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Billy Elliot Live - London, 2014
Billy Elliot the Musical Live is a 2014 British filmed version of Elton John's Billy Elliot the Musical (2005), which in turn was based on the 2000 film Billy Elliot. Stephen Daldry directed both the original film and the 2014 musical adaptation.
Filmed on 28 September 2014 at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London's West End, Billy Elliot Live was broadcast live to cinemas in several European countries, followed by further worldwide screenings. North American screenings took place on 12, 15, and 18 November.[2]
The filmed production stars Elliott Hanna as Billy, Ruthie Henshall as Mrs. Wilkinson, and Deka Walmsley, Ann Emery, and Chris Grahamson as Billy's father, grandmother, and older brother, respectively.


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Dax Shepard Shares He Relapsed After 16 Years: Revisit His Honest Quotes About Sobriety and Addiction
During an episode of Armchair Expert, Dax Shepard shared he recently relapsed after 16 years of sobriety. Scroll on to read his candid conversations over the years on addiction.
By Elyse Dupre Sep 25, 2020 9:48 PMTags
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Watch: Dax Shepard Opens Up About His Relapse
Dax Shepard is opening up about his sobriety.
In the Sept. 25 episode of his podcast Armchair Expert, the 45-year-old actor, who had been sober for 16 years, revealed he recently relapsed and had been taking opioids.
While he detailed several of the bumps in the road he experienced over the last eight years, he also spoke about how his life changed following his latest round of injuries, which started six months ago.
"For the last eight weeks maybe, I don't really know…I'm on them all day," Shepard, who had been taking Vicodin for the pain, revealed. "And I'm allowed to be on them at some dosage because I have a prescription and then I'm also augmenting that. And then all the prescriptions run out and I'm now just taking 30 mil Oxys that I've bought whenever I decide I can do [it]."
Because Shepard, wed to Kristen Bell, was still able to fulfill his day-to-day responsibilities, he didn't think there was an issue. But after his podcast co-host Monica Padman confronted him, he started lying to her.
"And I hate it," he said. "And I'm lying to other people. And I know I have to quit. But my tolerance is going up so quickly that I'm now in a situation where I'm taking, you know, eight 30s a day, and I know that's an amount that's going to result in a pretty bad withdrawal. And I start getting really scared, and I'm starting to feel really lonely. And I just have this enormous secret."
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard: Romance Rewind
Then, less than two weeks ago, he was sitting in the car with Padman and he decided to tell the truth not only to her, but to his wife, as well. He then started attending AA meetings and began experiencing withdrawal symptoms.
"I'm sweating bullets; I'm jerky; my back kills. It's terrible," he recalled. "I've never detoxed from opiates, and I have so much compassion for these junkies who have, like, f--king cycled through this 20-30 times."
In post shared after the podcast's release, he said he was now on day 11 of his sobriety journey.
"An episode I hoped I'd never have to record, but one I felt I owed to all the beautiful Armcheries who have been on this ride with me for the last couple years," Shepard wrote after the episode aired. "This was Monday, say today is 11."
This wasn't the first time he'd been open about his journey. Scroll on to see some of his powerful comments about sobriety and addiction.
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"There's a couple of common fallacies about sobriety," Shepard said during an episode of Off Camera With Sam Jones in 2019. "One being that people hit a bottom and then that's that. Most addicts have many bottoms. I mean, I had many events that were even worse than the one that ended up being my last event."
Shepard then spoke about a few of these moments, including one in which he went on vacation, was "hammered and doing drugs the whole time" and then went to the airport bar.
"I had this moment where I kind of take stock of my life," he said. "I am about to star in this movie, Zathura; they're paying me a ton of money; people recognize me at the airport. I'm doing everything I had dreamt of doing for 30 years. It all came true, and I'm the least happy I've ever been in my life. I'm closest to not wanting to be alive as I've ever been, and I had every single thing on paper that I'd ever wanted. I feel grateful for this because I was able to say, 'Something much more profound is broken.'"
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Going Down the Rabbit Hole
"I just loved to get f---ed-up—drinking, cocaine, opiates, marijuana, diet pills, pain pills, everything," he told Playboy in 2012. "Mostly my love was Jack Daniel's and cocaine. I lived for going down the rabbit hole of meeting weird people. Of course, come Monday I would be tallying up all the different situations, and each one was progressively more dangerous. I got lucky in that I didn't go to jail."
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"I wouldn't have a family without sobriety first and foremost," he said during an episode of People's Party With Talib Kweli. "Bell would've never signed up for the old version of me."
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Consistent Journaling
During a 2019 Goop interview with Gwyneth Paltrow, Shepard said he wrote a page in his journal every single day for the first 12 years of his sobriety and that he was "crazy superstitious about it."
"I had this thought that if I can't commit 20 minutes to remembering I'm an addict each morning, I'm going to end up blowing nine hours a day as an addict," he admitted. "I have to be able to say, minimally, this is your commitment. You've got to acknowledge you're an addict every day, first thing, right when you wake up, you write a page. It doesn't even have to be about being an addict. It's just this physical activity there to remind myself, 'I have a thing that I'll never not have.'"
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Sober Birthdays
During a 2019 interview with People, Shepard said Bell "spoils the hell out" of him on his sober birthdays, which typically fall in early September.
"The nicest presents she's gotten me are always on my sober birthday," he told the magazine. "In fact, my real birthday … still haven't gotten a present!"
As the Frozen star put it, "I'm very happy he was born so I celebrate his birthday, but I'm extraordinarily [happy] that he has stayed sober because that's what allows me to have him in my life as a husband and as a father."
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Thoughts on AA
"As a rule of thumb, like, I believe in gravity," he said during a 2019 Armchair Expert podcast interview with Pete Holmes. "I don't believe people think their ways into acting different. I think they act their ways into thinking different. So, a program for quitting alcohol that doesn't involve some action, I have a low expectation for. Now, it does work for people and I would never tell someone it's not working for them. But just in general, the thing I like about AA is it's not abstract: Here's what you do; write this list; call this person; be available to this guy; take that person to a meeting. You can't wake up one morning because you're so demoralized from the night before and decide, 'I'm going to permanently remember that I felt this demoralized in six years and this will be sustainable.' For me, at least, I will forget six years later what it felt like. But if I have actions that are a part of my regular muscle memory and routine, those things will do the lifting for me."
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package ru.job4j;

import org.junit.Test;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Properties;

/**
 * Created by Anton on 20.06.2017.
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public class StartTest {
    @Test
    public void whenThen() {
        final Properties prs = new Properties();
        Start start = new Start();
        ClassLoader load = StartTest.class.getClassLoader();
        try (InputStream inputStream = load.getResourceAsStream("config.properties")) {
            prs.load(inputStream);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        try (Connect connect = new ConnectionWithUser()) {
            try (FilterManager filterManager = new FilterManager(connect, prs.getProperty("username"), prs.getProperty("password"), prs.getProperty("url"))) {
                start.manage(connect, filterManager);
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

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What Do You Get When You Cross a Cow with a Buffalo?
Tags: cow, Buffalo, West, Utah, Arizona, Grand Canyon
To look into the Grand Canyon--with its extraordinary mesas and buttes and age-old layers of rock--is to believe almost anything. If a river can do that, anything is possible.
That said, I was pretty sure I was hallucinating when I saw a buffalo on the North Rim. In Yellowstone, sure, you see buffalo, but not at the Grand Canyon. My brother and I had just climbed off Powell Plateau, a chunk of canyon country about half the size of Manhattan that cracked off the North Rim. Just a tenth of the people who visit the popular South Rim of the Grand Canyon make the 4.5-hour trip around the Big Ditch to see it from the north, which is only open from mid-May to mid-October. Fewer still know about Powell Plateau, reached by a maze of dirt roads west of the North Rim Lodge and visitor center.
We'd left our car at the end of one of them, Swamp Road, and hiked across a saddle leading to Powell Plateau where we camped, explored and spent a blissful afternoon on a rock ledge with a 180 degree view of the canyon and river 8,000 feet below. But when the weather turned ugly we knew we needed to get off the exposed plateau fast which is why were both sweaty, tired and light-headed by the time we made it back to the car. Thunder cracked, daytime darkness descended and the rain was coming down in sheets, turning Swamp Road into a quagmire mined by mud traps and running water.
That's when I saw it--a buffalo standing in the middle of the road as if he owned it, unfazed by the storm, without the least inclination to give way, about as out-of-place as a camel. Amazed, we stopped, looked and wondered, then carefully went around, knowing that only fools mess with buffalo.
Of course, the first thing we asked when we finally reached the national park visitor center was what it was doing on the North Rim. A story in itself. Turns out that a hundred years ago a rancher named Charles "Buffalo" Jones crossed a bison with a cow, hoping to produce a meatier creature he called a cattelo. The experiment failed, but a herd of the cross-breeds persisted in the House Rock Valley east of the national park, managed by the Arizona Game and Fish Department which tries to limit their numbers by selling fall hunt permits for $1,000 and up. It's big game. We're talking 1,400 to 2,500 pounds for a bull. But they're no sitting ducks, hard to track, fast, nimble and intolerant, with no predators on the North Rim, except for sportsmen.
Hunting worked for a while, but lately the beasts have strayed into the national park where they wallow in clearings and trample sensitive areas around seeps and springs. Officials wouldn't mind rounding them up--the way they did with burros in the Grand Canyon--and herding them back to House Rock, but have not been able to reach an agreement with Arizona Game and Fish which considers them free-roaming wildlife like bighorn sheep and mule deer.
So for the meanwhile you might run into a buffalo on North Rim back roads, and I mean that literally. Read More


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Q: SKAction not working when I use it in a custom transition I am making a game, and I am working on making a custom transition. The Transition is basically each Sprite Node will find the nearest side, either left or right. If it is horizontally centered then it finds the nearest edge, either top or bottom. The Sprite Node will then move off the edge to that side. If it is perfectly centered then it will shrink in size. After everything is moved off the scene is changed and the next scene fades in. There are eight items in the scene. The background, title, play button, help button, options button, leaderboard button, and a shop button. When I click anywhere in the scene the transition starts. I haven't created the part where the new scene comes in. This code so far:
import SpriteKit

enum transitionTypes {
    case SlideOutside
    case Fade
}

enum slideDirection {
    case Left
    case Right
    case Up
    case Down
    case Shrink
}

func createTransition(transitionFrom currentScene: SKScene, to futureScene: SKScene, withTransition transition: transitionTypes) {

    print("Started Transition")

    switch transition {

    case .SlideOutside:

        print("Nodes Currently in Scene: \(currentScene.children)")
        print("")

        for child in currentScene.children as [SKNode] {

            print("Started Transition For Node \(child.name)")

            //This will keep the background from being effected
            if child.name != "background" {

                //Variable for which direction it should slide to
                var direction : slideDirection = .Shrink

                //Determines where the node should slide to
                if child.position.x < currentScene.frame.size.width / 2 {
                    direction = .Left
                } else if child.position.x > currentScene.frame.size.width / 2 {
                    direction = .Right
                } else if child.position.x == currentScene.frame.size.width / 2 {
                    if child.position.y < currentScene.frame.size.height / 2 {
                        direction = .Down
                    } else if child.position.y > currentScene.frame.size.height / 2 {
                        direction = .Up
                    } else if child.position.y == currentScene.frame.size.height / 2 {
                        direction = .Shrink //Skrink will keep its position the same but have its size shrink, instead
                    }
                }

                print("Determined Direction To Slide To")

                let slideAction : SKAction
                //Slides the node in the direction specified
                switch direction {
                case .Left:
                    slideAction = SKAction.applyImpulse(CGVectorMake(-25, 0), duration: 1.5)
                    child.runAction(slideAction)
                    break
                case .Right:
                    slideAction = SKAction.applyImpulse(CGVectorMake(25, 0), duration: 1.5)
                    child.runAction(slideAction)
                    break
                case .Up:
                    slideAction = SKAction.applyImpulse(CGVectorMake(0, 25), duration: 1.5)
                    child.runAction(slideAction)
                    break
                case .Down:
                    slideAction = SKAction.applyImpulse(CGVectorMake(0, -25), duration: 1.5)
                    child.runAction(slideAction)
                    break
                default: //The default is Shrink
                    break
                }

                print("Added SKAction to Node")

            } else {
                print("Excluded Background Properly")
            }

            print("Finished Transition For Node \(child.name)")
            print("")
        }

        print("Finished Transition")

        break

    default: //The Default will be Fade
        break
    }
} //This Code is Copyrighted

Here are the console logs:
Started Transition
Nodes Currently in Scene: [<SKSpriteNode> name:'background' texture:[<SKTexture> 'Background 1' (2497 x 2497)] position:{187.5, 333.5} scale:{1.00, 1.00} size:{375, 667} anchor:{0.5, 0.5} rotation:0.00, <SKSpriteNode> name:'title' texture:[<SKTexture> 'Title' (912 x 399)] position:{187.5, 500.25} scale:{1.00, 1.00} size:{284, 124} anchor:{0.5, 0.5} rotation:0.00, <SKSpriteNode> name:'playButton' texture:[<SKTexture> 'Play Button' (311 x 312)] position:{187.5, 166.75} scale:{1.00, 1.00} size:{100, 100} anchor:{0.5, 0.5} rotation:0.00, <SKSpriteNode> name:'optionsButton' texture:[<SKTexture> 'Options Button' (311 x 312)] position:{75, 216.75} scale:{1.00, 1.00} size:{75, 75} anchor:{0.5, 0.5} rotation:0.00, <SKSpriteNode> name:'shopButton' texture:[<SKTexture> 'Shop Button' (311 x 311)] position:{300, 216.75} scale:{1.00, 1.00} size:{75, 75} anchor:{0.5, 0.5} rotation:0.00, <SKSpriteNode> name:'helpButton' texture:[<SKTexture> 'Help Button' (311 x 311)] position:{75, 116.75} scale:{1.00, 1.00} size:{75, 75} anchor:{0.5, 0.5} rotation:0.00, <SKSpriteNode> name:'leaderboardButton' texture:[<SKTexture> 'Leaderboard Button' (311 x 312)] position:{300, 116.75} scale:{1.00, 1.00} size:{75, 75} anchor:{0.5, 0.5} rotation:0.00]

Started Transition For Node Optional("background")
Excluded Background Properly
Finished Transition For Node Optional("background")

Started Transition For Node Optional("title")
Determined Direction To Slide To
Added SKAction to Node
Finished Transition For Node Optional("title")

Started Transition For Node Optional("playButton")
Determined Direction To Slide To
Added SKAction to Node
Finished Transition For Node Optional("playButton")

Started Transition For Node Optional("optionsButton")
Determined Direction To Slide To
Added SKAction to Node
Finished Transition For Node Optional("optionsButton")

Started Transition For Node Optional("shopButton")
Determined Direction To Slide To
Added SKAction to Node
Finished Transition For Node Optional("shopButton")

Started Transition For Node Optional("helpButton")
Determined Direction To Slide To
Added SKAction to Node
Finished Transition For Node Optional("helpButton")

Started Transition For Node Optional("leaderboardButton")
Determined Direction To Slide To
Added SKAction to Node
Finished Transition For Node Optional("leaderboardButton")

Finished Transition

All of the console logs show that the transition went perfectly. So I am assuming that the problem has something to do with the SKAction, could someone please help me find what is wrong. Thanks!

A: When you call:
slideAction = SKAction.applyImpulse(CGVectorMake(0, -25), duration: 1.5)

You are applying a force to the physics body of the SKNode.  You mentioned that they did not have physics bodies, which means they do not get "pushed" by the impulse.
I would recommend using moveBy() instead.  This will move your sprites by setting their position, not by pushing.  An example of this would be:
slideAction = SKAction.moveBy(CGVector(dx: 0, dy: -25), duration: 1.5)

I would recommend bumping up the amount dy goes, so that all nodes can be completely moved off the screen.  You will need to see how much, as I don't know the size of your scene.

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Will Ethiopia's Proposed Dam Crush Egypt's Economy?
As Ethiopia's planned Grand Renaissance Dam reduces Egypt's share of Nile waters, repercussions will inevitably hit Egypt's cash-strapped economy.
Rational use of water reserves at Nasser Lake, estimated at 70 billion cubic meters, may help ease the situation for a while. The government may also have groundwater resources that may add four billion cubic meters. But according to government estimates, Egypt will need an extra 32 billion cubic meters of water by 2050 as its population grows.
Egypt gets more than 95 percent of its water from the Nile, and already suffers from water scarcity -- supplies have fallen to 750 cubic meters per capita a year. (The international average is 1,000.) Egypt's current share of Nile water totals 55.5 billion cubic meters -- experts say the share may be halved over the coming three years until a lake is created in front of the Ethiopian dam, and supplies may fall below 400 cubic meters per capita in the interim period.
The most populous Arab country with 90 million inhabitants, Egypt has 8 million cultivated acres of land. Roughly 6.5 million people work in agriculture, accounting for 25 percent of the country's labor force. Any shrinking of the agricultural sector will ultimately affect labor. Unemployment in Egypt is currently reported at 13 percent, but unofficial reports put the actual rate over 20 percent.
Egypt consumes around 18 million tons of wheat and 4 million tons of rice annually, according to the Supply Ministry. It imports roughly 10 million tons of grain a year to meet growing demand. As the country's population grows by 1.2 million annually, the water-supply gap may jump to 20 million tons as local grain harvest declines. Total cultivated land may plummet by half due to falling water resources.
Urbanization in the Nile Delta and scarcity of water will reduce the country's crop output. Consequently, the country's bill of food imports will be on the rise. Egypt is expected to consume more than 19 million tons of wheat in the fiscal year 2012-2013 that ends on June 30, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The gap between grain imports and exports may widen in the future.
Most of the wheat imports are allocated for subsidized bread, which is expected to total around $2.3 billion of the country's budget in the fiscal year 2012-2013 according to the Finance Ministry. More than 40 percent of Egypt's population lives on less than $2 a day, according to the World Bank. With a deteriorating macroeconomic outlook, future governments would not be able to sustain subsidy schemes.


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Q: how to write a command with given condition in subprocess I am having a bad time trying to figure out how to write this command in the subprocess.
In the terminal I run :
ffprobe -i test.avi -show_format -v quiet | sed -n 's/duration=//p' | xargs printf %.0f
and it runs fine.
Now in the python 3 I want to run it in my code and it gives me an error.
I tried
subprocess.call(['ffprobe', '-i', 'test.avi' ,'-show_format', '-v' ,'quiet' ,'|', 'sed' ,'-n' ,'s/duration=//p', '|' ,'xargs printf %.0f'])
and
subprocess.run(['ffprobe', '-i', 'test.avi' ,'-show_format', '-v' ,'quiet' ,'|', 'sed' ,'-n' ,'s/duration=//p', '|' ,'xargs printf %.0f'])
but none works.

A: In terminal, | is used to pipe the output of a program to the input of another.
Your command mean the following flow:
ffmpeg => sed => xargs ( and xargs runs printf for each line of its input separately)
Python can take over the jobs of sed and xargs easily.
You program may become:
import subprocess
import re

# subprocess.run() is usually a better choice
completed = subprocess.run(
    [
        'ffprobe',
        '-i', 'test.avi', '-show_format', '-v', 'quiet',
    ],
    capture_output=True,  # output is stored in completed.stdout
    check=True,  # raise error if exit code is non-zero
    encoding='utf-8',  # completed.stdout is decoded to a str instead of a bytes
)

# regex is used to find the duration
for match in re.finditer(r'duration=(.*)$', completed.stdout):
    duration = float(match.group(1).strip())
    print(f'{duration:.0f}')  # f-string is used to do formatting

If you want to do piping between commands in Python, see How to use `subprocess` command with pipes
Though there is a shell=True argument in subprocess functions, it has security consideration.


Eyebrows. The one thing that can change your look drastically. It's like wearing essentials and adding that statement piece to pull your ensemble together. So here's a regimen on grooming your eyebrows to help maintain your look.
BROW APPOINTMENTS: I typically book my appointments with my aesthetician (one of two) once a month. I have two just in case one is booked to capacity or on vacation. Yes, I am that serious about my eyebrows. Haha! If you're visiting an aesthetician for the first time, your timeframe may differ (Ex: every three weeks). Once your eyebrows are trained, you can adjust your scheduled appointments accordingly (Ex: once every four, five weeks).
TWEEZING/WAXING: If you don't have the resources to visit an aesthetician or want to remove unruly hairs in between appointments, then tweezing/waxing your brows is the next option. Check out this video (here) for tweezing and this video (here) for waxing your brows.
MAKE-UP: If you over go overboard with tweezing your brows (we've all been there), make-up can help camouflage those shaping mistakes. I rarely use a brow liner, but when I do, Mac's mechanical, shelf-sharpening brow liner allows me to fill in areas without compromising a natural look; this is a great alternative (as well as the pencil) for beginners. However, if you think you're better off with the liquid form, go for it!
The brow gel is another favorite product. It keeps your brows shapely and those wild hairs in place. If I want a little tint, I'll use a tinted version by Anastasia. If this is not an option, you can use your face moisturizer and a spoolie brush to maintain the shape of your brow. When I'm attending a special event (Ex: wedding, birthday), I'll use a small angle brush and eyeshadow (a complementary color) to fill in my brow to make a more dramatic look.
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Thank you love! Beauty hurts at times. *sigh* The things we do! Ha! I tried threading, but my hair grew back too quickly. Waxing is the way for me. I can't remember if threading hurt my brows, but I was impressed by the skill.
Great tips! In my teens and my twenties I over plucked my brows and now they are thin. I wish someone had warned me that I would come to regret it🙈🙈 Thank goodness for Anastasia brow gel pen.
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Saattut
Location within Greenland
Kingdom of Denmark
Avannaata
UTC-03
3961 Uummannaq
Saattut (old spelling: Sâtut) (IATA: SAE) is a settlement in the Qaasuitsup municipality, in northwestern Greenland. Located on a small Saattut Island, southeast of Appat Island and northeast of Uummannaq in the Uummannaq Fjord system, the settlement had 212 inhabitants in 2010.[1]
Air Greenland serves the village as part of a government contract, with mostly cargo helicopter flights from Saattut Heliport to Ikerasak and Uummannaq.
Residents themselves often use dog sleds or snowmobiles for hunting trips or visits to relatives, as there are no roads connecting the village with other settlements. Saattut is home to about 500 sled dogs.[2]
The population of Saattut has dropped by nearly a quarter relative to the 2000 levels, reflecting a general trend in the region.[3] A November 2015 edition of National Geographic reported that the settlement is home to 200 people.[2]
Saattut population growth dynamics in the last two decades. Source: Statistics Greenland[3]
^ Statistics Greenland Archived 2011-08-12 at the Wayback Machine (in Danish)
^ a b Folger, Tim (November 2015). "Melting Away". National Geographic.
^ a b Statistics Greenland Archived 2011-08-12 at the Wayback Machine


Sierra Madre Philippines I ("Sierra Madre I" or the "Fund") is a 10-year private equity ("PE") fund which aims to raise $120 million commitments to be invested in small and medium size companies in the Philippines. The Fund plans to make equity investments into sectors that have driven the Philippines' economic growth. Sierra Madre I will be managed by Sierra Madre Managers Ltd (the "Manager") supported by Sierra Madre Advisers (the "Advisor")(together "Sierra Madre") an independent Manila-based PE firm established in 2016.
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Celebrate the Summer Solstice on Sunday, June 23, with a Nature Hike on Pine Mountain led by native plant educator Lanny Kaufer. He'll visit some of the most spectacular scenery and habitat that Ventura County has to offer just when many late spring wildflowers are blooming at an elevation of 7000 feet. According to Craig Carey, author of Hiking and Backpacking Santa Barbara and Ventura, the Reyes Peak Trail along the northern slope of the peak is "quite simply one of the most beautiful stretches in the southern Los Padres."
The outing will start at 8:30 a.m. with a carpool caravan of about 35 miles up Highway 33 from the Maricopa Plaza, (1207 Maricopa Highway, Ojai, CA 93023) to the Reyes Peak trailhead. The final 5.5 miles are on a narrow, winding paved road and the very last half-mile is dirt. Trucks or SUV's are preferred for the last stretch but most passenger cars with high clearance can also make the drive.
Kaufer will start walking into the Sespe Wilderness from the trailhead (where there is a restroom) at about 10:00 a.m., stop for lunch (not provided) in the forest, and return to the trailhead at 2:30 p.m., arriving back at the Maricopa Plaza by 3:30 p.m. The group will hike on a well-used trail through Mixed Conifer Forest habitat, stopping often to identify and discuss native plants, birds and wildlife. There will be some elevation gain and loss skirting the north side of Reyes Peak, sometimes traversing hillsides on a narrow trail. The total hiking distance will be about 3 miles.
This intermediate level hike is suitable for moderately experienced hikers or physically fit beginners. Weather and marine layer permitting, hikers will have panoramic views of the Cuyama Valley to the north and the Channel Islands to the south. This hike is another in a series of backcountry walks and hikes under an Operating Permit from the Ojai Ranger District Office of the U.S. Forest Service designed for guides who provide recreational and interpretive services to the public.
There is no prepayment required, just a promise to notify Kaufer in a timely fashion if plans change. Registrants will receive a confirmation email several days before with all necessary info. After the hike they will receive an email with a complete list of all the plants and wildlife identified, including common and scientific names.
The cost is $25 for adults, $20 for seniors 62 and older, and $15 for full-time students 13-17. Kids 5-12 can go free, one per adult, pending request and approval. Participants under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. No dogs or smoking, please.
For registration and information visit HerbWalks.com or call 805-646-6281.
ABOUT LANNY KAUFER:
Lanny Kaufer has been leading interpretive native plant walks and hikes in the Ojai-Ventura-Santa Barbara area since 1976 for groups of all ages. He is regarded as a local expert on the edible and medicinal uses of indigenous and naturalized plants. Lanny acquired much of his knowledge in field study with well-known herbalists and ethnobotanists. He studied with the late William LeSassier and has co-led workshops and expeditions with noted herbalists such as the late Chumash plant expert Juanita Centeno, the late Michael Moore, Michael Tierra, Amanda McQuade Crawford, Dr. Fred Siciliano, Professor James Adams, and Chumash educator Julie Tumamait-Stenslie.
Lanny graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1974 with a degree in Biology. While there, under the supervision of his Biology professor, he did extensive independent studies in the field of naturopathic medicine and worked in the university's arboretum. With a California Teaching Credential, he has taught science, health and natural history for many schools and environmental education programs.
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(3) Chris Bracey comments: R'n'B in the tour name stood for Routes & Branches. The train followed the booked route and ran at night because the branches it went down and the two it should have done but didn't have no day time pathways. The train was also advertised to go to Windsor Central and St Albans Abbey but due to problems both were removed from the tour in advance of it running. At Paddington the screen showed the train as 20.07 to Euston, calling at Lymington Pier, Eastleigh, Henley on Thames & Bourne End. On arrival at Euston it was on the arrival screen as 04.26 from Lymington Pier.
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Check for a RLE file. That may be your logo. I'm not sure though.
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EDIT2: are you shure that Windows 1.00 has ever exist?
Only screenshot of 1.01 I am sorry to say.
Box was marked v1.0 however.


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As you get on with life with your phone in your pocket, Huggle will pull information from your phone's location information to build a profile of the spots you like hanging out: Looooads of profiles How's it different to Tinder: There are some clever perks to this app - like warning you if a message has been copied and pasted, removing the potential that some cad is trying the same tired line on you. If you've not yet joined AltScene sign up now, its completely free to send unlimited messages and only takes a couple of minutes! Dating, plus access to 'exclusive' parties What does it do differently to Tinder: Punk Dating Tired of being single and not being able to find the right partner who shares your interests? You want to make "the beast with two backs" that's Shakespearean rather than waste money on a bottle of wine. You don't want to 'date'. If neither of you make a move, you'll just have to wait 24 hours for your next match to be sent your way.
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With this list amassed, you're then able to browse through people hanging out in locations near to where you're currently at, or people who frequent the same places as you do.
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DreamWorks Animation Television has revealed the cast of the upcoming Netflix original series DreamWorks She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, set to be released globally in 2018.
Aimee Carrero (Elena of Avalor) stars as Adora/She-Ra; Karen Fukuhara (Suicide Squad) as Glimmer; AJ Michalka (The Goldbergs) as Catra; Marcus Scribner (black-ish) as Bow; Reshma Shetty (Royal Pains) as Angella; Lorraine Toussaint (Orange is the New Black) as Shadow Weaver; Keston John (The Good Place) as Hordak; Lauren Ash (Superstore) as Scorpia; Christine Woods (Hello Ladies) as Entrapta; Genesis Rodriguez (Time After Time) as Perfuma; Jordan Fisher (Grease Live!) as Seahawk; Vella Lovell (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) as Mermista; Merit Leighton (Alexa & Katie) as Frosta; Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) as Castaspella; and Krystal Joy Brown (Motown: The Musical) as Netossa.


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"Yet the shares price still seems a bit underwhelmed, especially as it trades around 17% below the all-time peak reached last autumn.
"This probably reflects concern that the US economy is slowing down.
"The annualised fourth-quarter GDP growth rate of 2.6% was perfectly respectable, even if it did represent a slowdown from the 3.4% and 4.2% increases seen in the second and first quarters, as the effects of the Trump tax cuts began to wear off, trade worries gathered, the dollar rose and the US Federal Reserve increased interest rates.
"But the New York Fed Nowcast is looking for GDP growth of just 0.9% in the first quarter of this year (and the Atlanta Fed GDP Now estimate is just 0.3%).
Source: Company accounts, FRED - St. Louis Federal Reserve database. Based on Ashtead's fiscal year to end-March.
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"Ashtead's American Sunbelt operation gets 47% of its sales from the construction industry and 53% from other parts of the US economy, as it provides aerial work platforms, fork lifts, earth movers, temporary power supply units, scaffolding and other equipment.
"Management and shareholders alike will therefore be watching certain US economic indicators with interest.
"A continued recovery in sentiment (and activity levels) across the housebuilding industry in the US would be particularly welcome after 2018's second-half slump, which followed the increase in mortgage results that in turn resulted from the Federal Reserve's sequence of interest rate hikes.
"US industrial production also wobbled during the second half of 2018 and Ashtead shareholders will be looking for improved momentum here, too.


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GFWatch Domain Name Privacy I2P Metrics I2P Reseed Server
"Assessing the Privacy Benefits of Domain Name Encryption" presented at Internet Engineering Task Force 110 Meeting
Last updated on Mar 8, 2021 10 min read
IETF 110
Abstract: As Internet users have become more savvy about the potential for their Internet communication to be observed, the use of network traffic encryption technologies (e.g., HTTPS/TLS) is on the rise. However, even when encryption is enabled, users leak information about the domains they visit via DNS queries and via the Server Name Indication (SNI) extension of TLS. Two recent proposals to ameliorate this issue are DNS over HTTPS/TLS (DoH/DoT) and Encrypted SNI (ESNI). In this paper we aim to assess the privacy benefits of these proposals by considering the relationship between hostnames and IP addresses, the latter of which are still exposed. We perform DNS queries from nine vantage points around the globe to characterize this relationship. We quantify the privacy gain offered by ESNI for different hosting and CDN providers using two different metrics, the k-anonymity degree due to co-hosting and the dynamics of IP address changes. We find that 20% of the domains studied will not gain any privacy benefit since they have a one-to-one mapping between their hostname and IP address. On the other hand, 30% will gain a significant privacy benefit with a k value greater than 100, since these domains are co-hosted with more than 100 other domains. Domains whose visitors' privacy will meaningfully improve are far less popular, while for popular domains the benefit is not significant. Analyzing the dynamics of IP addresses of long-lived domains, we find that only 7.7% of them change their hosting IP addresses on a daily basis. We conclude by discussing potential approaches for website owners and hosting/CDN providers for maximizing the privacy benefits of ESNI.
IETF 110 - Measurements and Analysis for Protocols Research Group Q&A
I am very thankful for all attendees of IETF 110 - MAPRG for their constructive comments and questions. Due to the limited amount of time we have for the session, I could not take all questions from the attendees that were in the queue, and also could not reply to all questions asked via the public live chat channel. Therefore, I have tried my best to note down as many comments and questions as possible before the session ended. Please find my responses below and do not hesitate to reach out to me via email or Twitter for further discussion.
1. Eric Rescorla: I don't see how redirecting to a malicious target works, because the TLS handshake will just fail. I mean, if you have a network-level vulnerability, perhaps?
–> A1: Thank you, Eric for pinpointing this. My apologies for the miscommunication, by redirecting to malicious host on Slide 3 I mean via DNS tampering. With TLS in place, redirection to malicious host should not happen and/or succeed as it will just simply break the connection due to cert errors.
2. Erik Nygren: Note that "ESNI" isn't in TLS 1.3. It is a separate optional and in-progress draft (now called "ECH"). This "ESNI is in TLS 1.3" has caused a bunch of confusion in media reports claiming countries are blocking TLS 1.3 when they were just blocking the ESNI/ECH extension.
–> A2: Thank you, Erik for reminding us about the optional use of ESNI in TLS1.3 and the reworked version of ESNI, now called ECH. We conducted this study before ECH was introduced, (my bad) I should have updated the slide to reflect the new work-in-progress draft of ECH. And yes, totally agree on the confusion in media reports. Especially, China is not blocking the TLS 1.3 standard as a whole, but only targeting TLS handshakes whose SNI extension is encrypted.
3. Andrew Campling: An interesting presentation. In thinking about domain name encryption, did you consider the possible privacy and security downsides of centralization too?
–> A3: Thank you, Andrew for the question. By "centralization", I first misunderstood your question as "centralizing all DoTH queries into a single trusted resolver", which I do believe is not good for privacy. We have proposed a resolution strategy to distribute queries across multiple resolvers in a manner that no single resolver can learn a user's entire browsing history. Going back to the "centralization" in the sense of web co-location, I also agree that the centralized web hosting in a handful of major providers (e.g., Google, Cloudflare) is worrisome to some extent. In another study published at SIGCOMM CCR, we find that the Web has indeed become even more centralized nowadays, with the vast majority of websites are hosted by major providers whose hosting infrastructures are well provisioned (i.e., high performance, resilient to DDos, etc). So our thoughts on Slide 22 are based on this already-centralized nature of many websites on the Internet. In other words, if there are already many websites hosted by a given provider, this provider should try to host these websites in a manner that will help to maximize the privacy benefit of domain name encryption technologies, by grouping more websites under the same IP and/or dynamically rotate domain-IP mappings to further improve privacy. Other attendees (Jari Arkko, George Michaelson) also pointed out that it really depends on one's privacy model, i.e., who is your attacker? who do you trust? which website is considered as (not) sensitive?. Answering these questions would help to guide users and site owners to make their browsing/hosting decisions better.
4. Dave Plonka: agreed it doesn't change these results, but the notion of blocking ESNI vs TLS on the web is a key reminder, and it could be measured (in future work).
–> A4: Yes, we are actually conducting a follow-up work to comprehend these blocking behaviors in the wild. I will definitely submit another talk to a future MAPRG meeting again once the measurement results are finalized. From some preliminary results, we do see some censors are actively targeting domain name encryption technologies to hinder their adoption.
5. Jason Livingood: It seems the main concern is the network sees destination IP addresses but w/o that I am unclear how a network can forward packets to the correct destination. And I am unsure the recommendation in the PDF is the right one. You first have to accept that TLS & ECH do not bring "meaningful privacy benefits". I think TLS & ECH actually do bring incredibly meaningful privacy benefits. So the recommendation then is to use hosting providers with a high number of sites in a given IP address. Which could have the side effect of increasing centralization and could even drive further privacy issues - just at a different layer of the stack
–> A5: Exactly! Once a full deployment of DoTH+ECH is in place, destination IP address is the last piece of metadata that is visible to on-path observers, which is hard (impossible?) to hide. One may suggest the use of Tor, I2P, VPN, etc, but these tools address a much stronger, yet different, privacy threat model, which is orthogonal to the privacy risk that domain name encryption technologies aim to address.
We also strongly believe that domain name encryption is an important step to enhance web users' privacy as we have seen an endless number of cases where ISP and corporate network operators have been massively tracking their users' browsing history, for various purposes including monetization, based on the domain name information exposed via DNS requests/queries and SNI field fo TLS handshakes.
Regarding the concern about "centralization of web hosting" that we mention on Slide 22, please refer to the response A3 above.
6. Eric Rescorla & Hugo Salgado: I'm not sure why we think that just having 10 domains per IP does not provide material privacy? Like, if it's "facebook.com" and "telegram.com" that's fantastically useful.
–> A6: When conducting this work, we have asked ourselves this same question too. Since we only look at domain-IP mappings obtained via active DNS measurement in this study all co-hosted domains per IP are considered to be equally significant. However, one domain can be more popular with more visitors at different geographical locations compared to other co-hosted domains. Therefore, we hypothesized a threshold of 100 for the co-location degree to provide an ideal privacy benefit. Nonetheless, when it comes to fingerprinting an entire website based on all IP addresses of servers contacted to load different resources of that website, we find (in a follow-up work) that even when a website is co-hosted with more than 100 other websites, we could still precisely fingerprint it based solely on the sequence of IPs contacted when fetching the site's resources.
7. Lars Prehn When you take a look at the median colocation value for IPs, would your takeways change if you took a look at the min/max? Especially the latter would be interesting to me as it suggest a 1-to-N mapping for at least some part of the world.
–> A7 From our data we see that median and mean values are similar and result in the same observation. This is because when a domain is hosted on multiple IPs, these IPs are often shared by a similar number of domains. In other words, the difference between min and max values are not statistically significant, thus the takeaways would stay unchanged.
8. Alissa Cooper: how do you assess K for understanding K-anonymity in this case?
–> A8 We estimate the K-anonymity value of each domain by the number of domains co-hosted with it. If example.com is host on IP1 with 30 other domains, then k=30. And if example.com is hosted on multiple IPs, we will take the median of k across all of these IPs. Slides 11 and 12 provide the details of this assessment.
9. Jari Arkko To clarify Ekr's comment about our document wrt distributing queries, we found that there are strategies that are bad (e.g. round robin) but also that there are strategies that are potentially good (e.g., pick a different resolver for different clients, or different base names). None of this is necessarily straightforward, but there are potential benefits to be had, but one does have to avoid the most obvious and surprisingly bad algorithm :-)
10. Eric Rescorla Different base names doesn't work because it's very common to have sites use multiple ETLD. If you have something which you can demonstrate will work, I'm of course interested in hearing about it
–> A9&10: we have investigated different distribution strategies in our MADWeb '20 paper, and indeed found that round robin is not ideal for privacy. It may even do more harm than help as eventually all resolvers will learn everything about a user's browsing history. The concern about ETLD that Eric raised is valid too. Perhaps, we can try splitting queries based on the type/category of domain names. As we continue conducting follow-up work on this topic, we will definitely reach out for your feedback in the future.
11. Erik Nygren I'm curious if there is any difference in IP sharing between IPv4 and IPv6. (There is somewhat less of a need to rely on SNI with IPv6, so there are at least some sites with shared IPs with IPv4 but unique IPs for IPv6.)
–> A11 Totally agree on this point, once IPv6 is fully adopted it would make virtual hosting and the use of SNI less relevant since web co-location to save IP space may not be necessary any more. From our dataset, we see only less 15% of domains currently supporting IPv6, so we did not include the analyses for IPv6 in our study for the simplicity in presenting our results. This actually aligns with another earlier talk in the MAPRG session by Paul Hoffman, where he also finds that only 14% of domains supporting IPv6 in his dataset curated by crawling Wikipedia. Once the adoption of IPv6 becomes more prevalent, it will be definitely useful to reconduct our study from the perspective of IPv6.
Network Measurement DNS DoH ESNI Privacy Domain Name Privacy
Nguyen Phong Hoang
Assessing the Privacy Benefits of Domain Name Encryption
K-resolver: Towards Decentralizing Encrypted DNS Resolution
"K-resolver" presented at NDSS MADWeb 2020
Measuring the Accessibility of Domain Name Encryption and its Impact on Internet Filtering
Triplet Censors: Demystifying Great Firewall's DNS Censorship Behavior
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Q: Filtering out parts of a relation on osm2pgsql import Is there any way with osm2pgsql to filter out members of a relation during the import phase, based upon the tags of the member?
My use case is that I want to gather a set of road cycling relations, but I want to exclude any sections of those relations (i.e. the member ways) that are marked with route=mtb.
I've been trying out the examples of the Flex output mode in osm2pgsql, and it looks like you can include/exclude relations and their tags, but you cannot exclude members from the relations.

A: The new flex version of the main 'openstreetmap-carto' style that is currently in development:
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/4431
contains a definition of a new 'planet_osm_route' table.
Note that this table is non-spatial, see image! It doesn't contain geometries. The idea behind it is that, instead of duplicating the geometries that are already stored in the 'planet_osm_line' table, you can instead dynamically display routes by joining this table with the 'planet_osm_line' table via the route 'member_id' field in the 'planet_osm_route' table, that references the OSM ID of the corresponding geometries in 'planet_osm_line'.
With this new table and capability of flex, it should then be relatively easy to filter out all member ways of a route additionally tagged with 'route=mtb'. It will require some thought and SQL wizardry, but I think it can be done.


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Recently, I thought about a membership system in my application. I considered many options and during my research I tested many solutions, and gained some knowledge. The results from my initial search didn't pan out as planned, so I'll have to share my results in a series of posts, and this post will be part one.
One of my ideas was not having a membership system at all and delegating this to a well known identity provider like Google or Facebook. I also wanted to have my application as a pure API with SPA client and moreover I wanted to have a stateless application. I didn't want to have any sessions on the server side. So this problem requires me to use a bearer token authentication with implicit flow where a browser client gets an access token from Identity Provider and passes it to the API in every request. API validates this token and grants access or not to its resources.
Before I start my work I must choose Identity Provider. I decided to use Google Identity Provider Platform, and then I must register a web application in this Platform.
Then I specified Project name and clicked Create.
After a while my new application was visible in the Dashboard.
I clicked on the middle tab named OAuth consent screen and in the form I entered only a Product name shown to users.
I chose OAuth client ID. Then on the next screen I selected Web application as a Application type and I put name and urls.
I saved this file and I will return to it later in the next post.
After this, Client for Google APIs was now ready to use and now I must create an application for it. As I mentioned before, this post is the first part about auth things. In the next post, I will continue this theme and I hope, I'll show finally some code.


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1 Copyright © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings PowerPoint ® Lecture Slides for M ICROBIOLOGY Pathogenic Gram-Negative Cocci (Neisseria)
2 Constitute the largest group of human pathogens Due in part to the presence of lipid A in the bacterial cell wall Triggers fever, vasodilatation, inflammation, shock, and disseminated intravascular coagulation (blood clots within blood vessels) Almost every Gram-negative bacterium that can breach the skin or mucous membranes, grow at 37  C, and evade the immune system can cause disease and death in humans Gram-Negative Bacteria
3 Only genus of Gram-negative cocci that regularly causes diseases in humans Nonmotile, aerobic bacteria often arranged as diplococci Distinguished from many other Gram-negative pathogens by being oxidase positive 2 species are pathogenic to humans The meningococcus, N. meningitidis The gonococcus, N. gonorrhoeae Neisseria
4 Non-pathogenic Neisseria Non-capsulated Can grow on ordinary media Can grow at room temperature Do not require extra CO 2 Have different fermentation reactions
11 Cultural characters They grow on enriched media (chocolate blood agar) They are exacting in their nutritional requirements, Neisseria gonorrhea being more exacting than Neisseria meningitidis) The selective medium is Thayer Martin medium (Chocolate blood agar + VCN) They require extra CO2 for growth especially upon primary isolation.
17 Pathogenicity Polysaccharide capsules protect the bacteria from the lytic enzymes within phagocytes Fimbriae enable them to attach to human cells Lipooligosaccharide: composed of lipid A (endotoxin) and sugar molecules IgA protease produced by the bacteria cleaves secretory IgA in mucous Can easily change its surface antigens leading to evasion of the immune response and multiple infections especially in Neisseria gonorrhoea
18 Humans are the only natural carrier of N. meningitidis Can be a member of the normal microbiota of the upper respiratory tract Causes life-threatening disease when the bacteria invade the blood or cerebrospinal fluid Most common cause of meningitis in individuals under 20 Respiratory droplets transmit the bacteria among people living in close contact, especially students living in dormitories, soldiers, prisoners &household contacts Neisseria meningitidis
19 More than 13 known antigenic types Types A, B, C, Y & W135 are more commonly associated with human disease Polysaccharide capsules resist lytic enzymes inside phagocytes
20 Meningococcal meningitis can result in death as early as 6 hours after initial symptoms Initial symptoms include fever, sore throat, headache, stiff neck, vomiting and convulsions, photophobia Meningococcal septicemia, blood poisoning, can also be life threatening Can produce blood coagulation and the formation of minute hemorrhagic lesions Neisseria meningitidis
23 Presence of Gram-negative diplococci in phagocytes of the central nervous system Diagnosis
24 Treatment Penicillin, administered intravenously, is the drug of choice Prevention Eradication is unlikely due to the presence of asymptomatic carriers Vaccination Chemoprophylaxis for close contacts eg, rifampicin, sulfonamides, tetracycline Treatment, and Prevention
25 Causes gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease Gonococci adhere to epithelial cells of the mucous membranes lining the genital, urinary, and digestive tracts of humans spreading to deeper tissue as they multiply As few as 100 pairs of cells are enough to cause disease Gonorrhea in men Usually symptomatic producing inflammation that causes painful urination and purulent discharge Can cause scarring and infertility if prostate and epididymis are involved Neisseria gonorrhoeae
27 Gonorrhea in women Often asymptomatic (50%) Can infect the cervix and other parts of the uterus, including the Fallopian tubes Can result in pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) Can result in ectopic pregnancy or sterility Gonococcal infection of children can occur during childbirth producing inflammation of the cornea (ophthalmmia neonatorum) and sometimes blindness. Infection of the respiratory tracts can also occur Neisseria gonorrhoeae
29 Pathogenesis
30 Diagnosis Gonorrhea in men can be identified by the presence of Gram-negative diplococci in pus from an inflamed penis, they appear characteristically as gram-negative diplococci intra and extracellular) Asymptomatic cases can be identified with commercially available genetic probes Treatment Complicated due to resistant gonococcal strains Broad-spectrum antimicrobial drugs are often used (ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin) Diagnosis and Treatment
31 Prevention Most effective prevention is sexual abstinence No vaccine is available Chemical prophylaxis is ineffective Routine administration of antimicrobial agents to the eyes of newborns successfully prevents ophthalmic disease
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I don't always feel qualified, pedigreed as it were, to talk about hip hop, as with many of these reviews, I find myself trapped in a space of philosophical appreciation that lacks the formal experience and education necessary to understand the source code for each and every song, sample and reference. So I default to how an album feels and looking at jazz and blues and the other historical starting points of American music from which hip hop et al. burst butterfly-like from a cocoon. With Big K.R.I.T. I find a lot of the strongest qualities found with Girl Talk and other mash-up aficionados as well as the smooth, pop-driven and catchy rhyming delivered by Kanye West and Outkast. On Return Of 4Eva, Big K.R.I.T. delivers a seemingly endless stream of ultimately enjoyable songs that cover a large swath of sonic territory, carefully managing solemn lines and riotous outbursts that manages to pay homage to some of rap and hip hop history (references and sampled sections abound) while also snagging classic Motown era sounds and dance riffs. What's dangerous here is also what is so excellent. Return Of 4Eva offers a little bit of everything. And even in some spots where the words aren't quite as strong as sounds backing them (occasionally the storytelling is deadpan, lacking playfulness) Big K.R.I.T. offers so much solid and digable content that it's hard to pick on any specific song. Listen to it below via the embedded DatPiff.com player. And get it free/pay for it via returnof4eva.com.
The first three tracks, flowing together seamlessly, are "R4 Intro," "Rise and Shine" and "R4 Theme Song." With this swift 7+ minutes, the album is established. The music will be beat-driven but the backing samples and mixes are often simpler, instantly catchy and often recognizable. "Rise and Shine" in particular does good work to get the album rolling; it's that hook you need to really keep going and it's perfectly placed. Other tracks of note are "Rotation," which despite somewhat lazy lyrics feels sturdy and memorable. And "Sookie Now" marks an entrance to the album's wheelhouse. It's followed by "American Rapstar," a song that tells a common story of leaving the streets to become famous with the addition of finely placed, clear and noble political commentary. Other tracks of note: "Shake It," "Lions and Lambs," "Time Machine," "Players Ballad," and "Amtrak."
What I seem to be rushing to get to, I know I noticed, but then I am the one writing (If you didn't notice, just ignore these last two sentences and imagine a beautifully concocted segue in their place; maybe something involving the classic Allen Ginsberg poem "A Supermarket in California.") is that Return Of 4Eva is better than Kanye's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Despite all of the applause and coddling reviews, including my own, in which I did find a lot of virtue in that album, it just wasn't as enjoyable and consistently good as Return Of 4Eva. Though, that is qualified by my lack of hip hop background, as I stated above. The thing with music, whatever the genre, is to create something that becomes desirable once you learn it. It doesn't have to be pretty. It doesn't have to be catchy, but I think "good music" relies on continued effort to make something that is both decipherable and enjoyable (once you know the code). While Kanye's album is mostly enjoyable, it seems like it's trying to be artsier than it can be. And that's fine, as long as the language the album is told in is worth learning. Big K.R.I.T. does a better job, asking for standard prerequisites and then pushing the language into political and social places that are both deeply self-referential and complex. And at no point does it seem like Return Of 4Eva it wants you to work to meet it. It takes itself seriously, but arrives casually. No absurdist costuming necessary.


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Karting Singapore Thunderkart Racing Series 2013 - Event #1
On reclaimed land in the vicinity of Changi is an area which hosts Singapore's Aviation Airshow every 2 years.
In May this year, the area turned home to the Changi Karting Circuit; Singapore's 2nd and newest karting track. At just under 1.1km in length with over 12 turns, the track is a different beast from Singapore's other track; Kartright Speedway and provides residents in Singapore an opportunity to race at more than a single circuit throughout the year.
With its last community race at Malacca in 2012, the Karting Singapore community returned to the race track on the 13 July 2013. Not everyone who wanted to be there could attend as the Karting Singapore community had to postpone the original event date of 22 June due to the worst haze to affect Singapore in the last 16 years.
Fortunately, clear skies prevailed on event day and at 5.00pm with darkness fast approaching, the event began proper. After registration, participants were sent to the briefing room to sit for the safety video and the track briefing. The format for the day for everyone was a 10 minutes practice followed by 12 laps of racing around CKC's full length track configuration.
The 32 that showed up were a diverse group of participants from all walks of life - but all were united in the interest of racing. In summary there were about 20 competing in the Under 70kg class and 12 competing in the Over 70kg class. Whilst over half had previously attended previous Karting Singapore events, we had a sizeable number of new members joining the community as well. After all the admin had been done, the participants took to the track for the real business of the day. In the first practice session, Riku Alatalo, one of the top sim racing drivers in the world, took pole with a 1.00.356 followed by a regular polesitter, Ron Tay on 1.00.501 and local motorsports writer, Jonathan Lim on 1.00.655. The karts were reassembled on to the grid and the field of 32 drivers were split into 2 segments of 16 names based on their fastest qualifying time.
Finals 2 saw an upset victory when Calum Kozma the race winner in 12.34.831 mins was given a 20 second penalty by CKC's supervising race officials for a race position of 7th. Having finished less than a second behind Calum Kozma, the Winner of Consolation Finals 2 award went to Low Fai Ming.
Finals 1 saw the fastest 16 drivers in qualifying take to the grid. With 16 karts on the grid, there were battles all through the field with karts running 3-4 karts abreast on the rear straights and into the sharp hairpin. Even with the tight field, 6 drivers produced fastest laps under 1.01 minutes (Riku Alatalo 1.00138, Ron Tay 1.00.174, David Lau 1.00.374, Jonathan Lim 1.00.539, Kevin Pang 1.00.736 & Shawn Hahnmann 1.00.781). The win for the day belonged to Ron Tay who finished the race in 12.17.203 mins with Riku Alatalo finishing only 9 hundreds of a second behind. 3rd and 4th were equally hard fought with David Lau finishing 3 hundreds of a second ahead of Jonathan Lim. Shawn Hahnemann, the first of the Over 70kg class, Kevin Pang and Jeffrey Sim were the next few finishers in queue for the battle of 3rd place.
The official results and medal awards for the day were:
Clubman (Under 70KG Class)
1st - Ron Tay
2nd - Riku Alatalo
3rd - David Lau
4th - Jonathan Lim
5th - Kevin Pang
Clubman (Over 70KG Class)
1st - Shawn Hahnmann
2nd - Pravin Laure
3rd - Andrew Loke
4th - Mark Lange
5th - Charles Theseira
Winner of Consolation Finals 2 - Low Fai Ming
Quotes from Winners:
Ron Tay, winner (Under 70kg)
3 Years ago, i joined Karting Singapore for my 1st race at Kartright. Time flies and this time round, I have the chance to once again take part in a Rental Kart Race with my karting friends at the new Changi Karting Circuit. I think to most of us, it was not just a race but it was also a good catch up session for most us. There were a few new guys who were very quick and fast around the track too making my win this time to be a closed one. I enjoyed myself very much and I'm definitely looking forward to the next event. Thank you Mark and guys at Karting Singapore for everything.
Shawn Hahnmann, winner (Over 70kg)
A beautiful sport that gives u an adrenaline rush like no other.. and the thunderkart event gives u that adrenaline.. It's thrilling, exciting n most importantly fun !!! Great big thanks to Mark Lange for making such a beautiful sport enjoyable but also dirt cheap for all to enjoy. In summary, Karting Singapore's community day out at CKC was great fun and the track management went out of their way to make the event an enjoyable one for everyone.
With prizes given out to the podium winners at the end of the event, Karting Singapore's Mark Lange also handed out the long overdue 2012 championship series awards to the following drivers:
Thunderkart 2012 Series (Clubman Under 70KG Class)
2nd - Kevin Pang
Thunderkart 2012 Series (Clubman Over 70KG Class)
1st - Hamizan Ali
2nd - Mark Lange
3rd - Charles Theseira
Ron Tay, Series winner (Under 70kg)
I'm happy and thrilled to have won the 2012 Driver Series. Having joined Karting Singapore 3 years ago from being a newbie to a 'semi-amateur' with the guidance of the other experience Karters. This win is considered as a motivation for me to going in Karting. This season proves to be challenging as 2 out of 4 races were held over at Malacca Track instead of our usual familiar Kartright. With the end of this season race, I'm already looking forward to next year race season with opportunity to maybe race in even more tracks. Thank u to Mark and all Mods in Karting Singapore for all the events that you all have organized.
Hamizan Ali, Series winner (Over 70kg)
"It's nice to finally achieve a good overall result after 4 years of being in KartingSingapore. It has been exciting to have been able to race with familiar and new faces alike. I'm happy to have been a part of every race this year, despite the ultra-short sprint races @ KartRight That said, I have to admit that luck was on my side considerably more often this year compared to previous years. After all, it's all rental karts so there's always bound to be a time where each of us would occasionally draw a lemon kart. So getting a lemon kart less often this year definitely helped me in terms of championship points. I would like to thank Mark and the organising co for making KS events possible, managing the transport aspect (for overseas tracks) and of course, always trying to keep the costs down."
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