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Pinckney Hugo Group
By Journal Staff
Date: 3/14/2014 2:16 PM
Pinckney Hugo Group has hired Alexandra Sherman, Heidi Sager, and Tyler Arsenault as assistant account managers, and Lindsey Smith as an assistant public relations account manager. Prior to joining Pinckney Hugo Group, Sherman worked as an account executive for Yelp in New York City. She has a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of New Hampshire. Before joining Pinckney Hugo, Sager worked as a German instructor at SUNY Jefferson Community College, substitute teacher in the Watertown and Carthage school districts, and as a sales and marketing assistant at the Watertown Daily Times, according to her LinkedIn page. She has a bachelor's degree in history from Nazareth College and also studied in Germany. Arsenault has a bachelor's degree in marketing and business analytics from Le Moyne College. Smith has a bachelor's degree in communication and rhetoric from Nazareth College.


At our "Mas" – a wonderful former farmhouse, now superb boutique hotel – you can enjoy the undivided attention of our Michelin-starred chef. A weekend of culinary wizardry awaits where you shop at food markets, cook, learn to present, taste exquisite wines – even eat at the chef's table. And all in the deliciously luxurious surroundings of a hotel that overlooks some of the finest countryside in the south of France.
If you prefer to travel at your own pace with our local guides, our private trips are for you. Our culinary journeys focus on immersion into the local culture. We introduce you to local experts who invite you into their culture and kitchens to participate.
The hotel sits in the medieval village of Mougins in the Southern France. With its winding streets lined with cafés, restaurants and boutiques it is as pretty as a picture.
Grasse is less than half an hour away, best known for its perfumeries, and where the famous flower market is held every morning. The old town of Antibes is a hub of wonderful eateries. Explore the nearby Riviera of the Cote d'Azur from Monaco to Cannes for a bit of glitz and glam.
In the Michelin-starred kitchen the ingredients are sized up. Ceps are sliced and drizzled with lemon oil, tuna is transformed into sushi with aubergine caviar, tomatoes seared with rosemary and garlic and topped with gazpacho of scallops. During your cooking course you watch, participate, try and interrogate."I will show you how to create a dinner party to impress your friends." Guidance is always at hand. The key to success, it seems, is to keep it simple – and it's no myth that it's all in the presentation. "People come to pick your secrets and find out why yours is so good. With nothing we are able to do something in a few minutes." says the chef.
Dining at the chef's table in the kitchen is like having front row seats at the theatre, where no two nights will ever be the same. Each of the eight courses is served to your table by the chef himself. Meanwhile, the whirlwind of activity around you not only whets your appetite, but also gives a unique insight into how each dish is created. The sommelier matches wines to every course.
Food is lavish, elaborate and served with true French flourish; dining is a ritual, and one not to be rushed. Of course wine is an important part of a gourmet weekend, and a wine tasting with Dennis, the sommelier, introduces a new set of sensations to the palette. A selection of six or so wines from the surrounding area bring with them a full range of flavours: Dennis is on hand for background information, explaining why each is unique and what you should expect from it. Here is one of the few places in the area that serves Abbaye de Lérins.
Produced by monks who live on Saint Honorat Island just off Cannes, only 35,000 bottles in total are available each year.
Located in Mougins between Cannes and Nice and set in a 9-acre park, your home during your stay on the French Riviera is a luxury boutique hotel with 46 beautifully designed rooms, two gourmet restaurants, an award-winning Shiseido Spa, three swimming pools and two Jacuzzis. Most rooms enjoy a balcony or a terrace.
Between cooking courses and the many wonderful places to explore in the region, indulge in all that the hotel has to offer. The infinity pool is spectacular, with an amazing view over to Grasse it's the perfect place to relax. For the ultimate pampering moment a treatment at the Shiseido spa is the perfect end to day in Southern France!
Available year-round upon request except for January.
Min 2, max 6 guests.
Special rates during low season.
Special offer during middle season: Stay one more night free of charge.
Rennes is 1 hour away with links to Eurostar in Paris and Charles de Gaulle Airport as well as direct flights to Paris, Edinburgh and Dublin.
Dinard Airport is a 40 minute drive with Ryanair links to London and East Midlands. Nantes Airport has direct links to Dublin, East Midlands, Leeds Bradford, and Marseilles.
St. Malo port and the wonderful seaside resorts of Val Andre are only an hour away.
Paris is 3 hours via rail to Rennes. We offer a free pick up and drop off at the railway station of Lamballe.
Scrumptious breakfast on the terrace and departure – A bientôt!
Mougins is a gorgeous town with a selection of restaurants for evenings when meals aren't provided.
The food in France is the best I have ever eaten in my life. We're enrolling in a French course and can't wait to be back in the near future.
"We had a wonderful time in France. Our week at the Mas was definitely the highlight!
The hotel was beautiful and the service was excellent.
Amazing gastronomic experience. Inspiring Chef. Spectacular hotel.
"We have now returned from the Southern France, having enjoyed a wonderful 4 days in Mougins taking part in an amazing gastronomic experience with Serge who cooking is so inspiring.
We had great fun with our cooking lessons going to the market and then cooking with the ingredients plus a 'few extras' Serge had organised before hand.
An 8-course lunch appeared out of nowhere and we learned so much from him by watching and chatting during the process.
Our gastronomic dinner at chef's table was also a fabulous treat on the Friday evening during normal service in the restaurant.
The Mas is of course a spectacular hotel in a perfect setting.


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Martin Luther King, Jr. - Publications - Reprints 25
FORR-PSC-P, Fellowship of Reconciliation Records, 1943-1973, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pa. 5
Newsletter, ''CORE-lator, no. 99''
Carey, Gordon
McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler)
Moore, Douglas E.
Rich, Marvin [Congress of Racial Equality]
F. W. Woolworth Company
Walgreen
Neisner Brothers Inc.
McCrory Corporation
Sears Roebuck and Company
Leon County Jail
S & W Cafeteria
Royal Ice Cream Company
Mayfair Cafeteria
S. H. Kress and Company
WDSU TV
J. C. Penney Co.
South Carolina State Supreme Court
Morris College
Sealtest
Kroger's Grocery
Hotel Roosevelt
West Side Federal Savings & Loan Co.
Molo Construction Co.
Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Vesta Corporation
Sun-Ray Estates
Howard Johnson Co.
Florida, Fla.
Lebanon, Tenn.
Durham, N.C.
Statesville, N.C.
Hickory, N.C.
Charlotte, N.C.
Lynchburg, Va.
Richmond, Va.
Roanoke, Va.
Fort Smith, Ark.
Iberville, La.
Seattle, Wa.
Portland, Ore.
Edgewater, N.J.
Wilmington, Calif.
Syracuse, N.Y.
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East Baton Rouge Parish, La.
Jail no bail
Freedom Task Force
Freedom Highway Projects
CCFA-ICarbS
Christian Century Foundation Archives, Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill.
BMCRFA-AB, Burke Marshall, Files on Civil Rights in Alabama, Birmingham Public and Jefferson County Free Library, Birmingham, Ala.
CB-CtY-BR, Chester Bowles Collection, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Conn.
MMBC-INP, Malcolm M. Bliss Collection, In Private Hands
JMRP-GEU-S, Jacob M. Rothschild Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
''Letter from Birmingham City Jail''
Bell, Colin W. [American Friends Service Committee}
Fox, George [Religious Society of Friends]
Carpenter, C.C. Jones
Neibuhr, Reinhold
Religious Society of Friends
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Box 2, f 97-0051
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ACLUR-NjP-SC, American Civil Liberties Union Records, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
FDAP-NcCU, Fred D. Alexander Papers, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, N.C.
3/8/2017 dalai
'''Unwise and Untimely'?, A letter from Eight Alabama Clergymen to Martin Luther King, Jr. and his reply to them on order and common sense, the law and justice, nonviolence and love''
Mesbach (Biblical figure)
Liberation Magazine
labc-MiU
Labadie Collection, University of Michigan, Hatcher Library, Ann Arbor
FORR-PSC-P, Fellowship of Reconciliation Records, 1943-1973, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pa.
1/22/2010 jmkunz
New Leader 66 (24 June 1963): 3-11.
Alabama. Legislature. Senate.
Alabama. Legislature. House of Representatives.
RJBPC-CLU-AR, Ralph J. Bunche Collection (2051), University of California, Los Angeles, Charles E. Young Research Library, Special Collections, Los Angeles, Calif.

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Tuvia Beeri was born in 1929 in Czechoslovakia. He immigrated to Israel in 1948. In 1957 he studied at the Oranim Art Institute in Qiryat Tivon, with Marcel Janco and Yaakov Wexler.
Between1961 to 1963 he studied printmaking with Johnny Friedlaender at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1963 he returned to Israel to teach at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and from 1964 he also studied etching at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv, Israel.
In 2001 Beeri won the Eli Oshorov Prize for contribution to Israeli Art from the Israeli Painters and Sculptors Association (IPSA).


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Download the setup file for HP HP Universal Printing PS driver from the location below. This is the download link for the driver version 61.175.01.18849 released on 2014-11-20.
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Lyft Drops 12% As Early Investors Sell Off Two Days After IPO
By Shaun Williams
Apr 1, 2019 19:33 EDT
Last week we covered the hotly-anticipated IPO of Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT) with preliminary price offering of $72 per share. The next day shares gained modestly.
Many have been waiting to see just how Lyft would perform once open to the public for trading, as the ride-hailing app-maker has struggled to ever turn a profit. Well today the news has turned grim for the company as investors dumped the stock in droves.
Uber (NYSE: UBER) Looking to Offer $750 Million of New Notes to Finance "Potential Acquisitions" – Is a Grubhub (NYSE: GRUB) Takeover Closer Than It Looks?
It appears as if the early hype surrounding Lyft has turned to thin air as investors begin to question if the company is worth its lofty valuation of $20B+. Shares plunged nearly 12 percent today as over 41 million shares traded hands in a throughout Monday's session. That's impressive considering there's only 30 million actual shares out in the wild.
Lyft is now trading at 4 percent below its initial offering
Last year the company lost over $900 million dollars on 2.2B in revenue, or in other words, not even within striking distance of breaking even. According to their S-1 filing, losses have actually been widening, even as Lyft chips away at Uber's dominant market share.
The company's vitals simply aren't strong and, perhaps similar to the rough start Snapchat (NASDAQ:SNAP) has been through on the stock market, long-term investors might be in for a bumpy ride as the company struggles to make its awful bottom line jive with its large valuation.
Snapchat was similar in that its profit strategy wasn't clear cut, however the app was a Silicon Valley darling at the time and its user numbers were very strong. Fast forward to August after its March debut the company had lost 50 percent of its value. Things continued to worsen for some time after.
Uber (NYSE: UBER) to Discontinue Its Online Food Ordering and Delivery Service – Uber Eats – in Eight International Markets
The most recent round of private investing took place last June, with Lyft commanding an expected $15B valuation at that time. Today if those investors sold they would net a healthy 60 percent gain in only 10 months. Given the doubts about Lyft's long term balance sheet, many probably waited to see what would happen Friday, and given the slump in price simply liquidated their holdings today.
Taking a step back, its never encouraging for a stock to retreat below its IPO price just two days after going public. Its widely expected that IPOs can bring a bit of a bump over a company's valuation due to the excitement surrounding the company, and many early investors do tend to sell once shares are nicely above IPO levels, but today's slump comes amid a generally good day for tech stocks, so there's no hiding behind the market itself. In fact, sentiment surrounding the tech sector has been improving in the previous months and so Lyft should have a bit of a tailwind, given the fact that its very much a technology stock.
Now Uber's decision to file after Lyft (or perhaps their inability to file before) has a bit of a cloud hanging over it. Yes, Uber is much larger than its smaller rival Lyft, and yes the businesses continue to become a bit diversified against one another given Uber's recent service additions such as Uber Eats, but as a whole the two company's are very similar. Uber too struggles to shore up its bottom line and most will probably draw useful comparisons between the two.
How Lyft's abysmal performance on the market will affect Uber's IPO will be answered shortly here in the coming weeks when Uber finally takes to the main stage.
Uber (NYSE: UBER) Soars Over 40 Percent on Assurances of Possessing Ample Liquidity to Sail Through the Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic
Rohail Saleem • Mar 19, 2020
Lyft Q4 2019 Earnings – the Underdog Continues to Struggle Beneath Uber's Heft
Rohail Saleem • Feb 11, 2020
Uber Shares Worth $250 Million to Be Sold by Morgan Stanley
Ramish Zafar • Feb 11, 2020
Uber Q4 2019 Earnings – the Company Continues Its Meteoric Growth While Bleeding Cash
Rohail Saleem • Feb 6, 2020
Uber in the Spotlight – Goldman Sachs Eliminates Its Entire Stake in the Company
Rohail Saleem • Jan 15, 2020
Cyberpunk 2077 and Next-Gen Consoles Couldn't Beat CoD and Switch in December Says NPD


If you're a word nerd or, heck, if you just speak or are learning English, you'll enjoy The Word Nerds, a weekly podcast by two brothers on topics like The Cold War and Hostile Language, Collective Nouns, The Unnamed Antecedent and segments like The Rude Word of the Week. It's obvious these guys spend hours preparing for their podcasts. They don't just sit down and start talking (I won't name names. Well, maybe in a future post I will). Anyway, The Word Nerds gets the coveted remylabs podcast seal of approval, which means I'll stay subscribed in iTunes NetNewsWire (does OPML, unlike iTunes) as long as they keep 'casting.


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Autumn 2011 issue featuring: Leading into Autumn, Glorious Galdiolus, Something different with Equisetum, Interview with Alys Fowler, Tomas De Bruyne, All about wreaths, Contemporary period flower arranging and much, much, more.
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The Flower Arranger Magazine is the exciting supplement you need to take your best-loved hobby or career to the next level. As the world's leading magazine for flower arrangers, you can expect incredible content in every single issue. Enjoy step-by-step designs, interview features with some of the top celebrity designers and incredible photography showcasing some of the world's best botanical art. Get everything you need to know about cut flowers delivered directly to your device each month - completely hassle-free.
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An Irish scientist has helped design a massive telescope which has helped astronomers collect mysterious sounds from a distant galaxy.
What the sounds are or why they were caused is still unknown.
But the group of scientists, who are based in Canada, say the radio waves come from a staggering 1.5 billion light years away.
Donegal man Jojo Boyle is a scientist and manager of the group which is based in Montreal which has helped design the CHIMES project which made the discovery.
His role was to manage the construction of the telescope and the supercomputer systems.
He also managed the development of the software that processes the data from the telescope.
Mr Boyle gave some indication of the complexity of building such a huge telescope.
He revealed "CHIME is a marvel of modern technology. It produces and searches through over 100 million GigaBytes of data per day – more data than is used by all the mobile phones in the world.
"A hundred-million Gigabytes is too much data to store, so it must be processed in real time on a supercomputer that has been built inside five shipping containers right under the telescope.
Mr Boyle said he is looking forward to returning to his native Dungloe in West Donegal in March to speak to students about his work.
Over the past 25 years, he has worked on and managed many world-class science projects, some for NASA and most in remote places like Arizona, Antarctica, the Arctic and now Canada.
"I am looking forward to coming home in March and am excited to visit our local schools to talk my work as it is important to show young people that, even if you are from Donegal, the sky is not necessarily the limit," he said.


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Q: VM characteristics in Azure-PaaS? I have a technical query on Azure PaaS service features. This is related to my ongoing research at the University of Liverpool,UK as part of my Post Graduation in MS Big Data Analytics. Please forward the below query to your Azure technical consultants.
I have a query on Azure PaaS cloud computing.  I'm aware that we can create VMs on IaaS. Can we create VMs on PaaS? Like in Azure PaaS?.  I want to run my custom software on Intel CPU only and test. I know in IaaS I can create VM image of specific OS say Windows x64 and specific CPU say Intel. For PaaS, can I create VM with Intel x86 based Windows 7 OS?. Can Azure allow me to request specific underlying VM characteristics in Azure-PaaS please?.
regards
sachindeo

A: on Azure like most PAAS Services Platforms you cannot specify the underlying hardware platform, and also the whole point of PAAS is to abstract the underlying infrastructure. I understand that you might need a specific feature set in a processor and for that you need to use VMs.
In PAAS service (in Azure: App Service, Functions) you can specify things like Linux or Windows but that's pretty much all.
Hope this helps.


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Home India Former model complains of 'love jihad' 12 years after being in marriage
Former model complains of 'love jihad' 12 years after being in marriage
A former model, who was married to a Muslim for 12 years, has now alleged that her husband asked her to convert to Islam despite she practicing her Hindu faith in the relationship for over a decade.
The 42-year-old woman also claimed that she was physically assaulted before being asked to leave the house. Cops in Maharashtra have launched an investigation into her claims adding that they were also probing the so-called 'love jihad' angle. Maharashtra is governed by BJP and police report to the elected government.
"We are also investigating the 'love jihad' angle. It is part of our investigation," Assistant Commissioner of Police (Bandra Division) Sanjay Kadam told PTI.
Addressing a press conference in suburban Bandra on Saturday, the woman showed 'injury marks' that she claimed were inflicted by her husband when she refused to change her religion.
"For the past three months, Asif and his cousin Muneef have been saying every woman who marries a Muslim man should convert to Islam. They pressured me and Asif assaulted me when I refused to convert. He hit me with anything that he could lay his hands on, be it bottles, glasses or utensils. On Friday night, he smashed a beer bottle on my head," the woman was quoted by The Hindu.
A video in which she was crying and levelling allegations against her husband also went viral on the social media. It also contained the statement given to the police.
"My husband recently married a Hindu girl who is half his age. He is now trying to evict me from our home. I'm a Hindu by birth and did not give into his pressure to convert to Islam," the victim is heard saying in the video.
The victim claimed she married the accused 12 years ago, reported PTI.
"At that time my husband told me there was no need to convert to Islam. But, he started building pressure so that I follow Islam, especially after I gave birth to a child," she alleged.
She claimed that her husband said if she did not change her religion, she would cease to be his wife. "My husband brainwashed my son and is not allowing me to even touch him. I want my child," she claimed.
The former model also alleged her husband threatened to kill her if she sought the help of the police and added that "they speak about love jihad all the time".
She alleged that on 17 November her husband asked her to leave the house. When she asked the reason, he said "such things" would happen if she did not embrace Islam.
The woman, in a statement to the police, also claimed a friend of her husband molested her. 'Love jihad' is a term coined by right-wing Hindu groups for alleged efforts to get non-Muslim girls to convert to Islam through love affairs.
Following her complaint, a case under sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code was lodged against her husband and his friend, police said.
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Cadillac has announced that this month they will begin the installation of inter-vehicular communication systems, also known as Vehicle to Vehicle or V2V.
The intention is for the V2V system to come standard on all 2017 CTS in both the United States and Canada; the reason for this being that in order to be most effective, this technology must be in several cars on the road, making it something people would not want to shell out extra money for. The issue as of right now, however, is that the V2V system can only communicate with other Cadillac CTS 2017 models. While it is a guarantee that the technology will eventually end up in other GM vehicles, thus making it more effective, it is still up in the air as to whether or not other automotive brands will pursue it, however, Cadillac has expressed interest in opening the discussion with other brands in order to provide the best experience for their own customers on the road.
It is uncertain as to whether or not this technology will take off or flop, however, the move towards making our roads safer for everyone is a positive one, even if it is just making room so that automakers can have the conversation about what is needed to be done.


Espace ProShop : large choix de produits et de marques pour le hockey sur glace, le patinage artistique et le roller hockey. Qualité de service irréprochable. Un SAV à votre service.
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In fact, the total size of Espaceproshop.com main page is 2.7 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that's why Accessify's recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website's server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 196.8 kB or 87% of the original size.
Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Espace Pro Shop images are well optimized though.
CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Espaceproshop.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 265.8 kB or 83% of the original size.
Our browser made a total of 221 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (191 requests) were addressed to the original Espaceproshop.com, 4% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 1% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Espaceproshop.com.
Espaceproshop.com uses IP address which is currently shared with 3 other domains. The more sites share the same IP address, the higher the host server's workload is. It is strongly recommended that the host server should be changed or the hosting provider should be requested to give a different (separate) IP address for this domain.
Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Espaceproshop.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that French is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Espaceproshop.com main page's claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won't have any issues with symbol transcription.
Espaceproshop.com has no SSL certificate. Web browsing can be safer with HTTPS connection, so we suggest that it should be obtained for this site.
Country of origin for 100% of all visits is France. It's good for Espaceproshop.com that their server is also located in France, as that enables the majority of their visitors to benefit from a much faster page load time.


When: Saturday, August 20th, 2011, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
How much? A mere $10 for developers to attend.
Will I get fed? We're providing breakfast and lunch.
How do I register? Visit the HackVAN registration site.
The HackVAN organizers have rounded up a number of APIs that you can use at HackVAN. The idea is to write an application that uses at least one of these APIs and have it working by the end of the day. David Underwood (Developer Advocate) and Yours Truly (Joey deVilla, Platform Evangelist) will be there as representatives of Shopify and the Shopify API.
Part 1: Getting started – What are Shopify apps, and how do I get started with the API?
If you want to see what's possible with the Shopify API, take a look at our App Store, where developers who've built Shopify apps can sell them and where Shopify shopowners can buy and install them, extending the capabilities of their shops.
Context.io: An email API that makes it possible to capture conversations, collaborations and document exchanges in the flow of email so you can harness them for CRM, project managements and other activities where email is the "paper trail". Here's their API.
Freshbooks: If you're a consultant, indie or small business that provides services and bills people for them, Freshbooks makes sending those bills easy. Here's their API, and here are some implementation examples.
Idee: Best described in three words — awesome image search. They're providing two APIs: Piximilar, a search-by-color API, and PixMatch, a search-for-similar-images API.
Twilio: Great for building voice- and text-messaging-based apps. Here are their APIs, and here's their API project gallery.
YellowAPI: Local search for Canadian businesses and other things. Great for those "where's the nearest X?" apps. Here's their API.
First prize is a MacBook Air. 11″ diagonally, really skinny, 1.6GHz dual-core Intel i5 Processor, 4 GB RAM, and 128GB mass storage. It's an amazing and incredibly portable development machine. My friend Andrew Burke uses this as his main machine, where he does Rails and iOS development on it.
Second prize: iPad 2. The 16GB WiFi model. My iPad is my "second screen", notetaking device, ebook reader and favorite portable gaming machine. This one's being provided by Shopify.
Third prize: Amazon Kindle 3G. Free 3G, built-in wifi and space for 3,500 books.
And there will be more prizes, too! If you want a shot at these prizes, come on down on Saturday and participate in HackVAN — register now!
I'm off to Vancouver! I'll be there from Wednesday afternoon to Monday afternoon, primarily to catch HackVAN. Want to catch up? Drop me a line or tweet!
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Creative Commons photo by Casey Yee.
This week, a number of Shopifolks will be in Vancouver. If you see us, come say hi!
The Grow Conference is a unique three-day conference that brings together the top minds in business, entrepreneurship, technology, and capital to inspire and engage the next generation of disruptive entrepreneurs. It doesn't matter if your business is on or offline, the next-gen entrepreneur knows where their customers are and how to engage them. Today's entrepreneurs are creating new opportunities, disrupting age-old markets, leveraging technology on their path to being tomorrow's leaders. The Grow Conference is bringing the best minds of Silicon Valley and Canada together to share lessons learned and inspire action. Be part of this entrepreneurial revolution as we work together to drive innovation for the future. GROW is more than a conference, it's a movement.
All the tickets that were made available online are sold out. For you super-procrastinators with some money to burn, there will be a very limited number of tickets at the door available at the door for US$595.
David Underwood, Developer Advocate, and Yours Truly (Joey deVilla, Platform Evangelist) will be sneaking into the GROW Conference after-party, but the real reason we'll be there will be for the HackVAN Hack Day taking place at the Mozilla offices (163 West Hastings, Suite 200, Vancouver) on Saturday, August 20th. HackDays are events that are being held across Canada where developers get together, and working either in teams or solo, build cool applications in a day using publicly available APIs. If you're a developer of any level of experience, from just starting out to guru-level, come out, make new friends and connections and get a chance at winning some cool prizes (up for grabs: a MacBook Air, iPad 2 and Kindle).
Registration for this event is a mere $10 — register now, and we'll see you on Saturday!


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Q: Possible to use Firebase without GCP? Let's say theoretically I owe GCP a lot of money and they shut down my GCP project, I've migrated to AWS so no issue there. The only thing is that I want to continue using Firebase for Authentication. Will I be able to use Firebase and pay the bill separately from my GCP account? Will google come for me?

A: From what I can see, a firebase project is part of a GCP project so you won't be able to do that.
Here's a medium article on the topic.
https://medium.com/google-developers/whats-the-relationship-between-firebase-and-google-cloud-57e268a7ff6f


Reinhard Gehlen, Nazi intelligence agent on the East front during the war, turned towards the US after the war, and set up the "Gehlen Organisation," which used many former Nazi party members for intelligence purposes during the Cold War. But alongside the Gehlen organisation, which became the nucleus of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND, Federal Intelligence Service), West Germany's intelligence agency created in 1956, US intelligence also set up a German stay-behind network parallel (and juxtaposed) to the Gehlen Org (which also had a role in the organisation of the ODESSA network, used to exfiltrate Nazi war criminals). CIA documents released in June 2006 under the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, more than fifteen years after Prime minister Giulio Andreotti's revelations concerning Gladio, show that the CIA organized "stay-behind" networks of German agents between 1949 and 1955.
One of these networks supported by the CIA was the Technische Dienst (TD, Technical Service) section within the Bund Deutscher Jugend (BDJ, Union of German Youth). The anti-communist BDJ was founded in 1950 by ex-Nazis Erhard Peters and Paul Lüth. The existence of TD came to light, after a speech in the Hesse Landtag by PM Georg August Zinn. During the investigations into BDJ, which started in September 1952, a couple of arms caches were found, including one in the Odenwald region, Hesse. The claim by August Zinn that the BDJ supposedly was in the possession of a list of Social Democracts and Communists to be liquidated in case of a Soviet invasion, including leading figures of the opposition Social Democratic Party) was denied by German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. The BDJ was outlawed in January 1953.
Documents shown to the Italian parliamentary terrorism committee revealed that in the 1970s British and French officials involved in the network visited a training base in Germany built with US money.
In 1976, the secret service BND secretary Heidrun Hofer was arrested after having revealed the secrets of the German stay-behind army to her husband, who was a spy of the KGB.
Revelations of a witness in the investigation of the Oktoberfest bomb blast of 1980 in Munich lead to the conclusion that the explosives might have come from the German Neo-Nazi Heinz Lembke. In 1981, German police by chance found an arms cache in the Lüneburg Heath, which led to the arrest of Lembke and the discovery of other arms caches in Lower Saxony. A few days later Lembke hanged himself in his prison cell. Lembke had been questioned in Oktoberfest investigation, but the public prosecutors found no evidence that he supplied the explosives for the bombing.
Lembke's arms caches were supposed to be connected to Gladio by a number of researchers and journalists.
Hans Globke, who had worked for Adolf Eichmann in the Jewish Affairs department and helped draft the 1935 Nuremberg laws, became Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's national security advisor in the 1960s, and "was the main liaison with the CIA and NATO" according to The Guardian. A March 1958 memo from the German BND agency to the CIA wrote that Adolf Eichmann is "reported to have lived in Argentina under the alias CLEMENS since 1952." However, the CIA did not pass the information on to the Israeli MOSSAD, as it feared revelations concerning its use of former Nazis for intelligence purposes — Eichmann, who was in charge of the Jewish Affairs department, was abducted by the MOSSAD two years later. Among these information that might have been revealed by Eichmann were the ones concerning Hans Globke, CIA's liaison in West Germany. At the request of Bonn, the CIA persuaded Life magazine to delete any reference to Globke from Eichmann's memoirs, which it had bought from his family.
In 2004 the German spymaster Norbert Juretzko published a book about his work at the BND. He went into details about recruiting partisans for the German stay-behind network. He was sacked from BND following a secret trial against him, because the BND could not find out the real name of his Russian source "Rübezahl" whom he had recruited. A man with the name he put on file was arrested by the KGB following treason in the BND, but was obviously innocent, his name having been chosen at random from the public phone book by Juretzko.
According to Juretzko, the BND built up its branch of Gladio, but discovered after the fall of the German Democratic Republic that it was 100% known to the Stasi early on. When the network was dismantled, further odd details emerged. One fellow "spymaster" had kept the radio equipment in his cellar at home with his wife doing the engineering test call every 4 months, on the grounds that the equipment was too "valuable" to remain in civilian hands. Juretzko found out because this spymaster had dismantled his section of the network so quickly, there had been no time for measures such as recovering all caches of supplies. Civilians recruited as stay-behind partisans were equipped with a clandestine shortwave radio with a fixed frequency. It had a keyboard with digital encryption, making use of traditional Morse code obsolete. They had a cache of further equipment for signalling helicopters or submarines to drop special agents who were to stay in the partisan's homes while mounting sabotage operations against the communists.
The aim of British Prime minister Winston Churchill was to prevent the communist-led EAM resistance movement from taking power after the end of World War II. After the suppression of a pro-EAM uprising in April 1944 among the Greek forces in Egypt, a new and firmly reliable unit was formed, the Third Greek Mountain Brigade, which excluded "almost all men with views ranging from moderately conservative to left wing." After liberation in October 1944, EAM controlled most of the country. When it organized a demonstration in Athens on December 3, 1944 , members of rightist and pro-royalist paramilitary organizations, covered by "British troops and police with machine guns… posited on the rooftops", suddenly shot on the crowd, killing 25 protesters (including a six-year-old boy) and wounding 148. This marked the outbreak of the Dekemvriana, which would lead to the Greek Civil War.
Arrested and then exiled in Canada and Sweden, Andreas Papandreou later returned to Greece, where he won the 1981 election for Prime minister, forming the first socialist government of Greece's post-war history. According to his own testimony, he discovered the existence of the secret NATO army, then codenamed "Red Sheepskin", as acting prime minister in 1984 and had given orders to dissolve it.
The 1960 constitution only had provision for a very small professional army of a few hundred men from both Cypriot communities. Following the 1963-64 clashes that led to the collapse of the power sharing between greek and turkish cypriots, the National Guard was created as a conscription greek cypriot army. The officers for the National Guard where almost exclusively Greek nationals, officers of the greek army. LOK units were created in Cyprus modelled on the Greek LOK units, though Cyprus never joined NATO and was at the time a member of the Non-Aligned Movement. Reporter Makarios Drousiotis has written about Greek officer Dimitris Papapostolou, commander of LOK in Cyprus at the time, conspiring with ex-interior minister Polykarpos Yorkatzis to kill elected president Makarios by attacking his helicopter, and after the failure of that attempt, being involved in the assassination of Yorkatzis. The 15 July 1974 coup d'etat against Makarios was executed by National Guard units, with the attack on the presidential palace perpetrated by 32 Moira Katadromon LOK unit with the help of a tanks reconnaisance unit.
A large arms cache was discovered in 1983 near the village Velp. In 1990 the government by means of then-prime-minister Ruud Lubbers was forced to confirm that the arms were related to planning for unorthodox warfare. He insisted that the Dutch organisation was, contrary to the operations in other European countries, totally independent from NATO command, and during wartime occupation would be commanded by the Dutch government in exile. The operating bureaus of the organisation would also move to safety in England or the USA at the first sign of trouble.
In his television show of 22 April 2007 Dutch crime journalist Peter R. De Vries revealed that weapons had been illegally supplied to Gladio well after the network was supposed to have been disbanded.
A Dutch investigative television program revealed on September 9, 2007, that an arms cache that belonged to Gladio was ransacked in the 1980s. The cache was located in a forest near Scheveningen. Some of stolen weapons later turned up, including hand grenades and machine guns, when police officials arrested criminals Sam Klepper and John Mieremet in 1991. The Dutch military intelligence agency, MIVD, feared at that time that the disclosure of the Gladio history of these weapons was politically explosive.
In 1978, the police discovered an arms cache and radio equipment at a mountain cabin and arrested Hans Otto Meyer, a businessman accused of being involved in selling illegal alcohol. Meyer claimed that the weapons were supplied by Norwegian intelligence. Rolf Hansen, defense minister at that time, stated the network was not in any way answerable to NATO and had no CIA connection.
In 1966, the CIA set up Aginter Press which, under the direction of Captain Yves Guérin-Sérac (who had taken part in the founding of the OAS), ran a secret stay-behind army and trained its members in covert action techniques amounting to terrorism, including bombings, silent assassinations, subversion techniques, clandestine communication and infiltration and colonial warfare. Aginter Press was suspected of having assassinated General Humberto Delgado (1906–1965), founder of the Portuguese National Liberation Front against Salazar's dictatorship (prominent historians and several sources also claim Delgado's assassination was performed by PIDE operational Rosa Casaco), as well as anti-colonialist leader Amilcar Cabral (1924–1973), founder of the PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde) and Eduardo Mondlane leader of the liberation movement FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique), in 1969 (prominent historians and several sources also claim Cabral's assassination was performed by indivuduals within Cabral's guerrilla movemment, the PAIGC, and Mondlane's death was work of his enemies inside FRELIMO – according to these versions, both assassinations were the result of struggles for power within the independentist movements).
As one of the nations that prompted the Truman Doctrine, Turkey is one of the first countries to participate in Operation Gladio and, some say, the only country where it has not been purged. According to Italian magistrate Felice Casson, the Turkish stay-behind forces are two-pronged: the military "Counter-Guerrilla", and the civilian "Ergenekon". An offshoot of the latter organization is currently the subject of a major investigation. Casson says Turkey is home to the most powerful branch of Operation Gladio.
The counter-guerrilla's existence in Turkey was revealed in 1973 by then prime minister Bülent Ecevit, and he immediately became a target for several assassination plots.
During the ongoing trials since summer of 2008 it has been revealed that the group named Ergenekon is actually consisted of Armed Forces officers and various civilians working to influence the governments of Turkey, either by subversion or direct coup d'etat.
In Great Britain, Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in 1940 to assist resistance movements and carry out subversive operations in enemy-held territory across occupied Europe. Guardian reporter David Pallister wrote in December 1990 that a guerrilla network with arms caches had been put in place following the fall of France. It included Brigadier "Mad Mike" Calvert, and was drawn from a special-forces ski battalion of the Scots Guards which was originally intended to fight in Nazi-occupied Finland. Known as Auxiliary Units, they were headed by Major Colin Gubbins, an expert in guerrilla warfare who would later lead the SOE. The Auxiliary Units were attached to GHQ Home Forces, and concealed within the Home Guard. The units were created in preparation of a possible invasion of the British Isles by the Third Reich. These units were allegedly stood down only in 1944. Several of their members subsequently joined the Special Air Service and saw action in France in late 1944. The units' existence did not generally become known by the public until the 1990s though a book on the subject was published in 1968. In fiction, Owen Sheers' Resistance (2008), set in Wales, takes as one of its central characters a member of the Auxiliary Units called to resist a successful German invasion.
After the end of World War II, the stay-behind armies were created with the experience and involvement of former SOE officers. Following Giulio Andreotti's October 1990 revelations, General Sir John Hackett (1910–1997), former commander-in-chief of the British Army on the Rhine, declared on November 16, 1990 that a contingency plan involving "stay behind and resistance in depth" was drawn up after the war. The same week, Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley (1924–2006), former commander-in-chief of NATO's Forces in Northern Europe from 1979 to 1982, declared to The Guardian that a secret arms network was established in Britain after the war. General John Hackett had written in 1978 a novel, The Third World War: August 1985, which was a fictionalized scenario of a Soviet Army invasion of West Germany in 1985. The novel was followed in 1982 by The Third World War: The Untold Story, which elaborated on the original. Farrar-Hockley had aroused controversy in 1983 when he became involved in trying to organise a campaign for a new Home Guard against eventual Soviet invasion.
Gladio membership included mostly ex-servicemen but also followers of Oswald Mosley's pre-war fascist movement. Among the 200,000+ Polish ex-servicemen in the UK after the end of World War II, unable to return home for fear of communist repression, were conspiratorial groups maintaining combat readiness ready to fight for a free Poland should the Warsaw Pact attack western Europe. The 'Pogon' organisation, linked to the Polish Government-in-Exile held regular paramilitary exercises until the 1970s; many of its members were associated with the Polish scouting movement in the UK which had a strong paramilitary flavour. Links with 'Stay-behind' networks are strongly suspected.
General Gerardo Serravalle, who commanded the Italian Gladio from 1971 to 1974, related that "in the 1970s the members of the CPC [Coordination and Planning Committee] were the officers responsible for the secret structures of Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Luxemburg, the Netherlands and Italy. These representatives of the secret structures met every year in one of the capitals… At the stay-behind meetings representatives of the CIA were always present. They had no voting rights and were from the CIA headquarters of the capital in which the meeting took place… members of the US Forces Europe Command were present, also without voting rights. ". Next to the CPC a second secret command post was created in 1957, the Allied Clandestine Committee (ACC). According to the Belgian Parliamentary Committee on Gladio, the ACC was "responsible for coordinating the 'Stay-behind' networks in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Holland, Norway, United Kingdom and the United States". During peacetime, the activities of the ACC "included elaborating the directives for the network, developing its clandestine capability and organising bases in Britain and the United States. In wartime, it was to plan stay-behind operations in conjunction with SHAPE; organisers were to activate clandestine bases and organise operations from there". General Serravale declared to the Commissione Stragi headed by senator Giovanni Pellegrino that the Italian Gladio members trained at a military base in Britain. Documents shown to the committee also revealed that British and French officials members of Gladio had visited in the 1970s a training base in Germany built with US money.
The Guardian reported on November 5, 1990, that there had been a "secret attempt to revive elements of a parallel post-war plan relating to overseas operations" in the "early days of Mrs Thatcher's Conservative leadership". According to the British newspaper, "a group of former intelligence officers, inspired by the wartime Special Operations Executive, attempted to set up a secret unit as a kind of armed MI6 cell. Those behind the scheme included Airey Neave, Mrs Thatcher's close adviser who was killed in a terrorist attack in 1979, and George Kennedy Young, a former deputy chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6." The newspaper stated that Thatcher had been "initially enthusiastic but dropped the idea after the scandal surrounding the attack by the French secret service on the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, in New Zealand in 1985." The Swiss branch, P-26, as well as Italian Gladio, had trained in the UK in the early 1970s.


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Hentian Putra Bus Terminal
Malaysia is a beautiful and fascinating place to explore. Travel options are important but this can be confusing for foreign visitors. The Putra Bus Terminal is available for express bus service for those in the eastern states such as Kelantan, Terengganu, and Pahang. This terminal is located near the Putra World Trade Center, the Chow Kit area, and the Mall. The Putra Bus Terminal can be reached by the Putra Halt KTM Commuter Station or the PWTC Station of Star LRT line.
The easiest way to get to the Putra Bus Terminal is via the Ampang Line for those in the city center, or it is possible to go via the KTM commuter train. The Ampang Line is a bridged sidewalk that links to the station and is about 500 km. The best form of travel is by bus. It is also the cheaper alternative.
WHO IT SERVES
The Putra Bus Terminal is the third leading bus terminal in the area with the TBS bus terminal serving the southbound travelers and the Puduraya bus terminal serving northbound travelers. It also serves those headed to the ferry to the Perhentian Islands, Kuala Terengganu, Kuantan, and Kota Bahru.
The air conditioned Putra Bus Terminal amenities include luggage storage, snack booths, a taxi stand, and a surau. There are several nearby hotels, restaurants, and the nearest train station is within walking distance.
It is always a good idea to purchase bus tickets in advance, which can be done at the ticket counter or online. The Putra Bus Terminal is the smallest and most neglected on the three primary bus terminals. The location of Putra Bus Terminal is inconveniently situated; however, this is also a bus terminal that handles a very large number of travelers that are headed to popular destinations.
LOCATION OF HENTIAN PUTRA BUS TERMINAL


S.GUARANITICA contains cirsiliol (dissimilar to salvia terpenes) and is known to be a hypnotic and sedative.
"The pharmacol. properties of S. guaranitica exts. and of its active principle cirsiliol were investigated. A partially purified fraction of this plant, administered i.p. in mice (in a dose equiv. to 3 g of the fresh plant) exhibited sedative and hypnotic effects. In the pentobarbital-induced sleep test, cirsiliol (2-10 mg/kg, i.p.) exhibited a dose-dependent hypnotic action. Cirsiliol was more potent in displacing 3H zolpidem binding (Ki = 20 mM) than 3H flunitrazepam binding (Ki = 200 mM) to benzodiazepine receptors from rat cerebral cortex."
Flavonoids are naturally occurring mols. present in the human diet. We demonstrate that some flavonoids possess central nervous system effects, acting through the central benzodiazepine receptors. The pharmacol. characterization of chrysin (5,7-dihydroxyflavone) and apigenin (5,7,4'-trihydroxyflavone), isolated from Passiflora coerulea and Matricaria recutita, resp., showed their anxiolytic, but not myorelaxant or amnesic effects. Cirsiliol (5,3',4'-trihydroxy-6,7-dimethoxyflavone), however, isolated from Salvia guaranitica, had sedative-depressant properties. We were able to increase the biochem. and pharmacol. potency of the natural flavonoids by means of the addn. of halo and/or nitro groups to the flavone nucleus. Some flavonoids are partial agonists of the benzodiazepine receptors and may become new therapeutic drugs, devoid of the unwanted side effects of classical benzodiazepines.


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Bitcoin Has Climbed Above $40,000 Again—What's Next?
Jan 12, 2021, 04:28am EST |
Bitcoin Braced For A Bombshell From Fed Chair Jerome Powell
Billy BambroughContributor
I write about how bitcoin, crypto and blockchain can change the world.
Bitcoin has soared over the last year, adding more than 300% and smashing through its 2017 highs to tread fresh ground for the first time in three years.
The bitcoin price mega-rally, surging along with the likes of Tesla TSLA as the U.S. Federal Reserve pumps trillions of dollars into the market, has already been called a bubble—with the chief investment officer of Guggenheim Investments warning bitcoin's "parabolic rise is unsustainable in the near term."
Now, with the Federal Reserve officials hinting it could begin "tapering" its huge asset purchases sooner than expected, all eyes are on Fed chair Jerome Powell who's due to speak this Thursday on a webinar audience hosted by Princeton University at 12:30pm EST.
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"It could be the case that things are going a lot better, and we do end up doing some type of tapering" in late 2021 or early 2022, Chicago Fed President Charles Evans recently told reporters on a conference call.
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Many big-name and institutional investors piled into bitcoin through 2020 as the Fed flooded the market with freshly-printed cash, led by billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones who named bitcoin as the "fastest horse" in the race to beat inflation.
"[Tapering] would be a major problem for the price of bitcoin as it would diminish the macro and institutional demand," Alex Krüger, economist and cryptocurrency trader, said via Telegram. "I don't expect any tapering in 2021 but need to keep an eye out for it and be quick to react."
Some fear that even the hint that the Fed could begin to reduce stimulus might create a so-called "taper tantrum," as markets saw in 2013 when the world's most powerful central bankers tried to turn off the taps.
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"If we see another round of taper tantrum, which caused turbulence in the markets in 2013, this will have a negative impact on bitcoin and the crypto market with its inherently stronger movements compared to blue-chip stocks," Alex Kuptsikevich, senior financial analyst at FxPro, said via email, pointing to bitcoin's growing connection to traditional markets.
"However, it is unlikely that a rollback from the Fed is something to be seriously feared for the time being. Despite possible signs of displeasure with Powell's bloated equity capitalisation, a withdrawal of support for the markets would almost certainly be a shock to the economy, ensuring a second recession. What is worse, is that if government bond purchases are curtailed, yields could quickly spiral out of control as the largest of long-term buyers leave the market. Thus, fears of a rollback are nothing more than concerns about a new extreme bad scenario. So far, neither the Fed nor Powell has been seen to create black swans."
While Powell isn't expected to signal the Fed is about to make a major move any time soon, bitcoin has found its place in a world of lower-for-longer interest rates and rock-bottom bond yields—and may appear less attractive if this were to change.
"The whole bitcoin macro thesis rests on negative real yields," Krüger added. "Tapering would help real yields push higher and into positive territory."
Billy Bambrough
I am a journalist with significant experience covering technology, finance, economics, and business around the world. As the founding editor of Verdict.co.uk I reported
I am a journalist with significant experience covering technology, finance, economics, and business around the world. As the founding editor of Verdict.co.uk I reported on how technology is changing business, political trends, and the latest culture and lifestyle. I have covered the rise of bitcoin and cryptocurrency since 2012 and have charted its emergence as a niche technology into the greatest threat to the established financial system the world has ever seen and the most important new technology since the internet itself. I have worked and written for CityAM, the Financial Times, and the New Statesman, amongst others. Follow me on Twitter @billybambrough or email me on billyATbillybambrough.com. Disclosure: I occasionally hold some small amount of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.


Along with fear, nonabstract terms also have been an integral ingredient of health-education programs.
Such words are translated in nonabstract ways, based upon their usage in a given passage.
What's astonishing is that she thinks she can lose it in something as specific and nonabstract as one (lucky) guy.
12) By "item that is a particular" I mean, roughly, something in the category of nonabstract entities, which are occupants of the spatiotemporal world.
Confusion arises when I ask them to write about the nonabstract things--the concrete, specific, and actual.
Types such as Set and Sequence must implement the operations specisied in Collection because they are nonabstract subtypes of Collection.
I find myself still looking for some specifices that my nonabstract mind can grasp.
That being the case, it is a challenge to the Aristotelian philosopher of science to explain how pure mathematics is really about universais that could be and sometimes are realized in nonabstract, physical reality.


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Open your eyes to Haiti at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale
By Ben Crandell, SouthFlorida.com
The exhibit "From Within and Without: The History of Haitian Photography," opening Sunday, June 21, at the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, uses a remarkable collection of images as a lens to examine the island nation's rich, complex and often tragic history. But it begins with an unexpected wink.
In 1919, more than four years into a United States military occupation of Haiti that would last two decades, U.S. soldiers caught up to Charlemagne Péralte, a Haitian army officer who had been leading a resistance movement, and shot him dead.
The soldiers then strapped the body against a door and took a photograph of the lifeless Péralte. The picture was made into a handbill, which was then distributed around the country as a message to those who might take up his cause. But the image of Péralte slumped in an almost Christlike crucifixion pose had the opposite effect: Péralte became a martyr, the representation of his death an iconic inspiration for generations of Haitian artists to this day.
Visit the SouthFlorida.com website to read and listen to the full story.


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Billings Man Fights Truck Thief; Jumps On Moving Stolen Truck, Bashes Thief With Sledgehammer
Published on December 14, 2022 December 14, 2022 in News/Crime
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By Jimmy Orr, Cowboy State Daily
It sounds like an action movie.
When Billings resident Tim Payne grabbed the side of his own moving stolen truck and started bashing the driver with a shovel and a sledgehammer last week, he said he was full of adrenaline, but not the type of adrenaline he was used to.
Despite the repeated hits in the head, the thief kept his foot on the gas pedal and Payne was getting flung like an extension cord, bashing into dumpsters and backyard walls while careening down an alley.
Then he spotted his trusty sledgehammer.
'Really Good Neighborhood'
It started off as an ordinary Monday late afternoon for Payne. He was picking his 3-year-old daughter up, who was spending the day at his 19-year-old daughter's house, when he heard his truck squeal off.
He'd left the keys in the truck to keep it warm. He thought he could because it was in a "really good neighborhood."
"It was the last place I would expect anything to happen," Payne told Cowboy State Daily.
But when he heard the commotion, he knew it was his truck.
"I ran out the door and saw it fishtailing down the street," he said. "I knew it was gone."
All of his tools gone. And for a contract construction worker, his way to make a living was gone.
"I was screaming," he said. "I was at a loss for ideas."
'Tracking App'
Then Payne remembered there was something else in his truck. His phone.
He perked up. HIs family all have a "tracking app" on their phones. It's called Life360 and it lets everyone in his family know where everyone else is.
That meant he could — as long as the phone stayed in the truck — track the thief.
He pulled up his daughter's phone and there he was — a little blinking pixel moving across the lighted phone.
He called his wife and she began tracking the carjacker too.
Then she called the cops and gave them the play-by-play of where he was.
"Step by step, turn by turn, she was telling the cops where he was going," Payne said.
Screenshot of Tim Payne's Life360 tracking app
'Going Vigilante'
In the meantime, Payne did what law enforcement tells you not to.
"I was going vigilante," he said
He called up his buddy and they started going after the thief. Coming along for the ride were his two daughters.
Then the little pixel stopped moving. The thief stopped.
Or did the carjacker get wise and throw the phone out the window? Payne made a mental note of the location as his friend kept driving.
About five minutes later, the pixel began moving again before stopping again after about a minute.
When they got to that location, he saw a glint in the middle of the intersection. It was his phone.
"I was worried at that point that I was never going to see my truck again," he said.
But the discouragement didn't last long. He theorized what happened. The thief tossed it and then went back to the first location. So that's where they went.
'There's Your Truck!'
"I didn't see nothing at first, but then my daughter said there's your truck right there!" he said.
It was at that point he said he felt a "huge rush."
"I was relieved and excited and scared all at the same time," he said. "I'm an adrenaline junkie, but this is not the type of adrenaline I'm used to. Completely different."
Regardless, he was going for it.
Running down the alley toward the truck, as soon as Payne got close he yelled at the person in the driver's seat. The truck idled; the driver's side window was half-down.
"The guy in my truck was really surprised," Payne said.
Just as Payne got close to the door, the thief threw it in reverse and to avoid getting run over, he jumped onto the sidestep of the passenger's side and held on to the mirror – all while getting scraped against a wall.
"I was going to do whatever it took. I was getting my truck back," he said.
House where Tim Payne spotted his stolen truck
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The thief backed the truck into a fence and it threw Payne off and then put it into drive.
"I was able to jump into the back of my truck and just held on," Payne said.
Once the thief saw that Payne was in the back of truck, he accelerated and slammed on the brakes repeatedly to try to throw him from it.
Payne, meanwhile, inched up in the bed and grabbed a shovel and bashed the back window out of it and managed to break the driver's side window as well.
Then, while holding onto the back window, he repeatedly hit the thief in the head with the shovel.
"I was surprised by the amount of damage I did to this guy and he just kept going," Payne said.
Shovel that Tim Payne used to bash the thief in the head
The injured driver barreled down the alley for awhile longer before slamming into another truck.
Payne was able to hold on. And right after the crash, he grabbed a sledgehammer, jumped out of the truck and "winged it" through the driver side window.
"It connected with him pretty good and I thought that was the end of it," he said.
But like Michael Meyers in "Halloween," it didn't stop the thief.
"I dove threw the window and put him in a headlock," Payne said. "And I started punching the hell out of him."
"Combat inside a vehicle is hard," he added.
Payne was worn out, but the thief seemed to have an endless supply of energy.
Despite being in a headlock and getting punched repeatedly in the face, the thief pulled out a knife from his pocket.
"I got really scared at the point," Payne said. "Since I didn't have any energy left, I let him go."
But instead of getting attacked, the thief ran off. Turns out he left a few bags of meth in the passenger seat.
Tim Payne's broken but rescued truck
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But Payne got his truck back.
The police arrived shortly after and, surrounded by wreckage, Payne gave his official statement.
Payne's truck is a mess, drivable but no longer street legal. It won't be cheap to get it repaired.
His tools are gone. Those won't be easy for him to replace either.
And they took his wallet.
The good news is that whoever tried to use his credit card at a liquor store In Laurel, Montana, 14 miles away was caught on surveillance video.
And Payne says that his case (minus the super action heroics) is similar to many other crimes in Billings. So this isn't an isolated incident.
"There's a lot of people involved who want justice for their stolen cars, belongings and houses which have been broken into," he said. "So we're just trying to link it altogether, that way when restitution happens, we can all be compensated."
In the meantime, Payne's daughter set up a GoFundMe page which can be accessed here.
Video footage of Tim Payne's stolen truck
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Actor Ranbir Kapoor's latest film "Bombay Velvet" failed to strike a chord with the audience, but superstar Aamir Khan is all praise for the versatility of the 32-year-old and says "he can do any film".
"Ranbir is a fantastic actor. He can do any film, he is that good," the 50-year-old, who is himself known for his ability to slip into myriad roles, said here in an interview.
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"The cost of providing emergency medical services is significantly more than we recoup," county manager Brian Epley said
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SHELBY, N.C. — Following a three-year hiatus, the county will once again begin garnishing wages and intercepting tax returns for unpaid emergency medical services bills.
"The cost of providing emergency medical services is significantly more than we recoup," said County Manager Brian Epley.
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He said on average, there is a $6 million gap each year.
"It's a big number," he said. "That's normal in local government, generally speaking."
Epley said prior to 2016, the county had been using a billing company to make those collections but lost confidence in that company because of data accuracy reasons, a low collection rate and lack of customer service support.
The county elected to terminate the approximately $150,000 yearly contract in 2016 and were able to absorb the billing process internally.
"Since that point, we're on year three, and we feel like we have much more accurate data," Epley said. "We have a much higher level of reliance on data we're using. We were also able to take the collection percentage from the low 50s to around 70 percent."
Ultimately, this translates to reduced cost to taxpayers.
"It's something we're really, really proud of," he said.
Epley said efficiency and being fiscally responsible is a primary goal of county administrators, and this is just one example of the re-engineering strategies used to stretch resources in a responsible way.
During the most recent county meeting last week, commissioners voted to re-implement wage garnishment and tax interception.
Epley said it is a last case scenario if all else has failed.
"We are more than willing to work with someone in a hardship, and there's an affordability issue," he said. "We have customers that come in and pay a couple dollars a month."
Cleveland County central collections sends an initial notice regarding the debt to the patient and then three additional notices. If there is no response following the fourth notice, collection action is taken.
The patient is sent a letter giving them 30 days to contact the office for payment and if there is still no response, the account is sent to debt set off, meaning incoming taxes are intercepted. If the person has quarterly wages of more than $5,000, they are notified of wage garnishment and debt setoff. If they do not have wages, the debt setoff warning letter is sent and taxes are intercepted.
This does not apply to those with Medicaid or Medicare, and Epley said around 60 percent of the payer group in the county is receiving one or the other.
He said the amount that is garnished from a person's paycheck is statutory driven.
"It's certainly not the entirety of ones wages," he said. "There are legal parameters that give us guidance on that."
Epley said the cost of EMS transport varies depending on the type of transport and whether it is advanced, meaning the patient needed some type of narcotic medication or they were hooked up to a heart monitor, or more basic.
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Home » British doctors » British doctors praise Merck's antiviral pill which halves the risk of hospitalization for Covid patients
UK Covid patients will not yet get a 'changing' pill that halves the risk of being hospitalized or dying from the disease, it was revealed today.
US drug giant Merck today announced landmark results from a trial of its antiviral molnupiravir.
Hospitalization and death rates were twice as high in infected patients receiving a placebo, compared to those receiving the actual pill.
But there are no plans to make it immediately available in the UK, although Merck has committed to getting approval for its use in Britain. The United States has already agreed to buy 1.7 million courses of the drug.
Merck Scientific Director Daria Hazuda told a press briefing with health and science reporters that the results were an exciting step in the global fight against Covid. She described it as "a game changer".
Molnupiravir works by disrupting the ability of the Covid virus to reproduce in the human body.
"It is incorporated into the genetic material of the virus and introduces errors," she said. Over time, the errors make the virus less able to replicate itself.
Covid patients who took molnupiravir were half as likely to die or require hospitalization as the placebo group, according to the results of Merck's latest trial of the experimental pill. Only 7.3% of patients who took the molnupiravir pill died or required hospitalization, compared with 14.1% of patients who died or required hospitalization among those who took the placebo pill. This means that Covid patients who took molnupiravir halved their chances of dying
US-based Merck & Co today announced the results of a trial on Covid patients of its antiviral pill molnupiravir
Compared to other anti-Covid drugs that must be administered by doctors, molnupiravir could be taken by patients at home.
Dr Hazuda also said that molnupiravir may also have potential to fight other viruses, similar to Covid, and the inevitable next pandemic.
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"It is active on several coronaviruses, influenza and several other RNA viruses," she said.
"We are really excited about the results, not just because of the potential for this to play a role in the current pandemic.
"Even potentially to prevent future pandemics and future outbreaks of other coronaviruses, which I'm sure will happen."
If approved, it will be added to the arsenal of drugs already available to NHS doctors.
Dexamethasone was the first to receive the green light last June, but it is only given to already ill hospitalized patients.
And tocilizumab, which is given by injection, is also only given to hospital patients.
But budesonide, an inhaler medicine, can be prescribed for those over 65 or over 50 who are at risk of contracting the virus.
British doctors hailed the results of the trial as a breakthrough in the fight against Covid, although some also called for caution until more details are revealed.
UK Bioindustry Association president Ruth McKernan said preventing Covid infection in the first place through vaccination was the priority. But she added that an oral anti-Covid pill would be a valuable weapon.
"In order to protect people and the NHS as much as possible, we need all the disposable tools and it's great to have the first oral medicine with very high quality data," she said.
"We need a full package of treatments from preventive vaccines, oral treatments for those infected and additional drugs for hospital use."
Dr Simon Clarke, a cell microbiologist at the University of Reading, called the trial results promising.
"Although the data from the trials has yet to be peer reviewed, the 50% reduction in hospitalizations and deaths in early-stage infections would be impressive," he said.
However, Dr Clarke said more details on the potential side effects of the investigational drug are needed.
UK antiviral task force chief Eddie Gray declined to comment on talks to roll out the drug in the UK.
It's unclear how much the drug would cost the NHS if approved in the UK, but the US government has purchased millions of drugs for $ 706 (£ 520) per patient.
"We are involved in carefully considering all of the options available, but we are really unable to give the details of specific conversations at this time," he told reporters today.
Pressed for more details, Gray said: "The emergence of phase three data tends to speed up all such processes, but I couldn't give you a precise date."
"I have chosen to come today to be here, read whatever you like," he added shyly.
Merck Scientific Director Daria Hazuda said she believes the results of the latest molnupiravir trial were 'game-changers'
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The trial followed 775 adults with mild to moderate Covid who were considered to be at higher risk of serious illness due to health issues such as obesity, diabetes or heart disease.
Of the patients taking molnupiravir, 7.3 percent were hospitalized or died after 30 days, compared to 14.1 percent of those receiving the dummy pill.
There were no deaths in the drug group after this period, compared to eight deaths in the placebo group.
The results have been published by the company and have not been peer reviewed, but Merck says he plans to present them at a future medical meeting.
An independent group of medical experts overseeing the trial recommended stopping it early because the intermediate results were so strong.
"It went beyond what I thought the drug might be able to do in this clinical trial," said Dr. Dean Li, vice president of research at Merck.
"When you see a 50% reduction in hospitalizations or deaths, that's a substantial clinical impact. "
Side effects were reported by both groups in the Merck trial, but were slightly more common in the dummy pill group. The company did not specify the problems.
The results of previous studies have shown that the drug did not benefit patients already hospitalized with serious illness.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced in April he was assembling a team of scientists to find ways to get people to recover from the virus without going to the hospital, because the UK must "learn to live with this disease, as we live with other diseases".
Antivirals were a treatment touted by the Prime Minister, with Mr Johnson saying at the time that the drugs could "provide another vital defense against any future increase in infections and save more lives."
And it is hoped that they will help prevent the new variants from making people seriously ill – the mutated strains make it more likely that a person will get sick even after vaccination.
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Local TV Station Uses 'Helicopter Marketing'
Perhaps introducing a new category of marketing, Nashville television station WSMV landed its news chopper on a Brentwood High School soccer field as a football game was being played on an adjacent field and handed out footballs with the station's logo affixed to them. One can only hope, for the sake of the football players and male fans, the cheerleader's skirts were deliciously blown up in the chopper's wind.
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It's not entirely new. WBTV/Charlotte used to land their helicopter at midfield (*on* the football field) during pre-game at their designated "game of the week" in the late 80s (maybe early 90s—who can remember?). They would land, a couple of people would jump out and throw some mini footballs into the stands, and then the helicopter would leave.
The Charlotte stations still go all out covering the games in their coverage area. I don't think anyone lands on the field any more, but it's not unusual for one of the helicopters to spend some time over a game. I grew up in an area that gets coverage from both Charlotte and Greenville/Spartanburg, SC, so any of three helicopters could show up (plus reporters and cameras on the ground, trucks, etc.).
Posted by: Nathan on September 8, 2005 8:33 PM
"For the sake of the football players and male fans" you hope the cheerleaders' skirts were blown up by the helicopter's wind? And that would be delicious? What about the sake of the cheerleaders, who do have feelings and who are still kids? It isn't as though all the fans at high school football games are students either, which I think makes that joke even more inappropriate. Adults shouldn't ogle kids.
Posted by: trill42 on September 9, 2005 4:29 AM
Phoenix's Channel 3 - an independent that leads the ratings - used to have a Friday football game, where the chopper did go visit all the high schools. As for the branded footballs, I am not sure, but Gil Tyree (now in Atlanta) was sure loved by the high school kids, and he seemed to like to go out and do the community stuff.
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