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If your device is connected to the internet, there is always a risk of cyber threats, such as malware varieties, types of viruses and other threats that aim to infect your device. In addition, if your computer or smartphone has started to act weird, you have noticed slowdowns and interruptions, there is always a chance that you might be dealing with malware.
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When it comes to ESET, the antivirus did not participate in the most recent, but in the previous tests, ESET NOD32 detected 98.9% of zero-day malware attacks and 100% of widespread and prevalent malware.
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We have also checked how Malwarebytes was tested by AV-TEST. The independent testing lab rated the antivirus system's performance 5.0 out of 6.0.
Impact on a system when launching popular websites – 14% (19%).
Impact on a system while downloading frequently-used applications – 0% (1%).
Malwarebytes Anti-malware offers users quick and stable scans. The application offers users three types of scans, including the full system scan or the Threat Scan, Custom Scan and Hyper Scan.
When it comes to ESET, ESET is not a market leader either. The boot time takes a few seconds longer than the competition average.
However, it won't drown your system resources when ESET is running in the background, nor will it cause any problems when it runs a full system scan, as it takes up no more than 9% of RAM memory.
We have also checked AV-TEST results and noted that ESET demonstrated a pretty heavy impact on the system. Worth mentioning that ESET did not participate in the most recent test, so the data is taken from the previous tests.
Impact on a system when launching popular websites – 8% (13%).
The scans are also stable and very accurate.
To sum up, ESET demonstrates better performance rates and has a lower impact on system performances.
When we used Malwarebytes, we noted that at the first sight the tool can seem a bit complex, as it hosts of status details, multiple icons, assorted buttons, and five tabbed areas. However, once we used it a bit more, the program became very intuitive and simple.
In contrast, from a very beginning, ESET seems very convenient to use. The tool has an easy navigation system and even though the text is relatively small on some of the settings and options, we had no problem while using the software.
In this case, we can say that ESET was designed to be used by both, beginners and advanced users and is very intuitive and clear.
We also have checked which one of the programs has a bigger market share. According to OPSWAT's streamlined Windows Anti-malware Market Share Report, Malwarebytes appears in third place and takes 12.23% of the market share and ESET has about 9.09% of the market share.
Other popular products in the latest OPSWAT report include tech giants such as Avast, McAfee Inc., Bitdefender, Webroot, Kaspersky Lab, Safer Networking Ltd with SpyBot Search & Destroy, Avira, and Symantec with Norton.
What we found out after using the software, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is created for every user – whether you are a businessman, a CEO of a large company or an individual user. This application will protect your computer not only from the usual malware, but from ransomware, infected sites, and various small threats. Malwarebytes is a great anti-malware software and worth its price after all if you need real and reliable protection against the latest threats on the Internet.
When it comes to ESET, the programs is a very decent choice for those who look for advanced malware protection, long and useful feature set and a great navigation system.
It is a great choice for those, who look for flexible plans and trustworthy security and privacy features.
According to our test and the independent testing lab test, AV-TEST, ESET demonstrates better malware detection and performance rates. It also has easy to use and clear interface and a variety of features.
When it comes to Malwarebytes, the Anti-malware tool is limited to protection features and can work great alongside other security software.
Even though ESET wins this batter, if you want to fulfill your security, you can get both. Malwarebytes works great along with other security suite and provides an additional layer of security and anti-malware protection.
The table below summarizes our test results.
If you are still not sure which program to choose, our researchers constantly test and review different security applications for Windows, Macs, and Android devices. Check out our Security section and choose the right solution for you!
^ Malwarebytes Home Products. Malwarebytes.
^ ESET Windows Products. ESET.
This entry was posted on 2019-02-19 at 03:45 and is filed under Security.


Subaru Corporation unveiled the all-new 2019 Forester (US Spec) at the 2018 New York International Auto Show on March 28 (local time).
As a top-selling model of Subaru's global sales, the fifth-generation Forester is positioned as a key part of the company's global strategy. The new model features packaging that allows all passengers to share comfort and enjoyment, balancing easy handling with a spacious interior, and user-friendly features.
In line with Subaru's design philosophy "Dynamic x Solid," the new design combines the hardiness of an SUV with user-friendly comfort and convenience.
The latest model features Subaru core technologies including EyeSight driver assist system, Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive built around newly developed direct-injection engines, and X-Mode for enhanced all-terrain drivability, the latest model features improved performance and an everyday experience of excitement and enjoyment, offering comfort, fun, and adventure.
The new Forester will go on sale in the South Africa market in the first Quarter of 2019. Specifications and power units are still to be confirmed for the local introduction and are expected to differ from the US Spec model revealed.
Although the wheelbase has been increased for a more comfortable cabin space than ever, the minimum turning radius is just 5.4 m, ensuring excellent ease of handling.
・A maximum trunk opening width of 1,300 mm, larger than average for a mid-sized SUV, and square cargo storage space, provide a dramatic increase in loading capacity.
・The drive unit for power rear gate has been integrated with the gate stay and offers more cargo storage space. It also provides faster opening and closing and a new locking system, incorporated for the first time in a Subaru vehicle, makes automatic closing of the rear gate and vehicle locking with just a touch of a button.
USB charger ports (max. output 2.1A) provided for both front and back seat passengers.
New Human Machine Interface (HMI) air-conditioning incorporated for the first time in Subaru vehicles, allows exact adjustment of temperature controls, for in-cabin comfort according to the number of passengers.
The debut of the Driver Monitoring System, which can alert the driver to signs of drowsiness or distraction on the road as well as automatically adjusting driver settings for seat position, door mirror angles, and air-conditioning preferences.
Accent colours, high gloss black, and exclusive aluminium wheels highlight the new model's SUV robustness and sleek strength.
In some models with black and grey as the base colours, accent colours in the centre console and seat stitching emphasize the dynamism of the interior.
Featuring Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive built around the new 2.5L four-cylinder horizontally opposed direct injection engine, X-Mode for easier handling in poor driving conditions, and the Subaru Global Platform, the new model ensures a comfortable and enjoyable ride for the driver and all passengers.
Optimization of the X-Mode that controls engine, transmission, and brakes on slippery surfaces and in poor driving conditions improves drivability in off-road conditions and on poor surfaces. In some models, a dial allows easy switching between two modes depending on road conditions, improving driver's confidence and peace of mind.
Minimum ground clearance is 220 mm, along with the widest possible approach and departure angles and the ramp breakover angle. The new model offers excellent road clearance for a wider range of activities than ever before.
The Subaru Global Platform brings significant improvements to dynamic quality, achieving superior driving capability that engages the emotional senses with smooth performance and pleasant drivability.
The new model offers safe and enjoyable driving for all passengers at all times and in all settings—not just in emergencies—offering safety features that place it at the top of its class, based on Subaru's philosophy of overall safety.
A total of seven airbags (SRS airbags in the driver's seat and passenger seat, SRS knee airbag in the driver's seat, SRS side airbags, and SRS side curtain airbags) come as standard in all models, providing class-leading levels of passenger protection.


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Signs Point Toward 'Cataclysmic' War in Middle East
Newsmax (Link) (May 11, 2009)
A former top American intelligence official agrees with a Messianic pastor that major and possibly calamitous events will unfold in the Middle East in the coming year.
"I think within 12 months something is going to happen, one way or another," said retired Lt. Gen. William Boykin, who served as deputy undersecretary of defense for Intelligence from 2003 to 2007.
His concerns are echoed by best-selling novelist Joel C. Rosenberg, whose works have uncannily foreshadowed real events including 9/11. "I don't know how much time we have. I believe a cataclysmic war is coming in the Middle East," he said.
Messianic pastor Mark Biltz of El Shaddai ministries in Puyallup, Wash., garnered attention last year with his announcement of the discovery of a rare sequence of lunar and solar eclipses, a "tetrad," all falling on key feast days on the Jewish calendar over a two-year period.
The last time that happened, the Jews recaptured Jerusalem, Biltz said. "The time before that [was] 1949, 1950, right after they became a nation. But both times it was tied around a major war."
Additional signs this year and next portend more of the same, according to Biltz. "The sun and the moon were God's signals to us," he said. "When they fall on his divine appointments, He's trying to tell us that we need to look to him and hear what he's saying."
While Biltz and other messianic believers watch the heavens, "others are watching the headlines and getting the same message," station KMPH in Fresno, Calif., reported.
Gen. Boykin told a station reporter at a conference in San Diego that he foresees "something" happening in the coming year and added: "I'm watching the Iranian nuclear program very carefully. No one really knows how long, I don't even think the Iranian themselves know how long it will take them to have a deliverable nuclear weapon, but they're moving there rapidly."
Author Rosenberg, who was an adviser to then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the 1990s, foresees a cataclysm in the near future, and he has been remarkably prescient in his books.
For instance, his New York Times best-seller "The Last Jihad" describes the hijacking of a jet by radical Islamic terrorists who use it to launch a kamikaze attack on an American city. That leads to a war with Iraq's Saddam Hussein over terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
"I wrote those chapters nine months before September 11, 2001," Rosenberg told KMPH at the conference.
His book "The Last Days" begins with a U.S. diplomatic convoy driving into Gaza on a peacekeeping mission. The convoy is attacked by terrorists. Six days before the book went on sale in October 2003, an American diplomatic convoy driving into Gaza was attacked by terrorists.
The book also foreshadowed a civil war among Palestinians similar to the hostilities that later erupted between Hamas and Fatah.
May 11, 2009 8:53:00 PM | Islam, Israel, Signs of the Times
Big surprise...auto bailouts won't be repaid Both were initially billed as temporary government loans, but the multi-billion-dollar bailouts of Chrysler and General Motors are not likely to be paid back to American taxpayers.
Obama Halves Chrysler's Planned Marketing Budget Chrysler wanted to spend $134 million in advertising over the nine weeks it's expected to be in bankruptcy -- the U.S. Treasury's auto-industry task force gave it half that. So if GM, which is wrestling with the possibility of a Chapter 11 filing itself, is wondering how much influence the task force will have over marketing, the answer is: plenty. However, transcripts from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Southern District of New York, where the Chrysler case is being heard, proved for the first time that the task force at least understands that advertising is a necessary expense -- even if it doesn't think Chrysler needs $134 million for nine weeks of car ads.

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Q: Include executable in another executable Can I include an .exe file in another, and then run it from the outer program?
For instance, can I make a wget GUI by including it inside my program, or are my only options either using the including the source or supplying the wget binary together with my wrapper?
I am working on Windows and am looking for a solution in c/c++/c#

A: Sure you can.
The idea is to 'insert' the exe as a resource to you main application.
There is a link which explains how to compile resources into delphi exe. Its similar to VC++ or what ever...

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Was No Award Deserved for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
tags: Fiction, Pulitzer, Pulitzer Prize
by J. K. Gayle
For the first time in this century, "No Award" was given in the Fiction category of the Pulitzer Prize, as winners in other categories were announced today.
The Jury for Fiction was comprised of the following people:
Susan Larson, former book editor, The Times-Picayune and, host, "The Reading Life", WWNO-FM (Chair)
Maureen Corrigan, critic in residence, Georgetown University and, book critic, "Fresh Air," NPR
Michael Cunningham, novelist [and 1999 Pulizter Fiction winner for his novel The Hours, which beat out Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks and The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver] New York, NY
Nominated as finalists in this category were:
Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a novella about a day laborer in the old American West, bearing witness to terrors and glories with compassionate, heartbreaking calm;
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (Alfred A. Knopf), an adventure tale about an eccentric family adrift in its failing alligator-wrestling theme park, told by a 13-year-old heroine wise beyond her years; and
The Pale King, by the late David Foster Wallace (Little, Brown and Company), a posthumously completed novel, animated by grand ambition, that explores boredom and bureaucracy in the American workplace.
Johnson's work was a re-issue of what first appeared in the Paris Review in 2002 to later win the 2003 O. Henry Prize, a "favorite" of two of the three jurors for that prize that year.
Russell's work was longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize just last month.
Wallace's work was actually unfinished, found in 2008 by the author's wife and by his literary agent, after the author committed suicide; he had been working on the manuscript for more than a decade it seems, and his friend and editor compiled it in a publishable form one year ago. It was one of Salon's "Best Fiction of 2011" winners.
The last time there was "No Award" was in 1977.
So we ask and read the answer:
Why in some years was there no award given in a particular category?
According to The Plan of Award "If in any year all the competitors in any category shall fall below the standard of excellence fixed by The Pulitzer Prize Board, the amount of such prize or prizes may be withheld."
So we ask about this year. Do you think Larson, Corrigan, and Cunningham were just being too picky? Or do you think that whoever selected the nominees just didn't look hard enough for previously unrecognized and/ or excellent works of fiction? Couldn't the jury have decided to go with a work other than those nominated, as the Jury in 1984 did? What would you have nominated? Whose fiction would you have nominated or awarded the 2012 Pulitzer to if you had been on the jury or the board?
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Thank you for sharing all the factual details of the decision. I really like that you quoted the standards set by the Pulitzer committee and the expectations that the books chosen had to be of a certain par. I haven't read these books, but I do wonder if they reached that bar. My problem is that they're all attached to names that are already popular in contemporary fiction. Did they get chosen based on name, or by actual fictional merit. I just wonder…
I wrote about this on my blog today too 🙂
Kurk, I think there is a bit of confusion here — but media reports (and, indeed, your own text above) indicates that the board made the decision to not award the prize, not the jurors. See, for example, the footnote-postscript to this Entertainment Weekly article:
http://shelf-life.ew.com/2012/04/16/pulitzer-prize-no-fiction-award/
(Please be forgiving of me for quoting Entertainment Weekly, but I'm awfully busy this week, and it was the first reference that came up on Google.)
The jury's job is to nominate three finalists and give a recommendation for the winner; but the board actually selects the winner.
Similarly, your recap of the 1984 story is not quite right — according to the link you give, the decision was reversed not by the jury but by the board, and Ironweed was in fact one of the three finalists (which is what I think you mean by "nominated work.")
Now, onto my next point — the problem with the Pulitzer Fiction prize award is that the awardees are awfully uneven. Look at these lists:
http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Fiction
http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Novel
For example, a decision to give Wallace's Pale King the award would have been problematic. The Pale King is a bit of a mess, since Wallace never completed it — and it was put together by an editor. The thing is that almost everyone agrees that it is not Wallace's best work — but Wallace never won the Pulitzer for his best work.
Look at the people who never won a Pulitzer (Fiction and Novels categories): Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Carson McCullers, Richard Wright, John Dos Passos, John O'Hara, and James Baldwin.
Isaac Bashevis Singer won a Nobel Prize for literature — but he never won a Pulitzer. (Even though Singer rewrote most of his English books — they are different from his Yiddish versions!)
Saul Bellow only won the Pulitzer after he was already in the pipeline for his Nobel prize (they arrived the same year).
Genre fiction is largely unrepresented — there are no awards for Dashiell Hammet, Raymond Chandler, James Cain.
Philip Roth won a Pulitzer, but for one of his weakest novels: American Pastoral, and Sinclair Lewis won it not for Main Street but for Arrowsmith!
Meanwhile, look at some of the winners: James Michener. Margaret Mitchell. And a whole lot of writers that I do not recognize (although I considerable myself fairly well read.)
Who else could have been nominated this year? Well, if we are talking about popular fiction, I think 11/22/63 was perhaps Stephen King's best book ever — and I suspect he is in the top five most popular living American authors (if not number one). Ann Waldman's The Submission was outstanding. Chad Harbach's The Fielding deserved consideration. And while I don't think it was the best book of the year, Karen Russell's Swamplandia! was better than some of the previous Pulitzer prizewinners (including being better than Cunningham's The Hours.)
(I did not read Johnson's Train Dreams.)
So, I think the process failed this year.
Thank you for asking whether the three works nominated as finalists in the fiction category were "chosen based on [the author's] name, or by actual fictional merit"? I see at your blog post you do, correctly, declare: "All of the people up for Pulitzer's this year had made a name in contemporary fiction." Are you suggesting that Kate Walbert's 2001 novel was overlooked? I do see that it's developed from her Pushcart Prize and O. Henry Award winning short story, "The Gardens of Kyoto."
Well, I wasn't very clear, was I? But neither is the Publizer Prize web site. Yes, Larson, Corrigan, and Cunningham were the Nominating Jury. But:
It is left up to the Nominating Juries and The Pulitzer Prize Board to determine exactly what makes a work "distinguished."
The Board presided over the judging process that resulted in the 2012 winners and finalists.
While the journalism process goes forward, shipments of books totaling some 1,000 titles are being sent to five letters juries for their judging in these categories:
For distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.
(I didn't even image to look at the Entertainment Weekly "footnote-postscript" until you quoted and linked to it. And rather than just linking to the NYT 1984 article, I should have made clear that the board ignored the jury's recommendation.)
You bring up a number of good examples of how problematic the choices can be. I'll only comment on Sinclair Lewis, who was awarded and accepted the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930, the first American to be awarded such. Erik Axel Karlfeldt, who presented the award, started by saying:
This year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature is a native of a part of America which for a long time has had Swedish contacts. He was born at Sauk Centre, a place of about two or three thousand inhabitants in the great cornland of Minnesota. He describes the place in his novel Main Street (1920), though there it is called Gopher Prairie.
And Karlfelt a few moments later added:
Yes, Sinclair Lewis is an American. He writes the new language – American – as one of the representatives of 120,000,000 souls.
Karfelt mentioned not just Main Street but also Babbit, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, and Dodsworth. Lewis accepted the award just fine.
But Lewis did not accept the Pulitzer Prize four years earlier in 1926 when it was awarded to Arrowsmith. He was bitter toward the Pulizter committee, it seems, when they overlooked his nominated Main Street in 1921 and his Babbit in 1923. He wrote to his father:
I see that just as Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence beat Main Street for the Pulitzer prize, so did Cather's One of Ours beat Babbitt. I'm quite sure I never shall get the Pulitzer.
Supposedly, he told somebody else that he would have accepted the Pulitzer for either of those two novels. And yet, in turning down the award when given for Arrowsmith, he rather publicly hid his rejection behind principal:
I wish to acknowledge your choice of my novel Arrowsmith for the Pulitzer Prize. That prize I must refuse, and my refusal would be meaningless unless I explained the reasons.
All prizes, like all titles, are dangerous. The seekers for prizes tend to labor not for inherent excellence but for alien rewards: they tend to write this, or timorously to avoid writing that, in order to tickle the prejudices of a haphazard committee. And the Pulitzer Prize for novels is peculiarly objectionable because the terms of it have been constantly and grievously misrepresented.
Those terms are that the prize shall be given "for the American novel published during the year which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life, and the highest standard of American manners and manhood." This phrase, if it means anything whatever, would appear to mean that the appraisal of the novels shall be made not according to their actual literary merit but in obedience to whatever code of Good Form may chance to be popular at the moment.
This NPR news piece claims that the jurors were shocked that the board did not award the prize this year:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/04/17/150792103/pulitzer-jurors-are-shocked-that-no-fiction-prize-was-awarded
Thanks for that. I love this silver-lining quotation:
The one bright spot, in Larson's mind, is that perhaps fiction fans will now be encouraged to "read three books instead of one."
If Larson, Corrigan, and Cunningham really read "300 books" between them for this assignment, I wonder which others were in their top 30. If they themselves published that list, or even just their top 10, then think how many more books fiction fans might read.
It seems Susan Larson is on a bit of a crusade in the media:
Yesterday, NPR reported:
"The decision not to award the prize this year rests solely with the Pulitzer board," she wrote in an email to AP.
Joe Gross of the Austin American Statesman gives this:
UPDATE: Susan Larson contacted me with this clarification: "I was the chair of the Pulitzer fiction jury this year, serving with Maureen Corrigan and Michael Cunningham. We nominated three fine American novels as finalists for the prize — The Pale King, by David Foster Wallace; Swamplandia!, by Karen Russell; and Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson, all of which we considered Pulitzer-worthy. I have served in this capacity before — it is not the role of the jury to select the winner, but rather to submit three unranked finalists to the board. The decision not to award the prize this year rests solely with the Pulitzer board."
The Huffington Post reports this:
UPDATE: Susan Larson, the chair of the jury, told The Huffington Post by email: "The jury members were all shocked and disappointed and angry at the news, of course. We thought so highly of these three books, we took our responsibilities very seriously, and our decision was unanimous."
And it appears that the board members who will speak up have stayed calm; USA Today gives the following specifics:
After reading 341 books, they nominated three titles to the 18 voting members of the Pulitzer board, which "could not determine a winner," says Pulitzer Prize administrator Sig Gissler, who sits on the board. Its members include prominent journalists such as TheNew York Times' Thomas Friedman. Its only fiction writer is novelist Junot Diaz.
"None of the three books could get a majority of votes," Gissler says.
Even more details here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/books/publishing-industry-is-angry-that-pulitzers-snubbed-fiction.html
Forgive my brevity — but I hope to rejoin the discussion next week.
I sympathize with the book publishers.
The jury is sloughing off responsibility for "No Award" on the board (i.e., "The decision not to award the prize this year rests solely with the Pulitzer board," she wrote in an email to AP.). And the board and its administrator are blaming the democratic set up (i.e., "None of the three books could get a majority of votes," Gissler says.)
The question really has to be whether, after reading 341 books, The Pulitzer Prize Jury nominated three "competitors in [the fiction] category [that actually did] fall below the standard of excellence fixed by The Pulitzer Prize Board."
A published "standard of excellence fixed" for this Pulitzer Prize seems to be "distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life."
I like Sarah McNally's would-be nominations for the Pulitzer fiction Prize of 2012. And to meet the Board standard, as a book the majority might also vote as best, I like Mat Johnson's novel, Pym.
Have you read Pym? I have not.
In fact, I have not even read Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (although I see it is sitting in the contents of my Library of America edition of Poe — what can I say — I have only read Poe's short stories and poems.)
If you post some thoughts on Pym sometime (which, from the blurb, looks quite interesting), I would certainly appreciate it.
Johnson's Pym starts in by borrowing the "Preface" of Poe's Narrative, at least the first exact lines verbatim until the former deviates into other, more subtle acknowledgements of the latter. I've read Poe's novel because some critics say Moby Dick owes much to it and because of the high praise Borges allegedly gave it and the critical view Toni Morrison has given it. I doubt Poe's work would have won a Pulitzer, and of course it was published long before the Prize. I just started reading Johnson's work, and it seems very good. If I were to blog on the one novel, I'm sure we'd have a few more things to say about the other. (You've been saying you are short on time these days for blogging; I'm afraid, I'm now going to have to be rather sporadic now in blogging due to busy-ness elsewhere. Wish I had time to read well and to comment on Craig's two interesting posts today.)
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I was one of the 341..the infamous 341 authors who entered the contest. I feel like a loser not because I lost, but because of the wet blanket thrown over the whole lot of us. None of us where worthy.. It will most likey be a very long time until there is no award given in this category, so we are now refered to as the 'infamous 341' The story I wrote was entitled 'Galsboro a butlers letter to the New Yorker'….I guess it sucked more than any of my friends thought, now it is infamous……………………
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"The plan was originally pitched, according to the story, back in 2012 while the series' third season was filming. The idea was that making the episodes into movies instead might help grant them the budget they needed to finish off the story on the grand scale that George R.R. Martin's description of the events demanded.
As it turns out, that wouldn't be necessary. In the intervening years, Game of Thrones has grown from major hit to one of the biggest franchises in the world. The popularity helped Benioff and Weiss convince HBO to fund the final six episodes with a massive — for TV — budget of more than $15 million an episode."
Pri GoT nejde o to, že by tvorcom neodklepli 3 filmy. Nápad s filmami mal finančné základy, kedy si mysleli, že na filmy skôr získajú peniaze, viď článok Polygonu: "The plan was originally pitched, according to the story, back in 2012 while the series' third season was filming. The idea was that making the episodes into movies instead might help grant them the budget they needed to finish off the story on the grand scale that George R.R. Martin's description of the events demanded. As it turns out, that wouldn't be necessary. In the intervening years, Game of Thrones has grown from major hit to one of the biggest franchises in the world. The popularity helped Benioff and Weiss convince HBO to fund the final six episodes with a massive — for TV — budget of more than $15 million an episode."


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Daughter breaks silence over missing mum 40 years on
What happened to Lyn Dawson?
by Gavin Fernando
10th Sep 2018 5:39 AM
THE disappearance of Lynette Dawson is one of the world's most gripping murder mysteries.
The mother-of-two abruptly vanished from her Sydney Northern Beaches home almost 40 years ago in January 1982.
Her daughter, Shanelle, was only four-years-old at the time. Broken-hearted and alone, she avoided reporters for decades and refused to condemn her father amid the speculation about who killed her mother
The case sparked renewed global interest after she was featured as one of the main subjects in a podcast called 'The Teacher's Pet', produced by The Australian newspaper.
The dig may not have uncovered a body but two separate coronial inquests found Lyn Dawson was dead. The only suspect her husband Chris. #60Mins pic.twitter.com/FRcGvjUKCL
— 60 Minutes Australia (@60Mins) September 9, 2018
Now, in an explosive 60 Minutes interview, Shanelle has finally shared her side of the story.
WHAT HAPPENED TO LYNETTE DAWSON?
Lyn and Chris Dawson were childhood sweethearts.
On the surface, they had it all - a wholesome relationship, respectable jobs and a home in an idyllic suburb on Sydney's northern beaches.
Lyn worked a nurse, and was seen as a kind and gentle soul. Chris was a popular high school PE teacher and talented sportsman.
They were married for 12 years, and had two daughters - Shanelle and Sherrin.
On the surface, Lyn and Chris Dawson seemed to have everything. But all was not as it seemed.
But their relationship wasn't as picture-perfect as it appeared.
In 1980, Chris began a relationship with his 16-year-old Cromer High School student Joanne Curtis. Their relationship became sexual, and Chris employed the girl as a babysitter for his two daughters.
He tried convincing his wife to let the girl move into their home for the remainder of her schooling, saying she came from a broken home and had a violent stepfather. The couple ended up in marriage counselling.
Joanne Curtis pictured with Chris and Lyn's two daughters, Shanelle and Sherrin.
On January 9, 1982, Lyn was due to meet her mother at Northbridge Baths, where Chris worked.
But Lyn never arrived. Chris later claimed he dropped her off at a bus stop in Mona Vale, and that she called him later in the day saying she needed time to herself.
No more than two days later, Joanne had moved into Chris' home - and marital bed. She would even wear Lyn's jewellery and her clothes.
Chris didn't report his wife as missing until six weeks later, and told everyone she had run off to join a religious cult.
Lyn Dawson mysteriously disappeared in 1982.
Over the following years he divorced his missing wife and ended up marrying Joanne. They moved to Queensland and had a child together.
In 1990, the pair split up. According to Hedley Thomas, the senior News Corp journalist who has investigated the case for 'The Teacher's Pet', Chris became increasingly angry and threatening towards Joanne. It was then that she went to the police, advising them to search the garden in his old Bayview property.
Chris Dawson pictured with his twin brother Paul.
A body was never found - but they did discover Lyn's pink cardigan during a police dig. The garment had multiple cut marks consistent with stabbing.
Two coroners later found that Lyn was murdered by a "known person", but no charges were ever laid.
LYNETTE'S DAUGHTER SPEAKS OUT
The absence of her mother left Shanelle feeling abandoned and confused for much of her life.
"I try not to dwell in self-pity, but I guess I do sometimes dip in there, especially on Mother's Day when I see everybody out with their mums," she told 60 Minutes.
But Shanelle spoke fondly of her father, saying he was "fun". "He taught us tennis and played in the pool with us," she said. "I would say he's got a side to him that's a lot like a loveable, adorable puppy dog."
It's a perception she struggles to reconcile with the scrutiny on his potential role in her mother's murder.
"There is huge conflict in that. Especially people who are quite angry, and rightfully so, wanting answers about my mum. Yet there's still that part of me that really loves my dad, and feels protective of him."
She said he was a loving father to her, and struggled to see him as the narcissistic, abusive man that others made him out to be.
Her father and new stepmother never shared stories about Lyn, saying it was "like the day she left she ceased to exist".
Bev McNally - who was another student at Chris Dawson's school - tells another story. Before Joanne came along, she was the family babysitter.
"Everything in the house had to be perfect because she never wanted to upset him," Bev told 60 Minutes. "He did lose his temper quite quickly. A couple of times at their house I did see him turn quite nasty, and it shocked me."
Bev McNally — who babysat the Dawson children before Joanne — described Chris' behaviour as nasty and abusive.
"The first time Chris and Lynette were both in the kitchen, and Chris went to get a glass out of the cupboard. The glass was dirty, so he ranted at Lyn for putting a dirty glass in the cupboard. He grabbed the tea towel. I thought he was going to wipe the glass with it, but he didn't. He actually flicked her really, really hard right across the back with the tea towel.
"The second time I saw him being extremely violent towards her near the bedroom door and that just shattered me. And that was the one that broke it."
She said she never went back to the house again.
Bev firmly believes Lyn did not choose to leave. "She would never have left those children on her own accord," she said. "They were everything to her. Everything."
Shanelle accepts that the evidence is stacked against her father. "My emotions and my love for my dad aside, I can see that there a lot of people saying all those things, it's not just one person," she said.
Does she think her father is a murderer?
Shanelle can't say yes or no. She said her father looked her in the eye and swore he never, ever hurt her mother.
She desperately wants to believe him.
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If you are visiting the Greek islands, you will probably start your trip by flying into Athens. There was much to see in Athens. Ancient ruins, the great views from the hills surrounding the city or the pageantry of the changing of the guard kept us entertained.
Even if you are visiting for Greek island discoveries, Athens is worth a few days.
Santorini and Mykonos are the islands most famous for visitors to Greece. We explored the great beaches by day and found the perfect spot for the sunset. We even got to meet the famous Pelican Pete as he wandered about the harbour area in Mykonos.
The waters were the clearest, bluest we have ever seen travelling. We did not get a chance yet to explore below these clear waters, but it is on our list.
But the vistas and iconic images are what you will want to see on your Greek island discoveries. The windmills were silhouetted against the blue skies. Brilliant blue roofs offset the whitewashed buildings. There was something to see in all directions.
Greek island discoveries will give you a glimpse into past civilizations. We found countless ruins that show the dedication to Greek gods and mythology. Small islands like Delos were preserved as archaeological sites. We wandered around the ruins and then delved into the history in the museum.
The island of Monemvasia was a beautiful, quaint ancient Byzantine fortress nestled under a towering plateau. This small island has changed hands multiple times. The history of occupation was found in the architecture persevered in this small town.
Greek island discoveries will show you islands that are quieter and less touristy. We visited and wandered about to see the Greek people at work and play. Small fishing villages on islands like Crete gave us a chance to enjoy the great beaches. And a slower pace.
Crete is the largest of the Greek islands. When we headed out of the port cities, we explored Minoan ruins, scenic mountains, great beaches, small rustic villages and dramatic landscapes. We found it all in Crete.
Many of the Greek islands are quite mountainous. We did a 4×4 adventure high into the hills of Corfu that was one of the best shore excursions we have ever done on a cruise. The tour stopped in the small towns to enjoy a stroll, lunch, strong coffee and the local Ouzo.
It was great to drive the twisty roads to amazing viewpoints. Corfu had some of the most amazing aquamarine waters. We are sure to head back to Corfu again with scuba diving gear in hand.
We loved Santorini – we left our campervan in Athens and flew there for a week in December- even in winter it was beautiful.
We also visited Monemvasia on our road trip in the van around the Peloponnese – it was absolutely magical.


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Not many know that Bollywood actress Prachi Desai, who rose to fame with films like Rock On!! and Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai, loves balloon sculpting, pottery and dancing. She also loves globe trotting and feels travelling has made her a better person.
"I started working at a young age. So I never got time to learn things that I always wanted to. Like I want to learn classical dancing. I enjoy pottery and balloon sculpting too. It's fun and relaxing," Prachi told IANS.
She was here on Tuesday for an event organised by Tata Sky to launch its new service called Do It Yourself, which enables the users to watch multiple videos on TV.
The 24-year-old, who started her journey in showbiz with popular TV show Kasamh Se, is nowadays busy filming KS Ravikumar's Policegiri and Vikram Bhatt's 1920 franchise.
She was looking gorgeous in a short one-piece dress and high heels, and the fashionista admitted that she keeps track of latest trends.
"I do keep a check on what's in trend and what's not, but I wear what I feel comfortable in. I do not just blindly follow the trend. I often experiment with my wardrobe. But I wear what I like," she said.
Prachi, however, revealed that since she is busy with films, she won't walk the ramp for any designer at the Wills India Lifestyle Fashion Week 2013.
"My next film, Policegiri is in its post-production stage. I am playing a girl-next-door. She is a software engineer. It's set to release on April 14, so I'll be busy with its promotion," she said.
Prachi loves the weather in Delhi, but said Mumbai's weather doesn't allow her to walk out without face protection.
"I do yoga in the morning. I drink a lot of water. And I apply sunscreen lotion after every six hours," she said.


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Q: Why the foreach loop using %dopar% don't produce all the results I'm running the code below and get only results for i=1.
How can I get row matrix with all the results- i=2 and i=3?
library(doMC)
library(foreach)

number_of_cpus=4
cl<-makeCluster(number_of_cpus)
registerDoMC(cores=4)

split_results2 <-

  foreach(i=1:3, .combine=rbind,  .inorder=TRUE, mc.cores=4) %dopar%  {

  Split_factor=as.character(split_factors[1,i])

  Data$Split_Factor = as.character(Data$Split_Factor)
  Data_new=Data[Data$Split_Factor==Split_factor,]

  GetSplit(Data_new,Data_ind,num_vars,num_factors,r_jobs,probs)  }

A: The foreach function doesn't have an argument named "mc.cores", so it's being treated as an iteration variable, but since you only specified one value for it, it limits the loop to one iteration. Just remove the "mc.cores" argument and it should work the way you expect.
Consider this loop:
foreach(i=1:3, j=10) %dopar% {
  c(i, j)
}

It is limited by "j", returning a list with one element, while this loop:
foreach(i=1:3, j=10:100) %dopar% {
  c(i, j)
}

is limited by "i", returning a list with three elements.
Foreach iterates over all of the specified iteration variables in parallel, so the loop is limited by the iteration variable with the fewest number of values. Note that in this respect foreach works differently than "mapply" which recycles the iteration variable with fewer values.
Also note that there's no reason to create the cluster "cl". It's just going to create some extra processes on your machine that won't do anything.


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'Throwing workers a bone': Deliveroo calls for national laws to govern gig economy
A new class of worker should be created to cover gig economy employers Deliveroo has argued as part of a plea for a national shake up of workplace legislation.
The food delivery platform made a submission on Tuesday to the Victorian government's inquiry into on-demand work calling for a "Future Work Act" to allow it and other platforms to offer riders benefits without employment in what has been described as a "third way".
Deliveroo's country manager Levi Aron. Credit:Justin McManus
However experts and unions criticised Deliveroo's legislative push claiming it was merely "throwing workers a bone".
Deliveroo's submission compares the proposed legislation to the Fair Work Act saying an equivalent was needed for "modern" ways of working.
"To end the trade-off between flexibility and security, we believe law reform should be considered that allows workers to accrue benefits on the basis of work performed, for example, the number of deliveries completed or the value of fees earned, rather than their ordinary hours of work, and that the provision of benefits by a company to a self-employed contractor should not impact their employment status," it says.
Deliveroo argues the current system "disincentivises" companies from offering contractors greater security in the form of benefits.
Any legislation would need to be implemented at both federal and state levels and Deliveroo has proposed the governments "work in tandem" potentially through the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) agreeing to model legislation that could be implemented uniformly.
Deliveroo suggests a Future Work Act could enable companies to provide benefits to contractors including accident and injury or third party liability insurance, income protection when temporarily unable to work because of an accident, sick pay, and training.
Deliveroo has 6500 riders in Australia and said 67 per cent of all sessions, measured by the duration that people are logged into the app, are for under three hours.
On average Deliveroo said its riders work 15 hours a week, earning over $22.00 per hour on average.
Levi Aron on his Deliveroo bike. Credit:Simon Schluter
In the submission, Deliveroo pointed to riders rejection of orders as a sign of the flexibility offered.
"Riders frequently reject orders, for example, because they're currently completing an order for another platform or restaurant and the offer isn't convenient for them," the submission said. "In the last six months, 93 per cent of riders rejected at least one order and on average each order was rejected once before it was accepted."
The average amount of time a rider works with Deliveroo is only five months which Deliveroo attributes to "many riders see riding as a short term opportunity rather than a long term commitment".
A spokesperson for Uber said the transport and food delivery platform would also make a submission to the inquiry before 20 February.
"We recognise this is a complex policy area and any reforms will require input from workers, the community and business," the spokesperson said.
Jim Stanford, economist and director of the Centre for Future Work, said the push for legislation from "a rear guard action by Deliveroo to head off what it fears."
Dr Jim Stanford, economist and director of the Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute.
"The business model of companies like Deliveroo, Uber and Lyft is completely dependent on their ability to assign workers as contractors not employees," he said. "If these companies had to pay minimum wage and other normal conditions of employment they would not be viable."
Mr Stanford said the offer by Deliveroo to provide benefits in exchange for workers not being employees is a "token promise".
"In general that is window dressing to try to make the current situation, which is very exploitative, more tolerable. Real benefits would be minimum wage, overtime, paid holidays and sick leave," he said.
"I also note it would be tied to work performed rather than time spent and that is a huge distinction as these companies depend on the free time of gig workers waiting for the next job."
In general that is window dressing to try to make the current situation, which is very exploitative, more tolerable.
Jim Stanford
Tony Sheldon, co-ordinator on the on-demand economy for the Transport Workers Union said Deliveroo is "throwing workers a bone to try and shut them up" and "inventing new ways to keep underpaying its workers."
Mr Sheldon said last year workers woke up to a 30 to 40 per cent pay cut when Deliveroo increased delivery distances without warning.
"This is another public relations exercise to try to hide the exploitation that goes on every day," he said.


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One of the most powerful things we can do as parents is to teach our kids God's Word, to help them learn how to hide His Truths in their hearts and minds.
This world can be a dark place. Many days it feels like a constant battlefield. And the enemy wants nothing more than to do in our families what he does best - stealing, killing, destroying. But as believers who know the power of God and are equipped with the strength of His Spirit and Word, we can strongly stand against those attacks in the name of Christ.
We can help our teens to learn and memorize verses that will help them in all they may face today. To guard against temptation. To use discernment in walking wisely. To understand the importance of following God closely in a world that would say to follow other things.
Through years of serving in Children's and Family Ministry, my husband and I have heard story after story of the importance of kids learning God's Truth from early on, and how the power of His Words will carry them through the hardest battles they may face later in life.
It reminds me again to ensure that our kids know Truth. And that they see His word lived out in me every day.
Not perfectly. But real. And fully dependent on Him.
My heart's desire is that they will never waste their days living in the lies of the world, chasing things that won't satisfy, or trying to find purpose in false security.
May God set their hearts free as they choose to run in the way of His commands, strong, brave, and wise.
This is only a beginning, there are so many more important Scriptures for teens to know which offer wisdom and truth for strong lives. God bless you and your families as you hide His word in your hearts.
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var assert = require('assert');
var oauth = require('../oauth.js');
var requests = require('../../net/requests.js');

describe('oauth', function() {
  describe('HeaderBuilder', function() {
    it('a sample with a token+secret from the Twitter api docs', function() {
      var method = 'POST';
      var baseUrl = 'https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json';
      var parameters = {
        'include_entities': 'true',
        'status': 'Hello Ladies + Gentlemen, a signed OAuth request!'
      };
      var nonce = 'kYjzVBB8Y0ZFabxSWbWovY3uYSQ2pTgmZeNu2VS4cg';
      var timestamp = 1318622958;

      var keyData = new oauth.KeyData(
        'xvz1evFS4wEEPTGEFPHBog' /* consumerKey */,
        'kAcSOqF21Fu85e7zjz7ZN2U4ZRhfV3WpwPAoE3Z7kBw' /* consumerSecret */,
        '370773112-GmHxMAgYyLbNEtIKZeRNFsMKPR9EyMZeS9weJAEb' /* token */,
        'LswwdoUaIvS8ltyTt5jkRh4J50vUPVVHtR2YPi5kE' /* tokenSecret */);

      var result = new oauth.HeaderBuilder(method, baseUrl, keyData)
            .setRequestParams(parameters)
            .build(timestamp, nonce);

      var expected = 'OAuth oauth_consumer_key="xvz1evFS4wEEPTGEFPHBog", ' +
            'oauth_nonce="kYjzVBB8Y0ZFabxSWbWovY3uYSQ2pTgmZeNu2VS4cg", ' +
            'oauth_signature="tnnArxj06cWHq44gCs1OSKk%2FjLY%3D", ' +
            'oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", ' +
            'oauth_timestamp="1318622958", ' +
            'oauth_token="370773112-GmHxMAgYyLbNEtIKZeRNFsMKPR9EyMZeS9weJAEb", ' +
            'oauth_version="1.0"';

      assert.equal(expected, result);
    });

    it('a sample without a token+secret from the Twitter API docs', function() {
      var method = 'POST';
      var baseUrl = 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token';
      var nonce = 'ea9ec8429b68d6b77cd5600adbbb0456';
      var timestamp = 1318467427;

      var keyData = new oauth.KeyData(
        'cChZNFj6T5R0TigYB9yd1w' /* consumerKey */,
        'L8qq9PZyRg6ieKGEKhZolGC0vJWLw8iEJ88DRdyOg' /* consumerSecret */,
        null /* token */,
        null /* tokenSecret */);

      var result = new oauth.HeaderBuilder(method, baseUrl, keyData)
            .setCallback('http://localhost/sign-in-with-twitter/')
            .build(timestamp, nonce);

      var expected = 'OAuth '
            + 'oauth_callback="http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2Fsign-in-with-twitter%2F", '
            + 'oauth_consumer_key="cChZNFj6T5R0TigYB9yd1w", '
            + 'oauth_nonce="ea9ec8429b68d6b77cd5600adbbb0456", '
            + 'oauth_signature="F1Li3tvehgcraF8DMJ7OyxO4w9Y%3D", '
            + 'oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", '
            + 'oauth_timestamp="1318467427", '
            + 'oauth_version="1.0"';

      assert.equal(expected, result);
    });

    it('a sample with a request body, generated manually', function() {
      var method = 'POST';
      var server = 'api.twitter.com';
      var path = '/oauth/request_token';
      var baseUrl = 'https' + server + path;
      var nonce = 'ea9ec8429b68d6b77cd5600adbbb0456';
      var timestamp = 1318467427;

      var keyData = new oauth.KeyData(
        'cChZNFj6T5R0TigYB9yd1w' /* consumerKey */,
        'L8qq9PZyRg6ieKGEKhZolGC0vJWLw8iEJ88DRdyOg' /* consumerSecret */,
        null /* token */,
        null /* tokenSecret */);

      var somethingImportantEnoughToSign =
            new Buffer('Never gonna give you up, \n'
                       + 'never gonna let you down, \n'
                       + 'never gonna run around and desert you. \n'
                       + 'Never gonna make you cry, \n'
                       + 'never gonna say goodbye, \n'
                       + 'never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.');
      var boundary = "your heart's been aching, but you're too shy to say it.";
      var requestBody = requests.makeRequestBody(
        server,
        path,
        boundary,
        'file',
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The SEO manager is responsible for managing all SEO activities such as strategy, statistics and building best practices to ensure that all content is optimal. The SEO Manager reports directly to the VP, Operations, LeaseLabs.
Understanding new changes to the industry and adjusting processes to align with them.
In depth knowledge of Google services including Search Console, Google My Business, Data Studio, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and Google Ads.


We also provide a glass service. Where you can get a 1.5mtr bin, to fill with glass bottles.
We come and swap them over when they are full.
Glass is then crushed and transported to Sydney to a recycling plant.


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Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
1h 19m / R / Horror, Thriller
With its now-iconic poster of an arm in a Santa suit gripping a shining ax as its owner disappears down a chimney, Silent Night, Deadly Night sent shockwaves through American cinemas in 1984, opening to a firestorm of critical backlash and audience disgust at its tasteless treatment of beloved mythological character Kris Kringle. It was a more innocent time. In grand old slasher-flick fashion, it's the story of a traumatized kid who becomes a murderer himself, theming his own kills after the memory of his parents' brutal slaying. Directed by Charles Sellier, Jr., a writer, producer and director best known for bringing The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams to television in the 1970s, Silent Night, Deadly Night sticks out like a lump of coal in his filmography of mostly Christian-themed and family-friendly titles.
Though vilified upon its release, the film has picked up steam over the years among fans of cheaply made, bonkers horror and is now a seasonal cult darling, spawning a series (the subsequent films having also achieved an underground following — if you're thinking "garbage day", that's from the sequel) and seeing a remaster in recent years. The film checks the boxes of typical slasher fare, including a wealth of random sex, nudity and inventive, over-the-top murders. But viewers expecting a simple story featuring a maniac Santa Claus might be taken off guard by this disturbing character study of a man wrestling with his trauma. Silent Night, Deadly Night is more than a horror movie set at Christmastime. It's a tragedy about succumbing to one's demons.


On November 6, IPA and the CGIAR research program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security joined forces to bring together researchers, donors, and practitioners in a half-day research development workshop at the International Microinsurance Conference in Lusaka, Zambia. The goal of the workshop was to generate dialogue between researchers and insurance practitioners to learn how they can work together to design, implement, and evaluate innovative, evidence-driven insurance products that have business potential and show promise for social impacts.
As climate change intensifies, there is a greater urgency to address agricultural risk, which reduces the incentives for farmers to invest, perpetuating poverty for those who are most vulnerable. Evidence shows that policies that encourage adoption of formal insurance can lead to more productive agricultural investments. Reducing basis risk, bundling with other risk management strategies to help farmers mitigate the effects of climate change, and harnessing technology without compromising the social equity of insurance access remain important research gaps.
Appropriate consumer protection is central, not only to ensure the financial well-being of the poor, but also for commercially successful insurance products to emerge. Without a robust consumer protection framework, even the most educated and capable consumers are likely to have difficulties trusting insurers and making prudent financial choices. This presentation will summarize the key issues for consumer protection in insurance markets and will discuss the state of the evidence and important research gaps.
Please contact financialinclusion@poverty-action.org with any questions or concerns.


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Conservation of Yellowstone National Park
And The Reintroduction of Yellowstone's Iconic Gray Wolves.
Hazel Meagher, Staff Writer
Established in 1872 as the world's first national park, Yellowstone is 3,471 miles (2,221,766 acres) mostly within the state of Wyoming but it also slightly stretches over the borders of Montana and Idaho. It has been home to many Native American tribes for 11,000 years and was also settled by European American pioneers. The park is also home to about 394 animal species of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and birds.
Yellowstone is diverse with many different biomes, from rugged mountains like Druid Peak and Amethyst Mountain to vast valleys and grasslands like the Lamar Valley and Thunder Basin National Grassland to the luscious forests such as the Shoshone National Forest and Bridger-Teton National Forest. There are also many iconic bodies of water such as Yellowstone Lake which is 139 miles wide, Yellowstone River, and Lamar River.
Because Yellowstone is an active supervolcano, it is famous for its many geysers, especially one of the most famous; Old Faithful. When Old Faithful erupts, it can spew water from 100 feet to 180 feet for as long as 5 minutes. The Yellowstone supervolcano is known as Yellowstone Caldera. When Yellowstone Caldera erupts, the ash and smoke cover all of North America. This is highly dangerous as smoke carries microscopic crystals that can make it difficult to breathe and tear your lungs. It also leaves you with a runny nose and burning eyes, and can even give you lung and heart disease.
Smoke from volcanoes causes massive air pollution, releasing not only ash and dust but also carbon monoxide, and sulfur dioxide as well as many other extremely dangerous gases. When these gases mix with moisture, oxygen, and the sun, it creates smog. Smog is intense air pollution that makes it very difficult to breathe and see because it is a mixture of smoke and fog. Luckily, Yellowstone doesn't seem to show signs of eruption any time soon but there is still volcanic activity beneath the ground's surface of the park.
Yellowstone National Park has a very diverse ecosystem, one that every plant and animal is linked with each other. If you take one organism out of place in the system everything will collapse.
In 1926, the last wolf pack in Yellowstone was killed.
We can see examples of this in 1926 when every gray wolf (Canis lupus) that lived in Yellowstone was hunted down to extinction. This was because wolves were considered pests to farmers and ranchers, and hunting wolves in the park were legalized then. The government was also involved with the killing of wolves by operating predator control programs. This was the start of the downfall of Yellowstone's ecosystem.
In Yellowstone, the diet of a wolf mainly consists of elk. When the wolves were wiped out they left little to no predators for the elk to maintain their population. The elk began to eat too much of the park's vegetation, making it harder for other animals to find shelter and food. Those animals either left or died. With the herbivore population scarce, this left many predator species like mountain lions and bears with no food so the predator population also lowered drastically.
A pack of wolves hunting a bull elk (male elk), an example of gray wolves participation in the Yellowstone ecosystem.
Due to the disappearance of wolves, rivers were also affected. How? Beavers primarily chewed down willow trees. Willows were also dying off as well because of the exploding beaver population, meaning fewer willow trees for the beavers. So, beavers left the region. Over time the dams they built collapsed causing redirecting of the rivers and flooding.
Other reasons for small animal populations to lower were because when the wolves disappeared the coyote population skyrocketed. Wolves are the main predator for coyotes in Yellowstone as they are harmful towards wolf pups and are considered scavengers, so they will feast on whatever the wolves leave behind.
During the years 1995 and 1996, a whole seventy years later, thirty-one gray wolves from Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada were reintroduced to Yellowstone. This major success not only brought back wolves to the park but also many other species of plants and animals. The wolves began to lower the overpopulated elk and coyote numbers making it so that the vegetation can grow back more easily and have the small prey that coyotes hunted, able to thrive.
Wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone
Diseases such as mange is another example of what happens in an ecosystem.
With the vegetation growing back, a wider variety of prey animals returned, so even though the coyotes' numbers were lowered by the wolves that made it so it gave other animals a chance to survive but also the chance to become a meal for the coyotes so that they can survive as well, thus maintaining the coyote population and even more so maintaining the entire ecosystem.
This shows that conservation is a high priority within the park and the world. Conservation affects how ecosystems work, how plants and animals live, as well as makes the world a safer place to live in as it affects us, humans, too.
Yellowstone National Park does just that. The park puts a lot of time and money into ways that can help Yellowstone as well as the world. For instance, though Yellowstone is the largest consumer of energy in the National Park Service (NPS) and mainly get their energy from fossil fuels and coal-fueled power plants, they reduce the amount of energy they use by making facilities more energy efficient. In fact, Yellowstone has several small renewable energy systems operating such as a portable trailer with a kW (kilowatt) solar panel array that engages with 90% of electrical necessities at Bechler, a 44kW solar panel system that operates 100% of electrical necessities at Lamar Buffalo Ranch and uses hybrid vehicle batteries, and a micro-hydro generator that is located in Mammoth Hot Springs produces about 1.4 million KW-hours annually. Because of this, about $95,000 in 900 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions and electricity costs are saved each year.
The Park is planning to reduce the overall consumption and use of potable water by using water-smart design and technology. The reason for this is that over 250 million gallons of water are being used for washing, flushing, and hydrating every year. Yellowstone is even replacing faucets and toilets with more coherent models. Smart controllers were installed in the historic lawns of Mammoth Hot Springs. These controllers help reduce irrigation water by 30%. That is 3.5 million gallons per year.
Yellowstone lowers the consumption of fossil fuels by using fleet vehicles. They decrease the size of their fleet and replace the existing ones with fuel-efficient vehicles. Only the most efficient vehicles are chosen for each job. About 19% of the fleet vehicles chosen for work are hybrid. The park helps educate employees and visitors about fuel-efficient driving and maintenance practices and is also partnered with Yellowstone-Teton Clean Energy Coalition on several fuel-reduction projects such as an idle-reduction campaign. Yellowstone also partnered with Michelin and recorded savings on gas expenditure by using experimental fuel-efficient tires on park vehicles. The park has a rideshare program that helps reduce the consumption of fuel and air pollution, and also reduces parking necessities, and enhances safety. This has saved employees money since 1998.
Yellowstone National Park even deprecates waste by purchasing environmentally friendly products. To be compliant with EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) propositions, they purchase items with recyclable or biodegradable materials, no pernicious elements, and fundamental packaging. These products require minimal conductivity during production and transportation. Yellowstone also lowers single-use plastics. Employees that work at the park use office paper that is made up of 30% post-consumer recycled matter, and also use paper towels that are made of 100% recycled paper.
Yellowstone does way more than just protecting the natural elements. Of course in a national park the wildlife must also be protected. Everything from Yellowstone's iconic gray wolves, to elk, to grizzly bears, to moose and bison, all the way to many species of trees to the sage, everything is connected in an ecosystem.
To protect these animals doesn't mean to save them from being injured or orphaned. That would just be rehabilitation and not necessarily conservation. Rehabilitating animals would interfere with natural selection, how do you think they got in that situation anyways? Natural selection specifically picks out the strongest healthiest animals to survive and to pass on their genes to the next generation. Animals who don't meet that criteria will die either from sickness, killed by another animal, or starvation. Of course there are many other possibilities to an animal's fate. The animals who do meet that criteria though will have a more likely chance of having a successful hunt, surviving extreme weather conditions, and to reproduce. That's the whole point of natural selection. It's what affects the behavior of wildlife. If you were to rehabilitate animals, especially in a place like a national park where human contact towards animals is extremely rare and illegal, chances are that animal will end up in the same spot. If they happen to reproduce they will just give their weak genes to their offspring who are likely to not live a full healthy life. It is meant to conserve that untouched wild in the land and the life that lives within that land. If people just kept rehabilitating animals that would narrow the food down for predators.
Other ways Yellowstone protects the way animals live in the park is by not allowing humans to have contact with animals, including birds. This means petting them or feeding them. This puts the animal in danger. It puts the animal in danger by making them comfortable around people. If animals are comfortable around people that raises the chances of animals getting hit by cars as they will be desensitized to vehicles. People who feed animals can make them dependent on people as they find them as a good food source. This can get rid of their natural instincts to find food on their own.
The park also prohibits hunting, though hunting is allowed anywhere outside the park. So if an animal ventured outside park boundaries that would make it perfectly legal for the hunter to kill the animal, of course as long as the hunter is hunting legally. Hunting is also a form of conservation, as it prevents overpopulation.
Most of the world is inhabited by humans leaving less of that truly wild expanse. National parks help conserve that rare feature of the planet, and without national parks more animals and plants wouldn't be able to find a sanctuary to thrive in. National parks give them that benefit while using it for our own benefits too. It even makes the planet a safer place for humans and animals to coexist in.
Hazel Meagher, Staff Reporter
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Ted McCarthy	• Dec 19, 2021 at 3:09 pm
Hi Hazel –
Great article. Lots of really interesting and important information about Yellowstone. You clearly have a passion for this topic – I hope you join the Environmental Club w Ms. O'Neil – she would love to have you!
Mr. McCarthy
https://suttonhighnews.net/1570/world/conservation-of-yellowstone-national-park/#comment-13


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Kedron Dells opened for play in June 1974. The late Dr. B. A. Brown, family and associates developed the course entirely from inception in the fall of 1972 and the Browns continue to operate and manage the course to current date.
The guiding principle in development was to provide a quality championship course at affordable cost to the public golfer. Built on 155 acres on the Oshawa Creek valley and uplands and now situated in the geographic centre of Oshawa, promise has become reality. Always maintained in excellent condition, the course has matured remarkably. You will be delighted by its many faces; long demanding fours and five's, delicate and treacherous creek valley holes, compact doglegs and large undulating greens.The scenic beauty of the property is surpassed only by the excellence of the golf course. As of current date, KDGC is recognized as one of the best value courses in the Greater Toronto Area.
Phil has continued on the family tradition and is now the current Owner/Operator and General Manager at KDGC. He is the Grand-Nephew of Dr. Bryce Brown. Phil was born in Cornwall, Ontario and raised there on the family dairy farm. He came to KDGC in 1998, starting as the Assistant General Manager. From a "hands on" approach, Phil has learned all facets of operations, from lawn maintenance, administration duties, proshop, to restaurant service. He achieved his post-secondary education at North Michigan University while on a hockey scholarship, obtaining a degree in Business Management. Prior to Kedron Dells, Phil was a Real estate broker from 91-97 and maintained his broker's license until 2010.
In the early 1820.'s, Dr. Bryce A Brown's ancestors arrived from Scotland and settled a farm in Stormont county near present day Cornwall Ontario. This farm remains to this day (2008) in the Brown family and it was here that Dr. Brown was born on October 04, 1893. He attended schools in Cornwall and graduated from McGill University Montreal in 1918. After one year internship at Ottawa Civic Hospital in Ottawa, he opened his office in Oshawa, a population of 12,000, on November 11, 1919 at 207 Simcoe St. South. Initially house calls were made on foot or by a hired local livery service where the cost could exceed the charge for the medical service. After a few months of practice, by necessity, he purchased a used Chevrolet Cabriolet — a challenge with the many unpaved roads and the unpredictable performance of the early cars.
Dr. Brown married Laura Regina Huck in 1924, a R.N. graduate from the Oshawa General Hospital's three year nursing program in 1921 who became the first nurse in the Oshawa Public School system. With the medical office in their home, she was a vital part of the medical team that served the community for many years.
Together they had two sons, Bryce Jr. and Robert. In the ten years of the great depression (1929-1939) upwards of twenty percent of the work force was unable to find work. Dr. Brown served the community regardless of the ability to pay for service. While some patients were destitute, others made contra payments by performing handyman work or with produce from farm or market gardens — the country was in survival mode.
During his exceptional medical career spanning six decades Dr. Brown was past-President of the Ontario County Medical Association, past chief of staff at the Oshawa General Hospital and very involved in his community. He was a ten year Member of the Board of Education from 1929-1939, Chairman in 1936. During the second world war he was an Alderman 1940-2. He was also a 50 year member and president (1937) of Oshawa Kiwanis Club and a long standing member of the local Masons.
After Laura's death in 1957, Dr. Brown and his sons, Bryce and Robert created and developed Grandview Golf Club (1959-1972) and Kedron Dells Golf Club — 1972 to current date. In both companies, Dr. Brown served as President and made essential contributions to the success of both. In 1977 Dr. Brown was a proud recipient of the Glenn Sawyer Award which is awarded to Ontario Medical Association members who have rendered significant service to their profession and community primarily at the local level.
Had "hands on" participation from the building, operation of Grandview, the closing of Grandview and the construction on KDGC in 1972. The General Manager of KDGC until 1982.
He took part in all the phases of construction and development of KDGC. In 1987 he assumed the position of General Manager.