a reality sooner than later, from no less an authority than Stallone; about a month ago, the actor/filmmaker said he's already begun his grueling physical training regime, in order to convincingly play the eponymous Vietnam War veteran once last time. The Millennium Films website identifies the project as being (appropriately enough) titled Rambo: Last Blood, while Film Divider has gotten word that local crewing services in Shreveport, Louisiana have started recruiting staff to work on the film, with a listed production start date of October 27th, 2014.
Problem is, there are other reliables sources of movie-related information - Collider's Steven "Frosty" Weintraub to be exact (see below) - who have been informed that a fifth Rambo movie is not happening... not in the immediate future, anyway. Such claims are all the more worth taking into consideration, with this news coming so soon after Expendables 3's weaker-than-expected box office performance.
a few people that would know tell me the RAMBO sequel isn't happening. I can't confirm the info, but it's from solid sources.
Truth be told, this is all just business as usual for the fifth Rambo film installment. The project, according to the rumor mill, has been actively moving forward, then dead in the water, then once again trudging forward, multiple time over the six years since the fourth installment, Rambo, was released in theaters in 2008. Again, as was mentioned earlier, Sly's career seems to have hit a rough patch recently, so now might be as fitting a time as ever for him to return to the Rambo franchise well.
Question is, has the weak U.S. ticket sales for Stallone's recent left Rambo: Last Blood (which Stallone wrote and may also direct) unable to get a studio greenlight? Well, not necessarily. Both Escape Plan and The Expendables 3 performed far better outside the U.S., taking in some 75-80% of their total gross from the international market and pushing their current global totals to $137 million and $152 million, respectively. Last Blood should probably cost around the same amount as 2008's Rambo ($50 million), which likewise took in most of its $113 million total from outside the States. So as far as investments go, Rambo 5's a decent bet.
This brings us to perhaps the question - do most people want to see Rambo: Last Blood? So far, there appears to be a solid divide between those who want to see John Rambo go out in a blaze of glory - battling Mexican drug cartels as Stallone has indicated is the plan - and those who feel Rambo (2008) was the perfect conclusion to the title character's journey. Fingers crossed, an official update on Rambo 5 will come sooner than later, so we can all stop wondering if this movie is going to happen or not - and move forward from there.
We'll let you know more about Rambo 5/Rambo: Last Blood when we do.


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LIUNA is appalled that the U.S. House of Representatives' radical GOP wing has succeeded in derailing passage of a long-term Highway Bill that fully invests in America's transportation systems and protects good jobs. After nearly three years of temporary extensions, another 90-day extension shows incompetence and dysfunction.
With one-in-four bridges in America deemed structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, House Republicans are forcing Americans to play Russian roulette every day when they drive to work, pick up groceries, or travel with their families.
The Highway Bill is the single-largest jobs-creating legislation in the nation and is mainly how highways, bridges and transit systems are built and maintained.
leave it" style of governing and pass a bill that can win passage in both chambers and be signed into law.
LIUNA's "Emergency Bridge Repair Team" has been on the road for the last two weeks traveling from John Boehner's home state of Ohio to Washington, DC, alerting motorists to the dangers posed by thousands of unsafe bridges. The truck – which carries a giant roll of duct tape to highlight House Republicans' current approach to fixing America's roads and bridges – has made stops at several bridges where workers have attempted to "repair" them with duct tape.
With this campaign, we're sending a message to Speaker Boehner and the House of Representatives that it's time to end the political games. We need to pass a strong, bipartisan Highway Bill not just to protect our economy and our bridges – but also our lives.


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Великая ханьская справедливая армия () — коллаборационистская армия, подчиненная государству Мэнцзян. Упразднена в 1937 году.

История
Великая ханьская справедливая армия была сформирована милитаристом Ван Ином в 1936 году, после того, как он перешел на сторону Японии. Армия подчинялась Японии и НАМ. Армия насчитывала около 6000 человек (в основном, бывших бандитов и пленных), разделенных на 4 бригады. Войска были вооружены оружием, захваченным Японией на северо-востоке Китая.

Участие в боевых действиях

Суйюаньская кампания (1936)
Великая ханьская справедливая армия успела принять участие только в Суйюаньской кампании, закончившейся разгромом для НАМ и её союзников. 19 декабря 1936 года Великая ханьская справедливая армия была почти полностью уничтожена. Оставшиеся подразделения были расформированы.

Источники
 Jowett, Phillip S. , Rays of The Rising Sun, Armed Forces of Japan's Asian Allies 1931-45, Volume I: China & Manchuria, 2004. Helion & Co. Ltd., 26 Willow Rd., Solihul, West Midlands, England.
 中国抗日战争正面战场作战记 (China's Anti-Japanese War Combat Operations) , 2005. Jiangsu People's Publishing House.

См. также
 Мэнцзян
 Национальная армия Мэнцзяна

Мэнцзян
Вооружённые силы Китая
Японо-китайская война (1937—1945)
Китайский коллаборационизм
Исторические вооружённые силы

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Q: Explanation of height behavior Consider the following code:

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The results of the above alerts are:250, 100, 80. I 'd  expect 250, 100, 100 since div inner would have the med div's height because of height:100%. What is wrong in my syllogism?
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A: j08691 is correct, because of the text "line1" inside of #med, #inner can't occupy the full height.

A: The inner div's height is as close to 100% as it can get, but the text "line1" is taking up space that would otherwise be available to the inner div. Hence, the 80px out of 100


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Q: Is a Caesar cipher on purely binary data unbreakable? As far as I can see methods to break a simple Caesar Cipher rely on patterns in the source data, such as the frequency of vowels in the English language. I struggle to see how a simple cipher on binary data could be compromised, assuming the key length is equal to or greater than the length of the data to be encrypted (so the key bytes never repeat) and assuming the source binary data is scrambled so any underlying pattern is removed.
If I offer you a byte value of 152, there is no mathematical way to determine that original data was 52 and the key was 100 without the key.
Are my assumptions here correct and if not how could this simple encryption method be broken?

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key length is equal to or greater than the length of the data to be encrypted

You're describing one-time pad. It is secure.
Caesar ciphers have keys that are much shorter than the message.


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Bandleyside Parish Housing Need Survey 2010
Bandleyside Parish Housing Needs Survey March 2010
In March 2010 Cumbria Rural Housing Trust, commissioned by Eden District Council and supported by Bandleyside Parish Council and the Heart of Eden Community Plan, conducted a Housing Needs Survey in Appleby-in-Westmorland Parish. The survey followed the launch of the Heart of Eden Community Plan and was distributed with a copy of the Executive Summary. The purpose of the survey was to identify the need for affordable housing and to fulfil one of the action plans laid out in the Community Plan. This report details the information derived from the survey responses.
213 survey forms were delivered by post to the households within the parish of Bandleyside (100%), with a return date of 29th March 2010. 82 households returned their completed forms. This is a return rate of 38.50% which is above the current average 30% return rate for this type of survey in Cumbria. Cumbria Rural Housing Trust expresses it's thanks to the Heart of Eden Community Plan Group, the Parish Council and others in the community for their work to promote the survey.
Of the returned forms, there were 7 (8.54%) responses, saying that either the whole household or someone living within the household wished to move within the parish in the next 5 years
See Appendix 1 for the criteria used to determine whether a household is in need.Housing Need
Of these 7 survey responses, indicating a housing need, some had a multiple need; giving 10 in total, of these 5 households are in need of affordable housing within the next 5 years in the parish.
None of the households stated that they were registered on the Local Authority and/or a Housing Association or other waiting list.
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Well, it's official, and it didn't even take a clever social media campaign: Bruce Irons is your Pipe Master's wildcard, having nabbed the spot in the absence of Matt Banting, who is currently on the injured list.
A former Pipe Master, perennial North Shore standout, and brother to the late Andy Irons (in whose honor the event is held each year), Bruce is consistently the fan favorite for the wildcard, and especially during the winter season, Bruce seems inspired and fired up. Though there have only been a handful of quality days at Pipe and Backdoor this season so far, Bruce has been on it, getting blown out of as big and burly of barrels as anyone this last month and a half.
We caught up with Bruce, to hear how he got the news, and to talk about the potential for him to have a permanent spot at the event, as long as his family name is attached.
Congrats on getting the wildcard, Bruce. How'd you find out?
Thanks, man. Yeah, I'm psyched. Kieren [Perrow] told me in the water the other day.
Last year, the whole #BruceForPipeMastersWildcard thing went nuts, and it seemed inevitable that you'd get it. This year it all happened so quietly. How'd it all go down?
I was talking to Heff, from Billabong [Chris Heffner, the company's Global Event and Athlete Manager] a couple of days before the waiting period began. Usually, the Pipe wildcard goes to the guy who is winning the Triple Crown, which I think is totally cool. That's how it's always been, even when I was doing the trials. And usually it's a guy who's already on Tour that's in the running, but this year it's Frederico [Morais], so he got the wildcard, and I was in the trials, which was totally fine. I said, "Cool, I'm in the trials – that's why I'm doing this, so I don't have to rely on anybody." It would just be a bonus to get in.
But I always thought, I should have a spot, as long as my brother's name is on the contest.
That you should be able to defend that title in his name, sort of?
Yeah, I mean, that's your brother's contest now. It seems fair that you should have the chance to compete for that title in his name. I mean, would anyone have said anything to Gerry [Lopez] if he had wanted to compete in the event and was still in-form?
Or Clyde Aikau, at the Eddie! I'd give Clyde my spot, if it meant that, you know? So I was in the trials, and I told Kieran, if another spot opens up, I hope I'll get it. And of course Kieran couldn't say yes, right there on the spot, he had to talk to the board, the whole thing. Because it is a tricky situation at the end of the year. Kieren told me, you know, if someone's hurt, it usually goes to the guy who's one spot out from the Tour. But in this case, it wouldn't make a difference, so the spot went back to Billabong, and Billabong gave it to me.
And the WSL has to see that you bring a lot of energy to the event, as far as people rooting you on and how excited everyone is just for you to throw on a jersey out there. You're everyone's favorite underdog.
Yeah, I told them maybe I could help out with some ratings [laughs]. I think it would be great for the event. But anyway, it's all meant to be, and I'm not complaining. I'm very, very happy.


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Reviewing EastGroup Properties (NYSE:EGP) and Elme Communities (NYSE:ELME)
Posted by Defense World Staff on Jan 17th, 2023
EastGroup Properties (NYSE:EGP – Get Rating) and Elme Communities (NYSE:ELME – Get Rating) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, profitability and institutional ownership.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares EastGroup Properties and Elme Communities' revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
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Gross Revenue Price/Sales Ratio Net Income Earnings Per Share Price/Earnings Ratio
EastGroup Properties $409.48 million 17.13 $157.56 million $5.25 30.66
Elme Communities $169.15 million 9.53 $16.38 million ($0.39) -47.23
EastGroup Properties has higher revenue and earnings than Elme Communities. Elme Communities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EastGroup Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk and Volatility
EastGroup Properties has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elme Communities has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for EastGroup Properties and Elme Communities, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
EastGroup Properties 0 5 4 0 2.44
Elme Communities 0 3 0 0 2.00
EastGroup Properties presently has a consensus price target of $167.70, indicating a potential upside of 4.18%. Elme Communities has a consensus price target of $18.50, indicating a potential upside of 0.43%. Given EastGroup Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe EastGroup Properties is more favorable than Elme Communities.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
89.5% of EastGroup Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.5% of Elme Communities shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of EastGroup Properties shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Elme Communities shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
EastGroup Properties pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Elme Communities pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. EastGroup Properties pays out 95.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Elme Communities pays out -174.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. EastGroup Properties has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Elme Communities is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
This table compares EastGroup Properties and Elme Communities' net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
EastGroup Properties 47.23% 12.15% 6.11%
Elme Communities -17.19% -2.61% -1.80%
EastGroup Properties beats Elme Communities on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
About EastGroup Properties
EastGroup Properties, Inc. (NYSE: EGP), an S&P MidCap 400 company, is a self-administered equity real estate investment trust focused on the development, acquisition and operation of industrial properties in major Sunbelt markets throughout the United States with an emphasis in the states of Florida, Texas, Arizona, California and North Carolina. The Company's goal is to maximize shareholder value by being a leading provider in its markets of functional, flexible and quality business distribution space for location sensitive customers (primarily in the 15,000 to 70,000 square foot range). The Company's strategy for growth is based on ownership of premier distribution facilities generally clustered near major transportation features in supply-constrained submarkets. EastGroup's portfolio, including development projects and value-add acquisitions in lease-up and under construction, currently includes approximately 45.8 million square feet.
About Elme Communities
Elme Communities owns and operates uniquely positioned real estate assets in the Washington Metro area. Backed by decades of experience, expertise and ambition, we create value by transforming insights into strategy and strategy into action. As of October 29, 2020, the Company's portfolio of 45 properties includes approximately 3.7 million square feet of commercial space and 6,863 multifamily apartment units. These 45 properties consist of 22 multifamily properties,15 office properties, and 8 retail centers. Our shares trade on the NYSE. With a track record of driving returns and delivering satisfaction, we are a trusted authority in one of the nation's most competitive real estate markets.
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Thank you so much Laurie, these have been so difficult to keep to myself!! I love you!


Pet Supply Uk supplies a complete range of Racing Pigeon Corns & Mixes for every type of race and season. The products are tailored to a pigeon's needs during breeding, racing and moulting. A staple component of every product is sun-dried cribs maize, an excellent source of energy, rich in protein.
When my uncle started racing in the late 1930's, many fanciers just fed peas and grit. This now seems incredible to us but there are still fanciers who feed just peas and wheat, or just peas, sorghum and wheat. I guess one just has to ask oneself, why, when presumably their aim is to win races and get birds home. For racing and particularly long distance racing, the birds do not need peas or protein, but carbohydrates and fats to provide energy for the long hours on the wing, during the journey home.
It is said that "you are what you eat" and that certainly holds true for pigeons. For a team to do consistently well, the diet is important. Getting the protein percentage of the diet right and making some informed decisions about the grain blend used, will help with performance.
In the stock loft, an error in dietary management, unless dramatic, is unlikely to have the direct consequences that it would in the racing loft. Pigeons are long lived and fairly tough. There is usually the opportunity for dietary correction. Obviously however, making good decisions from the start is going to lead to better quality weaned babies starting on the road to become winning race birds.
Racing pigeons are avian athletes and like any other athlete, feeding them optimally for the job ahead, means that their full potential is more likely to be realized. The more the fancier deviates from the best diet, the harder it is for the birds to do well. Some birds can still win on other diets (which is why all the various "home truths" have developed) because they have other factors in their favour such as being exceptional genetically or under a particularly good manager etc, but a deviation from the best diet just makes it harder. There was one fancier in South Australia several years ago, well known to Australian fanciers who was best flyer in his state for many years. He actually fed a very poor diet but seeing him with his birds, it was obvious that he was an exceptional manager. We know that for optimal racing, diets need to contain 12-14% protein. For high performance sprint racing, this should be 12%. Racing diets also need to contain over 3000kcal per kilogram of energy (in the form of fat and carbohydrate).
Pet Supply Uk supplies high quality, complete feed for racing pigeons. The knowledge and experience of a variety of national and international pigeon enthusiasts i am sure have gone into blending the various Top Quality mixes we have listed on our website.
Proteins are made up of substances called amino acids. Various amino acids bond together chemically to make proteins. Proteins are necessary essentially for "tissue building". The body has increased requirements for these tissue building substances fairly obviously through times of growth and reproduction. Pigeons therefore, need high protein levels in their diet when they are breeding, growing and molting. During racing however, although they still need proteins for tissue repair, eg, to heal tired muscles and for various base metabolic processes, it is the carbohydrates and fats that provide the energy for exertion during racing that are important, so please do browse through our website for the mixtures we offer.


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Reese Witherspoon, Ivanka Trump and more stars react to Kate Spade's sudden death
The fashion designer has died of apparent suicide
Following the news that famed fashion designer Kate Spade died of apparent suicide, her brother-in-law David Spade has spoken out about the tragic death.
On Wednesday, Spade wrote about his sister-in-law in an Instagram post saying, "She was so sharp and quick on her feet. She could make me laugh so hard. I still cant believe it."
A post shared by David Spade (@davidspade) on Jun 5, 2018 at 5:27pm PDT
Spade was found in her New York City apartment on Tuesday US time and was pronounced dead on the scene. The designer started her handbag company in 1994 with husband Andy Spade, and created a brand that extended to clothing, jewellery, shoes, stationery, eyewear and bedding, among other items. Kate Spade New York currently has over 140 retail shops and outlets across the US and more than 175 stores internationally.
Spade's family released a statement via The New York Times. "We are all devastated by today's tragedy. We loved Kate dearly and will miss her terribly. We would ask that our privacy be respected as we grieve during this very difficult time," it read.
Kate Spade in 2015. (Getty)
Other stars from the fashion and entertainment worlds have expressed their sadness on social media.
Actresses Lena Dunham and Beth Behrs were among the first to express their condolences, with Dunham tweeting, "Kate Spade was more than a designer. She had a quirky visual language that captivated Bat Mitzvah girls and artists alike. She was also a staple of NYC who spread good will."
Behrs spoke about what Spade had meant to her personally, remembering the first Kate Spade bag she had gotten in high school. "It was my most prized possession," she wrote. "My current wallet, covered in bees, makes me smile every time I see it- it's by Kate Spade. My heart is just broken for her family and loved ones."
Mindy Kaling posted, "I have worn her clothes many, many times. They were colorful, bold, cheerful, and encouraged women to find the twinkly person inside them. You couldn't walk into her boutiques and not smile. Rest In Peace, Kate."
Reese Witherspoon also wrote, "My heart and prayers go out to Kate Spade and her family. What a wonderful, talented woman who will be dearly missed."
Singer Josh Groban sent "love to her family" and said that "depression does not discriminate and comes without warning," while tweeting the phone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Lucy Hale added that mental illness "can happen to anyone with any circumstances. I hope she has found peace."
Chelsea Clinton tweeted about when her "grandmother gave me my first Kate Spade bag when I was in college. I still have it. Holding Kate's family, friends and loved ones in my heart." Ivanka Trump wrote the designer's "tragic passing is a painful reminder that we never truly know another's pain or the burden they carry."
Fellow designer Kenneth Cole praised Spade's career, tweeting (but later deleting), "'I believed that I could, so I did.' She alone didn't change the handbag world but she was an inspiring accessory."
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This article was originally published on Variety with the title "Lena Dunham, Ivanka Trump, Other Celebrities React to Kate Spade's Sudden Death".


Our team will consist of the two of us, the egg donor, the surrogate, the surrogate's family, the medical team, the legal team, the surrogacy match coordinator, and of course, all of you: friends, family, co-workers, and fellow travelers of this earth whom we have never met.
We had coffee with the videographers today. They too will play a big role in helping us craft, document, and share our process. It seems so exposing and scary to think about sharing this process in such a public forum, and yet, it feels so very important. It helps me to think about these posts as letters to our unborn kiddo. I want them to know how beautiful and special their birth story is, and how the kindness and care of our village made it possible for them to come into this world.


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A 'Better Call Saul' Star Has Claimed, 'There Will Be Six Seasons'
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The company line during the last year on how many seasons Better Call Saul will run has always been something along the lines of, "We're closer to the end than we are the beginning." That actually makes a great deal of sense, as Jimmy McGill more or less made the full transformation into Saul Goodman in the season four finale. With more Breaking Bad characters intersecting with the Saul timeline, there's not a lot of runway left for the series before it catches up to Gene in Omaha.
In fact, after a season five that is expected to center on Jimmy and Kim's relationship after the Saul transformation, there may only be one season left, according to Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul star Giancarlo Esposito, who plays Gus Fring on both series. Here's what he had to say to Collider (italics added for emphasis):
"There is a new character coming in, Lalo Salamanca, obviously someone I'm going to have to deal with in my travels throughout the show. There will be six seasons, seems like that's the way, the comfortable way to end this show. I am hoping for more of a collaboration in some way as an artist with Bob Odenkirk; I know as my star grows as Gus Fring [I'll] be able to handle some of the edginess of the show more and more. And as Gene goes and comes to Saul Goodman, and becomes this nefarious lawyer, then I'll have more interaction with him as well. So I'm excited about that."
Obviously, that's not a confirmation, but it also makes logical sense, seeing as how Breaking Bad unofficially ran for six seasons (technically only five seasons, but the latter half was split into two eight-episode chunks and aired a year apart) and Vince Gilligan, if anything, loves symmetry. As sad as it may be to say goodbye to the Breaking Bad universe, there won't even be a season five until 2020, while season six may not arrive until 2022 (and if it's split into two, that could take us to 2023), and we still have that Breaking Bad movie coming, so there will be no shortage of Breaking Bad universe material to enjoy in the near future.
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I believe everyone has a friend who would give you the worst possible advice each and every time. Vishnu is one such friend of mine whose advice always got me in trouble during our school days. I can very well blame his advice for my singlehood during those teen years. After school, he went to Vellore for his B-tech while I stayed at Delhi only. We did not get to meet each other at all in the following ten years or so. It was in December Vishnu called me and said that he is coming back to Delhi for a week and asked me to meet him. Since we both were earning professionals now, we decided to meet somewhere nice and fancy. I knew one such place, Brioche Dorée, a French cafe bakery in CP.
'They are. Do you know Brioche is actually the name of French bread? Even their name speaks of their authenticity.'- I replied and we both laughed about it.
Finally, we fixed a Saturday for a bromance at Brioche Dorée. After cutting the call, till Saturday came, all I did was reminisce about those lost days and the blurred memories. The mechanical routine of my life didn't bother me for a while.
On Saturday, I reached half an early than we had planned as this was a French pastry shop near me. I ordered myself my usual, an Apple Puff pastry and a Masala ice tea. This is a really beautiful French pastry shop. Those who have been here will tell you how well the warm shades of yellow, green, and grey feel to the eyes. As I sipped on my tea I began wondering if the harsh world changed the ways of that carefree moron that Vishnu used to be. He was perhaps the only one I was able share all my anxieties with and clearly express myself.
At 2.30 pm, Vishnu was finally there wearing a maroon colored khaadi kurta, a pair of black jeans, and a pair of Relaxo chappals. I stood up and went for a casual handshake but the moron pulled me towards and gave me a hearty hug. It comforted me to the degrees I had not experienced in a long while.
"Dude, I like the music here, it's mellow. I see you began eating without me. Is the food here that good to resist?" He said as he sat on his chair.
'It's my favorite bakery cafe in CP. I spend quite some time here.' I replied as he began turning the pages of the menu. He ordered himself a Vanilla tea and a blueberry muffin. The service is always quick and your order served in minutes. It was only after he finished munching on his muffin he began to talk. After a series a series of exchanges I got to know that he was still unmarried at the age of 32, and his Mum makes a case out of it every time he visits Delhi. I told him that I did not marry anyone as well. A little carried away by my emotions, and I don't know why, I told him that I feel suicidal at times, and regretted it ASAP.
'I just want to tell someone. Get it off my head. Well, whatever...' I babbled and began to get up from my chair, anxious and ready to leave.
I sat back down, and we spent hours chattering about my anxieties with job. After that day this French bakery cafe in CP with Vishnu, I am indeed more relaxed. I quit my job and started working as a freelancer. This was perhaps the only time Vishnu gave me a good advice. Vishnu and I met one more time at Brioche Dorée only before he went back to Bangalore.


The solar panels are working and collecting heat very well. My solar control software is controlling three panels, two tanks, three pumps, several solenoid valves, and dumping excess heat to my interseasonal thermal store.
I have not found it easy to do this and have had several teething problems. A thermostat failed and started reading 15°C above the real temperature directing cold water to my hot cylinder — took a week to find the problem. During March the system started to over run after dark slightly cooling the bottom of my hot cylinder. The current problem is how to collect heat efficiently into my thermal store once the hot cylinder has reached 60°C – generally this happens before lunch in April 2010. I am starting to get concerned about the whole thing overheating and me not being able to dump heat fast enough when we get into summer.
Passive solar heat gain has worked well during the winter and in April every year I started to shade the front windows by closing or partially closing the roller shutters. This was only necessary from 10am to 1.00 pm initially and was most important for the landing window which is large compared to the area of the landing.
In late 2015 we installed solar pv on the roof offering good returns on our investment and reducing our electricity bills. I am now paid more than I am charged through my bills for the electricity that I generate.


The steampunk series/collection is finally growing. After a break to concentrate on a wide variety of other jewellery and embroidery stock for the differing markets and clients it was possible to put a some time aside to create another small grouping of streamlined steampunk themed pendants. These are 30 mm by 40 mm (not including the bail)... and are metal with clear resin.This has ensured that they are lighter than the original group which have quite weighty domed glass The layered watch parts give a definite depth and 3 dimensional effect which is not shown by the photograph... and the resin is so clear that it's almost invisible. So the collection now includes 5/6 embellished pendants (below) and these three streamlines ones. I have some new smaller settings on the way which will add a smaller version to the group .


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Russia to neutralize energy conflicts by uranium
Russia will create guaranteed stock of enriched uranium that will be under control of some international organization, Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom) Director Sergey Kirienko announced in Vienna during the IAEA General Conference.
The stock of uranium worth $300 million will be set up for money of Russia and kept in the International Center for Uranium Enrichment in Angarsk. By decision of IAEA, the enriched uranium will be provided to the states, to which the fuel has been denied by suppliers. In response to initiative of IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei, Kirienko said, Russia is ready to host an International Bank of Nuclear Material and do it for its own account. The bank of fuel will store low-enriched uranium that will suffice to make fuel rod arrays for two loadings of a nuclear plant's reactor.
Today's cost of loading is roughly $150 million. The reserved uranium that hasn't been transformed into the fuel rod arrays would cost roughly $300 million to Russia. "We proceed from the fact that nuclear material from the guaranteed stock will be provided by decision of IAEA when both enricher and market have rejected to supply uranium for political reasons to a state that develops civil atomic power engineering and meets nonproliferation commitments," Kirienko explained.
Russia's bank will be an affiliate of the IAEA bank of nuclear fuel and enable to master in practice "new procedures of the guaranteed supplies concept. It will be the first step en route to creating global infrastructure of atomic power engineering of the future," Kirienko concluded. (kommersant.com)
Bulgaria's population shrinks
Bulgaria's gov't mulls EUR 6.1 bln investment in infrastruct...
About 41% of the Romanians vaccinated against COVID


Because of this restriction, the Mac Mini is not suitable for users looking for a small form factor (SFF) PC to install Linux on. Though it may seem counterintuitive to purchase a Mac to not run OS X, Apple's diminutive SFF PCs remain popular options with Linux users since they were introduced in 2005. Since that time, other manufacturers have introduced compelling miniature PCs with robust support for Windows and Linux, with easier access to internals for component upgrades.
The Hades Canyon series includes a front-facing HDMI port for connecting a VR headset.
Intel's Next Unit of Computing (NUC) series, introduced in 2013, is perhaps the second most well-known brand of SFF PCs. Intel sells NUC systems as barebones kits, requiring the user to add their own memory and drive. Of these, the Kaby Lake-G, also known as "Hades Canyon" series are by far the most powerful, as they fuse Intel's 8th generation Core CPUs with a custom AMD Radeon RX Vega M GPU on chip, providing a significant graphics performance benefit over the Intel UHD Graphics 630 found in the Mac Mini. The Hades Canyon NUCs have a wealth of ports, including two HDMI 2.0 and two ThunderBolt 3 USB-C ports, as well as five USB 3.0 Type-A, one USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C, and one USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A ports, and two Gigabit Ethernet ports.
The NUC8i7HNK offers the same ports, but has a modestly less powerful CPU and GPU, smaller cache, and the CPU is locked on this model, preventing overclocking. The average $100 cost savings on this model is not worth the performance penalty. The case is not as visually appealing as the Mac Mini, but the LED Skull on the case is software-controlled and can be easily disabled, making it invisible. The case is slightly more retangular than the Mac Mini, making it modestly longer, though not as deep at 8.7 x 5.5 x 1.5″ (221.0 x 139.7 x 38.1 mm).
The Coffee Lake series of NUCs share the same case style. All three models include additional headroom to store a 2.5″ HDD or SSD, as pictured, though the Core i5 and i3 models have a shorter variant which use only an M.2 SSD.
For those who do not need a discrete GPU, the Coffee Lake series NUCs are affordable alternatives. That said, the Iris Plus Graphics 655 featured in the Coffee Lake NUCs have 48 execution and 384 shading units, double that of the CPUs used in the 2018 Mac Mini. Iris Plus also features 128 MB eDRAM, while the UHD Graphics 630 has none. The Coffee Lake NUCs have four USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A ports, and one ThunderBolt 3 USB-C port, as well as one HDMI 2.0, and one Gigabit Ethernet port each. The Coffee Lake series can be equipped with up to 64 GB RAM.
The high-end NUC8i7BEH has a quad-core i7-8559U, rated for 2.7 GHz base/4.5 GHz turbo, and space for one 2.5″ and one M.2 drive, and retails for $469.
The mid-range NUC8i5BEH has a quad-core i5-8259U, rated for 2.3 GHz base 3.8 GHz turbo, and space for one 2.5″ and one M.2 drive. While the NUC8i5BEK has only space for one M.2 drive. Both retail for $360.
The low-end NUC8i3BEH has a dual-core i3-8109U, rated for 3.0 GHz base/3.6 GHz turbo, and space for one 2.5″ and one M.2 drive. While the NUC8i3BEK has only space for one M.2 drive. Both retail for $275.
The Coffee Lake NUCs are smaller than the Mac Mini, measuring in at 4.6 x 4.4 x 2.0″ (116.8 x 111.8 x 50.8 mm), with models lacking space for a 2.5″ drive decrease height to 1.4″ (35.6 mm).
Like Intel's Coffee Lake NUCs, the Gigabyte Brix series of SFF PCs include space for a 2.5″ HDD or SSD, as pictured, though shorter variants which use only M.2 SSDs are also available.
Popular motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte also offers a variety of configurations in their Brix lineup of SFF PCs, from the high-end Intel Core i7 to low-power Celeron offerings.
For the current generation of Brix systems, the GB-BRI7H-8550 is powered by a quad-core i7-8550U, rated for 1.8 GHz base/4.0 GHz turbo, space for one 2.5″ and one M.2 drive, and retails for $499. It measures in at 4.7 x 4.43 x 1.84″ (119.4 x 112.6 x 46.8 mm) with the GB-BRi7-8550 removing space for the 2.5″ drive, decreasing height to 1.35″ (34.4 mm).


At an open house at NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories in Tokyo on May 26, 2015, a staffer zooms in on high-definition video running the broadcaster's Hybridcast broadband service.
At an open house event on Tuesday, the company's Science & Technology Research Laboratories demonstrated an 8K satellite link with a camera on Tokyo Bay, and showed how viewers can make the most of 8K, a format it has been pioneering for years.
At 7,680 pixels by 4,320 pixels, the resolution of 8K, which NHK also calls Super Hi-Vision, is 16 times that of standard HD and four times that of 4K TVs. Uncompressed Super Hi-Vision signals can run about 24 gigabits per second (Gbps) or even 48 Gbps at 120 frames per second. It also has a 22.2 multichannel sound system.
NHK will conduct trial 8K broadcasts for the Olympics next year ahead of regular public programming in 2018. When Tokyo hosts the Games in 2020, however, viewers may be able to create their own custom broadcasts with a service called Hybridcast.
Launched in September 2013, the broadband service lets viewers see interactive graphics and information linked to a program they're watching, such as the map of a golf course and leader boards below live shots from a golf tournament. In a demo, NHK staffers showed the latest Hybridcast improvements for 8K in which viewers can create their preferred cuts of a given broadcast.
Viewers using HTML5 tablets linked to the Hybridcast service can record brief segments of 8K video at will and even choose their preferred angle when multiple cameras have been used. Four camera angles taken from a Japanese pop band concert were displayed on the tablet and, once selected, the preferred angle was seen on a large-screen TV nearby.
"The viewer is almost acting like a switcher in a TV studio," an NHK staffer said, adding the company hopes to begin test offerings of the service in 2018.
The broadcaster also demonstrated a Hybridcast video player that works with the MPEG-DASH streaming protocol. The player was linked to a Hybridcast TV, as well as browsers on some nearby mobile devices, such as tablets running Chrome and Explorer and a laptop running Safari, so that they all played the same content simultaneously. The technology is able to monitor the reception status of linked devices.
Another improvement to Hybridcast involves synchronizing real-time Internet data sent from sports events with the broadcast signal itself. While the data, such as real-time player stats, are usually quicker than the TV signal, they can be synchronized with it by aligning broadcast reference clocks with Coordinated Universal Time. That way, viewers see the stats as the action happens.
The NHK lab also tried to wow visitors with eye-popping 8K video of parrots and chameleons projected on a 450-inch movie theater screen. The 8K projector was developed by NHK and JVC and can take full-spec 8K signals at 144 Gbps through a single optical cable.
For smaller displays, however, the difference between 4K and 8K resolution becomes difficult to see, raising the question of whether there will ever be a 16K resolution standard.
"We've studied the human eye and find that it cannot distinguish resolution, in terms of 2D television, beyond 8K," said Kenichi Murayama, a senior manager at the lab. "So NHK isn't talking about going another step beyond 8K."


It's Christmas Eve here in the U.S. and tonight there will be thousands of children keeping a close eye on the skies for a jolly man and his flying reindeer. Now while there are some engineers out there who have their doubts about the physics of 'ol St. Nick, it is a well documented fact that some of those twinkling lights aren't meteors or levitating caribou, but satellites that help SkyTruth know who's being naughty or nice.
Unfortunately, our naughty list is usually longer than the nice list as we spot spills from oil tankers and gold mines, and watch landscapes being transformed by mining and fracking. So we need your help to keep on top of all the environmental changes happening place around the world. Will you consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our work in 2015?
Gas flares from oil wells in North Dakota's Bakken Shale.
This map displays impoundments related to shale gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in Pennsylvania, as identified by SkyTruth staff and volunteers on USDA aerial survey photography from 2005, 2008, 2010 and 2013.
1. Spills, Spills, and Potential Spills: Satellites offer a unique vantage point for monitoring spills and pollution, so we continue to report on all of the spills and incidents that come to our attention. We've been busy throughout 2014 tracking disasters such as a massive sludge spill from a gold mine in Canada, oil tankers and oil-laden cargo ships wandering aimlessly around the ocean, and right now, a catastrophic spill in the world's largest mangrove forest (see above).
It looks like there will be some big decisions in 2015 on Arctic oil drilling and the Keystone XL pipeline, but we are also working to get ahead of pollution and environmental damage. With your help we can promote responsible fishing and protect special places from mining, drilling and spilling before it's too late. Will you help us?
Updated Dec 16, 2014 at 6:00 PM with new information on the location of the Southern Star 7, as well as new and updated satellite images.
Posted Dec. 15, 2014 at 11:00 PM: On the morning of Dec. 9, 2014, a tanker carrying heavy furnace oil to a powerplant in Bangladesh was struck in the fog by a cargo vessel and partially sank, releasing thousands of gallons of oil into the Sundarbans, the world's largest continuous mangrove forest and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This tidal river delta, already threatened by climate change, is home to incredible biodiversity including rare Irrawaddy and Ganges dolphins and what is believed to be one of the largest populations of the very endangered Bengal Tiger.
Details, including the exact location* of the incident, remain vague, even though nearly a week has passed since the accident. The Times of India reports that while the accident occurred in a commonly travelled shipping lane, the collision occurred within one of the Sundarban's three dolphin reserves.
*SkyTruth has now received the coordinates of the incident from representatives on the ground. See below.
The "Southern Star 7" was carrying somewhere between 66,000 and 92,000 gallons (250,000-350,000) of furnace oil, but how much was actually spilled into the river remains unknown.
Residents have been seen collecting the oil by hand and with buckets to sell for a small reward to the state run Padma Oil company, while fishermen attempt to use their nets to contain the spill. Regional officials just announced they are hiring 100 boats and 200 workers to expand the clean-up effort. These tedious and messy clean up methods are a stark reminder that even after the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the Exxon Valdez spill off Alaska in 1989, the Ixtoc 1 spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 1979, and even the Santa Barbara Oil Spill off California all the way back in 1969, we haven't really made any major improvements in how we clean up spilled oil.
SkyTruth has been monitoring satellite images of Sundarbans National Park, and we believe we can see evidence of the oil on imagery from the European Space Agency's new radar satellite: Sentinel 1 – A.
According to sources on the ground, the Southern Star 7 sank into the river at 22°21'14.33″ N, 89°40'17.66″ E, about four kilometers from the confluence with the Passhur River. On December 12th it was lifted from the river floor and moved up to the riverbank to 22°22'1.44″ N, 89°38'30.91″ E.Because this region is a tidal river delta, water sloshes in and out of the mangrove forest twice a day. There are reports that the oil is continuing to spread up and down the river, and throughout the canals and channels that crisscross the region. On radar satellite imagery, we have observed what appears to be ropy strands of oil along 30 miles of the Passur River.
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Агата Григорьевна Будрина (11 мая 1927 года — 24 августа 1999 года) — российский искусствовед, краевед и музейный работник, заслуженный работник культуры Российской Федерации, член Союза художников Российской Федерации.

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Агата Григорьевна Будрина родилась в Кунгуре 11 мая 1927 года, окончила Пермский педагогический институт и Институт живописи, скульптуры и архитектуры им. И. Е. Репина в Ленинграде.

В 1956—1993 годах она работала в Пермской государственной художественной галерее. Была начальником отделом русского искусства, затем — заместителем директора по научной работе.

Агата Григорьевна обнаружила в Кудымкаре архив коми-пермяцкого художника-авангардиста П. И. Субботина-Пермяка. В 1981 году по её инициативе в Кудымкаре был открыт дом-музей художника, а в Перми организованы юбилейная выставка его работ и вечер памяти.

Также Агата Григорьевна обнаружила архив художника В. А. Оболенского, принимала участие в создании художественной галереи в Чайковском, оказывала методическую помощь в создании художественного отдела в Соликамском краеведческом музее.

Умерла в Перми 24 августа 1999 года.

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Although the term itself is pretty scary, the idea is actually really simple. The levelized cost of energy (also known as the levelized cost of electricity or LCOE, because the energy industry loves to make life complicated) is an estimated measure of how the cost of an energy generation system compares against what it will provide. To you and me, it's a mathsy way of answering the question – what's the overall cost of this system? It works for any energy generation installation, from biomass boilers to nuclear plants.
And for the record, I'm as upset as you are that we're spelling levelized with a Z and not an S, but my research is very insistent that this is the standard spelling. Just read the rest of the article in an American accent and pretend nothing is amiss.
How is the levelized cost of electricity worked out?
Don't panic, but I'm about to show you an equation. DON'T PANIC.
I feel like you're panicking.
Look, forget the end bit with all the numbers and letters and whatnot. The important part is that the LCOE is just the lifetime cost of the system divided by the energy produced over its lifespan.
Don't worry, we're going to go through it step by step. The easiest way to show you how to do this is with an example – I'm going to use the example of a 4kW monocrystalline solar pv system.
Investment: How much the energy system costs you to buy as a yearly average. For a lot of systems this will be the cost of the initial installation divided by the life expectancy. If you're buying in your energy from somewhere else (like the grid) then the investment will be you average yearly bill.
For our solar example the installation cost would be about £7000 + £0 buy-in costs. Divide that by the lifespan of the panel (on average about 25 years) and we get an It value of £280.
Operations and maintenance: Exactly what it sounds like – the yearly cost of maintaining the system. Boilers need to be checked once a year, biomass boilers need regular servicing, wind turbines need expert monitoring, etc etc.
Our solar panels will need regular cleaning – let's budget £75 a year for that.
Fuel expenditure: The yearly cost of your fuel. Some technologies like wind and solar won't have any fuel costs, but it's a notable factor for wood burners and biomass boiler owners.
Our solar panel fuel costs are £0! Our favourite price.
That our lifetime costs sorted – an average of £355 per year for 25 years.
Thankfully this one is much easier to figure out – it's just the estimated annual output of your system multiplied by the estimated number of years it will run for.
Our solar panel is one of the best, so we're looking at an annual output of around 3,400kWh. Multiplied by the 25 year lifespan we've given the system, our electrical energy produced over a lifetime is 85,000kWh. Not bad for a bit of sunshine.
You've got those two numbers? Great, just divide them.
8,875 ÷ 85,000 = 0.1044. That's expressed as a fraction of a pound, so our levelised cost of energy for our solar system is 10.44p/ kWh. For our solar panel though we also need to take the Feed-In Tariff into account. At the moment this is set at 4.01p/kWh (this is set to drop slightly in the coming months and probably even more after that, but it will do for our estimates) – that means that our final levelised cost of energy is 6.43kWh. For comparison, the current average cost of electricity in the UK at the time of writing is between 12.3p- 13.2p.
What is the levelized cost of electricity used for?
The levelised cost of energy is generally used by big companies as a means of cost assessment – is a certain energy system worth investing in. It can be pretty handy for everyone though – our solar panel example demonstrates how it can be used in a domestic context.
What are the problems with the levelized cost of electricity?
The biggest problem with LCOE is that nearly everything is based on assumptions. For the solar panel example above, we assume that the system will last as long as it's designed to without breaking, that the Feed-In Tariff won't drop too dramatically, that the inverter won't need replacing, that maintenance costs won't go above what we budgeted, etc etc etc. None of these are exact, and even small changes can throw off the equation quite significantly.
The other problem is that it doesn't take into account the time effect of supply and demand. Imagine you're enjoying a sunny day in Spain in August – the sun is shining and you've got your aircon ramped up, but that same hot sun is also powering your electricity. Although demand for electricity is high, the supply is also high because of the correlation. This kind of time effect is not taken into consideration for levelized cost of electricity, so high cost renewables like wind and solar can have inaccurate LCOE.
The main thing to take away from this article is that the levelized cost of electricity is a useful tool to ascertain whether investing in a certain energy system is financially viable. However the figure you arrive at should be taken with a pinch of salt, especially given the rapidly changing face of the energy industry.


An ancient Dagoroth legend tells of a murderous android called the Old Corsair. An ancient relic from before the Extermination Wars, the Old Corsair is a highly independent combat automaton, hired as a privateer to raid settlements and shipping lanes in some long forgotten war. The Old Corsair continues his mission, a strange, timeless fixture of deep space. Fueled by an insatiable bloodlust, and on Hallow's Eve, in the dead of autumn, he still rides, slaughtering, pillaging, and burning as he has since ages past.
A video showing the arrival of the Old Corsair, carrying out his unending mission of destruction.
The arrival of the Old Corsair is a seasonal occurrence on worlds of Outer Colony. He will only come in the dead of autumn, on Hallow's Eve.
The Old Corsair is an ancient, pirate robot of uncertain make and origins. Legends say that it's a product of primordial Dagoroth society, from before the Extermination Wars.
The Old Corsair travels the galaxy in his ship, Vengeance One, senselessly destroying settlements on the galaxy's edge.
The Old Corsair can't be bargained or reasoned with. He can't be bought be off, and he won't stop until his lust for blood is sated.
Being a robot, the Old Corsair's body is comprised of advanced, amorphous metals and shape memory alloys that are extremely durable. Destroying him is an immensely difficult task.
Bullets. A huge volume of bullets. This is the most straightforward way I've found to stop him, but he will wade into your ranks and spill a great deal of blood before he's brought down. I recommend using machine gunners that can put large volumes of rounds on target, as they'll eventually wear the Old Corsair down.
One fire team, in my experience, will not be enough, unless someone lands an extremely lucky shot. I've fought him a few dozen times in tests, and while I have managed to kill him, the combat logs usually reveal several barrages of .31 rifle rounds directly to its head, eventually disintegrating its outer materials and crippling its processing module (one of its head's body part components), which it needs to live.
Once I managed to destroy both of his legs, leaving him unable to walk. This is almost worse than having him kill his victims and leave, because he just became a permanent fixture on the ground. He doesn't need to eat or sleep, so he just stayed in one spot, periodically drawing the ire of passersby, who would decide to attack him and promptly die.
Even though the Old Corsair is extremely disruptive and hard to stop, I think this is one of the most fun events I've built so far. Trying to stop him with a wall of bodies feels a bit like the "Defend the Temple" co-op scenario in StarCraft 64, at least to me. That kind of challenge to stop a seemingly unstoppable adversary is something I really enjoy.