I am Dr Banji Oyegbami, a Medical practitioner in Lagos. The following story is my practical experience at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos yesterday night 18th August 2018.
As planned I went to the Airport with my driver to pick up my very close friend and his wife that arrived from Atlanta USA on board Delta Airline.
I parked my car on the first floor of the New Multi-level car park and walked briskly to wait for my guests in front of the Arrival hall. About an hour of waiting my friend and wife emerged from the entrance pushing the luggage trolley.
I rushed forward to meet them and as expected exchanged pleasantries. My driver immediately took over the trolley and we walk briskly to the car park chatting all along the way.
We got there and started loading the bags into the boot of the vehicle. Instinctively Madam dropped her handbag on the floor while trying to help the driver with the loading.
Loading is done. the 4 of us jumped into the car and drove out of the Airport. But my friend's wife forgot to pick up her handbag.
We journeyed for about one and a half hour in terrible traffic without realizing this.
in America. She told us that she received a call via her mother's number. The caller informed her that the owner of the phone forgot her bag at the Airport car park, and that we should turn back to collect it.
It was only then that my friend's wife realized that her bag was missing. To confirm the information, I called the missing phone and it was picked. The receiver confirmed that the bag is with him. He gave his name as Mr Francis and that he is the supervisor of the park.
We headed back to the Airport with speed and shortly we met Mr Francis who after confirming madam's identity narrated the story.
A junior officer of Halogen Securities Mr Achi Daniel found the bag and gave it to his supervisor as lost and found item.
Mr Francis scrolled through the phone in the lost bag and called my friend's daughter in USA who called me to relay the message.
Mr Francis Emepueaku told us that they had gone through the bag and logged every item therein.
My friend's wife who was very tensed was asked to relax and verify that nothing was missing. She did and confirmed that the items were complete. The logbook was presented to her to sign which she did after thorough cross-checking.
The lost and found bag contained her Phone, large sum of Dollars in labeled envelops sent through her to people in Nigeria, wrist watches she planned as gift items and other documents and valuables.
We were speechless when Mr Francis refused the tip we offered him saying that they were only doing their duty.
I was really surprised at the level of honesty and integrity displayed by Mr Francis and Mr Achi Daniel both of Halogen Securities and I think they should be commended.
Kindly broadcast this message to all your contacts. Nigeria is not devoid of honest men and women as exemplified by Mr Francis and Mr Achi.


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Is it mandatory to have a driving license in Spain? How good is the public transportation in that country? What are the advantages of having a car in Spain? Let's discuss these issues in the following note.
First of all, you have to know if your driving license is valid in Spain. If your license was issued in any EU Community country, the answer is yes. Although, it is important to know that you need to have a registration to put your license on.
If your license was not issued in an EU country, however, you can legally drive in Spain for about six months. After that period of time, you have to convert your license to fulfill the European regulations. Also take note that you have to be 18 years or older to drive a car legally in Spain.
Where do you go to get a Spanish driver's license?
The Jefatura Provincial de Tráfico is the body in charge of the tests, so go to the webpage and download all the information required.
What else do I need to do before getting my driving permission?
A copy of your NIE/DNI certificate.
The driving license of the country you came from.
An address in Spain that can be verified (you must have lived in Spain for at least six months).
Being up to date with the social security payment (your wage slip will be required).
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A medical certificate (the form can be obtained from one of the centers near the Jefatura Provincial de Tráfico).
A legal address in Spain (you must have been in Spain for six months).
A 32 x 26 mm passport style color photograph.
A form (solicitud de carnet del permiso de conducir) which can be picked up from the Traffic Office or found on their website http://www.dgt.es
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Risankizumab Benefits Chronic Plaque Psoriasis at 2 Years
New phase 3 IMMhance findings show durable, sustained effect of the IL-23 inhibitor on a 12-week dose regimen.
Andrew Blauvelt, MD, MBA
Risankizumab (SKYRIZI) showed early efficacy and continued tolerability and safety through a two-year trial designed to assess treatment withdrawal in patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.
In new findings from the phase 3 randomized, double-blind IMMhance clinical trial comparing the subcutaneous selective interleukin 23 (IL-23) inhibitor to placebo in patients with plaque psoriasis, investigators reported risankizumab's superior efficacy in static Physician Global Assessment (sPGA) and Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI) achievements over 16 weeks, as well as sustained benefit at 2 years.
The findings provide further evidence of benefit with a 12-week regimen of the monoclonal antibody for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.
A team of investigators, led by Andrew Blauvelt, MD, MBA, of the Oregon Medical Research Center, noted that in the clinical trial history of 12-week dosage risankizumab, the selective inhibitor has shown consistently strong efficacy in PASI 90 metrics up to 52 weeks from baseline.
The therapy has also shown greater safety and tolerability and similar efficacy to competitor agents that inhibit IL-17 over a similar period of time. Blauvelt and colleagues observed that selective IL-23 inhibition could offer greater safety benefits versus such biologics.
In accordance, the team conducted the IMMhance trial with 507 eligible patients with stable, moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis for at least 6 months. Patients were also qualified if they had longer, body surface area involvement of ≥10%, PASI ≥12, and sPGA ≥3.
Patients were randomized 4:1 to 150 mg risankizumab or placebo, at weeks 0 and 4. All patients then received risankizumab at week 16. Any patients randomized to risankizumab who achieved sPGA 0/1 were again randomized 1:2 at week 28 to either risankizumab or placebo every 12 weeks.
For the initial portion of the trial, investigators assessed for co-primary endpoints of proportion of patients achieving PASI 90, and sPGA score of 0/1 at week 16. In the latter half of the trial, the team assessed for proportion of rerandomized patients achieving sPGA 0/1 at week 52, and a secondary endpoint of such rates at week 104.
Mean patient age was 51 years (IQR, 38-60), with a majority (70.2%) being men. At week 16, nearly three-fourths (73.2%) in the treatment group achieved PASI 90, versus just 2% of placebo patients. Another 83.5% of patients on risankizumab achieved sPGA 0/1 scores, versus 7% of placebo patients (placebo-adjusted differences: PASI 90: 70.8%; 95% CI, 65.7-76.0; sPGA 0/1: 76.5%; 95% CI, 70.4-82.5; P <.001).
Patients treated with risankizumab (45.7%) and placebo (49%) reported similar rates of treatment-emergent adverse events in the first part of the trial, and such rates remained stable through the latter half.
At 28 weeks, investigators rerandomized 336 patients to risankizumab (n = 111) or treatment withdrawal (n = 225). Another 87.4% of patients receiving therapy achieved sPGA 0/1 at week 52, versus 61.3% of placebo patients. At week 104, sPGA 0/1 was achieved by 81.1% of risankizumab patients and 7.1% of placebo patients (placebo-adjusted differences at week 52: 25.9%; 95% CI, 17.3-34.6; at week 104: 73.9%; 95% CI, 66.0-81.9; P <.001).
Blauvelt and colleagues concluded their findings indicate the first benefit-risk profile of risankizumab to extend to 2 years for chronic plaque psoriasis. They added that a majority of patients (55.4%) had already been exposed to biologic therapy prior to the trial, showing the IL-23 inhibitor's particular long-term, durable benefit.
"Together, these findings support the use of 12-week risankizumab dosing as an efficacious and safe regimen for maintenance of clinical efficacy in patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis," they wrote.
The study, "Efficacy and Safety of Continuous Risankizumab Therapy vs Treatment Withdrawal in Patients With Moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis," was published online in JAMA Dermatology.
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As family struggle to survive, many women and girls have found work in the brothels of large Asian cities such as Bangkok.
World Health Organization (WHO) (2001) undertook an extensive investigation of the problem.
References to Asia often bring to mind the stunning beauty of the Orient. Rich cultural tradition coupled with unique design and architecture make Asia appear to be an almost mythical culture to Western citizens. While it is indeed true that Asia is associated with an exotic culture deeply entrenched in historical discourse, researchers examining this region of the globe have note that the region is also struggling to come to terms with maintaining culture in the wake of rapid industrialization and globalization. Although countries such as China have worked hard to balance tradition and progress, it is clear that the changes that have taken place in the country have placed notable stress on citizens. At the present time, many Asian citizens are being economically marginalized because of such rapid development.


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NATO & Cyber Security: How Will the Alliance Fend off Cyber Threats?
Written by @Eubulletin | Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
Cyber threats to NATO's security are becoming more frequent, complex, destructive, and coercive. The Allies have taken important steps in cyber defence over the past decade. Most recently, in 2018, they agreed how to integrate sovereign cyber effects, provided voluntarily by Allies, into Alliance operations and missions, as well as devised the 'contours' of the Cyberspace Operations Centre (CyOC). But is the Alliance doing enough to address the complex and evolving challenges of cyberspace?
The need to strengthen capabilities to defend the NATO member states against cyber attacks was first acknowledged by Allied leaders at their 2002 summit meeting in Prague. Since then, cyber security has become an increasingly important focus of NATO's summit agendas. In 2008, the first NATO cyber defence policy was adopted and in 2014, Allies made cyber defence a core part of collective defence and further pledged to enhance the cyber defences of their national networks and infrastructure.
Since the Allies recognised cyberspace as a domain of operations in 2016, NATO has achieved several important milestones. Perhaps most notably, in October 2018, NATO announced the initial stand up of the Cyberspace Operations Centre in its trial structure. The CyOC serves as NATO's theatre component for cyberspace and is responsible for providing cyberspace situational awareness, centralised planning for the cyberspace aspects of Alliance operations and missions, and coordination for cyberspace operational concerns.
Allies are also taking steps to consider how to more systematically respond to malicious cyber activity that falls below the threshold of armed conflict. At the Brussels Summit, Allies expressed their determination "to employ the full range of capabilities, including cyber, to deter, defend against, and to counter the full spectrum of cyber threats, including those conducted as part of a hybrid campaign." Furthermore, they resolved "to continue to work together to develop measures which would enable us to impose costs on those who harm us."
This full spectrum of response, always exercised in accordance with international law and following the principles of restraint and proportionality, is critical to effectively address the prevalence of problematic cyber activity below the threshold of armed conflict. NATO is also deepening its ties to industry through the NATO Industry Cyber Partnership. This overarching programme provides numerous platforms for the exchange of information, threat trends, and best practices. These interactions help NATO build trusted relationships with industry while facilitating all parties to be better prepared to prevent and respond to cyber attacks. Given the centrality of cyberspace to the modern way of warfare, it is imperative that the Alliance be equally capable in this domain as the others.
The approach of the Alliance is sensible: it seeks to address the most significant challenges associated with operating in cyberspace. Ultimately, though, the Alliance must continue to consider how it can do more, since cyber threats are trending only towards more serious impact. Finally, when seeking to keep pace with change in this domain, NATO might see benefit in continuing to evaluate how collaboration with industry might evolve. The Alliance, in short, should continue on its current path, ensuring that through continued attention and resources, cyberspace can become an ordinary part of business.
'NATO's Role in Cyberspace' – Analysis by Laura Brent – NATO Review.
(The Analysis can be downloaded here)
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Warwick | Stanthorpe | Inglewood | Tenterfield
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WE HAVE MOVED! Come and see us at our new Warwick premises!
The Physiotherapy Centre in Warwick has moved! You can now find us at our bigger, better premises at 22 Palmerin Street. With more room for our ever expanding range of services - we can't wait to see you! Contact us on 4661 5577 to find out more!
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MY HEALTH FOR LIFE PROGRAM
My Health for Life is a free program designed for those who are at high risk of chronic disease. You could be eligible if you are:
45 years and over and have been identified by a health professional as being at high risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke
An Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person aged 18 years and over
Living with a pre-existing condition that puts you at high risk of developing chronic disease.
Now delivered at The Physiotherapy Centre, My Health for Life is a six month program where you work with a health coach to achieve your health goals. Through a number of small group sessions, you will explore topics such as nutrition, physical activity and understanding your risk of developing health conditions.
Contact us on 4661 5577 to find out more!
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FUNDING RECEIVED FROM PHN FOR CHRONIC DISEASE CLASSES
The Physiotherapy Centre now offers Chronic Disease Classes weekly from our Warwick and Stanthorpe clinics! These classes are available free of charge for eligible clients. Classes run twice weekly in Warwick and once a week in Stanthorpe and participants are required to attend each class.
Chronic Disease Class Times- Warwick:
Monday - 10.30am
Friday 10.30am
Chronic Disease Class Times- Stanthorpe:
Wednesday- 11am
Contact us on 4661 5577 to find out if you are eligible!
This Chronic Diseases Class is supported by funding from Darling Downs and West Moreton PHN
through the Australian Government's PHN Program.
NOW TREATING PATIENTS AT THE TENTERFIELD COMMUNITY HUB!
The Physiotherapy Centre has expanded again, and we are soon to be treating patients in Tenterfield, at the Tenterfield Community Hub on 282 Rouse Street, Tenterfield. We will be starting on the 15th March, with appointments available fortnightly on a Friday from 10am to 3.30pm. We do home visits also and are registered to treat NDIS participants and Veterans, Workcover as well as private patients.
NB If Fridays aren't suitable for you, you can still receive the funding if you are able to travel to our Stanthorpe clinic.
The Physiotherapy Centre has been granted PAHS funding which means that eligible patients* will be able to see us free of charge.
The aim of the Priority Allied Health Services (PAHS) program is to improve the health and wellbeing of people across our region by increasing access to a range of primary health services in our communities. It is primarily focused on residents living in small and more rural locations, enabling them to access these services closer to home. It also aims to improve linkages between allied health and general practice. Treatment under the PAHS program is free for Health Care Card holders/pensioners and people on a low income, and requires a referral. Please talk to you GP, Practice Nurse or Allied Health Professional about being referred to this program.
*Eligibility for Priority Allied Health Services Program (PAHS)
Patients must be low income earners or pension/healthcare cardholders. Patients are eligible for only one PAHS referral, per Allied Health Service, in a 12 month period, except in extenuating circumstances. Referrals for all services will be accepted from GPs, Practice Nurses, and other allied health professionals. The patient's regular GP must be notified of this and included in all communication. Eligible patients will be able to receive 6 free sessions in a 12 month period.
Acknowledgment of program funding received by the Hunter New England Primary Health Network and the Department of Health.
For more information please contact your nearest office.
Our two CAHH (Connect Allied Health Hub) teams are in prime form. The Unicorns and Mighty Ducks are our two teams in Warwick's Mixed Netball comp, and regularly give the other teams a run for their money! Netball is a great sport for fitness and getting into that community spirit!
Connect Allied Health Hub NETBALL TEAMS!
2018 BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNERS!
Winners of the Health & Wellbeing Award 2018
More than 30 businesses were nominated for the 2018 Business Excellence Awards, so we were greatly honoured to be named the Health & Wellbeing Award Winners. Many thanks to our local community for your ongoing support and nominations for this award. The Physiotherapy Centre team continues to grow and expand, and we are excited to continue providing high quality care across the region.
Overall Winners and Health & Wellbeing Winners
We are both honoured and humbled to be named winners of the Health & Wellbeing Award and Overall Winner of the Heritage Bank Business Excellence Awards for 2017.
Thank you to our local community for your unwavering support. You have inspired us to continue providing great care for you and your family.
2017 BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNERS
Daily News Editorial
FAMILY-owned business, The Physiotheryapy Centre was thrilled to be announced as this year's winner of the Heritage Bank Business Excellence awards – Heath and Wellbeing sector.
These awards are a celebration of Warwick businesses and the contributions they make to the economic vitality of the region. It is an opportunity to recognise the leaders and innovators within the business community, and celebrate the success of the Southern Downs.
The Physiotherapy Centre directors Josh and Katie Hay were delighted to win the award, and were particularly keen to acknowledge their exceptional team of professional and administration staff.
"We're very fortunate to have a great team of staff working with us, and we're grateful to the local community for nominating us for this award." Mr Hay said. "We feel humbled to have won alongside such high calibre businesses."
HEALTH & LIFESTYLE EXPO STALL
Out and about at the Health and Lifestyle Expo!
On the 21st of June 2013, 'The Physiotherapy Centre' held a stall at the Oak Tree Retirement Village Warwick's, 'Health and Lifestyle Expo', where people could come and enjoy trying some very relaxing remedial massage and hear about the benefits of Physiotherapy, Hydrotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Remedial Massage, all services that we provide at 'The Physiotherapy Centre'.
School Touch Team Sponsors!
During the 2012 season 'The Physiotherapy Centre' has been a proud sponser of the 'Scots PGC College Touch Football Teams'. Watch this space for more information.
SCOTS PGC COLLEGE SUPPORTERS
TPC LOCAL TOUCH TEAM SPONSORS
Local Touch Team Sponsors
The Physiotherapy centre has been proudly servicing the local community for over 40 years! Of late, the Physiotherapy Centre has become further involved, sponsoring a local touch football team.
Watch this space for news of how The Physiotherapy Centre is getting involved in your local community.
Warwick Physiotherapy Centre has been servicing the community for over 40 years. Josh and Katie Hay took over ownership a little under 2 years ago in June 2009 and have since changed the name to The Physiotherapy Centre to enable multiple branches to be established in surrounding regions. With their services ever expanding, now with the addition of an Occupational Therapist to the team, its clear that they value fulfilling the needs of the community.
The Physiotherapy Centre has built a reputation for outstanding service within the field of allied health care. Their dedicated team of motivated staff have been tireless in their pursuit of excellent outcomes for all their patients. They are committed to continuing this exceptional level of service and look forward to assisting the residents of the Southern Downs maintain good health through Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Massage.
Director and Physiotherapist Josh Hay said "I am very grateful to the community for nominating us for the Business Excellence Awards. It is nice to know that people appreciate what we are doing. We hope that we can continue to make a positive impact on the community for the years ahead of us."
BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARD NOMINEE 2011
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MP and Oxford University visit major recycling plant
Conservative MP Robert Courts visited the Sheehan Group to discover how the company is leading the way on recycling in the county.
Mr Courts was joined by Nicholas Field-Johnson, Head of Development at Oxford University for a tour of the Sheehan Group's advanced recycling plant in Oxford.
The water treatment facility is used to wash construction and demolition waste, destined for landfill, turning it into reusable aggregate. In the past five years The Sheehan Group, a construction and recycling company, has saved 500,000 tonnes of waste from UK landfill sites via the plant. Half of the recycled material is used in its own construction projects and the rest is sold to contractors.
Witney MP, Mr Courts said: "I was delighted to meet everyone at Sheehan Group to visit their plant and learn more about their important work. Instead of shipping waste abroad or putting it into landfill we need to find innovative and sustainable ways to reuse it. Sheehan are leading the way in this area and I am delighted to have such a pioneering company based here in West Oxfordshire."
Chris Sheehan, Managing Director, of the Sheehan Group, said: "Recycling and sustainable construction is crucial for the UK and it is at the heart of our strategy and values as a business.
"It is important politicians and key decision makers understand the importance of what we are doing and the scope there is to make construction in Oxfordshire much more sustainable. It was a pleasure to show Mr Courts and Mr Field-Johnson around our facility and to receive such enthusiasm for what we are doing."
The company is due to appeal an Oxfordshire County Council planning decision that refused permission to increase operational capacity at the plant from 100,000 tonnes to 175,000 tonnes per year.
Mr Field-Johnson joined Mr Court's visit as part of the Sheehan Group's relationship with Oxford University. The Sheehan Group has fully funded a scholar on the Master's in Sustainable Urban Development course.
Tara Sheehan, Finance Director of the Sheehan Group, said: "We are thankful to Mr Courts and Mr Field-Johnson taking the time to come and discover what we do as a company and the difference we are making both environmentally and economically.
"Our plant is the only one of its kind in the county and serves such an important function."


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Indonesia, U.S. EXIM bank sign $750 mln infrastructure, trade loan agreement
JAKARTA, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Indonesia and the Export-Import Bank of the United States have signed an agreement for infrastructure and trade financing worth $750 million, the Indonesian embassy in Washington said in a statement.
The Memorandum of Understanding for the funding was signed by Muhammad Lutfi, Indonesia's ambassador to the United States, and EXIM President Kimberly Reed, during a visit by senior Indonesian officials to Washington.
EXIM was not immediately available for comment, but according to a statement it issued in October both sides had agreed to explore opportunities for financing of up to $750 million, with potential projects ranging from infrastructure, energy and wireless communication technology to healthcare and broadcasting.
Indonesian officials are currently visiting the United States to promote the government's new Job Creation law, which seeks to simplify doing business in the Southeast Asian country.
The delegation also met with executives from asset managers such as Blackrock, Blackstone, Carlyle, I Squared and Stonepeak, to pitch Indonesia's new sovereign wealth fund, according to an Instagram post on Thursday by Deputy State-Owned Enterprises Minister Kartika Wirjoatmodjo. (Reporting by Bernadette Christina Munthe and Maikel Jefriando; Writing by Gayatri Suroyo; Editing by Ed Davies)


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A few parents have commented that they have forgotten to update their bank standing order instructions to reflect the new rate, hence this reminder. Full details of the 2015-16 fees can be found at: http://www.childsplaynursery.org.uk/fees/. For reference, last year's fees are shown at: http://www.childsplaynursery.org.uk/fees-2014-2015.


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Kiselev will not give up license for broadcasting. Ministry for Press and Mass Media is surprised by such chaotic actions
The situation around the Moscow TV channel TV-6 has become more complicated. Now, TV-6 General Director Yevgeny Kiselev says that the decision of MNVK (Moscow independent broadcasting corporation) on giving up a license to broadcast of January 14 is now invalid. A letter on the subject was sent to Russia's Ministry for Press and Mass Media by the TV-6 staff. The staff asks the Ministry to recall the previous letter.
Earlier, the decision on the rejection of the license was signed by TV Chief Executive Pavel Korchagin. The director general of the TV company says that the problem has not been considered by the board of directors. And Pavel Korchagin was not authorized to decide on the rejection. In accordance with the legislation, it is the board of directors that is authorized to make a decision on giving up the license.
The Ministry for Press and Mass Media, in its turn, was very surprised by the chaotic actions of the TV-6 leadership. The ministry's press-service informs that the actions hamper the positive settlement of the crisis that has already outlined. In addition, the possibility of the TV-6 management and journalists to carry on a constructive important dialogue and to manage the economic activity is now being called into question.
At the same time, as RIA Novosti informs, on January 21, court officers delivered a decision of the Moscow arbitration court on the suspension of TV-6 broadcasting to the Ministry for Press and Mass Media. The document reads that the license currently in force cannot be handed over to any other company.
In his interview to RTR, Minister for Press and Mass Media Mikhail Lesin said that a tender for the right to broadcast on the TV-6 channel would be held at the end of March. This week, a decision on a temporary permit to broadcast on the TV-6 frequency is to be made. The minister says that it is more likely that some other company, and not TV-6, will win the permit for broadcasting.
Sergey Yugov PRAVDA.Ru
In the photo: TV-6 Director General Yevgeny Kiselev
Read the original in Russian: http://www.pravda.ru/main/2002/01/21/35812.html


The first segments for the BLUE Hammer by Fistuca BV, which Sif is manufacturing in collaboration with Huisman, are ready at Maasvlakte 2. The hammer will be the world's largest pile-driver hammer, being specially designed to drive the largest monopiles in the world.
BLUE Piling Technology is an alternative to current pile-driving technology that uses hydraulic rams. BLUE uses a gas mixture that is combusted to propel a column of water upwards. The column of water pushes the pole down as it shoots up and drives the monopile further into the sea floor as it falls back down. The pile-driving technology produces much lower noise levels than conventional pile-driving and also minimizes fatigue to the foundation.
The project will result in a direct reduction to the costs of installing wind turbines.


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By Matt Simpson on Jun 25, 2008
"Rains clog sewer system, residents asked to limit toilet use," the Kansas City Star reports. The hilarity of this headline should be apparent to anyone with a bit of schooling in economics. According to the article:
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment issued a statement Wednesday urging Sublette residents to curtail water usage and use toilets as little as possible. The statement said sewers will remain shut down until further notice.
I sincerely doubt that this statement will have much of an effect on water usage. A much more effective way to curtail water usage would be to simply raise prices, much like a private provider would do when the costs of supplying water temporarily but dramatically increase. In response to the higher price, water consumers would cut back on consumption. Only when the benefit to the consumer outweighed the cost to the water producer would water be consumed.
Admittedly, this is an imperfect solution because, as the article alludes to, the primary problem is not in water usage per se, but in the sewers. Ideally, sewage companies would be able to charge for each flush independent of how much water it uses, but this may be impractical. If these services were privatized, they might be provided by different companies, but the sewage company would have a strong incentive to pay the water company to raise prices.
Under the current system, both Kansas and Missouri get bureaucratic proselytization about when they can and can't flush, rather than actual results, and that just stinks.
Matt Simpson
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Pokemon Go, a spy network or an innocent game?
Finding Charmander is now a reality. Pokémon Go launched in early July 2016, attracting millions and millions of users, there is a vast collection of intelligence gathered like visual Intelligence, which established an organized way to accumulate data.
To participate in the game, you have to download the free app on Apple stores or Google app store and install it to your smartphone.
When the game launches, the app automatically turns on the video camera of the phone and it's GPS location system.
The game player hunts 'Pokémon' dolls that are painted in different forms and appears on the smartphone's screen by use of the camera, this can be anywhere: on the street, at the airport, the expansion of the museum or the observation deck of a skyscraper.
Pokémon Go, uses breakthrough innovative technology that will change the face of future marketing and global trade, based on figures from the nineties card game, developed by Niantik US in San Francisco, California.
Niantik was founded in 2010 as a start-up company by Keyhole, who was founded in 2001 and funded by the venture capital fund in-Q-Tel, which was controlled by the National security agency US (NSA) and acquired years later by Google.
These companies are organized and has strong ties to Google and the US intelligence agencies, there isn't much room left to provide the real purpose of the game and the design of the product in use. Other operators can pick up the game and be able to get an accurate indication level by tracking the GPS coordinates to find the location of each and every one of the millions of users at any given time and have access to each video camera.
Apparently this application is used for crowdsourcing, innocent spying, taking photos and video in real time in every corner of the planet. Similarly, at least one features of the game, built on the definition and exact requirements of these intelligence organizations, is the gratification of every officer when it comes to intelligence-gathering. A game developer at Niantik announced that it would allow different companies (after commercial agreements) to advertise the presence of Pokémon around the centre of shops, restaurants or museums.
Hence the rumours on social networks where "Pokémon surrounding a nuclear power plant" in a city where someone was looking for a rare species of Pokémon.
It may be assumed that hundreds (if not thousands) are active in playing this game. With cameras and GPS receivers open and constantly streaming videos, depicting the protective shield around the nuclear power plant, will reach the top of the intelligence organization behind the game. The game can lead players to some places that have significant risk and could play well to the hands of organized crime and especially terrorism groups.


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Q: ResultSet not open. Operation 'getString' not permitted. Verify that autocommit is off.? I am using apache derby and getting the above error here is my code, actually   I'm just not getting all the children under the parents, it only give me one level of children, so kindly tell me how to make tree parent and child but this gives only one level of child with above error
getting connection
public static Connection getConnection(){

    Connection connection = null;

    try {
        Class.forName("org.apache.derby.jdbc.ClientDriver").newInstance();//
        //Get a connection
        connection  = DriverManager.getConnection(dbURL);
        connection.setAutoCommit(false);
        connection.getAutoCommit();
    } catch (Exception except) {
        System.out.println(except);
    }
    return connection;
}

and error in second loop at last reading rs1
    Statement stmt;

        stmt = MainUI.getConnection().createStatement();

A: Nesting the result sets is your problem, I believe.
To have two different result sets open, you must have two separate Statement instances, so each can have its own ResultSet. Otherwise, running the second query on the same Statement instance will close the first ResultSet.
See this answer for more information: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8579669/193453
Also, have a look at the Javadocs for the java.sql.Statement class:

By default, only one ResultSet object per Statement object can be open at the same time. Therefore, if the reading of one ResultSet
  object is interleaved with the reading of another, each must have been
  generated by different Statement objects. All execution methods in the
  Statement interface implicitly close a statment's current ResultSet
  object if an open one exists.

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Q: Any Multi-Format Document Reading Lib for Python /or C? Is there any good Document Parsing Lib , in C or Python?
I am trying to Parse Strings from Documents - PDF, Word Doc/Docx , Excel xls/x , PPT, ODF, and also Mac Formats.
Please Recommand  Solutions that would also work in Linux/Unix enviorment.

A: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/PyUNO_bridge
so you will use openoffice python api to open/parse documents
it supports all openoffice's supported document types

A: For everone seeking this, I found tika most complete document parsing library. Its not C but its java and Fast enough (when its run inside Nailgun).
tika.apache.org


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Facebook: Making You Sadder and Less Satisfied Since 2004 — August 25, 2013
Facebook: Making You Sadder and Less Satisfied Since 2004
University of Michigan researchers have found that staying connected to others through social media, specifically Facebook, exacts a heavy psychological tole.
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University of Michigan researchers have found that staying connected to others through social media, specifically Facebook, exacts a heavy psychological tole, making users sadder and less satisfied with their lives. John Jonides, a neuroscientist who led an experiment which asked 82 participants how they felt about their daily use of Facebook at different times of the day, said: "When you're on a site like Facebook, you get lots of posts about what people are doing. That sets up social comparison — you maybe feel your life is not as full and rich as those people you see on Facebook."
Counterintuitively, people with the most active real-world social lives suffered the most as a result of their Facebook use, reporting a more severe and longer lasting mood decline than those with less active social groups. "It suggests that when you are engaging in social interactions a lot, you're more aware of what others are doing and, consequently, you might be more sensitized about what's happening on Facebook and comparing that to your own life," Jonides says. Researchers suggest the best solution to the Facebook blues is less Facebook. Analog communication like phone calls and face-to-face visits were shown to increase well-being.
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How Volunteering Can Improve Your Mental Health
Evidence points to around a 20 percent reduction in mortality among volunteers compared to non-volunteers in cohort studies.


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"use babel";
// @flow

import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import { withState, lifecycle, withHandlers, compose } from "recompose";
import type { Node } from "react";
import styled from "styled-components";
import FoldButton from "./FoldButton";
import classNames from "classnames";

const SectionName = styled.span`
  display: flex;
  cursor: ${props => (props.isClickable ? "pointer" : undefined)};
  flex: 0 0 auto;
`;

const SectionBox = styled.div`
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  padding: 0px 0px 0px ${props => (props.foldable ? "0px" : "8px")};
  flex: 0 0 auto;
  user-select: none;
  line-height: 22px;
  margin-bottom: 2px;
`;

const SectionTitleBox = styled.div`
  display: flex;
  padding: ${props => (props.shouldPad ? "8px" : undefined)};
  flex-direction: row;
  justify-content: space-between;
  align-items: center;
  flex: 0 0 auto;
  margin: 0px;
  cursor: ${props => props.foldable && "pointer"};
  transition: all ease 250ms;
  filter: brightness(100%);
  &:hover {
    filter: brightness(125%);
  }
`;

const SectionContentBox = styled.div`
  display: flex;
  padding: 0px 0px 4px 16px;
  flex-direction: column;
  flex: 1 0 auto;
`;

const ControlsBox = styled.div`
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  flex-direction: row;
  padding: 0px;
  flex: 0 0 auto;
  padding-right: 16px;
`;

const SectionIcon = styled.span`
  padding-bottom: 4px;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  flex: 0 0 auto;
`;

const SectionTitle = styled.div`
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  flex: 0 0 auto;
  padding-left: ${props => (!props.foldable ? "21px" : undefined)};
`;

const SectionLeftBorder = styled.div`
  position: relative;
  left: 35px;
  background-color: ${props => props.color};
  border-radius: 10px;
  width: 4px;
  margin: 6px 0px;
`;

const SectionContentWrapper = styled.div`
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: row;
  align-items: stretch;
  padding: 0px;
  flex: 0 0 auto;
`;

export const withTooltip = compose(
  withState("tip", "setTip", null),
  withHandlers({
    disableTip: ({ tip }) => () => tip.dispose(),
  }),
  lifecycle({
    componentDidMount() {
      if (this.props.tooltip) {
        this.props.setTip(
          global.atom.tooltips.add(ReactDOM.findDOMNode(this), {
            title: this.props.tooltip,
          }),
        );
      }
    },
    componentWillUnmount() {
      if (this.props.tip) this.props.disableTip();
    },
  }),
);

const TooltipedSectionTitle = withTooltip(SectionTitle);

export function Section({
  children,
  controls = () => null,
  title,
  iconClassName,
  icon,
  color,
  foldable = false,
  opened = true,
  setOpened = () => {},
  onTitleClick,
  selected = false,
  tooltip,
  isPackage = false,
  id = "",
}: {
  controls?: () => ?Node,
  title: string,
  children?: Node,
  iconClassName?: string,
  icon?: () => ?Node,
  color?: string,
  foldable?: boolean,
  opened?: boolean,
  setOpened?: (value: boolean) => void,
  onTitleClick?: () => void,
  selected?: boolean,
  tooltip?: string,
  isPackage?: boolean,
  id?: string,
}) {
  return (
    <SectionBox
      foldable={foldable}
      className={classNames({
        "mode-selected": selected,
      })}
    >
      <SectionTitleBox
        foldable={foldable}
        shouldPad={isPackage}
        onClick={() => {
          if (foldable) setOpened(!opened);
        }}
      >
        <TooltipedSectionTitle
          onClick={onTitleClick}
          tooltip={tooltip}
          foldable={foldable}
        >
          {foldable && <FoldButton opened={opened} isTopLevel={isPackage} />}
          {icon !== undefined ? (
            icon()
          ) : (
            <SectionIcon className={iconClassName} />
          )}
          <SectionName id={id} isClickable={onTitleClick}>
            {title.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + title.slice(1)}
          </SectionName>
        </TooltipedSectionTitle>
        <ControlsBox>{controls()}</ControlsBox>
      </SectionTitleBox>
      {opened && children && (
        <SectionContentWrapper>
          {color && <SectionLeftBorder color={color} />}
          <SectionContentBox>{children}</SectionContentBox>
        </SectionContentWrapper>
      )}
    </SectionBox>
  );
}

export default compose(withState("opened", "setOpened", true))(Section);


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Home » Finance » Which Countries are Most Important in Electronics?
Which Countries are Most Important in Electronics?
September 1, 2022 September 1, 2022 Emma Watson
China, Hong Kong, and the United States lead the pack in electronics production globally. Maintaining its reputation for producing cheap consumer goods in large quantities, China is a strong contributor to the electronics sector, as it is one of the country's most important export categories. China was the top electronics exporter in 2018, accounting for 33.8% of all electronics exports.
China, Hong Kong and the United States are the leaders in electronics production.
In recent years, China has implemented more environmentally friendly manufacturing techniques in an effort to reduce the production of harmful greenhouse gases.
The world's top 10 electronics manufacturers generated a combined profit of $74.9 trillion in 2022.
The United States managed to place third, behind Hong Kong. The United States held a market share of 7.33% in 2018, while Hong Kong reached 9.6%.
Leader in the global electronics industry
China's exports accounted for 12.71% of world trade in 2021. Rapid industrialization has lifted the country to the top with carbon-intensive metal products jumping as a percentage of its total exports in just 10 years. Although these figures are impressive, electronics remains the most important export among Chinese production.
The huge manufacturing activity has caused a dangerous increase in greenhouse gas and fossil fuel emissions in the country, a problem that could be solved by producing more environmentally friendly technologies. In recent years, China has tried to remedy the situation by implementing more energy-efficient manufacturing methods.
Hong Kong's electronics industry accounted for 72.6% of its total exports in 2021, making electronics the largest source of goods exports in their territory. The majority were high-tech products, such as computers, semiconductors and telecommunications equipment. Although they were not the largest exporter of electronics in the world, they won it in some subcategories.
In 2020, Hong Kong was the world's largest exporter of electronic integrated circuits, they were the second in mobile phones, computer parts / accessories and video cameras, and the third in electronic devices. video recording worth terms. In an effort to cut costs, many Hong Kong manufacturers have moved their production facilities to mainland China in recent years.
The manufacturing industry has historically played an important role in the US economy. The productivity of different sectors of the US economy varies from state to state, however, Oregon remains one of the top producers of electronics. Electronics manufacturing is one of the main economic products of the state. In 2021, $11.5 billion worth of electronic integrated circuits were exported out of Oregon.
The development of electronics has grown every year with the growth of new technologies, but has also brought its own set of complications in terms of potential health impacts and the risk of additional environmental damage contributing to climate change.
Leading manufacturers in the global electronics industry
According to the Fortune Global 500 list of the 500 largest companies on the planet published in 2022, the top ten electronics manufacturers generated the most profits that year. In total, they generated $74.9 trillion in combined profits.
This list is updated and released every year, and it's a great way to keep track of the top manufacturers in the global electronics industry.
Honeywell International
Hon Hai Precision Industry
Midea Group
Schneider Group
Gree electronic devices
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NYC events in April 2020
The best NYC events in April include much-needed outdoor activities at NYC parks, fun festivals and pretty flower shows
By Jennifer Picht and Time Out contributors | Posted: Friday January 18 2019
Photograph: Pixabay
The best NYC events in April 2020 are going to make you psyched for spring. Aside from celebrating major holidays like Easter in New York, take a moment to stop and smell the roses at events such as the Macy's Flower Show and The Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden. Speaking of buds, take advantage of checking out the best NYC parks, while all the flowers and trees are starting to bloom. And there's even more greenery fun for outdoorsy folks—Earth Day, duh!
RECOMMENDED: Full NYC events calendar in 2019
Featured events in April 2020
Photograph: Courtesy Hornblower Cruises
Easter events in NYC
Enjoy the (finally!) thawing weather by checking out these great things to do for Easter. NYC offers a range of things to do outside, from egg hunts—yes, even for adults—to a silly Easter Bonnet Parade and a boozy brunch cruise. In case the weather is lousy, head indoors to one of the city's best New York attractions for the annual Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden.
Photograph: Brian Palmer
Robert De Niro and co.'s Tribeca Film Festival has long shown a spotlight on local indie features, documentaries, foreign films, the latest from big-name talent and the greatest from up-and-coming filmmakers. We've got your complete one-stop-shopping guide to this year's festival: our personal must-see picks, showtimes, ticket info, a list of nearby bars and restaurants and oh-so-much more.
Photograph: Courtesy New York Botanical Garden
Things to do, Exhibitions
The Orchid Show in NYC guide
The Orchid Show—NYC's ode to springtime—should not to be confused with the season's other stupendous garden party the Macy's Flower Show. However, both bloom fests are worth visiting. If you're not familiar, The New York Botanical Garden's Orchid Show exhibits thousands of species of beautiful blossoming orchids and lasts through April.
Photograph: Courtesy Diane Bondareff
The Macy's Flower Show
The subject for 2019's installment at the megachain's Herald Square location is Journey to Paradisios. Translation? It's a cosmic dream offering revelers an out-of-this-world representation of outer space. Flower arrangements are designed to show off the "mystery of the cosmos," so check out the nods to the stars, planets, rockets, aliens (of course) and more astrological wonders.
Photograph: Courtesy Brooklyn Botanic Garden/Julie Markes
Things to do, Festivals
Sakura Matsuri Cherry Blossom Festival
Sakura Matsuri Cherry Blossom Festival NYC is one of the city's prettiest spring festivals comprising the best and most beautiful elements of Japanese culture. At the Cherry Blossom Festival, NYC-folks and tourists can watch and take part in a bunch of activities while being surrounded by gorgeous, pink-petal trees at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. As one of the top Brooklyn attractions, the must-visit site hosts the beloved tradition every year, and the event is usually always bustling with visitors.
Photograph: Courtesy Matthew Murphy
Theater, Musicals
Ain't Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations
Imperial Theatre, Midtown West
Theater review by Adam Feldman The Temptations are hard to resist. No matter how much you may chafe at the clunky machinery of Broadway's latest jukebox biomusical, Ain't Too Proud, the hits just keep coming, distracting your critical faculties with zaps of R&B greatness. And when the show is at full power—when its lavishly gifted stars are lined up for duty in natty matching suits, moving and singing in synch through songs like "My Girl," "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me," "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" and "Ain't Too Proud to Beg"—the gleam of well-polished nostalgia is strong. Is that enough, though? The problem with telling the story of the Temptations is that there isn't a clear central story to tell. Much of Ain't Too Proud focuses on the so-called Classic Five period from 1964 through 1968, when the quintet's main frontman is the bespectacled and charismatic David Ruffin, played by the sensational Ephraim Sykes with a riveting combination of showboating dance moves and rough-edged soul vocals. High tenor Eddie Kendricks (the expressive Jeremy Pope) occasionally takes the lead vocals, backed by baritones Otis Williams (Derrick Baskin) and Paul Williams (James Harkness) and bass Melvin Franklin (the impressively deep-throated Jawan M. Jackson). But since the group's membership has been in continual flux since its Motown debut in 1961, Ain't Too Proud entrusts its narration entirely to the last Temp standing: Otis, who has been with the group from the start and performs with it
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Pastor Gretchen Weller's band plays to the youth at the Youth Convo baptism renewal reception.
Projected images provide a backdrop for the worship service.
Gene Fozard, Aliquippa, PA, Southwestern Pennsylvania Synod joins nearby Voting Members in a prayer for Christian Unity.
Katie Lu and Winking Luther greet visitors to the Augsburg Fortress store.
Pr. Shelley Wickstrom (Boseman, Mont.) presided at Thursday's worship service.
Pr. Lowell Almen, ELCA Secretary, and Presiding Bp. Mark Hanson address the Assembly from their respective podiums.
Chuck Schramm, Hoffman Estates, Ill., at a Solid Rock meeting on Thursday evening, Aug. 11.
Solid Rock Lutherans met Thursday night to prepare for Friday's debate.


Review the concepts of "Medication Overload" and the "Prescription Checkup" and differentiate them from polypharmacy, medication reconciliation and deprescribing.
Reflect on opportunities for improving medication use through a Prescription Checkup using preliminary data from the MedSafer Clinical Trials (with an emphasis on Ottawa data).
The Ottawa Hospital Medical Grand Rounds is an accredited group learning activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Ottawa.


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Q: Paginate an include variable I'm building an app which have group > posts > comments
To reduce the number of SQL requests, i'm using the includes method
# group controller
def show
  @posts = @group.posts.includes(:comments)
end

Now, I would like to paginate comments. But I don't know how to use the function .paginate from the gem will_paginate
Do you have a tips for that ?

A: Issue with pagination inside controller
Since you want paginated comments associated with individual post, it's complicate to achieve in controller as you need to create N paginated comment object (say you have N posts).
What you can do
1.load posts as usual with included comments to reduce excess queries. But don't run paginate here
2.achieve pagination inside view only
<%= @posts.each do | post | %>
<% comments = post.comments.paginate(page: params[:page]) %>

..
...
...
<%= will_paginate comments%>
<% end %>


have you been to a village haat / bazaar / market?
every sunday as the sun comes up into the sky the sellers make their way to the intersection of roads that forms the haat, the bazaar. huge blue plastic bags and large gunny sacks are brought in on strong and able shoulders, seasoned with the passage of time and roughened by the weight of life. there are over-stuffed auto rickshaws and arguing van drivers to be dealt with. the bamboo poles stretch out and plunge into the soft earth. yellow tarpaulin ruffles up into the roof and taunts the wind. the gentle wind that cool, the strong wind that reaches everywhere. the rain might drizzle down, but worries are shelved. the wares slowly unwrapped, laid out in neat piles in descending order of size, height, colour, type or price. order. the haat begins to form, begins to take shape, begins to get a life. it will linger for a day. it will entice with its wares. stretching its long fingers into the tiny, holed pockets of the village folk and tempting even the strongest into surrender. it will make its way into the hearts of every village house. this haat has everything that anyone can ever desire and it knows that. so it tempts, cajoles and persuades.
and thus the city makes its way into the village. and thus the city infringes the village. and thus we all become material brethren.
the village haat at bordi takes place around vijay stambh or victory pillar and all the way to the town. one lane has all the fish (stinky stuff), to one side lie stall selling vegetables and the other side is a mad array of items. at regular intervals you have the food stalls serving chai and garma garam pakodas. you name it and you would get it there — from food items, groceries, clothes, bags, suitcases, plastic knick-knacks and even cloth bags. i asked the stall owner who was selling the cloth bags why he was selling them and who boughtt it… his answer thrilled me!
"we do not like using plastic bags, don't think people should so we started making cloth bags and selling it to people for Rs. 20. many buy it and they realise then that it lasts and they don't need another bag. we also sell sturdy plastic bags if anyone wants." why isn't mumbai so wise i wonder?
in the clothing stalls there were plastic half-mannequins. where from, i asked.
he travels from village to village and sets up stalls for the day. every village in this area has a village haat on a different day so he is always on the move… a nomadic existence? i wondered about his family; if he had any. didn't think it right to ask, so turned away and moved to the next shop.
you know your brand has arrived when you a rip-off is in a village haat!
bra buying is possibly one of the bravest things for these women!
all the masalas you could want!
not everyone is happy. two very bored little children!
seasoned with the passage of time and roughened by the weight of life.
it will linger for a day. it will entice with its wares. stretching its long fingers into the tiny, holed pockets of the village folk and tempting even the strongest into surrender.
These scenes remind me of the villages I visited and the little towns that carry everything a villager would need. I thought it was a permanent bazaar! I guess not. Can't imagine people actually setting up the stalls everyday.
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Ovarian cancer has a high mortality rate, primarily due to late diagnosis. Important research published in the June issue of Integrative Cancer Therapies explores whether ovarian cancer has a scent different from other cancers and whether working dogs could be taught to distinguish it in its different stages.
"[Researchers] found that the odor of ovarian cancer does seem to differ from those of other gynecological malignancies, such as cervical, or endometrial cancers, suggesting that a particular, distinguishable scent is associated with ovarian cancer. They additionally found that early-stage and low grade ovarian cancers emit the same scent as advanced tumors."
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It's an old story, but a really fun one.
But the best part is what the video doesn't tell you. A man once visited Popoff's conference pretending to be an older woman struggling with uterine cancer. Popoff was more than happy to "heal" him without realizing that he was talking to man in drag (who didn't have a uterus).


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Singing Mastermind - You Deserve To Be Heard!
This is for all of you who are experience singing embarrassment or shame about how you sing or have sung at one time or another.
I wrote it in response to a person who commented here on one of my pages, but it also has to do with anyone who has felt singing embarrassment of singing shame when performing.
I want to tell you a little story… a true story about myself. And although it is about embarrassment and shame I felt at a piano recital, it has to do with singing embarrassment too.
You want to sing better and are looking for a intangible, indefinable something that will enable you to break through barriers you have felt in your voice for years. Otherwise, quite frankly, you never would have found me here.
I remember feeling that way myself and I remember what it felt like to think that no one would ever understand what I needed.
Fortunately, you do not have to feel that way ever again.
Recently, I have been posting articles about ways to improve your singing health. But today I want to specifically mention herbs for singing health.
You need a healthy head for healthy singing!
Recently, I have been corresponding with a singer who is primarily self-taught, but has also utilized my Singing Tongue digital lesson and taken my "Fearless Voice Power" affordable singing lessons.
He has been having some pretty serious problems with excess mucus and a nose bleed that wouldn't stop.
The health of your physical tongue affects your singing!
I want to write a few short posts to update you on your singing tongue and how deeply it impacts the way you can free your voice.
That's because I've been learning new things in the past few months about what impacts my own voice, and I believe that a singing voice teacher needs to keep growing in order to give the best possible service to those of you who are earnestly working to free your voices.
And that, of course means YOU!
In order to have increasing ease with your singing voice, it is essential that you continue to develop healthy singing mindsets, which in this case, means a healthier singing tongue mindset.
I want to drop a quick note to you today to let you know that I will be doing another FREE (one time only) live streaming singing lesson for 4 lucky people at the Modern Vocalist Forum. One space is already taken so that actually leaves 3 more spaces as of this writing.
In the class, you will be able to work with me live and with one another.
This is what you will need to do before you can be one of the people to sign up for the free class.


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My presentation for the Crimes Against Humanity Task Force documents and explains the history behind "the takeover of all genetic material on earth". The manipulation of life on earth is an old dream but technology has now provided the means to accomplish it, and Technocrat/Transhuman scientists are working day and night to change the world's DNA. My forthcoming book, The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism, will connect all the dots to this mad program. It being serialized on https://patrickwood.substack.com/ ⁃ TN Editor
> Irresponsible use of new and very advanced technologies by the military is life-threatening
> Engineered viruses can be used to edit genes in a target species, including in a heritable manner
> "Insect Allies" is a DARPA program designed to genetically modify mature plants in a live environment by releasing insects infected with genetically modified viruses
> Some scientists, although on board with genetic modification in principle, are questioning DARPA's motives and raising concerns
> Researchers in Singapore, as well as DARPA in the U.S. have developed "remote-controlled insects"
BREAKING NEWS: The craziest crazies have somehow escaped the asylum and installed themselves in high positions of power. Insane, they are coming up with one bad idea after another and barking orders at us, mad shine in their eyes and saliva coming out of their mouths. They are crazy — and in charge of institutions, schools, newspapers and armies.
They are running around with their high-tech pistols filled with high-tech poisons and their little sadistic CRISPR scissors. They are crazy — yes, they are crazy — and they are killing us slowly, and sometimes not so slowly. Welcome to the future where toxicity is health and the old crazy is the new normal. We are not crazy — they are crazy — and they have been from the beginning. And in 2020, they stopped pretending. What now?
Project "Insect Allies"
You may think that you have seen it all but here is a great idea. Take some insects, infect them with a genetically modified virus designed to genetically edit mature plants in real time, and release them. Release them into wild and repeat, "it's safe and effective."
Sweet idea, right? Well, DARPA thought so, and so in 2016, they started a project called "Insect Allies" that is designed to do that. (This is a different project from Oxitec's controversial release of GM mosquitos.) DARPA's official story is that in the name of national security, a good way to protect the American crops from potential threats is to genetically modify them using GM viruses as genetic modifiers and insects as flying syringes. And that they just need to test it!
In a 2016 release titled, "DARPA Enlists Insects to Protect Agricultural Food Supply," the agency stated:
"A new DARPA program is poised to provide an alternative to traditional agricultural threat response, using targeted gene therapy to protect mature plants within a single growing season.
DARPA proposes to leverage a natural and very efficient two-step delivery system to transfer modified genes to plants: insect vectors and the plant viruses they transmit. In the process, DARPA aims to transform certain insect pests into 'Insect Allies,' the name of the new effort."
"'Insect Allies' three technical areas — trait design, insect vector optimization, and selective gene therapy in mature plants — layer together to support the goal of rapidly transforming mature plants to protect against natural or intentional agricultural disruption without the need for extensive infrastructure. The foundational knowledge and generalizable tools developed under the program could also support future agricultural innovation."
Some suspicious peasants may foolishly wonder: What will happen in the short term and in the long term to the people who eat those plants, to the people and animals possibly bitten by those insects, to the wild insects who mate with the infected insects, and to all other life in the area and beyond that may get impacted? What ridiculous nonsense. Here is the answer, peasant: No one knows — and importantly, no one cares. Any more questions?
The first Insect Allies funded paper, titled, "Multiplexed heritable gene editing using RNA viruses and mobile single guide RNAs," was published in 2020. Please note the word "heritable" in the headline. The paper stated:
"Mutant progeny are recovered in the next generation at frequencies ranging from 65 to 100%; up to 30% of progeny derived from plants infected with a virus expressing three sgRNAs have mutations in all three targeted loci."
DARPA never disclosed if they tested this program outside of greenhouses.
Objections From the Scientific Community and Even the Pre-2020 Media
Actually, it turned out that a few scientists care — and at least during the pre-COVID era, they have objected.
Here is a short 2019 educational animation made by the German Max Planck Society (formerly the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History). Their main objection is the potential weaponization of the technology, they don't mind the gene editing in principle.
But our standards for health and dignity are so low that this objection is better than no objection, and even this limited kind of objection and questioning DARPA takes some courage (even though it's unknown if they would have objected in 2020).
And here is what Vice (!!) had to say in 2018 about the outcry from scientists:
"In the editorial, published on Thursday in Science Magazine, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology and the University of Freiburg in Germany, and France's Université de Montpellier, requested more transparency and opportunities for public discussion regarding the project and its implications.
'Easy simplifications could be used to generate a new class of biological weapons,' a press release reads, 'weapons that would be extremely transmissible to susceptible crop species due to insect dispersion as the means of delivery.'"
What did DARPA say?
"In an email to Motherboard, a DARPA spokesperson rebutted the thesis of the Science Magazine piece and denied any intent to deploy technology developed through Insect Allies in an offensive setting.
'We created Insect Allies specifically to develop technology that can deliver positive, protective traits to plants to help them survive unanticipated and/or fast-moving agricultural threats,' the spokesperson wrote. 'We see it as a critical addition to the national security toolkit, part of a layered strategy to preserve the security of the food supply.'"
"The Insect Allies program is a collaboration between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Environmental Protection Agency, US Army, and other agencies. According to a DARPA slide presentation, the goal of Insect Allies is to "stably transform multiple mature crop plants in a complex, multi-species plant and insect community with enhanced trait(s) of agricultural interest" by mid-2021."
Newsweek covered it, too. In a 2018 article, they said that "the U.S. government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been accused of trying to create a new class of biological weapons that would be delivered via virus-infected insects."
"Scientists with DARPA are looking at introducing genetically modified viruses that can edit chromosomes directly in fields — these are known as horizontal environmental genetic alteration agents (HEGAAs). The DARPA program is using the principles of HEGAAs but, unlike traditional methods of dispersal — like spraying fields with them — it wants to spread them through insects."
The researchers raising the alarm asked specifically why, for agricultural use, it was so important to use insects as gene modification vectors, given that spraying was available. In response to Newsweek at the time, DARPA denied all allegations of military use and reiterated that the project's aim was to protect American crops. In 2022, another paper was published where researchers expressed their concerns:
"The hazard and exposure potential of an HEGAA approach can vary greatly depending on the viruses, vector insects, target plant species, and genetic modifications selected and their effects. However, at the current stage of development, the most critical aspect is the compromised reliability of the HEGAA approach, owing mainly to its complex design with three different species …
They are a cause for concern because of the numerous effects that can increase the potential for hazard and exposure. Combined with the current inadequacy of corrective measures, it is clear that there is an urgent need for early analysis of whether HEGAA approaches can be inherently contained and controlled by their specific technology design."
"Horizontal Environmental Genetic Alteration Agents"
What are HEGAAs? According to Wikipedia, the term "genetic alteration agent" first appears in 2016 in relation to this project, in a "work plan by DARPA describing a tender for contracts to develop genetically modified plant viruses for an approach involving their dispersion into the environment. The prefixing of 'horizontal environmental' to the former to generate the acronym HEGAA was first used in the [aforementioned] 2018 scientific publication."
"Agents such as pathogens, symbionts or synthetic protein assemblages that can be acquired through horizontal transmission in the environment can potentially be engineered to become HEGAAs. This would be achieved using biotechnology methods to confer to them the capacity to alter nucleotides in the chromosomes of infected individuals through sequence-specific editing systems like CRISPR, ZFNs or TALENs.
No known infectious agent naturally has the capacity to gene edit eukaryotes in a manner that can be flexibly targeted to specific sequences (distinct from substantially random natural processes like retroviral integration)."
"By definition, HEGAA induced gene editing events are intended to occur outside of contained facilities such as laboratories or hospitals.
While genetically modified viruses with CRISPR editing have been successfully used as research tools in laboratories or for gene therapy in clinical settings, all gene editing events are intended to physically occur within contained facilities. By contrast, HEGAAs for their intended mode of action relies on inducing gene editing events that occur largely or exclusively in the environment."
There are two types of HEGAAs: somatic and germline. Somatic HEGAAs are not inheritable, while germline ones "impact somatic cells and also cell lineages from which germline cells can be ultimately generated (e.g. sperm, oocytes, pollen, ovules, zygotes or seeds)."
When it comes to the "Insect Allies" project, it's a gray area. The original assumption was that "Insect Allies" involved somatic HEGAAs but the aforementioned 2020 paper shows that the genetic changes in plants were heritable. Here is more detail:
HEGAAs are viruses which have been genetically modified to gain a capacity to edit the chromosomes of a target species (e.g. plant or animal) when intentionally released into the environment
The word "horizontal" comes from their ability to be transmitted in the environment by infection
The word "environmental" comes from the intention for these genetically modified viruses to be dispersed into the environment
The words "genetic alteration agents" comes from the capacity to alter the chromosomes of a target species. This might be through causing a random mutation or introducing a new DNA sequence
The specificity of HEGAAs is dependent on two things (1) the range of species the genetically modified virus can infect AND (2) the presence of the suitable DNA sequences in the plant chromosomes of cells that become infected
An example of an insect dispersed viral HEGAA which disrupts a specific plant gene is illustrated in this figure below
Image source: web.evolbio.mpg.de/HEGAAs/available-illustrations.html
All in all, this informational Max Planck Society affiliated website, whose purpose is "to contribute towards fostering an informed and public debate about this type of technology," is one of the best sources of information on HEGAAs and the "Insect Allies" project. Incidentally, this particular website covers self-spreading vaccines as well. Here is a little video promo of the Euroscience Open Forum 2020:
And here it the actual 2020 panel (some of it is already outdated but very educational):
"Project Coast"
One of the panelists above mentions "Project Coast" is South Africa — and while it is not directly related to "Insect Allies," it kind of is.
"Project Coast" was a toxin and bioweapon development project that took place in South Africa during the apartheid era. As a part of that project, scientists developed covert assassination tools and methods of covert sterilization, intended against the black population of South Africa. A warning? No really, a warning?
Back to DARPA
Here is more from the MPS-affiliated informational website:
"Even as the halfway point of the Insect Allies program approaches, DARPA has chosen not to publicly describe in its response to our Science article what is the basis of their having concluded that a developmental pathway exists that circumvents the early proliferation of biological weapons (described by the black development path in the accompanying image).
This is in addition to explaining in detail why their developmental plan is easier to develop than alternative paths (described by the red paths). As our Science article makes clear, this is central to justifying the wisdom of embarking on the development of HEGAAs, and many other types of GM viruses.
Over the next five years, only a minority of anticipated CRISPR-inspired innovations will involve intentional environmental releases (see recent NAS report). HEGAAs, and some other GM viruses, have the property of an early-stage biological weapons proliferation risk that is not shared with most other proposed techniques (including avant-garde ones like gene drive).
Choosing not to clearly address these obvious issues of global concern, as detailed in the Science article, makes their current model of develop first and explain later an especially unwise path, particularly for this insect-delivered program, that in many ways appears to be designed to get carried away."
Living Foundries
To provide a backdrop for the "Insect Allies" project, here is a brief look at the DARPA "Living Foundries" bioengineering program, launched in 2010.
DARPA's Living Foundries program aims to "enable adaptable, scalable, and on-demand production of critical, high-value molecules by programming the fundamental metabolic processes of biological systems to generate a vast number of complex molecules."
"Programming Biological Systems"
In order to orient ourselves in this attempted new normal, we need to understand the mindset. Please note the use of term "engineer" all throughout this benevolent-sounding presentation:
DARPA's Biological Technologies Office
DARPA's Biological Technologies Office was founded in 2014. Here is an informational video on, in their own words, "DARPA's way of thinking about biological technology to defend the homeland."
According to DARPA's website:
"DARPA has enjoyed a strong relationship with Silicon Valley since the early 1960s, working with innovators to lay the groundwork for new industries built around Agency investments in semiconductors, networking, artificial intelligence, user interfaces, programming, materials, microsystems, and more.
[We knew that!!!] Biotech is now emerging as a breakthrough opportunity space and it represents an area that is ripe for fresh collaboration among DARPA, the nation's top researchers, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs."
Here are some of the listed topic of interests:
Building with Biology Using Engineered Living Materials, which focused on programming DNA to grow materials to specifications at the sites where they are needed and developing living materials that are responsive to their environments and can heal when damaged;
Staying on Target: Minimizing Off-Target Effects in Gene Editing, which focused on making personalized medicine feasible by conducting rapid, low-cost screens of an individual's likely responses to tailored gene therapy;
Creating a Pandemic-free World, which focused on DARPA's vision of distributed healthcare that combines technology to detect pandemic outbreaks, rapidly identify and grow potent antibodies to fight infectious disease, and response tools for creating a pandemic firebreak;
Immunity on Demand [emphasis mine], which focused on rapidly developing and delivering nucleic-acid-based protections against infectious disease;
Failing Faster: De-Risking the Path to FDA Approval, which focused on using organ-on-chip technology to better predict the efficacy of new drugs in the development pipeline;
A Real-time Window into Your Body's Chemistry, which focused on tissue-integrating in vivo biosensors to continuously monitor physiology over the long term to predict the onset of disease;
Reinventing Psychiatry Using Neurotechnology, which focused on using implanted, closed-loop neural systems to record and stimulate the brain to treat neuropsychiatric illness;
MindFlight: Your Brain Will Be Your Pilot Today, which focused on direct neural control of complex physical systems;
Memory Enhancement in Everyday Life, which focused on non-invasive electrical and auditory stimulation technology to enhance memory by facilitating the neural replay process
Is it me, or is it that the crazies are running the asylum?
Remote-Controlled Insects
If you think that you have now seen it all, well, you haven't. Here is a video of scientists in Singapore torturing live insects and turning them into cyborgs. Horrifying.
And here is, you guessed it, DARPA:
"Through a DARPA-funded program, scientists at the University of California invented a tiny rig that connects to an insect's brain and flight muscles. Once implanted, the device takes over the insect's body, turning it into a remote control cyborg capable of receiving flight commands wirelessly from a nearby laptop."
It's all good and fun (not really, more like a horror movie), and we could close our eyes — but will it be fun if the emboldened crazies try to remote-control your children?
To find more of Tessa Lena's work, be sure to check out her bio, Tessa Fights Robots.
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"The vision is that a small number of individuals in the target population could be vaccinated, and the vaccine strain would then circulate in the population much like a pathogenic virus." p.45
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