This one pot chicken recipe comes with chicken parmesan peppercorn pasta. But, it doesn't require either boiling or draining the pasta in it. Simply add cream of chicken soup as well as the chicken broth to sauté chicken along with onion and garlic; stir in uncooked pasta and simmer away. That's it and your favorite dish is ready to enjoy. As the pasta is extra tasty and finishes with pepper, parmesan and a small touch of the fresh basil. It's not only delicious but this one-pot chicken recipe gets ready in 30 minutes. As a result, the pasta cooks in the pot with all the sauce and chicken, which makes it super flavorful! That's why you must not wait for a big pot of water to boil, no extra pot to wash, simply one pot of pure comfort food.
Now, Let us describe what you need and how to make this One Pot Chicken Recipe.
What Do You Need for One Pot Chicken Recipe?
How to Make One Pot Chicken Recipe?
Use a Dutch oven and when it's medium heat, add olive oil and butter.
Add chicken, garlic, salt, and pepper when butter melts.
Now, stir infrequently until chicken is just done.
Next, put the broth, penne, and marinara sauce and then stir all ingredients together.
You have to bring to a simmer, then lower heat slightly. Here, you must cook for either 10 minutes or until pasta is al dente.
Now, stir in 1 cup mozzarella and all parmesan cheese. You have to use remaining 1/2 cup mozzarella to sprinkle on top.
Set the Dutch oven under broiler either for 2-3 minutes or until cheese brown on top If you need.
Decorate with basil and serve as soon as possible.


A young Iranian boy, who had been photographed wearing a white shirt with a paper tag bearing the name of professional Iranian footballer Alireza Jahanbakhsh Jirandeh on, has finally come face-to-face with his idol.
Last month, 24-year-old Jahanbakhsh, who plays as a winger and attacking midfielder for professional Dutch club AZ Alkmaar and the Iran men's national football team – nicknamed Team Melli, published the picture on his Instagram page, asking people to let him know if they are aware of the boy's whereabouts.
Jahanbakhsh's fan was finally identified and tracked down to Khavar Shahr village, which is located on the southern outskirts of the Iranian capital city of Tehran.
The Eredivisie top goal scorer then went to Khavar Shahr, where he met his fervent young supporter, who goes by the first name Matin, and a number of his friends.
Jahanbakhsh presented them all with balls and shirts, and also autographed his own shirt, which read "Dear Matin, I wish you the best of luck in your future," and gave it to the child.
The Iranian football star then played with the children, before saying his farewell to them and leaving the village.


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What to Expect from Tesla in 2018? New models, Technologies
Tesla constantly proves that skeptics make mistakes. The company keeps strengthening its positions in automotive and energy industries.
Reviews of Tesla
A budget electric vehicle was introduced in 2017.
In the near future, Tesla Model 3 will go the most dedicated fans who reserved it 2 years ago. Only an advanced battery pack and a premium package are available to increase the price.
Tesla increases production, shortens a delivery time for new customers, and adds packages to reach the base price of $35,000. Average buyers will start considering Model 3 as their option for purchase.
It's expected that Tesla will achieve its goal of producing 5,000 units per week in the first half of the year and will fast reach 10,000 by the end of 2018.
Model 3 and Model Y
Tesla Model Y is an electric crossover built on the same platform of the third generation as the Model 3.
Ilon Mask often mentioned that the company would switch to it as soon as the production would be adjusted. It's unlikely that the production of Model Y will start in 2018, but Tesla can introduce the car and start accepting orders in the first half of the year.
Mask surprised the market when he said that the crossover would be built on a new platform for its production in late 2019 (before 2020). However, he quickly returned to the original plan to bring the car to the market faster.
Tesla released the first teaser of the car at the beginning of the year.
Models S and X
The automaker concentrated on launching Model 3, so flagships received only a few updates in the past year. In 2018, Tesla may try to separate a budget sedan from a flagship even more with new options and the interior.
In 2017, the company switched from the first autopilot generation to the second one. Drivers might not notice any changes, but it doesn't mean that the development team sat idle.
Tesla is creating its own computerized vision system and neural network. The work done in 2017 will lay the foundation for significant updates in 2018.
The expansion of the network was a record this year.
In late 2018, it's planned to install 18,000 charging stations. The goal seems difficult to achieve because only 8000+ Supercharger stations are installed now.
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Poet and essayist Sherod Santos was born on September 9, 1948 in Greenville, South Carolina.
He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Square Inch Hours (W. W. Norton, 2017), which was long-listed for the Naitonal Book Award; The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton & Co., 2010); The Perishing (2003); The Pilot Star Elegies (1999), which won a Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize and was both a National Book Award Finalist and one of five nominees for The New Yorker Book Award; The City of Women (1993); The Southern Reaches (1989); and Accidental Weather (1982), which was selected for the National Poetry Series.
In 2000, the University of Georgia Press published A Poetry of Two Minds, a collection of his essays.
His awards include the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, the "Discovery"/The Nation Award, the Oscar Blumenthal Prize from Poetry magazine, a Pushcart Prize in both poetry and the essay, and the 1984 appointment as Robert Frost Poet at the Frost house in Franconia, New Hampshire. He has also received fellowships from the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim foundations, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
From 1990 to 1997, Santos served as external examiner and poet-in-residence at the Poets' House in Portmuck, Northern Ireland, and in 1999 he received an Award for Literary Excellence from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a professor of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
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How Much Does TikTok Pay You For 1 Million Views In 2023
Shaurya Jain
Have you also spent hours scrolling TikTok videos? Those tiny videos are so enticing to watch that you can't stop scrolling. Some people dance on trendy moves, others just do some pranks, while some choose to share a quick recipe – TikTok has all kinds of content.
There is something for everyone. TikTok is a place where anyone can upload a video. If that video is creative and engaging enough, you even make money out of it. However, how much money can you really earn through TikTok, especially when your video gets a million views? To find out, keep on reading.
How Much Does TikTok Pay You For 1 Million Views?
TikTok pays in the range of $0.02 to $0.04 per 1000 views, so for a million views, you'd be paid $20 to $50. But that's just one of the ways in which you make money from TikTok.
You can make money through affiliate marketing, brand promotions and sponsorships, promotional videos, and paid partnerships. These methods will help you earn a decent amount of money.
Also Read: How Much Does TikTok Pay For 1 Million Likes
For example: you can monetize your content by placing affiliate links in your TikTok bio. The more views you get, or as they say, 'the more viral it gets, you tend to make more money.
Or you can go for brand partnerships and sponsorships which can fetch as much as $80,000+, depending on your reach, as per Business Insider.
How Do TikTokers Monetize Their Content?
There are several ways through which you can monetize your content. Usually, TikTok influencers combine multiple methods of monetization to earn a good income. Let's look at ways through which you can monetize your content:
You can earn money on TikTok through affiliate marketing if you have a decent following. Many brands require affiliate marketers, and you can collaborate with them on platforms like Amazon Associates and ClickBank or any other. At times, brands can directly reach out with an affiliate request.
You just need to add the link of their products/ services in your TikTok caption or in your TikTok bio. Whenever a user clicks that link, you get a commission. Brands can also give you some unique promo codes to mention your video.
Brand Sponsorships
One of the most straightforward ways to make money on TikTok is by doing brand deals and sponsorships. Collaborate with a brand to make sponsored posts and videos for them. For example, a brand might reach out to you to make a video about their shoes. Brands might even pay you for doing their branded challenges.
If you do not want to opt for long-term brand collaboration, you can partner up with a brand to do a sponsored post. All you need is a decent following and a high engagement rate to attract brands towards you.
TikTok Creator Fund
If you have more than 10,000 followers and more than 100,000 views in the last month, then you are eligible to register yourself in TikTok's Creator Fund. Also, your age should be 18 and above.
TikTok has not yet disclosed its payout structure. However, according to the estimates, it pays 2 and 4 cents for every 1000 views. Therefore, for a creator who has 1 million, he/she/they will get paid between $20 to $40.
The Creator Fund takes into account other factors like the authenticity of views, likes, engagement, comments, etc., and most importantly, your content must follow all the community guidelines of the app.
TikTok Marketplace
TikTok has created a platform where brands and creators can collaborate with each other, and it is called TikTok's Creator Marketplace. To be eligible to apply on this platform, you need a minimum of 1,00,000 followers.
The creator marketplace facilitates partnerships between creators and brands. It provides creators with support by providing various tools and tips for creating sponsored content. Moreover, it provides brands with analytics of the creators and makes it easier for them to choose the 'right' influencer for their brand.
Virtual Gifts on Live Streams
On TikTok, you can earn virtual gifts from your followers by doing a live stream. Virtual gifts can be animations, stickers, badges, etc. They can be purchased through coins by going to the 'Balance Tab' in the settings. As a creator, you can also collect diamonds during the stream.
A live stream is a great platform where digital creators can interact one-on-one with their audience and have a little rendezvous. This comes in the wake of other applications such as Facebook and Instagram, which had introduced the live feature way earlier. A live stream gives better exposure, great connectivity with viewers, and a better brand follower relationship.
Selling your products and services on TikTok is another option that TikTokers have. Creators can sell different types of merchandise on TikTok, including T-Shirts, mugs, jewelry, and accessories. They can either create a product, outsource it, and then sell it to their audience.
Also Read: How Many Views To Get Paid On TikTok
TikTok influencers can even sell services like online teaching videos, informative videos, and basic FAQs to make money on TikTok. There are several ways with which one can monetize their TikTok account.
How Much Money Do TikTokers Make?
There is a misconception that you need a huge following to earn money from TikTok. Sure, a massive following on TikTok will fetch you a big sum of money. However, an influencer with 10,000 followers can also make a decent sum of money on TikTok.
As per a report by Influencer Marketing Hub, a nano-influencer (creator with 1000-10000 followers) can make around $100 to $500 per sponsored post. A micro-influencer (creator with 10000- 50000 followers) can earn $1000 – $5000 per post.
Brands prefer these nano and micro-influencers because even though they have a less following, they have built a strong kitted community around their personal brand with a high engagement rate.
Also Read: Can You See Who Views Your TikTok
Who Are the Highest Earners on TikTok?
You would be curious, how much does an influencer with a massive following earn? So, here is the list of the top 5 highest earning TikTok influencers:
Charli D'Amelio
Charli D'Amelio is the most popular creator on TikTok. She currently has 130.4 million followers. She became the first ever creator to reach 50 million followers on the same platform. She achieved this feat in only seven months.
With 9.53 million subscribers, she gets an average of 3,50,000 views and earns almost $1800 per day. She is just an eighteen-year-old, yet has an immense fan following and undoubtedly is among one of the biggest TikTok Stars.
Addison Rae is another popular social media personality, actress, and singer who has more than 54 million followers on TikTok. She also made it to the Forbes '30 under 30′ list for social media influencers. Today, she earns more than $8 million dollars via TikTok.
Addison gained mass popularity with one of her dance videos of herself dancing with her mom Sheri. She is also passionate about acting and bagged a lead role in the Netflix film 'He's All That.'
Dixie D'Amelio
Dixie is the older sister of Charli D'Ameio, and needless to say, she is also one of the top highest-paid influencers on TikTok. She has more than 57 million followers and earns more than $10 million.
She is passionate about signing and has even released her own single called 'Be Happy. It became the most trending video on Youtube and ranked number one in Billboard's Top Thriller US.
Also Read: 500k Views On TikTok Money
Loren Gray
Loren Gray is an American model, singer, and social media personality. She started posting TikTok videos when she was just 13 years old. Soon, her videos became viral, and today, she is among the highest-paid TikTok stars,
She earns more than $5 million. She has collaborated with brands like Burger King and Revlon, and she has even released her own pop tracks like 'my story' and 'queen.'
Zach King
Zach King is one of the most famous TikTok influencers. He is known for his 'magic vines,' and he has even participated in the reality show "The Amazing Race" and directed several short films.
He has a net worth of $3 million. He has over 40 million fans all over the internet, and he continues to entertain people with his magical videos and keeps sharing new stories with the world.
Shaurya jain is a blogger at Attention always. He is an expert in social media marketing & PR. He keeps experimenting with Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube and other social media platforms to stay up to date. When he is not writing, you can find watching reruns of Brooklyn 99.
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Q: strongswan vpn with both IKEv2 and L2TP protocols Firstly I created IKEv2 vpn by some tutorial and it works great. Then I needed to add L2TP configuration to connect from my router.
I've tried a lot and still can't make it work. It`s certainly because of server skills lack. So, sorry for stupid question.
My ipsec.conf:
include /var/lib/strongswan/ipsec.conf.inc

config setup
        uniqueids=never
        charondebug="ike 2, knl 2, cfg 2, net 2, esp 2, dmn 2,  mgr 2"

conn ikev2-pubkey
        auto=add
        keyexchange=ikev2
        ike=aes128gcm16-sha2_256-prfsha256-ecp256!
        esp=aes128gcm16-sha2_256-ecp256!
        fragmentation=yes
        rekey=no
        compress=yes
        dpdaction=clear
        left=%any
        leftauth=pubkey
        leftsourceip=VPS_IP
        leftid=VPS_IP
        leftcert=cert.pem
        leftsendcert=always
        leftsubnet=0.0.0.0/0
        right=%any
        rightauth=pubkey
        rightsourceip=10.10.10.0/24
        rightdns=8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4

conn L2TP-PSK
        authby=secret
        ike=aes256-sha1-modp1024,aes256-sha1-modp2048
        esp=aes256-sha1-modp1024,aes256-sha1-modp2048
        auto=add
        keyingtries=3
        dpddelay=30
        dpdtimeout=120
        dpdaction=clear
        rekey=yes
        ikelifetime=8h
        keylife=1h
        type=tunnel
        left=%any
        leftsourceip=VPS_IP
        leftid=VPS_IP
        leftsubnet=0.0.0.0/0
        right=%any
        rightsourceip=10.10.10.0/24
        rightdns=8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4

ipsec.secrets:
include /var/lib/strongswan/ipsec.secrets.inc

: RSA cert.pem
: PSK "key"

With above configuration ikev2 works fine, but l2tp isn't connecting. Device just hangs for 30s and shows error.
But at that time ipsec statusall shows active connection:
Connections:
ikev2-pubkey:  %any...%any  IKEv2, dpddelay=30s
ikev2-pubkey:   local:  [VPS_IP] uses public key authentication
ikev2-pubkey:    cert:  "cert"
ikev2-pubkey:   remote: uses public key authentication
ikev2-pubkey:   child:  0.0.0.0/0 === dynamic TUNNEL, dpdaction=clear
    L2TP-PSK:  %any...%any  IKEv1/2, dpddelay=30s
    L2TP-PSK:   local:  [VPS_IP] uses pre-shared key authentication
    L2TP-PSK:   remote: uses pre-shared key authentication
    L2TP-PSK:   child:  0.0.0.0/0 === dynamic TUNNEL, dpdaction=clear
Security Associations (1 up, 0 connecting):
    L2TP-PSK[2]: ESTABLISHED 16 seconds ago, VPS_IP[VPS_IP]...DEVICE_IP[DEVICE_IP]
    L2TP-PSK[2]: IKEv1 SPIs: 523301711c1cae8e_i ddff9fd8d5950054_r*, pre-shared key reauthentication in 7 hours
    L2TP-PSK[2]: IKE proposal: AES_CBC_256/HMAC_SHA1_96/PRF_HMAC_SHA1/MODP_1024

My xl2tpd.conf:
[lac vpn-connection]
lns = VPS_IP
ppp debug = yes
pppoptfile = /etc/ppp/options.l2tpd.client
length bit = yes

And options.l2tpd.client:
ipcp-accept-local
ipcp-accept-remote
refuse-eap
require-pap
noccp
noauth
idle 1800
mtu 1410
mru 1410
defaultroute
usepeerdns
debug
connect-delay 5000
name vpn_username
password password

I feel like im very close to solution but still it not working.
much appreciation for any help


Therapeutic Riding for the disabled is recognized as one of the more progressive forms of therapy. The ability to control a horse as well as one's own body inspires self-confidence, responsibility and teamwork. Best of all, it is a thoroughly enjoyable experience, which creates a special relationship between rider and horse and promotes personal challenges.
From the beginning, riders learn balance, coordination and self-assurance while receiving therapeutic muscle stimulation.
As a result of carefully planned lessons, poise posture, strength and flexibility improve.
A strong sense of responsibility develops as the rider learns to take part in the care of the horses and equipment.
Advanced equestrian skills, teamwork and cooperation are learned as the rider becomes independent on horseback.
Classes, horse shows and events encourage confidence, self-esteem and a sense of accomplishment as new levels of expertise and new goals are met.
As the horse moves, the rider is constantly thrown off-balance, requiring that the rider's muscles contract and relax in an attempt to rebalance. This exercise reaches deep muscles not accessible in conventional physical therapy. The three-dimensional rhythmical movement of the horse is similar to the motion of walking, teaching rhythmical patterns to the muscles of the legs and trunk. By placing the rider in different positions on the horse (therapeutic vaulting), we can work different sets of muscles. Stopping and starting the horse, changing speed and changing direction increase the benefits.
Muscles are strengthened by the increased use involved in riding. Even though riding is exercise, it is perceived as enjoyment, and therefore the rider has increased tolerance and motivation to lengthen the period of exercise.
Faster reflexes, and better motor planning. Riding a horse requires a great deal of coordination in order to get the desired response from the horse. Since the horse provides instant feedback to every action by the rider, it is easy to know when you have given the correct cue. Repetition of patterned movements required in controlling a horse quickens the reflexes and aids in motor planning.
Of tight or spastic muscles. Sitting on a horse requires stretching of the adductor muscles of the thighs. This is accomplished by pre-stretching prior to mounting the horse, and starting the rider off on a narrow horse, gradually working to wider and wider horses. Gravity helps to stretch the muscles in front of the leg as the rider sits on the horse without stirrups. Riding with stirrups with heels level or down helps to stretch the heel cords and calf muscles. Stomach and back muscles are stretched as the rider is encouraged to maintain an upright posture against the movement of the horse. Arm and hand muscles are stretched as part of routine exercises on the horse and by the act of holding and using the reins.
Spasticity is reduced by the rhythmic motion of the horse. The warmth of the horse may aid in relaxation, especially of the legs. Sitting astride a horse helps to break up extensor spasms of the lower limbs. Holding the reins helps to break flexor spasm patterns of the upper limbs. Many of the developmental vaulting positions are also designed to break up or reduce spasticity. Fatigue also helps to decrease spasticity by producing relaxation. • Increased range of motion of the joints. As spasticity is reduced, range of motion increases. Range of motion is also improved by the act of mounting and dismounting, tacking up, grooming, and exercises during lessons.
If spasticity is reduced and range of motion increased, it follows that abnormal movements will be inhibited. Relaxation techniques while riding also help to inhibit abnormal movement.
Although riding is not normally considered a cardiovascular exercise, trotting and cantering do increase both respiration and circulation.
Like all forms of exercise, riding stimulates the appetite. The digestive tract is also stimulated, increasing the efficiency of digestion.
Riding stimulates the tactile senses both through touch and environmental stimuli. The vestibular system is also stimulated by the movement of the horse, changes in direction and speed. The olfactory system responds to the many smells involved in a stable and farm environment. Vision is used in control of the horse. The many sounds of a stable/farm help to involve the auditory system. All of these senses work together and are integrated in the act of riding. In addition, proprioceptors (receptors that give information from our muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints) are activated, resulting in improved proprioception.
Exercise in the fresh air of a farm, away from hospitals, doctors office, therapy rooms, or home help to promote a sense of well-being.
Confidence is gained by mastering a skill normally performed by able-bodied people. The ability to control an animal much larger and stronger than oneself is a great confidence builder. Participating in events such as shows and play days add to the sense of achievement.
For those confined by a disability, the world tends to shrink in size. Riding increases interest in what is happening around the rider, as the rider explores the world from the back of a horse. Even exercising becomes interesting when done on horseback.
The excitement of riding and the experiences involved stimulate the rider, encouraging the rider to speak and communicate about it.
Riding is a risk sport. The rider learns to master fears though the act of staying on the horse, as well as attempting new skills and positions on the horse.
Since the horse has a mind of it's own, the rider learns patience as he or she attempts to perform skills on the horse when the horse is not cooperating. Repetition of basic riding principles also helps to develop patience.
The rider quickly learns that an out-of-control rider means an out-of-control horse. Shouting, crying, and emotional outbursts upset the horse, which in turn frightens the rider. Riders learn to control these emotions and appropriately express them.
By being able to master a skill considered difficult by the able population, the rider experiences him/herself as being normal.
The rider begins to view him/herself as having control over his/her world as control over a powerful animal increases.
Although riding can be a solitary activity, it is normally performed in groups. Riders share a common love of horses and a common experience of riding — a good foundation on which to build a friendship.
Horses require a great deal of care and attention. Riders find themselves bonding with the animals. They develop an interest in them and learn to care for them. They learn to put the needs of the horse first.
The variety of experiences involved in riding are endless. From tacking and grooming to trail riding, from going to horse shows to learning the parts of a horse, the rider is constantly experiencing and growing. The horse also provides the rider with the ability to go places otherwise inaccessible due to the disability.
There is no doubt about it, riding a horse is fun. Riders experience excitement and pleasure every time they come for a lesson.
Before one can read, it is necessary to recognize the difference in shapes, sizes, and even colours. These can be taught more easily on horseback, as part of games and activities. There is less resistance to learning when it is part of a riding lesson. Through the use of signs placed around the arena, letters can be taught, and reading of individual words by word recognition can also be learned. Games involving signs for "exit", "danger", "stop" etc., help to teach important life skills involving reading.
Is learned by counting the horse's footsteps, objects around the arena, or even the horse's ears and legs. Number concepts are gained as the rider compares the number of legs on a horse to the number of his own legs. Addition and subtraction are taught through games involving throwing numbered foam dice and adding or subtracting the numbers. Because the concepts are taught through games, resistance to learning is decreased.
Something as simple as holding and using a pencil requires a great deal of motor planning. Knowing which comes first in a sequence of events is an important part of most activities. These and other similar skills are taught on horseback though the use of obstacle courses, pole bending, drill team, and many other games and activities.
Eye hand coordination is necessary for such skills as writing. These skills are taught in tacking the horse, as well as various activities and exercises.
This includes our awareness of form and space, and our understanding relationships between forms in our environment. Included in this area are directionality (knowing right from left); space perception, which allows us to differentiate between items close in shape but spatially different (i.e. "h" versus "b"); form perception (i.e. differentiating "h" and "m"); figure ground (picking out an object from the background); and visual sequential memory (such as remembering symbols in a particular sequence or pattern). Both reading and math concepts involve visual spatial perception. Visual spatial perception improves as a natural result of control of the horse. Additional exercises are done on the horse to increase ability in this area.
The rider learns to differentiate significant from less significant stimuli in the environment. An improvement in this area occurs as the rider learns to attend to his horse and those things that may influence the horse as opposed to attending the environment in general.


The AP reporter claimed that "every U.S. intelligence agency has concluded that" the Russian government interfered in the U.S. election of 2016. In fact, the report that this common lie always refers to was concocted by a group of "hand-picked" (James Clapper's description) people from three agencies out of 18 or so. The three were the NSA, FBI, and CIA — none of which ever, ever lie or get things wrong, ever. The INR and DIA were excluded along with all the others.
That's why the Associated Press told a lie. Here's why it's a blatant and dangerous lie. The same report didn't conclude a damn thing. It just "assessed," which is a weasel word for guessed. Of the three agencies involved, two assessed with high and one with moderate confidence that Russia did something or other to benefit Trump. Whether that something was revealing to the public the DNC's slanting of its primary against Bernie Sanders we are not told. We are also not offered any evidence for whatever it was. We are also not told Trump was involved in it, or offered any degree of assessment of that, much less any evidence. We are also not given any claim that informing us about the DNC's shenanigans, or any other actions, had any impact on the outcome of the election. We also are not presented any case that keeping the rigging of primaries secret from the public is essential to the sanctity and freedom of our democracy.
But here's where it gets frightening. Unknown people produced an unread report that claims very little on behalf of very few but has not only become the gospel handed down by the "Intelligence Community," but thousands of writers, bloggers, and tweeters between Monday and Tuesday have announced that one must choose either to believe this gospel or to side with The Russian Enemy. And the unknown propagandists who produced the ridiculously vacuous report have been turned into The Troops, and The People Who Risk Their Lives to Protect Us — this language now being used by all sorts of people clogging up my social media, including some pretty well-known ones like Michael Moore.
And here's where this seems to take us, as some of us have been warning for a year and a half: Endless indisputable impeachable offenses by Donald Trump continue to pile up. And nobody cares. Top Democrats have found what they stand for. A sustainable earth? Peace? Justice? Social prosperity? Clean elections?
Are you crazy? They stand for Russophobia. Now if Trump were to actually be impeached, even if for a legitimate reason, what would be President Pence's best move to reassure liberals? Bombing Russia. If Democrats hold off impeachment (something for which some of them seem willing to actually risk their lives) what will they spend two years campaigning for the throne on? Hating Russia, punishing Russia, attacking Russia. It's their way to out-Republican the Republicans, and they LOVE it. The U.S. public mostly doesn't care, but the ones who get involved in electoral politics are in ecstasy.
The fate of the earth may just depend on somebody creating a television network in the United States not dedicated to hating Russia on the one hand or basic human decency on the other. In the meantime, a big thank you to Democracy Now for getting this one right and having Sam Husseini on the show.


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Video: 14-year-old Winthrop fiddler plays to see people smile
Owen Kennedy will headline St. Andrew's Day concert on Saturday, Nov. 30, in Winthrop.
By Abigail AustinKennebec Journal
WINTHROP — Owen Kennedy played his first fiddle before he could learn to speak.
The fiddle was made with cardboard box with a ruler in it and he played it with a wooden dowel, recalled his mother, Christina Kennedy.
Now 14 years old, the Winthrop fiddler has performed internationally and is starting to make a name for himself locally as a solo performer.
"I like performing because I get to see people with smiling faces," Owen said. "It just makes me happy."
Winthrop's St. Andrew's Episcopal Church will feature Owen in a free concert to celebrate St. Andrew's Day at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30, the Friends Meeting House at 219 Winthrop Center Road (Route 135).
Owen will also perform at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Oasis of Music in Lewiston.
His favorite audiences have been the young and old. Young children participate and dance without inhibition, while seniors in nursing homes show true appreciation for the music he creates — music that has brought some listeners to tears.
Owen Kennedy plays the fiddle tune "Hangman's" in family's home Thursday in Winthrop. Kennebec Journal photo by Joe Phelan Buy this Photo
One of Owen's early solo performances was for a woman's 90th birthday party. The woman was a pianist, and she played as a child with her father who was a fiddler.
With ages flip flopped, the woman played the piano while Owen fiddled, a thrilling experience for the woman, Christina Kennedy said, recalling her son's performance.
"His music comes from a place of joy," she said. "That is why he is so engaging. It is about sharing his love for this thing that is special to him with everybody else."
Like his older sister and his mother, Owen started playing the fiddle when he was 4. He learned the Shinichi Suzuki method through the Pineland Suzuki School in Manchester. Suzuki, a Japanese teacher and musician, believed children could learn music the same way they learn to speak — by ear.
Learning the method at the school, Owen studied classical violin, but it was traditional fiddling he longed for.
"I fell in love with fiddle music," he said, "and started to play that when I was 7."
Owen Kennedy plays the fiddle tune "Hangman's" in family's home on Wednesday in Winthrop. Kennebec Journal photo by Joe Ph Buy this Photo
Classical, Owen explained, is composed and written down on paper. Fiddle-playing is traditional and learned by ear — and changes are welcome.
"It is fun to change the tunes to how I want them to be," he said. "Classical is stripped; you cannot really change anything."
It's been with school and other musical groups that Owen started performing nationally and internationally — and he loved it.
Playing with groups like the Pineland Fiddlers, the Maine Folque Co-op or the Young Tradition Vermont Touring Group, Owen has performed in Quebec, Canada; Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; San Diego, California; and Shetland, Scotland.
These festivals and opportunities include workshops with experienced and even famous fiddlers. While in Shetland during the Shetland Folk Frenzy, Owen learned tricks to make his fiddle sound like bagpipes.
That's relevant, he said, for an upcoming Celtic concert at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Winthrop. At this concert Owen will reveal the new skills he's learned.
Owen Kennedy plays the fiddle tune "Hangman's" in family's home Thursday in Winthrop. Kennebec Journal photo by Joe Ph Buy this Photo
Owen's parents have committed to paying for his classes, group dues and his instrument, but the travel and participation fees for festivals and music camps can be expensive.
"We told him, if you want to do this, you have to earn some of the money," Christina said.
Owen started earning money by busking at farmers markets and craft fairs when he was about 11 years old, she said. Over time, people have heard him and have hired him to play at weddings and similar engagements, and the interest has "rippled."
"We are clear — this is not to go buy a new phone or Nintendo," Christina said. "It is going right back into his music education."
Owen's long term goal, he said, is to be a traditional fiddler in a band.
"That is my hope and dream," he said.
His role models include Celtic folk musicians Natalie MacMaster, Donnell Leahy and family, and he had the experience of a lifetime to perform on stage with them when they did a concert in Rockland.
Owen, wanting to get a front row seat, tugged his family to the ticket booth early. They ended up being third in line with a cold wait, but he came prepared. Playing his fiddle, Owen entertained the line, and MacMaster heard the 11-year-old.
During the concert, she pointed to Owen sitting in the front row, and called him on stage. With a broken string, playing with her was an adrenaline rush, he said.
The Winthrop freshman is home-schooled and also takes classes at Winthrop High School. He also enjoys biking, fishing, swimming, art, pottery and being outside. He hopes to learn to play the piano and speak French.
He can be booked to perform by visiting fiddlerokennedy.com.
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Iran nuclear deal talks to resume on December 27
EU foreign service said the meeting would be attended by representatives of China, France, Germany, Russia, UK and Iran.
Negotiations to revive a 2015 nuclear deal signed between Iran and world powers will resume on Monday in Austria's capital, officials have said.
The announcement came on Thursday amid warnings the landmark agreement would become obsolete within weeks if Iran continued to step up its nuclear activities as it has been doing since 2019, a year after the United States unilaterally withdrew from it and reimposed sanctions against Iran.
"Vienna talks to resume on Monday 27 December. The JCPOA Joint Commission will meet to discuss and define the way ahead," European Union diplomat Enrique Mora wrote on Twitter, referring to the acronym of the deal's formal name, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
"Important to pick up the pace on key outstanding issues and move forward, working closely with the US. Welcome to the 8th round."
#ViennaTalks to resume on Monday 27 December. The #JCPOA Joint Commission will meet to discuss and define the way ahead. Important to pick up the pace on key outstanding issues and move forward, working closely with the US. Welcome to the 8th round.
— Enrique Mora (@enriquemora_) December 23, 2021
Negotiations restarted in November after a five-month hiatus to try to restore the deal, which was to offer Iran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme. The seventh round concluded last week, where some modest gains were reported.
Reports indicated the participants – Iran, China, Russia, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom which took part in the talks, plus the US which is participating indirectly – were close to reaching a new joint draft, incorporating elements from a text reached by the end of the sixth round in June and new proposals, by the administration of President Ebrahim Raisi, presented in the form of two documents earlier this month.
Iran has said it wants all sanctions, imposed as part of the "maximum pressure" campaign by the US, lifted – a position the Western counterparts regard as maximalist.
Iran also wants a period to verify the lifting of sanctions, and guarantees the US will not renege on the accord again – demands that it wishes to present as part of a third text when the initial two are agreed upon.
Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's top envoy to the talks, said on Thursday that while it is not "popular to engage in serious business" during the holiday season, the resumption of talks indicated a consensus to restoring the deal as soon as possible.
The #VennaTalks will resume on December 27. Usually It isn't popular to engage in serious business b/w the Catholic Christmas and the New Year. In this particular case this is an indication that all negotiators don't want to waist time and aim at speediest restoration of #JCPOA.
— Mikhail Ulyanov (@Amb_Ulyanov) December 23, 2021
The EU's foreign service said the meeting would be attended by representatives of China, France, Germany, Russia, Britain and Iran.
"Participants will continue the discussions on the prospect of a possible return of the United States to the JCPOA and how to ensure the full and effective implementation of the agreement by all sides," the External Action Service's statement said.
US negotiator Rob Malley on Tuesday warned of a "period of escalating crisis" if diplomacy failed to restore the agreement.
Iran maintains its nuclear programme is peaceful and it wants to develop only a civilian nuclear capability, but Western powers say its stockpile of enriched uranium goes well beyond that and could be used to develop a nuclear weapon.
Original News : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/23/iran-nuclear-talks-to-resume-on-december-27
Previous Talks on Iran nuclear deal to resume in Vienna on Monday
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No, this isn't the opening line from Christie Brinkley's latest skincare infomercial, but rather a chilling bit of inner dialogue from the titular hero of Adult Swim's upcoming Samurai Jack revival.
A new trailer released Monday gives us an extended look at what lies ahead for Jack in the show's fifth season, and it's way darker than anything we saw from the show's original 2001–2004 run.
The "limited series" kicks off Saturday, March 11 at 11/10c on Adult Swim. Hit PLAY on the trailer above, then drop a comment with your thoughts below.


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TensorFlow is dead, long live TensorFlow!
If you're an AI enthusiast and you didn't see the big news this month, you might have just snoozed through an off-the-charts earthquake. Everything is about to change!
Last year I wrote 9 Things You Need To Know About TensorFlow… but there's one thing you need to know above all others: TensorFlow 2.0 is here!
The revolution is here! Welcome to TensorFlow 2.0.
It's a radical makeover. The consequences of what just happened are going to have major ripple effects on every industry, just you wait. If you're a TF beginner in mid-2019, you're extra lucky because you picked the best possible time to enter AI (though you might want to start from scratch if your old tutorials have the word "session" in them).
In a nutshell:TensorFlow has just gone full Keras. Those of you who know those words just fell out of your chairs. Boom!
A prickly experience
I doubt that many people have accused TensorFlow 1.x of being easy to love. It's the industrial lathe of AI… and about as user-friendly. At best, you might feel grateful for being able to accomplish your AI mission at mind-boggling scale.
You'd also attract some raised eyebrows if you claimed that TensorFlow 1.x was easy to get the hang of. Its steep learning curve made it mostly inaccessible to the casual user, but mastering it meant you could talk about it the way you'd brag about that toe you lost while climbing Everest. Was it fun? No, c'mon, really: was it fun?
TensorFlow's core strength is performance. It was built for taking models from research to production at massive scale and it delivers, but TF 1.x made you sweat for it. Persevere and you'd be able to join the ranks of ML practitioners who use it for incredible things, like finding new planets and pioneering medicine.
What a pity that such a powerful tool was in the hands of so few… until now.
Cute and cuddly Keras
Now that we've covered cactuses, let's talk about something you'd actually want to hug. Overheard at my place of work: "I think I have an actual crush on Keras."
Keras is a specification for building models layer-by-layer that works with multiple machine learning frameworks (so it's not a TF thing), but you might know it as a high level API accessed from within TensorFlow as tf.keras.
Keras was built from the ground up to be Pythonic and always put people first — it was designed to be inviting, flexible, and simple to learn.
Why don't we have both?
Why must we choose between Keras's cuddliness and traditional TensorFlow's mighty performance? Why don't we have both?
Great idea! Let's have both! That's TensorFlow 2.0 in a nutshell.
"We don't think you should have to choose between a simple API and scalable API. We want a higher level API that takes you all the way from MNIST to planet scale." — Karmel Allison, TF Engineering Leader at Google
The usability revolution
Going forward, Keras will be the high level API for TensorFlow and it's extended so that you can use all the advanced features of TensorFlow directly from tf.keras.
All of TensorFlow with Keras simplicity at every scale and with all hardware.
In the new version, everything you've hated most about TensorFlow 1.x gets the guillotine. Having to perform a dark ritual just to add two numbers together? Dead. TensorFlow Sessions? Dead. A million ways to do the exact same thing? Dead. Rewriting code if you switch hardware or scale? Dead. Reams of boilerplate to write? Dead. Horrible unactionable error messages? Dead. Steep learning curve? Dead.
TensorFlow is dead, long live TensorFlow 2.0!
You're expecting the obvious catch, aren't you? Worse performance? Guess again! We're not giving up performance.
TensorFlow is now cuddly and this is a game-changer, because it means that one of the most potent tools of our time just dropped the bulk of its barriers to entry. Tech enthusiasts from all walks of life are finally empowered to join in because the new version opens access beyond researchers and other highly-motivated folks with an impressive pain threshold.
One of the most potent tools of our time just dropped the bulk of its barriers to entry!
Everyone is welcome. Want to play? Then come play!
In TensorFlow 2.0, eager execution is now the default. You can take advantage of graphs even in eager context, which makes your debugging and prototyping easy, while the TensorFlow runtime takes care of performance and scaling under the hood.
Wrangling graphs in TensorFlow 1.x (declarative programming) was disorienting for many, but it's all just a bad dream now with eager execution (imperative programming). If you skipped learning it before, so much the better. TF 2.0 is a fresh start for everyone.
As easy as one… one… one…
Many APIs got consolidated across TensorFlow under Keras, so now it's easier to know what you should use when. For example, now you only need to work with one set of optimizers and one set of metrics. How many sets of layers? You guessed it! One! Keras-style, naturally.
In fact, the whole ecosystem of tools got a spring cleaning, from data processing pipelines to easy model exporting to TensorBoard integration with Keras, which is now a… one-liner!
There are also great tools that let you switch and optimize distribution strategies for amazing scaling efficiency without losing any of the convenience of Keras.
The catch!
If the catch isn't performance, what is it? There has to be a catch, right?
Actually, the catch was your suffering up to now. TensorFlow demanded quite a lot of patience from its users while a friendly version was brewing. This wasn't a matter of sadism. Making tools for deep learning is new territory, and we're all charting it as we go along. Wrong turns were inevitable, but we learned a lot along the way.
It's not a matter of sadism. Deep learning was uncharted territory.
The TensorFlow community put in a lot of elbow grease to make the initial magic happen, and then more effort again to polish the best gems while scraping out less fortunate designs. The plan was never to force you to use a rough draft forever, but perhaps you habituated so well to the discomfort that you didn't realize it was temporary. Thank you for your patience!
We're not giving up performance!
The reward is everything you appreciate about TensorFlow 1.x made friendly under a consistent API with tons of duplicate functionality removed so it's cleaner to use. Even the errors are cleaned up to be concise, simple to understand, and actionable. Mighty performance stays!
Haters (who're gonna hate) might say that much of v2.0 could be cobbled together in v1.x if you searched hard enough, so what's all the fuss about? Well, not everyone wants to spend our days digging around in clutter for buried treasure. The makeover and clean-up are worth a standing ovation. But that's not the biggest big deal.
The point not to miss is this: TensorFlow just announced an uncompromising focus on usability.
It's an unprecedented step in AI democratization!
AI lets you automate tasks you can't come up with instructions for. It lets you automate the ineffable. Democratization means that AI at scale will no longer be the province of a tiny tech elite.
Now anyone can get their hands on the steering wheel!
Imagine a future where "I know how to make things with Python" and "I know how to make things with AI" are equally commonplace statements… Exactly! I'm almost tempted to use that buzzword "disruptive" here.
The great migration
We know it's hard work to upgrade to a new version, especially when the changes are so dramatic. If you're about to embark on migrating your codebase to 2.0, you're not alone — we'll be doing the same here at Google with one of the largest codebases in the world. As we go along, we'll be sharing migration guides to help you out.
We're giving you great tools to make your migration easier.
If you rely on specific functionality, you won't be left in the lurch — except for contrib, all TF 1.x functions will live on in the compat.v1 compatibility module. We're also giving you a script which automatically updates your code so it runs on TensorFlow 2.0. Learn more in the video below.
Your clean slate
TF 2.0 is a beginner's paradise, so it will be a downer for those who've been looking forward to watching newbies suffer the way you once suffered. If you were hoping to use TensorFlow for hazing new recruits, you might need to search for some other way to inflict existential horror.
If you're a TensorFlow beginner, you may be late to the AI party, but yours is the fashionable kind of late. Now's the best time to arrive!
Sitting out might have been the smartest move, because now's the best time to arrive on the scene. As of March 2019, TensorFlow 2.0 is available in alpha (that's a preview, you hipster you), so learning it now gets you ready in time for the full release that the community is gearing up for over the next quarter.
TF 2.0 is a beginner's paradise.
Following the dramatic changes, you won't be as much of a beginner as you imagined. The playing field got leveled, the game got easier, and there's a seat saved just for you. Welcome! I'm glad you're finally here and I hope you're as excited about this new world of possibilities as I am.
Dive in!
Check out the shiny redesigned tensorflow.org for tutorials, examples, documentation, and tools to get you started… or dive straight in with:
pip install tensorflow==2.0.0-alpha0
You'll find detailed instructions here.
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How will Digital India Enrich you with Distance Education?
India turned a new page on July 1, 2015 with the announcement of Digital India campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which aims to connect more than 2.5 lakh small towns and cities in India through internet. The campaign will potentially create more than 10 crore jobs(according to Wikipedia) in all sectors of the economy you can possibly think of. The support from one of the most popular companies in the world, Facebook, for this development, just reassures us that having free access to internet in the most remote areas of India will soon be a plausible reality.
In today's high octane competitive environment, it is utterly important for us to be ready to enter the industry and then grow with it. The dynamism across industries have led to huge demand for skilled labour. You have to be flexible enough to constantly learn and unlearn. Distance education and EdTech allow one to acquire new skills and raise the bar of their current skill-sets. With the growing impact of Digital India and increasing reach of internet, the most knowledgeable distance education courses with the best of universities and professors imparting learning to you while you sit at your home, without making a compromise on your current course or job. So students if you wish to pursue fine arts and are doing engineering, no worries distance education is here for everyone who wishes to fulfill their dream and really enjoy what they are learning.
Digital India campaign has already started to change the dynamics of distance education. Currently, distance education is serving 40 lakh students across the country with the help of the Digital India campaign. Students across the length and breadth of the country are now able to interact with the best and the most experienced teachers in our country through online classrooms, watch real life videos and apply their academic studies in real situations.
Advance learning through distance education have bridged the gap with fellow students studying in the best colleges of India because distance education pushes them to think out of the box,students have started to explore more opportunities and pursuing a career which gives them more opportunities than the tried and tested courses approved by the society, distance education has come and proven why learning is the best way to study and has become the biggest benefactor of digital India.
What does it bring to the common student?
Distance education comes to your doorstep not just with a promise of a certified degree at the end of course, but with a solution which lets your parents fixed deposit safe, however saving of money doesn't result in you compromising for a lesser valued education, it is on the contrary, which gives you an opportunity to start working and step out of the protective environment maintained in a classroom and yet remain in sync with it. The major difference is that no longer your learning is confined to the walls of a classroom now you have a much wider horizon and vision to build your career. Experienced professors of a leading university were of the opinion that students enrolled through distance education courses tend to ask more challenging questions and their performance often exceeds expectations of everyone.
Students who engage in distance education not only learn the course but through the duration of the course become experts in using computers/laptops, almost every company you apply for seeks for good knowledge of computers in you, even if you are not good with technology, you will steadily get accustomed to it. The one thing about distance education is the scope for improvement and learning new things is immense. Along with private, now the government organisations also have started to maintain their operations digitally, it bestows upon you, how you use digital India. Will you use it to fire your career up?
If you are reading this, you have an access to internet and maybe you would want to pursue distance education but can't be sure? Don't worry EduKart, India's leading education marketplace is here and we sensed the need and concerns of students way back when we started in 2011. We provide you with the best available choice of courses in India through the top universities, we take the effort to understand your needs and walk through with you from the start when you contact us to the day when you complete your course. EduKart has some of the best counsellors to guide you in making the most important decision of your life. Count on EduKart and be a part of our revolution in education. Come on digital India, start learning.
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Make your voice heard: Vote
Maura Healey
Earlier this month, local election officials across Massachusetts began mailing thousands of ballots to voters. If you haven't signed up to receive one yet, it's not too late, though time is short and you should act now. And if you're not registered to vote, you have time to fix that too. You can register online, by mail, or in person at your local election office until Saturday, Oct. 24. The election doesn't happen just in November this year. The election is happening right now, and it's so important that every eligible voter participate.
Voting is foundational. It's what gives our system of government legitimacy. It's the key to the basic contract of our society: the people abide by the rules laid down by the government, because the people get to hire and fire the government. But — and this is a really big "but" — that contract only works if all eligible voters have the opportunity and the ability to cast their votes easily, safely, and securely.
Massachusetts has made tremendous progress on this score in recent years. We've implemented and expanded two weeks of in-person early voting. We've made sure that voters with disabilities can participate fully. And this year, for the first time, we've implemented early mail-in voting so that every voter can request and receive a ballot that they can return by mail, to a secure drop box, or to their local election office. Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, it's essential that we afford voters multiple options, and I'm proud of the strides that Massachusetts has made toward ensuring that every voter can participate in this critically important election.
Unfortunately, it seems that some politicians are afraid of what will happen if every eligible voter gets to vote. As a result, they are falsely accusing our voting systems of being fraudulent, spreading wild rumors about mail-in voting, and trying to undermine confidence in democracy itself.
That's not going to happen in Massachusetts. For my part, I will use every tool at my disposal to ensure that every eligible voter can vote safely and securely, and that every vote is counted. My office launched a statewide Voter Protection Initiative at mass.gov/protectthevote.com with multilingual educational flyers and other resources available for voters, including important dates, information about voting options, and how we are protecting your right to vote. Election protection is my office's number one priority from now until all the votes are tallied, and we know the results.
For your part, I hope you'll keep a couple of things in mind. First, the most important thing you can do is vote. Make a plan for how you and your family will cast your ballots this year. And talk to your friends and colleagues about their plans, too. There are multiple voting options available, but some of them do require some advance planning, so make sure you are ready.
Second, it's important to recognize that this year's election may look different from elections in years past. Because of the large increase in mail-in voting due to the pandemic, and because mail-in ballots take longer to count, results may not be immediately available on November 3, or even for a few days afterward. That doesn't mean the system has broken down—in fact, it's exactly the opposite. If election officials need a few days to receive and count all the ballots, it's a good thing to allow them to have that extra time. Everyone should want every vote to be counted, because only then can we be confident of who the people's choice is. Anything less, including trying to shut down the count early, is un-American.
Third, you can be confident that voting in Massachusetts is safe and secure and that your vote will be counted. In particular, mail-in voting has been widely used for years in other states, with virtually no reported instances of fraud or lost ballots. And Massachusetts offers an easy way to check whether your mail-in ballot has been accepted. Whether you choose to cast your ballot by mail, in a drop box, or in person, your vote will count.
Maura Healey is the Attorney General of Massachusetts.


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The articles of interest summarized below will appear in the September 2013 issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, CDC's monthly peer-reviewed public health journal. This issue will feature central nervous system and neurologic infections. The articles are embargoed until August 14, 2013, at 12 p.m. EDT.
Note: Not all articles published in EID represent work done at CDC. In your stories, please clarify whether a study was conducted by CDC ("a CDC study") or by another institution ("a study published by CDC"). The opinions expressed by authors contributing to EID do not necessarily reflect the opinions of CDC or the institutions with which the authors are affiliated.
1. Gastroenteritis Outbreak Associated with Unpasteurized Tempeh, North Carolina, USA, Stephanie E. Griese, et al.
Salmonella infections are most often associated with contaminated poultry or eggs, but sometimes animal products are not the cause. In North Carolina, an outbreak was caused by contaminated tempeh, an increasingly popular meat substitute made of fermented beans. The contamination had originated in the culture used in the fermentation process. Because the tempeh was not pasteurized, the Salmonella organisms were not killed. Not every patient in this outbreak had eaten the tempeh; therefore, some probably acquired the infection through cross-contamination (contamination of other foods prepared on the same surface as the tempeh or touched by unwashed hands that had touched the tempeh). Thus, safe handling of all uncooked, nonpasteurized foods, not just animal products, is crucial for preventing foodborne illness.
2. Continued Evolution of West Nile Virus, Houston, Texas, USA, 2002–2012, Brian R. Mann et al.
3. Nodding Syndrome, Scott F. Dowell et al.
Over the past 10 years, an epidemic of nodding syndrome has affected young children in Uganda and South Sudan. The cause of nodding syndrome is unknown, but it is now recognized as a form of epidemic epilepsy with characteristic rhythmic head nodding. The syndrome occurs in previously healthy children between the ages of 5 and 15 years; the nodding episodes are often triggered by eating or cold temperatures. The effects can be devastating as affected children drop out of school, lose the ability to eat, and require constant oversight lest they fall into a cooking fire or wander into water and drown. A comprehensive review of published reports and ongoing investigations aimed at determining the cause of nodding syndrome, looked for associations with infectious organisms, toxins, and nutritional deficiencies. The most consistent association found was with onchocerciasis, a tropical disease caused by a parasitic worm. However, why nodding syndrome is more common among children with onchocerciasis and what exactly causes nodding syndrome remain elusive questions.


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Wolf Creek: Back with a vengeance
11 May 2016 By Caris Bizzaca
Mick Taylor is back. John Jarratt on bringing his iconic sociopath back to screens for the new Stan series, and what SVOD is doing for Aussie storytelling.
Filmed in and around Adelaide for a little over two months, this new iteration of the Wolf Creek world flips the familiar story.
Mick Taylor (John Jarratt) goes from being the hunter to the hunted when he murders an American family and unknowingly lets their daughter Eve (Lucy Fry) escape with her life – and a newfound thirst for vengeance.
Jarratt says while this marks the third time he's played the tattooed outback serial killer since 2005, he wasn't about to say 'no' to creator Greg McLean (who co-wrote and co-directed on the series).
"It's not every day you come up with an iconic character I suppose and this is mine in my career," he says, assuring fans that Wolf Creek the series delivers.
"With this one I start out in a big way and give all my horror fans everything they want. Then we kind of hand it over the amazing Lucy Fry, who goes on a vengeful rampage trying to find the bastard who did over her family."
For Fry, who was last seen in Now Add Honey, playing Eve not only brought her back home to Australia for a stretch, but also marks her first lead role.
The 24-year-old Brisbane actor says reading the six episodes from Los Angeles, she was immediately captivated by how Eve's story plays out as a psychological thriller more so than a horror series.
"When I read how Eve transforms from a victim of Mick to someone who's trying to take him on, that was really exciting to me," she says.
Wolf Creek marks the second original series commissioned by Stan, after Jungle's No Activity, a move which Jarratt says is extraordinary.
"Stan is… very proud and very vocal about being an Australian company supporting Australian stuff," he says.
Speaking on the cusp of the six episodes launching on Stan, he says the future of this kind of commitment will be in the hands of audiences.
"If the Australian public backs them as they're backing us, it'll be a wonderful thing," he says.
Jarratt, who has long been vocal in the battle against illegal downloading, says it's thanks to SVOD services like Stan that there has been a decline in online piracy.
This is evident in a report released Intellectual Property Awareness Foundation (IPAF) last year, where executive director Lori Flekser acknowledged the contribution of video-on-demand services in the decline.
Jarratt says while he worries piracy will never fully go away without further action, this is a positive step.
"There definitely are figures to prove that they are (making a difference)," he says.
"I was talking to my son Charlie this morning about it actually. How it's probably easier to turn on Stan or Netflix and find the movie you want for a lousy 10 bucks a month, rather than to go trying to illegally download it. So I think finally we might have a panacea to this full-on theft."
While television grapples with changes with everything streaming services, to series length, it's also being presented with the ever-present issue of the need for diversity – something that Screen Australia is currently researching.
While Fry believes Wolf Creek has done a great job in casting actors like Miranda Tapsell and Deborah Mailman, she acknowledges there is still a way to go.
"I'd love to get to a place where… you have a great story and automatically anyone of any nationality can be cast," she says.
"Where (you don't have to say) 'we want Hispanic for this role, we want African-American for this role, we want to Asian for this role'… it's just 'this girl is great for this role, she's a really great actress and she happens to be from a certain culture'."
Wolf Creek is available on Stan from Thursday 12 May.
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Cannabis in Florida
Why Regulate Cannabis?
It's time to take the next step.
Florida has established a state-regulated medical cannabis market that benefits thousands of registered patients, and more than a dozen local governments have enacted laws aimed at reducing punishments for low-level offenses. But…
Cannabis is still illegal for adults who do not qualify as medical patients, and they face potentially life-altering criminal penalties, fines, and collateral consequences, even for low-level offenses.
Enforcement of prohibition laws continues to disproportionately impact people of color and other marginalized communities.
The demand for cannabis among non-patients is being met by an illegal market that creates a variety of health and safety hazards and deprives the state of tax revenue, jobs, and other economic benefits.
Learn more below about the current policy landscape, then find out how Florida could benefit from ending cannabis prohibition.
The Current Policy Landscape
Laws and Penalties
Possessing, producing, and selling cannabis are entirely illegal in Florida for anyone who is not a qualified and licensed participant in the state's medical cannabis program (more information about medical cannabis can be found under the "Medical Cannabis" tab below).
Under state law:
Possession of up to 20 grams of cannabis — less than three-quarters of an ounce — is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $1,000.
Possession of more than 20 grams, or the sale of any amount up to 25 pounds, is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.
Collateral Consequences
Individuals convicted of even the lowest-level offenses, such as simple possession, can experience serious and sometimes life-altering consequences, including:
Loss of employment, difficulty gaining employment, and disqualification from employment opportunities
Loss of scholarships, professional licenses, or other career development opportunities
Loss of housing and other public benefits
Loss of child custody
Additional legal penalties for probation and parole violations, or for missing the court date and/or failing to pay the fine for the cannabis offense
Nationwide, there were more than 6.1 million cannabis-related arrests from 2010-2018, according to federal data compiled by the ACLU. While the number of annual arrests dropped 18% during that period, there were more arrests in 2018 than in 2015, despite the fact that several states legalized or decriminalized cannabis during that time.
Florida-specific statistics are not available because the state chooses not to provide arrest data to the FBI for its annual crime report. The neighboring state of Georgia has roughly half the population of Florida and reported more than 52,000 cannabis arrests in 2018, so we estimate there are approximately 100,000 cannabis arrests in Florida each year. It is also extremely important to note that Black people in Georgia were about three times more likely to be arrested for cannabis than white people, and we see a similar disparity nationwide.
Local 'Decriminalization'
Since 2015, more than a dozen local governments in Florida have enacted ordinances aimed at reducing the penalties for low-level cannabis possession offenses, as well as the expenditure of resources by law enforcement. In most cases, these measures give police officers the option of issuing citations instead of making arrests in cases where they find an individual in possession of paraphernalia or less than 20 grams of cannabis.
According to NORML and the Marijuana Policy Project, these jurisdictions include (but may not be limited to):
West Palm Beach County
Florida's medical cannabis law was adopted in 2016 when voters approved Amendment 2 by a margin of 71-29. It protects qualified patients, caregivers, doctors, and licensed medical cannabis dispensaries from criminal prosecutions or civil sanctions under state law (but not federal law).
Following Amendment 2's passage, the Legislature enacted legislation to implement it, and the state Department of Health's Office of Medical Marijuana Use (OMMU) established rules and regulations governing the program. Since then, lawmakers and regulators have continued to make tweaks. For example, the Legislature passed SB 182 in 2019, repealing the ban it had previously imposed on smoking medical cannabis.
To qualify for the program, patients must be permanent or seasonal residents of Florida who have registered with the state's Medical Marijuana Use Registry and obtained a state-issued medical marijuana ID card. In order for a patient to register, their doctor must certify that they suffer from one or more of the following qualifying conditions:
Medical conditions of the same kind or class as or comparable to those above
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
A terminal condition diagnosed by a physician other than the qualified physician issuing the physician certification
Chronic nonmalignant pain caused by a qualifying medical condition or that originates from a qualifying medical condition and persists beyond the usual course of that qualifying medical condition
Visit the OMMU's webpage for medical cannabis patients and caregivers
Registered patients can purchase medical cannabis from licensed businesses known as Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers (MMTCs). These businesses are subject to strict regulations governing virtually every aspect of their operations, including their cultivation of cannabis, processing of products, and dispensation to patients.
Locate your nearest MMTC using the OMMU's website
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Raphael by R. A. MacAvoy
Title: Raphael
Author: R. A. MacAvoy
Rating: 1 of 5 stars
This review is, unfortunately, by the numbers.
Who is this author? R. A. MacAvoy is a wonderful science fiction and fantasy author, who by 1984 had 4 books in print. She is a careful researcher with excellent storytelling abilities.
What is their idea? In this final chapter in Damiano's Lute trilogy, we follow the plight of Raphael as he wars with his brother Lucifer.
How effectively does that person tell a story? Raphael is yet again a wonderfully well-researched historical fantasy novel set in 12th century Europe. This time, Raphael finds himself at Lucifer's mercy in Moorish Granada. Stripped of his angelic form and powers, he is sold in slavery where yet again, the growing cast of characters bring this story to a conclusion.
What are the book's the strengths? The main strength of MacAvoy's writing is the careful research and blending of fantasy to bring her characters to life. The details of daily life in Granada are rich and engrossing while repellant as the main topic of this novel is slavery. Djoura was a fantastic addition to the story as both a powerful heroine and love interest to Raphael.
What are the book's weaknesses? Unfortunately, the book suffers from a lack of structure, where the established protagonists from Damiano and Damiano's Lute were secondary characters offered with zero development between the last installment and this one. Gaspare stands out as a very bad evolution from his prior self in other chapters of the story.
Back in June of '85, White Dwarf Magazine offered the pronouncement that Raphael would be a Disneyfication of the series. While they probably hadn't read this particular book at the time, they weren't wrong. Many of the ideas of the series were heavily subverted by this installment and Raphael would have been much stronger had it been divorced from the rest of the series.
What was particularly terrible was the Epilogue, which closed out the series perfectly. It was five-star writing tacked on to the end of a very slapdash work and accounts for much of Raphael's one-star rating. If the Epilogue had been tacked on either one of the prior books, on its strength alone, those titles would have been perfect. Even if MacAvoy simply copy-pasted it into each preceding piece.
Sadly, the first 435 pages were not worthy of the last five pages.
What made this ending so strong was the growth of Gaspare and the introduction of his family to the wild mix of history and fantasy. Viewed through a historical lens, many of the defining exploits of Damiano and his friends were mistakenly attributed to historical figures, which was an eye-opening insight into the depth of research and planning by MacAvoy. What should be a crowning achievement was twisted into a mere afterthought.
One mourning star.
You can search for Raphael on Abebooks.
Labels: Amazon, Appendix N, Book Review
Damiano's Lute by R. A. MacAvoy
Title: Damiano's Lute
Rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
In the second of three books, R. A. MacAvoy's Damiano's Lute expands in the concepts from the first book and we find our hero being chased northwards and west by Plague and the Devil. As a sequel, it breaks the mold that follow-ups are afterthoughts. It is well crafted as the first book, rich in detail and peril of the 12th century.
From 1983 to 1984, MacAvoy had 4 books published, an incredible achievement.
Damiano's Lute shifts the story's location west and north and elevates Damiano's love interest from an Italian fantasy woman to a much more mature woman of the North. As the story evolves, many historical details pop out and lock this work of fiction into real-world settings. In this edition, MacAvoy explores not just Damiano Delstrego, but his companions Gaspare and Saara, who expand from sidekick and antagonists to fully formed characters with their own purposes and drives to be twisted by The Devil. Every character presented has a purpose and drive within the story of Damiano's Lute. MacAvoy adds characters at a frantic pace, but never leaves them hanging. Each one is added to serve the story with a graceful economy.
Damiano's Lute stands strong on its own, a worthy second part to the story.
You can search for Damiano's Lute on Abebooks.
Damiano By R. A. MacAvoy
Title: Damiano
Damiano is R. A. MacAvoy's opening book in her well-researched fantasy novel series. The titular hero begins his adventures in 12th century Italy. The author shows her craft by blending historical research with a coming-of-age story of the witch, Damiano Delstrego.
Delstrego defends his beloved hometown of Partestrada with an unlikely crew: a dancing thief, Gaspare, Macchiata the talking dog, Festilligambe, a feral horse, and Raphael, music teacher and Chief of Eagles. They stand with honor and distinction against fear, bigotry, war, and The Devil himself.
MacAvoy's detailed research allows magic to stand toe to toe with her chosen historical era to create an engrossing tale of drama and strife. It is rare that a fantasy novel manages to use touches history to the advantage of storytelling rather than merely remind the reader of where and when the characters are. The Devil, saints, and the Pope himself are in those details.
Damiano is a powerful start to this three-book series.
You can search for Damiano on Abebooks.
Stealing Monsters
Some of the best monsters are people. And some of the most intriguing people are villains.
Jon Wilson, of Appendix M put the bug in my head to steal a villain with his post on The Rival Party. These characters are decidedly different, with incredibly cool powers and abilities. I love the idea of a rival party as adversaries.
I immediately thought of a character I want to steal for a campaign. He is the Monomach from Stephen R. Donaldson's Mordant's Need series.
The Monomach is the villain's right-hand man, the most skilled swordsman in the land. As a villain, he is totally one-dimensional. He's given a target and then the target dies. Or at least that is how he should work.
He is actually simple enough to build an AD&D character class with little adaption. First, he is a fighting man so he has all of the abilities of a Fighter. Second, he has the disguise abilities of an Assassin. Third, he has some ability to heal himself like a Paladin. Finally, he will gain the damage bonus of a Monk. His prime requisites are Strength, Constitution, and Intelligence. To get a +5% bonus to exp, he must have at least a 12 in each of those skills. To get a 10% bonus, he must have a 15 in each.
In framing the villain as a character with a class, he can scale with the Player Characters. He can start relatively weak with the PCs and grow from there.
Let's assign those abilities by level.
On creation - +1 to Strength or Constitution regardless of race.
Level 1 - Disguise as an equal-level Assassin.
Level 3 - Laying has as Paladin of equal level.
Level 5 - Damage adjustment as per Monks +1 per 2 levels.
What are the Monomach character's limitations?
They are limited to two magic items plus one magic weapon and one magical piece of armor. They are limited to only equipment they can carry, even at home. They cannot backstab as Assassins do. They do not fight weaponless as Monks do. They do not have the variety of weapons of a fighter, they tend to stick to one main weapon and one backup. They don't often use bows. They can ride horses, but can not care for them. They work alone and are likely to strike at "friendlies" as they get in the way like a berserker. This berserker tendency is not a special skill or ability, it is just a ruthless and bloody methodology. They are relatively poor in day-to-day skills, unable to cook, care for animals or hunt making them reliant on their master's staff for self-care.
This lack of people and daily living skills prevents them from having followers, retainers, or constructing a keep, tower, or another base of operation. When assigned to retainers by their master, they tend to follow the retainer until a target presents itself.
What would make this type of character too overpowered? A crystal ball and a ring of teleportation. Yeah, I would totally give my evil Monomach a ring and crystal ball.
Labels: AD&D, Amazon, Appendix N, Books, Characters, Villains, World Building
Google Drive shared files and templates are a rich find for gamers of all types.
Under templates, you can find a ton of D&D resources.
My personal favorite is Benjamin Connell's 3.5 Character Sheet. I plan on making the standard for my 3.5 campaigns.
As time permits, I will be loading pre-genned characters in the top bar. Right now, I have characters for D&D and AD&D. I also have a link to my own AD&D character sheet for Unearthed Arcana pictured on the right.
Additionally, if you like having secondary skills for PCs or stat'd up NPCs, try my book Zero to Hero: Uncommon Commoners.
Labels: 3.5, AD&D, Amazon, Characters, D&D