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Shantou is a city of 4,971,000 permanent inhabitants (as at end 2006) in coastal Eastern Guangdong, China, occupying an area of 2,064 km2. With it and the immediately surrounding cities of Jieyang and Chaozhou, the metropolitan region - known as Chaoshan - covers an area of 10,404 km2, and had a permanent population of 13,139,800 at the end of 2006.
Shantou, a city significant in 19th-century Chinese history as one of the treaty ports established for Western trade and contact, was one of the original Special Economic Zones of the People's Republic of China established in the 1980s, but failed to blossom like other cities such as Shenzhen, Xiamen and Zhuhai. However, it remains as Eastern Guangdong's economic centre, and is home to Shantou University, a member of the 'Project 211' group.
The historic quarter of Shantou, which features both Western and Chinese architectureShantou was a fishing village part of Tuojiang City, Jieyang District during the Song Dynasty. It came to be Xialing during the Yuan Dynasty. In 1563, Shantou was a part of Chenghai District in Chao Prefecture (Chaozhou). As early as 1574, Shantou had been called Shashan Ping. In the seventeenth century, a cannon platform called Shashan Toupaotai was made here, and the placename later was shortened to "Shantou". Locally it has been referred to as Kialat.
Connecting to Shantou across the Queshi Bridge is Queshi which had been known by the local people through the 19th century as Kakchio. It was the main site for the American and British Consulates. Today the area is a scenic park but some of the structures are somewhat preserved from its earlier history.
It became a city in 1919, and was separated from Chenghai in 1921. 1922 saw the devastating Swatow Typhoon, which killed 50,000 out of the 65,000 people then inhabiting the city. In the 1930s, as a transport hub and a merchandise distribution centre in Southeast China, Shantou Port's cargo throughput ranked third in the country. With higher-level administrative authority, Shantou governed Chaozhou City and Jieyang City from 1983 to 1989
Culture and Lifestyle
Shantou people share the same culture with other Teochew. The tea-drinking tradition widely practised in town is a classic instance. According to China Daily,[4] Shantou people "drink more tea than anyone else in China, in total 700 million yuan (US$87.5 million) each year". Teochew culture is one of the local highlights.
Shantou Tourist Sites
-The Former Residence of Chen Ci Hong (local name: Chencihong Guju)
-Nan'ao Island: rated as Guangdong's most beautiful island by China's National Geographic magazine
-Palace-Temple of Old Mother (local name: Laoma Gong): dedicated to the goddess Matsu
-Temple of Emperor Guan (local name: Guandi Miao): dedicated to Guan Yu
-Tropic of Cancer Symbol Tower (local name: Beihuiguixian Biaozhita): The Tropic of Cancer slips through Centipede Mountain, which is 20 kilometers away from the city proper.


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COMMUTERS are facing a further eight months of traffic misery as roadworks in West Byfleet are set to continue until November.
Charlotte Talbot
Work by Southern Gas Networks to replace 900m of gas mains in the area started at the end of last month and has led businesses to fear their profits will be affected.
According to the company, the roadworks will be completed in four phases and will last for a total of 35 weeks at a cost of £1.2m.
Two-way temporary lights will be used to control traffic.
The current works at Byfleet Corner to Old Woking Road's junction with Rosemount Parade will take four weeks.
It will then move on to the junction of Sheerwater Road, lasting 12 weeks, before moving back to Parvis Road where it meets Highfield Road, which will take six weeks.
Works will then be undertaken in associated roads nearby.
Scott Curtis from Desire Furnishings in Old Woking Road said the work was affecting his business.
"It is having a massive effect especially in this hard climate," he said.
"I spoke to one customer who said it is taking her 45 minutes to get here from Brooklands.
"People are just giving up getting into West Byfleet."
A spokesman for Southern Gas Networks said: "This is a massive investment scheme. We are replacing the old gas mains with the yellow plastic piping, which is very robust and flexible.
"It does involve digging up the roads but the pipes are going to last for a long time."
The roadworks have coincided with work to put in electrical cables from the Broadoaks development in Parvis Road.
According to West Byfleet councillor Richard Wilson, a cycle path was due to be constructed across the recreation ground this week as part of the Broadoaks work.
Administrators KPMG said they were "continuing discussions with a number of interested parties" to move to the site.
Rumours that the Ministry of Defence would be setting up there have been quashed by the organisation.
Have you been affected by the roadworks in West Byfleet? E-mail newsandmail@woking.co.uk or call the newsdesk on 01483 508970.
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Mini-golf's first big boom was 85 years ago. Back then, there was nothing little about the industry. By August 1930 there were over 25,000 mini-golf courses. They were across the country. That's according to the New York Times. At the same time, there were only about 6,000 regular golf courses in America.
The sport of mini-golf used to be called "midget golf." By some accounts, it first appeared as an alternative for women. This was due to the belief that regular golf was somehow unladylike. The first putting-only course in the world was built in 1867. It was built at the famed Scottish course of St. Andrews. It was built solely for the St. Andrews' Ladies Putting Club.
Par-King Skill Golf: Lincolnshire, Illinois.
Amusement Business magazine called this mini-golf course "Mini-Golf's Taj Mahal." It is in the suburbs of Chicago. This was fifty years ago. They said it was the most elaborate course in the country. It was also the highest-grossing. The multi-generational family-owned business is still thriving.
The family refers to Par-King as the ″World's Most Unusual Miniature Golf Course." This is due to its many elaborate obstacles. It has a scale model of Mount Rushmore. It has a hand-crafted carousel. And it has a replica Statue of Liberty. In 1975, the owners added a miniature wooden golf coaster. It is like a roller coaster. But it is designed to carry a golf ball. In the early 2000s, they added a steel "Super Looper" coaster. It carries the ball upside-down. They are the only two like them in the world.
Walker on the Green: Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In 2014, the Walker Art Center of Minneapolis reached out to local artists. They wanted help to design and create a fun family activity. They wanted it to be one-of-a-kind. It was for their sculpture garden. It is in downtown Minneapolis. The result? A course at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden that turns every hole into a piece of art.
It is now in its fifth year. This is a 10-hole course. It offers unique and downright confusing challenges. In the past, one hole used the "uncertainty principle" to make putters guess which of the eight holes is the right one. Another hole involved a cemetery. One had a billiards table. And another had a musical Zen garden. It is open until the beginning of September. This is a summer-only activity.
Disney's Fantasia Gardens: Orlando, Florida.
Disney's Fantasia Gardens is at the Walt Disney World resort. It boasts two 18-hole courses. Each is eye-catching in a different way. One promises to delight children. The other emphasizes skill.
The more family-friendly course is themed around the 1940 Disney hit Fantasia. It has pirouetting alligators. It has dancing water fountains. And it has spinning mushrooms. These accompany players as they putt their way through 18 holes. Music from the movie is part of the experience. This includes surprising sound effects for hole-in-ones.
Around the World Miniature Golf: Lake George, New York.
Harry Horn was a young man during World War II. He traveled across the country. He was a Navy electrician. He was also a pilot. He finally settled down in his hometown of Lake George, New York. Horn put his experiences he brought back to good use. He also used the souvenirs he collected. In 1963, he opened "Around the U.S. in 18 Holes." It is a mini-golf course. It is his own design. He also built it. There are many popular holes on the course. There is an ax-wielding Paul Bunyan. There is a giant lobster. There is also a miniature replica of a New York subway station.
Hawaiian Rumble Mini-Golf: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Imagine lining up a putt. You are at a mini-golf course. You are several feet from the 18th hole. All of a sudden, a giant volcanic explosion rocks the green. It also shakes everyone's concentration. Does this seem like a welcome interruption at a golf course? Maybe, not. But it is exactly what happens every 20 minutes. It is at a course that's been featured in Golf magazine. It has also been in the New York Times. It is the Hawaiian Rumble. It is in Myrtle Beach.
Myrtle Beach is called the "mini-golf capital of the world." It is a popular course. It is the annual home of the United States Pro Minigolf Association Masters. And it is regarded as one of the toughest in the world. It is finely manicured. It is decorated with with hibiscus. It also has palm trees. But the real star of the course is the 40-foot concrete volcano. It was originally used as a prop. It was in a Dennis Hopper-directed movie. That movie was "Chasers." The volcano now causes mini-golfers to regularly mess up their putts.
Urban Putt: San Francisco, California.
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San Francisco's landmarks come alive at Urban Putt. It is in the Mission district. It was thought up by former tech journalist Steve Fox. He saw it as whirling. He saw it as mechanical. He saw it as a high-tech course. Several people designed and built it. It was built by 65 local artists, designers and robotic experts. The holes are inspired by some of San Francisco's most iconic attractions. It has the Painted Ladies. It has Lotta's Fountain. And it has the cable cars.
What do you think would be the most difficult feature that a course could have to challenge golfers? What would make it challenging?
I think most difficult feature is having to hit the ball at a certain force so it will be able to go in the hole.
I think that a subway station would be a difficult feature because there are many different floors and stairs. It would make it even more difficult if they added a moving train.
What would make a golf course is when the golf ball could a able to hit the hole across the obstacles such as a house that has a wind across that the ball couldn't go through it it could fail easily.


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If you want an "inside baseball" look at book reviewing, check the New York Observer's story from Monday on Dwight Garner, who is moving from the NYT Book Review to the Arts Section of the daily NYT.
The Observer quotes from an unflattering piece Garner wrote ten years ago for Salon about his future colleague on the daily reviews, Michiko Kakutani. In an email to the New York Observer, Garner says the piece makes him cringe today, but he can't shake it, because it "clings to me on Google like a vampire bat."
It may make him cringe, but he did make some trenchant comments on book reviewing,
Daily critics, with the Washington Post's Jonathan Yardley as a possible exception…calcify quickly…it almost doesn't matter whether they're writing pro or con; the tone doesn't vary. (Their earnest, straight-on, eight-paragraphs-of-plot-summary prose is the equivalent of what used to be called, in football, "three yards and a cloud of dust.") No one's regularly throwing sparks. Anywhere.
Personally, I wish reviewers would be more interested in expressing the joy of reading. Carolyn See, whose reviews appear on Fridays in the Washington Post, dares to show her enthusiasm, as in this quote from her review of Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner,
…a pure treat from the cover to the very last page. It's the kind of thing you should stock up on to give sick friends as presents; they'll forget their arthritis and pneumonia, I promise, once they walk into a land that's gone now, but not yet quite forgotten: Cuba in the last few years before Fidel Castro took over.
This week, Salon reviewer, Laura Miller, is clearly excited about Booker Finalist (but not winner), Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh, and manages to pinpoint its appeal,
…on the side of entertainment, it is a nautical yarn, brimming with enough fo'c'sles and jibs and fife rails to satisfy the salty cravings of the Patrick O'Brian crowd…its characters are brightly, if broadly drawn; there are good guys to root for and bad guys to hiss, yet none of them are too crudely rendered.
But rarely do book reviewers communicate the pure fun of reading (why, I wonder, is this not a problem for movie reviewers?). They could learn from Nancy Pearl, who is not just an advocate for the books she loves, but for reading in general (that's the reason we post Nancy's latest reviews for KUOW on the top right of our home page).
What about you? Are there reviewers you turn to as your own readers advisors? What makes them reliable?
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Pablo Ortiz is a Professor of Composition at the University of California, Davis. Prizes and commissions include a Fromm in 1992, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993, and the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1996. In 1997 and 1998, Ortiz was commissioned two chamber operas, Parodia and Una voz en el viento, by the Centro Experimental Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. In 1999 he was commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation to write a piece, Raya en el mar, for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players.
He received a grant in 2000 from Fideicomiso para la cultura Mexico-US to write children's songs. In 2004 the Gerbode Foundation commissioned Oscuro, for Chanticleer and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. In 2008 he received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Recent premieres include Suomalainen tango, for orchestra, by the Orquestra Nacional de Catalunya, Trois tangos en marge by the Kovacik, Dann, Karttunen trio at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid, and Notker, for choir and organ, by Paul Hillier and the Theatre of Voices in Copenhagen. He worked with artist Eduardo Stupia on a multimedia oratorio for female voices, harp and percussion which premiered at the Centro Experimental Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, in August 2012.
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Davis' tax plan could leave state more vulnerable to next downturn
By Mark Gladstone
San Jose Mercury News
With the state budget hemorrhaging red ink, Gov. Gray Davis in January floated a controversial plan to raise taxes by more than $8 billion to help balance the books.
But while Davis' plan would raise heaps of cash, it fails to address many of the weaknesses in California's tax structure that helped trigger fiscal disaster in the first place.
Though he preaches the gospel of tax reform, Davis is proposing that the state rely even more heavily on volatile sources of revenue -- especially income taxes on the highest wage brackets, which are subject to steep drop-offs when the economy flattens. And he is leaving intact numerous loopholes and breaks embedded in the state tax code for reasons of politics, not economics.
The result: California could be even more vulnerable to the next downturn.
``While tax reform is mentioned by the governor, the proposals he made are not really reforms,'' said Steve Sheffrin, an economics professor at the University of California-Davis.
In releasing his budget, Davis broached some tax reform ideas -- such as reviewing tax breaks every five years. He also talked of the state's need ``to achieve a more stable mix of major revenue sources.''
But the governor believes that revamping the system -- which he'll detail in April and May -- must occur after the budget is fine-tuned.
``This is sort of like a horse race,'' he told reporters last week. ``One horse gets out in front and another horse catches up later.''
Davis' tax proposal unveiled in January would raise $4.6 billion by adding 1 cent per dollar to the sales tax; $2.6 billion by increasing the income tax on the wealthiest Californians; and $1.1 billion by hiking the cigarette tax by $1.10 per pack.
Under his scheme, a Santa Clara family with a household income of $75,000 would pay, on average, $188 a year more in sales tax; a San Jose smoker who puffs a pack of cigarettes a day would spend $400 a year more; an Atherton resident who earns a million a year in taxable income would pony up an extra $27,000 in income taxes.
• Plan would hike levy on the wealthiest
At the height of the economic boom in 2000, income tax revenues from capital gains and stock options quadrupled to $17.6 billion. But the economy collapsed and those revenues plunged to around $5.7 billion.
The wild swing is at the crux of the state's $34.6 billion budget problem.
Now, Davis proposes duplicating a deal worked out a decade ago by his Republican predecessor, Pete Wilson, who also faced a huge deficit. He would increase taxes on the wealthiest Californians -- a solution that may be politically palatable and socially sensitive, but one that some critics question because it relies even more greatly on the incomes that fluctuate the most.
``If he's just looking for dollars, increasing the personal income tax is one way to go, but it's not a long-term fix,'' said Annette Nellen, a tax professor at San Jose State. ``One problem is it's so progressive. We've got so few individuals paying a large amount of tax. When their income drops, we feel it.''
In 2000, when the state took in $40 billion in income taxes, 54 percent was generated by taxpayers who earned $300,000 or more -- and nearly 38 percent was paid by millionaires, who file less than one-third of 1 percent of tax returns.
Elizabeth Hill, the non-partisan legislative analyst, last month suggested alternatives to Davis' proposal, including a 5 percent flat tax on all earners.
Her proposal would lessen the state's dependence on the wealthiest taxpayers -- thus providing stability -- but it also would spread the burden to lower-income taxpayers.
• Consumers spending more on services
In the past two years as the economy has sunk, sales tax revenues have dipped slightly statewide, and dropped more significantly in the Bay Area. In San Jose, for example, the city estimates that it will fall more than $30 million -- 19.8 percent -- from the level two years ago.
But it's not just the economy that has made sales tax revenue more volatile over the past decade. Consumers also are spending a greater percentage on services, such as health club memberships and tax advice, which are not subject to the sales tax. They're also buying goods online, which in many cases lets them avoid the tax.
The services share of California's gross state product -- the value of goods and services produced in the state -- climbed from 17 percent in 1980 to 24 percent in 2000, according to the state Department of Finance.
Looking at it another way, Hill, the non-partisan legislative analyst, recently noted that in the mid-1980s taxable sales represented close to 50 percent of personal income. Currently, they are less than 40 percent.
Hill suggests the state consider broadening the sales tax base. For instance, she said, taxing entertainment activities, such as admission fees and cable TV, could bring in hundreds of millions of dollars.
Davis said he is willing to consider a proposal that would force many online companies in California to charge state sales tax.
There also is a desire among some reformers to revamp the complex inconsistencies in the sales tax on goods.
``If I buy yogurt at the grocery store, there's no tax but if I buy it at a restaurant I pay tax. It could be the same yogurt in the same container,'' said Bill Leonard, a newly minted member of the state Board of Equalization, which administers the sales tax.
``The problem with all law, and sales tax law is the biggest example, is that it's not flexible enough to follow the marketplace,'' said Leonard, a former GOP legislator.
Davis' plan, however, simply raises the rate on existing taxable items -- a boost that Hill worries could prompt more Californians to buy out-of-state and trigger more ``outright tax evasion.''
And some believe such an increase also is economically counterproductive.
``We need consumer spending,'' said San Jose car dealer Steve Lewis who strongly opposes the governor's sales tax idea. ``We need to get this place going. I just don't think a tax that taxes people's spending money is the way to do it.''
Cigarette tax
• Two-prong attack has some benefits
The most popular of Davis' tax proposals is the levy on a pack of cigarettes, according to a Public Policy Institute poll released last week.
Under Davis' plan, the tax would go up from 87 cents a pack to $1.97, partly as a way to curb smoking as well as to raise more than $1 billion annually.
But the cigarette tax has its detractors. It is criticized for disproportionately hitting the poor, and Hill also fears the steep increase -- the sharpest in state history -- could spur smuggling and tax evasion.
And, just like the income and sales tax, the cigarette tax has some built-in instability. Though the tax will raise money, the state also assumes it will curtail sales.
At 58, Charles Janigian has been smoking since he was a teenager. If the $1.10-per-pack tax is approved by the Legislature, the San Jose businessman says it will probably force him to scale back on his puffing.
``Personally, as a smoker, it's probably going to cause me to think twice about smoking a pack a day,'' said Janigian, president of the California Association of Retail Tobacconists. ``It might go down to a pack every other day, but it's certainly not going to stop me from smoking cigarettes.''
But even if smokers cut back and tax revenues fall short of projections, the state still might come out ahead in the long-term because fewer people with smoking-related diseases should cut Medi-Cal costs.
Other proposals
• Property, corporate taxes left alone
Though tough on smokers, consumers and the wealthy, the governor's tax plan would not touch several large but politically-charged pots of money.
Davis did not, for example, suggest tinkering with property taxes, which are a more stable revenue source. He also ignored corporate taxes, which after levies on income and sales brings in the largest source of general purpose revenue, but are also unstable.
There is another possible tax increase on the horizon. Though Davis has vowed to veto it, Democrats in the state Assembly have pressed for fully restoring the vehicle license fee, money that helps local government. In the 1990s, it was lowered by two-thirds as the economy boomed.
That fee -- which would triple if it goes back up -- and the others proposed by Davis face full-throttle opposition from Republicans, casting doubt on whether he'll be able to muster the needed two-thirds support necessary to get legislative approval.
GOP lawmakers assert that before any new taxes are imposed, the state needs to take a fresh look at how it's spending money and possibly place a lid on expenditures.
On Wednesday , GOP Senate leader Jim Brulte of Rancho Cucamonga unveiled the Senate Republican proposal. It included no tax increases, relying entirely on cuts and spending freezes. It also included no tax reforms.
But whether or not Davis and the Legislature revisit reform in the future, many feel it's a foregone conclusion that tough times mean tax increases.
``It's part of the nature of the beast,'' said Harold Alex, 56, an unemployed San Jose technician. ``When things go bad, whether we like it or not, something is going to happen about taxes.''


We might have just discovered Perth's best health club! Surge Fitness opened its brand spanking new doors in Perth's Kings Square in February last year and have been doing some pretty awesome things.
The club is open 24/7 for all you night-owls out there but it offers way more than just fitness. They've got some of the highest-tech equipment known to man (plus a heap of super helpful staff who will happily help you figure it out if you're slightly tech challenged like us). They've also got some wicked personal trainers, plenty of classes, a day care centre just downstairs and a physiotherapist on site—hello post-workout massages!
If you're into cycling, you're going to be falling over yourself trying to get here. The Stages Cycle classes use the official training bikes used by British cycling champs, Team Sky, and the Tour de France guys, but if you prefer to ride solo you can jump on the X-Dream Bikes and ride through Barcelona or LA, or swap to the E-Scape mode and cycle the beach or the forest. The world is your bike-riding oyster. They've also got some super cool boxing machines, a Jacob's Ladder stair climbing machine (which will give you buns of steel) and all the other usual suspects.
With a diverse group fitness timetable that's included in Surge's memberships, gym goers can enjoy Vinyasa and Yin yoga classes, Barre, Animal Flow, The Jungle Body and Les Mills classes to name just a few. Plus, Surge is the only gym in WA licenced to bring you Training for Warriors (TFW)—an eight-week challenge designed to help you lose fat and gain a whole lotta muscle. The program is made up of fat blasting metabolic circuits, strength, flexibility and mobility training, as well as nutrition advice. If you hear the words "Last set, best set" and "TFW for life" screamed around the gym, you know what's going down! Click here to find out when the next TFW challenge kicks off.
The luxurious change rooms and towel service also make swanning in and out on your lunch break pretty dang easy with massive lockers, GHD hair dryers AND straighteners and there's even an ironing board so you don't need to worry about getting up early to bother with that. Winning!
And don't get us started on Surge's incredible personal trainers. Every membership comes with a Member Journey program which includes three 30 minute personal training sessions, plus a personalised program. You can also take advantage of one-on-one training and semi-private lessions—so whatever your goal, the crew here has you sorted.
The stunning 360-degree views and vast, open functional training zones really set this fitness space apart from anywhere else.
The club is on the third floor of the KS3 building in King's Square, so you get some super stunning views of the city and Northbridge during your workout. The group training room is full of so much natural light you'll feel like you're working out outside and we're pretty excited about Surge's evening classes—the lights of Northbridge make one hell of a backdrop for a sweat sesh. And possibly the best part about the group fitness room—the rest of the gym doesn't get to watch on as you awkwardly try and coordinate that uppercut and box kick. Why do so many other gyms insist on doing that to us?!
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Fibromyalgia – a form of an extra-articular soft tissue lesions, characterized by diffuse musculoskeletal pain and the presence of specific painful points or hypersensitivity points, determined during palpation. The disease predominantly affects middle-aged women. This condition greatly limits the possibilities of dialogue and full participation of a human in a social life.
A characteristic feature of fibromyalgia is the abundance and variety of complaints and subjective sensations of the patient with a very little objective evidence of the disease. The main symptom of fibromyalgia is a diffuse musculoskeletal pain. Pain is considered as diffuse, if it is present in different anatomical areas of the right and left half of the body above and below the belt, as well as in the spinal projection.
The pain is usually combined with a feeling of morning stiffness, limb edema, fatigue and tingling of the skin. Characteristically, these signs are strengthening with the changing weather, fatigue, stress. According to the diagnostic criteria of the American College of Rheumatology the duration of the symptoms should be more than 3 months since the widespread muscle pain and fatigue can be caused as well by a viral infection, temporary disturbance of sleep and stress management. By the way, be sure to download the book "Fibromyalgia Breakthrough". It represents a unique method of treatment of fibromyalgia at home!
Significant psychological distress mainly determined by the signs of fibromyalgia and brings this disease to chronic fatigue syndrome. One of the most common complaints is fatigue, confirmed by 87% of patients. Sleep disturbance, during which the process of falling asleep is hindered, the sleep is restless and there's an intermittent lack of recovery after sleep, observed in 79% of patients. Frequent headaches like migraine are noted by more than half of patients with fibromyalgia.
Patients are usually characterized by emotional disorders, which may vary from a slight reduction in the mood to severe depression and anxiety and suspiciousness. Along with the psychological disorders, patients with fibromyalgia can be detected by a variety of other disorders. These disorders include such symptoms as irritable bowel syndrome, premenstrual syndrome, primary dysmenorrhea, vestibular disorders, joint hypermobility syndrome, irritable bladder syndrome, fluid retention syndrome, Raynaud syndrome and migraines, mitral valve prolapse, temporomandibular disorder, detection of livedo.
Great importance is attached to the search for the specific tender points, which are distinguished by the presence of fibromyalgia from other diseases associated with chronic musculoskeletal pain. In determining the most appropriate tender points, you should considered finger pressure with a force of not more than 4 kg. Point is counted as positive, if the patient feels the pain. According to the criteria of American College of Rheumatology, it is necessary to see the presence of 11 painful out of 18 possible spots in order to diagnose fibromyalgia. Mostly their localization is in the muscles of the shoulder girdle, back, lumbosacral and gluteal regions.
One of the essential points in diagnosing fibromyalgia is a search of tender points. To eliminate the factor of subjectivity, there must be a repeated determination of the number of tender points by different specialists. Also, it is necessary to determine the pain sensitivity in the control points (in the frontal, over the head of the fibula).
NSAIDs are found to be widely used in the treatment of fibromyalgia. Long term ingestion of NSAIDs is not recommended because of the possible side effects. Recently, topical therapy became more preferred, especially in the form of ointments, gels, and injections of local anesthetics in combination with painkillers. Much attention in recent years is given to physical exercise, such as aerobics as an effective way to eliminate chronic muscle pain and fatigue. Methods of psychological rehabilitation of patients with fibromyalgia – psychotherapy and autogenic training – also have a great importance.


Daniel Elmer Hinshaw3,7,8,9,10 [Elmer Hinshaw2,11,12,13].
Born Apr 14 18743,9,10,13,14,15 [Apr 14 18751,2,7,12,16], Jasper County, Iowa3,9,10,13,14,15.
He married Etta B. Blair1, 18991 [about 19022]. Etta, daughter of - Blair & - Jack1,9,14,15, was born Mar 9 18741,9,14,15 [May - 187413, about 18772], Iowa1,9,14,15.
Hinshaw, Elmer, head-of-household, age 26, born Apr 1874 in Iowa; parents born in Tennessee; married 0 years; occupation: mechanic; rented home.
Hinshaw, Etta, wife, age 26, born May 1874 in Iowa; father born in Ohio; mother born in Illinois; married 0 years; no children.
Hinshaw, Uriah, head-of-household, age 64, born in Tennessee; parents born in Tennessee; first marriage, married 45 years; occupation: own income; rented home.
Hinshaw, Margeret L., wife, age 65, born in Tennessee; parents born in Tennessee; first marriage, married 45 years; 8 children, 4 living.
Hinshaw, Elmer, son, age 34, born in Iowa; parents born in Tennessee; first marriage, married 8 years; occupation: carpenter, house.
Hinshaw, Etta, daughter-in-law, age 33, born in Iowa; parents born in United States; first marriage, married 8 years; 3 children, 2 living.
Hinshaw, Merritt, grandson, age 5, born in Iowa; parents born in Iowa.
Hinshaw, Bertie, grandson, age 1 year 1 month, born in California; parents born in Iowa.
Gertama, Florence, servant, age 20, born in Iowa; parents born in Holland; single; occupation: servant, private family.
Hinshaw, Daniel E., head-of-household, age 45, born in Iowa; parents born in Tennessee; owned home; occupation: carpenter, house.
Hinshaw, Etta B., wife, age 45, born in Iowa; parents born in Ohio.
Hinshaw, Merritt B., son, age 15, born in Iowa; parents born in Iowa; attended school.
Hinshaw, Alfred B., son, age 10, born in California; parents born in Iowa; attended school.
Hinshaw, Daniel E., head-of-household, age 55, born in Iowa; parents born in Tennessee; first married at age 28; owned home ($4000 value); radio in home; occupation: carpenter, farm; not a war veteran.
Hinshaw, Etta B., wife, age 56, born in Iowa; parents born in Ohio; first married at age 28.
Hinshaw, Alfred B., son, age 21, born in California; parents born in Iowa; occupation: salesman, retail vegetables; not a war veteran.
He then married Ada (Janeway) Beckwith1 [Ada Janeway1], Dec 20 19471, Nevada1.
Daniel Elmer Hinshaw died Sep 30 1959, San Diego County, California; buried Rialto Park Cemetery, 200 North Willow, Rialto, San Bernardino County, California.
1910 census, 1st Ward, Newton, Jasper County, Iowa; roll T624-407, ED 32, page 170B, line #90, dwelling #265, family #270.
1920 census, Rialto Township, San Bernardino County, California; roll T625-129, ED 182, page 11B, line #84, dwelling #52, family #52.
1930 census, Fontana Township, San Bernardino County, California; roll T626-188, ED 133, page 8A, line #34, dwelling #240, family #241.
California Death Index, 1940-1997; http://www.ancestry.com.
The Church Of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (LDS) International Genealogical Index (IGI) - Iowa.
Lineages, Inc., comp. "Gene Pool Individual Records". Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000.
1880 census, Kellogg Township, Jasper County, Iowa; roll T9-346, ED 93, page 67D, line #29, dwelling #305, family #320.
1885 census, Kellogg Township, Jasper County, Iowa; pg 404, line #14, dwelling #49; USGenWeb Archives.
1900 census, 3rd Ward, Newton, Jasper County, Iowa; roll T623-439, ED 31, page 9A, line #27, dwelling #208, family #209.


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package main

import (
	"archive/tar"
	"compress/gzip"
	"errors"
	"github.com/vmware/bosh-photon-cpi/cpi"
	"os"
	"path/filepath"
)

func CreateStemcell(ctx *cpi.Context, args []interface{}) (result interface{}, err error) {
	if len(args) < 1 {
		return nil, errors.New("Expected at least 1 argument")
	}
	imagePath, ok := args[0].(string)
	if !ok {
		return nil, errors.New("Unexpected argument where image_path should be")
	}

	ctx.Logger.Infof("CreateStemcell with imagePath: '%s', imagePath")

	ctx.Logger.Info("Reading stemcell from disk")
	stemcell, err := newStemcell(imagePath)
	if err != nil {
		return
	}
	defer stemcell.Close()

	ctx.Logger.Info("Beginning stemcell upload")
	task, err := ctx.Client.Images.Create(stemcell, filepath.Base(imagePath), nil)
	if err != nil {
		return
	}

	ctx.Logger.Infof("Waiting on task: %#v", task)
	task, err = ctx.Client.Tasks.Wait(task.ID)
	if err != nil {
		return
	}
	return task.Entity.ID, nil
}

func DeleteStemcell(ctx *cpi.Context, args []interface{}) (result interface{}, err error) {
	if len(args) < 1 {
		return nil, errors.New("Expected at least 1 argument")
	}
	stemcellCID, ok := args[0].(string)
	if !ok {
		return nil, errors.New("Unexpected argument where stemcell_cid should be")
	}

	ctx.Logger.Infof("DeleteStemcell with stemcell_cid: '%s'", stemcellCID)

	ctx.Logger.Info("Beginning stemcell deletion")
	task, err := ctx.Client.Images.Delete(stemcellCID)
	if err != nil {
		return
	}

	ctx.Logger.Infof("Waiting on task: %#v", task)
	task, err = ctx.Client.Tasks.Wait(task.ID)
	if err != nil {
		return
	}
	return nil, nil
}

func newStemcell(filePath string) (sc *stemcell, err error) {
	sc = &stemcell{}
	sc.file, err = os.Open(filePath)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	sc.gz, err = gzip.NewReader(sc.file)
	if err != nil {
		sc.file.Close()
		return nil, err
	}

	return sc, nil
}

type stemcell struct {
	file *os.File
	gz   *gzip.Reader
	tr   *tar.Reader
}

func (s *stemcell) Close() (err error) {
	err = s.gz.Close()
	err = s.file.Close()
	return
}

func (s *stemcell) Read(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
	return s.gz.Read(p)
}

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These collection of Pentagram Cat Coloring Pages is really cute cat coloring pages for your kids. You get permit to download free by clicking the DOWNLOAD button under the photograph. It will give access to a new window. Do right click on the photograph, then choose save picture as… After that you get permit to adapt the file name and the folder where you want to save the file. Then click the save button.
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Q: anaconda3 how to fix corrupted lib file dbd.py So after a corrupted debugging process in spyder, I cannot launch spyder anymore and get the error:
"...\Anaconda3\lib\bdb.py", line 92
    if event == 'exception':
    ^
IndentationError: expected an indented block

obviously dbd.py is corrupted.
I attempted to fix it by reinstalling spyder, but that didn't work.  I manually added a return code after the if statement which works but I wonder if there is anyway that I could restore the original version of this bdb.py file?  Thanks!

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Is your life worth more to your government than a few pence added to BP's share price? At first, this will sound like a strange question. But sometimes there is a news story that lays out the priorities that drive our governments once the doors are closed and the cameras are switched off. The story of the attempt to trade the Lockerbie bomber for oil is one of those moments.
Let's start in the deserts of Iraq – because the Lockerbie deal might just reveal what really happened there. Many people were perplexed by Tony Blair's decision to back George W Bush's invasion, which has led to the deaths of 1.2 million people. Blair said he was motivated by opposition to two things – terrorism and tyranny. First off, he said Saddam Hussein might give weapons of mass destruction to jihadis. When it was proven in the rubble after the invasion that Saddam had no WMD and no links to jihadis – as many critics of the war had said all along – Blair declared he would do it all again anyway, because Saddam Hussein was a tyrant, and all tyrants should be opposed.
Most critics of the war said the real reason was a desire for Western access to Iraq's vast supplies of oil. This debate has gone on for years. Now it has emerged that Tony Blair plotted to hand a convicted terrorist – the worst in modern British history – to a vicious tyrant in exchange for access to oil for British corporations. It seems to settle the argument about his priorities in the darkest possible way.
Here's how it happened. Just before Christmas in 1988, a flight from London to New York City was blasted out of the sky above Scotland by a bomb in the cargo. All 259 people on board were killed, along with 11 on the ground. One man was convicted for the mass murder at a Scottish trial in 2000: Abdelbasset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer. Following the bombing, most Western governments imposed sanctions on Libya that forbade companies from investing there. If you are opposed to terrorism and tyranny, it was a happy ending: an alleged terrorist was tried in open court and convicted, and a tyrant was shunned.
But, within a few short years, Tony Blair was not happy. Why? The oil company BP wanted to be able to drill down into Libya's oil, and tap the profits that would gush forth. Their then-CEO, John Browne, flew to Tripoli in the company of MI6 agents to find out what the dictatorship wanted in return for opening the country's wells. It was, of course, clear that they wanted Megrahi back.
BP has admitted it lobbied Tony Blair to exchange prisoners with Libya. They say they didn't specifically mention Megrahi – but there was no need to: there were no other Libyan prisoners of particular note in Britain.
Blair's administration was so intertwined with the oil company by this point that it was often dubbed "Blair's Petroleum". There was a revolving door between BP and Downing Street: BP execs sat on more government taskforces than all other oil companies combined, while many of Blair's closest confidantes went to work for the corporation. He gave two of its CEOs peerages, and slashed taxes on North Sea oil production. By 2005, he was talking to Lord Browne at Downing Street dinners about what he would do after he left office, with rumours circulating of a move to BP.
Blair responded to BP's lobbying with apparent pleasure. His Foreign Office Minister, Bill Rammell, assured Libyan officials that Blair did not "want Megrahi to pass away in prison". His Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, said a desire for Libya's oil was "an essential part" of this decision. So Straw began negotiating a prisoner swap agreement, and urged the Scottish authorities to release the convict. He told the Scottish Government in a leaked letter that it was "in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom" to let Megrahi go.
The chief negotiator for the Libyans was Mousa Kousa, a thug who had been expelled from Britain after bragging about plots to murder democratic dissidents here on British soil. These supposed opponents of tyranny didn't blush.
There are, of course, some serious commentators who argue that Megrahi was framed. It's a legitimate debate. But if he was, it should have been settled in court, at an appeal – not in a dodgy deal with a dictator to benefit BP.
There is no question there was a plot. The question is whether the plot worked, or whether it got what it wanted anyway by a remarkable coincidence. It was, ultimately, up to the Scottish politicians whether to release Megrahi, and they publicly refused a prisoner swap. We know that Straw lobbied them to do it, but they insist they made the decision independently on "compassionate grounds". A year ago, Megrahi was sent home to Tripoli after serving 11 days for each person he was convicted of killing. Officially, the Scots had assessed him to have only three months left to live.
Indeed, a detailed investigation by the Sunday Telegraph reported that "the Scottish and British Governments actively assisted Megrahi and his legal team to seek a release on compassionate grounds". The Libyan dictatorship certainly took it as a gift from the British government. The tyranny's chief spokesman, Abdul Majeed al-Dursi, said: "This is a brave and courageous decision by the British… Britain will find it is rewarded." BP has indeed been rewarded: it is now drilling in Libya.
This affair seems to reopen the Iraq debate, in a way that vindicates Blair's most severe critics. Tony Blair's remaining defenders say he was motivated in Iraq by a hatred of terrorism and tyranny and had no regard whatsoever for getting access to oil. Yet at the very same time the Labour government was plotting in Libya to hand the worst terrorist in British history to a tyrant in exchange for oil. It's proof that oil and corporate power were a much bigger factor in driving foreign policy than the public rhetoric of opposing tyranny or terror.
There's a revealing little postscript to this tale. Last month, Blair went to Libya on behalf of the many mega-corporations who now employ him. He was greeted by Gaddaffi himself – who tortures dissidents and terrorises his population – "like a brother", according to the Libyan press. There has even been speculation that, now they need a CEO, Tony Blair will go to work for BP. In so many ways, it seems, he always has.
How to twist the right screws.
Are you just a One?
History holds all the cores of knowledge needed for us as a communed sovereign people and each of us as an individual to arise and shine. Survival of the finest and fittest has not a lot to do with the end results that are more in our God hands than anything or anyone other.
Where I make my abode few surface to the top of the heap with a clue what is expected of them and how to do what is feasible. However that does not negate the crying out for a more and better life by almost all.
The empty stares are more and more frequent everyday when good questions are never asked. By any for personal and family survival, I look around daily for those that might ask good question after which to appraise and at the end to decide what way is best for all in their realm of influence to live and walk in.
However few walk into those deep waters of discovery to make themselves known. That is just the way reality of life is and that is what is being pushed to the max each day. As a seen result few pay any attention to the words and works of our God.
Maybe most folks do not know who HE is, and what HE does to right all the wrongs that have brought tears to HIS eyes.
I suspect that the ancients that lived on the plains and followed their herds had more of a fix on what was expected of them to do —-than most living at this late date in the history man.
In and around the Fertile Crescent men and women from other origins, habitations [regions] come to find more food and many others come following the trade routes to sell barter trade and some to steal produced goods from other lands filled with other types of people. Thus just a handful of evil tyrannical folks set up a few of the ways [Laws] to trap and keep man in their city states to do the work for them that was beneath them doing.
Therefore here we are. Do we want to pier in and look deep into our only mortal generational life history. If so, which one of us has a vision of what those few evil controlling tyrants permitted mankind to do that pushed their citizens over the edge of NOT respecting moral based, civil, sane, communed sovereignty called freedom.
Finally, if We the Few in the Many do not find answers for those bigger questions then in the end —-we all —- will lose all.
The whole thing is just a sham. The courts are ridiculous, the "sentences" pathetic, the "justice" and the judges in the West impotent and lame.
We are so much more civilized than the days when Chinese Gordon hung the Arab slavers along the Spice Road. I'd like to see what Gordon would have done with Tony Satanman Blair and the BP ceo's, had they have ventured into his neck of the woods. We need less Satanman Blairs and more Chinese Gordons.


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Dakota Allen Morris
March 8, 2001 - October 13, 2022
On October 13, 2022, Mr. Dakota Morris passed away unexpectedly at his home in Kentwood, LA. Mr. Morris was a life-long resident of Franklinton, Louisiana. He enjoyed video games, playing basketball, and wood-working. He enjoyed his wood-working so much that he was making a career of it at Sheridan Custom Cabinetry. As much as he enjoyed his hobbies, nothing compared to the time he spent with his children, fiancée, and family.
Mr. Morris is survived by his dedicated fiancée, Elizabeth Nicholson; two children: Kaiden-Ray Allen Morris and Kayleigh Reneè Morris; his loving parents: Brittney Breland and Nathan Thomas; a father: Cody Morris; three brothers: Caleb Dawson Breland, Peyton Zane Breland, and Mitchell Dickerson; one sister: Gracelyn Sky Morris; grandparents: Willethia Goings and Wilton Goings; two aunts: Syrenia Applewhite and Sherry Blackburn; two uncles: Johnny Spears and Jacob (Brittany) Walker; a cousin: Devin Pounds; special friends: Jim and Annette Hutchison; a very special aunt: Brandi "CoCo" Sanner; and a host of other special nieces, nephews, family and friends.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents: Hubert and Willa Rester, Thomas Earl Spears, and Tracy Morris; an aunt: Kaylee Scott Morris; and his future mother-in-law: Renee' Nicholson.
Services will be at Brown-McGehee Funeral Home in Bogalusa, Louisiana. Visitation will be on October 24, 2022 from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM. The Service will be on October 25, 2022 at 1:00 PM. Bro. Eric Williams will officiate services. Interment will be at Bonnie Cemetery in Angie, Louisiana.
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Life Sciences Biochemie & Biophysik
Proteomics in Domestic Animals: from Farm to Systems Biology
Herausgeber: Almeida, André Martinho, Eckersall, David, Miller, Ingrid (Eds.)
A unique book in the field that will meet to a growing demand by animal and veterinary expertsSpecifically written for and about a developing research community, but it can be applied to numerous other areas in life sciencesPresents the major technological innovations and their applications in a way that is easily understandable to researchers with a growing interest in the field
eBook 128,39 €
Hardcover 171,19 €
Softcover 171,19 €
Proteomics, like other post-genomics tools, has been growing at a rapid pace and has important applications in numerous fields of science. While its use in animal and veterinary sciences is still limited, there have been considerable advances in this field in recent years, in areas as diverse as physiology, nutrition and food of animal origin processing. This is mainly as a consequence of a wider availability and better understanding of proteomics methodologies by animal and veterinary researchers. This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the status of farm-animal proteomics research, focusing on the principles behind proteomics methodologies and its specific applications and offering clear example.
André M. de Almeida obtained a Degree in Animal Science by the University of Évora (1998), an MSc in Tropical Veterinary Medicine by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Lisbon, 2000) and a PhD in Biology by the Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB, 2005). AM Almeida was a Researcher at the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (Lisboa, Portugal) from 2000-15 and was Professor of Animal Production at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine in St. Kitts (West Indies) from 2015-2016. He is currently Professor in the fields of Animal Nutrition, Feeding and Ruminant Production at the Agronomy Institute of the University of Lisbon (Portugal). AM Almeida has worked in South Africa, Spain and Australia.
His research interests are vast but are mainly dedicated to studies in the Physiology, Disease and Production of Farm Animals, using Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry. AM Almeida participate(d) in seven national Research projects (six Portuguese and one Australian) and was awarded with a visiting Scientist Research grant from the government of the State of Western Australia (Perth, WA, Australia). Further, he was Vice-Chair of COST action FA1002 - Proteomics in Farm Animals, financed by the European Science Foundation. AM Almeida has published 13 international book chapters (including one edited by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations) and over 60 papers in international peer- reviewed journals. AM Almeida is presently an associated editor of Tropical Animal Health and Production (Springer) and was an invited editor of the Journal of Proteomics (Elsevier). He is a regular reviewer for major Proteomics and Animal Science journals. AM Almeida was invited to lecture several oral presentations in Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Austria, The United States, Australia and New Zealand, among others.
Professor Peter David Eckersall graduated from the University of Liverpool with a BSc in Biochemistry (1973) and a PhD in Biochemistry from University of Edinburgh (1977). He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and a Member of the Academia Europaea. Prof Eckersall has been Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Professor of Veterinary Biochemistry at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow. He is now the ERA Chair in the Proteomics Laboratory of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb. His research focused on the diagnostic applications of protein analysis in Veterinary Medicine and he has published over 200 peer reviewed papers. He holds three patents and his research has been cited over 7900 times with an H-factor of 47. He has been on the Editorial Board of Proteomics, Biomarkers and BMC Veterinary Research and has co-edited the first text on Animal Proteomics (Methods in Animal Proteomics). He held research grants worth over £6 million and supervised 23 Doctoral and Master Students. Prof Eckersall was the Chair of the COST Action for Farm Animal Proteomics (2011-14). He was awarded with the Heiner Sommer Prize of the International Society for Animal Clinical Pathology for his Lifetime Contribution to Animal Clinical Biochemistry in 2008 and with the Siemens Prize of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry for his Contributions to Animal Clinical Chemistry in 2010.
Ingrid Miller holds a PhD in environmental sciences from Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and works at the Institute for Medical Biochemistry, Department for Biomedical Sciences, at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria. Though originally trained in Technical Chemistry, she specialized early in Protein Chemistry and Protein Analytics, mainly on proteins of animal origin and from biological sources. Since more than two decades, her major focus lies on Proteomics and Two-dimensional Electrophoresis, with a special interest in Methodology. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of several proteomic and analytical journals and a regular reviewer. She has been the Austrian Representative in the EuPA General Council for several years, and was one of the Founding Members of the Austrian Proteomics Society. Since September 2009, she is Executive Editor for Animal Proteomics in the Journal of Proteomics, where she also acted as Guest Editor for thematic issues on Farm Animal Proteomics, Proteomics in Ecotoxicology and Gender-related Proteomics. She is (Co-) Author of more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and contributed chapters to several books in the field.
Proteomics in Domestic Animals on a Farm to Systems Biology Perspective: Introductory Note
de Almeida, André M. (et al.)
Considerations for Farm Animal Proteomic Experiments: An Introductory View Gel-Based Versus Non-gel-Based Approaches
Lippolis, John D. (et al.)
Quantitative Gel Electrophoresis
Mansour, Victoria J. (et al.)
Sample Preparation for 2DE Using Samples of Animal Origin
Osório, Hugo (et al.)
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Baiwir, Dominique (et al.)
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Researchers have uncovered an ongoing, sophisticated malware campaign aiming at U.S.-based targets with an interest in nuclear deterrence, North Korea's nuclear submarine program and North Korean economic sanctions.
The campaign, which researchers from Prevailion call "Autumn Aperture" and link with moderate confidence to the North Korea-based Kimsuky threat actors, sends victims trojanized documents via spear-phishing emails.
The campaign is highly sophisticated, using legitimate documents that the targets were likely expecting, which have been booby-trapped. In addition, the threat actors used anti-evasion tactics such as utilizing obscure file formats (including the Kodak FlashPix format), which make them harder to detect by antivirus products, researchers said.
Researchers did not specify the companies targeted or the specific type of malware variant linked to the campaign. When asked about the specific malware utilized in the campaign, they told Threatpost: "Unfortunately Prevailion was unable to find the payload associated with this campaign. We were able to determine that trojanized document was trying to pull down an executable HTML file. But could not find a sample to analyze. "
The researchers said that they had seen a slew of trojanized documents being spread throughout this past summer, with the most recent wave being sent around Aug. 20.
The emails containing the attachments were socially engineered to to mimic emails that were likely anticipated by victims. For instance, one malicious document was a conference speaker's notes, sent after his presentation at a nuclear-deterrence summit.
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Another was a report from a U.S. university affiliate discussing North Korea's new ballistic missile submarine (SSB) capabilities; while yet another impersonated the U.S. Department of Treasury and sent a renewal notice for a sanctions license.
The most recent document associated with the campaign, modified on Aug. 20, was titled "NK new SSB shown with Kim 22-7-2019;" it featured a report on the construction of a new SSB facility. Document metadata shows that it was created by a U.S. based university affiliate and was modified by the threat actors.
When victims viewed the documents in an application, the malware would display a prompt to enable macros. Once macros were enabled, the document would then display the content while secretly installing malware onto the victims' system.
"These threat actors' [tactics, techniques and procedures] are evolving and continue to be refined with each new operation," Danny Adamitis and Elizabeth Wharton, both with Prevailion, warned in a Wednesday post. "While this type of operation did require some user interaction (pressing the macro button), the malware would do the rest in the background, hidden from the victim."
Threat actors also bolstered their campaign with new tricks that made the malicious documents more difficult to spot.
One newly added feature would enumerate the host machine and experiment with password-protecting certain documents. Autumn Aperture also added a new feature that called Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) — the infrastructure for management data and operations on Windows-based operating systems — to determine if it was safe to obtain the next payload on the host machine. It did this by obtaining a list of running processes and services from WMI, then comparing that output to a list of known antivirus products.
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK (1899-1980), Master of Suspense
Hitchcock knew how to manipulate: 'I enjoy playing the audience like a piano,' he admitted. 'There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it…' He recognised that 'everybody likes to be scared. Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the Big Bad Wolf.' And he knew how to scare. Through anticipation, tension. And through the unexpected, as in Psycho (1960), perhaps his most original film. Rope (1948), made in 10-minute takes (the amount of film in a camera) is another candidate (although he dismissed it as 'a stunt'); as is the peeping Tom Rear Window (1954), also a single set. Psycho displays his trademarks: the use of montage to suggest violence; unpredictable characters; cross-tracking; the camera as voyeur. And it includes the 'MacGuffin' (as he called it), an object or device which drives the plot. In Psycho it's the envelope of $40,000 which Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) steals so she can be with her lover. Notable 'MacGuffins' include keys (Notorious, 1946; Dial M for Murder, 1954) and a wedding ring (Rear Window). Psycho, (like The Birds, 1963), has a long, taut opening allowing us to identify with our wayward heroine as she drives to Bates Motel. Unlike The Birds it has music – by his favourite composer, Bernard Herrmann. At the motel she meets the enigmatic owner Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) and – 47 minutes into the film – takes a shower. Mistake. She is stabbed to death, a sequence (45 seconds, 78 camera setups) only possible in black and white, which Hitch used for economy, as it was partly self-financed. Colour would have been disgusting (in fact, Paramount rejected the script because they found it 'too repulsive'). The horror is twofold: she is naked and vulnerable; and it is wholly unexpected. Janet Leigh is the star; directors do not kill their star in the second reel, with over an hour to go. But then there is another shock. A private eye (Martin Balsam) arrives to investigate Marion's disappearance. He is our new hero, all is well. But then he too is killed! Blimey. Hitchcock toyed with convention: the secret of Vertigo (1958), voted by Sight & Sound as the greatest of all movies, is revealed two-thirds of the way through.
ACTORS – 'A NECESSARY EVIL'
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Essex, son of a grocer and educated by Jesuits. Through childhood traumas he had lifelong aversions to policemen and eggs. In 1919 he joined a subsidiary of Paramount as a title card designer, where he met his future wife (and collaborator), the screenwriter Alma Reville. He took to directing when a director fell ill. His first trademark film was a silent Jack the Ripper thriller – The Lodger (1927). It features that Hitchcock obsession, mistaken identity. And another, the ice blonde. Hitchcock's misogyny is debated, but of his stable of blondes – like Grace Kelly, Eva Marie Saint and Tippi Hedren – only Hedren (The Birds, 1963; Marnie, 1964) suffered, particularly from the beaks of the extras, the birds. One studio wanted him to use Monroe. 'She didn't appeal, too obvious, there is no mystery in the sex.' He certainly wouldn't have enjoyed her Method approach. 'When an actor wants to discuss their motivation, I say, your salary.' 'Actors should be treated like cattle' he famously said. 'A necessary evil' he called them.
But Cary Grant was different. Hitch 'loved' Grant. He lured him out of retirement to make To Catch a Thief (1955) with Kelly, a film with all the hallmarks of classic Hitchcock. Beautiful actors and location (the Riviera), charming villain (Grant), a witty script ('To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script'). His baddies are always nuanced. 'I've never been interested in professional criminals. The audience can't identify with their lack of feeling.' His films never end with a whimper: in Rebecca (1940) – Hitchcock's first US film – the whole set, Manderley, goes up in smoke. North by Northwest (1959) climaxes on Mount Rushmore. The scene when Cary Grant is attacked by a crop-duster plane in a sun-baked Indiana prairie is a masterpiece of agoraphobia. The movie was a genre Hitch did best – the romantic comedy thriller. He did it triumphantly with The Lady Vanishes (1938) which led to his US contract from David O Selznick (his agent's brother). Hitch has a droll cameo in that film and every one thereafter. It's his way of pricking pretension. 'It's only a movie,' he would say. 'And we're grossly overpaid.' He laughed at his limitations. 'I am a typed director… If I made Cinderella the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.'
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Q: Which HTTP method to use with REST API if we have parent-child entities and parent has already been created? I have looked at this PUT vs POST question and others on stackoverflow and after going through the answers I found out:

Use POST if server identifies the address of the resource
Use PUT if client know the address of the resource.

Now above works fine if I have a single independent entity. For example if I have Student entity I am admitting a new student to schools I might create a REST endpoint as /api/schools/schools-name/student with POST HTTP method. But once the student has been admitted and I have to make changes to this student I can use Patch/PUT.
But In my case I have dependent entities that is parent and child. First I create parent entity using the POST. Now the child entity is created only after parent entity has been created. Why they can't be created together like after parent entity is created, create the child entity also, is because of business requirement.
Important points to note are that parent and child entity are linked by an id column only. So currently my url for creating child entity is /api/entities/parent-entity-id. Also there is no request body while creating the child entity as all the required info for creating is stored in parent entity.

My question is that should this method be POST as we are creating the
child entity or PUT as I am updating the children of the parent
entity which already has been created?

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As mentioned in the question there is no request body for creating a child entity. This api is just to trigger the child entity creation. Parent entity already has all the info.

If you are sending an unsafe request to the server, and it doesn't match the semantics of any of the other HTTP methods, then you should use POST.
In particular, if the message-body is not a candidate representation for the resource identified by the target-uri, then PUT is out of bounds.

The PUT method requests that the state of the target resource be created or replaced with the state defined by the representation enclosed in the request message payload

A: First and foremost, REST is an architecture style used if you need decoupling of clients from servers to allow evolving the server side without risking clients to break. REST isn't a toolset you pick the most suitable things out and leave out the remainder. It is more of an either apply all of the steps and constraints REST proposes or you wont benefit from it thing! For simple back- to frontend communication it is probably to much effort as you are usually in control of both ends, however, if you aren't in control of one end only then you might gain the most benefit of such a design actually.
REST relies heavily on standardized protocols and media types. The interaction model is very similar to the browsable Web, the big cousin of REST. Therefore, the same concepts that apply to the Web also apply to REST. The core idea in both should always be that the server teaches the client on how to do things while clients only take what they are given without trying to deduce further knowledge from either previous interaction or analysis of URIs or the like. I.e. on the Web, HTML forms are used to allow clients to enter certain input that is sent to the server upon clicking a submit button. Both the target URI as well as the method to use are included in that Web form so a client actually doesn't have to care about that fact. Through the affordance of the button element, a client also has the implicit knowledge that a button can be clicked and certain actions may be triggered as a consequence. The same concepts used in the Web should now be used between applications to interact with each other. Here, either HTML forms can be reused or certain, specialized media-types need to be developed (i.e. like hal-forms). Through content-type negotiation client and server can actually agree on a representation format both support and therefore avoid interoperability issues.
One common issue many "REST developer" seem to have is to think of REST endpoints returning certain data to be of certain types, i.e. the data of a company employee or the items of a certain hierarchies. Fielding claims that instead of introducing typed resources meaningful to a client, REST APIs should spend almost all of its descriptive effort in defining the media type(s) used for representing resources and defining application state, or in  defining extended relation names and/or hypertext-enabled mark-up for existing standard media types.
A further thing to mentioned here, which I already striped a bit in my comment, is that URIs don't inherit a parent-child relationship by default. A URI as a whole, including any path, matrix and/or query parameters is just a link to a resource and can be considered as a key used for caches to return a response body previously stored for that key (=URI). Clients therefore shouldn't attempt to deduce semantic knowledge from URIs itself but just use the link relations returned for such URIs. This allows servers to replace URIs down the road while clients still can invoke them based on the name the URI was returned for.
As URIs themselves don't convey any semantic information, they can't really express a parent-child relationship on their own. We humans tend to interpret a URI such as /api/company/abc/employee/123 as expressing that employee with the number 123 is working for company abc, which might be true, but also does not have to be as explained before, URIs lack the semantic of expressing such things. It is only through the utilization of a bunch of such URIs that such a semantic tree can be created.

But In my case I have dependent entities that is parent and child. First I create parent entity using the POST. Now the child entity is created only after parent entity has been created.

If you take a closer look at the HTTP methods you might see that POST requests are processed according to the resource's own specific semantics, meaning that you literally can perform anything you have to here. This is defacto a swiss-army-knife in your toolset available and should be used if the other methods aren't fitting your use-case.
PUT i.e. is specified to replace the current targets representation with the one provided in the payload of the request. However, a server is allowed to validate whether the PUT representation is consistent with any constraints the server has for the target resource and may reject therefore requests to update a certain resource due to conflicts with certain constraints. PUT is further allowed to reconfigure a targets media-type to match a more suitable representation, apply a transformation onto the received payload to convert the payload to a matching one of the target resource or reject the payload in general.
Neither HTTP methods nor URIs can create such a semantic relationship between a parent and child resources. However, this is what link relations are there for! Links are edges between two entities that give a name to the context of the relation between those two entities. Such link relations should be standardized, follow common conventions or represent extension types as defined in RFC 5988 (Web linking) to promote their reusage. Unfortunately, however, IANA does not directly specify a parent and child link relation. up may be used to refer from a child to a parent, in a tree. Through an extension mechanism this is however relatively easy to obtain, i.e. http://api.acme.com/rel/parent and http://api.acme.com/rel/child or something similar.
The next bit to discuss on the quoted segment of the initial post would be happens-before semantics of the creation of the parent in contrast to the child resource. HTTP does not have any kind of transaction semantics nor guarantees of ordering of requests other than outlined in the pipelining section, which only applies to safe methods anyways. HTTP therefore does not give any promises to the processing of requests as they either might not reach the server at all or the response just got lost for whatever reason. Only if the client is receiving a 201 Created response including a Location  header pointing to the created resource a client knows for sure that a resource got created and according to the specification only then a client is allowed to create a further child resource.
To a generic HTTP server both the creation request of the parent as well as the consecutive request of creating the child resource are two distinctive requests which it will attempt to fulfill independently. This is the stateless nature of HTTP. As mentioned before though, certain validation of resource's own constraints might be performed preventing the creation of children though.

Important points to note are that parent and child entity are linked by an id column only. So currently my url for creating child entity is /api/entities/parent-entity-id. Also there is no request body while creating the child entity as all the required info for creating is stored in parent entity.

REST doesn't care about your domain model actually. What you have here is a classical example of /persons resources, where three persons are identifiable via separate, distinctive URIs such as /persons/alice, /persons/bob and /persons/joe. We don't know anything about the actual data returned by any of these endpoints actually and by itself, as above mentioned, you can't deduce from the URI directly whose parent of whom (or that any of the URIs actually represents a person to start with). Through link-relation such a context structure can now be given, stating that Bob and Alice are parents of Joe and Joe is a child of both Bob and Alice.
Note how in the example above the actual content of the resources was not of importance to the client. We still don't know if either of the resources contain any information at all. All we know is that there are 3 resources available that are linked to each other in some way. So if the intent of your system is to just represent such relationships than go ahead. Use links between those resources to allow clients to lookup these relationships if interested. If a client is interested in the details of a resource it will send a request for a certain set of media-types to the server anyways. Discoverability and exploration are two common things you will want to guarantee in a REST ecosystem.

My question is that should this method be POST as we are creating the child entity or PUT as I am updating the children of the parent entity which already has been created?

AS POST is an all-purpose tool that has to be used if the other methods aren't fitting, using POST is for sure not wrong. If you take a closer look on the other methods you might see that they serve different purposes, i.e. PUT has the semantics of replacing the current content with the one given in the request payload. It therefore expresses a different use-case than you actually want IMO. As such you should stick to POST also for generating your children.
What you should do within your POST logic, as hopefully was clear enough throughout this answer, is to introduce meaningful link-relations that give the relations between the "entities" some context you can name. Such an operation can further have side effects which allows you to update the parent resource as well and introduce some further links that point from the parent back to the child.
This post is probably already way longer than it needs to be, though I want to make sure that you understand the intent behind REST and when to use it. Unless you really need a system that requires properties such as freedom for evolution, failure robustness and support for the operation of the application/system for decades to come, either exposing your own RPC service or maybe exposing your data model directly is probably easier to obtain.

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Also there is no request body while creating the child entity as all the required info for creating is stored in parent entity.

So, this has nothing to do with resource state and therefore nothing to do with REST.
You're not PUTting a new state of a resource, so you should stay away from using PUT.

A: You are creating a new instance, so you should use POST method on endpoint for previously created parent instance.
Example:
POST /parent/<parent_id>/children/
BODY:
{"json with children data...."}