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Nexen debuts first European TV commercial
SEOUL, South Korea (Nov. 30, 2015) — To strengthen its presence in the European market, Nexen Tire Corp. has launched its first TV commercial across Europe through Eurosport, the continent's No.1 sports channel, touting its sponsorship of a United Kingdom soccer team.
The 30-second commercial featuring the Manchester City Football Club (FC) will air across 54 European countries for six months, according to the Seoul-based tire maker — from this December through May 2016 via Eurosport, which includes Eurosport 1, Eurosport 2, and Eurosport 2 NEE.
"By launching the Eurosport TV commercial, which was produced to celebrate the partnership with Manchester City (Football Club), a leading football club in the Barclays Premier League, we are expecting to take great strides in improving the corporate image and increasing brand awareness in the European market," Nexen Tire said in a press release. "We will continue to bolster our marketing activities in Europe in an effort to reach more European customers and raise our brand value in these markets."
The commercial "personifies Nexen as a Manchester City FC player scoring in a game to represent the company's performance-driven technology and dynamic corporate image," the company said, noting it also reflects the company's "premium positioning" by featuring it alongside Manchester City FC.
Nexen said it was unusual for Manchester City FC to have genuine fan club members participating in a commercial shoot, and behind-the-scenes clips of the commercial are scheduled to be released in December.
As the official partner of the Manchester soccer club, Nexen said it has been implementing various marketing initiatives by utilizing its sponsorship rights, and with the commercial's debut, the company plans to "further strengthen its marketing activity to enhance brand awareness in the European market."
Nexen signed on as an official sponsor with the Manchester team in August. In October the company began construction of a tire plant in Czech Republic that will feature "the most advanced automation systems along with environmentally friendly technologies," according to the tire maker. Commercial operation is planned to begin in 2018.
To view Nexen's Eurosports TV commercial, click here.


If you thought Pluto wasn't a planet, you should meet DeeDee.
The solar system doesn't end at Pluto.
Out past the Kuiper belt, there are other objects orbiting our sun, including V774104, the farthest object identified in the solar system. In October 2016, a team of astronomers at the University of Michigan and the Dark Energy Survey announced the discovery of DeeDee, the third-most-distant object from the sun.
DeeDee, also known by its official designation 2014 UZ224 (DeeDee is short for "Distant Dwarf") is some 91.4AU away: That's 91.4 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun. Because it's so far away, it's hard to make out much detail about it. We already knew that it takes around 1,136 years to complete one orbit of the sun, but using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a team of scientists have made some new discoveries. The paper has been published in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The first is DeeDee's size. It's around 635 kilometres (394.6 miles) in diameter. That's around a quarter of the length of the Colorado River, and just over half the size of Pluto's 1,187-kilometre (737.6-mile) body. And the team was able to find out its temperatur, too: 30 degrees Kelvin (-405.67 Fahrenheit, -243.15 Celsius).
DeeDee in and of itself may not be that exciting to you. But you should be excited. The tools we have for probing the universe around us are growing ever more sensitive and sophisticated, allowing us to find out more all the time.


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Which School Should I Go To?
To get any where in the fashion world you either have to some sweet connections and get an apprenticeship or you need to have some type of formal training/education. I have my bachelor's degree from Arizona State University (GO DEVILS) in business and communications, but nothing that really qualifies me to do fashion marketing / PR / design. So, I've begun researching programs that will suit my life stage and give me credibility for the industry. This means that I'm either moving to NYC or California. There are some other options such as Savannah, GA or Providence, RI; however, I'd have to stay in school for three years. FIDM and Parsons offer two year degrees for those that have already achieved their bachelor's and are looking to make a career change (BINGO)! That's more of what I'm looking for. I also have to be able to work while I go to school to continue my professional career in PR and to afford to live in those states (haha).
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How Do I use GrabberRaster in CamCamX?
How Do I Stream from GrabberRaster into CamCamX?
If you purchased a license to the Screencast edition via paypal and have not yet received your license key, in 90% of all the cases we see, the problem is an out-of-date email address on your paypal account - OR - our email to you was filed in Junk Mail by your email provider.
Now that we have VirtualEyes, it is possible to record a Screencast using GrabberRaster, and use the chroma-key feature of virtualize to automagically remove the desktop background and/or other regions of the screen from the GrabberRaster output.
1. Run GrabberRaster first and enable screencasting.
2. Start up VirtualEyes and use GrabberRaster as the camera input.
3. Set the keying mode to background removal or chroma-key to eliminate unwanted material.
4. Record the output with Quicky or similar movie recorder that supports a pre-multiplied alpha channel.
Choose the GrabberRaster camera input from either the A or B menu.
1. Open GrabberRaster, (requires Serial#) and start Broadcasting.
2. Start CamCamX, select GrabberRaster under the B menu.
If the GrabberRaster camera input is not visible in CamCamX, you may need to quit CamCamX and launch it again.
The current version of GrabberRaster can leave behind an Alias file inside your ~/Library/QuickTime folder.
The presence of this file may interfere with the proper functioning of other camera apps.
To correct any problems, simply throw the GrabberRasterXXX.component alias file into the Trash and empty it.
NOTE: This bug was fixed in the most recent release.
The new GrabberRaster screencast edition also includes a plugin for Quartz Composer, allowing you to create compositions that grab portions of your mac screen.
We have just upgraded GrabberRaster with screencasting functions, allowing you (with the addition of a paid license) to take any screen-based imagery and re-use it as a virtual camera input with CamCamX, Skype or Yahoo!Messenger.


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"Freddie Mac eliminated any possibility of recovery when it did not refer foreclosed mortgages for evaluation of collectability," Disorganization cost the mortgage company 6,000 potential foreclosures because the statute of limitations expired.
"The numbers are even worse for Fannie Mae, which . . . did not pursue 44,600 cases because the statute of limitations expired.
OK—according to this article, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac failed to collect almost $5 billion in mortgage payments due to: 1) "Disorganization"; and 2) "Inaction". Result? The statute of limitations ran out and collection procedures had to terminate.
That explanation seems reasonable since just about everyone believes that government is so screwed up that "disorganization" and "inaction" could easily explain and excuse the loss of a "mere" $5 billion.
The article explains that the result of this "disorganization" and "inaction" was "non-recourse lending" wherein the lender had no legal capacity to sue or foreclose if the borrower defaulted on his mortgage.
I don't doubt that the result was "non-recourse lending" where the banks have no recourse (can't collect or foreclose) against borrowers who don't repay their mortgages. But I doubt that the cause for "non-recourse lending" was government "disorganization" or "inaction".
Instead, I suspect that those home loans were truly "non-recourse lending" because the lender sold the Notes and Mortgages and therefore had no legal right to foreclose.
I'm not a licensed attorney. Take my suspicions with a grain of salt.
Nevertheless, my understanding of the mortgage and foreclosure law leads me to suspect that the reason the government couldn't foreclose on over 100,000 mortgage defaults is that Freddie Mac and Fannie May didn't have and could not acquire the original Notes and the actual Mortgages (or Deeds of Trust) actually signed by the borrowers.
Mere copies, even verified copies will not legally suffice. In order to assert ownership to land, the plaintiff has to produce the one, actual, original title with the original signatures on it. Similarly, without ownership and possession of the original Notes and Mortgages, the purported "lenders" and their agents had no more legal right to foreclose on those 100,000 homes than I do.
Q: Why can't Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac find the original Notes and Mortgages?
A: Because they were "sliced and diced," incorporated into "mortgage-backed securities," sold to third parties and spread around the world.
The original Notes and Mortgages probably couldn't be found under any circumstances. But even if they could somehow be found, they probably couldn't be used in court because they no longer exist in a coherent form.
Is the problem of missing Notes and Mortgages true for only the 100,000 mortgages that Fannie and Freddie neglected to enforce?
Probably not. The problem of "missing" Notes and Mortgage could apply to millions of homes that were purchased between A.D. 1990 and A.D. 2010.
But the vast majority of those millions of mortgagors don't understand the law. Those millions of Americans don't understand that if the bank sold their Note and Mortgage to some 3rd party, the bank—and Freddie Mac and Fannie May—may have no legal right to foreclose. Only the 3rd party who owns both the Note and the Mortgage has the legal capacity to foreclose.
But if the 3rd party subsequently sold, lost or destroyed those Notes and Mortgages, then no one has the right to collect mortgage payments on that property and no one has the right to foreclose if the purchaser fails to make payments on his loan. Although the extent of this mortgage fraud isn't clearly known, it's possible that millions of Americans have been hustled and deceived by their lenders and the banking system into making mortgage payments to alleged "creditors" and "lenders" who have no right to collect those payments. Millions may have been foreclosed on and forced to abandon their homes by "lenders" who didn't have the actual Note and Mortgage and therefore had no right to foreclose.
Those millions of American borrowers understood and agreed that they were legally bound to make payments on their mortgage debt. What they did not understand is that they're only bound to pay whoever owns and produces their original Note and the original Mortgage.
They don't have to pay me because I don't own their original Note and Mortgage. Any fool can see that.
But most people have a hard time imagining that they also don't have to repay their home loans to the bank that made the loan--even if that bank no longer holds the original Note or Mortgage. Americans recognize the importance of paying their debts. They do not recognize the critical importance of the original paperwork (not copies) associated with that debt.
If the bank or lender sold, lost or destroyed the original Note and Mortgage—too bad for them. Without those original documents, they have no standing to foreclose or even collect the mortgage payments.
It's like buying the winning lottery ticket and then accidentally setting that ticket on fire and causing it to disappear. Go ahead; contact the lottery people and tell 'em that you clearly remember buying a lottery ticket with the winning number but, unfortunately, you lost the ticket. Odds are, the lottery people won't allow you to collect your prize. The prize is due to however hold the original paperwork (the lottery ticket). No ticket, no check.
Same thing with Notes and Mortgages. If the alleged creditor can't produce the original Note and Mortgage, he has no right to foreclose. He might be able to bluff an unsophisticated borrower into paying the debt, but without the original Note and Mortgage, the lender has no actual right to collect on the debt or foreclose.
The original mortgagor may be obligated to pay someone the substantial debt on his home loan. However, the mortgagor is not obligated to pay just anyone. He's only obligated to pay the debt to whoever legally owns the original Note. He has no obligation to pay the debt to anyone who can't produce the original Note. Likewise, he can't be foreclosed on except by whoever holds both the original Note and the original Mortgage.
This is why, back when I was a kid, people who finally paid off their mortgages had a mortgage=-burning party. When the mortgage was finally repaid, the bank returned the original Note and Mortgage to the borrower. The borrower then celebrated (and insured himself against future mortgage payments) by burning and destroying the original paperwork. Once the original paperwork no longer existed, no one had a right to collect mortgage payments on the house and no one had a right to foreclose. Being freed from that threat, the borrower celebrated his good fortune.
Today, if you finish repaying your mortgage debt there'll be no "mortgage burning party" because the original lender sold your paperwork and couldn't find it if you put a gun to his head.
Nevertheless, in their pristine ignorance, millions of American mortgagors may have been subjected to foreclosure—even by people and institutions that don't have the original Notes and Mortgages. Such foreclosures would be fraudulent but still presumed legal because the borrowers didn't have sense enough to challenge the standing of the plaintiffs to foreclose by demanding that the plaintiff produce the original Note and Mortgage.
And those who seek to foreclose must have both: 1) the original Note; and 2) the original Mortgage. The Note establishes the debt. The Mortgage causes the house to be deemed security for the Note. If you have the original Note on the loan used to buy my home, I owe you (and only you) the amount specified on the Note. But if you don't also have the original Mortgage, you can't foreclose on the house if I fail to make payments on the Note. You can put a lien on the house and if I ever sell it, you can collect whatever is owed you out of the proceeds of the sale. However, even if I haven't paid you a dime in years, you won't be able to legally foreclose on the house even if you have the original Note but don't also hold the original mortgage.
I therefore suspect that the 100,000 delinquent mortgagors who weren't foreclosed on by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may have been allowed to "escape" because they understood enough law to demand to see their original Note and Mortgage as proof of Fanny's and Freddy's right to foreclose. Once that issue was raised, Fannie and Freddie would have to produce the original Note and Mortgage or openly admit that they had made a "non-recourse loan". If they admitted that they'd sold, lost or destroyed the original Note and Mortgage, they would've lost their legal remedy to enforce payment of the loan and be left with no "recourse" in court.
If Fannie and Freddie admitted on the public record that they didn't have the original Note and Mortgage and therefore couldn't foreclose, they'd inspire millions of other borrowers to begin to ask about who holds their Notes and Mortgages. Once those millions learned that their Notes and Mortgage were also "missing," they'd also default on their mortgages and collapse the mortgage "bubble"/Ponzi scheme. Therefore, I suspect that in order to prevent a widespread collapse of the mortgage Ponzi scheme, Fannie and Freddie simply ceased collection efforts against anyone who was smart enough to demand to see the original Note and Mortgage.
Fannie and Freddie claimed the $5 billion in lost foreclosures was due to "disorganization" and "inaction". Maybe so. But I'd bet that Fannie and Freddie declined to foreclose on those who demanded to see the original Note & Mortgage rather than risk being charged with fraud.
$5 billion slipped through the fraudster's fingers.
From A.D. 1922 forward, Russian Communists routinely praised the brilliant and sometimes "unconventional" policies augmented by Soviet "central planning". That praise ended in A.D. 1991, when the weight and sheer idiocy of "central planning" caused the Soviet Union to collapse, disintegrate, cease to exist and plunge the people formerly ruled by Soviet "central planning" into a decade of abject poverty, social chaos and violence.
"Asked about the Fed's expanding balance sheet, the Florida Democrat said: 'We've had a government takeover of the bond market.
The bond market has been taken over by the very same government that issues those bonds. Think about that.
With that takeover, the free market has been removed and replaced by central planning.
The free market's former assessment of the value of government bonds has been replaced by the government's and Federal Reserve's control of the apparent value of those bonds. This takeover and assessment has been achieved by means of the Federal Reserve purchasing 80% or more of recent government bonds and paying full price to do so. Government sets the price. The Federal Reserve pays it. The annoying forces of the free market are eliminated and replaced by the inestimable wisdom of government central planning.
Our brilliant and heroic central planners need not listen to the voices of private investors who might ignorantly refuse to buy US Bonds except at much lower prices. The government now controls the price without free market meddling and interference.
It follows that as government owns more and more, you folks in the private sector will own less and less and less.
As government owns more, it will control more.
Eventually, our heroic central planners will control every bit of life and choice until this nation runs like a super-efficient, well-oiled machine—complete with goose-stepping, concentration camps for dissidents and the ultimate collapse into rubble that follows every foray into central planning.
Thanks to government's "stealth socialism," you're becoming increasingly impoverished in terms of both your tangible wealth and your personal liberties. If "stealth socialism" is allowed to continue, you'll soon own nothing and be totally subject to the government's will.
In the name of "central planning" and "stealth socialism," you will soon become a slave.
"Let me get this straight—we're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, who have recently demonstrated their objective and professional integrity; written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress thatdidn't read it but exemptedthemselves from it, and signed by a Dumbo President who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, and the Post Office, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!
After the unprecedented Obamacare demise and usual spin of 'non failure' by Obama and his talking heads, playing pretend by Obama is getting much harder to do. Mount Saint Healthcare – Helens has erupted, bodies are strewn all over, trees are flattened and 3rd degree burns for those left alive go untreated. Those screaming in pain and being suddenly dropped from their insurance companies (millions) cannot get their application for treatment processed. Others sit in the hall and realize they won't get treated at all because they are over 70. "Sir, I see the 3rd degree burns oozing all over your body but we cannot see you just yet. Here is some pain medication."Obama had 2 years to build his Exchange and health care system, including its computer brain. All kinds of expense numbers for this debacle are flying everywhere. Some say the Obamacare computer system has costed over 600 million, while others say it was $394 million and counting. Regardless, this is a several hundred million dollar failure and theft aimed at the American people.
As Obama allegedly raises his Frankenstein computer from the dead (sorry for the insult Frankenstein) it will be the heist computer brain that steals hundreds more millions from us. For our additional blood money we will get a pretend fix or delay. Meanwhile, Obama and his real goal will be on track. Millions more will be dropped from their insurance plans, hundreds of millions of dollars more taken from us, while Obama pieces together his Government – one payer healthcare system to swoop in and fix the problem. Hitler may rise from the dead and sue Obama for plagiarism.
While imparting dramatically more suffering on us, Obama hopes that most of the masses will soon be desperate enough to submit to his 'single payer' take over plan. Those of us who will never submit will be targeted, fined, arrested, denied care and destroyed. What is coming next in Obama's Halloween health care movie is the continued unfolding of his 'multi level' heist Ponzi scheme that will make Obama and his goons wealthier and you and I more unhealthy and poor. We will be controlled or eliminated, assuming we let that happen. What is your plan – Submit, deal with it or fight?
Now, we see Congress taking testimony from Health Contractors, while Sebelius is under fire over her 'nicie nice' — minimalist talk about the historical Obamacare failure. She is looking more and more like she will end up working on progressive health care under a bus. We shall see.
Who will they go after next, the endless computer techs and staff? When you follow the bouncing ball and tentacles from Sebelius to Health Contractors testimonies to Computer techs and everyone else involved over the last few years, it all goes back to Obama.
This is such an enormous disaster that even the democrats are now split, many saying they will support a delay in the Obamacare mandate.
There is NO excuse for this kind of incompetence as a President. Obama had 2 years, the best techs available in the world and hundreds of millions of dollars, yet it couldn't have been more botched! That is because he meant it to fail on his way to his single payer dictatorship.
There was NO excuse in the first place for anyone in the House and Senate to have voted Obamacare into existence and destroy our freedoms, rights, literal health and the best health care system on earth. Now it sits on death row and is terminal. How is the scope of his betrayal and lack of judgment by any President not impeachable or arrest able???
Obama is literally dismantling our country. Why are we letting him???
Americans expect and demand far more from Congress and the Senate than delays, testimonies and investigations. Put your wine glasses down, pull your pants up and make Obama accountable. DESTROY OBAMACARE NOT AMERICA.
2014 elections are quickly on their way. If members of the House and Senate want to stay employed they had best clean out their ears and get the job done!
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A team of scientists, economists, and geopolitical analysts believes they have proof that the threat is indeed real - and the danger imminent.
The work of this team garnered such attention, they were brought in front of the United Nations, UK Parliament, and numerous Fortune 500 companies to share much of their findings.
"It's a pattern that's hard to see unless you understand the way a catastrophe like this gains traction," Dr. Moors says. "At first, it's almost impossible to perceive. Everything looks fine, just like in every pyramid scheme. Yet the insidious growth of the virus keeps doubling in size, over and over again - in shorter and shorter periods of time - until it hits unsustainable levels. And it collapses the system."
"For 30 years - from the 1940s through the 1970s - our total credit market debt was moderate and entirely reasonable," he says. "But then in seven years, from 1970 to 1977, it quickly doubled. And then it doubled again in seven more years. Then five years to double a third time. And then it doubled two more times after that.
According to polls, the average American is sensing danger. A recent survey found that 61% of Americans believe a catastrophe is looming - yet only 15% feel prepared for such a deeply troubling event.
Fitz-Gerald also warns of a period of devastating inflation. A recent survey, reports USA Today, notes that in the coming years it could take $150,000 a year in household income for a family to afford basic living expenses - and maybe go out to a movie.
The definition of lawless is disobedience to established law. What happens to a country that has so many laws that the law volumes would fill a football stadium? What happens to a country when its president upholds only the laws he wants and has been nicknamed by staffers as "The Renegade?" At what point does a nation of laws become a nation of men? The debate over the validity of the Affordable Care Act keeps circulating. One question raised is whether disobedience to this law would bring Federal felony charges and mess up your credit and background check. Can a law that inflicts a tax penalty put you in federal prison? I'm no lawyer but we are a nation of tangled laws and massive regulations. Who would voluntarily give a government jurisdiction over their physical bodies? Will those who do not go along with Obamcare be considered outlaws? We are living in strange times.
Prior to 1948 knowledge doubled every fifty years. With the explosion of technology, knowledge now doubles every three days. However, this does not mean that wisdom is doubling.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects for US job growth of 6.9% in the area of law. They estimate that by 2020 over 73,000 additional lawyers be among us. http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/lawyer In the US for every 265 Americans one is a lawyer. Per capita the US has more lawyers than any other nation in the world. The US has 50% of the world's lawyers. What happens when you are the nation with the most lawyers? You not only get more laws, but you have lawyers as political leaders (2 of every 3 members of Congress is a lawyer) and you have cities with a population of 100,000 or more building mega courthouse complexes to keep the lawyers busy with cases. Where do they get their cases? Aside from the criminal felonies the average American is one allegation away from needing a lawyer and having to show up at the mega courthouse complexes that have seven floors filled with courtrooms. I'm serious! These complexes are similar to shopping mall size. In 2012, the examiner.com reported that in the US it is more likely our youth will become a lawyer rather than a soldier, doctor, firefighter or police officer. If you put the enlisted US Army personnel and the American Bar Association licensed lawyer list side-by-side the lawyers outnumber the Army personnel by 10%. Comparing the lawyer list to the AMA doctors the percentage is worse as with most professions. America has over 1.2 million lawyers and 945,000 doctors. The US has more than 200 accredited law schools and 137 medical schools. Admissions to the law schools outnumber those to medical schools by 3 to 1. The US has passed the lawyer saturation point and competition amongst lawyers is fierce. The public schools hold career day and push students towards the following occupations: law, law enforcement, politics and government jobs and medical occupations.
Our leaders are suppose to be for good and in doing so are the minister of God because they are subject to the higher power of God. What we have are leaders and legislators who are a terror unto good. Romans 13 talks about good and bad leaders and government leaders are not automatically good and the bad ones are not to be obeyed and that is according to God's word.
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Q: C program: how to get parent directory's inode number? How to get directory inode number say /home/laks/file.txt
I need the inode number of laks directory. Any built-in function is already available?
I think i could use stat() if i cut the file name...but any other solution to this without removing file name.

A: #include <libgen.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
...
struct stat statbuf;
if (stat(dirname(argv[1]), &statbuf) != -1)
    process_inode_number(statbuf.st_ino);

Note that dirname() may modify the string, so if you still need it, or if it may be a string literal (which is in read-only memory), then use strdup() to make a copy of the string for dirname().

A: a=/home/laks/file.txt
dir=${a%/*}
set -- $(ls -ldi $dir)
echo $1

or if you want to recurse directory
find /path -type f -name "*.txt" -printf 'stat -c "%%n:%%i" "%h"\n' | sort -u |bash

A: try : ls -ali  on shell. You can find inode numbers on 3rd column.

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'Smuggling sausages in diapers will not work' Canada Border Services Agency warns
By Kerri Breen	640 Toronto
Posted July 25, 2018 3:03 pm
Two detector dogs intercepted luggage containing four kilos of sausage on a flight from El Salvador, the CBSA says.	 Canada Border Services Agency
Border authorities say two sharp-nosed beagles recently thwarted an attempt to smuggle pounds of sausage into Canada using diapers.
The Canada Border Services Agency said the meat was found inside luggage at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on Monday from a flight arriving from El Salvador.
The agency said in a statement on Wednesday that a dog named Scout "indicated on" a suitcase that was found to contain three packages of sausage links that were well-concealed in layers plastic, aluminum foil, paper and diapers.
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Another detector dog, named Emma, found more meat that had been hidden the same way in another bag from that flight.
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In total, four kilograms of sausage was seized, and perhaps to the disappointment of the dogs, it was thrown out.
In a tweet about the incident on Tuesday, the agency warned that, "Smuggling sausages in diapers will not work."
Busted! Smuggling sausages in diapers will not work. Our detector dogs Scout and Emma sniffed them out! Ensure you know what to bring into Canada:https://t.co/p0QO5XTTzE #DogsWithJobs #DetectorDog pic.twitter.com/g0Ud3DPWNr
— Border Services GTA (@CanBorderGTA) July 24, 2018
The travellers did not face charges or fines, the agency said, but were informed of the requirement to declare all food, animal and plant products at the border.
Canadian authorities prevent some of these types of goods from entering the country for safety reasons.
"Various food, plant and animal products are restricted or prohibited entry because they can harbour foreign animal and plant pests and diseases," the CBSA website explains. "These things can cause irreparable harm to Canada's crops, livestock, environment, and threaten Canada's economy."
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You May Be Waiting To Get A Covid Booster, But Covid Isn't Waiting For You
The classic doctor's admonition in treating patients is "First, do no harm." These days, it probably should be amended for the rest of us: "First, do yourself no harm."
That's because too many of us are doing active harm to ourselves and those we care about (and even those we'll never know) as we head into a third winter with new Covid variants emerging regularly, influenza making a concerted comeback, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) threatening the youngest among us.
At this point, it can be difficult to know what to do. Even Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tested positive for Covid, for goodness sake.
But it's worth noting that Walensky, unlike too many of us, is up to date on her vaccinations and boosters, and faced only mild symptoms, the agency told the Wall Street Journal. Not nearly enough of the rest of us could say that if we got Covid.
In fact, two months after a new version of the Covid booster shot arrived, the so-called bivalent vaccine that provides protection from the older variants and two fast-spreading new ones, only 5 percent of eligible Americans had gotten the shot.
To put it mildly, people aren't exactly lining up for this one, even though it provides important additional protections from the fast-evolving Covid virus.
And here at the start of winter, as people have been slow to upgrade, we're seeing Covid cases tick upward across the United States. This country should be the most protected and ready for another bout with Covid, already the third-largest killer of Americans the past two years. We need to protect ourselves, mostly from ourselves.
Yes, there are those who wonder why they should bother with the bivalent booster when newer, even more infectious variants are surfacing. But that reasoning is like wishing your fort had a higher wall on one side, while leaving the gate open and the bridge down on the other side. You need to close the gate and raise the bridge.
To put it simply, if you're over 55 years old, or have a suppressed or diminished immune system from other medical conditions, you're in the danger zone. It would be best to get the latest vaccine as soon as possible here at the start of the winter season.
Beyond what we can each do personally, however, there's more we can do as a society to deal with Covid's still looming threats for all of us.
To begin with, we once again need to marshal public awareness, using smart messaging that goes beyond clinical nagging to actually reach people in meaningful, resonant ways.
One compelling example is the recent AstraZeneca-funded ad featuring actor Jeff Bridges. The spot ably conveys an important message through a familiar, trusted voice.
Does AstraZeneca have a substantial business motive to pay for these ads? Absolutely. Not only does it make a widely used vaccine (in concert with Oxford University), it also makes EvusheldTM, the sole antibody drug that remains effective for six months for those who've contracted the virus and have been treated.
But the "Up with Antibodies" message and the person giving it matter even more than the company's profit motive.
Bridges, an Oscar winner whose new Amazon Prime show The Old Man has been a hit, was battling lymphoma in 2020 when Covid attacked his diminished immune system.
"I love being alive, man," Bridges says in the ad. "And I got very close to losing it all."
In a subsequent interview, Bridges said Covid "made my cancer look like a piece of cake."
But you needn't be facing cancer to be vulnerable, particularly as we get older. And that means we need to return to tactics that helped protect us even before vaccines were available: wearing masks in enclosed, high-traffic areas; avoiding crowds; getting tested quickly if you feel symptoms, and promptly seeking treatments that dramatically improve outcomes.
It's also worth noting that one of the best reasons to take up anti-Covid precautions with renewed vigor is to protect us all from other respiratory illnesses that are also spiking.
Flu-related hospitalizations and deaths are rising again, particularly among people of Black, Hispanic and Native-American backgrounds who frequently have less access to preventive medical care and information.
And the flu is nothing to minimize. Before Covid, flu complications killed 30,000 to 60,000 Americans a year. That is, pardon the pun, nothing to sneeze at.
The government (really, just about every country's government) has struggled to keep up with Covid's rapid spread. But there's more it can do too.
We need to provide free or sharply discounted access to Covid, flu and other vaccines, as part of a broader approach to encourage preventive care.
And we can be smarter about making our vaccines easier to get. As it is, every year, 183 million Americans get a flu shot. That's pretty good. But it also means another 150 million Americans don't get a flu shot yearly. That's not so good.
When people come for their flu shot, it's the perfect time to also get the latest Covid booster. Doubling up is safe, research suggests, though I recommend taking acetaminophen for any minor discomfort as your immune system responds to the vaccine (other pain relievers cause too many secondary drug reactions).
Short of mandates, can we be more imaginative in encouraging people to get vaccinated? In Massachusetts, in the early days of the vaccine's availability, the person who drove a newly eligible recipient to a vaccination location was also automatically eligible for a shot. We can continue that kind of "bring one, get one" program for vaccines and much else, reducing some of the inertia that keeps many from getting the preventive care that keeps them healthy.
I'm also hopeful new approaches will come out of the recent landmark political deal allowing Medicare to negotiate for bulk discounts on pharmaceuticals. It's in its early days and will be months before enabling regulations are in place. But it holds promise to reduce costs and save lives in many ways.
Regardless, we have much to do, still, in dealing with the persistent challenges of Covid. Wishing won't make it go away. We need to focus once again on how we do no more harm to ourselves and those around us.
Dr. Praveen Buddiga, M.D., is a double board-certified immunologist specializing in allergies, skin health and immune-system issues. He also is an assistant clinical professor at the University of California – San Francisco School of Medicine.
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