The Tasmanian Bushfire Season Outlook released today confirms that, despite the dry winter, the majority of the state will experience 'normal fire potential' for the upcoming fire season.
The last thing anyone wants is for a fire to threaten themselves, their family or their property, which is why the Hodgman Liberal Government has invested $55 million to significantly increase fuel reduction burning across Tasmania since the election. This spring the Tasmania Fire Service will continue to take every opportunity to conduct fuel reduction burns to reduce the bushfire risk even further.
Today's outlook is a testament to the Program's success, but we know more needs to be done to make Tasmania an even safer place to live and raise a family.
Information on how to best prepare your property can be found at www.fire.tas.gov.au, and I urge the Tasmanian public to heed the advice of our emergency services and ensure they are as well prepared as possible in the event of a bushfire.


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DAOs can turn our Diaspora into powerful investment groups
DAO is a liberating force. Network states, crypto cities and start up nations will rise quickly. It's what we've been waiting for a decade. Now things will accelerate. - Shervin Pishevar
I think we might be living in one of the most exciting times ever. You might have seen or heard about a group of 'internet friends' trying to buy the US constitution. In the past, there were about 500 original copies, but today only 11 remain. Of those 11, only 1 was still in the hands of a private owner. So someone came up with the genius idea to buy the US constitution to 'put it back in the hands of the people'.
A small group came together to start a DAO. They called it ConstitutionDAO, and communicated that they wanted to bring in at least $20M in funds to be able to compete in the Sotheby's auction. This was never been done before. Although DAOs have been a huge topic for people in the blockchain world, this was a unique experiment. The future is here.
What is a DAO
What is a DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization. It serves as a transparent governance vehicle for a group of members with the same end goals. The transparency that DAOs can serve, come from the fact that the rules and finances around the group, are recorded on the blockchain. Participation in a DAO can be represented by a token. This token is a form of ownership and gives members voting rights.
In 'The real decentralization of Cabo Verde', I wrote about the work of the Sokols group, who have been calling for political decentralization in the country. Using the example of Shapeshift and the recent regulatory developments in the state of Wyoming, I tried to explain how DAOs might even influence future politics, especially in local government.
In a modern, digital world where technology offers us the tools to align incentives for everyone involved, DAOs might be the perfect vehicle to run our cities, regions and islands. What we are already seeing is that cities are competing on different levels, in ways that did not exist a few years ago. When cities are run like (public) companies and not as governments, efficiency and transparency become two of the most important factors they are judged on.
The city of Miami has not transformed into a DAO (yet), but it is run like it is a business by Mayor Suarez. People now even refer to him as the 'CEO of the city'. With the creation of a CityCoin, and the promise to share the benefits of the crypto with the residents, Suarez is looking to align incentives for all Miami 'stakeholders'. Other will follow soon, and that's when it gets really interesting.
We recently witnessed another 'experiment' of a successfully formed DAO. An exclusive Wu Tang album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, was bought by a crypto investment collective. Most fans might have not been able to spend a couple of millions dollars for this purchase. But by coming together in a digital organization with a shared goal, it was possible for all these fans to become an owner of an exclusive, expensive good.
Buying the Constitution
As we've seen with the NFT boom of this past year, a part of the success of these 'movements' is about belonging and identity. It's about being part of something new and therefore exctiting. It makes an even stronger case for the future of these groups and subcultures. These are not just hot trends, but it's here to stay. The maturing blockchain space will only make it easier to build on.
Blockchain technology is helping us transitioning from the physical to the digital world, which was also pointed out by entrepreneur Alex Lieberman:
"The invaluable becomes accessible. Pool together knowledge, network and time.
On-ramp for joining the physical and digital. Collective ownership aligns incentives".
For many, the attempt to buy the Constitution was about much more than the emerging technological possibilities. What's important is to feel like they are making a difference. Having a sense of purpose. Others love the idea of being part of a brand new revolution. The results of today's work work will only be visible for most people in the next few decades. DAOs will shape the way we rebuild our institutions, organizations and corporations.
"The purchase of the Constitution by a decentralized organization represents the evolution of one dominant governance structure to another. Almost 250 years after its inception, we see this as a symbolic passing of a torch, the mark of a new era," said Graham Novak, a ConstitutionDAO contributor.
We're still early when it comes to DAOs. Although I'm extremely hopeful about what's to come, I see challenges as well. Human nature is what it is, and can be difficult to change. According to a participant, there are a few things that need to be addressed. Decisions were being made in private chats behind closed doors. The fact that admins control the (digital) keys, create an inner circle you don't want to see with an organization that stands for decentralization.
The same participant proposed a few solutions that would benefit the organization:
– Move to vote on admin roles
– Open-source all code
– Work with public discords (can be read-only)
– Decentralize control of the funds
It's something that you see with other projects as well. Whether it's a new blockchain or the creation of a DAO, you can't escape a certain amount of centralized control in the early stages. We've seen some examples of companies that started as (centralized) traditional businesses, transitioning into full decentralization. The latest to do it was ENS Domains, but getting to that point took them years.
Cabo Verde is a country with an unbelievable power in the diaspora. A few million Cabo Verdeans live outside of the country, and just under 600.000 on the different islands of the archipelago. In the various countries where Cabo Verdeans live they are part of often strong communities. There are also large online communities on different platforms.
DAOs can be a fantastic solution for Cabo Verdeans who:
Have a shared purpose
Live in various parts of the world
Love to represent and support their community
Are interested in ownership and investing
The potential of the diaspora has always been an important subject in Cabo Verdean society. It's no secret that immigrants have been for the development of our country. Until now there was no good way for hundreds or thousands of people to pool (distributed) resources together. DAOs can be used as a collective to buy physical goods and co-op ownership.
I've said before that I believe that 'Tech is the new Tourism'. This is becoming even clearer now. Founding, buying and investing in companies will be so much easier. I'm not excluding tourism as a sector, since I think it will continue to grow. But technology is going to be the 'base layer' of it all. Communities coming together to implement ideas and philosophies of their own can be a catalyst for change on so many levels.
When it comes to regulation around DAOs, the state of Wyoming (US) is leading the way. It will be interesting to see what other US states and foreign countries are going to do next. As with BTC (and crypto in general), this could be another huge opportunity for Cabo Verde in its mission to become a part of the digital world.
I first wrote about the possible political implications of DAOs for our country months ago, but have only been studying the subject more in-depth in the past weeks. Still, seeing people like investor Qiao Wang sharing their view on DAOs is mind-blowing to me:
"The biggest DAOs in the world will be wealthier more powerful than the greatest superpowers in history. And that's the ultimate addressable market for DAOs, to become digitally native nations. Acquiring digital assets. Building digital economies. Battling for digital supremacy."
It appears that there is practically no limit to what these organizations can become in the digital world of the future. Wang goes on to say: "Does the idea that the biggest DAOs will be bigger than nation-states sound crazy? To me, it doesn't. It's predicated on the idea that: 1) the digital economy will get far bigger than the physical economy. 2) DAOs transcend physical borders and jurisdictions."
This chapter of ConstitutionDAO ends with hedge fund manager Ken Griffin buying the Constitution. The same Griffin who lost millions of dollars after another group of 'internet friends' decided to counter-trade him in the legendary GameStop saga.
The outcome is the least important part of this story. Maybe I'm too optimistic, but I feel that something has changed forever. Thanking the 17.437 (!) contributors, the Twitter account of ConstitutionDAO wrote: "We broke records for the largest crowdfund for a physical object and most money crowdfunded in 72h, which will of course, be refunded to everyone who participated." It's crazy that all this money was moved around without a single bank being involved.
We'll look back to this in about 10 years as a historical happening. By that time I hope to see several Cabo Verdean community DAOs with large treasuries putting these resources to work. We can invest in our startups which leads to job creation and talent development initiatives. Or maybe we'll see a DAO supporting the first Cabo Verdean startup city. All of this could lead to future developments we can't even imagine at this point.
Read more here:
Sonvela Social Impact Investing
The real decentralization of Cabo Verde

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Lynetta Kay Crenshaw Gorden
February 18, 1943 — June 15, 2017
Lynetta Kay Crenshaw Gorden, 74, of Melrose, New Mexico, passed away June 15, 2017 in Canadian, Texas. Services will be 2:00 PM, Saturday June 17, 2017 at The River Ministries in Canadian, with Pastor Donald Hill officiating. Cremation and arrangements are under the direction of Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors of Canadian. Lynetta was born to Frank and Mattie (Grimlan) Crenshaw on February 18, 1943 in Clovis, New Mexico, and was raised on the family ranch northwest of Melrose, New Mexico, where she has lived for the past 21 years. She graduated from Melrose High School in 1961. She was the 1959 Curry County Fair Queen, 1960 New Mexico High School Rodeo Queen, & 1st Runner-Up National High School Rodeo Queen, 1960 New Mexico State Fair Queen, 1960 Curry County Fair Queen, 1960 Miss Rodeo New Mexico, 1961 1st Runner-up Miss Rodeo American and Horsemanship winner. These accomplishments lead to her organization and involvement with Horsemanship and Queen Clinics across the states of New Mexico and Texas. Lynetta served on the Board of Directors for the Miss Rodeo New Mexico and Miss Rodeo Texas pageants as well as a Director for the Miss Rodeo American pageant, serving as chairman of the Horsemanship Committee in the 1970's. She worked for the American Quarter Horse Association during the late 1970's in the show records and youth security departments. She moved to Canadian in 1980 and worked for Fiel Oil and Cantrell Oil. She was instrumental in the formation of the YL Cowboy Camp meeting in Canadian. Lynetta moved to Amarillo in 1986 and married Jacky Gorden. She worked for Luskey's Western Wear as the manager of the ladies department. In 1995, she and Jacky moved back to the Crenshaw family ranch in Melrose where she continued the family ranching business. Lynetta was preceded in death by her parents, her brother Don Crenshaw, and a nephew Stanley Crenshaw. Survivors include her husband Jacky Gorden; one daughter, Tana Davis Thompson and husband Dean of Canadian, Texas; granddaughter, Lacie Thompson Franks and husband Joe of Shamrock, Texas; grandson, Taylor Thompson of Canadian; two step daughters, LaDonna Adkins and husband Kelly of Canyon, Texas, and Janet Guthrie and husband Lynn of Canadian; four step grandchildren, Nicole, Destry, and Vanessa Guthrie, and Annie Adkins; a special aunt, Jo Del Connor of Artesia, New Mexico; and several cousins, nieces and a nephew. The family requests memorials be given to the Hemphill County Hospice, 1020 S. 4th Street, Canadian, Texas 79014; or The River Ministries, PO Box 956, Canadian, Texas, 79014.
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High consultant turnover in Ireland compared to England
By sa | December 20, 2017 | 0
The Organisation outlined the figures in a submission to the Public Service Pay Commission on Consultant Recruitment and Retention.
Staff turnover figures collected by the HSE for 2016 show that 39 per cent of those who left consultant posts during that year resigned their positions, while 46 per cent had their contracts expire.
Just 13 per cent of those who left consultant posts did so due to retirement. This means that only 36 of the 279 consultant posts that were vacated in 2016 could be said to be as a result of retirement.
"Consultant emigration from Ireland is poorly studied, however these statistics shed light on the considerable problems that exist for consultant retention in the HSE, and show that leaver rates are substantially higher for this class of doctor in Ireland than in the UK's NHS," according to the document.
Figures obtained by the IMO from the Public Appointments Service (PAS) has revealed that, of the 84 consultant posts that were advertised and closed in 2016 by the PAS, one-quarter (22) received just one application, while another quarter (21) received just two applications.
The document states one-in-10 (eight) advertisements were closed without a single application being lodged for the position. The PAS was unable to identify a suitable applicant for 22 of the 84 posts.
These statistics demonstrate that 60 per cent of advertisements for consultant posts in the Irish health service last year attracted two applications or fewer.
Meanwhile, bullying, harassment, and sexual harassment appear to remain common features of medical practice in Ireland, despite efforts to curtail their impact and prevalence, according to the IMO. One-in-five female NCHDs said they have been sexually harassed in their workplace in the past two years, while nearly one-third (27.7 per cent) of female NCHDs, 13.2 per cent of female consultants, 10.4 per cent of female GPs and 5 per cent of female community health and public health doctors reported being bullied on the basis of their gender in the same two-year period, according to IMO data.
The IMO submitted other documents to the Commission on the recruitment and retention of NCHDs and public health doctors.


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Rice phospholipids or lecithin (Chem, Sci,
Rice bran is a by-product of rice milling process, obtained through
polishing of brown rice (Sengar, Kaushal, Sharma, &
Kaur, 2014),
representing 8-11% by weight of the rice grain and contains about 16-22% of oil
(Pestana-Bauer, Zambiazi, Mendonca,
Beneito-Cambra, & Ramis-Ramos, 2012). Rice bran oil (BRO) is mainly produced through solvent extraction
or hydraulic pressing of rice bran (Kordsmeier, Howard, Brownmiller,
Proctor, & Hauer-Jensen, 2015). Crude RBO contains between
90 – 96% saponifiable lipid components (Mono-, di-, and triglycerols, free
fatty acids and waxes) and 3-5% unsaponifiable (sterols, tocotrienols,
triterpene alcohols) (Oliveira et al., 2011). Refined RBO oil is a very good source of several micronutrients
and natural antioxidants and such as ?-oryzanol, tocopherols and tocotrienols (Jaiswal, Pradhan, Patel, Naik,
& Naik, 2015; Kordsmeier et al., 2015); phospholipids or lecithin (Chem, Sci, & Chem, 1986; Patel
& Naik, 2004; Jala & Prasad, 2015); phytosterols, squalene, and ferulic acid (Dunford & King, 2000; Sakunpak,
Suksaeree, Pathompak, & Sermkaew, 2014). RBO has been widely used for food, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics
applications because of its health benefit of its abundant micronutrients (Sugano & Tsuji, 1996; McCaskill
& Zhang, 1999; Kaur, Jassal, Thind,
& Aggarwal, 2012; Pali, 2013; Sengar, Kaushal, Sharma, & Kaur, 2014;
Sohail, Rakha, Butt, Iqbal, & Rashid, 2017).
Micronutrients are need in small
quantity to help normal body functioning and development (Lohry, 2007). The micronutrient also considered bioactive components of the RBO
are mostly concentrated at the unsaponifiable fraction of the oil. This
fraction consist of 43% phytosterols, 10% steryl esters and 1% tocopherol (Dunford & King, 2000). Most of these micronutrients are often lost or reduced to a large
to degree during oil refining processes, and often get concentrated in number
of by-products or residues such as gum and soap stock from chemical refining
steps, deodoriser distillate and wax from both physical and chemical refining (Sawadikiat & Hongsprabhas,
2014; Sengar et al., 2014). For example 90% of
tocopherols and tocotrienols are lost during deodorization process (Kordsmeier et al., 2015), 80 – 89% gamma oryzanol lost in chemical refining (Nagendra Prasad MN, Kr, &
Khatokar M, 2011).
However, several methods such as solvent extraction and crystallization, supercritical
fluid extraction, saponification, esterification and molecular distillation are
used to recover these bioactive compounds (Sawadikiat & Hongsprabhas,
2014; Sengar et al., 2014). In this chapter, the most important of these micronutrients such
oryzanol, tocopherols, tocotrienols, phytosterols, and phospholipids as well as
their benefits will be discussed.
Oryzanol
Gamma-oryzanol (?-oryzanol) in RBO was
first extracted from soap stock by-product of the oil refining, and was
considered a single component until later found to be a mixture of steryl
ferulate (Orthoefer, 2005; Xu & Godber,
1999). The
unsaponifiable fraction (4.2%) of RBO contains
1.6% ?-oryzanol (Al-Okbi et al., 2014) and refined RBO contains
high content of ?-oryzanol 248 – 887 mg/100 g of oil (Sawadikiat & Hongsprabhas,
?-oryzanol is consist of a mixture of ferulic acid ester of sterol and
triterpene alcohols such as 24-methyelene cycloartenol (494 mg%) and
cycloartenol (106 mg%) (Al-Okbi et al., 2014; Patel &
Naik, 2004). The
four major components in ?-oryzanol (as shown in Figure 1) are cycloartenylferulate,
24-methylenecycloartanyl ferulate, campesterylferulate, and
?-sitosterylferulate (Patel & Naik, 2004; Sakunpak et
al., 2014). The
complete oryzanol is unique to RBO, however, its exact composition may defers
depending on the rice cultivar (Al-Okbi et al., 2014), with long and medium grain rice containing 6.4 mg/g and 5.17 mg/g respectively (Orthoefer, 2005).
Figure 1. Structure of four major
components of ?-oryzanol
Source: Patel & Naik, (2004)
Most of the ?-oryzanol is lost
during the oil refining process, leading to several by-product or residues with
high contents of phytochemicals. Among the by-product of RBO refining such as
degumming, soap precipitation, bleaching earth filtering, dewaxing and
deodorisation distillation, soap precipitation was found to be the best source
of ?-oryzanol with 43.1 mg/g representing 11.5% of total ?-oryzanol in crude
RBO (Pestana-Bauer et al., 2012). Depending on the refining process, the oryzanol content of
physically refined RBO remained 1.1–1.74% as original, but reduces to 0.19 –
0.20 % for chemically refined RBO (Nagendra Prasad MN et al., 2011). Various methods are reported to be used for extraction of
?-oryzanol from these by-products including direct solvent extraction, liquid –
liquid phase extraction, solid phase extraction, and supercritical fluid
extraction (Xu & Godber, 2000). High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and ultraviolet
spectrophotometry (UV) are the most common techniques for the determination of
?-oryzanol content. The HPLC method has a greater accuracy and efficiency,
however, the high cost involve is a disadvantage when compared to the later
method, which is simple, inexpensive and practical but the results are not
always accurate due to absorbance reading that may be influence by the matrix
or sample components (Heidtmann-bemvenuti, Nora, &
Badiale-furlong, 2012).
Oryzanol has many application in nutraceuticals, pharmaceutical and
cosmeceutical preparations (Nagendra Prasad MN et al., 2011;
Patel & Naik, 2004; Sohail et al., 2017), due to its diverse health benefits such as hypolipidemic effect,
promotion of growth, stimulation of hypothalamus, and increase bile excretion (Dunford & King, 2000; Ahmad
Nayik, Majid, Gull, & Muzaffar, 2015). It has the ability to lower blood cholesterol (Xu & Godber, 1999), and antioxidant activity four times higher than tocopherols and
can prevent cancer causing free radicals (Ahmad Nayik et al., 2015; Nagendra
Prasad MN et al., 2011). The ferulic acid ester of triterpene alcohols in RBO has been
shown to exhibit strong stabilization effect during frying (T. Wang, K.B. Hicks, 2002). The oryzanol was reported to
remain stable even when RBO was heated at 180oC for 8 hours (Sanghi & Tiwle, 2015). Additionally, oryzanol is known to possess anti-dandruff, anti-itching
and anti-aging properties, and effective in treating many gastrointestinal
disorder such as stress-induce gastric and duodenal ulcers (Al-Okbi et al., 2014).
Tocopherols
About 1% of unsaponifiable fraction
of RBO is vitamin E (Dunford & King, 2000; Ko et
al., 2003). It
was first known as tocopherol in 1924 and synthesised 1938 (Aggarwal, Sundaram, Prasad, &
Kannappan, 2010). Tocopherols
and tocotrienols are subgroup that collectively known as vitamin E family (Fiume & Heldreth; Al-Okbi et al., 2014) also referred to as tocols (Kordsmeier et al., 2015). There are four naturally occurring structural analogues of
tocopherol (? alpha-, ? beta-,
? gamma-, and ?delta-analogues). They differ from tocotrienol in the presence
of additional methyl groups around the aromatic ring of the chromanol core. Tocopherol
is an analogue to tocotrienol (Figure 2) and shares some similar structure with
common chromanol head and side-chain at C-2 position (Ko et al., 2003). A crude RBO contain about 2-4% tocopherol with
nutritional and antacid effects (Sanghi & Tiwle, 2015). A 100 g
tocopherol consist of 19-46 mg ? alpha-tocopherol, 1-3 mg ? beta-tocopherol,
1-10 mg ? gamma-tocopherol and 0.4-0.9 mg ? delta-tocopherol (Orthoefer, 2005), while refined
RBO was reported to contain 48 -70 mg% tocopherols (Krishna, Hemakumar, & Khatoon, 2006).
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2 A chemical structure of Tocopherols
Source: Colombo (2010).
Tocopherols are one of the most
abundant natural antioxidants with an excellent biological antioxidants which
protect cellular membranes and increase stability in fat and oil (Bruscatto et al., 2017). The ?-tocopherol was historically considered the homolog of
vitamin-E with greatest value because of its important level of physiological
activity until recently (Chen & Bergman, 2005). Tocopherols have gain more recognition in cosmetics industry for
their strong antioxidants, exhibiting soothing, moisturing, improving skin
elasticity, and anti-aging properties (Aggarwal et al., 2010). They were also found to suppress tumor-cell proliferation,
inhibit cholesterol synthesis, and lower serum cholesterol levels in many
animal models (Chen & Bergman, 2005).
Tocotrienols are one of the categories of tocols family consisting
of four isomers (Figure 4) of different saturated analogues (?,
?, ?, and ?).
They differs from tocopherols in the number and location of methyl groups on
the chromanol rings (Aggarwal et al., 2010). However, according to the definition
by cosmetic ingredient review, tocotrienols does not include the ?-analogues (Fiume & Heldreth, 2014; Zielinska
& Nowak, 2014). Tocotrienols
differs from tocopherol for having farnesyl rather than saturated isoprenoid
C16 side chain (Colombo, 2010).
Figure 3 A chemical structure of
Tocotrienol consist of 14-33
mg ?-tocotrienol and 9-69 mg ?-tocotrienol per 100 g (Orthoefer, 2005). Among the tocols family, ? and ?-analogues of
tocotrienol are the most effective and strongest natural preventive agents
against cancer and harmful effects of exposure to radiation (Kordsmeier et al., 2015). In an in vitro study, ?-tocotrienol was reported to have
more than three times free radical scavenging activity of ?-tocopherol (Chen & Bergman, 2005). Tocotrienols are used in sun screen and body lotion to protect harmful UV radiations, and help in
skin softening and repair (Ahmad Nayik et al., 2015). Ko et al. (2003) has also reported that tocotrienol is
substantially different to tocopherol in capacity to suppress proliferation of
a tumor cell. When tocotrienols are applied to the skin, it rapidly penetrates
and get absorbed, and thereby act as first line of defence because of their
antioxidant properties. They stabilised free radicals generated in the skin
during exposure to oxidative rays, and help to repair skin by protecting
against UV radiation induced skin damage and ageing (Nagendra Prasad MN, Kr, &
Khatokar M, 2011; Zieliska & Nowak, 2014).
Phytosterols are defined as plant sterols
found mainly in plant cell wall and membranes. The major component of
phytosterols (Figure 4) in lipid extract are sitosterol, stigmasterols and
campesterol. Phytosterols are classified
as either sterols or stanols, depending on the presence of double bond within
the ?5 position and are found in a free or esterified form (Özdestan, Özgül, Tu?çe Erol, 2014). The plant sterols are synthesis from squalene one of the first
intermediate products is cycloartenol (a 4,4′-dimethylsterol) (Al-Okbi et al., 2014). Additionally, RBO contains a mixture ferulic acid esters of
4-desmethylsterol like campesterol and ?-sitesterol an end product of plant
sterol synthesis from squalene (Vissers, Zock, Meijer, & Katan,
Chemical structures of some phytosterols
Source: Özdestan, Özgül, Tu?çe Erol (2014)
An unsponifiable fraction of RBO
contains about 43% phytosterols (Dunford & King, 2000). The crude and commercially refined RBO contains 1362-1376 mg/100
g and 858- 1034 mg/100 g of phytosterols respectively (Sawadikiat & Hongsprabhas,
2014). A
total sterol in an Egyptian RBO extracted by n-hexane and supercritical CO2
subscript were reported to be 12.0 % and 7.6% (Al-Okbi et al., 2014).
Phytosterols are important in foods and pharmaceuticals industries (Özdestan, Özgül, Tu?çe Erol, 2014) due to their important bioactive activities for human health. They
can reduce low density lipoprotein (LDL) and total cholesterol level in the
blood by preventing the cholesterol absorption, and have antibacterial,
antifungal and antiulcer effect. The cycloartenol and
2.4-methylenecycloartanol, which formed more than 40% of the total phytosterols
are present in high very concentration in RBO (Özdestan, Özgül, Tu?çe Erol, 2014). Phytosterols have a strong antioxidant activity. The avenasterol
of RBO act as antioxidants at elevated frying temperature because of its
ethylidene group on the side chain of the molecules (T. Wang, K.B. Hicks, 2002). Research has shown that administration of 2.1 g of sterol from
RBO by humans lowered serum total cholesterol by 5% and LDL cholesterol by 9%,
this has been related to its inhibition of cholesterol absorption properties (Vissers et al., 2000). However, the effect of RBO sterol is probably due to the
4-desmethysterol ?-sitosterol not due to 4, 4?-dimethysterols example
cycloartenol and 24-methylene cycloartenol. This is because RBO contains mainly
4,4?-dimethylsterols and less 4-desmethylsterol (Vissers et al., 2000).
Squalene
Squalene was first discovered by
Mitsumaru Tsujimoto, a japanese researchr and expert in fats and oil at Tokyo Industrial
Testing Station in 1906, and Dr. Keijiro Kogami studied its health beneficial
effect in 1930 (Gunes, 2013; Popa, B?beanu, Popa,
Ni??, & Dinu-Pârvu, 2015). Squalene (Figure 4) is a triterpene (Huang, Lin, & Fang, 2009; Al-Okbi et al., 2014) that is known primarily for it is
role as an intermediate metabolite during synthesis cholesterol (Kelly, 1999). The name 'squalene' was derived
from a shark fish (Squalus spp.) liver oil which is the richest source
of squalene in large quantity (Kelly, 1999). It is widely found in RBO and
other sources such as olive oil, wheat-germ oil, palm oil, and amaranth oil (Huang et al., 2009).
Chemical Structure of squalene
Source: Huang, Lin, & Fang (2009).
has been reported to possess an inhibitory effect for cancer and anti-tumor
activity (Gunes, 2013). Squalene just like tocotrienols
are used in sun screen to help protect harmful UV radiation, improve skin
softening and repair (Ahmad Nayik et al., 2015). Some cheap and rich source of this
compound include deodorizer distillate, a by-product of deodorization step of
RBO refining. Different methods can be used to quantify squalene such gas
chromatography (GC), GC-coupled with mass spectroscopy (GC-MS), high
performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) or HPLC- coupled with mass
spectroscopy (Popa et al., 2015).
Phospholipids (PLs) are one of the
major class of lipid in RBO (Liu, Waters, Rose, Bao, & King,
constituting up to 10% of the total rice grain lipid content (Sumit, 2017). They contain glycerol, fatty acids, phosphate and polyhydroxy
groups and the phosphate is always linked to sn-3 position of glycerol
molecule. Phospholipids also have two fatty-acyl groups and one polar head
group (Jangle, Magar, & Thorat, 2013). RBO contains about 1.2-1.9 % phospholipids (Adhikari & Adhikari, 1986;
Nayik & Muzaffar, 2015). Water degumming is the simplest method of removing the hydratable
phospholipids from the crude oil. The non-hydratable are often remove by pre-treating
the oil with phosphoric acid or citric acid (Tyagi et al., 2012). Phospholipids consist predominantly of hydratable
phosphatidylcholine (PC) (Figure 5), phosphatidylinositol (PI),
phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), and phosphatidic acids (PA) of calcium and
magnesium salt (Sengar et al., 2014).
Table 1 Composition of RBO Phospholipids
Crude PLs
De-oiled PLs
46.2±0.256
9.8±0.023
Source: Adhikari & Adhikari, 1986;
Sumit, (2017)
The term lecithin is used
synonymously as pure phosphatidylcholine, a main component of phospholipids (Machado, Assis, Inês, &
Machado, 2014).
The phospholipids in RBO contains different components (Figure 5) such as fatty
acid ester, glycerol, phosphate, and choline, ethanolamine, inositol or serine (Liu et al., 2013).
Structures of the major phospholipids
The dietary PLs have a number of health benefits for a range of
human diseases such as cancer, coronary heart diseases, and inflammation (Liu et al., 2013; Sumit, 2017). The pure form of phospholipids are used as value added nutritional,
pharmaceutical and cosmetics compounds, they also have good surface-active
properties for improving emulsion stability and shelf life (Jangle et al., 2013). PLs are also used as emulsifying agents in foods, agrochemicals,
cosmetics and pharmaceuticals (Sumit, 2017). PLs are fundamental components of cell membrane and therefore
vital for growth, maturing and good function of cells (Jangle et al., 2013).
RBO is a co-product of rice milling process that is getting global popularity
and wide application mainly due to its health benefits associated with the
various micronutrients such as oryzanol, tocols, phytosterols, squalene, phospholipids,
etc. Many researchs have confirmed their health benefits. These micronutrients are mostly concentrated
in different by-product of the oil refining steps such as deodorisation,
degumming and deacidification, and dewaxing. Thus, there potentials are most of
the time not properly tapped especially when these by-products are considered
as waste or animal products. Therefore, extraction of these micronutrients from
the by-product will generate more income and add value to the RBO sectors.
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Conversation with Denise Roguz of ThyroidChange
Patient Advocate & ThyroidChange Co-Founder, Denise Roguz shares about her own journey with hypothyroidism and Lyme disease, how to advocate for yourself as a patient, and the future of health information site ThyroidChange.
Marina Tarasova: [00:00:00] Welcome to My Happy Thyroid, your source for all things thyroid health and wellness. My Happy Thyroid is presented by Paloma Health, the first online medical practice focused on living well with hypothyroidism. So thrilled today to have Denise Roguz with us — the founder and operator of Thyroid Change. So welcome, welcome Denise.
Denise Roguz: [00:00:29] Oh, thank you. I appreciate it. Also I wanted to mention, I'm a co-founder of Thyroid Change. I just wanted to mention that Michelle Santonastaso is the other co-founder, but she's no longer, working with Thyroid Change because of COVID and working with her children and she chose to take some time away. So I always want to put that out there because, she's been, so important to the founding of Thyroid Change, too. Thank you for having me, though.
Marina Tarasova: [00:01:00] It's a pleasure. So you are doing sort of your COVID days right now from home outside of Detroit. Is that right?
Denise Roguz: [00:01:07] Yeah, that's right. I'm outside of Detroit, about oh, 20 miles north.
Marina Tarasova: [00:01:13] Cool. And is that where you grew up? Are you from the Midwest originally?
Denise Roguz: [00:01:17] Yes. I did — twice. Growing up, was born in Detroit, grew up in California, then Ohio, and then back to Michigan. And then I did that loop again, in my adult years. So Michigan to Oregon, to Memphis, Tennessee, then back to Detroit. So I'm back in Detroit.
Marina Tarasova: [00:01:35] Back home, if you will. I'm always fascinated to hear about people's stories and how it brought them to where they are today. And I'm just curious, growing up, was any family in the healthcare space. Tell me about your life growing up?
Denise Roguz: [00:01:50] No, no one was in the healthcare scene. I have some cousins who worked in pharma, but that was about it. But no, mother and father were not in healthcare. My dad worked for Chrysler, as everyone's father did, and growing up in the eighties and nineties in Detroit, they worked for automotive.
Marina Tarasova: [00:02:08] What did you want to do when you grew up, if you will?
Denise Roguz: [00:02:12] I think when I was little, I wanted to be a veterinarian. But, other than that, high school years, college, I was geared to, art and design and, teaching art. And then, I ended up getting my Master's in higher education administration and organizational policy.
Marina Tarasova: [00:02:30] I feel like you have a creative background and also an educational background, which makes it a really...
Denise Roguz: [00:02:34] Yeah, yeah. And nonprofit, too. Work for nonprofits.
Marina Tarasova: [00:02:39] It all comes together with some of the work you're doing now.
I also understand, you've had, you had your own journey with becoming diagnosed with a thyroid condition amongst other things, and you had a pretty hard time initially getting your diagnosis. I think it was, you said, over two years and multiple endocrinologists.
Denise Roguz: [00:02:57] Oh, I started exhibiting some symptoms in my teenage years— especially cold intolerance. I was one of the kids in high school that was always bundled up in a sweater and turtleneck and wearing gloves in class, a cold nose, suffered from depression and anxiety. And I constantly went to doctors for other things and always told them I'm so cold all the time.
Why am I freezing? And they always blew it off. And they knew that all of my family members on my mother's side had a thyroid condition, but they never put the two together. But yeah, it took about, I would say maybe 16, 17 years. Yeah. And in three different states, when things got really, troublesome.
Marina Tarasova: [00:03:44] So tell me then about, so you saw doctors, you saw even endocrinologists, right? And then how did you come to get the diagnosis?
Denise Roguz: [00:03:52] I couldn't get out of bed, basically. It was that bad where my symptoms were affecting every part of my life. And, I'd also like to point out too. I didn't know it at the time, but, I was suffering from Lyme disease, as well. And speaking to several doctors, I know that Lyme disease symptoms and thyroid disease symptoms overlap, by 50% of Lyme disease symptoms or more. I remember my Lyme doctor showed me up a chart of how the symptoms overlap and it looked like about 75%. So it's, difficult to know what symptoms were from thyroid and which ones were from Lyme.
The diagnosis? Oh, I couldn't get off the couch and the fatigue was like being hit by a truck. The brain fog horrendous. I couldn't even work at the time.
At the time, we moved from Michigan to Oregon. So I was out of a job anyways, but I just could not even muster up the energy to job hunt and to focus. It was so bad. I saw doctor after doctor. In those three years, when things got really bad from about 2009 to 2012, I must have saw 20 different doctors.
I think about three or four endocrinologists, a couple of rheumatologists. And so I finally found an integrative doctor in Memphis, Tennessee after reading some of the work of Mary Shomon. I know you're familiar with her and Stop The Thyroid Madness. And he was the one that finally diagnosed me and ran a full thyroid panel. She was the first one who ran a full thyroid panel.
Marina Tarasova: [00:05:31] Do you want to get to the specifics of the numbers? Share what was missed because it wasn't a full thyroid panel.
Denise Roguz: [00:05:37] Prior to that, every doctor, simply tested TSH. I asked one time about antibodies because I know my sister was diagnosed with Hashimoto's. And that physician's assistant mentioned that, if your TSH is normal— which mine was like a two at the time— she said we didn't have to run antibodies. I've now found out that's not true— that you can still have elevated antibodies and by the time I saw that integrative doctor, my free T3 was at the very bottom of the range— pretty much borderline from being well below the range— and the range is pretty broad in itself.
That's free T3 and free T4 was, basically the storage hormone was below the range. Antibodies were elevated.
Marina Tarasova: [00:06:27] Gotcha. So there was your diagnosis and then you were able to start treatment. How did it feel for you? Did it help immediately? Did it take some time to optimize the levels?
Denise Roguz: [00:06:39] It did take a long time because, at that time, I didn't realize that I had Lyme disease, in which active infections can affect how your body converts free T4 to free T3. And also, elevated reverse T3 issues were an issue for me. So shortly after that hypothyroid diagnosis, I did get the diagnosis of Lyme and then things made sense why I wasn't responding as well as I should to the natural desiccated thyroid that he put me on.
I felt some initial benefit at first. And then it stagnated. And then I felt like I got worse, as I was treating Lyme, too, but I would say it wasn't until the last two years that I felt more optimal. It's still a moving target for me because I am still treating Lyme.
So the thyroid levels is going to go up and down a little bit, but we're at a point now where I'm on —I've had some issues with natural desiccated thyroid over the last couple of years— so we decided to go through a compounding pharmacy and get super pure, rice filler, T3 and T4, which I have a lot more T3 in me right now than I would with natural desiccated thyroid. So that seems to be keeping me optimal.
Marina Tarasova: [00:07:52] Great. I'm glad you found something that's working well for you after a very rocky journey. So after you went through all that, tell me about what propelled compelled you to join with Michelle and start Thyroid Change and how you went about it.
Because a lot of people would go through that struggle and would maybe talk to friends and family about it and just move on with their lives. But you took it upon yourself to actually create something that would educate other people, make sure they're not in the same position , starting petitions, working with doctors, working with advocacy groups. So tell me what, what do you think was the spark in you that said, This can't be the way that it is?
Denise Roguz: [00:08:32] I was so bed bound and sick and she was too. I think we, we had nothing else to lose. We never set out thinking, Oh, we're going to create this international movement. It just happened by accident. It started with the petition. She wrote the petition. I saw her on a thyroid Facebook group and, it was really well-written and I reached out to her, we modified the petition, we tweaked it. We sent it out to about 50 mandating medical organizations worldwide. We started posting it on different international Facebook groups for thyroid or endocrinology groups.
And suddenly we were having people following us, doctors reaching out to us. We had some celebrities reaching out to us, so we were like, okay, we need to house this somewhere. And we ended up creating a simple website through Weebly and, then it just snowballed from there. Our main way as we were building it, and we realized we had something there, we realized that we needed an army for change instead of select people doing their own thing here and there.
Strength is in the numbers. Strength is in the research. Strength is in the doctor's clinical experience and what they're experiencing, too. So we tried to combine all of that into something called Thyroid Change for the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid disease.
Marina Tarasova: [00:10:05] That's amazing. And you met Michelle in one of the thyroid Facebook communities?
Denise Roguz: [00:10:10] Yeah. One of the thyroid Facebook groups.
Marina Tarasova: [00:10:14] They're very powerful. I love that. I love to hear that. They're powerful communities and people really support each other in them. And there is, there is a gap in access to care. There's a lot of wait lists to see endocrinologists across the country, not every doctor is on board with the latest science, people are really taking it upon themselves to educate themselves and they are really powerful groups. That's really lovely to see you guys found each other and we're able to do such amazing things together. So congrats on that!
What would you like people that take away? From all your work, what are some of the takeaways that you have that you want people to know who are listening, who might be struggling with symptoms, and who haven't been able to find the thing that works well for them or the doctor that works best for them?
Denise Roguz: [00:10:55] Yes, sadly, it really has come down to you really have to be your own health advocate, in our current medical climate and state of healthcare right now. In my own experience too, I haven't been able to trust all of my doctors over the years. And I think so many patients and in our current culture and climate is that we take our doctor's word for it and that's it.
And quite honestly, I feel like the medical system has failed me twice in a major way once with thyroid disease and with Lyme. Lyme has been really difficult to get the care that I need. I guess the takeaway that I found is 1) to be your own advocate and 2) try to find, those integrative or functional medicine doctors, because I'll tell you right now— and I know regular general practitioners have worked fantastic for other people— but for me in my whole health experience and journey, which has turned my life around in a complete 180, I have found the best care with integrative and functional medicine hands down. I would not have gotten better if it wasn't for that type of model.
Marina Tarasova: [00:12:07] Yeah, thank you for sharing. There's a lot of improvement, I think, to the regular, everyday healthcare system that needs to be done. So thanks for all the work you're doing and thank you for sharing that. I'd love to know what initiatives do you have planned for the future of Thyroid Change? So what people can look forward to with your organization?
Denise Roguz: [00:12:24] Oh, thanks. Right now Thyroid Change is mostly a volunteer effort for me. And I'm hoping to change that, only because I want to reach a larger audience. But I do need funding for that in order to take it where I want it to go. We are international but there are so many pockets of the world that we're not reaching.
And we see them occasionally come up through the website— someone's reaching out from Pakistan, but they were like, I found your website because of some English person. We're just not reaching that audience What I'm working on right now, through a couple of key stakeholders that have generously donated, I'm working on a new website, so there will be, a new doctor database.
It's easily searchable, more resources like you guys there at Paloma Health—which I think you're doing a fantastic job doing with connecting patients with doctors who get it and having the accessibility of full thyroid labs, which I think is fantastic—we'll also have a product resource page.
That's what I'm working on right now.
Marina Tarasova: [00:13:28] Yeah. A lot of people are going to find you through their phones, so that'll be exciting. And if people want to follow Thyroid Change, how can they follow them and you, Denise? Where's the best place to find you?
Denise Roguz: [00:13:40] Oh, our website is thyroid change dot org. We are also active on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. So you can just use the handle @thyroidchange for each of those. And that's where you'll find us.
Marina Tarasova: [00:13:55] All right. Terrific. And thank you so much for joining us today, and we will look forward to speaking with you soon, Denise.
Denise Roguz: [00:14:03] Absolutely. Thanks so much for having me.
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It is usual for the end of the year to draw conclusions, remember successes and pose new aims. InformNapalm community has decided to support this tradition and to draw conclusions of its activity during the year 2015.
"It is not gold, as is vulgarly supposed, that is the sinews of war, but good soldiers; or while gold by itself will not gain you good soldiers, good soldiers may readily get you gold", – this phrase by Italian thinker, philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli could be very well used to describe the work of the InformNapalm international volunteer community. Reconnaissance analysts and translators of the team have built a system of an effective informational struggle only having their enthusiasm as a motivation. Many government institutions could feel envious about this system, even though they have significant financial resources and authority. The whole last year InformNapalm was destroying our enemy with information, we were using only reliable evidence and structured information. Our team is like a college of bees, we all work hard for our common aim – a future victory over the aggressor.
That is why the main success of the 2015 was strengthening and enlarging of our resource, enlarging the number of its language editions, which are located in different places of the globe and which can successfully cooperate with each other, creating an effective informational product.
Each OSINT investigation by InformNapalm is a unique example of successful and hard work, but we would like just remember the most resonance events of the last year and reconstruct the chronology of our victories.
1) After the first Minsk agreements were signed in September of 2014, it was not possible to find a real information about the actual demarcation line in Donbas. But in December of 2014 our volunteers received an original digital copy of the map, which was owned by the closest company of the 'LPR' head Plotnitsky. On January 8, 2015, this map was published on InformNapalm's website and became available for public download, study and analysis. The map also showed the parties, which approved this document. Plotnitsky himself together with the Ukrainian party of OSCE monitoring mission were among them. This map gave some information about real reasons for occupying these or that territories.
2) On February 19, 2015, InformNapalm volunteers collected and combined the data about the Russian military equipment and published this data in the form of infographics called "Top-10 Military Gadgets Involved in the Russian Aggression Against Ukraine". This was the first attempt to inform the public about our own OSINT investigations aimed at identification of the heavy equipment, available to militants and provided by the Russian armed forces. This material was translated in 12 languages.
3) On March 11, 2015, InformNapalm volunteer analysts initiated a number of social events 'Donbas Leaks' in terms of which we organized a mass trolling of the terrorist forces through the social networks, what attracted attention of the OSCE mission to a number of objects, which could not be destroyed by the Ukrainian forces because of the ceasefire, but were still available to be monitored by the OSCE mission. Our actions caused some dismay of the combined Russian-separatist forces. During this flashmob our activists were spamming OSCE accounts with links to InformNapalm investigations, which showed exact coordinates of those military objects [1, 2, 3].
4) On April 17, 2015, InformNapalm published a material which could be treated as a foreboding. The publication called "Russian Is the Sponsor of International Terrorism: From ISIS to L(D)PR" presented some concrete examples of the connections between the Russian agents and ISIS terrorists, It was also informed that the Western security services did register a secret visit of one Russian high rank official to ISIS leaders in Iraq and Syria.
In the fall of 2015, under the guise of fight with ISIS terrorists, the Russian Federation started a genocide of the Syrian people. Hundreds of civilians were killed by the Russian bombs, meanwhile ISIS terrorists were away from zones of the Russian air strikes.
On April 27, 2015, InformNapalm's volunteer who lived in the occupied territory conducted an OSINT investigation as a result of which he found a number of pictures, which showed a transfer of the 'Buk' anti-aircraft mount column towards the Ukrainian border. Those pictures were published by Dmitriy Zubkov, a conscript Russian serviceman, who served in the 147th automobile battalion of the Russian Ministry of Defense (military unit No. 83466). This transfer was carried on exactly 2 weeks prior to the tragedy of MH-17. The account of Dmitriy Zubkov was deleted soon after this publication, however, this information was preserved in archives and is still available.
The results of this investigation were also presented to the inquiry group of Netherlands police. On May 13, 2015, the information used in the InformNapalm publications was added to the report about MH17 tragedy and written by the British investigative group Bellingcat. Bellingcat's analysts informed that they had found this information in social networks all by themselves.
5) On May 16, 2015, InformNapalm volunteers were the first to start a resonance in social networks, which made it impossible to quietly exchange the GRU special service soldiers. The information saying that two Russian special service soldiers were captured was received by InformNapalm editorial on May 16 at about 7 p.m. After the verification, this information was published on the InformaNapalm editor's webpage – only 1 hour 44 minutes after it was received. It also included a call to the public to prevent the continuation of the quiet exchanges practice and to stop ignoring such issues. This information had a great social response and it lead to the press-conference devoted to the Russian servicemen and organized by the Ukrainian General Staff on May 18. Unfortunately, because of the passiveness of the official Kyiv, Ukraine failed to use this incident to attract attention of the international community and to dispel a number of the Russian myths. InformNapalm's volunteers tried to cooperate with the Ukrainian armed forces, but faced lots of problems with bureaucratic machine, which did not want to work together in the same informational field.
The volunteers of InformNapalm conducted a number of monitoring and reconnaissance operations in social network profiles of the Russian special forces soldiers, whose last names were announced after the first interrogations – sergeant Aleksandrov and captain Yerofeyev, captured near the Shchastya settlement. Our volunteer analysts collected some information about the commander of the GRU unit, who lead the subversive group in Luhansk. His name is major Konstantin Napolskikh. Later we confirmed our assumption with our own sources in the Armed forces. We were informed that the information about the major Konstantin Napolskikh, who was in control of the GRU group in Luhansk, was true.
Moreover, during the OSINT investigations InformNapalm collected some information about the commander of the second squadron of the GRU special forces unit, first class private Ruslan Kutluakhmetov, whose last name was also told by captured soldiers during the interrogation.
6) In June 2015, InformNapalm community conducted a series of OSINT investigations, which helped define the location of a R-330Zh 'Zhitel' automated jamming station, determine which Russian anti-aircraft gunners were responsible for downing Ukrainian aircrafts in Donbas, establish the commercial reasons for which two brothers, employees of the Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) fled to LPR and calculate the estimated number of losses based on the areas of mass grave sites of the 'Novorossiya' militants; showed how the separatist leader Pavel Gubarev exposed the Russian 18th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, and conducted a number of other interesting investigations, which were quickly disseminated by the media.
7) In July, InformNapalm demonstrated massive participation of the Russian military personnel in the war in Donbas. For example, the article "Putin's Eleven': Selfies of Soldiers of the 18th Russian Motorized Rifles Brigade in Donbas" demonstrated, on the basis of an OSINT investigation, the facts of the involvement of the intelligence division of the 18th separate motorized rifle brigade (military unit No. 27777, 58th general army, Southern Military District, Khankala and Kalinovskaya, Republic of Chechnya) in the war against Ukraine.
InformNapalm has also revealed the Volvo truck that carried the BUK missile system for MH17. This information has also been transferred to the investigation team of the Dutch police.
Our website has also published humorous materials mocking the stupidity of the Russian soldiers, who provide us with a lot of interesting data in the photos they post. Laugh with us in the new year, reading our article "A Selfie Artist and a Prisoner of Conscience. Two Very Different Stories from the Same Russian Military Unit".
In early July, InformNapalm volunteers added important details to the report released by the State Security Service of Ukraine identifying Russian generals exercising direct command of the joint Russian-separatist forces in Donbas.
We have also conducted investigations and found proof that paratroopers of the Russian 31st separate airborne assault brigade from Ulyanovsk assaulted the Crimean Parliament disguised as Berkut.
8) August 2015 was also quite fruitful for the work of InformNapalm international volunteer community. The testimony of another Russian career serviceman taken captive, major general Vladimir Starkov, provided clues that were used by InformNapalm volunteers to prove that the Russian army used military unit No. 89462 stationed in Novocherkassk as a cover for sending personnel to Donbas.
InformNapalm's volunteers have established successful cooperation with the Ukrainian special task forces, which resulted in a unique footage of the interrogation of the commander of the 1st battalion of the 7th brigade of the 'DPR', militant Andriy Kozyrenko (call sign 'Kozyr'). Our innovative approach to this cooperation has allowed for a more efficient use of the informational potential of such incidents. The video with "Kozyr's" testimony was shot not in a neutral room, as is the practice of security services, but allowed the militant to assess with his own eyes the deceitfulness of the Russian propaganda. He was taken to a checkpoint in Slovyansk, where he was stationed during the city's occupation with the joint Russian-separatist forces and 'DPR' guerrillas under the command of Igor Girkin (Strelkov). The absence of Nazi flags and crucified babies on the fences of Slovyansk brought "Kozyr" to a state of shock. The Russian propaganda turned out to be a lie that warped his life.
This precedent can be considered a joint victory of the Ukrainian special task forces and the InformNapalm volunteer community, because a few days after "Kozyr" was taken captive and his interview at the checkpoint was published, the morale of his brigade was shaken. According to the Russian propagandist and terrorist blogger Aleksandr Zhuchkovsky, 7th brigade of 'DPR 'was disbanded.
"Now we are witnessing an absolutely incomprehensible precedent: the 7the brigade of 'DPR' (of which "Kozyr's" battalion was a part) was included in the 'LPR' corps. This could be due to the incident with "Kozyr". The brigade has been withdrawn from Debaltseve, the heads from the 'LPR' have arrived and are taking the inventory of the units' property. The brigade had already been falling to pieces, and now the fighters are leaving it en masse," Zhuchkovskiy wrote in his blog.
On August 28, 2015, InformNapalm volunteer community presented the results of the systematization of its own OSINT investigation of the Russian military presence in Donbas. The presentations were held at Ukraine Crisis Media Center and on Hromadske.tv.
We presented the largest to date database of proofs of the Russian aggression. The database contains the facts of the recorded presence of the Russian servicemen in Ukraine, a specific list of military units and formations, with dates, locations and durations of their stay in Donbas, and demonstrates how to identify the enemy: selfies in social networks, 'Novorossiya' propaganda videos, expert analysis of weapons and equipment, etc.
This large data array has been visualized and translated into 14 languages.
9) It was middle of September 2015, when conducting the OSINT operations our volunteers located a picture of the modern Russian 'Torn' radio intelligence system based on the KamAZ truck. The exact location of shooting place was also identified: Donetsk, Vzletna str., 11A – this was a destroyed high-rise apartment building near the airport.
The InformNapalm's specialists were able to prove that the Russian 104th airborne regiment of the 76th airborne brigade participated in a seizure of the 'ChernomorNefteGas' infrastructure, i.e. the infamous "Boyko's drilling rigs".
On September 4, our team members analyzed the Syrian war videos and noticed the Russian BTR-82A units in those footages; most probably the equipment belongs to the 27th motorized rifle brigade (military unit No. 61899 located in Moscow Oblast). This investigation was the first one in a series of our special materials, which prove that Russia conducts the ground operation in Syria.
On September 15, InformNapalm presented a massive analytical report and infographics, which demonstrated a significant increase in a number of the Russian ships journeys to the Syrian port of Tartus, which is another evidence of the Russian plans to start the active military operation in Syria.
On September 22, based on the satellite images provided by the Stratfor private intelligence company, the foreign media informed the public about a significant increase of the Russian military presence in Syria. The InformNapalm team performed an analysis of the above mentioned pictures and identified the aircrafts as a part of forces of the Russia's Eastern Military District. Volunteers identified the Su-30SM unit – based on its side number it is clear that the warplane belongs to the 120th mixed aviation regiment of the 303rd guards mixed aviation division, which is a part of the 3rd Command of the Russian Air Forces and Air Defense (Eastern Military District).
Eight days later, on September 30, after the appropriate resolution by the Federation Council, Russia began a military operation in Syria. Russia held its first airstrikes on the Syrian cities of Latakia, Homs and Hama. Approximately 65 people were killed during these initial attacks.
10) In October, while maintaining its work aimed to identify the Russian soldiers in Donbas, the InformNapalm team opened 'the information front' and declared an ultimatum to the Kremlin.
A bee swarm principle has again proved to be effective: even a small team of the committed information intelligence professionals is able to act effectively and on-target moving from being in a defense position towards organizing the attacks. So, progressively by using the data from the Russian propagandist media and social networks profiles the InformNapalm members started to publish the side numbers of the military aircrafts and information about the crews. This strategy has become our distinctive feature: every time when controlled by the Kremlin Donbas separatists violated the ceasefire, the InformNapalm team disclosed new information about the Russian pilots – military criminals – who took part in the Syrian airstrikes.
It is important to mention that from the first days of this activity Dmitriy Peskov, the Russian President's press spokesman, has called such disclosure of the personal information of the soldiers fighting in Syria 'a hostile position'. According to Peskov "the Russian secret services monitor such work and will take all necessary steps to ensure the Russian soldiers' security".
We know how the monitoring process of our updates is going on as we see the InformNapalm web site search queries.
It was a real 'butthurt' of the Russian media: they just could not stand such disclosure of the Russian pilots' data and issued tons of articles blaming 'the Ukrainian web sites' but never mentioned our name – probably because they did not want Russians to check the InformNapalm investigations and become informed and not 'misinformed'. Our web site was under the round-the-clock cyber attacks but we were able to survive and continue to publish new and new materials. The English and Arabic versions of our news & updates was probably the most important moment: the InformNapalm had become known among the Arabic language media and very soon Al Arabiya compared us with the infamous WikiLeaks.
This comparison is irrelevant as the InformNapalm team not just leaks the secret information but rather carefully gathers and analyzes the facts but such collation served well to popularize our project abroad.
On October 27, the InformNapalm members together with another fellow volunteer project Infographics [UA] (Visulas) prepared the 1st part of the grouped data and facts on the Russian soldiers in Syria: military aircrafts navigators and pilots. Data visualization was used to present all appropriate materials. It was another perfect shooting. This time it was not only the Russian media but the Russian Army pilots who experience the above mentioned 'butthurt'.
At the end of October the InformNapalm teams confirmed the US intelligence data on the Russian aviation, which transported weapons from Iran to Syria during the previous ten days. Open sources were used this time including the taped records with the Il-76MD pilot and the air traffic controller (callsign 'KORSAR'). It was defined that on September 17 a group of the Russian Air Force aircrafts with a leading Il-76MD (tail No. RF-76554) was flying from the Mozdok military airfield to the Iranian Air Force airbase Hamadan. This fact also proved that Russia violated an existing embargo to sell weapons from Iran to Syria.
11) In November our team continued to expose profiles of those Russian pilots who took part in the Syrian airstrikes. We have also made public the information about the Russia's involvement in the ground operation in Syria, which is still denied by the Russian official authorities.
Foreign media became more interested in the work of our international volunteer community. For example the well known German magazine 'Bild' wrote 'how volunteers nailed Russian pilots to the pillory'.
Also for the first time since the InformNapalm started its activity the 'ICTV' Ukrainian TV channel decided to shoot a 14-minutes video telling about the specific areas of the volunteers' work.
12) By December 2, 2015, a systematized information and infographics describing the Russian Army ground component was prepared. Together with the 'Visuals' project volunteers we have created a very convenient and useful OSINT analytical tool, which demonstrated all discovered and identified Russian Army divisions operating in Syria.
On December 8 (only a week after the above mentioned materials were published) the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense held a meeting presenting its report on the Russian military units operating in Syria.
Chief Intelligence Division presented its data, which not only fully matched the one previously gathered, grouped & analyzed by our InformNapalm team, but which was also missing some parts describing the certain military units: the 120th artillery brigade near the Lataka region, the 336th marines brigade near the As-Suwayda province, the 'Solntsepyok' flamethrower system, which most likely belongs to the 20th regiment of the Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological troops (NCBT).
On December 14 InformNapalm published results of the another sensational investigation on how the Russian 'Yauza' bulk carrier transported ammunition for TOS-1/TOS-1A flamethrower systems to Syria. Our OSINT work has revealed the following: Aleksandr Bondarenko, a Russian soldier, has accidentally put a secret data on the weapons delivery in the public domain. Just after several seconds this update was deleted but the Google cache kept all the information, which we later used to prepare the report.
The end of our 'December marathon' was marked by a research on the 8th separate motorized rifle brigade: from its deployment to Donbas to the specific decorations honoring these 'war crimes' as well as a two-chapter analysis on the crimes of the 291st artillery brigade against Ukraine (part 1 and part 2).
Simultaneously the InformNapalm team continued its diligent work to identify and make public information on those Russian pilots who took part in the Syrian airstrikes resulted in killing citizens. We have noticed that the Russian propagandist journalists were forced to significantly decrease a total number of articles praised the Russian air force and Russians in Syria started to disguise the side numbers or fake them. But our volunteers have quickly detected such poor attempts.
Degree of the Russian propaganda was definitely lessened by our efforts. The Russian media was forced to not disclose names of 'the heroes', which turned these supposed-to-be-triumphant materials into the pathetic attempts of the scared propagandists frightened of their shadows (these shadows are probably designed to prevent an identification of their real location).
The pinnacle of our activity in 2015 we consider a fact of the InformNapalm's acknowledgment by Russia itself. According to the popular American magazine 'Vice News' we have tried the Russian authorities' patience and irritated them so many times that finally they requested Canada to block us (our web hosting is in Quebec).
The representative of the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed a request to delete the confidential information but meanwhile Canada did not provide Russia with the official reply.
While monitoring another Russian 'butthurt' of the political character this time, the InformNapalm, team has prepared a few mirror sites ahead of time and addressed several state and NGO organizations in Canada asking to support the freedom of speech as well as to prevent persecution and abuse of the OSINT researches.
We would like to express our gratitude to all volunteers who helped to translate our web site and prepared versions in so many languages. All of them being in different countries are working on a regular basis doing their best to help Ukraine and to bring the Victory. This is our joint Victory – Ukraine, Georgia, Syria, etc. Thanks to your efforts the InformNapalm Project has obtained its international scope. We wish you all the best in the upcoming New Year!
We also would like to thank our friends and readers! We wish you the endless victories! We hope that 2016 will become a year of the triumph! All dreams come true!
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High Art
A young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other.
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Stars: Radha Mitchell, Ally Sheedy, Patricia Clarkson
Syd, who lives with her boyfriend James, goes to complain to her neighbor about the leak in the ceiling. Her neigbor is photographer Lucy Berliner and Syd starts to fall in love with her.
Radha Mitchell - Syd
Gabriel Mann - James
Charis Michelsen - Debby
David Thornton - Harry
Anh Duong - Dominique
Ally Sheedy - Lucy Berliner
Patricia Clarkson - Greta
Helen Mendes - White Hawk
Bill Sage - Arnie
Tammy Grimes - Vera
Cindra Feuer - Delia
Anthony Ruivivar - Xander
Elaine Tse - Zoe
Rudolf Martin - Dieter
Laura Ekstrand - Waitress
Taglines: a story of ambition, sacrifice, seduction and other career moves.
Filming Locations: New York City, New York, USA
Opening Weekend: $47,499 (USA) (14 June 1998) (4 Screens)
Gross: $1,929,168 (USA) (13 September 1998)
Runtime: 101 min | Colombia: 87 min
The character of Lucy Berliner (Ally Sheedy) was based on Nan Goldin's life and work.
Syd: It's like cultural studies or semiotics. Philosophy, you know? Foucault, Derrida, Kristava, whatevah.
A Tormented Extreme Close-Up
HIGH ART is remarkable not only for two of its lead performances, Ally Sheedy and Patricia Clarkson, but for the way it so closely observes its characters' lives. Director Cholodenko has found a way to tell her story that has a strong feel of authenticity. One important component of the film's realism is the set design. These are offices and, particularly, apartments that feel like people actually work or live there. Such authenticity may be nothing new, but the way Cholodenko moves people around in these spaces and they way the actors perform combine to ground in what seems a 'real world'. For those who have known, or been part of, the 'artistic scene' and its reliance on drug use, the numerous sequences set in Lucy's dimly-lit, cluttered living room will ring quite true.
Ally Sheedy, attractive, but now slightly hardened in appearance, has gotten deep inside the tormented world of Lucy Berliner. It's a character that will be hard to forget, and the kind of performance that does not seem at all like acting.
As Berliner's dissolute former lover, Greta, Patricia Clarkson gives the film its most colorful performance. This does seem like acting, but that is not at all a criticism: Greta is in fact a failed actress and a person whose descent into addiction and self-destruction must be theatrical at any cost.
Pretty, round-faced Radha Mitchell is not at the level of these two powerhouses, but her Syd is nicely understated and appropriately wistful.
Also very fine in the cast are impossibly handsome Bill Sage as a hanger-on and Tammy Grimes as Lucy's stern, distant mother.
HIGH ART depicts a world where some discuss the minute details of a photograph in the most abstruse terms of deconstruction or ambiguous 'art babble', while others grapple with the basic questions that haunt us all. It's an extreme close-up on the human condition.


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Q: Change the position of UI datepicker
Possible Duplicate:
How to change the pop-up position of the jQuery DatePicker control

How can i change the position of the UI datepicker widget??
I used the ui datepicker widget for my text box. But when i click on the calander. The datapicker is show. But the datepicker are stay on the wrong position. The datapicker must be on the left of the calander icon.
You can see it here live: You can see it here live
This is my javascript for the ui datapicker.
// Data picker
$(function () {
    $('#datepicker').datepicker({
        beforeShow: function(input, inst)
        {
            inst.dpDiv.css({marginTop: -input.offsetHeight + 'px', marginRight: input.offsetWidth + 'px'});
        }
    });
});

A: You can add this css:
#ui-datepicker-div
{
    left:600px !important;
    width:470px !important;
}

You can play with the poisition by chancing the left & width in pixels. I found this with by debugging the html with Firebug for firefox.

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Bad payers and cash advance financing opportunists portrayed in local lawsuits
The contrasts between deadbeat borrowers and opportunistic lenders, as the providers and users of merchant cash advance financing claim, are perfectly illustrated in two lawsuits filed on November 9 in the Westchester Supreme Court.
Greenwich Capital Management Limited Partnership of White Plains says the owner of Auto Custom Leathers Inc. of Ludlow, Massachusetts quickly defaulted on a $ 76,945 loan and filed for bankruptcy.
Dave Hancock of Yonkers said in a separate complaint that New York Unity Factor, of Manhattan, illegally charged his company up to 288% interest.
Merchant cash advances are also known as accounts receivable financing. The trader receives a quick injection of money. The lender gets a percentage of the future income to be assessed daily on the merchant's bank account.
The industry characterizes financing as a purchase of future assets and claims that advances are not, in fact, loans.
The business owner is usually required to sign an admission of judgment securing the agreement and waiving the right to defend themselves in court. Many states have banned admissions of judgment because of the potential for abuse, according to a 2018 series on cash advances to traders by Bloomberg News. New York allows them.
In the case of Greenwich Capital, Auto Custom Leather agreed in January and April 2019 to sell a total of $ 76,945 in future income for $ 55,000.
Owner Gerald Zalucki guaranteed payment. He also signed documents in which he said he did not intend to cease operating the business within a year and that he did not plan to file for bankruptcy.
Four months later, Auto Custom Leather reportedly stopped repaying the loan, and Zalucki filed for Chapter 13 personal bankruptcy, declaring $ 269,050 in assets and $ 315,374 in liabilities.
Zalucki did not name Greenwich Capital as a creditor, according to the complaint, and Greenwich Capital only learned of the bankruptcy after the Chapter 13 plan was approved last January.
Greenwich Capital says Zalucki still owes $ 45,456 on initial transactions, plus 16% interest per annum as of August 2019.
Zalucki's bankruptcy lawyer Eric Kornblum did not respond to an email asking for his client's version.
Dave Hancock paints a very different picture. As an officer for CPC Construction, from Gilbert, Arizona, he and Alan Langer, also from Yonkers, made three deals with New York Unity Factor.
Each new agreement absorbed the terms of the previous agreement. As of November 2018, Hancock and Langer had agreed to sell more than $ 2.8 million in future revenue for around $ 1.3 million. The company had to pay back $ 25,000 a day for 113 days.
Hancock and Langer signed admissions of judgment securing the obligation.
The agreements were made with Complete Business Solutions Group, and were subsequently acquired by New York Unity Factor.
New York Unity Factor filed a lawsuit in 2018 to enforce the judgment admissions, and the Westchester Supreme Court approved the judgments.
Hancock argues his judgment should be overturned because the loans were illegal, with interest ranging from 93% to 288%, while New York City does not allow more than 16% interest.
He cites a July 2020 emergency action filed by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission against Complete Business Solutions in federal court in Miami. The SEC accused the company of making opportunistic loans and charging small businesses more than 400% interest.
Hancock has some basis for optimism. Last year, her partner, Langer, filed an almost identical lawsuit against New York Unity Factor.
On August 11, Westchester Supreme Court Justice Linda S. Jamieson allowed Langer's motion to quash the judgment because New York Unity Factor had failed to respond to Langer's complaint or petition.
Attempts to ask New York Unity Factor for its side of the story have failed.
Greenwich Capital is represented by Manhattan attorney Jonathan M. Borg. Hancock is represented by Brooklyn attorney Jay B. Itkowitz.


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I looked for a small embedded database for a small website. I dont want to setup a full database engine just to store some megabytes of data. So i found Rob Connery's biggy which covers my aspects. But biggy implements alot of other features which i dont need, like psql, mongo, etc. So i created FileBiggy which is just a document database with a file storage.

FileBiggy ships a BiggyContext, which is an entityframework inspired data context. Just define some entities, a context and it works.

FileBiggy supports a JsonStorage, a BsonStorage (good to store files in a managed manner), and a simple in memory store for unit testing.

Data is loaded into memory when your application starts, and you query it with Linq. That's it. It loads incredibly fast (100,000 records in about 1 second) and from there will sync your in-memory list with whatever store you choose.

## Getting started

Let's say you want to store some movies in your database so define a movie entity

```csharp
public class Movie
{
    [Identity]
    public string MovieId { get; set; }

    public string Name { get; set; }

    public string[] Genres { get; set; }

    public int Year { get; set; }

    // and some other properties
}
```

The next step is to define your context.

```csharp
public class MovieContext : BiggyContext
{
    public MovieContext(string connectionString)
        : base(connectionString)
    {
    }

    public EntitySet<Movie> Movies { get; set; }
}
```

And that's it. Context classes should be stored as singleton instances, because they keep the data synchronized in memory.
FileBiggy has a simple fluent api to obtain a context instance:

```csharp
var jsonContext = ContextFactory.Create<MovieContext>()
    .AsJsonDatabase()
    .WithDatabaseDirectory("C:\\mydatabase")
    .Build();

// this wont work. you need to change Movie's identity from string to Guid
var bsonContext = ContextFactory.Create<MovieContext>()
    .AsBsonDatabase()
    .WithDatabaseDirectory("C:\\mydatabase")
    .Build();

var memoryContext = ContextFactory.Create<MovieContext>()
    .AsInMemoryDatabase()
    .Build();
```

Let's add some stuff to our created database:

```csharp
var movies = jsonContext.Movies;
var theSameMovies = jsonContext.Set<Movie>();

// or movies.AddAsync in a async application :)
movies.Add(new Movie
{
    Genres = new[] { "Action" },
    MovieId = "tt0468569",
    Name = "The Dark Knight",
    Year = 2008
});

var darkKnight = movies.Where(movie => movie.Name.Contains("Dark"));
```

## Features

- Full Async/Await support (new!)
- EntitySets are threadsafe (had some problems with biggy's non-threadsafe singleton instances)
- Dynamic data scheme
- IdentityAttribute marks a key, and gives you really fast access to these entities
- Less dependencies and a small assembly (about 35kB)
- Entityframework like datacontext which is nice for IoC uses (i'll add a sample solution)
- Clear interfaces and good capabilities to add your own fancy Store

## Limitations

- each BiggyContext must contain only one EntitySet per type
- BsonStore requires a Guid Identity
- BsonStore isnt really optimized at the moment but quite good for storing files

## How to install

Just grab the FileBiggy package from nuget and install it

```
Install-Package FileBiggy
```

## Roadmap

- add builds for other platfroms (phone, xamarin, etc)
- add some other usefull attributes [Expires], [ForeignIdentity]
- add some sample projects
- the issues for more informations