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David A. Clarke Jr.
stated on March 15, 2020 in a tweet:
Says coronavirus is just "the damn flu."
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2017 (File photo)
By Eric Litke March 19, 2020
Former Sheriff David Clarke rants coronavirus is just "the damn flu" (it's not)
If Your Time is short
In a barrage of tweets slamming the coronavirus response, Clarke said he was tired of erring on the side of caution since this is just "the damn flu."
That tweet was among several removed by Twitter, a platform Clarke now says he's leaving.
Coronavirus and the flu do have similarities in spread and symptoms, but there are huge differences in the death rate and ability to treat coronavirus.
See the sources for this fact-check
David A. Clarke, the outspoken former sheriff of Milwaukee County, says he is leaving Twitter. If that's true, he sure went out with a bang.
Clarke put the nation's coronavirus response on blast with a barrage of tweets on March 15, 2020, some of which were later removed by Twitter. Among them:
He urged people to "go out into the streets" and demand that schools reopen and government stop exerting such "control over our lives."
He said the coronavirus is "an orchestrated attempt to destroy capitalism."
He insisted — without any evidence — that George Soros, a prominent backer of liberal causes, is "somewhere involved in this."
There's plenty of potential Pants on Fire ratings to be had from the Stetson-wearing controversy-magnet, but we're going to focus on a fourth, since-deleted tweet.
Here's the full text (minus a few choice words):
"I am tired of all this, 'We have to err on the side of caution' (expletive). We have to get back to reasonableness dammit. It's the damn flu. Stop being afraid and start being sensible. Wash your (expletive) hands! Stop buying toilet paper. Do you (expletive) hear me????"
Clarke stepped down as sheriff in 2017 after 15 years as the county's top cop, saying he was leaving to take a high-ranking post in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security — a job that never materialized. In the time since, Clarke has also lost posts at a pro-President Trump super PAC and as a regular contributor on Fox News.
Now he's using his free time to make the case everyone is being unreasonable because this is just "the damn flu."
How they're the same
Coronavirus and the flu are both viruses, and experts say they have some shared characteristics:
Risk factors — The groups of people at highest risk are similar, including the elderly.
Spread — Both diseases spread from person to person through respiratory droplets in coughs and sneezes (though it's possible coronavirus lingers in the air longer after the sick person has left).
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Prevention — The expert advice is similar: wash your hands, don't touch your face, stay away from people who are sick and stay home if you are sick.
Symptoms — Both cause fever, cough, body aches and fatigue, though coronavirus is more likely to cause shortness of breath.
Treatment — Neither virus is treatable with antibiotics (those only work on bacterial infections).
How they're different
The diseases have some critical differences, most importantly the death rate and lack of a vaccine.
Based on the current numbers, someone with COVID-19 — the disease caused by coronavirus — is 23 to 68 times more likely to die than someone who contracts the flu, based on the latest data from the World Health Organization, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Vaccine — A flu vaccine is available and effective to prevent the flu, or at least reduce its severity. A coronavirus vaccine is not yet available, and likely won't be for at least a year.
Treatment — There are antiviral medications that address flu symptoms and can even shorten the duration of the illness, but such medications are still being tested for coronavirus.
Death rate — The fatality rate for this year's flu is estimated by the CDC at between 0.05% and 0.1% in the United States. The coronavirus fatality rate was estimated at 2.3% of those infected by China's CDC and 3.4% by the World Health Organization (though many expect that to fall to the 1-2% range once we know more about how many people have been infected).
Infections — Coronavirus has, so far, infected far fewer people. There were about 3,500 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the U.S. when Clarke tweeted, compared to an estimated 36 million to 51 million flu illnesses this season.
Knowledge and research — Scientists know much more about the flu, such as details on how it is transmitted, the range of symptoms and treatment. Such details on coronavirus remain a point of debate.
All this to say, the CDC and other health officials have made it clear coronavirus presents a litany of risks the standard flu does not. The overwhelmed health care systems in first China, then Italy reinforced the severity of the disease and the breadth of its potential impact here.
And the reaction of government alone — closing schools, bars, restaurants and more — makes it clear there is a stark difference between the two.
Ranting against those who would "err on the side of caution," Clarke claimed coronavirus is just the "damn flu."
There is indeed overlap in some basic areas — what symptoms it causes, how it is spread, who is most at risk, etc. But those pale in light of the stark differences.
There is no vaccine for coronavirus. Treatment approaches are not as well established. And most critically, someone who contracts COVID-19 is at least 20 times more likely to die of the disease than someone with the flu, based on the best available data.
The overall theme from Clarke's tweetstorm was that the coronavirus is no big deal — that the disease is just the same old flu virus with a heaping spoonful of government overreach.
That flies in the face of lots of established science, as well as what nations like China and Italy have already experienced.
We rate Clarke's claim Pants on Fire.
New York Magazine, Thank God David A. Clarke Isn't Running a County Jail Anymore, March 17, 2020
World Health Organization, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Situation Report – 57, March 17, 2020
PolitiFact National, Are you more likely to die from the flu than coronavirus? It's complicated, March 10, 2020
Wall Street Journal, Coronavirus vs. Flu: Which Virus Is Deadlier?, March 10, 2020
Johns Hopkins Medicine, Coronavirus Disease 2019 vs. the Flu, accessed March 17, 2020
CNN, Former CDC director: Covid-19 is different from flu and we must respond differently, March 14, 2020
Washington Times, Sheriff David Clarke cries censorship as Twitter says coronavirus tweets violated platform policy, March 17, 2020
New York Times, Trial of Coronavirus Vaccine Made by Moderna Begins in Seattle, March 16, 2020
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, How COVID-19 Spreads, accessed March 9, 2020
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, How Flu Spreads, accessed March 9, 2020
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019-2020 U.S. Flu Season: Preliminary Burden Estimates, accessed March 9, 2020
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Many coaches are of the opinion that the tennis serve is the hardest shot in tennis to master. Think about it. Your opponent knows precisely where you are going to hit the ball in terms of court area, and they are able to set themselves and be ready to return it. The aspect that makes it even harder is that the serve places all the pressure on the player with the ball in their hand, and giving up a second serve is handing a free point to your opponent.
With that in mind, I am going to share with you the best ways to improve your second serve, from the mental side to the mechanics of the shot itself, so you can turn the hardest shot in tennis into a strength of your game.
The first step is to put the thoughts of your first serve that missed its target out of your head. For example, when you hit a shot during a fierce rally that is too shallow, you don't stop and consider it and let it affect your mental processes, you just get on with trying to win the point. The second serve should be no different. I have seen many players giving themselves too much stress on their second serve. Having too much stress causes tension and it leads to the technique being affected. You need to reset, trust your training and put into action the second serve that you have practised.
Remember, the second serve isn't your last attempt to get into the point, it's your first chance to put your opponent back on their heels with a well-placed kick serve or a wicked top spinning shot that spins out of their reach!
These are the basics that are often overlooked by recreational players and even competitive ones. Notice how the best players on the tour have a routine that they go through regardless of whether the serve is the first or second, in the first set or the third; from Nadal's fidget at the baseline to Sharapova's stare and low ball bounce. Figure out a routine that works for you and stick to it religiously, it will improve your process and consistency in the shot that needs it most.
The next thing to get right is the ball toss. The second serve ball toss needs to be slightly different from the power game of the first serve. To achieve this, the ball needs to be released so that at it's apex (the highest point) it is slightly to the left of where it would be normally (for right handers, the opposite is true for left handers). The reason for this is simple. To compensate for the less speed that second serves have, players should impart more topspin or kick on their delivery to keep their opponents back on their heels. This means they will not be able to stand closer to the service line and throttle your second serve to a corner of the court that you are not able to cover from the serve area, by giving you more time to complete your service action and set yourself in readiness for the return no matter where it arrives.
The second focus point needs to be the racquet head speed. The fact is that second serves, even on the professional tour, are slower than first serves. The common myth is that this is because players do not swing their racquet as hard at the ball. This is false. The speed slows down because the focus is more on placement and technique rather than brute power. You should hit the ball just as fast as you do your first serve, and move your arm and whole body through the full range of the shot. The point of difference is the angle, kick and top spin you place on the ball. An easy way to measure the difference is to think of a first serve as hitting the full face of the ball as hard as you can to beat your opponent for pace, and the second as hitting it at an angle to place it exactly where you want to beat them with angle or spin.
Which leads to the final thing to keep in mind with a second serve: placement. Many players hit a second serve only hoping it will go in and forget about placing it or hitting it hard. This is a mistake, as good opponents will quickly realise this and take advantage by dictating the point to you. Having a consistent second serve means you can place it to your opponents weaker side, or make them play shots that they are not comfortable with.
A serve is the basis of being a great player, but a second serve is just as important as the first, so refining the mental side, the ball toss, the racquet speed and the placement are all ways in which to improve your second serve and your tennis!
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Effects of a proposed challenge on effort sense and cardiorespiratory responses during exercise
Edmund O. Acevedo, David A. Dzewaltowski, Karla A. Kubitz, Robert R. Kraemer
Purpose: Highly trained endurance athletes train and race at relatively high intensities and are often confronted with challenges throughout a running event. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the anticipation of a proposed challenge on effort sense, heart rate (HR), ventilation ([dotV(E)), and ventilatory equivalent V(E)/VO2), a measure of ventilatory efficiency. Methods: Highly trained endurance athletes (VO(2max) = 68.46 ± 1.47 mL · kg-1 · min-1) ran two sessions at approximately 75% of VO(2max) for 35 min in a control condition and a proposed challenge condition. During the control condition, the subjects ran on a treadmill while simultaneously viewing a video depicting a runner exercising at 75% of VO(2max) and were told the run would continue at a speed that elicited 75% of VO(2max). During the proposed challenge condition, subjects completed the same exercise protocol but viewed a video of a struggling runner and were told that the treadmill speed would be increased to 'an extremely difficult' 95% of VO(2max) matching the intensity of the runner on the video. However, after data assessment at 17 min, subjects were told that the treadmill was malfunctioning and the treadmill speed could not be altered. The same intensity was maintained in both conditions. RPE, HR, V(E), and V(E)/VO2 were assessed during the treadmill runs at 10, 17, 25, and 35 min. Results: The effects of the manipulation were represented by a significant increase in state anxiety immediately following the video proposing the 95% challenge. RPE, HR, and V(E) increased similarly under both conditions, while V(E)/VO2 did not change. Conclusion: These findings suggest that for highly trained endurance athletes, anticipation of proposed challenge during running does not influence cardiorespiratory responses; thus these athletes demonstrate a physiologically toughened' response.
Medicine and science in sports and exercise
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PROPOSED CHALLENGE
PSYCHOLOGICAL STATES
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Acevedo, E. O., Dzewaltowski, D. A., Kubitz, K. A., & Kraemer, R. R. (1999). Effects of a proposed challenge on effort sense and cardiorespiratory responses during exercise. Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 31(10), 1460-1465. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005768-199910000-00016
Effects of a proposed challenge on effort sense and cardiorespiratory responses during exercise. / Acevedo, Edmund O.; Dzewaltowski, David A.; Kubitz, Karla A.; Kraemer, Robert R.
In: Medicine and science in sports and exercise, Vol. 31, No. 10, 1999, p. 1460-1465.
Acevedo, EO, Dzewaltowski, DA, Kubitz, KA & Kraemer, RR 1999, 'Effects of a proposed challenge on effort sense and cardiorespiratory responses during exercise', Medicine and science in sports and exercise, vol. 31, no. 10, pp. 1460-1465. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005768-199910000-00016
Acevedo EO, Dzewaltowski DA, Kubitz KA, Kraemer RR. Effects of a proposed challenge on effort sense and cardiorespiratory responses during exercise. Medicine and science in sports and exercise. 1999;31(10):1460-1465. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005768-199910000-00016
Acevedo, Edmund O. ; Dzewaltowski, David A. ; Kubitz, Karla A. ; Kraemer, Robert R. / Effects of a proposed challenge on effort sense and cardiorespiratory responses during exercise. In: Medicine and science in sports and exercise. 1999 ; Vol. 31, No. 10. pp. 1460-1465.
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Q: Is it secure? Owncloud in DMZ and refer to internal fileserver Is this a secure setup?
Having an (linux based) Owncloud Server, with Let's-Encrypt SSL Certificate. This server provides shares to the clients, which are SMB connections to an internal File Server
The connection is as follows:

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*DNS Entry --> points to private, public IPv4 Address.

*This address has an open port in the firewall, forwarding to the IP in DMZ. HTTPs and WWW are allowed

*The SMB connection directs to an internal File server, which is in the internal network segment. only port 445 TCP is allowed

*connections are HTTPs
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*update owncloud

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*awarenes of users and admins (maybe most critical point)

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FOR students of the Supreme Court, a crucial question is how to approach what the late Yale law professor Alexander Bickel called the "counter-majoritarian difficulty." Is the final authority to interpret the Constitution--of a democratic republic--really possessed by nine jurists who are not elected and who serve for life, subject to no meaningful threat of removal no matter what decisions they render? Constitutional-law scholarship is divided roughly in two on this question. Some (mostly, but not exclusively, political scientists and historians) claim that the Court actually quite rarely challenges prevailing political views, but instead "follows the election returns." Others (chiefly law professors) insist on the Court's importance as a restraint on democratic follies, happily embracing a vision of the justices as the proper arbiters of all constitutional questions. We might call the first camp "realists" and the second "idealists"; what they have in common is the denial, each in its own way, of the existence of the counter-majoritarian difficulty. For the realists there isn't really much counter-majoritarianism to worry about; for the idealists, counter-majoritarianism is desirable, so there isn't any difficulty about it.
The idealists see the whole purpose of the Court as the frustration of popular majorities in the name of (take your pick) "fundamental rights," the claims of "insular minorities," or some "higher law" located above the Constitution. The Court's power is not in question for these theorists--only its rectitude. The realists, who cultivate simultaneously a cheerful cynicism and a tenuous grip on reality, see the fervent Court-worship and furious Court-bashing of the idealists as so much guff; the truth for them is that the justices have their ears to the ground and attune themselves to the public mood with remarkable skill. Never mind that bit of unpleasantness in 1857 that hastened the onset of the Civil War, or the past three decades of furor caused by the abortion rulings.
Larry Kramer, who recently became dean of Stanford's law school, has no truck with either of these ways of thinking. In his new book, The People Themselves, he argues that the counter-majoritarian difficulty is very real, and that alone places Kramer in a small minority of today's legal professoriate. Kramer goes even further, holding that we are living under something other than the Constitution our forefathers made and bequeathed to us, and that "something other" is the regime of judicial supremacy. The widespread, virtually unquestioned belief today that the Supreme Court is (in its own words) "supreme in the exposition of the law of the Constitution" has sapped much of the life from our politics, at the same time raising the stakes of such matters as judicial appointments and constitutional amendments to an unhealthy degree. If "the people themselves" were to resume their proper place in our constitutional order--as the true authorities on the meaning of the fundamental law--our country would extricate itself from a great many of its present difficulties.
The reaction to Kramer has been fairly predictable. On behalf of the imperial judiciary, Laurence Tribe of Harvard came out swinging in the New York Times Book Review. Shocked at the treason of a fellow law professor, Tribe accused Kramer of praising "lawless conduct" when he urged the American people to reassert their authority over their robed servants. From the other side, writing with a world-weary, almost audible yawn for those who long ago reconciled themselves to "the political character of constitutional adjudication," Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit allowed in The New Republic that he doesn't have much use for judicial supremacy or for Kramer's "popular constitutionalism," but that in the final analysis all is well, since "'the people' do influence our courts" just about as much as they reasonably should.
Kramer's book deserves better than either of these responses. The People Themselves is an instructive tour through the early history of American constitutionalism, and even if that history does not get all the details right, many of its broad brushstrokes are correct. Americans of the revolutionary and founding generations believed that their commitment to constitutional government--to the rule of law and not of men--meant the same thing as their commitment to popular government, or the ultimate authority of the people over the meaning of the law. (This is no contradiction except to those who believe we have, or can have, superhuman judges while every other agent of the people is irredeemably suspect.) It was in no one's mind in 1787 to protect the people from themselves by handing over the authoritative interpretation of the Constitution to an unaccountable judicial oligarchy. When the practice of judicial review began to emerge, it coexisted with "popular constitutionalism" and was a far cry from judicial supremacy. Instead the prevailing belief was in "departmentalism," the view that the legislative, executive, and judicial branches each had a legitimate claim to interpret the Constitution on the people's behalf and that none was to be simply obeyed by the other two.
In Kramer's view judicial supremacy, as a rival to departmentalism, was the doctrine of American history's losing political elites--High Federalists defeated by the Jeffersonians, the slave power threatened by Lincoln's Republicans--and of an emerging legal elite that viewed law as a "science" and itself as intellectually and morally superior to ordinary folk who lacked legal training. Nonlawyers might have to be tolerated as voters and as jurors, but in constitutional matters they would have to tug their forelocks when addressing their betters.
For all his fruitful provocations, it must be said that Kramer's eagerness to win an argument leads him to overdevelop some points and to underdevelop others. He makes too much of an alleged colonial and revolutionary-era belief in a "customary constitution" that was routinely "enforced" directly by the people, when the history is quite ambivalent on this subject. On the other hand, he underplays or overlooks the opposition to judicial supremacy of John Marshall and his colleague Joseph Story--two giants of jurisprudence whom Kramer could have used to good effect. He also dates the victory of judicial supremacy too recently--with the Warren Court of the 1950s and '60s--when in fact it had vanquished departmentalism in both the law schools and the popular mind about a half-century earlier. The most serious challenge to the Court in the 20th century--FDR's court-packing scheme--was a good idea poorly executed and roundly condemned because it rested on principles long since successfully attacked and chased out of respectable company.
Most important, Kramer's enthusiasm for giving the Constitution a populist spin seems to prevent him from grasping the only coherent form of the departmentalism he claims to embrace. Kramer's departmentalism is that of Jefferson, in which every constitutional question is up for grabs by every branch of government, rather than that of Madison, Marshall, and Story, in which each branch has its peculiar province where its authority cannot be gainsaid by the others. But this was Jefferson in those all-too-frequent moments when he revealed how little he understood the Constitution. In his own better moments, Kramer recognizes that in a republic, others must act for the people because they cannot legislate, enforce, adjudicate, or decree anything whatsoever themselves. As one of Kramer's heroes, James Madison, said in the Federalist, in American republicanism there is a "total exclusion of the people in their collective capacity, from any share" in actually governing themselves. What then can "the people themselves" really do to enforce or interpret the Constitution? In all of Kramer's account there appear to be only three things: They can vote in elections, they can serve on juries, and they can act in mobs. The last is inimical to the idea of law in any but a revolutionary situation, and the second entails the dubious idea of inconsistent "nullifications" of laws by some juries and not by others. That leaves only the first--choosing agents to act for us.
Only at the very end of the book does Kramer seem to act on the recognition that this is what his thesis comes down to--that Congress, with or without presidential leadership, is the one great rival capable of challenging the Court's constitutional pretensions. (But "Congress Itself: Legislative Constitutionalism and Judicial Review" would not have been nearly so catchy a title.) And his prescriptions for action against the Court do not follow through with much gusto on the spirit of the book's early chapters. That is because he has let himself be guided by the populism he wants to see in American history, rather than by the separation of powers the framers built into the Constitution; as a consequence, he runs out of gas when it comes to practical advice that would actually have to rely on those separated powers. Had he followed the framers more closely in these matters, he might have written a book capable of making Laurence Tribe even shriller in denunciation and Richard Posner a little less certain in his certainties.


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The Troubles in Crossmaglen recounts incidents during, and the effects of, the Troubles in Crossmaglen, County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

During the Troubles, at least 58 police officers and 124 soldiers were killed by the Provisional IRA in South Armagh, many in Crossmaglen itself.
Incidents in Crossmaglen during the Troubles resulting in two or more fatalities:

1970
11 August 1970 - Samuel Donaldson (23) and Robert Millar (26), both Protestant members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), were killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army booby trap bomb attached to a car, near Crossmaglen.

1972
16 July 1972 - James Lee (25) and Terence Graham (24), both members of the British Army, were killed in a Provisional IRA land mine attack on their armoured personnel carrier, near Crossmaglen.

18 September 1972 - Edmund Woolsey (32), a Catholic civilian, was killed by a booby trap attached to his car, while two of his friends were injured. The car had been stolen a week earlier, and the RUC informed Woolsey that the car had been found abandoned at Glasdrumman, near Crossmaglen, County Armagh. The bomb exploded as Woolsey went to retrieve his vehicle. While not a member of the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA), Woolsey was known to the OIRA and socialised in similar circles, something which double agent Kenneth Littlejohn knew. At the time, the OIRA suspected that Littlejohn had planted the bomb to kill Woolsey, who he suspected was a member of their organisation.

1973
5 May 1973 - John Gibbons (21), Terence Williams (35) and William Vines (37), all members of the British Army, were killed by a Provisional IRA booby trap bomb while on foot patrol near Crossmaglen.

1974
16 March 1974 - Roy Bedford (22) and Philip James (22), both members of the British Army, were shot and killed by IRA snipers while on foot patrol at Moybane, near Crossmaglen.
13 August 1974 - Dennis Leach (24) and Michael Southern (19), both members of the British Army, were killed in an IRA remote-controlled bomb attack on their hilltop observation post at Drummuckavall, near Crossmaglen.
6 November 1974 - Stephen Windsor (26) and Brian Allen (20), both members of the British Army, were shot and killed by an IRA sniper while on foot patrol in Crossmaglen.

1975
22 November 1975 - James Duncan (19), Peter McDonald (19) and Michael Sampson (20), all members of the British Army, were shot and killed during an IRA gun attack on their observation post in the Drummuckavall Ambush.

1978
17 June 1978 - William Turbitt (42) and Hugh McConnell (32), both Protestant members of the RUC, were shot by the IRA while on mobile patrol near Crossmaglen. McConnell was killed at the scene, but Turbitt was kidnapped. The next day, a Catholic priest (Fr. Hugh Murphy) was kidnapped in retaliation but later released after appeals from Protestant clergy. The body of Turbitt was found on 10 July 1978. In December 1978 three RUC officers were charged with kidnapping the priest and were also charged, along with two other officers, of killing a Catholic shopkeeper in Ahoghill on 19 April 1977.
21 December 1978 - Graham Duggan (22), Kevin Johnson (20) and Glen Ling (18), all members of the British Army, were shot and killed by the IRA from a passing van while on foot patrol at Crossmaglen.

1982
07 August 1982 - Hurten Enwald (Local UDA Gunman who had been identified by a witness but still on the run.) fatally shot an Armed Police Officer who was Off-duty with what appears to be a Sawed-off Remington Model 870. (Found ditched in a garbage container.) The Officer who was found lurking within the Crossmaglen neighbourhoods was found deceased by the Local Royal Ulster Constabulary Officers (RUC) in front of the local public bathroom.
09 August 1982 - Local Royal Ulster Constabulary Officers (RUC) found videos and photos of Nikolas last moments hidden outside an Irish Pub in Crossmaglen.
09 September 1982 - Commander-in-Chief of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)'s Mid-Ulster Brigade, simply known as "Ulster Volunteer" and Volunteer "Blitz" Adrastus were found dead inside the aftermath of a bomb attack by the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) on their Renault Mosquito 3 miles out of Crossmaglen. UVF operations in the area soon ceased shortly afterwards.
11 September 1982 - Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) ceased their activity in the region due to a split in the organization.

11 November 1982 - Joseph Vellerium UUP community council member was car bombed at 7PM at Newry Road. The PIRA (Provisional Irish Republican Army)  Claim responsibility.

1986

22 May 1986 - Andrew French (35), a member of the British Army and David McBride (27), a Protestant and William Smyth (25), a Catholic, members of the RUC, were killed by an IRA remote-controlled bomb hidden in a ditch, which was detonated when their joint foot patrol passed near Crossmaglen.
9 July 1986 - Carl Davies (24) and Mitchell Robert Bertram (20), both members of the British Army, were killed by an IRA remote-controlled bomb hidden in a car and trailer which was detonated when their foot patrol passed near Crossmaglen.

See also
Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade
South Armagh Sniper (1990–1997)

References

Crossmaglen
Crossmaglen

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Q: Disk "Volume Extend" command gives Error with Diskpart [WIndows 10] On trying to extend a volume (N:) on a local disk (basic), the extend option is greyed out eventhough there is free space to its immediate right.
On using diskpart to extend this volume, the console gives the below error (script + error).
How to extend the disk volume in this case?

*** Script + Error  ***
 DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          298 GB    70 GB
  Disk 1    No Media           0 B      0 B

DISKPART> select disk 0

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> list partition

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
  Partition 1    Primary            549 MB  1024 KB
  Partition 2    Primary            117 GB   550 MB
  Partition 3    Primary             30 GB   118 GB
  Partition 0    Extended           147 GB   148 GB
  Partition 4    Logical             77 GB   218 GB

DISKPART> select partition 3

Partition 3 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> extend [size = 69,632] [disk = 0]

The arguments specified for this command are not valid.
For more information on the command type: HELP EXTEND

DISKPART> SELECT VOLUME 3

Volume 3 is the selected volume.

DISKPART>  EXTEND SIZE=69,632

The arguments specified for this command are not valid.
For more information on the command type: HELP EXTEND

A: You need to make the free space unallocated space first.
Create a new NTFS volume on the free space and then delete the newly created partition. Now you will get unallocated space.
Or you can also try shrinking space from an existing partition.
I would like to leave the crappy Microsoft disk management utility, and therefore use EaseUS partition manager or MinTool partition wizard.


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Antaeotricha horizontias is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Amazonas, Brazil.

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are white with the dorsal third fuscous, increasing to half posteriorly, and becoming rather darker. The first discal stigma is oval and fuscous, the second similar but darker and merged in the edge of the dorsal area. There is a small dark fuscous spot on the costa towards the apex, and seven black marginal dots around the apex and termen. The hindwings are pale grey, tinged whitish at the apex.

References

Moths described in 1925
horizontias
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
Moths of South America


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iPhone App Field Guide for National Parks, Just In Time for Scenic Fall Hiking
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October is typically an incredible time for hiking. The weather has cooled off but there are still a few warm days, the leaves have changed to bold colors, and there's an energy in the air as animals ready themselves for winter. It's ideal conditions to go explore national parks, and a new app from the National Parks Conservation Association will help you identify flora and fauna, learn about wildlife calls, and become educated about historical sites within the park. The free app covers all the major sites, including Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Cape Cod National Seashore, and Glacier National Park among many more. You select the park you're in, and a field guide tells you everything you need to know about the area, from endangered and poisonous species to range maps, from wildlife profiles to call recordings.
It's great to get out and enjoy a day walking around natural settings, but it's even better to learn a lot about the area in which you're walking. It heightens an appreciation for the area, and when you feel like you know a place well, you're a lot more likely to want to keep it safe and healthy.
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EK Wear, CA Carlson, LA Windecker, and MA Brzezinski. 2015. Roles of diatom nutrient stress and species identity in determining the short- and long-term bioavailability of diatom exudates to bacterioplankton. Marine Chemistry 177: 335-348.
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The Houstonian is a luxury condominium building on 3½ acres with a secluded residential setting and majestically forested grounds, foliage-lined paths, and glens, For maximum fire protection, 12-inch fire sheer walls separate the three residence towers, with a sprinkler and fire detection system throughout. Concierge and valet staffs on duty 24 hours a day serve residents and their guests with a no tipping policy.
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To quote the poodle, "And I thought that this is the Australian broadband of the future. This is what we've now got. And it's different to what I think is good for the country."
Oh okay, he was actually blathering about polity and the shouty press, but what do you know, sometimes the shouty reptile press fails to deliver the right shout at the right time.
What a dreary film it was, a one song show, and now one note Dame Groan is groaning about the cost of the Royal Commission?
Well it wouldn't do to groan about the banks and the rip-off merchants ... the shouts and the moans and the keening and wailing have to be carefully aimed.
Damn you climate scientists, damn you all, of course the lizard Oz editorialist had to get shouty.
Being shouty is damned good science, and the only way to shout down your alarmist hysteria. Why the lizard Oz has been proudly denying science for decades now, and look where it's got them and the planet…where will it all end, this madness?
Say what? Dame Groan started with a musical and now we're in a dud movie with George Clooney as Independents and climate form perfect storm for the good ship Coalition.
Okay, it's all good, solid climate science denialist stuff, but where's the circus?
Let me hasten to observe …?
Well, 6 hours already and still no comments. But that's not really hard to understand; I for one have seldom encountered such a rancid pile of unleavened wiffle piffle - the Bromancer has completely lost it.
Not that he ever was particularly self-consistent or rational (just contemplate the list of those he's Bromanced !), but at least it wasn't quite at the stage of "Hello birds, hello sky, hello Trump the apple of my eye." I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear Greggie spouting that "Of course Trump sits on the right hand of whatever lump of illusory mythology I call God".
Let's hope the Oz readership has the same level of interest and the last of the subscribers drain away (actually, die is more likely).
Trump smarter than the average Yogi Bear, the Bromancer surely has lost the plot. There is no average Yogi Bear, there is only the one Yogi, and he sure is smarter that Trump and all his supporters including Murdoch's lick spittle, the Bromancer.
Today in Brisbane the maximum temperature was 34.8'C, that's weather. Yesterday in Brisbane it was 31.5'C, that was weather. On Sunday the maximum was 32.8'C that was also weather. In fact the maximum temperature for Brisbane has been above 30'C for 34 days in a row but I'm sure that's still just weather.
So just when does it become climate?
So could the anonymous Oz editorialist explain how many days does the maximum temperature have to remain above average before it stops becoming weather and becomes climate?
DW, I remember Brisbane, a summer storm would roll in like clockwork. 28 degrees every day. Those days are long gone.
It's really very simple, DW: there's climate - spelled c-l-i-m-a-t-e - and then there's weather - spelled w-e-a-t-h-e-r. So they're obviously two entirely different and unconnected things in the reptile universe.
Asking simple questions like "If the climate changes, do you think the weather will change too ?" just confuses them.
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Author: Ian Falloon
Format: Paperback / softback, 64 Pages
Publisher: Veloce Publishing
Series: The Essential Buyer's Guide
Packed with good advice on choosing the right Ducati bevel twin, with a comprehensive inspection guide and in-depth analysis of strengths and weaknesses, Ducati Bevel Twins covers desirable upgrades, modifications to avoid, valuation and predicting which models will become collectible (if they aren't already). Illustrated throughout with photos of key areas to check and foibles to be aware of, and featuring details ranging from the Ducati community, to whether a Ducati bevel twin will suit you and your lifestyle, this is the complete guide to choosing, assessing, and buying the Ducati bevel twin of your dreams.
Written by Ian Falloon, an expert who enjoyed a close association with the factory and the engineers during the period these bikes were manufactured, providing him with an invaluable insight into their development. He has been involved with Ducati motorcycles, and bevel twins in particular, for nearly 40 years and, in addition to writing several books covering these models, he is an avid restorer with over 20 bevel twin restorations to his credit.
Ian Falloon was born in New Zealand and studied engineering and music at Victoria University, Wellington. After a motorcycle accident brought an end to his career as a symphony orchestra oboist, he began writing articles about motorcycles for magazines including Classic Bike, Cycle World, Motorcyclist, Two Wheels, Motorcycle Sport, and Australian Motorcycle News. His first book, The Ducati Story, has run to several editions and has been published in three languages. The success of The Ducati Story led to a series of Ducati books and histories of Honda, Kawasaki, BMW, and Moto Guzzi motorcycles including Motorbooks titles The Complete Book of Ducati, The Complete Book of Moto Guzzi, The Complete Book of Triumph Motorcycles, and The Art of Ducati. With an interest and passion spanning decades, Ian now concentrates on collecting and restoring older Italian motorcycles, particularly Ducati, MV Agusta, Laverda, and Moto Guzzi. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, and is ably supported in his projects by his family.
Illustrations: 100 color photos
Size: 5.5 in x 7.5 in x 0.25 in / 139.7 mm x 190.5 mm x 6.35 mm
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UI officials are asking for $1 million in 2016 — as part of a $3 million total request over three years — to establish a non-profit institute focused on "autonomous intelligent machines and systems," according to the regents' appropriations request, which is scheduled for discussion later this week.
Prevention Research Center, and the Public Policy Center.
If approved, the $3 million over three years will be used to develop long-term public-private partnerships with companies like John Deere, Rockwell Collins, Google, and the Iowa Economic Development Authority. The UI will establish the autonomous intelligent machines and systems institute as a separate, non-profit entity with a hybrid governing board made up of industry and university officials.
Funding will come from federal grants, and it will become sustainable through reinvested royalties from commercialized or licensed products, according to the documents. The institute will be located at the UI Research park, near the National Advanced Driving Simulator, in Coralville.
Among Iowa State's "special purpose" funding requests is one asking for $515,000 for its agricultural experiment station. Additional funding this year will allow ISU to focus on two key research areas, including livestock odor management and animal care and well-being.
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Ten questions with standout Michigan MMA fighter
23-year-old Michigan resident Sarah Goodlaxson is busy training for a key bout in the Total Warrior Combat promotion, slated for Jan. 19 in Lansing, Michigan, but she took a few minutes out from her hectic schedule to answer some questions on Nov. 28 about her upcoming fight. Here's what she had to say:
Q. Tell me a bit about your upcoming fight.
Goodlaxson: I fight Jen Aniano in a 105-pound bout at Total Warrior Combat 15 on Jan. 19 in Lansing, Michigan.
Q. How do you see the fight going?
Goodlaxson: She's going to try to get it to the ground, which I don't care about really. She's not great on her feet.
Q. So you would say that you definitely have the striking advantage?
Goodlaxson: Immensely.
Q. How has the weight cut been going?
Goodlaxson: I used to walk around at 105 but after I moved to Michigan I gained weight and I cut a good amount now. It's Jen's first time at 105, too. She's fought all the way up at 125, but I don't think she should be fighting that high being that she is so short.
Q. Female fighters like Ronda Rousey, Bec Hyatt and Miesha Tate are skillset in the cage, but they also use their good looks to advance their careers. What do you think about that?
Goodlaxson: I think it's great as long as they're doing it respectfully and tastefully.
Q. How is the local Michigan MMA circuit? Are there a lot of good up-and-coming fighters from there?
Goodlaxson: We have a lot of good fighters but some of the promotions really need to step up their games. I recently went to some fights where it was clear that the intended winners were from certain gyms… it was ridiculous. Bellator is in the area and that's really great for us. My coach Dom is fighting for them now.
Q. So you're saying some local fights are rigged?
Goodlaxson: I'm saying it looked that way. If I could get a copy of the fights I bet you'd think the same. Everyone I was with thought the same. There were only a couple fair fights and that something really weird didn't happen. For instance, a standup for no reason other than the favorite was losing. It literally looked like the ref gave the guy a breather from getting punched.
Q. Tell me a bit about the TWC promotion.
Goodlaxson: TWC is always professional and the guys running it are really nice. They made sure I was fighting someone with a good number of fights so it would be as fair as possible… even though she's had 14 fights to my 7… it's still better than me fighting someone that's 0-1 or something which happens a lot here. And in general, I think. She's 6-7-1 so… It's not like she's 14-0. She is a grinder though… that's probably her best attribute. She can grind a fight out for 3 rounds if she needs to.
Q. Moving on, are you hoping to go pro and fight for Bellator someday?
Goodlaxson: It would be awesome if Bellator included some fights in the 105lb division but so far that hasn't happened… They're an amazing promotion and I'd love to fight for them as well as Invicta.
Q. What do you think about Invicta's emergence as the premier women's fight league in the world?
Goodlaxson: Invicta really goes out of their way to make their fighters happy, they even have gift baskets waiting in the rooms when the fighters arrive. They're a class act.
Q. If you could fight anyone, who would it be?
Goodlaxson: Lisa Ward. Not because I hate her or anything, she's just the first girl I really watched when I started training because she was 105. More like an "I've made it" fight.
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Charles J. Malemud
Biography of Charles J. Malemud
Charles J. Malemud received the Ph.D. from George Washington University in 1973 and completed postdoctoral studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1977. Since 1977, Dr. Malemud has been a member of the faculty at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine where he is presently Professor of Medicine & Anatomy in the Division of Rheumatic Diseases and Senior Investigator of the Arthritis Research Group. He has published over 230 papers, chapters and reviews primarily in the field of chondrocyte biology. Professor Malemud is on the editorial board of several rheumatology, immunology and musculoskeletal journals and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical and Cellular Immunology and Global Vaccines and Immunology.
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Current Rheumatology Reviews was launched in 2005. Dr. Charles J. Malemud serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.


Allan Ma is a senior associate in the Hong Kong office of Mayer Brown's Banking & Finance practice.
He specialises in PRC cross-border transactions with a broad practice in PRC corporate, real estate, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, debt-finance, RMB denominated fund formation, QFII schemes and RMB Interbank Bond Trading.
Allan is especially experienced in the cross-border structuring of mergers and acquisitions, as well as debt financing and equity investment transactions across a broad range of industries including real estate, media, technology, renewable energy, biotechnology and publishing. He has extensive knowledge of PRC foreign-exchange restrictions and exceptions, as well as related taxation issues.
In addition, Allan practices in the area of real estate with a particular focus on cross-border real estate acquisitions, financings, fund formation and the structuring of real estate projects in the PRC. Allan has extensive experience in complex real estate finance transactions advising clients in the origination and creation of senior and subordinated debt instruments in large scale commercial real estate acquisitions and financings. Allan has advised banks, financial institutions and investors on numerous real estate financings of properties in the US, PRC and Australia.
His broad client base includes international banks, financial institutions, venture capital funds, private equity funds, multinational conglomerates, as well as publicly listed PRC corporations.
Before joining Mayer Brown, Allan has worked in the New York and Beijing offices of a top tier Wall Street law firm, as well as the Sydney and Hong Kong offices of top tier international law firms, with experience in private legal practice for more than 10 years.
Represented the syndication banks in the origination of acquisition financing worth HK$6.6 billion of a grade A office building in North Point, Hong Kong, which acquisition also involved a complex partial vendor financing arrangement.
Represented the lead arranging institutional banks in the origination of offshore and onshore refinancing worth US$605 million with respect to the shopping mall known as "Hongkou Plaza" located in Hongkou District, Shanghai, PRC.
Represented the lead arranging institutional banks in the origination of refinance, revolving and renovation loans worth US$780 million with respect to the landmark "Intercontinental Hotel Hong Kong" located in Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong.
Represented the lead arranging institutional banks in the origination of offshore and onshore refinancing worth US$202 million with respect to the blue chip commercial office property known as the "Shanghai BEA Finance Tower" located in Pudong District, Shanghai, PRC.
Represented the lead arranging institutional banks in the origination of refinancing worth RMB1 billion with respect to the shopping mall known as "Rock Square" located in Haizhu District, Guangzhou, PRC.
Represented the lead arranging institutional bank in the origination of acquisition financing worth HK$1.4 billion of a mixed use commercial property known as "W Square" located in Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
Represented the lead arranging institutional bank in the origination of refinancing worth RMB560 million with respect to the shopping mall known as "Raffles City Mall" located in Ningbo, PRC.
Represented the lead arranging institutional bank in the origination of acquisition financing worth HK$346 million of a serviced apartment building in Tin Hau, Hong Kong.
Represented the lead arranging institutional bank in the origination of offshore and onshore financing worth US$69 million with respect to a suite of logistics properties in Tianjin, Dongguan, Suzhou and Shenyang, PRC.
Represented a Hong Kong listed REIT, the borrower with respect to its US$500 million refinancing in connection with the blue chip commercial office property known as "China Central Place" located at Chaoyang District, Beijing, PRC.
Represented the lead arranging institutional bank in the origination of acquisition financing worth HK$186 million of a nursing home property located in Queen's Road West, Hong Kong.
Represented the lead arranging institutional banks in the origination of offshore and onshore refinancing worth US$183 million with respect to the blue chip commercial office property known as "Central Plaza" located in Huangpu District, Shanghai, PRC.
Represented the lead arranging institutional bank in the origination of offshore and onshore acquisition financing worth US$143 million of the commercial office property known as "Manpo International Plaza" located in Changning District, Shanghai, PRC.
Represented the lead arranging institutional bank in the origination of offshore and onshore acquisition financing worth US$82 million of the commercial office property known as the "Bao Long Building" located in Huangpu District, Shanghai, PRC.
Represented the lead arranging institutional bank in the origination of offshore and onshore acquisition financing worth US$95 million of a commercial office property located in Longhua Rd, Huangpu District, Shanghai, PRC.
Represented the lead arranging institutional bank in the origination of offshore and onshore refinancing worth US$87 million with respect to the blue chip commercial office property known as "Suzhou International Finance Center" located at Jinji Lake CBD, Suzhou, Jiangsu, PRC.
Represented the lead arranging institutional bank in the origination of construction financing worth RMB300 million with respect to the construction of three logistics properties in Chengdu, PRC.
Represented the lead arranging institutional banks in the origination of offshore acquisition and onshore construction financing worth US$288 million with respect to the retail property known as the "Florentia Village Shanghai Retail Outlet Mall" located in Pudong New District, Shanghai, PRC.
Represented the lead arranging institutional bank in the origination of construction financing worth RM920 million with respect to the construction of a shopping centre in Johor Bahru, Malaysia next to the adjacent IKEA Tebrau store.
Represented the lead arranger in the origination of mezzanine financing worth SG$100 million for a joint venture with respect to the acquisition of the blue chip commercial office property known as "GSH Plaza" located in Singapore.
Represented the lead arranging institutional bank in the origination of acquisition financing worth US$521 million for SDIC Mining Investment Co., Ltd.'s acquisition of a 28% stake in Jordan's Arab Potash Company which is listed on the Amman Stock Exchange.
Represented the lead arranging institutional bank in the origination of acquisition financing worth HK$250 million for Automated Systems Holdings Limited's acquisition of US-based Grid Dynamics.
Represented a Singapore based family office trust in a pre-IPO hybrid loan and equity transaction involving RenRen.com and its founders. This financing facilitated the public listing of RenRen.com on the NASDAQ.
Represented a Hong Kong based investment holding company with respect to its debt facilities with several major PRC commercial bank institutions, negotiating on its behalf and advising generally on the finance aspects of the company's privatisation through a scheme of arrangement and the retiring/exchange of debt held by several bondholders.
Representing a Hong Kong listed jewellery retailer with respect to the debt restructuring aspects of its acquisition from Peace Mark (Holdings) Limited of assets relating to Peace Mark's retail and watch movement manufacturing businesses in the Greater China region.
Represented a large Canadian based international insurance company in its US$550 million acquisition of Hong Kong Life Insurance Ltd.
Represented a large German international advertising and conference organising company, in its acquisition of publishing assets in Shenzhen.
Represented a leading social business intelligence provider in the PRC, in the sale of its business assets to WPP, the international communications services group.
Represented a leading online retailer of Japanese lingerie in the PRC with respect to the sale of the whole of its PRC business and assets to the Rakuten Group of Japan.
Represented a Singapore based logistics trust in the sale of a logistics facility in Zhengzhou, Henan, PRC.
Represented a Singapore based logistics trust in the sale of a warehouse facility in Shanghai, PRC.
Represented an Australian real estate fund in the US$362 million acquisition of a blue chip commercial property located at East Nanjing Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai.
Represented an Australian real estate fund in the restructuring of its Hong Kong based Industrial Property Fund.
Represented a large private equity fund in respect of its equity investment and convertible loan financing in China PnR, the first corporation approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission to carry out online payment and settlement of funds in the PRC.
Represented a US listed pharmaceutical company specialising in stem-cell technology in establishing a joint venture with local PRC investors.
Represented a leading group buying business in the PRC with respect to multiple rounds of equity investment and convertible loan financings from various fund investors.
Represented an affiliate investment fund of SingTel in respect of its equity investment in General Mobile Technology Company, a Taiwanese software company.
Represented a leading online games security software provider in the US, in establishing a joint venture with the China Youth League.
Represented the largest Chinese language domain name operator in the PRC with respect to multiple rounds of equity investment from various private equity fund investors.
Represented a UK listed private equity investment company in the establishment of a foreign-invested onshore RMB denominated fund in Henan province for cleantech renewable energy portfolio investments.
Represented UK listed private equity investment company in the establishment of a foreign-invested onshore RMB denominated fund in Qinghai province for cleantech renewable energy portfolio investments.
Represented a large und management company based in Hong Kong with respect to the management of assets held by its PRC onshore funds and related offshore funds.
Representing a Hong Kong listed pan-Asian life insurance group in all aspects of its QFII quota application.
Representing a Hong Kong listed pan-Asian life insurance group in all aspects of its RMB Interbank Bond quota application.
Represented a Canadian and New York listed international insurance company in all aspects of its RMB Interbank Bond quota application.


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Many Lagos residents to experience 8-week power shutdown
FILE: 3D Electric powerlines over sunrise
Abdullateef Aliyu
Many Lagos residents are expected to experience an eight-week blackout ahead of the repair work to be embarked upon by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).
The areas to be affected, according to Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC), are Oregun, Police Training College, Oba Akran, Oke Ira, Ogba, Magodo, Anifowoshe and Omole Phase One.
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The shutdown is to enable the TCN to re-conduct its 132KV lines.
The Chief Technical Officer of Ikeja Electric, Olajide Kumapayi, said that the project, which would begin on October 11, was tailored towards increasing the capacity of the transmission lines to generate more power from the generation companies.
He told newsmen on Monday that some of the 132K lines installed over 50 years ago had become obsolete and degraded over time and stressed the need for the upgrade.
He disclosed that the upgrade covers 132KV lines from Ikeja West to Ota and Alimosho in stages, adding that this is the second stage.
He said, "The TCN is replacing all the aluminium conductors with gap conductors which are more sophisticated to withstand heat and have more capacity to carry current.
"The implication of this is that from 8am to 6pm every day, the substations controlling these areas will be switched off, which will affect the feeders connected to them.
"This will affect all categories of customers within the area, especially our Maximum Demand (MD) customers such as Ikeja City Mall, Police College, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital and the Ikeja High Court."
He stated that the TCN would also move to Alimosho and Agege axis during the next stage, noting that the upgrade was a power sector initiative to boost transmission and distribution of electricity to Nigerians.
Head, Corporate Communications of Ikeja Electric, Felix Ofulue, said IKEDC had written to the affected customers to notify them of the development.
"Even though this is a TCN project, it is our duty to inform our customers of the situation because we are the ones that interface with them on a daily basis.
"We believe it will be for the benefit of our customers at the end of the day and will also allow Ikeja Electric to invest more in our system to improve power supply to customers under our network," Ofulue said.
IKEDCpower shutdown
Lagos residents


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Other Papercrafts
Vellum Paper Vs. Tracing Paper
D.M. Gutierrez
A freelance writer for more than 30 years, D.M. Gutierrez has had nonfiction, fiction and poetry published in women's, mystery, academic, children's, disability and teen print publications and websites including "Psychological Reports" and "Highlights for Children." She has an advanced degree in psychology from the University of California at Davis.
Paper comes in a wide variety of types, colors and sizes. There are papers of different weights (copy paper, card stock, construction paper, tissue paper and onionskin, for example) and sizes (letter, legal, ledger as well as huge paper rolls). Paper is used for everything from wrapping gifts to creating beautiful works of art. Two types often used are vellum paper and tracing paper. Each has distinctive characteristics and uses.
Before paper was invented, people tried a variety of materials on which to write—clay tablets, slabs of wood, sheets of metal, pieces of cloth. About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians discovered that the papyrus plant could be made into a easy-to-carry writing surface. Two thousand years later, a man in China found that bamboo fibers could be emulsified, pounded flat and poured onto a loosely woven cloth to drain and dry. This process for making a sheet of paper was easy and inexpensive. Paper continued to be made in this way for centuries. Over time, the art of papermaking spread around the world. In the 10th century, Arab cultures began to use linen to make paper. Later, paper was again manufactured from wood fibers, though more expensive paper stock still contains cloth fibers. Today, there are almost 600 paper mills in the United States. Half of our paper supply is created from recycled materials.
Originally, vellum, sometimes called parchment, was not made of cloth or wood fibers, but rather from animal skins, especially calfskin, but also from the skins of sheep, deer and goats. This material was used primarily for legal documents and for religious purposes, such as copies of the Torah and the illuminated manuscripts of early Christianity. Today, true vellum is expensive to manufacture, so the more economical process of plasticizing cotton to create "paper vellum" or "imitation vellum" is used.
Use of Vellum
Today, vellum is used mostly for documents of distinction, such as wedding invitations, diplomas and certificates, as well as for blueprints and maps. It is being used increasingly by avid scrapbookers who want a distinctive, textured appearance to their creations. Because vellum is somewhat translucent, great care must be taken to preserve its elegance by handling it properly and using the appropriate adhesive.
Tracing paper is sometimes mistakenly referred to as vellum or parchment because of its translucent quality. However, tracing paper is made from ordinary paper treated with chemicals to break down its wood fibers. This is what gives it a slightly transparent quality. Tracing paper is about one-quarter the weight of the paper from which it is made, but much stronger. Tracing paper can be almost as thin as tissue paper or as thick as heavyweight paper.
Use of Tracing Paper
Tracing paper is primarily used by artists or draftsmen to recreate an image on an underlying surface. For example, an artist may lay tracing paper over a previous work and copy the lines he sees through the tracing paper onto the tracing paper. Tracing paper is often colored and used for various arts and crafts, such as origami, collage and paper-weaving, and can be used to create sewing patterns.
History of Paper
What Is Vellum Finish?
Substitutes for Vellum in Crafts
Types of Drawing Paper
The Difference Between Poster Board & Tagboard
The History of Thank You Notes
How to Make Papyrus With a Paper Bag
Types of Heavy Stock Paper