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Q: What are the possible causes of error 14000, "Fail to start messaging", in the SendBird iOS SDK? I'm trying to use the SendBird SDK to implement a simple instant messaging feature in my iOS app.
I've read the Quick Start, Authentication, and Messaging Channel - Basic guides, and I've attempted to set up a 1-1 messaging channel as they describe.
In application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions I included SendBird.initAppId("MyAppID").
In my initial view controller, I log in the user. I'm using the user's username from my app as his userId, and I'm concatenating his first and last name to use as his SendBird nickname:
override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
    if let emailAddress = KCSUser.activeUser().email,
        firstName = KCSUser.activeUser().givenName,
        lastName = KCSUser.activeUser().surname {

        let nickname = firstName.lowercaseString + lastName.lowercaseString
        SendBird.loginWithUserId(emailAddress, andUserName: nickname)
    }
}

Finally, in the actual chat view controller, I attempt to start a messaging channel with another user:
override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
    guard let targetId = session?.parent?.user?.email else {
        return
    }

    // I logged in once with this id, so according to the SendBird docs, the
    // user should exist.
    SendBird.startMessagingWithUserId(targetId)

    SendBird.setEventHandlerConnectBlock({ (channel) in
        NSLog("%@", channel)
    }, errorBlock: { (errorCode) in
        NSLog("%D", errorCode)
    }, channelLeftBlock: { (channel) in

    }, messageReceivedBlock: { (message) in

    }, systemMessageReceivedBlock: { (systemMessage) in

    }, broadcastMessageReceivedBlock: { (broadcastMessage) in

    }, fileReceivedBlock: { (fileLink) in

    }, messagingStartedBlock: { (messagingChannel) in
        SendBird.joinChannel(messagingChannel.getUrl())

        // SendBirdChannelInfo is a custom struct for some use within the app
        let channelInfo = SendBirdChannelInfo(
            channelId: messagingChannel.getId(),
            url: messagingChannel.getUrl()
        )

        // self.session is a custom data model for use with our database.
        self.session?.sendBirdChannelInfo = channelInfo

        SendBird.queryMessageListInChannel(messagingChannel.getUrl()).prevWithMessageTs(
            Int64.max, andLimit: 30, resultBlock: { (queryResult) in

            var maxMessageTs = Int64.min

            for model in queryResult {
                if maxMessageTs <= (model as! SendBirdMessageModel).getMessageTimestamp() {
                    maxMessageTs = (model as! SendBirdMessageModel).getMessageTimestamp()
                }
            }

            SendBird.connectWithMessageTs(maxMessageTs)
        }, endBlock: { (error) in
            if let fetchMessagesError = error {
                NSLog(fetchMessagesError.localizedDescription)
            }
        })
    }, messagingUpdatedBlock: { (messagingChannel) in

    }, messagingEndedBlock: { (messagingChannel) in

    }, allMessagingEndedBlock: {

    }, messagingHiddenBlock: { (messagingChannel) in

    }, allMessagingHiddenBlock: {

    }, readReceivedBlock: { (readStatus) in

    }, typeStartReceivedBlock: { (typeStatus) in

    }, typeEndReceivedBlock: { (typeStatus) in

    }, allDataReceivedBlock: { (unsignedInt, thirtyTwoBitInt) in

    }, messageDeliveryBlock: { (sent, message, data, messageId) in

    }, mutedMessagesReceivedBlock: { (message) in

    }) { (fileLink) in

    }
}

With the exception of the lines I commented, this code comes directly from the SendBird manual. However, when it runs, I receive error code 14000, and the message, "Fail to start messaging," is logged.
What is the actual cause of the error? Am I missing a step during user login or SDK initialization, or is there another step in creating a channel? Or is it something else entirely?

A: Please try our new SDK instead of the old SDK which will be deprecated soon!
https://docs.sendbird.com/ios
Thanks!


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Norman Baker was born on 26 July 1957 in Aberdeen, United Kingdom. He is a Liberal Democrat politician who was first elected in 1987 as a councillor on the Lewes District Council. From 1997 to 2015 he served in the House of Commons as MP for Lewes, thus becoming the first non-Conservative MP since 1874 to represent that constituency in East Sussex. In the 2001-2005 Parliament, Norman Baker was a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights and was Shadow Environment Secretary from 2002 until 2006, and shadow Transport Secretary from 2006 to 2010. At the 2010 general election, the Liberal Democrats entered a coalition agreement with the Conservative Party and Mr. Baker was appointed a Transport Minister, before being promoted in October 2013 to become Minister of State for Crime Prevention at the Home Office. He has been President of the Tibet Society since 2013.
Mr. Baker has been very active in highlighting the flaws and manipulations behind the poor decision-making process related to the 2003 Iraq war. He particularly focused on the tragic case of David Kelly, the former United Nations weapons inspector. In 2007 he published the book "The Strange Death of David Kelly", after a year-long detailed investigation that he personally carried out. Norman has always been engaged in the defence of human and civil rights, including questions linked to detention, female genital mutilations and the legalisation of cannabis. The latter brought him to hold views at odds with the positions of the Tory-led government, which finally induced him to resign from the Home Office in November 2014. He famously described his work as Number 2 within the Home Office led by Secretary Theresa May as the only Liberal Democrat in the Home Office as being "the only hippy at an Iron Maiden concert".

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The Immortalization Commission
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File under "seriously weird things members of the elite have believed":
Quote: The Immortalization Commission by John Gray review
Thank God or whomever for this look at transcendentalism says John Banville
The Guardian, Saturday 29 January 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan...NTCMP=SRCH
Back in the early 1960s, when the cold war was keeping nicely warm, a friend of mine paid a visit to Moscow. He was not a communist, but like so many of us in those days he was not unsympathetic to Marxism, even in its Russian form, and was curious to have a close-up look at the Soviet experiment. He found the place in general grim but functioning, and the population adequately fed and fully employed, if not particularly happy-seeming but then, he had read the mighty Russians, and knew all about the Great Russian Soul and its torments, and had not gone expecting mirth and merry-making.
One seemingly small thing that struck him forcefully, though, was the large number of stalls around Lenin's tomb in Red Square selling mementoes of the founding father. In particular, the cheap silver medals stamped with Lenin's image reminded him sharply of the "miraculous medals" of the Sacred Heart and the Virgin Mary that we Irish Catholics were encouraged to wear when we were children. In the heart of Moscow, the capital of what sermonising priests castigated as atheistic communism, he realised that he was attending at the tomb of a saint.
Lenin himself, John Gray reminds us, was alive to the danger that Bolshevism might be taken for a new religion, and as early as 1913 the Bolshevik leader was writing to Maxim Gorky to insist that any attempt to construct a new God would be nothing more than an exercise is necrophilia. It was, as Gray remarks, an astute observation, and appropriately directed, for Gorky had close links with the Russian so-called "God-builders". "A kind of secular mystery cult," Gray writes, "God-building was another part of the late 19th-century European current in which occultism and science marched hand in hand. The God-builders believed a true revolutionary must aim to deify humanity, an enterprise that includes the abolition of death."
The notion that many among the earliest dialectical materialists believed firmly in the possibility, indeed the inevitability, of such transcendental developments will raise the eyebrows of many a reader. By the time they come to this discovery, however, their eyebrows are likely to be already hovering just under their hairlines, for through his researches John Gray has laid bare an astonishing seam of thanatological fantasising and psychical conspiracy running from late-Victorian English high society through the Russian revolution and the Stalinist terror to the computer age neo-spiritualism of today. The Immortalization Commission is a sober account of a hitherto almost unnoticed but remarkably widespread phenomenon and also a romp of a read. Thank God, or Whomever, that Gray got there before Dan Brown, though Brown is probably at this minute sharpening his pen, or firing up his laptop.
Gray begins his narrative in England in the late Victorian period, with the Arnoldian sea of faith rapidly ebbing and the mighty ones of the land in search of some, of any, continuing certainty among the remaining rock-pools. In a scene straight out of George Eliot we find Charles Darwin attending a séance at the house of his brother Erasmus, along with the anthropologist Francis Galton, FWH Myers, the inventor of the word "telepathy" and Eliot herself, though she deplored spiritualism. Nor did Darwin think much of the occasion, finding it "hot and tiring" and leaving early.
Myers, the true believer among that evening's gathering, later went on to found, with the philosopher Henry Sidgwick, the Society for Psychical Research, which would boast among its presidents William James and Henri Bergson, and attract figures such as Tennyson, Gladstone, the physicists Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Barrett, and Arthur Balfour, the "last grandee", as his biographer called him, one of the richest men in Britain, whose repressive policies as chief secretary for Ireland earned him the nickname Bloody Balfour. Balfour's account of humankind's post-Darwinian predicament is plangent and heartfelt: "Man . . . is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir to all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory accident in the life of the meanest of the planets." Out of this appalling realisation on the part of Balfour and so many of his circle sprang the new and pathetic faith in spiritualism.
Balfour was no dupe but a thoroughgoing sceptic, yet he firmly believed in the possibility of communication from beyond the grave. He and other spiritualists were supported in this belief by a vast project of automatic writings, or "cross-correspondences", amassed over 30 years by various mediums. "The people involved in the cross-correspondences," Gray writes, "belonged to the topmost stratum of Edwardian society. Many of those involved had suffered agonising bereavements; some had long-hidden personal relationships. The scripts became a vehicle for unresolved personal loss, and for secret love."
They were also to become, as Gray has it, "the vehicle of a Plan". In a bizarre venture undertaken by an inner core of the English spiritualists, acting under the guidance of the scripts, a new messiah was to be conceived through an extra-marital union between Winifred Coombe-Tennant, a suffragist and British delegate to the League of Nations, and Balfour's brother Gerald, a Tory politician. "The task of the 'spirit-child'," Gray writes, "was to deliver humanity from chaos. Scientifically programmed to perform its role, the child would develop into an extraordinary human being, who would bring peace and justice to the world." Alas, the secret saviour, Henry Coombe-Tennant, turned out to be an ordinary sort of chap, though he did have an interesting life Eton, Cambridge, Welsh Guards, MI6 and work for Kim Philby and in the end fulfilled some small part of his spiritual role by converting to Catholicism and becoming a monk.
And so far, mark you, we are not more than a third of the way through this engrossing book. In the central section, "God-builders", Gray traces a fantastically intricate web of connections between HG Wells, his mistress, the Russian siren Moura Budberg, and Lenin, Gorky, Stalin and a crazy crew of Soviet fantasists, conspirators and mass murderers. Wells, who began as an optimistic Darwinist, became increasingly disenchanted with the future. Not so Gorky, who wrote: "Personally, I prefer to imagine man as a machine, which transmutes in itself so-called 'dead matter' into a psychical energy and will, in some far-away future, transform the whole world into a purely psychical one . . . Everything will disappear, being transmuted into pure thought, which alone will exist, incarnating the entire mind of humanity . . ."
Such teleological wishfulness was as nothing compared to the mad dreams of the group of savants who hatched the scheme not only to embalm Lenin's body but to ensure that one day the man himself would be brought back from the dead. And that was only the start. As one of these dreamers, Nikolai Federov, wrote: "Our duty, our task, consists in bringing back to life all who have died . . ." The Bolshevik project, in other words, was to abolish death, not only in the future but in the past, also. Lenin's tomb its architect, AV Shchusev, later designed Moscow's Lubyanka prison would be the symbol of this great instauration. The tomb was built in the form of three great cubes, after the teachings of the visionary artist Kasimir Malevich, who considered geometrical forms as the embodiment of a higher reality. Gray writes: "In harmony with this philosophy Malevich suggested that every follower of Lenin should keep a cube in a corner of the home. His proposal was adopted, and the Party ordered that cubes be distributed. Shrines to the dead leader were set up in 'Lenin corners' in factories and offices throughout the country."
And then there was Stalin . . .
John Gray is a connoisseur of human idiocy. In this brief, modest-seeming yet profound book he makes his most compelling plea yet for man to come to his senses and stop dreaming of immortality, for himself and for the earth. He is no fundamentalist atheist he despises the Dawkins doctrine yet along with his much-admired Wallace Stevens he would have us acknowledge that here is all we shall know of heaven, or of hell. He does not expect enlightenment soon. As he writes in "Sweet Mortality", the very beautiful closing section of the book, "The hopes that led to Lenin's corpse being sealed in a Cubist mausoleum have not been surrendered. Cheating ageing by a low-calorie diet, uploading one's mind into a super-computer, migrating into outer space . . . Longing for everlasting life, humans show that they remain the death-defined animal."
John Gray's The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death (London: Allen Lane, 288pp)
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"
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Protecting Remote Workers Against COVID-19 Ransomware
by Dice Staff June 9, 2020 9 min read
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Even before the global COVID-19 pandemic, ransomware stood out as one of the biggest security challenges facing CISOs and their security staffs. These malware incidents exploded in 2019, and the switch to a nearly all work-from-home workforce in the past several months has opened up new avenues for cybercriminals to exploit.
In May, security firm Sophos released a study on ransomware attacks that included responses from 5,000 IT managers around the world; it found that over 50 percent of the organizations surveyed reported a ransomware attack. The study was conducted between January and February, just before the pandemic hit.
The average cost to an organization that didn't pay the ransom totaled more than $732,000, while victims that did pay off their attacker saw their cleanup and recovery costs rise to more than $1.4 million, according to the Sophos study. It's one reason law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, urge those targeted by ransomware not to pay cybercriminals.
Once the COVID-19 pandemic began, ransomware attacks continued, including incidents involving healthcare and research organizations at the frontlines of treating the virus, according to Microsoft, which published its own in-depth study of the issue in April.
And there's no letup in sight. Take the recent case of the high-powered New York law firm of Grubman Shire Meiselas and Sacks, which has a roster of A-list celebrity clients, including Lady Gaga, U2 and Madonna. Here, a cybercriminal gang dubbed REvil (also known as Sodinokibi) attacked, stole and encrypted thousands of legal documents and files, threatening to release them if a $42 million demand wasn't met.
It appears that the operators of REvil may have gained access to the law firm's networks months prior to announcing the actual attack in early May, so while COVID-19 might explain some ransomware attacks, it can't account for all of them. Still, security experts are warning that work-from-home environments, which rely on employees remotely connecting to a network, lack security controls. Cybercriminals are more than willing to exploit this situation.
"The pandemic-induced remote workforce model has made getting an initial toehold easier, as many company-owned laptops are now logging many more hours outside the relatively protected shelter of the corporate office," Oliver Tavakoli, the CTO of security firm Vectra, told Dice.
Locking Down RDP
One of the consequences of work-from-home environments is the increasing use of remote access tools to connect with corporate resources. For many employees, it's using VPNs. For system administrators and IT workers, it's through remote desktop protocol (RDP).
Since COVID-19, the amount of attacks against RDP and other types of remote access tools has increased. In April, for example, Kaspersky published a report that found brute-force attacks targeting the usernames and passwords of RDP connections had increased with the rise of the new remote workforce. Once RDP is compromised, attackers can deploy malware, move laterally through the network and steal data.
In addition, ransomware gangs favor using compromised RDP connections, along with phishing emails, to gain footholds in networks and begin extensive reconnaissance before finding which files and data they want to encrypt and steal, according to a recent report from security firm Coveware. This gives them the maximum leverage against their victims when demanding ransom.
The operators of REvil, which attacked the New York celebrity law firm, are one of several ransomware gangs that are known to target vulnerable RDP connections.
In the rush to create these types of remote connections to support employees in the wake of COVID-19, organizations may have opened the door to future attacks if proper security procedures aren't in place.
"If the data that is of high value—and which would command a large ransom—is behind the firewalls on the corporate network, only employees who generally access the corporate network—via VPN or RDP or VDI—can be used as conduits for the lateral spread," Tavakoli said. "In such scenarios, attacks on employees who utilize this type of access become more central elements in deeper ransomware attacks. In their haste to get everyone working from home, some organizations exposed bastion hosts via difficult-to-secure protocols like RDP directly to the Internet. Such shortcuts can contribute to the likelihood of a successful ransomware attack."
Xue Yin Peh, a senior cyber threat intelligence analyst at security firm Digital Shadows, believes that now is the time for CISOs and their teams to reassess some of the ways employees and staff use remote connections before giving ransomware gangs additional ways to infiltrate corporate networks.
One sure-fire way is to disable connections for those who don't need the access for their jobs, Peh said: "Where RDP is required, organizations should look to restrict access… Standard methods like putting RDP access behind a VPN, using Remote Desktop Gateway, or using firewalls to limit access to remote desktop listening ports will make it more challenging for unauthorized RDP connections."
Think Retraining
Security experts agree that now is also the time to rethink the way employees are trained, which also includes IT professionals and developers who rely on remote access connections such as RDP for their job. An increase in security awareness, especially with how ransomware attacks start and the weaknesses that cybercriminals look for, could make a big difference for how organizations secure their networks and data.
"So, should these dangers shift the way an organization hires and trains their security workforce and employees? Not the way in which the organization hires—continue to look for smart people who are willing to user their judgment and consider risk in their decisions," Tavakoli said "But training on how to provide secure remote access to sensitive parts of the network is clearly something that should be front-and-center during a time when almost no one is in the office."
In addition, Peh believes, now is the time for CISOs to implement best-in-class security protections and insist that all employees use multi-factor authentication and be aware that attackers are looking to compromise credentials.
"As compromised credentials are often used to gain access to a network, these programs should also teach employees to identify suspicious websites and not to provide their credentials on potentially malicious websites," Peh said. "Remembering complicated passwords is tedious, but enforcing a strong password policy is a necessary evil, as weak credentials are common points for failure in cyberattacks."
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Sleep hygiene is important. However, in addition to making the same bedtime a habit, it helps to make the activities around bedtime consistent.
Last week at Force of Well we talked about the importance of sleep, so this week I am highlighting a few things you can do to improve your sleep. Not only will I explain what these are and why they are important, but how they work to improve your nighttime routine. So let's get to it!
Sleep hygiene is important and you can learn more about that in last week's post. However, in addition to making the same bedtime a habit, it helps to make the activities around bedtime consistent. This helps signal to your mind and body that it is time for sleep. This can also help us reduce our blue light exposure (more about this later) by taking TV, computer, and cell phones out of our before bed activities. For example, the 30-60 minutes before bed could involve preparing clothes, lunch, etc. for the next day along with your nightly hygiene and some light reading.
2. Only use your bed for sleeping.
This probably seems like an odd statement, but many people have a television in their bedroom, and these days we bring our laptop, tablet, smart phone, and everything else to bed with us. Falling to sleep while watching TV is a very common practice, but it is one of the worst things for sleep quality. The flickering light from a television is even worse than just using a smart phone or tablet.
It is also important to not relax in bed throughout the day, because this trains your mind that the bed is not just for sleep. Just like establishing a routine around bedtime, it is important that your routine regarding your bed is just sleeping there.
After poor sleep hygiene, blue light is thought to be the second most common reason for poor sleep. Blue light is emitted from our electronic devices. It is thought to inhibit the release of melatonin and sleepiness. Interestingly, studies have been conflicting on whether blue light causes less restful sleep. However, studies have either shown that people sleep the same or worse after blue light exposure, never better.
One option to decrease this exposure is to utilize functions like Night Shift on the iPhone which filters out the blue light. Similar utilities are available on other smart phones as well as on desktop computers. They often can be configured to begin working at a certain time and turn off automatically. As you might expect, they do alter the look of your screen, but it may be worth it for better sleep. I use Night Shift every night on my phone and no longer notice much of a difference.
However, some studies have shown that the groups exposed to lavender oil, often in the form of a patch applied to their skin before sleep, did report more restful sleep when compared to the control groups. While it may not be absolute proof, lavender oil does appear to work for some people and it is a natural solution to help with sleep. It is certainly worth trying if you are having trouble sleeping and want to avoid prescription medications.
Melatonin is a hormone made by the pineal gland located in the brain. Levels of melatonin increase in the evening when the sun goes down, and increase in the morning when the sun rises. Melatonin's function is to make us feel more sleepy, but some of us do not produce enough or we inhibit adequate melatonin release by getting too much light exposure before bed.
Melatonin is sold over the counter as a supplement and can be used to help those of us that have trouble sleeping. It is recommended that it be taken 30-60 minutes prior to bedtime. However, it is important to consult your health care provider before starting any new medications or supplements, because they can interfere with what you are already taking.
What About Prescription Sleep Medications?
Prescription medications such as Ambien and Lunesta are available for people with severe insomnia. However, these drugs have many adverse effects and may lead to dependence. There have been multiple reports of people sleep walking, sleep driving, and having vivid nightmares because of these medications. This is not to say they should never be used, but it may be better to try some alternatives first.
What is your nighttime routine? Have you overcome trouble sleeping? Please share your thoughts and experiences in the comments below, on social media, or any other platform. Have a great week and be well!
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Those polaroid moments have come to mean something else now. Holding on to a sense of the snapshot, they are nostalgic by the nature of their production, catching a moment just as it passes but in their aging are now a film type imbued with a sense of history, transforming contemporary scenes into memories. And the transitional landscapes of seaside towns are perfectly suited for its film, already coated with that seaside holiday romanticism. Recognising the wonder of this relationship, photographer Rhiannon Adam's located the ideal seafront, travelling to Margate, "the gateway to the sea", a place stained with the memories of countless British summer holiday; of fish and chips and rock and ice cream and plastic buckets and a lot of concrete and arcades and created Dreamlands Wastelands.
With the aim of capturing a sense of the history of Margate just as it experiences a resurgence, Rhiannon focused on "what is beautiful about Margate – then, and now" whilst using an expired film to induce a sense of past, furthered by the cracks and imperfections of the film. Looking at her photographs, we are back on the coast, toes in the sand, smell of vinegar in the air, the tinny noises of the arcades echoing over the pier.


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November 2, 2021: Foley Weekly Automotive Report
This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities.
U.S. new light-vehicle sales in October are forecast to reach a SAAR ranging from 11.8 million to 13.5 million units, according to estimates from Cox Automotive, Ward's Intelligence and J.D. Power and LMC Automotive.
North America lost nearly 830,000 units of light-vehicle production in the third quarter of 2021, representing an increase of 60,000 units from the second quarter.
GM and Ford reported double-digit profit declines for the third quarter, and Stellantis reported a 30% production loss. However, none of the three automakers reduced full-year guidance, signaling their optimism for a potential easing of the most severe impacts of the chip shortage.
Lead times for semiconductor orders can be up to 38 weeks for scarce parts such as automotive microcontrollers, and are at an average of 22 weeks industrywide, according to an assessment of the ongoing effects of the global chip shortage in The Wall Street Journal.
Bosch plans to invest over €400 million to expand its semiconductor manufacturing facilities next year, with the focus on its fabrication sites in Dresden and Reutlingen, Germany, as well as a new test center in Malaysia.
Subaru will disable its StarLink system for Massachusetts-delivered vehicles in order to comply with the state's right-to-repair law, which requires that automakers make their telematics data easily accessible by third-party repair shops.
Lear will acquire substantially all of Konsberg Automotive's comfort seating business unit for $202 million, in a deal that is expected to increase product offerings and enhance vehicle performance and packaging.
According to unnamed sources in Reuters, Mexico wants a panel of experts to resolve a disagreement with the U.S. over how to apply automotive-sector content requirements under the USMCA.
Average daily confirmed COVID-19 cases in Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines are now at less than half the level that they were at the start of September, indicating a potential easing of supply chain bottlenecks resulting from pandemic-related factory closures.
Electric vehicles and low emissions technology:
IHS Markit estimates that new EV sales in the U.S. – EVs, fuel cell EVs, hybrid EVs, and plug-in hybrids – reached 170,085 units in the second quarter of 2021, up by nearly 33% from the first quarter. IHS notes that much of the growth is due to Tesla.
Amazon holds a 20% stake in Rivian, according to a securities filing last week.
Lucid Motors began deliveries of its Air Dream Edition all-electric sedans; the initial production run is limited to 520 units.
A $1.75 trillion spending proposal unveiled by the White House last week would support consumer tax credits for electric vehicles that are union-made in the U.S. The tax credits have been met with opposition by eleven Republican governors, the Canadian government, and a dozen international automakers including Toyota and Volkswagen. The House bill is subject to further negotiation.
Solid state cells could eventually become a less expensive alternative to lithium ion cells, but currently there are no commercially viable light-vehicle options.
Market Trends and Regulatory
The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association expects the global chip shortage to persist into 2022, noting that "supply will not be in line with demand," and light vehicle production will be "substantially lower than expected this year and next."
The Federal Trade Commission updated its Safeguards Rule, which includes requirements for non-banking financial institutions — including auto dealerships — to "develop, implement, and maintain a comprehensive security system to keep their customers' information safe." The update was motivated by the increase of data breaches and cyberattacks.
U.S. GDP growth slowed to 2% in the third quarter, as the nation's economy was impacted by supply chain constraints.
NHTSA estimates there were 20,160 motor vehicle traffic fatalities in the first six months of 2021 in the U.S., representing an increase of 18.4% compared to the same period last year when many areas were experiencing pandemic lockdowns. This also represents the highest number of fatalities during the first half of the year since 2006.
The U.S. and EU agreed to end a dispute over steel and aluminum tariffs imposed during the Trump administration.
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy issued a second air quality violation notice for Stellantis' new Jeep assembly plant in Detroit.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is advising Tesla to act on the agency's 2017 recommendations to limit where its Autopilot driver-assist system can operate.
OEMs/Suppliers
Production impact of the semiconductor shortage –
GM will resume overtime shifts at six North American plants in November, which impacts vehicles including light-duty Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks, midsize GMC Canyon and Chevrolet Colorado trucks, and full-size SUVs such as the GMC Yukon and Cadillac Escalade.
Toyota reported that its global production fell by more than a third in September from a year earlier, and global sales declined by 16%, due to shortages of semiconductors and other key components.
Eberspaecher, a German supplier of automotive exhaust and thermal management systems, experienced an "organized cyberattack" that affected its IT infrastructure.
Shyft Group Inc. announced a $53 million contract from the U.S. Postal Service to supply it with 447 Utilimaster truck bodies to be used for bulk mail delivery.
Volvo Cars shares closed at 23% above offering price after making their Stockholm market debut on Friday.This was below the top of the company's initial target range for the offering.
Navistar will pay a $52 million civil penalty as part of a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over emissions violations.
Toyota will invest $461 million in its Georgetown, Kentucky plant to expand its engine offerings, upgrade the plant with advanced manufacturing technologies, and broaden the site's "ability to produce new products, including future electrification."
Connected/Autonomous Vehicles and Mobility Services
Apple may introduce a vehicle crash-detection feature for iPhones and Apple Watches next year, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Electric Vehicles and Low Emissions Technology
A group of 28 businesses and nonprofits are urging Michigan's state legislature to invest $600 million for electric-vehicle and alternative fuel infrastructure, as well as workforce training, and site preparation.
GM will partner with dealers to install up to 40,000 Level 2 chargers beginning in 2022 through a newly announced Dealer Community Charging Program. The automaker is also providing a new line of three Ultium-branded Level 2 smart charging stations for customers to purchase online or through dealerships.
GM resumed limited Chevrolet Bolt production November 1, following a shutdown that began in August due to an expanded recall for the vehicles' risk of battery fire.
Stellantis announced that its four new electrified platforms will ultimately each support the production of up to 2 million vehicles annually.
According to Bloomberg, small auto suppliers in Japan may be particularly at risk for business continuity as the industry transitions to electric vehicles.
Hertz intends to make 50,000 Teslas available in Uber's ride-sharing network by 2023. The vehicles will be part of the rental car company's initial order of 100,000 vehicles.
Tesla will launch a pilot program at 10 locations in the Netherlands that will open its Supercharger network for the first time to non-Tesla EVs.
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Government talk about agility and innovation is quite worrying for some Australians, and only 50 per cent of businesses are 'innovative active', Labor's Kim Carr told the National Press Club on Monday.
Speaking at an innovation debate – which also included the minister for industry, innovation and science, Christopher Pyne – Labor's industry spokesman said many people are anxious about how innovation is changing industries.
"There's deep concern in this country about what is occurring in the economy – we have not had a real wage increase for some time and numbers of people are very anxious about their futures. This talk about agility and innovation and the new economy in some quarters is actually quite worrying for people," Carr claimed.
Meanwhile, Pyne defended Australia's innovation record, and a lack of 'champions' of innovative manufacturing in this country.
In the last 10 years, Australia has lost 400,000 jobs across manufacturing, mining and agriculture, Pyne said. At the same time, there have been 1.4 million new jobs created in the technology and start-up industry.
"We are transitioning to a new economy and that will continue into the future. I don't agree that we won't have heroes or outstanding outcomes in the innovation sector," he said.
Pyne highlighted Atlassian, the $2 billion NASDAQ-listed technology company that was founded in Sydney – and ISP Internode in South Australia as examples of innovative businesses.
Pyne said this was why the government – in its $1.1 billion national science and innovation agenda – had allocated $200 million to a CSIRO innovation fund to support the commercialisation of research.
Pyne also flagged the government's $250 million Biomedical Translation Fund, designed to turn biomedical research into products and services.
"I'm optimistic about that part of the economy and I think it will continue to grow," Pyne said.
Carr argued that the government has cut innovative programs that the previous Labor government had implemented to build innovative capability.
"Every single one of the announcements that the minister has talked about in terms of the government initiatives are basically scaled down versions of what we had in place under the 'Powering Ideas' [policy].
"And there's been a substantial reduction in government expenditure across the board, so the CSIRO has not only had to cope with $115 million cut in the 2014 budget, but all it's external revenues were affected as a result of reductions in the environment policies that occurred, which underpins their ability to invest in new capabilities," he said.


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Barkatullah University was originally founded as Bhopal University in 1970. The university was renamed in 1988 after the great freedom fighter Prof. Barkatullah. The university affiliates the colleges of Bhopal district and other neighbouring districts like Sehore, Vidisha , Raisen, Betul, Hoshangabad, Harda, and Rajgarh. Barkatullah University has been accredited as a B category university by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).
The university is a teaching and an affiliating institution. In 1974-75, the Institute of Open and Distance Education was established with the permission of UGC for distance education. The campus of Barkatullah University covers 360 acres. There are postgraduate courses, certificate courses, diploma courses, M. Phil programmes, post-doctoral fellowship, etc. There are 26 self-financing courses offered. There are ten faculties in the college and 23 teaching departments.
The University covers almost a full spectrum of higher education, offering courses in its affiliated colleges and the teaching departments in the faculties of Arts, Social Science, Science, Life Science, Home Science, Medicine, Commerce and Business Management, Law, Engineering, Education and Technical Education. The Chakravarty Rajagopalachari Institute of Management (CRIM) provides a full-time course in Business Management and the Institute of Open and Distance Learning, the only Institute of its kind in the State, provides undergraduate and diploma courses through correspondence.
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The Cardenal Quintero Municipality is one of the 23 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Mérida and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 9,546.  The town of Santo Domingo is the administrative centre of the Cardenal Quintero Municipality.

Demographics
The Cardenal Quintero Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 9,546 (up from 8,049 in 2000).  This amounts to 1.1% of the state's population.  The municipality's population density is .

Government
The mayor of the Cardenal Quintero Municipality is Pedro Segundo Rivas Moreno, re-elected on October 31, 2004, with 89% of the vote.  The municipality is divided into two parishes; Capital Cardenal Quintero and Las Piedras.

See also
Santo Domingo
Mérida
Municipalities of Venezuela

References

Municipalities of Mérida (state)

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Not all vehicles have timing belts. The ones that do will cost you more to maintain (for cheap motoring, choose a car with a timing CHAIN instead). Changing timing belts are not an optional extra, if they break, in most modern engines, the engine will be basically non-repairable (expect repair costs to be between $4000-$7000). The timing belt connects the crankshaft (which drives the gearbox), to the camshaft/s (the one pictured has 2 camshafts at the top of the engine).
Some cars need timing belts done every 150,000 (or 8 years), and some every 60,000 (or every 4 years – like the German built Astra or Viva).
It takes around 4 hours to fit a timing belt to a 4 cylinder. The front of the engine has to be removed. V6 engines with a timing belt (Magna, Camry), are more complex. Some engines have the water pump running off the timing belt, and it's good policy to change the water pump at the same time on these vehicles. I NEVER recommend changing a timing belt WITHOUT changing the idler and tensioner pulleys as well. It is truly false economy, but it can be done at the customers request. Vehciles with hydraulic tensioners can be very expensive to replace ($1600). MOst timing belt jobs come in at between $500-$1000.
It is worth knowing about your timing belt BEFORE you purchase a vehicle.


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3rd-generation Google Chromecast purchased at Best Buy weeks early
For better or worse, the design is staying exactly the same.
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It's been a hot minute (read, 3 years) since Google updated the Chromecast, but a recent FCC filing made it seem a new model was coming. If a redditor who managed to buy one early is to be believed, not only do we have a good look at the new model, we also have a date for its public release — and a better idea of when the Google Pixel 3 event will be held.
Redditor /u/GroveStreetHomie says that they found this on the shelf at their local Best Buy, and when they went to buy it, the cashier couldn't ring it up, as the SKU had been held the system for an October 9th release date. Luckily for us all, since the new and old Chromecasts have the same price, the store staff apparently let them buy it under the current generation Chromecast's SKU. Upon getting it home, they gave us all a quick comparison of the 2nd and 3rd generation:
"It seems a little thicker."
"The top is no longer glossy and the Chrome logo has been replaced with the G Google logo."
"Still micro-USB (sad right)."
"They did remove the magnetic HDMI connector on the tip and base of the Chromecast which is a bummer."
Sticking to microUSB is indeed unfortunate, as is the loss of the magnets for easy cable management and securing of the Chromecast to the back of your TV. We can't see how the new model performs — if it indeed has Bluetooth support as the FCC filing suggested — as the current Google Home app is incompatible with the new model, but we won't have much longer to wait.
After all, October 9th is only 10 days away. The question is, will that date only bring a new Chromecast, or the new Google Pixel 3, too?
According to the FCC listing from August, this new Chromecast will be the first to support Bluetooth. The current model does have a Bluetooth chip, but it's only used during the initial setup process and can't be enabled by users afterward.
The FCC documents show that Google thought about just sending a software update to the exisitng Chromecast to enable this functionality, but "because this new model requires a new equipment code (DSS) not covered by the original certification for FCC ID A4RNC2-6A5, the new version of device requires a new FCC ID."
Along with Bluetooth functionality, the new Chromecast will also offer improved Wi-Fi reception with 5GHz networks:
This device has been changed to include a 0.5 mm trim on the 5GHz PCB antenna trace that increases the 5GHz maximum antenna gain from 2.1 dBi to 4 dBi.
Google might announce the new Chromecast at its upcoming Pixel 3 event that's expected to take place in early October, but seeing as how the design for the updated model will be identical to the current one, it's entirely possible it'll simply be sold in place of the existing Chromecast with no fanfare surrounding it. The October 9th release date mentioned by the Best Buy staff it still fast approaching, and we still do not know exactly when the Made by Google event will be.
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Nate Green vs. Josh Crespo The New Haven Grudge Match Fans Cannot Afford to Miss
Oct 4, 2017 | Boxing, MMA
On October 5, 2017, Josh Crespo (7-5-3, 3 KOs) and Nate Green (9-0, 2 KOs) will meet in the ring for the second time in their young careers in the "Elm City Grudge Match," the co-feature of Thursday's installment of the Mohegan Sun's Rising Stars Boxing Series presented by Main Events. From their contrasting styles to their deep homegrown rivalry, this matchup is guaranteed to deliver fireworks on Thursday night.
Josh Crespo is an aggressive, in-your-face puncher who will stand toe-to-toe with anyone and everyone. He has solid power, a durable chin and fights with an attitude.
In the opposite corner, Nate Green is a technical boxer. Although he lacks the power that his opponent possesses, he does not hesitate to engage. He has a pin-point accurate jab, superb defense and has fought better opposition than Crespo.
Crespo has been calling for this rematch for the last year. While he could have taken the easier road, and built up his record against lesser opposition, he knows a win over Green will be pivotal at this point in his career. He has experienced both high and low points thus far, but he is a fighter who time-after-time puts it all on the line and is willing to go out on his shield. He understands that the window of opportunity for professional fighters is very slim, so he sought out this opportunity and the risks that come with it.
Nate Green is coming off a game-changing win of his own, with an upset decision over Emanuel Rivera in Ponce, Puerto Rico – Rivera's backyard. Less than two months after the biggest win of his career, Green will get right back in the ring with a hometown rival and familiar foe, but in a higher weight class than their first fight. Green believes that staying active is more important than trying to protect his perfect record, so he is approaching this rematch as a necessary step on his quest to become a world champion.
But perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the fight is the rivalry between Crespo and Green. Both fighters call New Haven, Connecticut their home, so they will each have significant, opposing crowd support at the Mohegan Sun Arena come fight night. They fight out of competing New Haven boxing gyms, which combined with their first matchup, fuels their deep dislike for each other. Both fighters train at rival gyms at the opposite side of New Haven and Crespo and Green are at the forefront of that rivalry.
According the Main Events' Matchmaker and 2015 NABF Matchmaker of the Year Jolene Mizzone, "This is a great fight all around. Nate Green is putting his undefeated record on the line against a hungry rival looking for redemption. I wish more fighters would take these types of fights. Not only are they great for the New Haven fans but it is a great fight in the ring too."
About October 5: The Mohegan Sun's Rising Stars Boxing Series hosts its third installment with a rare Thursday Night edition at the Arena at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. The Main Event features a ten-round middleweight match-up between Rising Stars' staple Vaughn Alexander and former middleweight title contender Elvin Ayala. The series is presented by Mohegan Sun and Main Events and feature boxing prospects from New England and around the world. Tickets start at $40 and are available now through Ticketmaster and the Mohegan Sun box office.
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Are you ready for August book releases? Here's a roundup!
If you work with Kg-3rd grade readers, this series is a MUST - Meet Yasmin! A review and author interview.
Part 2 of picture book biographies - people who made an impact on the world.
A young boy decides enough is enough - he is going to accessorize with his favorite item, a red purse. And when everyone he meets throughout his day tells him it's not ok to wear a purse and lists all the things a boy should like, he calmly explains he likes what he likes. Great book to show gender "norms" don't need to be the norm and to be proud of yourself.
I loved I Hear a Pickle by the same author so I was so excited to see there was another book coming. Pickle focused on the senses, and this one focuses on dogs! I bet you already know some readers for this book, maybe even you!
Look for it on Aug. 21st!
When Jillian Heise pulls you aside at ALA and tells you go get in line for this book, you want it.... well, you listen!
- how can you inspire change?
- what did the wall mean to you?
- where do you see yourself in the pages of the book?
Make sure you get this on Sept. 4th!
Oooooh, I liked this one! I already recommended it. It's a great book to share with kids to let them know it's ok to feel worried and that others feel that way too. The solution in this book is to talk about your worry. Definitely relatable for even a pretty young reader.
Oh, I loved this poetry book. Clever poems about colors that will delight young readers. On the opposite page there is either scientific or historical information about the colors that is really interesting. And gorgeous and bright illustrations throughout the book. This is one to add to your poetry collection!
I liked Raymie Nightingale, but for me it still fell short of Kate's previous works. But this one seems to be getting back on track. I think it had more heart. Many of Kate's characters have a reason to like them - India Opal and her need to fill that missing part of her heart.... Gollie for being so spunky and trying things with her eyes closed....Eugenia and Baby Lincoln for, well, being themselves. Louisiana because her heart is so open but finding really good people to share it with is hard. I can't wait to see how this one is received by young readers.
This was a really fascinating read. Mr. Curtis writes it in a dialect that could potentially be difficult for young kids to read. It's in a deep rooted Southern dialect. I even found myself having to gloss over words and just get the basic meaning. If I tried to get each word correct, I think I would still be reading it! But, it really helps you understand the setting.
I found it very interesting that Curtis writes from the point of view of a young, white sharecropper. The situation he writes about is during the time when slaves often escaped to Canada to make sure they had their freedom, yet slave catchers were allowed, and rewarded, for bringing slaves back to owners.
So far I am loving this one! It's got the feels of one of my all time favorite books - Snicker of Magic!
I will be taking next week off to spend time with family before school starts. It was such a busy summer, and I'm not sure I got everything done I wanted to, but another school year is waiting! Hoping to get some reading in to help finalize some Mock Newbery plans!
I'm looking forward to Hey, Wall. I didn't love Raymie Nightingale as much as others did, but I am looking forward to Louisiana's Way Home. Enjoy your family time before school starts!
I am more intrigued to read Hey Wall, I agree if Jillian Heise tells you to do something, You Do IT! I hope you enjoyed ALA this year, I am hoping to attend the Scholastic Conference or Nerd Camp next year.
I put a hold on Hey Wall! at my library, and will read Louisiana's Way Home soon, Michele. Thanks for sharing Ruby's Worry, too. It sounds like one I'd like to know about.
My Dog Laughs looks so cute. And I'm really looking forward to reading The Three Rules of Everyday Magic! Can't wait to hear your thoughts on that one. Have a wonderful reading week, Michele!
So many awesome books this week! I put My Dog Laughs on hold at my library but it hasn't come in yet. Looking forward to reading it!
Isn't Vivid wonderful? Excited to share this one with students!
Raymie Nightingale didn't do it for me, either, although I definitely had not one but TWO batons during the same time period when the book is set! May have to look at Everyday Magic, although my fantasy readers haven't taken to Snicker at all.
So both my kiddos suffer with anxiety. I do like to get books that show worrying and anxiety are normal and they aren't the only ones who feel this way. Excited to add Ruby's Worry to our list of books we can read on the subject.
So many books to check out based on your great post! I'm especially drawn to the poetry book and Hey, Wall. I included Louisiana's Way Home in my #IMWAYR! today, and I have to say, I re-read Raymie again, after reading Louisiana, and have a new appreciation for it. I loved Louisiana's Way Home.
I'm definitely looking forward to reading Louisiana's Way Home. I love all of Kate DiCamillo's books. Have a great week!
I keep hearing about Hey, Wall--will especially look forward to that title. Thanks, Michele!


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Do you want the strength to withstand tough challenges? Experience a lasting bond with someone? Connect with spirits and ghosts? Be immortal and spiritual over multiple lifetimes?
The plumeria flower was believed to have these and other powers in different cultures and at various stages in its history. While the name plumeria—after the seventeenth-century French botanist Charles Plumier—seems to be preferred by botanists and English-speakers, the common name frangipani is said to have its origins with a sixteenth-century marquis of a noble family in Italy who claimed to invent a plumeria scented perfume. The name comes from Italian—'frangi' meaning breaking and 'pani' meaning bread, a reference to the distribution of bread during times of famine for which the family of the marquis was known.
As can be expected, the names and uses of this floral differ with region and culture. In Persian, the name is yasmin, in Bengali kath champa, in Hindi champa, and in Hawaii melia. In Sri Lanka it's referred to as araliya or temple tree. The name lilawaadi is used in Indonesia, and in Bali it's jepun. In French Polynesia it's called tipanier while in the Phillipines it's kalachuchi. In India the flower is called davaga nagale and in Vietnam, ca su which means porcelain tree.
Frangipani is a small genus of 7-8 species that grows in the tropical and subtropical Americas. The species are indigenous to Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Asia, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Some can also be found in Brazil mainly grown as cosmopolitan ornamentals. Frangipani has spread to all tropical areas of the world including Hawaii where it's so plentiful most locals are convinced it's native.
Please note that this section is for information purposes only. The benefits/effect listed below are not necessarily clinically proven, they are mainly the reported experiences of users and practitioners of folk and traditional healing/medical systems. This information is not intended as medical advice. Always consult a suitably qualified health-care practitioner for medical advice.
Some health benefits provided by Frangipani essential oil are discussed below:
The essential oil of Frangipani is used to moisturize skin in massage therapy. The oil assures that the skin remains soft and is helpful for dry and cracked skin, so those who are suffering from skin problems may want to consider adding this essential oil to the regular routine. Frangipani essential oil is also an astringent which causes contraction of skin cells as well as body tissues.
Relieves headache
Those who suffer from severe headaches may find this essential oil to be helpful. Frangipani essential oil possesses anti-inflammatory properties which help to treat severe headaches as well as other kinds of pain such as muscle and back pain.
Acts as stimulant
Frangipani essential oil acts is a mild stimulant that can assist in maintaining the health of the circulatory, nervous and other body systems.
Frangipani essential oil is loaded with antioxidants which help to eliminate free radicals from the body thereby reducing inflammation which goes a long way towards maintaining the healthy functioning of the body.
Lowers stress
Frangipani essential oil helps to lower stress which calms the mind and helps to restore hormonal balance to the body. The essential oil also has a sedative that can help improve sleep.
Uses in Traditional and Folk Medicine
In India, the plant is used as a remedy for diarrhea and to treat itch.
The milky juice is used for treating rheumatism and inflammation.
The bark is used for fever, diarrhea, cysts, and in treating gonorrhea.
The flowers are consumed with betel nut to cure ague.
Natives of Mexico use it for fevers, skin complaints and for treating edema.
The milky latex is used for sores and toothache.
A concentrate made from the leaves is used for cracks and abrasions on the sole of feet.
An infusion made from flower is used as a cosmetic in Thailand.
The bark, shoot, and flowers are used in Myanmar for pruritis, leprosy and to treat carbuncles, boils and ascites.
The shoots and flowers are useful for treating Malaria symptoms.
A concentrate made from the flower is used to treat diabetes in Mexico.
Frangipani is used to relieve menstrual pain and to prevent fainting due to heat stroke or sun exposure.
The scraped bark is used for treating scabies and wounds from poisonous fish.
Juice from the bark is used to treat amoebic dysentery.
The sap is used for treating stings of bees and wasps, and centipede bites.
The sap of Frangipani is used to treat moles and warts.
Fragrance of the Night-Beauty and Betrayal
These beautiful flowers, which come in a variety of colors, are most fragrant at night as a trick of nature to lure sphinx moths to pollinate them. So what's the trick? The flowers yield no nectar but the moths think there is because of the scent. During the fruitless search for the promised nectar, the moths inadvertently transfer the pollen from flower to flower.
The species are easily cultivated by cutting leafless stem tips in spring, allowing them to dry, and finally planning them in well-drained soil. They should only be watered when totally dry.
Whether grown in the ground, large planters or pots, against walls, or on balconies, these colorful flowers with their divine scent certainly give one a sense of heavenly bliss!
Frangipani is a Truly International Phenomenon!
From the period of the Maya and Aztec empires to present, the plumeria plant has played in important cultural role in Central American societies for well over two millennia. The Maya people associate it with life and fertility, with the flowers connected with female sexuality. At the height of the Aztec Empire plumerias were a status symbol, often appearing in the gardens of nobles.
In southern and Southeast Asia, plumerias feature in folk tales as places of shelter for ghosts and spirits.
It is not uncommon in the same region to find the flowers in Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist temples.
In several Pacific islands, such as Tahiti, Fiji, Somoa, Hawaii, New Zealand, Tonga, and the Cook Islands plumeria species are used for making the lei, a traditional wreath. In modern Polynesian culture, the flower can be worn by women to indicate their relationship status—over the right ear if single, and over the left means off limits!
Plumeria ruba is the national flower of Nicaragua, where it is known under the local name sacuanjoche.
Plumeria alba is the national flower of Laos, where it is known under the local name champa or dok champa.
In Bengali culture, most white flowers, and in particular, plumeria (Bengali, chômpa or chãpa), are associated with funerals and death.
In the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia, the plumeria is often associated with ghosts and cemeteries. The plumeria's scent is also associated with the kuntilantic, an evil vampiric spirit of a dead mother in Malaysian-Indonesian folklore. Plumerias are planted on burial grounds in all three nations and in the Philippines, are common ornamental plants in houses, parks, parking lots, and open-air establishments.
Balinese Hindus use the flowers in their temple offerings.
Indian incenses fragranced with Plumeria rumbra have "champa" in their names. For example, nag champa is an incense containing a fragrance combining plumeria and sandalwood. Most champa incenses also incorporate other tree resins, such as Halmaddi (Ailanthus triphysa) and benzoin resin, as well as other floral ingredients, including champaca (Magnolia champaca), geranium (Pelargonium graveolens), and vanilla (Vanilla planifolia) to produce a more intense, plumeria-like aroma.
In the Western Ghats of Karnataka, the bride and groom exchange garlands of cream-coloured plumeria during weddings. Plumeria plants adorn many temples in these regions.
In Sri Lankan tradition, plumeria is associated with worship. One of the heavenly damsels in the frescoes of the fifth-century rock fortress Sigiriya holds a 5-petalled flower in her right hand that is indistinguishable from plumeria.
In Eastern Africa, frangipani is sometimes referred to in Swahili love poems. Some species of plumeria have been studied for their potential medicinal value.
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Boston Athletic Association is pleased to support integrity in competition, and to announce it has contracted with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency ("USADA") to provide an anti-doping program during the B.A.A. Half Marathon (the "Event"), to be held in Boston, Massachusetts, a USATF ("Sanctioning Body") sanctioned event. USADA is the independent national anti-doping organization in the United States, and runs the U.S. anti-doping program for Olympic, Paralympic, Pan-American and Parapan American movement sports, in accordance with the World Anti-Doping Code ("Code"). Boston Athletic Association has contracted with USADA to demonstrate a commitment to fair, drug-free, and safe competition. Doping, as defined in the USADA Protocol for Olympic and Paralympic Movement Testing and its Annexes (the "USADA Protocol"), is against the rules of the Event, and will not be tolerated. The anti-doping rules for the Event are set forth in the USADA Protocol and are fully applicable to each competitor, each member of the competitor's team, and all athlete support personnel involved in the Event. Any violation of the anti-doping rules may result in disqualification and loss of results achieved during the Event, in addition to all consequences that arise in accordance with the USADA Protocol and the Code.
Athletes competing in the Event are subject to blood and/or urine testing for any substance or method on the World Anti-Doping Agency ("WADA") Prohibited List: www.usada.org/prohibited-list/. In addition to testing, USADA is a resource for educational information and will have jurisdiction to handle the results management process of any potential anti-doping rule violation. All Event participants (including competitors, each member of the competitor's team, and all athlete support personnel involved in the Event) acknowledge and agree that they are subject to the Code and the USADA Protocol, and that they are required to abide by all such rules and by the anti-doping rules of the Boston Athletic Association and the Sanctioning Body. Anti-doping rule violations will be adjudicated in accordance with the USADA Protocol and each participant agrees that their sole, exclusive, final and binding remedy in relation to any potential anti-doping rule violation alleged by USADA and/or in response to any matter relating to anti-doping, sample collection, drug testing, doping control, results management and/or USADA shall be arbitration in accordance with the USADA Protocol.
As USADA is an independent entity, all athlete questions or concerns regarding details of the anti-doping program at the Event should be directed to USADA. In an effort to aid athletes, as well as all support team members such as parents, coaches, managers and paramedical personnel, in understanding the rules applicable to them, USADA provides comprehensive information on its website regarding the testing process and prohibited substances, how to obtain permission to use a necessary medication, and the risks and dangers of taking supplements as well as performance-enhancing and recreational drugs. Athletes looking for information about the testing process can start at www.usada.org/athletes. In addition, USADA manages an athlete hotline which may be used to find answers to drug reference questions at (719) 785-2000, toll-free at (866) 601-2632, and by email at athleteexpress@usada.org. Athletes may also access this information online at www.GlobalDRO.com. For information about dietary supplements, please visit USADA's Supplement 411 resource at www.Supplement411.org.
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The Monkees: Band Celebrating 50 Years with AXS TV Concert
by Jessica Pena, June 29, 2016
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The Monkees are coming back to the small screen. Entertainment Weekly reports the band will celebrate their 50th anniversary with a televised concert on AXS TV.
Formed in 1965, the band originally consisted of Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, and Davy Jones, who passed away in 2012. The quartet starred in The Monkees TV show between 1966 and 1968.
Dolenz, Nesmith, and Tork will perform as The Monkees for Mark Cuban's recently announced TV concert series, AXS TV Concerts Hosted by Mark Cuban. The five-week series will also include television concerts from Bret Michaels, Village People, KC and the Sunshine Band, and Bad Company.
The Monkees concert will premiere on August 11th at 9 p.m. ET on AXS TV.
What do you think? Are you a fan of The Monkees? Will you watch their AXS TV concert?
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It'll be hard to reminisce without Davy, but I'll likely watch anyway. For the younger readers, the Monkees were likely third in popularity during their time, behind only the Beatles and Elvis.